Either Relevant or True » “A Perfect Storm of GOP Badness”

Tie: This one
Segue: “Artificial Flowers” - Bobby Darin
Worst Person: Antonin Scalia, for the Supreme Court’s decision to declare the 32-year handgun ban in Washington D.C. unconstitutional.

Multiple polls from swing states show that Obama is currently ahead of McCain. On one hand, it’s kind of pointless to discuss June’s polls for a November election. On the other hand, McCain’s campaign seems to be putting a lot of effort into debunking said polls. Richard Wolffe shows up to discuss this as well as tomorrow’s Unity event and tonight’s super-sekrit Clinton/Obama meeting. (More on that later.)

McCain senior advisor Steve Schmidt gets up very early in the morning to send his memos. Man, that makes things awkward for Gordon Smith. Jon Harwood joins to explain why trying to turn the Presidential race into more bullshit partisan hackery may not work so well this time. He also suggests that McCain’s campaign would do better to focus on his age and experience (and “change vs. risk”).

Man, remember that whole “talking to the enemy is appeasment” thing? Apparently that only applies when other people talk to the enemy. Stay classy, Bush administration. (On a personal note, hearing Bush speak favorably of multilateral diplomacy makes me feel really funny.) Hillary Mann Leverett joins to discuss today’s blatant hypocrisy and what it could mean for the future and relations with Iran. She makes a point of saying that “hardliners like Cheney never give something for nothing,” which definitely bodes well, I feel.

Bushed: The Supreme Court struck down the “Millionaire’s Amendment” , the head of the Energy Information Administration adds his voice to the crowd who say that off-shore drilling is pointless, and the horrific story of PFC Isaac Stevens and how he was shat upon by the government. (Seriously - just. I don’t have the words right now.)

Oddball: Today’s the anniversary of Kennedy’s famous speech at Berlin. (Do you have any idea how hard it was not to link to this instead?) Also, some jackass mooned the audience at his graduation. Arguably most important is this: the release of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s video on fireworks and how ~~wicked awesome~~ dangerous they can be.

Best Persons: Hugh Hewitt demonstrates lack of taste and tact in one fell swoop (I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather watch an SEC football game as I waited for Obama’s Muslim hordes to destroy the nation.), Frederick Duane McKaney just made the headline-writers’ day, and Luis Camacho-Mendoza left a thoughtful gift before breaking out of jail.

So Charlie Black said something stupid the other day, which former McCain strategist Mike Murphy then compounded on Dennis Miller’s radio show. Oddly, this story really hasn’t made much of dent in the news world. Joshua Green of The Atlantic joins the show to discuss a few reasons why that might be. (Spoiler alert: Republicans shooting themselves in the foot is one of them.)

Breaking news: We jump to Obama and Clinton’s pre-Unity meeting, and find out that Obama has agreed to donate $2300 (the max he is allowed) to aid Clinton’s campaign debt. After that, we go back to the Number One…

And my blog ends early with the arrival of Michael Musto and his trail of slime. Good night, everyone! See you next week.

But, Ashley, At least they found a story “worthy” of Musto.

I confess that as soon as I saw him I switched over early to Home and Garden to prepare for Designed to Sell (one of my guilty pleasures.

Not that I would have watched that slime, not even had they had Rachel or Dana on to discuss the Mini Me sex tape.

I am trying and failing to imagine the thought processes of the producers, if indeed it is the producers, who think that people interested in the intricacies of the FISA issue and the Supremes allowing an armed DC militia to form (thinking of The Pelican Brief for some reason) would also want to give up their time to see a feature about this cringe worthy muck.

Becky –

KO commented on the FISA controversy tonight. Any thoughts?

I was watching “Countdown” on the bike at the gym.

I left just before the #1 story, did my situps, ran some errands, had some dinner and got home just in time to see the #1 story on the repeat.

And MUSTO….

the horror, the horror.

I thought it was appropriate that the mooning kid not receive his diploma. But calling the cops? Touch much, no?

I also bailed on Musto. I had pretty much decided we were going to bail just on the “Mini-Me sex tape” headline. Um. No.

Dennis Miller? Wasn’t he funny at one time in his life? (Running gag on this blog.)

I was really hoping Joel McHale would come back to Countdown for MiniMe and his Mini Menis (I was giggling in my car while listening to the podcast this morning!). We’ve seen Christian Finnigan quite a bit but Joel’s the one who introduced me to Countdown last year. *sigh*

Rafismom, nothing wrong with “Designed to Sell” only if it’s Lisa and Clive. Those other designers are meh to me. I also love “Property Virgins” with that sassy Canadian agent!

It was funny that Keith said someithing like ‘if he doesn’t bail on the next segment’ when promoting the Vern sex tape. I bailed. Thanks for the heads up Keith!

Hermione, I think that we Designed to Sell fans all prefer Lisa and Clive as they are the originals, plus Lisa is always so kind to the owners after Donna or her daughter has torn them apart, but the two of them can only redo so many houses to have enough shows without constant repeats. Some of the others are interesting as well, although none of the other dissecting realtors can match Donna Freeman for being horror struck by the way real people live. I do admit to moments of wondering what pristine wilderness she calls home.

And, at least it wasn’t MUSTO.

hey Becky, did you see that Upper Deck is depicting McCain as a CUB in their baseball card presidental predictors series! Yikes! (sorry)

http://tinyurl.com/65f9fa

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