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Tom DeLay Announces “Dancing With the Stars” Partner | Cheryl Burke
Apparently she’s a professional of sorts – has appeared in Maxim magazine and was born in 1984. DeLay announcement here.
Tune In Or Buy Stock: Obama To Appear on BlogTalk Radio
How many Jägerbombs were tossed down at the Blog Talk Radio headquarters when they found out this news? [do they even have a HQ?] President Obama will make his debut on BlogTalkRadio this evening with 40 Minutes for Health Reform. The program, airing at 5pm, is hosted by a coalition …
The Road To Shell Is Paved With Good Intentions
Rahm Car Bomb: The US’s cash-for-clunkers scheme, designed to bolster Detroit’s embattled carmakers, is turning out to be an even bigger boon for their Japanese rivals. [print more money] Whoopsies.
If Ben Franklin Could Serve Our Government…Why Can’t This Inventor?
Maybe because Ben Franklin actually had useful inventions? [just a thought] Rufus Terrill, inventor of the another sort of political lighting rod, the Bum-Bot [which sort of looks like a souped-up version of Blankman’s J-5], is running for Mayor of Atlanta. And not that we’re advocating this, but that hypothetical …
If Using Photoshop Makes You an Artist, Consider Us Bob Ross
Apparently using Photoshop these days makes you an "artist." When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image? Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist …
Who Is Chet Edwards FAIL?
POLITICO must be helping Chet Edwards throw protesters off the trail by sending them to bother Gene Green. Michael Falcone: Chet Edwards changes course, adds town halls That would be Congressman Gene Green , not Congressman Chet Edwards .
Famously Quoteworthy: If One is Good, Two or Three Must Be Better
It’s like having a meeting before the meeting. They’re super important. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison formally announced her bid for TX gov. today, after her semi-formal announcement a month ago that followed her pre-prom announcement in April. Seen in Hotline’s Last Call
New “Dancing With the Stars” Line Up Announced Tomorrow
The new Dancing with the Stars line up will be announced tomorrow morning on Good Morning America. FamousDC predicts Paula Abdul is out, Tom DeLay is in. Stay tuned…
Your [other] WTF of the Week: What Ever Happened to Free Balls?
The Buckhead Invitational golf tourney, which was played this past weekend in Atlanta, GA, handed out some pretty interesting t-shirts to all tournament participants. What’s not clear is which political party the tournament sponsors belong to. It’s also unclear as to why the t-shirts were printed in hunter safety orange.
Guess They Need a More Loaded Question
When push polls go wrong … [um, next question please!]
Nancy Pelosi Enjoys Her Constituents from 3000 Miles Away
Speaker Pelosi was recently kind enough to sit down with the fine folks at PlumTV. During her interview Pelosi said that listening to her constituents was "very healthy" … and "the most wholesome part of the job." Given the nature of the town hall meetings going on across the nation …
Shelia Jackson Lee Answers Cell Phone While Being Asked Question at Town Hall
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE . 3 to 1 odds that she was lining up another funeral speaking gig . UPDATE: NRCC Spokesman Ken Spain piles on with some pointed advice "Sheila Jackson Lee might want to consider calling her shrink since she is apparently disconnected from reality." UPDATE II: Jackson …
Get In While the Gettin’ Is Good
If you are you allowed to "float" your own name when it comes to the 2012 presidential race, then count Rick Santorum in. Rick is headed to Iowa: Like other potential White House aspirants, he insisted it was too early to consider a presidential run. But he acknowledged that he …
Holy Sh*t! Miss South Carolina Was Totally Right!
Our very own Washington Independent picks up a fascinating study from the Public Policy Polling survey of North Carolina, which not only shows that a razor-thin majority of Tar Heels are actually sure Barack Obama is legitimately signing laws and whatnot, but that nearly one in ten of them were …
From Angry Mob to “Death Panels”
Go sell crazy somewhere else, we’re all stocked up here… From Sarah Palin’s Facebook page: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based …