I should know better by now than to think I have seen every outrage of which Hillary is capable. In her continuing effort to try to delegitimize the nomination of Sen. Obama, Hillary today compared the unsanctioned Florida primary to the recent election in Zimbabwe, perhaps because her recent attempts to compare it to the 2000 recount debacle, failed to get enough traction with the superdelegates. But I'm sure comparing the DNC with the Mugabe regime will make them come around!!

That's it...this time I've really had it. Really. More than I had it yesterday, and the day before.  Find out about the silly, probably kind of immature thing I did, over the flip:

While reflecting on the Clinton campaign since Iowa, and thinking about how the latest bit of manufactured outrage she is peddling fits into the established pattern, I have arrived at some conclusions.  I believe there are three things the Clinton campaign consistently gets wrong, and that "Bitter-gate" will turn out to be no different.  

More below the fold:

I knew I should have gone to the Vitter town hall when I got that card last week!  See what I missed, below the fold:

Longtime Clinton political operative James Carville appears regularly on CNN to make the case for his candidate, arguing why the race is not over, how she can still win, and of course, famously calling newly-minted Obama endorser and superdelegate Gov. Bill Richardson, a "Judas".

But in the meantime, the $3.9 million DC-area home he shares with his wife, GOP-insider and former Darth Cheney counselor Mary Matalin, is on the market.  

h/t lgcap

What's up with that? (More under the fold)

Okay, it’s not quite the magnitude of tonight’s earth-mover in the IL-14.  But given how Republican this district is, these numbers can’t be doing anything to ease the heartburn the GOP must be feeling this evening.  

Details under the fold:

Well, this will certainly help convince Louisiana voters to support lifetime-Democrat-recently-turned-Republican John Kennedy in his campaign to unseat our state’s Democratic senior Senator, Mary Landrieu – NOT!

Details on the flip:

Unbelievable.

On January 14, less than two weeks ago, Louisiana’s Democratic governor Kathleen Blanco left office as Republican Bobby Jindal was sworn in.

And guess what!  An expansion of Louisiana’s children’s health insurance program the Feds resisted when Governor Blanco proposed it, is now suddenly A-OK!

Details on the flip:

Sen. Barack Obama's speech Sunday, January 20 at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church has been diaried extensively (here, here, and here) and deservedly so; it is a not-to-be-missed 33 minutes regardless of which candidate you support.

As I reflected on his theme of unity as "the great need of the hour", and how this relates to the many problems and challenges that face our country and our world, it occurred to me that unity of purpose is like a foundation on which all of our other efforts must be built.  As he said in the speech, "it is where we begin".

On the same day that Obama gave his soaring speech in the Atlanta church where Dr. King had preached, his theme was echoed in a smaller service held in the gym at the Good Pine Middle School in Jena, Louisiana.  Follow me over the flip...

This hour's viewer question for the Cafferty File is:

6 p.m.: Why won't Congress impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney?

Write in and tell him what you think!

Late update:  Jack's gone home for the day, but you can still read the article and post a comment about this subject on his blog.  Add your voice to the flood of comments already there, to let Jack know this is a story that matters to people.  Who knows, maybe he will even convince The Beard to talk more about it.

The question was prompted by this weekend's editorial in the Washington Post, in which George McGovern calls for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.

More on the flip.  But for now, freep away!!

Senator David Vitter's "hooker problem" is not going away.  Even the usually Republican-friendly daily newspaper of Louisiana’s capital decided that news of the publication of former New Orleans prostitute Wendy (Cortez) Ellis’s interview and pictorial in the latest Hustler, merits the top spot on their website this evening.  (That’s right, The Advocate reads Hustler so you don’t have to)!

Hey, I'm not complaining.  You know what happens when you repeat things often enough, a technique that seems to work especially well on Republicans.  Maybe if the Vitter hooker stories pop up often enough, the Repubs will get sick of rehashing that tired old spin, "...unlike Larry Craig, David Vitter did not enter a guilty plea" ... yadda yadda yadda...and figure out that Mr. Sanctity of Marriage really is a colossal hypocrite. Well it could happen!

A few interesting tidbits from the Hustler interview, on the flip:

Unless there’s a large African-American turnout at this Saturday’s open primary, it’s likely  the next governor of Louisiana will be this guy:

Bobby Jindal, Republican U.S. Representative from LA-01 (the seat previously held by his friend David Vitter), almost became governor four years ago, winning the open primary but then losing the November 15, 2003 runoff to Kathleen Blanco, 48-52%.  When Governor Blanco fell out of favor after Katrina, the conventional wisdom quickly formed that the keys to the Governor’s Mansion were Jindal’s for the asking.  More after the jump--

Baton Rouge... epicenter of the Jimmy Swaggart empire, which still has a large following here despite the scandal—

but if you’re tired of Rev. Jimmy, we’ve got plenty of other mega churches to choose from, including the one with the three giant crosses that loom over the highway across from Lowe’s.  [My only intention was to illustrate how "mega" the churches are here, but in this context it might imply this particular church preaches intolerance.  I have no evidence they do so.  beabea]

We’ve got people here who truly believe that Katrina was sent by God as a punishment for the "sin" in New Orleans, and in September 2004, 78% said "yes" to adding marriage definition hate to the state constitution.

Being a liberal here (and a Yankee to boot), I definitely have those days when I feel like I came from another planet.  But that’s nothing compared to what my gay friends have to deal with...

Details about the latest slap in the face, on the flip—

This ominous blockquote from Dr. Barnett Rubin’s excellent Aug. 29 diary Post Labor Day Product Rollout: War with Iran (Cross-Posted at Informed Comment Global Affairs)! really got my attention, so I filed it away...

They [the source's institution] have "instructions" (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this--they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is "plenty."

...but at the time, I just couldn’t bring myself to believe the administration could really be that insane.  However, over the last few days, I’ve seen some things that look to me like an implementation of these "instructions".  More after the fold--  

David Shuster subbing for Tucker (permanently I wish) just made MINCEMEAT out of Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn R-TN 07.  First he asked her how Rush Limbaugh airing a caller who referred to Sen. Chuck Hagel as "Senator Betray Us" was somehow okay, but the later MoveOn General Betrayus ad was such a big deal.  She responded with some blather about how Rush didn't BUY AN AD, as if airing something to millions of listeners is somehow not important because, again, Rush didn't Buy An Ad.

Then David moved in for the jugular.  He asked her, what is the name of the last soldier from her district killed in Iraq.  Congresswoman Blackburn was forced to admit that she didn't know.  David then told her.  He was 18 years old (will check for this on C&L so I can get his name).  He then reiterated his puzzlement about why it is that Congresswoman Blackburn knows so much about MoveOn.org, yet doesn't know the names of KIA from her own district--this was after she claimed that she and her staff "keep in touch every day" about what is going on with service people from her district.

THIS is how you respond to the Repubs about The Ad.  David, you the man!!!