1. WHAT WOULD BE THE TOP PRIORITY OF A McCAIN ADMINISTRATION: MORE WARS, OR MORE WARS ON THE MIDDLE CLASS?

2. FOR SOMEONE BORN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, YOU SURE DON’T SEEM TO HAVE LEARNED ANY LESSONS FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

3. SENATOR, MY SENIOR DEMOCRATIC COLLEAGUES KNEW AND SERVED WITH JOHN McCAIN. JOHN McCAIN WAS A FRIEND OF THEIRS.  SENATOR, YOU’RE NO LONGER JOHN McCAIN.

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BLOGWORTHIES:

The Bailout Vote and the Tyranny of Representative Democracy – P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash on Profiles in Porridge.

Lisa Casey with a unique perspective on the Congressional Bailout Plan. 

The Daily Show’s World War I, at One Good Move.

Sarah Silverman Wants “JEW” To Vote!!

“KATIE, ISN’T THAT THE ONE WHERE THE SUPREME COURT HAD TO DECIDE IF THEY’D COUNT THE VOTE OF THE LITTLE BOY … EVEN THOUGH HE ATE HIS ICE CREAM BEFORE DINNER?”

“MY FRIENDS, NOT ONLY IS TINA FEY A HELLUVA LOT SMARTER, BUT WITH THE ECONOMY IN TATTERS, SHE CAN ACTUALLY SEE WALL STREET FROM HER OFFICE AT 30 ROCK.”

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Chris Matthews: Bailout failed because McCain’s leadership failed — at Crooks & Liars.

“Racism 2008” – at All Hat No Cattle.

Wanted: Another FDR, at Consortium News.

“WHEN YOU HAVE A SUB-PRIME CANDIDATE, WHO FURTHER MORTGAGED HIS FUTURE WITH OVER-VALUED ALASKAN PROPERTY, WE NEED A NEW PLAN INVOLVING A NOMINEE SWAP, BEFORE THERE’S A COMPLETE RUN ON THE GOP.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash: The Bailout Could Be McCain’s Best Hope.

Norm Jenson with The Sunday Funnies, and Dan Kurtzman with Political Cartoons of the Week.

Release Princess Sarah From the Dark Tower! – at Zencomix.

“THE PRICE OF GAS IN BAGHDAD IS LOWER, FEWER PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES, THEIR MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IS LESS POLITICIZED, AND THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY HAS AN ‘EXIT PLAN’ FOR U.S. TROOPS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: The Wave of “Capitol Crimes” Continues – at BuzzFlash.

Dan Kurtzman on the McCain Ad Linking Obama to Britney and Paris.

Bush tangled up in … yellow? — via Lisa Casey.

Cheech and Chong to Reunite for Comedy Tour, at Hollywood Liberal.

“LET’S FACE IT, WE DON’T HAVE THE BALLS TO DO ANYTHING THAT MIGHT ENERGIZE THE RIGHT-WING BEFORE THIS ELECTION. BUT BY CUTTING OFF KARL’S BALLS, WE CAN AT LEAST PREVENT A FUTURE RACE OF ‘POLITICAL CONSULTANT MUTANTS’.”

 

“SINCE WE ALREADY¬†LOCK-IN OUR EMPLOYEES OVERNIGHT, THIS WAS JUST A¬†COST-FREE WAY TO DIVERSIFY OUR ‘HOLDINGS’.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Norm Jenson with an interesting post on the forgotten candidate: John Edwards.

Dave Lindorff at BuzzFlash on The Bush Dollar Trap.

The Enron End-Run — Nicole Belle at C&L¬†on the latest pro-business Supreme Court Decision.

DoJ Investigators Digging toward Major Report — TPM Muckraker¬†citing¬†The Hill.

 

“HILLARY, I DID NOT HAVE ‘INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS’ WITH THOSE WOMEN.¬† BUT EVEN IF I DID, AFTER¬†I WAS ELECTED I’D BE A DAMN FOOL NOT TO SEEK YOUR ADVICE ON¬†THAT AS WELL.”

[The Background here.] 

Be sure to check out Dan Kurtzman’s¬†25 Dumbest Quotes of 2007, and related satirical “Year in Review” posts.

If you haven’t heard by now, the official team of Jesus, the Colorado Rockies, against all Biblical odds, were swept in the World Series by the Boston Red Sox. As highlighted at One Good Move, the Rockies have become baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Justice Department — recruiting “holy rollers” to take their turn at bat with the Lord.

But contrary to popular perception, their defeat was not solely attribuable to being out-hit and out-pitched. Here then, from the home office of Galilee, are the Top Ten Reasons the Rockies were smitten in the World Series:

10. “THOU SHALL NOT STEAL” GREATLY HAMPERED THEIR PROGRESS¬†ON THE BASEPATHS.

¬†9. MISTOOK COACH’S HIT-AND-RUN SIGN FOR “SIGN OF THE CROSS.”

¬†8. HOMOPHOBIA PREVENTED TEAMMATE “ASS-PATTING,” DESTROYING TEAM MORALE.

 7. ROCKIES MANAGER REFUSED TO USE BULLPEN, DRIVING OUT THE PITCHING CHANGERS.

 6. CITING THE APOSTLES, TEAM INSISTED ON PLAYING TWELVE FIELDERS, THUS FORFEITING GAME.

5. “TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK” RESULTED IN¬†OUTFIELDERS GETTING SMACKED BY FLY BALLS.

4. GOT SICK AFTER SWALLOWING CHEWING TOBACCO LIKE COMMUNION WAFERS.

3. REFUSED TO MOUNT LATE INNING RESURRECTIONS WITHOUT A SIGN FROM ABOVE.

2. PITCHING COACH CONFUSED HURLERS WITH SERMON ON THE MOUND.

1. UNMARRIED PLAYERS NOT ALLOWED TO ADVANCE BEYOND FIRST BASE.

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BLOGWORTHIES:

George Lakoff at BuzzFlash on ‘American Values.’

Political Cartoons of the Week, via Dan Kurtzman.

Lisa Casey on Obsessive Compulsive Clinton Disorder.

PDB on The Ugly Republican America.