John McCain has picked first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin is 44, 28 years younger than McCain.
As one commenter of the snarky Web site Wonkette said, "It's not the first time McCain has chosen to go with a younger woman."
Zing!
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced today that our local-girl-made-good Monica Goodling would not be charged with breaking the law, even though, he said, she did.
The attorney general, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in the land said this:
"Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime."
Not every violation of the law is a crime.
That's good to know.
I seem to recall, not long ago, people harping about the rule of law and all of that. When it's your team breaking the law, I guess the rules are a little more flexible.
News that John Edwards admitted having an affair has been a huge story the past couple of days.
One woman I know asked, "What kind of idiot would do something like that?"
And by "something like that," I think she meant cheat on a spouse who was battling a life-threatening disease.
Well, let's see.
How about Newt Gingrich? Newt cheated on his wife while she was ill and delivered divorce papers to her while she was still in the hospital. And he is still considered a Republican paragon.
And then there's John McCain.
McCain cheated on his first wife with the current Mrs. McCain while his wife was in the hospital recovering from a car accident. The car accident left his first wife, a former bikini model, overweight and disfigured. So McCain dumped her for Mrs. McCain No. 2, who, by the way, is 17 years younger than him and is a wealthy beer heiress on top of that.
The only lesson here is that hypocrisy knows no bounds or party lines.
Excellent Paul Krugman column from the New York Times yesterday. It begins:
"So the G.O.P. has found its issue for the 2008 election. For the next three months the party plans to keep chanting: "Drill here! Drill now! Drill here! Drill now! Four legs good, two legs bad!" O.K., I added that last part.
"And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I've been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the 'party of ideas,' have become the party of stupid.
"Now, I don't mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don't mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives.
What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism -- the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise -- has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party's de facto slogan has become: 'Real men don't think things through.'"
Read the whole thing here.
John McCain's campaign is awarding points to people who post his talking points on various blogs.
Here's your chance to win some points. Post some talking points -- the funnier and most unauthorized, the better -- here and then go here to report it for your points.
Now, any Astroturf or serious talking points won't make the cut. Make them funny or no points for you!
Paris Hilton, currently starring in John McCain's bizarre "Celebrity" ad, has responded. She refers to McCain as "that wrinkly, white-haired guy."
Watch it here:
On Thursday, Barack Obama delivers a speech to a couple hundred thousand people in Berlin.
John McCain, meanwhile, was campaigning at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in some town in Ohio.
Satire is dead.
If you've watched television during the past week or so, you've seen the ad in which John McCain blames Barack Obama for high gas prices, the ad that is the basis of my Sunday column.
Here is factcheck.org, a non-partisan Web site that checks accuracy of political nonsense, dissecting it.
Of course, the ad is nonsense.
At least we have a park.
Now that the jury has decided that it's going to cost us -- the taxpayers -- a lot more money, at least $10 million more, for Highpoint, the county has to figure out how to pay for it.
Of course, the commissioners are going to have to borrow the money.
But hey, how about locking up a whole lot more illegal immigrants in the county prison?
And don't forget, we taxpayers are still on the hook to the Kohr family over the rest of Lauxmont. That's going to be a few million more bucks.
Anyway, thanks bunches to former commissioners Lori Mitrick and Doug Kilgore for saddling us with this. Nice job, guys!
This is state Rep. Sean Ramaley, D-Beaver.
Beaver is where he's from, not his nickname.
The Beav was among those indicted today in the House bonus scandal that's been going on since, well, apparently, since the Beav's birth.
The state Attorney General accused the Beav of holding a "no-work job" for a state representative while running for office.
"No work job"? Isn't that what state Representatives do?
Anyway, the Beav is looking at jail time. Or maybe just some detention. Or a time out.
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