The number one problem facing everyone in the Republican party right now is that they cannot bring themselves to foot the bill for their own clothing, and this ends them up in terrible scrapes. Like Sarah Palin, the amiable Alaskan parasite whose popularity plunged after it turned out the money-soaked Republican National Committee was paying for all her suddenly tasteful clothes. MORE »

• Sam “Who? Oh right” Brownback will quit his job as Senator of Kansas so he can be Governor of Kansas. [CNN Political Ticker]
• Obama’s entire dumb listserv hates him for begging them to buy Hope paraphernalia, and the families of everyone on Obama’s dumb listserv hates him for indirectly being responsible for their receiving of Hope paraphernalia. [Politico]
• Condi & the State Department recommended against re-hiring securities contractor Blackwater when the firm’s contract expires next year. It will quietly be replaced by Joe Biden’s weird squadron of hellpuppies. [The Daily Beast]
• Gays and friends of gays and non-Mormons are terribly upset that Obama picked Prop. 8-supporter Rick Warren, he of Saddleback and nauseating goatee notoriety, to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration. [AMERICAblog]
• Laurie Coleman, wife of Norm, has hired a lawyer named Earl Gray, who’s described as an “aggressive defender of celebrity clients” and, alternately, “a blend of Indian and Ceylon teas.” [TPMMuckraker]

Last week, there was a big controversy in the Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken in which some Liberal Bloggers thought that Coleman’s wife, Laurie, was edited into an ad for her husband. Laughable!, responded the Coleman campaign, which has gone so far as to produce a response ad of Al Franken “green-screened” into Minnesota. It is STAGGERING. Your Wonkette has not laughed this hard since the start of the Iraq War. [YouTube]

Here’s a new ad for Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who by all accounts should be losing his re-election bid this year but will win because the Democrats have nominated an unfunny hack comedian, Al Franken, to challenge him. None of this changes the fact that this ad is grating on all the usual levels, but there’s a special terrible twist in addition! MORE »

Remember GOP Senator Norm Coleman’s hot model wife? Well she’s back, with the life-changing As Seen On TeeVee product we’ve been waiting for ever since we killed the dog with the FLO-BEE. Laurie Coleman is now selling the amazing BLO & GO. Just blow, and go! So awesome. After the jump, see how she looks almost naked. MORE »