Teddy Partridge

Poor John McCain can't catch a break trying to get some daylight between his own self and Preznit Clusterfuck. This morning, McCaint decided California's fifty-five electoral college votes (as well as Florida's twenty-seven!) weren't worth trying for, as he bravely stood up in front of an appreciative bunch of Houston oilmen and advocated offshore drilling.

Stephanopoulos extracts a paean to Tim Russert from John Edwards, then launches into a substantive discussion of tax policy, taking up Edwards' challenge to have more robust conversation about real issues that affect real people.

Media Matters brought to my attention -- because I can't watch FOX News -- the ridiculous E.D.Hill, a newsreader who teased an upcoming segment with a body language expert with this idiocy:"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"

In today's Democratic Party primary for Congress in District Three, Bush enabler Leonard Boswell was challenged by progressive Ed Fallon, endorsed by Blue America. We await final results from this primary, as polls closed at 9 Iowa time (ten eastern, seven FDL). Results can be found at the Des Moines Register, at WHO-TV in Des Moines, and at the Iowa Secretary of State website.

The list seems never-ending, and yet newly revelatory every time something -- or someone! -- is added to it.

Of all the stories I’ve read that begin with the protagonist on a bathroom floor, David Sirota’s The Uprising is, by far, the best. On that bathroom floor, the author had an epiphany about seemingly diverse movements: New York’s Working Families Party; Lou Dobbs and the Minutemen/Militia movements; Ned Lamont’s netroots-turbocharged 2006 campaign for Joe Lieberman’s U.S. Senate seat; high-tech permatemps’ union organizing in the Northwest; Brian Schweitzer and Jon Tester turning Montana a new shade of blue; and a Dominican nun’s leadership of the shareholder activism movement. All these, he recognized on the floor in his room at the Riviera at YearlyKos1.0, are connected by the thread that is Yet Another American Uprising. This is the most extraordinary book about American politics I have read in a long time.

Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham appear to be in violation of the incredibly lax McCain Campaign "Ethics" , which states: "No person with a McCain Campaign title or position may participate in a 527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate."

All over America, gay youth debate who to bring to California to marry. San Francisco gets ready for the pending nuptials, as the Tourism Board goes into overdrive. But perhaps all is not well in the Golden State for the gays?

In a historic ruling sure to resonate across the nation, the California Supreme Court today ruled that no citizens of California are second-class. In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship."

The Courage Campaign strikes again. California GOPs continue to defend their base from the predations of common-sense Democratic legislators who think yacht purchasers ought to pay sales tax like everyone else. Will John McCain denounce and reject the out-of-touch California GOPs who think yacht buyers needn't pay state sales tax?