The Avett Brothers sing “For Today”

New York City’s lone Republican congressman from was arrested in Virginia last night driving with .17 blood alcohol (.08 is the legal limit). According to Mr. Fossella, he either drinks ten ounce shots or he’s a female toddler. And after all Dick Cheney did for him…

Did you know that Rummy had absolutely no idea that all of the Army’s reconstruction expertise was redeployed out of Iraq right after Mission Accomplished? It’s true!

Well, sort of. In his new memoir, General Ricardo Sanchez recounts his surreal 2006 exit interview, in which Rummy shares a memo…

Awwww. I see that our illustrious governor, Smilin’ Tim Pawlenty, has already done a Lieberman and whispered into his would-be running mate’s ear, because John Sidney McCain III’s doin’ the ol’ walkback again — this time with regard to his asinine comments about what he thinks caused the 35W bridge collapse. Just keep diggin’, Johnny!

North Carolina absentee senator Liddy Dole was predictably not in the office when Pam Spaulding and the folks from BlueNC came calling with 1200 signatures we all collected asking Liddy to take a stand and make the racist Republican ads against Barack Obama stop — something that John McCain is too politically feeble to do.

I love how fast you can find music these days. I heard a song on the radio yesterday that I really dug, Googled what I thought the chorus was saying and there it was- U.R.A Fever by The Kills. And here it is for you. Cool video too. Kudos to the B 52’s for putting out a great new album Funplex, their first in sixteen years!

In honor of Emptywheel, I went on ABC to talk about John McCain with the sole purpose of uttering three words — “Sugar Momma Express.”

Was it a success? Well…you be the judge.

In his new ad touting his health-care plan, John McCain dubs himself “President McCain” at the ad’s outset. In big block letters. I guess the formality of that quaint anachronism we used to call an election isn’t really much to worry about for Republicans anymore. After all, there’s now the Roberts Court waiting in the wings to take care of it for them if the voters refuse to play along.

Marty Parrish found out what happens when you say something that John McCain doesn’t like. Mr. Parrish, for speaking truth to power, was dragged out of a McCain town hall meeting. Yes, he asked McCain whether he had ever called his wife a word that rhymes with runt. Which McCain did. How do I know? I wrote about it in my new book The Real McCain.

But I digress. Here is a description of what happened by Keith Dinsmore of The Huffington Post:Cain town hall meeting….

When you look up the word “clusterfuck” in the dictionary, it says “see Terror, War On.”

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel bases deep inside Iraq in a three-hour overnight operation, rebel officials said today.

The aircraft attacked Iraq’s Qandil region, dozens of miles from the border with Turkey, the spokesman Ahmed Danas claimed.

Bombers also hit 10 other sites near the northern Iraqi towns of Khnezah and Lowlan close to the Iranian