We're praying for Mittens to carry it off! Go Mittens!

I noticed that Bachmann used the 'S'-word (i.e. 'socialist') a couple of times when talking about Obama in her own capitulation speech in Iowa this evening. Is there a point where this kind of language has to be confronted -- it almost never is -- and if so, with what?

Politifact announced its 'Lie of the Year'.

In the same spirit, say I wake up one day only to find that Politifact has replaced my wife with a bunny rabbit. Now ultimately I might be better off (I mean, who knows) but is it right for Politifact to insist that the two of us (i.e. me and the bunny) are still engaged in a relationship that qualifies as marriage?

Politifact would say yes.

I may be getting ahead of myself, but this Mitt Romney -- he sure looks french.

UPDATE (1/13/12): Don't blame me...

Rich Miller has this right:

There's no real mystery to understanding Rod Blagojevich.

He was, and still is, a failed wannabe gangster.

Not a real gangster who pops caps in people’s behinds. Blagojevich tried to model himself on movie gangsters....

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Eric Rauchway and Ari Kelman on the outrage at UC Davis:

... Chancellor Linda Katehi (the Chancellor is the top administrative officer of a UC campus) sent an email Friday afternoon saying, "We are saddened to report that during this activity, 10 protestors were arrested and pepper spray was used." Note the Reaganesque passive voice. One might well conclude from that construction that the protesters were the ones using the pepper spray; one does not have one's attention called to the fact that the Chancellor herself ordered the police to the quad.

This will go down in history (courtesy of David Weigel).

UPDATE: (12/3/2011): Cain: I take no responsibility for my actions -- it's other people who did this to me!

Hanging out with the Occupy Chicago people.