Jon Stewart Says Hide Your Poultry: Palin's Back In Town

Jessica — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST

"She's aliiiiiive!" Jon Stewart yelps at footage of Sarah Palin in the lower 48. As previously noted, Palin was in Georgia earlier this week, helping to get Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss reelected in a runoff. Jon refers to Sarah as the "GOP's BFD" and adds that Palin apparently "loves everything in Alaska but being there." Unfortunately, Democrat Jim Martin's biggest celebrity supporter was Ludacris, and somehow the man who wrote the lyrics, "Can't turn a ho into a housewife/ Hos don't act right," was not as effective as a couple of well-placed "You betchas": Chambliss won reelection by a wide margin. Clip above.

Politicians Are Certainly All Unsure, Unless They're Sure.

Megan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:30:00 EST

Barack Obama will officially resign his Senate seat on Sunday, one day before Congress reconvenes for its lame duck session. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has 60 days to appoint a successor to serve until a special election in 2010, but hasn't signaled who he's leaning towards. [Washington Post]
In the meantime, Obama might go to Georgia to stump for Jim Martin in his run-off race to bump Saxby Chambliss from Max Cleland's old Senate seat. [Huffington Post]
He's also not sure he likes any of the dudes he hasn't admitted he's considering to be Secretary of State so he's considering... Hillary Clinton. This might or might not be more serious consideration than he gave to the idea of her being his VP. [NY Times]

The GOP, too, is unsure of things, like whether to kick convicted, corrupt Senator Ted Stevens out of the Republican conference and/or the Senate. All hail the idiocracy! [The Hill]
Al Gore is sure of one thing: he isn't going to the White House in an Obama Administration. [CNN]
And it seems increasingly sure that Connecticut Senator Joe "Turncoat" Lieberman will keep his committee chairmanship because no one wants to be mean to Cotton-Eye Joe. [Huffington Post]
The Bush Administration is pretty sure that it's going to veto the Democrats' auto-industry bailout bill, but Senator Chris Dodd is pretty sure it won't pass anyway. [Washington Post, NY Times]
Rahm Emanuel definitely knows he's sorry for his dad's remarks about Arabs. [Politico]
Sarah Palin gave a press conference today and managed to take 4 whole big-girl questions and not actually say a word. So I'm pretty sure nothing's really changed. [Daily Beast]

Jezebel: jim martin

Jon Stewart Says Hide Your Poultry: Palin's Back In Town

Politicians Are Certainly All Unsure, Unless They're Sure.