I met a politician, he took my heart away He said I had it comin’ to me, but I wanted it that way I think that mod’rate love is good lovin’ And so I took what I could get, mmm Oooh, oooh, he looked at me with big brown eyes And said You ain’t seen nothin’ yet B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet Here’s something that you never gonna

She may have tucked away the Kleenex-covered inaugural dress and basked in the adoration of CNN and Vogue’s breathless coverage of her sculped bi/tri-ceps and deltoids, but her heady, six-figure (but oh so irreplaceable) job didn’t clue her in on the finer points of gracious hosting. Like all good guests, Sarah Brown arrived bearing gifts for the children, Malia and Sasha. And they were really nice presents. A bit of

appears not to have attended an Ivy after all. Tsk. For this much relief, thanks. Hahahahahahahaha! Very tangentially related: Dr. Helen interviews author who states men and women want different things. I hope this isn’t going to be insultingly heteronormative.

Appears her aortic valve had started to harden. Naturally, this will lead to an outpouring of well-wishes from our softer-hearted counterparts.

I give it five stars. Iowahawk has written what is likely to be the most quotably plunderable post of the entire year. **** Jeff’s indignant update: It’s a long year. And I haven’t even started yet. So I wouldn’t count me out so quickly, Dan. **** Dan’s reply: Fair enough, but at the end of the day you have to admit it’s awfully wizard, wot? old man! David Brooks sings

Sorry, guys, but I feel like sh*t. Let me know if Friday or Saturday works for you. If anyone’s interested who hasn’t been, email me, vermontaigne-at-gmail-dot-com and I’ll give you links to get you up to date.

Dan McLaughlin at RedState: Democrats have a long history of constructing their own petards on which to be later hoisted, due to their inability to consider the consequences of their actions beyond immediate partisan advantage. For a classic example of this process at work, look no further than the current proposal for a banana republic-style “Truth Commission” to conduct show trials of the outgoing Administration for the offenses of (1)

In response to my post yesterday about the marginalization of conservatives who are both outside the GOP party’s cheering section and who aren’t also useful to progressives (and to “conservative” pragmatists, as examples either of dangerous idealists or godbothering theocons bent on setting up a national Church of the Holy Blue Noses), “Ted 360” writes: Don’t suppose you considered you were just dead wrong? You know, with all the deregulation

How about let’s have the de facto leader of the Democratic Party debate the de facto leader of the Republican Party? Seems some people haven’t gotten the message: Only 11% of Republicans consider El Rushbo their party’s leader. But, hey, what do they know? UPDATE: As McGehee notes in the comments, Limbaugh proposes the same.

Rick’s got a post up, analyzing how, in his view, Limbaugh is a political fantasist who is hurting the Republican Party and conservatism in general. I’m not going to reproduce bits and pieces of it here, because it’s longish and you really should go read the thing in its entirety to get the full flavor of Rick’s complaint. To gloss, though, he’s saying in effect that classical liberals such as