Sarah Palin for Chief Justice!

So apparently Sarah Palin is not only a master of foreign policy, living in proximity to Russia and having met a couple of world leaders, but she is also a prominent legal scholar! Leaked reports of the yet unreleased CBS interview say:

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

P.S. Sadly, the video is a parody. The text is not. Truth, scarier than fiction!

Needed: More Maverickliciousness

So I don't know what to make of this bailout business, especially now that it has collapsed.

But if McCain's BOLD campaign "suspension" did not save the day it is time for new Maverick Moves! How 'bout he suspends time itself! Yes! Be cryogenically frozen and await--in suspended animation--until the polls change!

I have to agree with Paul Krugman here.

So what we now have is non-functional government in the face of a major crisis, because Congress includes a quorum of crazies and nobody trusts the White House an inch.
As a friend said last night, we’ve become a banana republic with nukes.

Like Lincoln-Douglas!

Tonight's debate will be like Lincoln-Douglas. If Stephen Douglas had been a kinda sleazy guy with unclear positions on some of the most important issues of his day who made his money by marrying rich and who deployed racist rhetoric in his campaign and worried about looking ridiculously short next to his lean, lanky and long opponent. Oh wait!

McSame has been doing what some in the media call "Hail Mary" plays--like when the team that is behind is desperate and just heaves the ball at the end one and hopes their team catches. Surprise! I'm going to nominate a completely unexpected (because she is completely unqualified!) Veep! Surprise! I'm suspending the campaign! (Except for the advertising, appearance, interview and fundraising bits.)

And now on Slate they have some suggestions for McSame's next Hail Mary!

1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself.

2. Offers the post of "vice vice president" to Warren Buffett.

3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore.

4. Learns to use computer.

5. Does bombing run over Taliban-controlled tribal areas of Pakistan.

6. Offers to forgo salary, sell one house.

7. Sex-change operation.

8. Suspends campaign until Nov. 4, offers to start being president right now.

9. Sells Alaska to Russia for $700 billion.

10. Pledges to serve only one term. OK, half a term.

Thanks to Gus and his Muzzer for the link to the funny picture and their hearty sense of humor.

It's ON!

As you may have heard, McCain has lowered himself to debate tonight. Now that he has saved the universe from sure collapse he will swoop into Mississippi to show his rhetorical mastery!



I have been ordered to avoid any mention of my own skills as a master debator so I'm just going to say--GO GET 'EM BARACK!

It's Debatin' Time

Maybe if John McSame decides he doesn't want to debate--or more likely that he wants to debate when Sarah Palin was supposed to debate Delaware Joe because whew was that interview with Palin and Katie Couric embarrassing--maybe Obama should go it alone! Like Stephen Colbert's Formidable Opponent! Or instead of a debate Obama could have a dance-off with Stephen like he had with Rain! (Though he might want to have Michelle dance for him. I saw them both on Ellen and Obama dances like he has a mom from Kansas).

Here's more funny, courtesy of David Letterman. McSame blew him off yesterday for a last minute interview with Couric that bumped off most of Palin's embarrassing inability to answer basic questions. Dave is not pleased:

Paw-litical Satire

From the Internets. Our guv-mint is a 419 scam!

> Dear American:
> I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business
> relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
> I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America.
> My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large
> transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would
> assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to
> you.
> I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will
> be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As
> a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American
> banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin
> is 100% safe.
> This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check.
> We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly
> transfer these funds in the names of our close friends
> because we are constantly under surveillance. My family
> lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and
> trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
> funds can be transferred.
> Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college
> fund account numbers and those of your children and
> grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we
> may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I
> receive that information, I will respond with detailed
> information about safeguards that will be used to protect
> the funds.
> Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

The Smell of Fear

moar funny pictures

Hey! Look! It's the Obama list of things that need to be addressed in the gazillion dollar bailout of Wall Street including things like more transparency and greater guarantees that taxpayer money will be returned. The Washington Monthly has noted that the McCain proposal, issued 48 hours later, looks suspiciously similar! Dude, my ma ape has a strict policy on plagiarism and believes that unrepentant lying plagiarizers belong in the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno. Oh, and you know what the ring for traitors is called? Cain. I'm just sayin'.

And, curiously, McSame now doesn't want to debate on Friday.

Dogs can smell fear. I'm just sayin'.

Rachel Explains it All

Rachel Maddow explains the stupidity of the Bush admin's planned bailout of the financial system:



And I'm hungry for candy and my own bailout.

Feeling Nostalgic!

This near meltdown of our financial system and proposed Bush disaster of a bailout plan reminds me of an oldy but goody financial scandal of the late 1980s also brought to you by deregulation! The S&L scandal! And WHO was at the center of that, an infamous member of the Keating Five? Why Mr. Maverick himself, John McSame!



As John at TPM reminds us:

Let's face it. On major economy-imperiling financial scandals brought about by lax regulation and help from lobbyist-encrusted politicians, McCain really is the candidate of experience.

Alaskans for Obama!

Thanks to my GranNE and the Newfs of Hazard who told me about the rally against Palin in Anchorage where several thousand people showed up to show their support for Obama.