Midday open thread

• I bet you didn't know that Karl Rove lies.
• Bowers discusses the fake liberal ideological gap.
• What? This sounds like a "purge", and the incoming Obama administration wouldn't do that, would they? That was their rationale for not giving Lieberman the boot.
• Obama's approval ratings per Ras: 67-30. It was 52-44 after the election.
• Hardly a week goes by that I don't get some email demanding I stop using words like "fuck" because it does something or other to me "credibility". I doubt James Wolcott would agree.
• After all these years, Conservapedia is still hilarious.
• Best headline of the day:

  Erick Erickson Dances In End Zone After Late Field Goal By Saxby Chambliss Makes Final Score 48-3.

  The rest of the post is equally hilarious.

• Bush Jr. is now blaming his father for the nation's economic ills. Those guys crack me up when they talk about "personal responsibility".
• The Vatican is jealous of all the negative attention the Mormon Church is getting.
• The Hispanic Caucus wants Obama to nominate Rick Noriega for Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

  I like Rick a lot. He ran the Katrina relief operation at the Astrodome, so he seems to have the ability to put together an effective operation. Then again, his campaign team was an embarrassing disaster. So maybe he can't put together an effective operation? Some candidates lost despite running great races (Jim Martin, for example). Noriega lost running a shitty campaign.

Update: Oh, and this comment by rweba is the 25,000,000 comment on Daily Kos since it moved over to Scoop in 2003.