A Trip Around Blogtopia*

– Digby, as usual, hits this one just right:

Do you get the feeling that the conservatives are gaming this thing? I knew that you would.

They know they are going to lose. They will blame the loss on the fact that McCain wasn’t a real conservative (just like Bush.) They know when to fall back and regroup. They’re already playing for the next election.

Everybody sing: Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.

Why is it that even the predictible whine of Tom DeLay can still be ever so grating?   Or that Republican strategery is so nakedly blatant, and yet people continue to fall for it?

– Marty Lederman asks why the torture memos still have not been released for Congressional, judicial and public scrutiny after WH public admissions of express, individual Presidential authorization of waterboarding.  Why, indeed?  Jim McDonald has it right:  because the people who gave the orders want them buried.  More sunshine please.

– Mr. Leonard Pierce of SadlyNo has been visiting CPAC this week, and wins the award for amusing pix of the week.  (Note to Cap’n Ed:  More Queer Eye, less Leisure Suit Larry meets Engelbert Humperdink.)

– Speaking of the smell of wingnutty desperation, Pam has a doozy.

– Buh bye, Mittens.  Redux.

– MyDD crunches numbers and says that Hillary Clinton has a problem with independents.  

– Nikki Finke says "not yet" on the WGA/mogul deal.   Closer, perhaps, but no signatures yet…and it’s isn’t a deal until the ink is dry.  UnitedHollywood agrees.

– House Dems are taking on abusive credit card practices.  Good for them — something that has needed tackled for a while.  Especially given the state of the current economy, that doesn’t look like it’s getting better any time soon.

– Somehow, I’ve gotten on a mailing list for Move America Forward.  And they keep sending me creepy, end-of-the-world panicky e-mails with headers like:  "ALERT: Code Pink Is On To Us."   News flash:  everyone is on to you, including people who didn’t ask for your e-mails, you morons.

*Why yes, Skippy did coin that term…

(YouTube of Aretha Franklin singing Respect in 1967 live.  Felt like an Aretha kind of day today…)

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