There's an old saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going."
And so, being that she's a fighter, it should have come as a surprise to nobody that Alaska Gov. Sarah "Barracuda" Palin decided to take a page from Eric Cartman's playbook.
In her resignation speech, which many have described as rambling and/or bizarre, Palin announced her desire to "effect positive change outside government."
Palin + outside government = change I can believe in.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Preempted by Wimbledon coverage.
Face the Nation: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen; Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA); Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
This Week: Vice President Joe Biden; Roundtable: Tony Blankley (The Washington Times), Todd Purdum (Vanity Fair), Bush/Cheney Strategist Matthew Dowd and George Will (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Adm. Mike Mullen; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD); House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH); Roundtable: Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard), Jennifer Loven (The Associated Press), Stephen Hayes (The Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell; Adm. Mike Mullen; Jordan's Queen Noor; Reliable Sources: Don Lemon (CNN); Harvey Levin (TMZ); Sharon Waxman (TheWrap.com); David Zurawik (The Baltimore Sun).
The Chris Matthews Show: Gloria Borger (CNN); Bob Woodward (The Washington Post); Joe Klein (TIME); Tina Brown (The Daily Beast).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband; Author Dambisa Moyo; Author Jacqueline Novogratz.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature interviews with Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the crew of US Airways Flight 1549 (repeat); and, a look at the band Bon Jovi's 26-year career.
Jon Stewart offered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford a remedial lesson in damage control.
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert enumerated the ways in which opposition to the 2010 Census is nuts.
It seems that those who consider boycotting the Census a good idea can be counted on one hand.
Three Republican members of the House subcommittee overseeing the 2010 census are asking a fellow Republican, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, to back off her boycott of the national population count.
Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and John Mica of Florida, members of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives [sic], are afraid that her repeated threat to ignore the forms could be contagious.
"Boycotting the constitutionally mandated Census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country," they said in a statement Wednesday.
And speaking of the illogical...
Sarah Palin isn't the only one who believes they're answering a "higher calling"... there's also Joe the Plumber.
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, "I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.'"
He continued, "I believe he’s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that’s what I would like to do. That’s a heavy role. That’s something I don’t know if I am prepared to do yet."
But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.
I give up.
- Trix