A nine-year-old girl is dead. A federal judge is dead. Three other people are dead, Congresswoman Giffords is alive for the moment after hours of surgery on a through-and-through head shot. Others are still in surgery.

Palin listed Giffords' seat as one of the top "targets" in the midterm elections because of the lawmakers' support for the ( Read more... )

Bill Maher started this week's show with a very crude joke about Sarah Palin and menstruation, and then went on to make this crack about Russia's hold on foreign adoptions: "if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're gonna have to wait until Lindsey Lohan reproduces ( Read more... )

Buchanan: Palin Is A FeministBleahhh! Today being a Sunday, there were political shows everywhere, and I believe it was on CNN that Buchanan held forth on Sarah Palin, asserting that she's a a feminist, a follower of "the true feminism ( Read more... )

Palin & Bachmann, Together At Last
Chris Matthews titled one of his segments on Hardball tonight "Bachmann-Palin Overdrive." You have to be a certain age to really enjoy that. B-b-b-baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet...

But though her crowd loved it, I was very uncomfortable with the hatefulness of Palin's gender jokes. Apparently she thinks that ( Read more... )

Shannon Moore of the Huffington Post, trying to be polite for a G-rated audience, told Keith Olbermann tonight on his show that Sarah Palin is "guano crazy."

So, permit me to coin "guanomania" for this affliction, and "guanomaniac" for the afflicted.

Earlier this week, I'd heard someone use the phrase "batcrap crazy" as a slight bowdlerization of ( Read more... )

Oh, gah! This was simply dreadful. You can tell from her script that, at the moment, she doesn't have a single political professional from the big leagues as her coach.

She's either on her own,* or using provincial "talent," and it's... it's... it's a paean to socialism, among other things. Seriously. When she brags about how she was able to ( Read more... )

No comment on the relationship between the two, except to remind you that Meghan McCain famously said she will not comment about Sarah Palin at all, ever - thus providing a pretty clear comment. And in fact, Ms. McCain tries to squirm out of commenting on a great many things. But before we get into that, I need to share a metaphor I've never ( Read more... )

Now, I loathe the woman as much as I loathe the Republican Party as a whole, which is a whole lot of loathin' goin' on.

However.

It occurs to me that there is one way that Palin can be actually useful in a big way and do her party a huge service: she can quit the party itself.

No, I'm not being rude. I mean it. If Palin quits and tries a ( Read more... )

At the moment, the Republican field for president in 2012 has narrovwed again, with only Romney and Huckabee as major candidates - and given the composition of the Republican primary electorate, Romney cannot beat Huckabee. And Huckabee scares me to death.. More on that some other time; meanwhile, Sarah Palin self-destructed today (and don't you ( Read more... )

It's summer, and there's too much going on to spend much time blogging, though heaven knows I'd love to roll in the sex scandal muck for a while, or chastise Dana Milbank for his silly attack on Obama's willingness to take questions relayed from Iran at a press conference, or give Obama a swift kick in the briefs (legal briefs, that is) for his DOJ ( Read more... )