YES. Last year’s competition was about the most stupid-fun we’ve had on this blog. Hopefully this somehow ends with a rematch against the PUMAs on three or four battlefields, but teabaggers would suffice too. Exciting! [2009 Weblog Awards via Rumproast]

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 »

What are the PUMAs up to, and why? It is the impossible question. Have they uncovered new evidence of Obama campaign voter suppression (sexism) in some early caucus state? Maybe they’ll do that next week. For now, they’re at the forefront of the “Anti-David Letterman Movement,” which you may have suspected after watching that funny protest video yesterday. One of their blogs, “HillBuzz,” — hint: it’s not named after Barack Obama! — made the comical photoshop above along with many others, each one for companies that advertise with the David Letterman show. If these companies don’t cancel their contracts with CBS, the logic goes, then they will be considered Willow-rapers too. And it appeared earlier in the day as though the PUMAs succeeded in persuading the Olive Garden to cancel, but… no. MORE »

• SCORCH THE EARTH, SALT THE GROUND: There are no more politics to play here. Vote for Wonkette in Best Liberal Blog every 24 hours. Our lead over TPM is solid but not devastating, and if we lost to them it would be your associate editor’s fault and a terrible embarrassment. In Best New Blog, UppityWoman is catching up to ~ synthesis ~, so please, finish this PUMA once and for all. And in a *new* endorsement, please vote for the excellent, excellent Driftglass in the Best Individual Blogger category. Driftglass is in a close race with what can be described most adequately as a “pro-George Bush blog.” Remember, everyone, that Wonkette is a WARBLOG. The Geneva Conventions do not apply here. [Weblog Awards]

LOOKING FOR A FEW BRAVE VOLUNTEERS: Hey so TPM is a pretty good blog, right? Josh Marshall and shit? Well they have a slight lead for second place over some blog we’ve never heard of called “The Confluence,” and we think good ol’ TPM deserves a little padding for that silver medal. So if you haven’t yet voted for “Best Liberal Blog” today, go give TPM your vote until it reaches, say, 3,200, well out of reach of “Confluence” thing. And remember in other categories to help out the Internet’s best new blog of 2008, ~ synthesis ~, as well as the Internet’s best small blog, Rumproast. Wonkette’s primary role is that of a Charity Blog, after all, so we’re proud to do what we can. [Weblog Awards]

It’s Hillary’s Big Night, and everybody’s wondering what she’ll tell her aggrieved and anxious supporters who felt Disrespected by the Process. We are kind of hoping that Hillary will dispense with that in the first 20 seconds and then administer the indescribably cruel new tearing of assholes to John McCain that all the old Clintonites (Begala, Carville etc) have been baying for all week…but she will probably do something classy and valedictory instead. Let’s watch and see how this drama unfolds…. MORE »

People keep on wondering why Hillary Clinton can’t convince her 18 million ceiling-cracks to get with the program and support Barack Obama. Well, it appears that these angry, bitter old white people are so full of insane rage and hate for everything that they don’t even really care for Hillary Clinton — they just hate her a little less than Obama — so they aren’t going to be bossed around by that gal. MORE »

PUMAPac FOUNDER HARRASSED BY DEAD BUNNIES: Darragh Murphy, one of Hillary Clinton’s most passionate advocates and the founder of a political action committee devoted to getting her elected or something, “said Obama supporters have harassed her and her followers by banging on their windows with pots and pans in the middle of the night, making phone threats and leaving dead rabbits on their doorsteps.” Yoiks. [New York Observer]