Evidently, somebody from HuffPo (perhaps taking a cue from Sarah Palin?) went off script and Obama, as is his untelepromptered wont, panicked, pointedly ignoring the reporter and talking over the question to call on a friendlier one from a CNN scribe. The query the snubbed HuffPo reporter attempted to get Obama to address concerned the President’s acceptance, via a Super PAC, of Bill Maher’s million dollar donation — this despite

Romney, bless him, appears ready to bring back the pragmatist’s “good man” gambit. Which I’m sure is welcome news to President McCain and Press Secretary Rick Moran. Notes Romney of his campaign going forward [emphases mine]: Well, my message is I’m not going to say outrageous things about the president or about my opponents. It gets headlines and a lot of excitement, and it gets you, by the way, a

Wherein we watch in the kind of bemused stupor usually reserved for an Ionesco play as Barack Obama pretends to defend the rights of women to use spermicides and sponges, and the GOP continues its determined march to prop up as its preferred candidate for 2012 the erstwhile progressive and independent who, it turns out, when he wasn’t gladhanding his “friend and collaborator” Ted Kennedy, was busy counseling Obama to

Lost My Cookies emails me to let me know that an unincorporated area of Indiana near his house was particularly hard hit by the recent spate of purifying tornadoes an asshole God visited on the silly bitterclingers living in the part of the country responsible for keeping “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on TV for years and years and years. Writes LMC: “When the tornado jumped the river

We’re living in the midst of a Constitutional crisis. But don’t worry: the real problem we face is Rush Limbaugh’s incivility, or the cost-prohibitive nature of lubed latex jimmies, or the Catholic Church’s stubborn resistance to the kind of progressive social justice born of just doing what they’re told to do by the government, you ignorant masses. Meanwhile, as the battle over how best to punish Rush Limbaugh — or

Deporting illegal border jumpers — that is, criminals, who by the nature of their crimes are a de facto potential risk to US security — is inhumane. Making sure they’re able to keep up with the hormone therapy necessary for their sex reassignment while they’re being held in custody for being in the country illegally, however? That, for all intents and purposes, has now been declared a tax-payer funded right:

In re: Darleen’s post last evening, BMoe noted in the comments — and I reemphasized there — the fact that on the White House site, anybody could start a petition, and so it was probably premature to tether to an entire political movement the tyrannical desire to shut down competing speech by mob force. After all, only 315 “progressive” zealots had thus far signed the petition to have Rush Limbaugh

First, mandatory contraception coverage. Next, mandatory sex reassignment surgery coverage. And you will comply. Or so help us, you’ll be forever stained with the charge of being a “heterosexist.”