Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) is probably nostalgic for last Thursday when the worst thing he and his campaign had to deal with was his arrest for driving very, very drunk. His life has gotten way more complicated since then.
New York City's lone Republican congressman from was arrested in Virginia last night driving with .17 blood alcohol (.08 is the legal limit). According to Mr. Fossella, he either drinks ten ounce shots or he's a female toddler. And after all Dick Cheney did for him...
A "grassroots" group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus brought the online firearms dealer who sold a gun and "handgun accessories" to both of last year's marquee student shooters to Virginia Tech to argue for more armed college students.
As he's wont to do when he's touring an area decimated by the Bush administration, Senator McCain took the troops with him into New Orleans. "Never again," he said, "will we allow such a mishandling of a natural disaster. Never again." Not a flipflop: McCain opposed Bush's response to Katrina in real time. Specifically, he had a problem with the part where Bush wanted to spend money on it.
You may have heard the Pope is in town. Well, so is Our twice-divorced civilly-married pro-choice legendarily-adulterous Beloved Former Mayor. He decided to take in the mass at St. Pat's. He also decided to take communion. Problem is, the Pope specifically told him not to.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Also I appear to have missed a few things while I was buried at work...
Unwind your mind and rethread your head with the otherly-musical stylings of the McCain Girls
That nice lady Mrs. Malkin is all upset because Sen. Obama, like Sen. Kerry, has demonstrated that his taste in cheesesteak is not that of an "Everyman" (everyman is, it appears, not Jewish). Luckily, we don't have to wonder what Mrs. Malkin's everyman eats.
Chris Matthews is really concerned about Barack Obama's bowling score, because regular people bowl. Only maybe not so much. Go figure.
The AP's Ron Fournier has turned on Senator Obama after a primary season spent beating up Senator Clinton and Senator Edwards. Could be there's a reason for that.