Huzzah, another contribution from a brave Senate staffer who has suffered the terrible onslaught of anthrax (or “tea”) bags from voters who dislike taxes. All of these heavily irradiated teabags represent Freedom from Tyranny. MORE »

Annie Liebovitz will photograph literally anyone, as long as they are marginally famous. Ever since Watergate she has taken portraits of schlubby double-chinned Administration staffers, so as to glorify the current President and reassure the nation that, while power changes hands occasionally, it transfers cleanly from one self-satisfied bureaucrat to the next. MORE »

Here’s your new president, Barack Obama, just cold dialin’ the Joint Chiefs from the Oval Office and orderin’ up his new composite-kevlar superhero outfit and a dozen sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads. Also, new White House photographer Pete Souza is good! ALSO: Dear new White House, you dudes need to promptly get these pix up on the WhiteHouse.gov website, instead of special-delivering them to the frickin’ New York Times. America (Wonkette) owns these White House photos.

Oh look, it’s more pictures of Our Barry back at Occidental College, before he was “radicalized” and decided to forge his live birth certificate! (FACT: Did you know that Ann “Stanley” Dunham had sex with a space monster somewhere over the Atlantic and bore the spawn in Indonesia, which is illegal? Barack Obama has no “certificate of live birth” because he was hatched from an egg. This is also illegal.) Anyway, the point is: adorable. [Huffington Post]

Last night Sarah Palin flew back to her ice cave and gave a rousing address to her people on the snowy tundra. An Undercover Moosketeer Obamatard kindly snapped a few candid photos from the rally and sent them along. Here we have the vice-president-to-be in literally the only unflattering photograph we have ever seen of her. And yet! Even here she is not looking crazy-eyed or duck-faced, just vaguely reptilian. Sarah Palin, we salute you. MORE »

WASHINGTON POST WOULD RUN MORE PHOTOS OF McCAIN IF HIS FACE WASN’T ALWAYS MELTING OFF: “Obama and his backgrounds are simply more photogenic. … McCain also is often wearing a baseball cap outside to protect his skin from another melanoma, and it shades his face.” [Washington Post]

Last night was a very special night in Austin. A lady and a gentleman named Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, respectively, got up on a stage in “the LBJ Library,” which was actually the gymnasium a ten-minute walk from the LBJ Library, and they discussed how they would rule the nation when they are presidents. Your crack Wonkette Deputy Operative “Dan” was there to record this magical event in photos. Many more and a Flickr gallery, after the jump. MORE »

At nine casinos in fabulous Las Vegas today, the Democrats held these weird “at large” caucuses for the Culinary Workers Union, which happened to endorse Obama. And then there was a court case — not-so-secretly encouraged by the Clinton campaign — to stop these casino caucus spectaculars, because that might help Barry Hussein Obama. Well, in the end Hillary won even with the union people having the right to vote or whatever. Here’s what it looked like. MORE »

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