Here is a delightful photo of your next vice president dressed like an extra from Get Carter. Three and a half whore diamonds. [Mark Bisnow's newsletter via Politico]

This David Paterson guy is a real piece of work. First he admits that when his marriage hit a rough patch he dated other women, instead of engaging the services of a high-dollar prostitute like any normal politician. And now instead of vehemently denying he knows anything about drugs he says he did them once, in his impetuous youth! MORE »

Did you know that even before the George Michael era, powerful Republican politicians were being arrested for Lewd Sex Crimes in public bathrooms? Did you know that America was briefly threatened by the probability of a Toilet Cruiser becoming a Supreme Court Justice? MORE »

* Witness the giant cow balls of Pete Domenici, who uses the Justice Department for political mud-slinging and is happy to admit it. [WP, NYT]
* The “new” Iraq strategy - why worry? [WP]
* Barry Hussein and H Dot Clinton keep their eyes on the prize. [WP, NYT]
* Calling secretary of veterans affairs Jim Nicholson a partisan hack causes, “a calmness to come over him.” [NYT]
* Robert Gates isn’t Donald Rumsfeld, and that’s half the battle. [WP]
* John Ashcroft won’t shut his whorish mouth about the satellite radio merger. [WSJ]
* Ah, the ’70s: an age when Vice Presidential candidates with diagnosed mental illness were actually discouraged from running. [NYT]

Watergate criminal and lifelong sleazebag E. Howard Hunt is finally dead, the AP reports. He was 88. MORE »

Everybody loves to talk about how Iraq is just like Vietnam, as far as the United States losing a big bloody unnecessary war, but now we can add “they cost the same, too.” MORE »

Yet more double-secret-probation Gerald Ford interviews have been revealed, this time from the vaults of the Grand Rapids Press. Jerry Ford was the kind of pretend president who gave these kind of interviews not only to Bob Woodward, but also to his hometown newspaper in Michigan. Who knows what secrets have yet to be unveiled by the Palm Desert Sun?!

Join us after the jump for Jerry Ford cold hatin’ on Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan as our super-special “That ’70s Week” mercifully comes to a close … assuming it will ever end at all.

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All presidents — even temporary appointed presidents — leave a rich legacy to history or whatever. Ronald Reagan left that nice little airport he built, Bill Clinton somehow caused 9/11, and of course Thomas Jefferson fathered black children. MORE »