— even as establishment Republicans and the bulk of “conservative” pundits / GOP “strategists” work diligently either to dismiss her out of hand as “unserious,” or else marginalize her as an unelectable extremist whose policy ideas won’t appeal to the real thinky center of the electorate. As Dan Garber notes to me in an email, “I’m not sure, but this may be a sign of the apocalypse.” I guess it’s

— at least, he hasn’t responded to my request that he get right on that. Which, why even bother inventing a time machine, then, am I right?

Seriously. Now they’re just giving us the finger. And David Brooksssthssth, bless him, has decided the best reaction is to drop trou, pull his chalky cheeks asplay, and offer up his hungry hungry asshole for a little Presidential finger bang. I’ll pass, thanks. CNS News: Just days after Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa urged a union crowd to “take out” tea party “sons-a-bitches,” the White House is touting the union leader’s

My. How unforgiving! David Brooks is not going to like your tone one bit, sir. Not one bit! Pethokoukis: […] Moody’s economist Mark Zandi, a favorite of the White House and congressional Democrats. Zandi’s research says the original $800 billion Obama stimulus created or saved some 2-3 million jobs. And he likes Stimulus 2.0 just as much. He claims it would “add two percentage points to GDP growth next year,

Pass the bill! Do it now! In what is turning into the kind of culturally surreal moment of which Andy Kaufman could only have dreamed, we have a sitting President running for re-election by excoriating his own record — while his campaign team works desperately to label the electorate, whose blind trust in a carfully-managed and glitteringly-presented polished turd led them to elect to the most important leadership position in