“McCain opposes #Sotomayor. Oh. My. God. – he’s gonna run again in 2012.”
— twitter tweet from Progress Florida

After demonstrating she most emphatically cannot take the heat, a new poll shows most Americans think Sarah Palin should stay in the kitchen. FOX News, of all places, reports the numbers.
About a third of Americans think the best job for Palin is homemaker
About a third of Americans think the best job for Palin is homemaker [...]

William Shatner makes sense of the hot mess that is Sarah Palin’s mind.

Not satisfied with losing a bunch of elections last November as well as a whole bunch of formerly loyal members from every level, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) appears to be trying to finish the job through what looks from the outside like a purge of, gasp! — Libertarians. At least that’s what one [...]

In the Bush era, Republicans demonstrated their collective poor judgment by twice electing as president a bellicose, proudly incurious, anti-intellectual ideologue. A poll out yesterday suggests that they learned nothing from that disaster, and are ready to do it again.
Less than a week after Sarah Palin — who has all of George Bush’s intellectual [...]

My, what a difference a year — and actually being in the position instead of just talking out of your ass — makes.

It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one wondering how Sarah Palin can think resigning her office proves she’s fit for a higher one. On twitter, Mother Jones’ David Corn is dishing out some great stuff.
David Corn: Palin is quitting her way to the top.

Remember all those GOP pundits & commentators who praised [...]

That the Republicans are a party of old white men could be a headline from “Duh” magazine.* But when you see how that plays out in real life, as the Miami Herald showed with the 2010 Florida races, it’s pretty surprising stuff.
The Republican front-runners for statewide office include Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate, Attorney General [...]

As Michael Scott, the boss at a paper company’s branch office in Scranton on NBC’s “The Office,” Steve Carrell, a “Daily Show” alum, plays an incompetent egomaniac with perfect pitch. In scripted dialogue, Michael Scott says things like this:
Michael Scott: The most sacred thing I do is care… Today I am in charge of picking [...]

It may be apocryphal, but during the 18th century famines that led to the violent overthrow of the monarchy — and mass beheadings of the royalty — in the French Revolution, upon being told that the people were starving and had no bread, a noblewoman replied, “Let them eat cake.”
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who is [...]