Look at this recent clip where Chris Mathews tries unsuccessfully to cut Dan Rather off from making a fool of himself.

I’m thinking Dan gets a pass even though a Republican would be flayed alive for saying such a thing.

I was up way too late last night checking my twitter and facebook to see who loved me one last time when I came across an interesting and stunning bit of political news.

Remember last summer when our dear Nancy Pelosi declared that Tea Party goers were “Astroturf” and disingenuous? I wonder if she would be willing to eat her words today after I read the following story.

Apparently some of the people proclaiming to be anti-Tea Party activists, are really laundering union money thru a shell company and several fake 527 groups run by two prominent DC lawyers. Sadly, this is not illegal. Read more

I think this pretty much sums up how Americans feel.
An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

I’ve been singing it since Day 1. Governor Mark Sanford (R-Argentina), avid hiker and world traveler, needs to resign. But it seems he’s dug a line so deep in the sand that it will take someone forcibly dragging him from his office in handcuffs to put an end to this embarrassment. Hey, handcuffs, there’s an idea.

South Carolina panel hits Sanford with 37 ethics charges
Posted: November 23rd, 2009 05:53 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

Sanford is also facing a possible impeachment effort.

(CNN) – The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission on Monday.

The complaint follows a three-month investigation into Sanford’s use of taxpayer money.

Sanford is accused of using tax money to purchase business-class airfare on domestic and international flights, flying on a state-owned aircraft to political gatherings or events “which involved no official business,” and spending campaign funds for personal use such as purchasing a ticket to attend President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January.

Read the rest.

Life here in the Arizona 15th district is great! We have swimming, shopping, great schools, quaint neighborhoods full of charm and class. You should even see the High School’s Mixed Lawnmower Drill Team, they’re fantastic!

Oh, and the jobs created by the Obama stimulus are incredible. Why, just last week little Freddie Smith’s paper route was saved by an infusion of cash and Sally Brown’s lemonade stand was saved in the Great Lemon Bailout of ’09. This Hope and Change is really working out!

Oh, wait, what’s that you say, there is no Arizona 15th Congressional District?

Virginia there might be a Santa Claus, but there is no Arizona 15th, there have been no jobs saved or created there, and the White House continues to operate under the delusion that we will take whatever information they put out hook, line and sinker, without question.

The latest from the White House is that they only publish the information that they are given. To which I say, how can you get information from a place that does not exist? And why are you not FACT CHECKING every last post it note to cross your desks?

This housewife has to wonder, what in the name of transparency will they think of next?

Not much to be happy about here:

It’s been a long time coming but the uncounted ballots cast by delegates at last year’s Republican state convention in Reno were finally counted on Oct. 30. The ballots had been locked in a safe at the site of the convention.

The reason? If the powers that be in the Nevada GOP didn’t shut down the vote the three delegates (which received far more votes then anyone else) going to the national convention would have been Ron Paul supporters.

Pat Kerby – Pahrump would have announced the vote and while the National GOP told the delegates that they had to vote for McCain Kerby said, “I wouldn’t have done it,” who planned to say, in part: “The great state of Nevada casts all of its 34 votes for the Thomas Jefferson of our time and a president we can be proud of for a change, Dr. Ron Paul.”

It makes me wonder which other states might have been close to voting for Ron Paul if it wasn’t for these tricks.
Read the story here.

This story from The Canada Free Press raises questions as to why there were two notarized “Official Certification of Nomination” documents. One with constitutional elegibility requirements included was never delivered to a single state DNC Office for state certification while the one without those required requirements did get sent. (except in Hawaii)

This very valid question, Why were two slightly different letters drafted, signed and notarized on the same day? Why was the language that stated Obama was eligible, under the U.S. Constitution, deleted from the letter sent?

What say you to a conspiracy?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2009/williams091209.htm

The evidence has been mostly circumstantial until now, but in an exclusive photo sent to PD editors moments ago, the debate is finally put to rest.

Click here for the shocking truth.

Per the Washington Times:

ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.

ACORN chief executive Bertha Lewis said in a written statement that she was “ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review.”

I would expect this criminal organization to fold and open again under a new name in the future.

From PD Poet Laureate, Whodat:

Truth is seldom the travel companion of decorum…

Well, I have found a MAN worthy of consideration for 2012: Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.,

Not only did he tell it like it is, he told it to the man hisself and in front of the whole Congress, and the pundits and the entire population of the USA, the world and any inter-galactic space-ships who happened to be in our ionosphere at the moment.

“You lie!” is truth and we all know it. Joe Wilson spoke it and the shock begot what the truth usually gets. Remember that small boy who suggested the emperor was naked?

So, if Obama was NOT lying, how come La Raza Unida ain’t whining because illegals are not covered? Not one Latino advocacy group is screaming at Obama’s vision. How come? Duh! Don’t you know that if illegals were REALLY excluded, that we would have hell to pay with these groups?

By the way, where is Planned Parenthood? Don’t you know that if Obama’s vision does NOT include free abortions on demand that that all pro-abortionists would be at all the town-hall meetings raising more hell than we few beleaguered tax payers? I have not seen one “pro-choice” protester railing against the Messiah…

Don’t let me digress; What we saw Wednesday night was one elected official whose heart overtook his mind, his sense of right and wrong overtook his respect of “the office”. his personal repudiation of the endless lies, misrepresentations, threats and miscalculations, ignite his instincts to stand and fight. I will NOT support Joe Wilson for Mr. Congeniality. However, in the famous politicalderby.com horse race, I submit he should be in First Place!

Whodat respects the man who stands, especially where he should not!

I said it on July 1 and I repeat it today. It’s time for Governor Sanford to resign and say goodbye. Nothing has changed since then. Well, except for more allegations and even deeper scrutiny into his travel records. Oh, and did you hear this little nugget of political tastiness? A whopping 60 out of 72 republicans in the SC state legislature have begged him to end the misery and resign.

Sanford’s central argument for staying had been that GOP calls for his resignation were coming from people who’d never been his friends anyway and who had their own political motives. A fair point, until 60 out of 72 republicans in the state legislature ask you to punch out.

We’re not judging you for being dishonest with your spouse, Almost Former Governor Sanford, we’re judging you for being dishonest with your state.

“I don’t know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, ‘have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?’ That is just the most amazing thing. It’s not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.”

-Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor

How comforting to Miss Kopechne’s family, I’m sure.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/05/palin.reaction/index.html

Now that everyone has burned their fingers on sparklers and fountains, what PD’s post mortem on Palin’s resignation?

A funny skit about the “Sanford Affair”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGEfRBzB0s

I’m sorry, it was too funny to pass up.