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To celebrate Martin Luther King Junior Day, Mitt Romney asked a bunch of black people in Florida who let them “dogs” out, and how he might put them back in their cages. “Who, who,” or maybe “Woof, woof,” he continues, depending on his Mormon advisers’ current understanding of Ebonics. Always shifting, they are! [CBS News, YouTube]

Slot-machine addict and very white ex-Reagan Administration loser Bill Bennett was on CNN a little while ago, bravely praising the winner of the Iowa Democratic Caucus for not acting all negro. MORE »

On Meet the Press today, Mitt Romney described his reaction to the Mormon church’s 1978 decision to allow black people to fully participate: He cried like a little baby! A wittle pwecious wacist toddlew. MORE »

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute has postponed its scheduled Nov. 4 black voter forum for Republican presidential candidates, according to HuffPo. A CBCI spokeperson noted that “Republican candidates have cited scheduling conflicts in resisting new proposed dates.” This is the second time major GOP candidates have skipped out on black folk — Romney, Giuliani, McCain and Thompson all passed on a Tavis Smiley-hosted forum in September. [HuffPo]

Clean, articulate Senator Joe Biden — the guy who runs for president, like, all the time and always makes some dumb-shit remark about black people that overshadows his foreign policy chops — has made another boo-boo, this time in an interview with The Washington Post’s editorial board. MORE »

The world’s least favorite capital city got another kick in the mouth this afternoon as the Senate killed the latest D.C. Vote Bill. Republicans managed to keep it from getting the 60 votes necessary to “begin action” on the thing, so once again the District won’t have a voting member in Congress. This bill has apparently gone further than any D.C. Vote bill in three decades, but the White House and the GOP leadership are steadfastly against letting black people have representation in the federal government. Republicans praised the defeat as “a step in the right direction” and announced new legislation that would remove congressional representation from other urban areas, which frequently are home to blacks and other minorities.

D.C. Vote Dies In Senate [Washington Post]

* Republican faithful watching Fred Thompson’s messiah-mobile for signs of his cand-ascendancy. [The Carpetbagger Report]
* Bill Richardson knows you don’t get high on your own supply — ’til later on at night. [Radosh]
* Sam Brownback wasn’t the only person at the Republican debate with a beard. [Political Wire]
* Imagining Al Qaeda attempting to recruit black dudes is more hilarious than anything Dave Chapelle has done. [WND]
* Al Gore: hot no more. [Radar]
* Crazy right-wing blogger threatens online reputations of crazy right-wing senators. [Right Wing News]
* Because if you don’t kill all the illegals, you’re letting them off too easy. [The Corner]

* First day of the real Walnuts! campaign means first day of the “long awaited official McCain 2008 blog,” which of course, is over before it started with opening lines like, “As the Straight Talk Express pulled into Prescott Park, the crowd went wild.” [johnmccain dot com slash blog]
* Hillary uses a “black-cent” when she talks to the blacks. [NY Post]
* WHCA president doesn’t give a shit if you had fun at his dinner. [Romensko]
* Michael Bloomberg says something glorious. [Political Wire]
* Screw you Harry Reid — Dick Cheney’s approval rating is actually 29%. So there. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* Lou Dobbs has found the Illuminati behind the immigration crisis: local newspapers. [Passport]

Your typical social conservative hates Mitt Romney, loves anonymous sex with other costumed social conservatives. Pic credit: The Examiner.

Last week brought CPAC, a sort of Star Trek convention for conservatives, to DC. And with CPAC came the conventioneers, the costumed idiots, the presidential candidates, the sycophants, and the alcoholics just looking to get drunk on Grover Norquist’s tab.

An extremely bored booth employee BlackBerry’d us an exclusive CPAC report on Saturday. After the jump, see what you missed over at the OmniShoreham.

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* 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]

* The US will participate in a little regional conference about Iraq that features just about every country the White House hates. [WP, NYT]
* Furrowed brows abound as Democrats continue to contemplate war legislation. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Black voters continue to be drawn to Barack Obama. Also, old white men still vote for each other. [WP]
* CIA happily gives candy bars to people they’ve disappeared. [WP]
* HUD confirms there are no less than 700K homeless in the US, add, “it could happen to you!” [USAT]
* Of course, in a globalized market where one of the driving economies is beset by investors who think it’s “a slot machine,” it could happen to you. [NYT]
* Lara Croft writes letters. [WP]