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Oompa Loompa Sprayontan Dude
Letting his Party come completely unglued
A laquered corpse, irredeemably screwed
Like the Oompa
Loompa
Sprayontan
Dude!

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Update (Blue Gal and the team): Happy Birthday to our own Nicole Belle!

For me, Rush Limbaugh being "interviewed" for 30 minutes on Fox News was arguably the greatest advance in jaybird-naked cross-promotion since Mork showed up on Happy Days.

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UPDATE (John Amato): Yankees win the World Series! Matsui is the MVP. Mariano Rivera is the greatest reliever of all time.

Meme-nto, that inability of some people to form any new political memories that conflict with the way they desperately want the world to be. Click here for larger.

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"News plus hysterium or synthrage or bigotamine is what we were drinking.

This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence."

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Thanks for nothing, Bill Maher, for planting the image of Palin as Carrie's Mom in my head. Click here for larger. (h/t Heather and BG)

Also recommended tonight: this online episode of Murphy Brown. Fourteen years ago and it was all there: Limbaugh, Gingrich, looking stuff up on "the Internet", the "Liberal Media Elite", all afloat in a wishful fantasy that somehow both sides were equally wrong and we could all work together if only the Left bent over a little further.

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crossposted from Driftglass at the request of Crooks and Liars editors

Once upon a time, there was a President named Bill Clinton, who was, by most historical standards, a typical Centrist Republican, although by a fluke of geography and circumstances he ran for public office with a "(D)" after his name.

Under his Administration, many Conservative ideas which had long gathered dust on the shelf -- ideas such as welfare reform, a balanced budget, debt reduction, a strict “Pay as You Go” fiscal regime, a boom in technology jobs, budget surpluses, NAFTA, GATT, official bans on gay marriage, etc. -- were finally realized.

And for all of his good work on behalf of their ideology, Conservatives spent eight, long years treating Bill Clinton -- a Southern, White, Christian man -- as if he were a case of flesh eating nuclear syphilis.

Because he did not run for office with an "(R)" after his name.

And because he did not run for office with an "(R)" after his name, according to the leading voices in the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement, Bill Clinton was, in no particular order, Hitler, a Socialist, a rapist, a warmonger, a serial murderer, and a drug dealer, whose Presidency was somehow vaguely illegitimate.

And counterpointing the 24/7 slime campaign, there were those endless, endless hearings. Whitewater. Travel office. Christmas Card lists. Lincoln bedroom. Etc ad nauseum.

Or don’t you remember?

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At 2:10: "God forbid, that while talking to sixty-thousand public school students, the President should appear smart."

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RIDDLE: If Dick Cheney were caught red-handed tossing burning kittens at homeless veterans from the White House lawn, what would be the first three words out of Cokie Roberts' mouth?

A: "But the Democrats...."

Nobody promised...this would be easy.

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And planning for the Palin "Triumphant Return" world tour to begin in 3...2...1...

The Onion (edited for safe-for-work viewing, see original here) finally gets the 40-year-old headline right. The interactive website commemorating today's anniversary is worth the click.

40 years ago we were a nation that spent billions of dollars on the crap shoot of putting three men on top of 3,200 tons of hellfire wrapped in an aluminum skin and firing the whole thing at a dead rock 240,000 miles away because our destiny demanded it.

40 years later we are a nation that will not spend billions to keep its 300 million citizens alive, healthy and productive because the insurance industry lobbyists who own our politicians forbid it.

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"You won't have Miz Palin to kick around anymore."

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Steve Gilliard -- my blogfather and a one of the genuine masters of the form -- died two years ago today.

Which, of course, tells you nothing.

So instead of let me tell you something.

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"Well slap a wig on me and call me Liz!" Open thread below...