Mike Huckabee, being a douche on the radio! “[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don’t have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them. Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments.” Let’s make this CLEAR: Ted Kennedy was rich! MORE »

Look. These new PUMAs are really annoying. They’re as reactionary as the Paultards circa late 2007, but at least the Paultards had ideas, man, they had a fuckin’ ethos. These PUMAs, on the other hand, are thoughtless, easily manipulable and selfish to the extent that when they don’t get what they want, they blame everyone else for stealing something and offending them, when really no significant events in the real world could affect them in any meaningful way. These are the people who get personally offended, for some reason, when they hear that Britney Spears went driving with a baby on her lap, or, more pertinently, when Hillary Clinton didn’t get as many delegates as her contender. Grow up. MORE »

Two months back Wonkette solicited and then posted the worst and meanest rumors about Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. That could have been the end of it, but once you’ve put out a call for catty comments, the catty comments will find you. Beneath the fold is the latest entry in the slam book - and if this was going into an actual book, it would take up a couple pages.

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* CIA Director Porter Goss called it quits this week, and didn’t make up a reason for leaving. Not even the standard “time with my family” excuse, which of course makes us think it had something to do with the hookers or the gambling and payola. Anyway, he’s back on the gulf shore already, and everyone is waiting to hear who the next shady character to take over the job is going to be. MORE »

Yesterday we did a little blogging about Labor Secretary Elaine Chao — a.k.a. Mrs. Mitch McConnell (address her that way, she loves it). We asked you for a little scuttlebutt about Secretary Chao. And then the floodgates opened.

After the jump, your catty comments and unverified gossip about our beloved Secretary of Labor.

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Mary O. McCarthy, the former CIA officer who was fired last week, is denying that she leaked classified information. More specifically, McCarthy claims that she did not provide Dana Priest of the Washington Post with information about CIA prison camps in Eastern Europe.

So it looks like Mary McCarthy may not be the CIA officer whose leak generated a Pulitzer for the Post. But she’s still extremely irritating to be around, according to former law school classmates of hers. After we posted McCarthy’s law school facebook picture yesterday, a reader emailed us:

That picture HAS to be from the Georgetown Law facebook, right? What year did/will she graduate? I could SWEAR she was in my Capital Punishment seminar (Fall 2003 semester).  If it’s the same woman, she’s AWFUL.

Further research confirmed that Mary McCarthy was in the same seminar as our tipster. Additional scuttlebutt appears after the jump.

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