The guy who prepped Sarah Palin for her successful gubernatorial debates just happens to be one of the guys she fired out of spite. Oops.

It's getting hard out there on the pimps and cons in the CIA, first Director Goss goes down the tubes, and now his right hand man Foggo has copped a sweet plea. Just how did Foggo get such an unheard of sweetheart deal from the Bush Justice Department? They wanted to clean up evidence of their corruption, dishonesty and perfidy and have once again used the false cover of national security to cover their rears.

The Katie Couric question that stumped Sarah Palin most of all? What newspapers and magazines influence her worldview.

Surprise surprise--just hours after they scripted Sarah to make jokes about Biden's age, the McPalin campaign is launching another fit of outrage by claiming a joke about McCain's erratic behavior was about his age. But I guess that means jokes and discussions about McCain's age are okay now?

Turns out it was the First Dude who decided he and the family would be sitting in on Sarah's debate prep this week. For his part, Mr. Palin has worried about the frequent separation of his wife from her family, friends and Alaska staff, an adviser said. Accordingly, her family will be with her in Sedona during this week.

It's time to place blame for the failure of the bailout bill yesterday with the Republicans who were negotiating in bad faith.

Me, I say we start asking John Boehner to name names--to list the 12 Republicans who put their poor little feelings ahead of the economy.

January 19, 2001: 10,587.59 September 29, 2008: 10,453.54

And why not? After all, McCain said he was responsible this morning. One thing that works in our favor for the CW (in assigning the blame for this to the Republicans) is that most TV pundits are so solidly members of the village, they can't imagine sacrificing Wall Street to the fates of the free market.

From ThinkProgress: “[T]his bill would not have been agreed to had it not been for John McCain. … But, you know, this is a bipartisan accomplishment, a bipartisan success. And if people want to get something done in Washington, they just watch John McCain.” — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, 9/29/08 “Earlier in the week, when Senator McCain