Love the headline on Talking Points Memo right now: Huckabee: Washington State Like Soviet Russia.

the best news today is that he wont consider being VP.

Erica hasn't posted about bicycles for a while. That would be a nice change of pace for her.

Hey ECB!

Good to see you still posting! Though I see you no longer are so gusto on the HRC thing.

Kinda took the wind out of your proverbial sails huh?

Sucks realizing that Billary isn't such the "unifying Democratic nominee" you so super duper wished everyone else thought she was huh?

Nice that you get to supplant your usual vitriol on HRC with the Morning Line. At least focusing on this stuff will help ease your bruised ego I guess...

Reality Check

With the outburst of Slog activity over the weekend, Erica was notable by her absence. Now, when she resurfaces, it's with a late and, to say the least, laconic "Morning News" post.

My only explanation is that some time over the weekend, Erica's spirit left her body, leaving it a zombie-like husk, and entered the body of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Someone needs to exorcise that spirit from Krugman ASAP:

I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.

Yeah, you heard it right. Obama supporters have cornered the market on venom. In other words, we're all Hillary haters. And Obama's entire campaign = "Missioned Accomplished."

@4, HA HA HA HA HA!! ROTFLMAO!!!! HA HA HA HA!!!!

“not significant.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

@2: No shit... That was a big fear of mine.

@2: No shit... That was a big fear of mine.

Any link to the news that BO won't consider VP?

None of them ever say they'll consider VP. Edwards's standard response in 2004 was "I'm running for president here." Things will change when someone formally wins the nom.

Obama's not stupid enough to take VP and Hillary's not stupid enough to offer it to him.

@5,

Is Krugman on the Clintons' payroll?

I would love to hear ECB's testimony of how her caucus went.

I think Obama should offer Krugman a job as an adviser on his economic team, once he's nominated. Krugman's smart, and on economic issues his critiques of Obama are usually pretty on target. It would defuse a potential critic, get him some good advice, and underscore that Obama's willing to listen to people who disagree with him.

@13 - we already know ECB's tale of caucus woe. It was her and two other brave old elderly women meekly standing in the Clinton corner, one of whom was in a wheelchair and had only three days left to live, while at the other side of the room stood a barrage of angry, violent twentysomething male Obama supporters brandishing tar and feathers and vegetables to hurl at them, and who screamed "BELIEVE IN HOPE, BITCHES!!!" over and over as ECB politely attempted to defend their candidate. The brutish Obamatons then went into full lynch-mob mode. Results in her precinct: Obama 23,423 delegates, Clinton -3.

Actually, I didn't post because I was busy having a weekend. But cute speculation about my ego, as always.

I can't believe you're all still bitching at ECB. Did you not notice anything else? Bush is charging 9/11 plotters. What happened to his belief that doing so would endanger American interests?

You missed that Sen. Obama already came out against Gates not bringing the troops from the fake surge (classic military definition, a surge can't be a multi-year operation) today.

Attacking Erica with this kind of obnoxious sore-winner bullshit is less attractive than her Clinton advocacy, by a wide margin. Knock it off.

Agreed with Fnarf!

Knock it off, people. There's nothing wrong with supporting someone else for Prez, no matter how much you disagree with her.

What? No mention of a possible breakthrough in the Writer's Guild strike?

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/09/writers-reach-tentative-deal-with-producers/

At least Hump will be happy about that one...

Cindy McCain has shared her delightful recipes! Try her Rosemary Chicken Breasts and Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon.

@19 - I agree with Fnarf. And I sent her a VD Day stranger ad from all of us who like her writing.

Agreed with Will, Fnarf, Gitai. You're acting like The Hills was the repub nominee. Not good for the party, kids.