• The DSCC needs someone that isn't Carville to write their fundraising emails. " I never thought I'd say this, but George Bush's rubber stamp is running out of ink." Optimism, stupid! This was inevitable. Act like your party has been worth a damn for the last seven years.

• Why do you avoid getting in confrontations with pro-Bush counter-protesters when protesting the Iraq war? Because these are people who believe, as a matter of political principle, that hundreds of thousands deserved to die angry, miserable, violent deaths in a barren wasteland. They will fuck you up. (Note: scary!)

• Someone please please please please give Newt Gingrich $30 million. I cannot even express how desperately I want to see him and Alan Keyes try to out-crazy each other on the campaign trail. Can you imagine the debates? Come on, people! Let's buckle down and get this jackass into the race!

• Barack Obama gets increasing support from former CTA chair Valerie Jarrett. What can you expect from their new strategy? Massive funding deficits, infrequent service, his website will constantly be under construction, and he'll start whining a lot about how all of his old friends at the state legislature aren't giving him enough money.

• Now, since I'm such a staunch Democrat, I'm supposed to get behind my party leadership and talk about how awesome they are, right? Wrong. The party gets better when we bitch about jackasses in our party getting ahead on the basis of seniority (and having not left their girlfriend to drown at the bottom of a lake). Like that twerp Harry Reid: the more that gets said about him needing to go, the better.

• Yesterday, TPM brought us this funny little tidbit:

  "While Rudy Giuliani speaks to the NRA convention tomorrow, a federal appeals court will be hearing arguments in a lawsuit Giuliani filed against gun manufacturers when he was still NYC mayor."

  Obviously, he's going to dig his way out of that one, right? So how does he do it? By stopping in the middle of his speech to the NRA to TAKE A PHONE CALL FROM HIS WIFE. Dumbass. The NRA doesn't care about your family values, they care about shooting your family. With guns. While hunting or something. I don't really know how it works. Ask Dick Cheney.

• This is why I'd rather have Joe Biden in the Senate. He's a smart guy, he really is. And he should use those smarts in the Senate, where his foot-in-mouth disorder is less noticeable.

• Giuliani: the First Amendment only protects your ability to say things I agree with.