Wonkette

The stock market withered and died today after news of Dick Cheney’s survival at the hands of a suicide bomber. This prompts Hotline to ask:

What happens to the presidential race if there’s a recession?

The answer is complicated.

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Hotline’s apparently trying to muscle in on our dick joke territory. MORE »

The National Journal Group throws a mean party, so when they invited us to celebrate their blessed gay marriage to MSNBC (oh, we only give it ’til November — you know how those types are), we put on a tie and everything and cabbed it to the Watergate. The cabbie correctly pegged us as a “blogger,” picked up two well-dressed Republican-looking additional fares at a Georgetown hotel, and told them we were “a liberal Democratic tree-lover vegetarian” as they uncomfortably and politely laughed and silently pleaded to make it to Sequoia before we said something leftist.

Oh, right, the party! Learn all about it, after the jump.

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Wisdom before its conventional what, guys? MORE »

The National Journal’s Hotline has posted a video of Joe Biden at his Bidenest, spreading good cheer to all the delightfully-spotted foreheads in his neighborhood:

In thanking a young Indian-American man for the support of his Indian-American group, Sen. Biden touts how Indians are the fastest growing immigrant group in Delaware and says, “You CANNOT go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without an Indian accent.”

And it’s not on the video, but we imagine that Joe went on to claim, “I also love that one god of yours, the one with all the arms… the elephant one? What’s his name? Baba Ganoush?” And his sure-to-be successful campaign for the presidency marches onward to the strains of a thousand sitars all playing in unison. MORE »

Hotline, today:
Top, George Allen. Bottom, Rudy Giuliani. But that’s an entirely different poll… MORE »

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(Actually, no one is predicting that; we just wanted to quote a Vanessa Williams song. And now it’s stuck in your heard — a bad case of earworm. Sorry about that!) MORE »

* The Hotline panders to the pandering John McCain. [Hotline On Call] MORE »

The Hotline Poll is All-Republican (and All-American, dammit) this month, and though the split between America’s Unelectable Mayor (seriously, Washington, he did stuff before 2001, look into it) and MAVERICK SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN is what’ll dominate the coverage (such as it is), we found this more interesting:

So leaving aside the weird choices on the list, one thing stands out: MORE »