We've seen this movie before.

The idiot who led us into our current disaster, believed he was somehow anointed by God to be President. And now there's Gov. Palin, who also seems to think her political ambitions are a matter of Divine Providence.

The woman who wants to be a 72-year-old four-time-cancer-patient's heartbeat away from the presidency, has a messiah complex just like Dubya. If that's not enough to scare the crap out of you, perhaps this video will help:



Oh, and...should the IRS be looking at the Wasilla Assembly of God's tax exempt status?

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No wonder they want to 'turn the page'.

Sorry, Unstable and Unable...not so fast.

And the area of health care is yet another example of why they’d rather not have people focusing on the issues. Take a look at this side-by-side analysis of the two candidates’ health care proposals, posted today by the non-partisan Urban Institute.

Here are the conclusions of each analysis:

Overall Assessment of the McCain Health Care Proposal

The McCain health care plan represents a philosophical advance over many other health care proposals, principally in its commitment to redistributing the current tax exemption for employer-based health insurance. However, the plan raises more concerns than it addresses.

The plan would provide

• a refundable tax credit that is more valuable to low-income workers than the current tax exemption for employer-based insurance, though the credit is not adequate to make coverage affordable for many;
  
• make insurance coverage less accessible and affordable for those with high health care needs;
  
• increase coverage among the currently uninsured through the nongroup market but reduce the number already covered by employers, leaving about the same number of people uninsured;
• have a high budget cost, at least in its early years.
  

In brief, McCain’s proposal would dramatically change how many Americans obtain health insurance coverage, make coverage less accessible for those with health problems, have a high budget cost, but have little effect on the number uninsured.

Overall Assessment of the Obama Health Care Proposal

Our general assessment of the Obama plan is that it would

• greatly increase health insurance coverage but would still leave about 6 percent of the non-elderly population uninsured, compared to 17 percent today.
  
• substantially increase access to affordable and adequate coverage for those with the highest health care needs, including those with chronic illnesses, by spreading health care risk broadly;
  
• significantly increase the affordability of care for low-income individuals;
  
• reduce the growth in health spending through a broad array of strategies.

In short, Obama’s proposal contains the basic components necessary for effectively addressing the most important shortcomings of the current health care system, that is, limited coverage, inadequate risk pooling, and high-cost growth.

The Urban Institute collaborates with the Brookings Institution on the Tax Policy Center, which has a similar side-by-side comparison of the candidates' tax proposals. And since Gov. Palin was just today again flogging the "Obama voted to raise taxes on people earning as little as $42,000 a year" lie, it's worth a look.

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Should This Man Have the Nuclear Launch Codes?

Yes or No?

He always aspired to be a dictator:



He admits he's an underdog, which is true. He's definitely an underdog in Iowa, which at this point looks pretty much unwinnable for him. So I've got to ask, which genius in the McCain campaign decided that sending the candidate to Des Moines this close to the election, was a good idea? Whoever it was, I hope they schedule him for more of these kinds of time-wasters. But the real take home from this clip, is the coldness and what seems like anger he can barely contain. Watch this and tell me if you really think he's "proud of his running mate"?



If you want the complete context and can bear sitting through nearly one full hour of McAngry, here is the September 30 interview with the Des Moines Register, in its entirety:



If that's too much to sit through, how about a 17-second mashup of McCain and his BFF, both making dictator comments:

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Is Hillary Scraping the Bottom of the Small-Donor Barrel?

I should know better by now than to think I have seen every outrage of which Hillary is capable. In her continuing effort to try to delegitimize the nomination of Sen. Obama, Hillary today compared the unsanctioned Florida primary to the recent election in Zimbabwe, perhaps because her recent attempts to compare it to the 2000 recount debacle, failed to get enough traction with the superdelegates. But I'm sure comparing the DNC with the Mugabe regime will make them come around!!

That's it...this time I've really had it. Really. More than I had it yesterday, and the day before.

When the fundraising letter from the Hillary campaign arrived in my mail the other week (the day after Indiana/North Carolina, which is interesting given the text of the letter. But when your incompetently-run campaign is swimming in red ink, getting mailings out on time is going to be tough...), I had planned to just throw it away. It's the first time I had been contacted by the Hillary campaign during this entire primary season, which made me wonder if they were now resorting to the "low-probability" donor lists in hopes of scraping whatever cash they can out of the bottom of the small-donor barrel.

