Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, says that two-thirds of New Jerseyites “feel personally embarrassed to live in a state where politicians are pictured in handcuffs.” The remaining one-third are imprisoned politicians. [Quinnipiac University]

Richard Wolffe, the formerly esteemed Newsweek journalist who everybody hates now because he works at the PR outfit of a couple of former Bush shills when he’s not pushing his Obama hagiography or playing Keith Olbermann on the teevee, has another book to sell! Would you like to buy it? MORE »

Ooh hot tawdry news regarding the dippy videographer who had sex with John Edwards and then, some months later, had a baby, which is maybe just coincidence! This woman, Rielle Hunter, was spotted entering a courthouse in Raleigh earlier this morning. MORE »

Jesus christ: “Clinton’s $22 million in campaign debts (a good chunk of it owed to herself), has somehow now turned into some $3+ million in cash on hand and still growing, some in her old Senate fund and some in her defunct presidential campaign war chest.” MORE »

Senator Max Baucus, the other vampire squid from Hell, runs the Senate finance committee when he isn’t sharing pâté made from the livers of dead cancer victims with all of his good friends in the health insurance industry. Some people simply do not care for this Max Baucus, with his lobbyist-whoring and foot-dragging and complete disregard for fellow Democrats when it comes to drafting acceptable health care reform legislation in his committee. So “these people” ( = his colleagues) have come up with a Plan to drive the ancient demon from his lair forever. MORE »

Why has the MSM been sitting on this explosive story? Sonia Sotomayor supports the harmeless Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which makes her as deadly as that unrepentant domestic terrorist who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago (a well-known jihadist training ground in the caves of Lake Michigan). Can Sonia Sotomayor serve on the Supreme Court when we have never seen her long form birth certificate or received any reassurance that she isn’t a human-animal hybrid? [YouTube]

Jon Favreau can make anybody feel like a failure, because he is super young and successful and takes excellent transcription notes from President Obama’s Teleprompter. If you’re an aspiring young speechwriter, you look at him and go “Shit by the time he was my age he was already FAMOUS” and if you are an old libtard you just think, “Enh, too late for me to do anything with my life.” MORE »

Why does the president keep visiting grave physical injury upon women in the Democratic party orbit? First he breaks Sonia Sotomayor’s ankle, and then he forcibly removes Hillary Clinton’s elbow, and now the courageous Dr. Jill Biden has to go in for “shoulder surgery,” which you have to admit sounds pretty suspicious in the context of all these other incidents. Barack Obama: pleasant family man, or bone-snappin’ minotaur with a taste for the limbs of middle-aged women? OR BOTH??? [UPI]

Catfight, Pennsylvania-style! Several months ago, Arlen Specter made the very principled and selfless decision to switch parties so as to avoid an ugly primary battle with a “real Republican,” which is to say, a vicious and crazed wingnut who would win the GOP nomination and then lose the election to any Democratic candidate short of a goat. It was the perfect plan: Specter could stay in the Senate, as Democrat, as long as nobody ran against him in that party’s primary. MORE »

Illinois political legend and pyramid builder Roland Burris will not run for re-election in 2010, according to various Chicago street organizers. And, because he wasn’t elected in the first place, he will also not do that, run for election. This will be announced tomorrow at Michael Jackson’s Friday News-Dump Memorial Service, to be held deep within the bowels of Roland Burris’ Tomb. But how will the Democrats maintain their fragile, broken and actually worthless 60-vote super-majority in the Senate, without Hero Roland? [Chicago Sun-Times/AP-Yahoo]

What kind of a so-called “comedian” is this soon-to-be Senator Al Franken, that he shows up in Washington D.C. without a fright wig and refuses to fake-hump Harry Reid during his first press conference in town? He was resolutely quiet and unfunny during the whole recount, which started, hmm, back in the Carter era, and now he is still not funny and WTF??? Why, it is almost as if he is a smart person who decided to run for public office and, having worked quite hard for several years to get elected to that office, is determined to act like an adult! BOOO. [The Caucus]