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Republicans Looking for Bottom
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — "Four months after John McCain's sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still -- in stock market terms -- looking for the bottom," Politico reports. ...

But He Has God On His Side
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — “The Left has put together the most powerful political coalition I’ve ever witnessed,” - Tom DeLay. (Hat tip: Greg Sargent) ...

Think Small
Firedoglake — ... OMG! The President, he's... 1. Too ambitious! (David Gergen) 2. Doing too much! (David Brooks) 3. Working too hard! (NY Times) 4. Too mean to Rush Limbaugh (John Boehner) All of which apparently make him... 5. Too popular! Meanwhile, how is the GOP doing? ...

Think Small
Rising Hegemon — (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) OMG! The President, he's... 1. Too ambitioius! (David Gergen) 2. Doing too much! (David Brooks) 3. Working too hard! (NY Times) 4. Too mean to Rush Limbaugh (John Boehner) All of which apparently make him... 5. Too popular! Meanwhile, how is the GOP doing? Four months after John McCain’s sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still...looking for the ...

Of Limbaugh and Steele and their pending doom: A morality tale of heavenly justice
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — Look at the bright side: The one thing that makes these Bad Times of Bush's Depression bearable is watching the End Times of his party. The experience is, to use a bit more of the hip eschatological lingo, rapturous. I realize and even accept that the amusing Dark Side has life left in it yet -- the gods of our choice work in mysterious, downright befuddling ways -- but as John Weaver, a former apprentice to the frustrated sorcerer John McCain, put it yesterday : "We're working damn hard to see how fast we can hit rock bottom." Exactly which circle of hell would that be, Mr. ...

Friday Instahoglets
Newshoggers.com — ... BJ Bjornson Some Friday afternoon reading for all of you formally productive folks now going all "John Galt" because Obama has the sheer gall to allow Bush tax cuts to expire and send rates back to where they were in the horrible 90's of government surpluses and a strong economy. And so to start off, a nice little column explaining how stupid the whole, "war on the rich", claim is. It was pretty clearly Rush Limbaugh's week, and one of the best takes on the Republican's self-inflicted wounding I've read is from Al Giordano. Of course, we're ...