But going through my mail pile today, there was that fundraising letter...

After insulting me with her gas tax pander, making me cringe with her bellicose comments about Iran, making me want to scream by her Rovian conduct, giving me nightmares with her zombie campaign that won't end...Hillary, who can write a seven-figure check to her campaign, was asking me to send her "$50, $75, $100, $250, or whatever you can afford".

So in a fit of frustration and anger, I decided to mail this contribution to the Hillary campaign, in the postage-paid envelope she kindly provided. After all, when your campaign is $20.88 million in debt, what's a few more cents?



Will this change anything? Of course not. Hillary does not care what I think, or what anyone who doesn't support her, thinks. Her campaign is certainly not going to pay attention to my reply form once they realize there's no donation, only angry comments scrawled in red pencil. Not to mention that it's from someone in an Insignificant State.

But after the umpteenth day of listening to Hillary and her surrogates trumpet their dishonest "I've gotten more votes than anyone who has ever run for the Democratic nomination" talking point, where they don't count four caucus states on the one hand while holding "Count Our Votes" rallies in Florida...this at least helped me get some frustrations out, at least for today. Given her track record though, Hillary is likely to come up with an entirely new outrage tomorrow.

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Vitter to "stay hard at work".

The ongoing embarrassment that is Louisiana's junior senator, had a little Q&A with reporters today after a town hall meeting in Gonzales, Louisiana.

Vitter's constituents received a card last week announcing the town hall, inviting us to come hear the senator talk about jobs, health care, education, and all those other things we need attention to down here. But for the hapless Vitter, the day of the town hall also brought news that he may be called to testify on behalf of Deborah Palfrey, the "DC Madam".

When asked by the reporters about the Palfrey case, Vitter made his usual smarmy show of faux contrition, followed by an assurance that he intended to "stay hard at work". At that point, he must have realized that his day was rapidly going from bad to worse, and that it was high time to get the f#$% out of Dodge (actually, Honda in this case):



Somebody remind me again, Vitter is still in the Senate because why?

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Saint Bomb McSame of Straight Talk, the Third

and his BFF:

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LA-Senate: Doh! Repub candidate sends supporters to Dem opponent

Well, this will certainly help convince Louisiana voters to support lifetime-Democrat-recently-turned-Republican John Kennedy in his campaign to unseat our state’s senior Senator, Mary Landrieu – NOT!

The Kennedy campaign sent an email to supporters on Thursday, which included a link for online contributions to his 2008 senatorial campaign. But when the recipients clicked on the link to donate, they apparently saw his opponent Senator Landrieu’s campaign website on their screen instead:

Kennedy supporters steered to the Landrieu site were treated to a picture of Landrieu and a call to "Endorse Mary’s Campaign." Pictures also scrolled on the Web site touting her for "Fighting for Louisiana Issues."

But don't worry; the Kennedy campaign is on it:

...campaign spokesman Jason Hebert said members of Kennedy’s staff were as perplexed as anyone about how the mistake happened.

"This was a technical issue on our end," Hebert said. "We are aware of it, and it has been corrected."

Perplexed??? Jeepers...I am no computer expert, so can someone out there who is, please explain to me, how the hell do you f#$% up something like this??

But the Kennedy campaign is correct in this case; the "technical issue" has been corrected. If you go to the emailed link now, you will in fact be directed to Kennedy’s extremely lame-ass website.

So yes, another indication of the quality candidate the Repubs are running against the most (and arguably, only) endangered Democratic seat in the U.S. Senate this fall.

At this rate, our unjustly maligned Democratic former Governor Kathleen Blanco may just have a shot at sending David Vitter back to the brothels full-time, in 2010.

Update: h/t to Ryan at The Daily Kingfish --
Seems we have an explanation for Kennedy's email fundraising snafu. Looks like somebody (perhaps the same person who designed Kennedy's stone-age website?) ripped off Senator Landrieu's mass email template and forgot to change the link! Thanks to Dailykingfish and The Guru for helping publicize this; Louisiana voters need to know about this kind of incompetence. Or maybe they already do, given Kennedy's rather anemic fundraising numbers. Won't be paying a real IT person anytime soon, I guess.

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