Rob Kuttner writes in the Washington Post this morning that billionaire Social Security slasher Pete Peterson was originally scheduled to be a keynote speaker at today’s fiscal responsibility summit (as reported here last Wednesday), but anonymous sources speaking on behalf of the White House tell Greg Sargent it’s not true.

I was gone a whole week, and Burris didn’t even resign? That makes him more stubborn than either Rove or Gonzales.

Joe meet Avigdor. . . I’m sure you’ll get along just fine. Joe’s advice that Avigdor may run into a few problems, however.

Jim Bunning unleashes that famous sneaky fastball once again, and takes aim at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pancreas:

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.

During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges “and that’s going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg … has cancer.”

The GOP is marketing retro.  Again.  Color me shocked.  Tim Pawlenty has strategery for the GOP: dress up old, tired hackery in shiny accessories

• And the Oscar goes to…
• Some weak-kneed GOP governors ruining the narrative.
• Granholm’s funny response.
• And Joke Line has fallen out of love with Jindal.
• Silly GOP. Tricks are for kids.
• POTUS hosting fiscal summit today.
• Where was this concern from 2001-2008?
• Stay classy, Jim!
• Just the market working itself out. 
• Fox News comes out in favor of sedition.
• Place yer bets.

It seems that whether it is Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner or the yammering dipsticks on CNBC, it seems the there has been a headlong rush to seek analysis, wisdom and solutions from the very self proclaimed geniuses that put the US and the world in the problem to start with. Aren’t there any big bankers/finance ministers that really got it right? Yes, his name is Riad Toufic Salame and he is Lebanon’s Central Banker.

A trilogy of error.

Videos by Matt Costa and Jack Johnson.

Remember all that Bush-era complaining from the reichwing about Democrats, MoveOn and progressive bloggers undermining the President in a time of war? Now that the Presidency is in Democratic hands, Senator Richard Shelby (D-now-R-Alabama) has decided it’s fine to question the legitimacy of this President to serve — during wartime!