Remainders: Sarah Palin: like Reagan, only dumber, Rudy won’t be ‘America’s governor,’ and more
Missed this one yesterday in the blizzard of co-dependent, obsessive media coverage of Sarah Palin: she now says “death panels” aren’t really “panels of death,” just like the Soviet Union wasn’t really an evil empire … see how that works?
Marco Rubio (otherwise known as the “Florida Sarah Palin”) has some thoughts on Reagan, too, only his weren’t so flattering to the Gipper when it comes to immigration. Andrew Sullivan, however, agrees with a point Rubio surely would have run, screaming, from the room, had he known he was making it: much of Reagan’s legacy must be repudiated in order to get to today’s GOP.
Meanwhile, as a new DKos poll shows him ahead of Rubio by a mere 10 points, Charlie Crist will next try to get right with the jihadis by announcing that he now believes the earth is 6,000 years old, and man lived side-by-side with the dinosaurs. Okay, I made that last part up, but the poll is real. (Apparently, it contains no good news for Kendrick Meek, however, who barely registers unless it’s a three-way race.) Well, if Charlie needs some advice, here’s some from a veteran political reporter at the St. Pete Times.
Over to Newsweek, where Michael Isikoff reports that Judge Jay Bybee, author of the infamous “torture memo,” is lawyering up, in anticipation of a possible impeachment. An interesting tidbit in the piece: Isikoff reports that when the initial draft report from the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility emerged during the waning days of the Bush administration, then-Attorney General Mukasey not only killed it, he ordered it to be sent to the targets, including Bybee and John Yoo. Talk about not knowing which team you’re supposed to be playing for, Mr. then-”attorney for the people of the United States …”
Also at Newsweek: have we seen the last of the Ayatollahs of Iran? If so, it will apparently be the fault of the current one, Mr. Khameini.
Over to ABC News, which reports that finally, Rudy Giuliani has figured out that New Yorkers can’t stand him, and wouldn’t want him as their governor… or something like that. Bottom line: he would have had the floor mopped with his balding head by Andrew Cuomo, so he’s eyeing a race against the less flashy Kirsten Gillibrand instead. Good luck with that, ya jerk.
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