Democrats in Congress appear to be rushing headlong into endorsing some version of the Bush bailout plan, preparing the ground for a certain pair of mavericks to march in, bravely oppose it, and win lots of votes. [Hullabaloo, Daily Kos]
The bailout proposal reimagined as email spam. [BoingBoing]
There will be tears, hugs and nostalgic banter today in New York as George Bush gives his farewell address to all his old friends in the United Nations, who love him so much. Sarah Palin, meanwhile, will arrive there to say hello to Hamid Karzai, Henry Kissinger, and others, instantly giving her indisputably amazing foreign-policy credentials. [CBC]
Police hunting the scoundrel who hacked Sarah Palin's email raided the apartment of a Tennessee Democratic state senator's son. But when wild-eyed TV-ranter Bill O'Reilly used his Fox News show to rail against websites that published the hacked emails, he ended up getting hacked himself. This was unforgiveable, but also amusing. [Wired]
Bill Clinton went on David Letterman's show to offer the most lukewarm backing imaginable for Barack Obama, causing the next guest, Chris Rock, to make a few pointed observations. [YouTube]
Joe Biden went on CBS to condemn the unpleasant advertising tactics of the Obama campaign, before remembering that he's actually part of the Obama campaign, whereupon he issued a statement condemning McCain's ads instead. [YouTube, Politico]
