The conservatives are trying very hard to scrape the remains of their perfected ideology off the windshield before voters recognize it. The extent to which they succeed is another catastrophe that will foul up the scene, and this country. We need to make the point as much as possible; the worst president ever, George W. Bush, was a real conservative, and succeeded in his ambition to achieve conservative principles. We are barely surviving the effects of conservatism now, if, that is, we do survive as a nation.

As I noted yesterday (though I got the details slightly wrong), the OPR report revealed that a number of John Yoo and Patrick Philbin’s emails had been deleted (and that Goldsmith’s had been deleted but were subsequently recovered).

Dull ineffective colors-inside-the-lines Missionary-position-with-the-lights-off Evan Bayh called it quits earlier this week and lots of Americans were all, “Who?” and now he’s turning into the guy who goes around at a party telling everyone he’s leaving and everyone just keeps talking and drinking and smoking and, in general, ignoring him even when he standing at the door saying “See you guys.” and then he leaves and the next day no one even remembers that he had ever been there.

The Usual Suspects.

This week’s cartoon is Atchison, Topeka & Sam Jose starring Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-Along. This Hanna Barbera cartoon was released on January 14, 1964.

Whether or not the Senate is going to do the right thing and reform student aid is up in the air.

Our team gathered some great video we didn’t put through with other featured articles this week, but they’re too good to let go by. Here’s a second chance for a couple of videos we couldn’t squeeze into our front page line up.

Part of the importance of Palin’s facebook writer lashing out in the names of Palin and one of her daughters this past week being countered by the real actress behind a voice on a cartoon show, is that once again, Palin’s treatment of Trig, before and after he was born, needs to be far more closely scrutinized than has been the case.

Radical moderate Dianne Feinstein, of all people, has a solution to the lack of a federal overseer for the insurance regulations: creating a Medical Insurance Rate Authority which would have say over insurer rate hikes at the federal level.

The Administration has not been able to do much about foreclosures. Now they are trying small programs to encourage innovation. These baby steps will help some people, but that’s better than nothing, which is what Congress has done to solve the problem.