Rip Van Broder wakes from his slumber and is appalled that a Democrat was mean to a Republican — and that is just not allowed.

Johnny Carson, Jack Benny, and Mel Blanc on The Tonight Show, January 23, 1974.

What’s on your mind?

What’s so wonderful about David Letterman’s wiener that Howie Kurtz keeps writing about it exclusively without ever writing about John Ensign’s wiener?

Difi signs onto the McChrystal campaign and we can wonder why.

Those anonymous White House aides are talking tough again, this time about what the New York Times calls “the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade”:

LESTER HOLT: John what we saw in that protest today, was it simply frustration or does it represent a serious problem the President is having with an important part of his base?

JOHN HARWOOD: As a practical matter Lester I don’t think it’s a serious problem. we’ve seen and certainly Bill Clinton learned that they Democratic President can get punished by the mainstream of the electorate for being too aggressive on social issues so for now I think the administration feels that if they take care of the big issues — health care, energy, the economy — he’s going to be just fine with this group.

HOLT: But in general when yo look at the left as a whole, have there been conversations about some things they thought would have been done but haven’t?

HARWOOD: Sure but If you look at the polling, Barack Obama is doing well with 90% or more of Democrats so the White House views this opposition as really part of the “internet left fringe” Lester. And for a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn’t take this opposition one adviser told me today those bloggers need to take off their pajamas get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.

That is just classic. After pandering to LGBT leaders last night the truth comes out. Dear gays: grow up and let us get about the serious business of governance. Signed, some dude who’s too afraid to give his real name.

And old anonymous is, of course, full of shit. Obama’s poll numbers took a 10 point hit with Democrats after Kathleen Sebelius said the White House was willing to ditch the public option. She had to dial it back instantly, and ever since that time they’ve been scrambling to find a way to give the public option the heave-ho in a way that didn’t backlash on the President.

Word has it the White House polling department finally struck gold with the opt-out, so they got “progressives” to sell it to their fellow progressives and keep Rahm’s fingerprints off of it.

That’s an awful lot of trouble to go to for people you dismiss — anonymously, of course.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

CNN State talking head show offers a lenghty interview of McCain on Afghanstan, health care and “much more.” Why? Frank Rich summarizes McCain’s abysmal record of being wrong on virtually everything.

In a sea of subterfuge, secrecy and flat out dishonesty spanning not only the Administration of George W. Bush, but, sadly, that of Barack Obama as well, one blockbuster voluntary governmental release of foundational documents in the critical war on terror legal areas of the torture and warrantless wiretapping programs stands out. The April 16, 2009 disclosure by the Obama Administration of the never-before-seen secret memos describing, in graphic detail, the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA, their contractors and other govenmental and quasi-governmental actors under the Bush administration’s “war on terror.”

The President depends on his celebrity power (and its attendant fundraising ability) to get liberal validators like the HRC to shield him from liberal critique and protect his ability to say one thing and do another. It’s good for an organization that serves to fundraise and perpetuate itself, but bad for the cause they purport to further.

Though probably artificially fueled by a two-day 7&7 bender, I think this passage, combined with the piece’s title, clinches Nooners the “Most Unhinged Reaction to Obama’s Peace Prize” award. America hasn’t just helped the world, it literally lit the world with its inventions, which are the product of its freedoms. The lights under which the [...]