Below The Beltway

In a move that is bizarre both in it’s content and in its timing, Sarah Palin announced today that she would be stepping down as Alaska’s Governor by the end of this month:
WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin announced Friday she plans to resign as governor of Alaska in a few weeks, saying she will try [...]

Orly Taitz has made a name for herself over the past several months as what one writer called the “Queen Bee” of the people obsessed with Barack Obama’s citizenship.
Now, she’s dispensing medical advice and telling her readers not to get the flu vaccine because it’s part of some vast worldwide conspiracy that will kill us [...]

Something tells me that Charles Krauthammer won’t be invited to Wasilla anytime soon:

Krauthammer is, I think, 100% correct, as I observed only days after the 2008 election:
History certainly isn’t on her side. There are no examples in history of a failed Vice-Presidential candidate becoming either their party’s nominee or President of the United States (Walter [...]

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Despite some hopes/signs that the economy may be improving, the job market continues to get worse:
The pace of job losses quickened in June after slowing just a month earlier, casting a shadow over the Obama administration’s attempts to stanch months of declines in the labor market.
The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the [...]

Former CIA analyst Michael Scheurer was on Glenn Beck’s program yesterday and suggested that the best thing that could happen to America would be for al Qaeda to destroy an American city:

Of course, Beck, who’s built his Fox show entirely around paranoia, said nothing to challenge a comment that, if it came from a Democrat, [...]

After the Supreme Court ruling I wrote about earlier, there were very few options left for Norm Coleman so it’s good to see that he had the class to bow out now rather than continue a pointless fight.‘
Here’s the statement he read at the top of the hour:
“Ours is a government of laws, not men [...]

This time, he’s talking about hanging Senators and completely mis-stating history:
Wurzelbacher has a reputation for being a blunt, politically incorrect speaker. Referring to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., more than once, Wurzelbacher asked, “Why hasn’t he been strung up?”
And he glosses over facts. Referring to the Constitution as “almost like the Bible,” Wurzelbacher said of the [...]

The Minnesota Supreme Court has issued a ruling that should bring an end to a Senate race that was over a long time ago:
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race.
The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose [...]