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If you have a beef with the election fiasco of 2000, Justice Scalia wants you to talk to the hand — of Al Gore:

I've read damned near everything I could find on the death of George Carlin and nothing - nothing at all - sums him up so eloquently, so poignantly, so perfectly as John Nichols' piece here. Lordy I miss him now more than when I first heard he passed and the thought of his voice being silenced just sends dark chills down my spine.

“I don’t think we’ve had a situation like this since Richard Nixon was president,”
Rep. Henry A. Waxman said yesterday after the Bush administration invoked executive privilege to refuse to turn over subpoenaed documents in an investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to deny California permission to implement its own vehicle emission standards.

From WhitesCreek Steve over at TennViews, Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs says Obama "...may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be."

Wow. With friends like that... Maybe the other Hobbs could use an assistant over at the TNGOP.

Both Bill Hobbs and Sean Braisted note an interesting few graphs in an article about Congressman Lincoln Davis’s refusal to endorse Barack Obama, despite being a

Oh, I loves me some Paul Krugman: 

Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America. With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward. . . . [I]f he wins in November, it will be because our country has already been transformed.

Governor Phil Bredesen foreshadows the general election campaign with a history lesson:

I believe in self-torture. That’s why I watch MSNBC.

Brian Williams, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, and Tom Brokaw joined forces, looking all ruddy and sweaty, to celebrate the uber victory of the now presumptive Democrat nominee Barack Obama.

In the wake of the tell-all book released by former Bush Administration press man, Scott McClellan, Joe Lance discusses the charges leveled in the context of previous administrations: