Jane Hamsher

So Daniel Inouye is traveling to Alaska to headline a fundraiser for Republican Ted Stevens. How delightful. Who needs a supermajority anyway?

After having backed Slummy Joe before he didn't, you'd think Inouye would learn. But I guess he has his reasons...

Impotent, weak concern troll John McCain said he'd do "do everything” in his power and bring “every pressure to bear” to stop North Carolina GOP extremists from airing the racist attack ad against Barack Obama. Everything, that is, short of calling NC GOP Chairwoman Linda Daves.

As someone who has sat there for the past 20 years and watched every extremist, fundy flim-flamming freak waltz around without challenge as they pray for Armageddon, or say Hurricaine Katrina was god's revenge against gays, or peddle religious bigotry and eliminationist hate speech unassailed, I'm a bit filled with disgust at the moment.

I was on PBS's To the Contrary with McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer, who did her best John McCain impression and lost her cool when his "100 years in Iraq" comment was mentioned.

Atrios was right -- it makes them instantly and inexplicably irrational. Nancy starts repeating "factcheck.org" like McCain made the comment in Chinese or something and people couldn't understand what he meant without a translator.

Use "100 years" and "Iraq" in the same sentence and I think people get the idea.

Elizabeth Dole is the most senior member of the North Carolina GOP, and she has the power to stop the racist attack ads against Obama that are running there. But in an election year when she's widely accused of having "gone Washington," she's AWOL on yet another North Carolina issue.

We're gong to be working with North Carolina bloggers (including Pam Spaulding) to deliver a petition to Dole's office, telling her to write the North Carolina GOP and make it stop. You can cosign here.

Like many, you may have been scratching your head when Bush asked for $102 billion in the upcoming supplemental bill for war funding, and the Democrats in Congress said "how about $170?" It was like the 2006 election never happened. The Democratic leadership wants the war off the table as an issue in the fall.

Although I've expressed concern in the past that the public is absorbing their opinion of McCain from a fawning press and it's hard to get any traction on him, I don't think the extended primary is to blame. And like Digby, I don't think the situation would be a whole lot better if the primary came to an end: To me, this primary is actually a good thing for the fall.

(Please welcome Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain in the comments -- jh) Cliff Schecter has long been the progressive's dream -- capable of going on Fox news without losing his cool or getting pwnd by some lame Republican, arguing from the Democratic side with intelligence, succinctness and passion. But with the publication of his new book, The Real McCain, he's got John McCain on the run. Watch the YouTube attached

NY Times:

Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race.

 Guam, ho!

41% of the vote in, 55% Clinton, 45% Obama.