hand wringing

GoldnI thinks we all just need to take a deep breath with all this Veep speculation:

Congressman Marsha Blackburn weighs in with a polemic on immigration:

One of the questions asked most often this weekend was "what is going on at the rules and bylaws committee?" I even got asked the question by a cab driver from (I believe from the Caribbean) who saw me carrying a YDA poster. Despite the sense of suspense that the media wanted to portray, there really weren't any major surprises.

GoldnI is not sweating Barack Obama’s troubles with voters in the Appalachian region of the country. She’s down with the 50 state strategy and all but in the end, Obama doesn’t need Appalachia:

Governor Phil Bredesen continues his hand-wringing over the divisive race for the Democratic Presidential nomination and the continued uncertainty that will remain until superdelegate can decide on a candidate. To which Vanderbilt Professor Bruce Oppenheimer retorts:

Obama supporter Josh Marshall cuts through all of the whining by fellow "O"-supporters in order to get down to business:

Mark Mays asserts that, white liberals at least, need to stop talking about Jeremiah Wright unless they want to make bigger the stick which has been given to Republicans to poke them with in the fall:

It’s like this guy read my mind. I’ll reprint excerpts, but I implore you all to read this in it’s entirety.

Today, I was standing around flirting with a wee baby when I heard about something so stupid and evil I thought “This must be a mistake.  Surely, the man who is telling me about this has suffered a bump on the head right before I got here or is high on gasoline fumes from the auger he’s putting in the back of my car.” 

Climb up on the couch, dear Liberal friend. The issue of Barack’s Beliefs has reminded me of my Intro. to Psych studies from way back when. And here’s some local amateur psychoanalysis from yours truly relying on observations of what’s being said on the issue around the state.