True to his MSM roots, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius tried to silence Turkey’s Prime Minister when Erdogan reminded Shimon Peres that the Bible says Thou Shalt Not Kill.

Or maybe it’s the pills talking again.

Anyone else getting that bottom’s gonna fall out of the tilt-a-whirl feeling about the economy, too? It’s an ugly day of news on the economic front: Calculated Risk says consensus predictions are a 5.4% drop in GDP for the last quarter.  Numbers are due today.

• Bye, Blago.
• Good news.
• Mitch McConnell discovers GOP is “a regional party.“
• Eric Cantor to write strongly-worded letter.
• Have they considered tax cuts?
• The Shrill One on health care.
• Are you with Obama or Rush?
• I wouldn’t be so sure, Short Ride.
• Pallin’ around with the President.
• Your quote of the day.

Change has come to hallways

Old 97′s – Dance With Me music video featuring Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica.

What’s on your mind tonight? 

Rush Limbaugh has bored the crap me for decades now. But now he’s apparently the Leader of The Republican Party. This shows that the GOP is as Cutting Edge, as, I dunno, Cutting Crew. Was he really the best junkie they could find for the 21st century?

Hope Bill Kristol enjoyed the gazpacho.

Citibank and Bank of America are loaded with credit default swaps. If we nationalize them, we wind up paying off speculators. If the Bad Bank buys them, we are doubly screwed. Is there no scenario where taxpayers don’t get screwed?

Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation has a list of the companies that received bailout funds who spent money lobbying in the 4th quarter of ’08.  Near the top of the list is AIG and Bank of America, who — as Sam Stein reports  — were on the same October 17 call where Home Depot’s Bernie Marcus said CEOs who didn’t give money to oppose Employee Free Choice “should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs.”  Bank of America hosted the call along with Rick “how’s the wife and kids” Berman, three days after taking $25 billion in bailout money.