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A few odds and ends from around the intertoobs: Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public. Only 1% of those polled could name all nine Supreme Court justices. Let's see, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson I've got, but who are the other 6? I'll have to get back to ya'. I guess once you've done PR for one lying scumbag it's no sweat to do it for another. Dick Cheney's former press...

This is what President Obama's critics have been reduced to-George Will yesterday on This Week saying the president is "being unfairly blamed" for his response to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, but on the other hand "it sort of serves him right." From Media Matters:I used to have some degree of respect for George Will. He was one of the few remaining voices on the right who, on occasion, made some reasonable, rational arguments. Now he's...

Something to look forward to if Republicans re-gain control of the House in November--impeachment. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the right-wing noise machine are revving up impeachment chatter over the allegations of Joe Sestak being offered an unpaid advisory position to stay out of the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania. Issa:"It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable,"...

President Obama held a meeting with Senate Republicans yesterday-no cameras present. I would assume GOP senators learned a lesson from the dressing-down their House counterparts took in January with cameras rolling and insisted on that. Afterwards, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Pat Roberts of Kansas gave their versions of what transpired, and what they allegedly said to the president.Corker spoke with Greg Sargent of The Plum Line:"He got all uppity I felt like there was...

It would seem to me that we, as a country, pretty much have our plate full right now. Two endless wars, an impending environmental and economic disaster on the Gulf Coast, high unemployment, and an economy still struggling to recover should be about all we can handle, one would think. But hey, there's always room for some good, old fashioned empire-building and military intervention into whatever nation we choose. After all, we can so why...

If there is an afterlife, where the deeds done during one's time on earth are the basis for either reward or punishment, I wouldn't want to be one John Sidney McCain. His payment for unleashing upon an unsuspecting country the natural disaster known as Sarah Palin will surely be severe, and deservedly so.To use a comparison to another ongoing national tragedy, Sen. McCain drilled a well in a remote area without any means of shutting...

Is this what BP CEO Tony Hayward meant when he said "the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest?" Video from CBS News shows oil beginning to come ashore in the coastal marshes of Louisiana:<br />And it's only the beginning. This chart from McClatchy shows what could happen now that oil is starting to reach the Gulf of Mexico's loop current:Meanwhile, a CBS news crew was threatened with arrest for attempting to...

I read the news today:Arlen Specter switched parties because he couldn't win the Republican primary, now he loses the Democratic primary to Joe Sestak. This just in Arlen, it's not about party this year, the key word is "incumbent." You're 80 years old, you've been in the Senate for 30 years. Your time is up. Mitch McConnell's hand-picked candidate to succeed Jim Bunning got smoked by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in the Republican senatorial...

I realize this might be like of those bears taking a crap in the woods kind of questions (oops I meant tree falling in the woods). After all, very few people who frequent this site are Republicans or vote Republican. However, as Americans we love to be for something and against something else. Fact is that we need two strong parties (at least) or we find ourselves going astray. Democrats need good Republicans just like...

Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor has launched a new web site called You Cut, which "is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact." The first five cuts on which to vote are (and remember, only ONE of these will be chosen):The Presidential Election Fund. Savings-$260 million over five...