• Joe Lieberman’s got a blog up, and it’s just as full of Ned Lamont quotes as you thought it’d be. [Joe2006]

• Lieberman payola! He took millions from Republicans in exchange for promises of obedient voting, if he, you know, gets to keep the job. [Insight]
• Republican plan to scare voters away from Democrats with the specter of a Pelosi speakership will fail because Americans are dumb as fuck. [MyDD]
• CBS worried that FCC will be issuing fines over NYC firefighters’ filthy mouths, thanks to Janet Jackson’s titties. [Hit & Run]
• Iran debuts a homegrown fighter plane and claims it “is similar to the F-18 but more powerful.” American pilots do a collective “bullshit” cough into their hands. [Vodka Pundit]
• Tom Delay using lobbying experience to affect outcome of this season’s Dancing With The Stars, Tucker Carlson is pissed. [Think Progress]
• The secret pork hold is on again, now it’s off, now it’s on. [TPMmuckraker]

The “secret hold” scandal is all but solved, and Sen. Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens had best come clean.

Here’s the exciting background: There’s a bipartisan Senate bill that would actually do something good for a change. S. 2590 would create a Google-style public database that would show who gets government money through contracts and grants. But a single anonymous senator has blocked the bill.

Today, RedState.com declares the hunt for the Pork Protector to be all but over.

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