“THE UN IS LIKE THE PUBLIC OPTION ON THE ‘SPEAKING IN TONGUES,’ WHEN THAT SHOULD BE THE SOLE PROVINCE OF THE GOP BASE.”

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Jon Perr with the background and the latest installment of The Adventures of Huck “Thin on common sense,” and Madkane on Newt’s Bilingual Newspeak.

Lisa Casey has the real Private Option in America.

“SHE’LL NOT ONLY BE DENIED THE COVERAGE SHE NEEDS, BUT WILL PROBABLY END UP IN A BACK ALLEY SEEKING MEDICAL HELP.”

“HEY LADY, JUST TAKE TWO ASPIRIN, AND CALL ME AT 5 AM TOMORROW MORNING.”

“THEY ACTUALLY STARTED WORKING HER OVER DURING THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION, BUT YOU KNOW HOW SLOW AND INEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT CAN BE.”

“UNLIKE BOB HOPE, I DIDN’T HAVE TO BRING THE GOLDDIGGERS … WE ALREADY HAVE HALLIBURTON HERE.”

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Dan Kurtzman with the video of Colbert gettin’ trained and shaved.

BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin on Sonia Sotomayor and the Blatant Hypocrisy of White Male Entitlement.

Lisa Casey on Newt’s latest self-neutering, and Madkane with the Liz Cheney Song.

“NOW, UNLIKE THE ISRAELITES, WHO TOLD YOUR PHARAOH TO ‘LET MY PEOPLE GO,’ I’M ASKING YOU TO TAKE SOME OF OUR PEOPLE, INCLUDING O’REILLY, RUSH AND NEWT.”

“OY, THIS WOULD BE WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL TEN PLAGUES.”

“NOW THERE WAS A JUSTICE WHO REALLY BELIEVED IN JUDICIAL RESTRAINT.”

Story at Daily Kos.

And more on the “Sonia-crazed” from Lisa Casey with Republican Membership Drivers, and Madkane on Newt: The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks.

Beatles Mashups at BartCopE.

Apoliticus on the Top 10 People Who Just Won’t Go Away.

“AS THE REST OF THE WORLD SEES THAT HACK REPUBLICAN LAWYERS TORTURED THE LAW, THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY OF OUR PARTY WILL BE STRIPPED BARE LIKE A DETAINEE AT ABU GHRAIB.”

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BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin on Murder He Wrote: Why Aren’t Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Being Prosecuted? 

Madkane on the GOP: They Only Have Themselves To Blame.

Juan Cole on the Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics.

“A WAR AGAINST PIRATES ON THE HIGH SEAS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN DEFINED AS BETWEEN LONELY SAILORS LIVING IN TIGHT QUARTERS WITH EACH OTHER FOR MONTHS, AND OVER-BLINGED BUCCANEERS WHO’VE HAD A BIT TOO MUCH RUM.”

“IT’S SIMPLY INCONCEIVABLE TO ME THAT A WILD-EYED SUICIDAL MANIAC WOULD NOT SEEK MY ADVICE; AFTER ALL WE COULD’VE USED THIS GUY TO LEAD AN ATTACK AGAINST NORTH KOREA.”

More on Newt Insanity from BuzzFlash’s P.M. Carpenter.

“WHILE MOST REPUBLICANS SAY THINGS THAT ARE SIMPLY ODIOUS TO THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS … WITH NEWT, AT LEAST NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK HE’S TALKING ABOUT.”

“BY INSERTING MICRO-COMPUTERS INTO THE WOMBS OF PREGNANT WOMEN, WE CAN HELP FETUSES GET AN EARLY JUMP ON DEVELOPMENT, AND ENTIRELY ELIMINATE THE CURRENT ‘HEAD START’ PROGRAM.”

The NYT Magazine story here.

Lisa Casey with the GOP “Rush” to Oblivion.