Enjoy those sugar pills America!

Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Nothing Else Matters.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Old, worn out ideas

Fred Barnes, employed by Bill Kristol to make himself look smart, writes:

Democrats couldn’t hide their self-consciousness about the excesses of their own bill. Supporters made few TV appearances to defend it and rarely talked about specific spending items. Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe.

I’ve got it from two informants now. One in Juneau and one in Anchorage. Here are the elements of what appears to be the deal:1) Attorney General Colberg will be forced to resign, allowing the Alaska Legislature to blame him for Gov. Sarah Palin’s probable role in the witness tampering that occurred during the Branchflower Investigation.2) Alaska Senate President Gary Stevens and Alaska Speaker of the House Mike Chenault will assure

It’s all part of a pattern: Republican jackass wants to show off what a big swinging insider dick he is, ends up blurting out obviously confidential information without a care in the world for what the consequences might be. Sometimes those consequences are comic, like in Virginia, but more often they’re tragic or have the potential to be. And with the immediacy of the internet, there’s no media filter to stop the dickitude from seeing the light of day.

David Brooks likes Geithner’s bank bailout. Be very afraid.

Along with Hugh and Selise I watched Geithner’s testimony before the Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee. It went on for 3 1/2 hours and was remarkably substance free, doubling back over and over again on Catch 22′s.

Notable moments:

When Bunning asked whether our largest banks were insolvent, Geithner said he couldn’t say anything about individual companies because of national economic security.

Gideon Levy’s essay on the Israeli elections has some messages for us as well.

The Chair of the VA GOP just on-upped Crazy Pete Hoekstra in his Twitter idiocy: He botched an attempt to flip the Senate by tweeting about it first.