When Peter Peterson’s anti-Social Security propaganda organ openly criticized Alan Simpson for his insulting comments to Alex Lawson, calling Simpson “condescending and derisive–and wildly wrong about important parts of the Social Security system’s past,” you knew they were worried about a lot more than Simpson’s typical bullying tactics and yet another disqualifying “macaca moment.”

But…but…sometimes mistakes happen.

Mike Huckabee will have to tour Iowa and New Hampshire with a snare drum.

Rock Me, Baby — B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Jim Vaughn.

Some mighty fine blues guitarists strutting their stuff!

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Jane has already taken aim at the right-wing triumph of ignorance around Alex Lawson’s challenge to Alan Simpson of the cat food commission. But I think there’s just as big a story here: the distancing by even elite commentators of Simpson’s remarks. You just wouldn’t expect to see this coming from Pete Peterson’s Fiscal Times:

The Supreme Court today ruled largely with the government in a case broadly interpreting the material support statute.

In The Reinactors, director David J. Markey explores the strange, at times tragic and hope-filled lives of character impersonators that up until three weeks ago populated Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Chinese Theatres, posing for photos, often and illegally asking for tips. Markey allows his subjects to unfold in front of the camera and what stories of desperate dreams and delusions they have.

The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was a political party in Canada that formed during the Great Depression. Most of its support came from the rural cooperative movement among farmers. Cooperative members made up a large part of its voters, and many of its leaders had held elected posts in cooperatives. Organized labor was another important part of its base of support. So, when the CCF took control of the provincial government of Saskatchewan in 1944, it passed legislation to increase the power and membership of the organization that made up its base of support.

The real story is that – for the first time I can think of – the Obama Administration has actually taken a tough approach to negotiation.