Sunday Talk - Texas Tussle

"I can't wait until it's Obama vs. McCain.  
It's gonna be Youtube vs. Feeding Tube!"
- Bill Maher

With Hillary doing Ohio offense,
Obamamania looks to the Lone Star State to round up a big win.

Full lineup and other goodies below...

The Lineup:

Meet The Press:  Ralph Nader grasps for relevance.  Very Serious discourse with David Brooks, Doris Goodwin, Michele Norris & Chuck Todd.

This Week with George:  Sen. Joe Biden (D-Capital One).  E.J. Dionne, Cokie Roberts, George Will & Pope biographer Peggy Noonan talk shop.

Face the Nation:  The most beautiful governor in America Jennifer Granholm (D-MI).  Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ).  McCain lobbyist Charlie Black feigns NYT outrage.

Faux News:  McCain lobbyist Rick Davis covers up for the boss.  A governor shish-kabob with Pawlenty (R-MN), Sanford (R-SC), Kaine (D-VP?) & Corzine (D-HRC).

Late Edition with Wolf:  McCain lawyer Bob Bennett covers up for the boss.  Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA) who famously told Gore to pack it prematurely cause he was going to lose in 2000, now refuses to do the same for Hillary.  Gov. Kathleen Sibelius (D-VP?).  Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), hothead Gov. Pawlenty.

60 Minutes:  How Rove targeted and took down a governor.  Where did the bees go?  Murder of newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey.

80th Annual Academy Awards: Go Johnny Depp! (see comments section)

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With Hillary calling Obama into the Ohio Octagon, she'll need to display some of her softer side to balance it out.  I suggest stamping this supercute picture of young Hillary on every press release and yard sign.  
It would be hard to resist the warm cuteness.

Young Hill' on Flickr.

In Comments Section -

- The Real McCain: HOT LOBBYIST ACTION! Edition

- Going for the gold (images/clips)

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YEEEEAAAAARRRRRRRGGH!!!

Chairman Dean takes down St. McCain.

Quote of the year:

This is not a guy who is a reformer. He talks about change, and he makes a big deal about not being like Bush when in fact he IS Bush. He voted for Bush's tax cuts after saying he didn't, and has been responsible for a $6 trillion national debt that our children are going to have to pay. He thinks we ought to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He thought it was great that the president vetoed health care for our kids under 18.

This is four more years of George Bush, and I don't think the American people are going to buy it.

Less jobs, more wars & four more years of Bush.
Indeed.
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St. John Sidney McCain the Third thinks the coming recession is just "psychological".

NOTEABLES -

St. McCain's campaign co-chair in Arizona indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering, you know...the usual things a republican gets indicted for other than gay sex scandals

Republican Civil War and mass gop depression in California!.

Duck and Cover means the surge is working.

MALPRACTICE: Wisconsin results from the campaign gravy train: For all that money paid to Mandy Grunwald and Penn, these stats about her Wisconsin TV ads would make me want to STRANGLE them if I was her. Wither the Clinton message?  Someone should have been fired.  Echoes of Bob Shrum.

Sunday Chris Matthews Show - Knives out?

HOWARD FINEMAN, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE:
"Whatever happens with the Clinton campaign and the Obama campaign, the knives are already out within the Clinton campaign about who spent what money. The big consultants raked in millions of dollars; this always happens in campaigns that are under stress, but I think this is going to be a big one. There's talk about lawsuits. it could end up there before it's all over."

Perhaps Mark Penn should call Bob Bennett and start mounting a strong pushback.