Wonkette political symbolism operative “Nicole” informs us of this photograph from the liberal New York Times depicting Blaggy, dressed to the nines, leaving prison after his best friend Barack Obama posted bail. We have a hunch that the very artistic NYT photographer was “going for something” by including this haunting poster of a common Chicago street rat in the foreground. It is a true fact that these posters are on every wall and telephone wire pole in Chicago, near the actual rats. [NYT]

One of the first few things we thought of after hearing about Blaggy’s arrest was, “What will Kathryn Jean Lopez have to say about this?” She loves it! She loves it because it’s so easy to understand and fits into her Manichean worldview (well, she makes everything fit into her Manichean worldview, but this one just snugs in there so comfortably). And it doesn’t involve sex or queers which is all gross ‘n’ stuff! We’re glad that this G-rated scandal is simple enough for K-Lo, who is childless “K-Lo’s children” to understand. [The Corner, thank you Alex K. for IMing me this most recent hilarity]

It seems DADDY over there in the Senate wants to give “the people” the right to fill Obama’s Senate seat, which would be a vulgar trashing of the Constitution, taking the choice away from the potty-mouth arrested governor who is on tape trying to sell it, for money, and what not. MORE »

Ha, we all had a general idea about the atmospherics of “Chicago politics” — various scenarios involving sludge and trades and wires and smoke and $$$ come to mind, all smelling like dry air and farts — but when it invades Real America’s national news, all we want to do is cry! It’s like they all have old scores to settle with the old bosses back in Sicily. The point is: Rahm Emanuel possibly ratted out ol’ Blaggy to the Feds shortly after Blaggy asked him if he’d like to partake in any harmless high-level political corruption. That Rahm, always with the knives! Jesus, Chicago. What Chicago needs more of is Michael Jordan. [ThinkProgress]

A “high-level” aide to communist Sen. Barbara Boxer of California has been arrested after — whoops! — he was caught chatting and swapping cock pictures with 13-year-old boys on a liberal social network called “Google Hello.” Gross! And the funny thing about one of those 13-year-old boys was that he was actually an FBI detective, trying to capture him. OOPS. Let’s learn more about Mr. Jeff Rosato, who has walked straight into a cold Blowvember gust. MORE »

Poor Mark Foley. In olden times (two years ago), he was just another affable barely-closeted gay Republican, well liked by his colleagues and constituents. Then he got caught exchanging sexy instant messages with 17-year-old male pages who were pretty clearly like, “Whatever, you old creep,” and suddenly everybody thought he was terrible. Now Foley’s breed of harmless homosexual Republican has been hunted almost into extinction, even as exorcism fetishists, alien warlords, and angry old crooks flourish within the party ranks. Let’s see what the fragile, endangered Cocktobrus floridianus has to say for himself. MORE »

Vulgar sex clown John Edwards is ending a three-month public silence tonight with a lecture of sorts at Indiana University. He will discuss politics for a cool $35,000, which is more than many American adults make in a year of manual labor. Then he will probably go to Iowa to get them ground ops all geared up for 2012! He’s gotta win it one of these days! [Indiana Daily Student]

A ballsy Wonkette hero operative sends us a fantastic photo with this description: “I got convicted Senator Ted Stevens to sign this ‘I am VECO’ hat with a silver sharpie on election night 2008.” No, it’s not just funny because she fooled Stevens into believing that she was a supporter. Veco, for you hippie anti-corporates, was the corrupt company that bribed Ted Stevens with hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and money, which he forgot to report! This led to his criminal conviction on seven counts, which was followed immediately by his reelection to the United States Senate.

Eliot Spitzer, the beloved Democratic ex-governor of New York and our nation’s personal Batman in the fight against prostitution, will not be charged for his innocent role in repeatedly hiring expensive prostitutes to have sex with him all over the Eastern Seaboard, because now Democrats run the entire world and ain’t nobody ever going to jail again for simple gettin’ busy, heh heh. MORE »

Sarah Palin took a HARD LINE against domestic terrorist Ted Stevens this afternoon after a wishy-washy first response, saying he “needs to step aside.” Take that, crook. Sarah Palin is playing a good hand here: get this douche out of the way tonight, appoint herself to fill out the remainder of his term in the Senate, quit that on Friday morning, and then campaign through Tuesday as a former Senator and Governor a.k.a. the most qualified candidate on either ticket in the last quarter-century. [LAT/Top of the Ticket]

Here’s your favorite Ashley Todd, the little smiling hobbit down there with her pals and her first hero, the Doctor Congressman Ron Paul, with Cowboy Jesus looking on in the background. Ashley’s not a “Real Paultard,” as she decided to root for another candidate after Ron Paul lost miserably. This hypocrisy is considered rather uncouth by the Paultard Council. But she was with the Paultards long enough to learn how to act like a fucking idiot, and this is how we should remember her. We decided the occasion called for a touch of sepia, beg yr pardon.