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Seconds Of Beauty - 1st round compilation from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

We already have a guy who has pissed away his career cravenly sucking up to Republicans and corporations, do we really need another? Delaware would love an actual Democrat right now. You could be a hero, or second rate Tom Carper. From a "what is right" perspective, as well as a strategic perspective, this seems like a no brainer to me. The only problem is, with your current "bi-partisanship rulz!" PR campaign going on, I fear you've already made the wrong choice.

A new University of Massachusetts at Lowell/Boston Herald poll finds Elizabeth Warren (D) has opened up a lead against Sen. Scott Brown (R) for the first time in their U.S. Senate showdown, 49% to 42%.

I'm not sure if the "God is my abortionist" defense would work in the American Christian Taliban world of the future. That's not stopping baby factory & reality TV star, Michelle Duggar, from using it.

Anyway, the left has virtually nothing. No candidates, no money, no cable TV news networks. All we have is youtube and daily kos. Is that enough?

With election season bearing down on us like an ethics investigation bearing down on Newt's speakership, I think that it is time to bring back the podcast. I need a new wingman/side kick/partner, and this time I'd like it to be a true partnership. That means I'm looking for someone with the geeky wherewithal to set up an account on a podcasting service and do most of the leg work involved in posting the pod cast.

This morning I was not very impressed with Mitt's attack on Newt, but this afternoon's stuff is much better than I even hoped. Mitt's team is going after Newt's "erratic behavior" and stating flat out that Newt is "unfit to lead" and has a history of “irrational behavior that you do not want in the commander-in-chief.” It is tough stuff that will require Newt to climb down into the gutter.

... whoever finally gets the Republican nomination will be a deeply flawed candidate. And these flaws won't be an accident, the result of bad luck regarding who chose to make a run this time around; the fact that the party is committed to demonstrably false beliefs means that only fakers or the befuddled can get through the selection process. Of course, given the terrible economic picture and the tendency of voters to blame whoever holds the White House for bad times, even a deeply flawed G.O.P. nominee might very well win the presidency. But then what? ... If the dog actually catches the car -- the actual job of running the U.S. government -- it will have no idea what to do, because the realities of government in the 21st century bear no resemblance to the mythology all ambitious Republican politicians must pretend to believe. And what will happen then?