Translated: Anyone who bought that ten-dimensional chess crap about the administration having no plans to cut Social Security benefits: psyche!

It’s not just torture hearings on the training table this morning, there is a plateful of AIG/Bankster/Bailout fun on tap too. At 10:00 am EST, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on “AIG: Where is the Taxpayer Money Going?”. In advance of the big hearing, the Washington Post has a significant article out detailing how complicit the NY Fed, Congress and, likely, Tim Geithner are in the bonus scandal.

Sheldon sounds like he’s gonna bring it today.

Sarah Palin pretends to write a book — good luck getting that advance back

The Allman Brothers -  Woman Across The River, live at the Beacon Theatre, 2003.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Pro choice is just that: We can choose to do whatever we want to do with our bodies, though I do think pageant models should be factory standard. Like, you can’t put Neuticles into a show dog. And lip piercing or a huge tattoo of Taz on your ass may not be the best choice, but hey it’s your choice, just like a job, a face lift, Botox, or raising the results of an unplanned pregnancy.

Carrie Prejean faked her way through the press conference

Man oh man, I do love me some Republicans In Disarray stories, and if anyone’s the go-to guy for ______s In Disarray stories, it’s Ad Nags:

McCain is lecturing Nancy Pelosi about all the things she should have done had she been briefed on waterboarding. But that lecture is coming from a guy who promptly capitulated to Bush demands that he water down the Detainee Treatment Act after being briefed on torture.

QOTD:

“Dick Cheney is as much of an expert at helping America’s workers as he is on not shooting people in the face,” said AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale. “If Cheney wants to emerge and be the lead spokesman against the Employee Free Choice Act, I’ll help book his interviews.”

Jello Jay has finally resorted to explaining things to journalists reeeaaalllly slowly, so they can understand the things he revealed in the SSCI narrative on torture.