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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) — the world’s most comical political organization, behind House Republicans — has been hoping to convert Barack Obama’s non-denunciation of controversial black people into a couple of victories in upcoming House special elections. We saw that piece of crap airing in Mississippi yesterday, about which Travis Childers said nothing. Now they have another ad supporting some GOP dude running in Louisiana, whose opponent supports the “extreme liberal views” of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, depicted below with a lesbian haircut. MORE »

This Nancy Pelosi character is a real piece of work. The Speaker of the House keeps offering opinions on what to do about the Democratic nomination for president, and every time it’s some version of “Oh well, things will work themselves out P.S. VOTE FOR OBAMA. OR CLINTON, IF YOU WANT.” First she says she doesn’t think Democratic superdelegates will go against the popular vote at the convention — meaning that Pelosi is just another Obama freak riding the Hope Express all the way to President McCain’s inauguration day. But then today on Good Morning America she says pretty much the opposite thing! MORE »

The world is an evil place, controlled by money, oil, liquor, Hollywood, and women. When these forces of vice combine, we call the beast “Wealthy pro-Clinton Democrats.” Today this cabal got pushy with powerful House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and called on her “to back away from previous comments and reaffirm that superdelegates should be free to back whichever candidate they believe would be the party’s best nominee.” Fortunately, this does not confirm any stereotypes about money and power and the political process. MORE »

Oh Nancy Pelosi’s so cool, she’s the first female Speaker of the House! She wears chic outfits! She’s from San Francisco! She hates China and loves freedom! And now she’s palling around with the Dalai Lama, because she is the most sanctimonious California libtard since Richard Gere got exiled to a hamster sanctuary in Wyoming. MORE »

Here’s some more half-mindless speculation about Nancy Pelosi: she hates Hillary Clinton more than a lot of people who also hate Hillary Clinton. While she refuses to cast her superdelegate vote, and urges other undecided superdelegates to hold off for a while, she pretty much called Hillary a terrible, lying wicket goblin today. MORE »

Uh oh, it looks like last-minute emcee Chris “Chinese Bus” Matthews had some problems at last night’s Washington Press Club Foundation dinner. He was trying to talk, but everyone kept talking over him. Alas, he now knows what it’s like to be a guest on Hardball. A Wonkette operative tells the story, after the jump! MORE »

Everyone thinks the economy sucks, so all the politicians are busy crafting plans to make us think the economy doesn’t suck. Naturally, Bush has one idea and Congressional Democrats have another, but their plans all have one thing in common: let’s get people to buy more crap! Oh, what good little capitalists we are!

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We know that the rate at which Wonkette readers share needles is higher than it should be, so we’re happy to report that Congress has lifted the DC needle exchange ban. Yes, the dark ages have gone, and now the District’s intravenous drug users can get clean needles for free instead of swapping their mortally filthy old ones. Democrats slipped the provision into the budget that President Bush signed into law yesterday, reversing the GOP’s nine-year social experiment to see if they could stop the spread of HIV/AIDS solely through pandering to fundamentalist Christians. DC, of course, now has the highest rate of infection in the country. But we can only imagine what Pelosi told Bush to trick him into signing this thing… “Just think Mr. President, you’ll be able to play all those Jethro Tull records again!” [New York Times]

There were a lot of Democrats elected last year from so-called “Republican” districts and they’d, obviously, like to stay elected at least as much as Nancy and Rahm would like them to stay in office. So, while Mom and Dad won’t let them vote against the important shit that their (generally more conservative) constituents might like them to vote against, they will let the frosh vote against stuff that doesn’t matter to totally prove that they’re not like Mom and Dad! So some of the freshmen Congress members from traditionally Republican districts have taken to voting against the minutes of the previous day and for Republican motions to recommit so that when papers like the Washington Post publish the percentage of the time that a Member votes with the majority, their percentage looks lower. They’re independent, y’all! [Washington Post]

The House tonight followed the Senate’s lead and approved a tax reduction without a corresponding offset in violation of their own pay-as-you-go rules. The legislation temporarily “patches” the Alternative Minimum Tax by making in inapplicable to those who don’t already pay it. But, since there was no ability to agree on which taxes to permanently increase to offset the temporary decrease for some people, they didn’t bother. In the mean time, while they’re selling it as a “middle class” tax cut, the beneficiaries will be households that make between $75,000 and $200,000. Median income in America today is $48,200. [Yahoo News, Census Bureau]