To bolster their case that the Obama administration didn’t have much influence over the health care bill, defenders of the administration also made this provocative argument: that Bush/Cheney had a hard time getting their agenda through Congress.

I actually think there is reason to believe the Democrats may do better in the November elections than many believe. Not great, but better than they should have expected at this point. And that’s largely based on factors that aren’t going to show up in the polls.

In case the National Republican Senatorial Committee never got the memo, I think now is a good time to remind them that working class Americans don’t like it when people call them hicks behind their backs, especially when the epithets come from out-of-state political operatives.

I am not a lawyer, and it’s entirely possible I’m missing something. The Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, seems to have a problem with it, but again, in her entire statement, I can’t pick out anything that would actually be a problem, instead of some shadowy, undescribed menace. And the Ohio Attorney General, who is likely to have had knowledge of this issue, had no problem filing a lawsuit yesterday against GMAC.

I’ll be doing some more digging on this today. I’m sorry if this answer is unsatisfactory, but in the comments, I’d like anyone to specifically tell me how HR3808 would 1) affect foreclosure document fraud that has already been committed, and 2) affect it going forward.

Reid could win the race if only he could somehow get the Democratic-leaning voters to turn out. That is not going to be easy. With massively high unemployment, the electorate is unhappy with the job Reid has done. There is also the problem of the large, traditionally Democratic-leaning Hispanic community being upset about Democrats’ failure to deliver on their promise to deal with immigration reform. If Reid does end up winning this race, it will probably have a fair amount to do with a very well executed GOTV operation.

As I reported on Wednesday, although the joint NATO-Pakistan investigation of the deaths of Pakistani soldiers at a border post concluded on Tuesday, no joint statement had yet been issued. Dawn had listed the areas of disagreement that were delaying release of a statement. Late Wednesday, both NATO and the US Embassy in Pakistan released statements on the investigation and the incident, presumably signaling that no joint statement will be forthcoming. A review of Dawn’s list of areas of disagreement in light of the released statements shows that all but one of Pakistan’s demands were met. Pakistan had insisted that NATO take responsibility for the attacks and deaths, but neither the NATO nor US Embassy statement does so. A Washington Post story this morning provides more details on the sequence of events in the attacks on the border post, lending support to Pakistan’s account of what happened.

And on and on it goes. “This won’t make President Obama’s anti-war base very happy: The White House sent word late last night that Obama is backing Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s goal of having Afghan forces lead security operations there — in 2014.”

How dare the Democratic Part keep people from starving! The new GOP talking point.

Joe Bonamassa — You Upset Me Baby, Rockpalast, 2005.

Making fun of an Armstrong Williams column is like shooting blue whales in a birdbath, but trust me, my “peeps” and “home slices,” there is a Wider Point. Who rules the tea party? Is it Sarah Palin and her lunch pail brand of God, guns and the Constitution? Whoops, sorry, not to the Wider Point [...]