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Prop Refuses to Serve as Prop
Update:
Politicians are keeping their distance from the president these days. When the presidential seal fell from his podium he made a self-deprecating joke that even it didn’t want to appear on stage with him.
No he didn’t. President Obama doesn’t do self-deprecating. He said, “all of you know who I am…but there’s somebody back there who is really nervous right now“. Yes, Mr. President, we all fear you.
Yesterday even Walter Mondale piled on, telling him to lose the “idiot boards”.
Anchors Away
I’ve heard that when your opponent is self-destructing, the best thing to do is get out of the way. Unless you’re a Republican, in which case, you’ll probably want to begin a movement to repeal the 14th amendment. The most likely outcome of that effort according to Linda Chavez is no Hispanic Republicans. She makes her case in a WSJ column. You may need a subscription, but I was able to access the whole thing here. Atlantic Wire has a brief summary here. And Chavez explains in this JWR column.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Border Sam
Here’s a Washington Post story about border paradoxes. One of the unintended consequences of tighter border control in California and Texas is more illegal crossings in Arizona. Another is the idea that with more border security, illegal workers already here stay here.
Not Chris Matthew’s Leg Tingle
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein ran a listserv limited to about 300 liberal media types called Journolist. Apparently the 300 included a whistle blower . The Daily Caller reported that Journolist archives include an NPR producer who would get a tingle out of Rush Limbaugh’s bug eyed death by heart attack – not surprising, an ignorant academic who thought that the FCC could shut down Fox News – also not surprising, and that real journalists discussed how to stop media coverage of Jeremiah Wright – way surprising.
