We Are In Agreement

I didn't noez!!1!!

Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeated his claim that he -- and the entire country -- was lied to about the TARP program in 2007.

Asked about the claim by host David Gregory, McCain was adamant. "We were all misled" by Bush administration Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, McCain said.

Troubling News for 6 Year Old Girls

"Tea Party" has been copyrighted

Representative Steve King is insane

Rep. Steve King: ACORN scandal bigger than Watergate

Related: Alan Grayson's recent deuce in the capital men's room more destructive than Kissinger's secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos.

Daniel Larison is a daily must-read

Especially yesterday's dismantling of Tom "Suck on This" Freidman's Muslim-call-to-arms (note that Freidman is neither Muslim, nor willing to pick up arms).

As he did late last month, Friedman is carelessly reproducing pan-Islamist ideas as part of his own effort at looking for red herrings because he doesn’t want to “look inward.” In his case, the red herring is the lack of Muslim outrage. Maybe Muslims should be expressing more outrage over jihadist atrocities, but Friedman is demanding impassioned reaction from hundreds of millions spread out across four continents in response to events that are mostly abstract and far removed from them. It could be that large numbers of these people appear indifferent or quiescent not because they approve of the atrocities or fear the jihadists who commit them, but simply that they are indifferent to events that occur thousands of miles away in other lands.

Daniel Larison Mainpage on The American Conservative

John Birch Society to co-sponser 2010 CPAC

This is great,in 1964 W. F. Buckley wrote of JBS:

How can the John Birch Society be an effective political instrument while it is led by a man whose views on current affairs are, at so many critical points . . . so far removed from common sense? That dilemma weighs on conservatives across America. . . . The underlying problem is whether conservatives can continue to acquiesce quietly in a rendition of the causes of the decline of the Republic and the entire Western world which is false, and, besides that, crucially different in practical emphasis from their own.

And now they're co-sponsoring CPAC.

Sarah Palin has shifted the center of the Republican party so far to the right that Oliver North is suspect.

I must say it would be nice not to have an opposition party of fucking psychos.

Anne Applebaum is a moron

She poses a fair question: "Why should we care [about the Nobel Peace Prize]?"

And then veers into absurdity:

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish dynamite tycoon who thought up this whole thing, specifically wanted Norwegians to choose the winner, apparently because Norwegians, being outside the European mainstream, would be less likely to be politically corrupt. The trouble is that Norwegians, being outside the European mainstream, are also more likely to be eccentric.

Followed by a non-sequitar

Norway is a wonderful country, and Norwegians have some of the highest living standards in the world—thanks to their low numbers and their large deposits of oil and gas—

and capped off with some anecdotal evidence

but the last time I was there, I got into an argument with someone about which country was more evil: the United States or North Korea. This being a few years ago, at the height of the Bush terror, you can guess which side the Norwegian was on.

That's all in the first paragraph.

To sum up: Norwegians are too rich and weird too determine Nobel Peace Prize winners; also, she met this viking this one time who thought Bush was an asshole.

Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

NYT Nils Butenschon, director of the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo and a well-known human rights champion in Norway, went so far as to say the committee has risked the authority of the peace prize by awarding it to Mr. Obama before he has accomplished much of substance

What?

Burn poor people, burn

Fox News ridicules ACORN for giving smoke detectors to poor people.

They're not saying "boo"

They're saying "coup."

The curtain in the background wishes it shared Obama's consistancy

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.