Are you sick of the Sotomayor hearings and stoking of racial tensions? Racialicious' Latoya Peterson and I are as well, but we talk about it anyway, in addition to Mark Penn's elitism, Mark Sanford's latest disappearance and Rahm Emanuel's allure.
Mark Penn Defends Men, Idiocy
Mark Penn decries the rates of male incarceration, alcoholism and educational attainment. Then he whines about the gain in female life expectancy over men's since 1900, failing to note it probably has something to do with the 99% drop in maternal mortality in that time. Fail. [Wall Street Journal, CDC]
James Carville Blames Mark Penn For Hillary's Loss
James Carville dishes about the Hillary Clinton campaign in his new book, placing plenty of the blame at Mark Penn's feet for pushing the aura of inevitability and not knowing about proportional primaries. [Plum Line]
Barack Obama Stays Hot While We Freeze
- ... [wipes drool]
- Barack Obama is on vacation with his family in Kailua, Hawai'i this week. [Huffington Post]
Kwame Kilpatrick Waves Goodbye to Denver Dreams
- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, facing perjury charges in one case and assault charges in another, has been ordered to remain in Detroit instead of attending the Democratic convention. He tried to argue that his presence was really important to the Democratic party, but if Obama doesn't feel it's necessary to play…
Who Knows Things? John McCain Knows Things!
- John McCain told a crowd that the "people who decide these things" told him there would be 2-3 Supreme Court vacancies soon. Of course, those are lifetime appointments, so it's either that McCain's in contact with Death or he's forgotten one of the fundamentals of the third branch of our democracy. [HuffPo]
- Speaking of…
Raise Your Hand, John Edwards, If You're Sure That This Is The End
Olympics? What Olympics? For political watchers, the possible end of the political career of former Senator/Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, most recently on Democrats' wish list as Attorney General in an Obama Administration, is the functional equivalent of the Olympics. So although one of us was on a little…
Vanity Fair And The New Yorker Expose The Clandestine Operations That…
Hola, patriots! We have a treat for you today at Crappy Hour: we read two really long stories for you, Gail Sheehy's first rough draft of the demise of Hillaryland in Vanity Fair and Seymour Hersh's investig-planation of what exactly your tax dollars are doing in Iran. And oh my goodness, the stuff we knew that we…
