If you were watching a lot of football during the 1970s, you probably saw the guy in the purple jersey on your TV screen every now and then. And if you were watching a lot of the Minnesota Senate recount via The UpTake over the past couple of months, you probably saw the guy in the black robe and bowtie at least once. Turns out they’re one and the same.

• No end in sight.
• And this probably isn’t helpful. 
• For someone who doesn’t worry about being popular…
• I’m sure he kills in Madagascar, too. 
• Some good news. 
• GOP looks to 2010.
• Happily, only Tom Davis seems to get it.
• But nothing unites wingnuts like gay-bashing!
• Will Iran and Syria be there too [/neocons]?

Unless we’re looking back on say, the Clinton Years.

Set aside all beverages in preparation for tonight’s first video from Fredricksburg, Virginia’s, Tereu Tereu. After you collect yourself for a moment, allow Washington DC’s U.S. Royalty to work their charm.

Shades of Ken Starr’s subpoena-happy OIC — Norm Coleman’s people, trying to win in court what they couldn’t achieve at the voting booths, are starting to toss around frivolous, if not outright punitive, subpoenas:

Patty O’Connor wasn’t surprised when the subpoena arrived Thursday, but the Blue Earth County election director was somewhat taken aback by the scope of the information demanded by the Norm Coleman campaign.

Andrew Breitbart celebrates the launch of his Big Hollywood blog by giving himself a congratulatory blow job:

No matter what they tell you about their high-minded ideals and commitment to public service, little matters more to politicians than getting re-elected. A new study, released today by Freedom to Marry (the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide) is very important to state officeholders everywhere.

When we last left Charlie Black, uber-lobbyist and Beltway crony of John McCain, his candidate had lost the presidential election in 2008. Since then, McCain has set up a PAC in a sadly lacking attempt to reclaim his moneyed-power base inside the Beltway by catering to “young Republican rising stars.”  (That’s a cost-effective short list.)  Note to McCain:  imitating the prune-filled stylings of Fred Thompson?  Not a winning strategery. And Black?  He’s revamping his image yet again, this time as party elder strategist extraordinaire.

In a three-pager Sunday the New York Times has co-operated in the leaking of a shocking amount of information about the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program and Israeli/US reactions to it.

Obama has asked critics of his stimulus bill to make suggestions about how to improve it. At FDL we’re going to do a number of posts on this topic, starting with health care.