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• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Strictly Awesome Saturday Edition
• President Obama Calls for the End of Party Politics By Calling for Political Parties
• BREAKING: Barack Obama Found with Live Goat Wearing Lipstick

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Strictly Awesome Saturday Edition Posted: 22 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST For those of you who believe in miracles, let me present to you a wide-awake, fully-functioning, blog-posting Andrew Lawton. He got out of the hospital Friday and his second official act was to sit down behind the mic and record an episode of Right this Way with me and a few other podcasting friends. The show should be up some time this morning. I warn you, it’s not family-friendly (there are a few curse words here and there) and it’s not particularly political, but it was great fun and I hope you catch some of the joy we felt at having Andrew back with us. And now, links! MS-NBC and Keith Olbermann have parted ways and Rob Long isn’t entirely happy about it. It’s not clear whether Olbermann quite or if MS-NBC gave him the sack. My guess is that he left quietly before they could very publicly can him. Tim Pawlenty won’t be elected President if he can’t sell his own book even after a tour that put him on a plethora of conservative television and radio shows. I caught T-Paw on The Grandy Group last week and he didn’t impress me. He talks like a politician, which is exactly what I don’t want running for President in 2012. This is not a smart move for Michelle Bachmann. I know she has to do things to keep her name in the public eye, but going up against Paul Ryan is a spectacularly bad way to do that. Lisa Murkowski, the Senator from Alaska who managed to wheedle her way to another term, has apparently decided to go the classless route. Mitch McConnell should have stripped her of every position she held after she decided to run as a write-in candidate. He didn’t and she has responded by kicking him in the shins. The new seating suggestion for the coming State of the Union address is a silly idea for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it lets the Democrats hide when we should be shining a very bright light on every one of their failures over the past several years. No, Betelgeuse probably won’t become a second sun in our lifetimes, no matter what The Huffington Post says. And shame on folks for taking a HuffPo article as anything approaching truth. But even if Betelgeuse went supernova tomorrow, something scientists aren’t even sure is likely to happen in the next few millenia, the light would take at least 640 years to reach us (and longer, if it’s farther way than we now believe).

President Obama Calls for the End of Party Politics By Calling for Political Parties Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:36 PM PST None dare call it Partisanship! White House aides insist the president will not shy away from calls for bipartisan cooperation just because he’s setting up his campaign office. “Just because the president sets up the machinery of ultimately running for reelection does not mean that you’re going to see the president doing a ton of political reelection events,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The White House leaked preliminary details of President Obama’s campaign shop on Thursday, just a few days ahead of the president’s State of the Union address, which will likely include another call for rising above party politics. This is, of course, the President’s go-to move. He calls for us to rise above party politics while he wallows in party politics like a big ol’ overheated boar hog. It was pure party politics that got us the Vote Buying Act Stimulus Bill, the auto bailouts, and Obamacare and it’ll be party politics that gets him elected, assuming he makes it through the primaries. Heck, he’s already making his State of the Union address one big party…umm…party! In a tweet to his 6.4 million followers, President Obama (@BarackObama) asks: "Can you host a State of the Union watch party next Tuesday?" He then links to this "Organizing for America" page. It says "On Tuesday, January 25th, President Obama will deliver his second State of the Union address. To help get the word out about the President’s vision for the next year, OFA volunteers will be holding State of the Union watch parties and strategy sessions across the country — and if we’re going to have enough events in enough places, we’ll need your help." It’s true, turning the State of the Union address into a giant campaign event through his Organizing for America minions isn’t exactly “a ton of political reelection events” but it’s a pretty big one. Barack Obama knows how to campaign — it’s pretty much the only thing he’s done well in his career — so you can bet, contra his new campaign official Robert Gibbs, this is only the beginning. The party politics has only begun.

BREAKING: Barack Obama Found with Live Goat Wearing Lipstick Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:05 PM PST What? It’s every bit as accurate a headline as this bit of drivel from the National Enquirer. I didn’t link to the original piece because I don’t think rumor mongers who pose as journalists deserve traffic. Ace, however, deserves millions of hits for his inspired and dead-on takedown of the NatEnq. Make no mistake here, the Enquirer is looking for traffic. Their “story”, which is based on the fevered imaginings of Palin-hating left-wing bloggers is pure link bait and nothing more. The story will, however, get some traction in the MSM because it’s a story about Sarah Palin that gives them all an excuse to trot out a bunch of “experts” who will sigh and shrug their shoulders and attempt to bury her political aspirations, whatever they may be. How much traction it will get depends entirely on the ethics of folks like Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Anderson Cooper, Shep Smith, and Rachel Maddow. Yeah, I know. Snowball. Hell.

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