Sources say Anthony Weiner may be ready to finally resign. Our long national nightmare of Weiner jokes may finally be over.

Or, to paraphrase Glenn Reynolds:

WEINER PULLING OUT?

Rep. Anthony Weiner finally considering he may have to resign amid sexting scandal, says source

As a cache of embarrassing new photos appeared Sunday, Rep. Anthony Weiner finally began considering the possibility that he may have to resign.

A source close to the congressman told the Daily News that Weiner had been adamant about keeping his seat – even as the Democratic leadership urged him to quit amid daily new revelations of reckless sexting.

The question from this corner: “With all of the seemingly hundreds of Weiner pix coming to light, how did this guy have any time to do anything else?”

TMZpublished a new slew of squirm-inducing self-portraits, including several full-body shots taken in the House gym – some clothed, some not.

It’s about time for Weiner to go: the nation’s stockpile of Weiner jokes has been scraping bottom for weeks.

The question you have to ask yourself: could Weiner had pulled out at a more opportune time?

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PELOSI CALLS OUT WOUNDED WEINER

Anthony Weiner’s strategy of pleading, “I need counseling” might not help him.

Let’s say you’re a Democrat (Anthony Weiner) and that you’re in the midst of a Weiner-iffic scandal. What do you do? Weiner thinks the answer is to go the route of Lindsay Lohan and plead that he needs help; i.e., rehabilitation of some pseudo-psycho sort.

Here’s a hint: when even Nancy Pelosi tells you its time to go, it’s time to go.

DNC Chair and Pelosi Call for Weiner to Resign

Under fierce pressure from fellow Democrats to resign in a sexting scandal, Rep. Anthony Weiner announced Saturday he was entering professional treatment at an undisclosed location and requested a leave of absence from Congress.

An aide for the embattled New York lawmaker made the disclosure in Anthony Weiner, Twitter Photo Scandala statement shortly after several Democratic party leaders demanded he quit for exchanging messages and photos ranging from sexually suggestive to explicit with several women online.

Weiner has previously been impervious to shame, shunning and ridicule. He’s maintained that he can handle the blowback from Weinergate.

But it looks like the ridicule is becoming an unwelcome distraction–is there any other kind if you’re not trying to get the nation’s mind off of the corruption in D.C.–and top Democrats are telling Weiner: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Will he listen?

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Obama’s bill for Hope and Change: coming to your mailbox soon!

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Think you’re going to get off scot-free from the Obama administration’s reckless spending binge?

Think you’re going to get off scot-free from the Democratic 110th Congress’ reckless spending binge?

Think you’re going to get off scot-free from the Republican 111th Congress’ failure to fix any of this?

Think you’re going to get off scot-free from the Bush administration’s reckless spending binge?

Think you’re goign to get off scot-free from the Republican Congresses of the early 21st century’s spending binges?

Too bad. So sad. We’re all broke.

And our so-called political leaders (Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama and the assorted nobodies running the Congress and the Senate the last 20 years) are laughing all the way to the bank.

So long, America! It was great while it lasted!

MORE: At Debt’s Door

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PSALM 109:8
A PRAYER FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Psalm 109:8 reads:

“Let his days be few;

and let another take his office.”

The Science Christian Monitor wonders Biblical anti-Obama slogan: Use of Psalm 109:8 funny or sinister?

How about “sincere?”

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A recent appeal landed in the emailbox. It was an appeal to help defeat Sherrod Brown, “a Senator who must be defeated next year,” according to the letter.

It was signed, “Jim DeMint, United States Senator, Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund.”

The reason this letter caught my eye and didn’t get immediately tossed–like so many others–was the following information.

“Sherrod Brown was recently ranked by National Journal as the “most liberal” member of the entire U.S. Senate. He voted:

FOR the $700 billion Wall Street bailout;
FOR the $787 billion stimulus bill;
FOR President Obama’s government takeover of healthcare;
FOR the Cash for Clunkers program;
FOR the auto bailout;
FOR union intimidation using “card check” elections;
AGAINST permanent repeal of the death tax; and
AGAINST the earmark moratorium.
AGAINST defunding Planned Parenthood

There is no bigger supporter in the U.S. Senate of big-government spending, bailouts, and debt than Sherrod Brown.

This brought a question immediately to mind: how much different is Sherrod Brown’s record than that of conservative darling, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)?

Paul Ryan’s Record (Does Paul Ryan’s Record Match His Rhetoric?)

Paul Ryan on Bailouts and Government Stimuli
-Voted YES on TARP (2008)
-Voted YES on Economic Stimulus HR 5140 (2008)
-Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008)
-Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)

So far, Paul Ryan’s record is an exact match with Sherrod Brown, “the most liberal member of the Senate.”
Maybe Ryan would do better on Entitlement Spending. After all, his many media boosters are trying to convince America that Ryan’s Roadmap is a way out of the entitlement spending mess.

Paul Ryan on Entitlement Programs
-Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003)
-Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers. (Jun 2006)
-Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks. (Oct 2008)
-Voted YES on Head Start Act (2007)

In addition, Paul Ryan voted YES on George Bush’s 2001 vast expansion of the federal educational bureaucracy, No Child Left Behind.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Wisconsin summed up their piece on Paul Ryan’s record with a reminder–and a bit of advice for Ryan.

According to Michelle Malkin in 2009, “[Paul Ryan] gave one of the most hysterical speeches in the rush to pass TARP last fall; voted for the auto bailout; and voted with the Barney Frank-Nancy Pelosi AIG bonus-bashing stampede. Milwaukee blogger Nick Schweitzer wrote: ‘He ought to be apologizing for his previous votes, not pretending he was being responsible the entire time, but I don’t see one bit of regret for what he did previously. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get away with it’.”

Congressman Ryan: if you don’t like debt, stop voting for debt.

Getting back to that email, the question I guess we all ought to be asking ourselves is:

Will we be seeing Jim DeMint’s name on a piece of fundraising literature attempting to defeat that liberal member of the House, Paul Ryan?

UPDATE: Almost on cue, Ryan puff pieces appear almost daily in the Corporate Mainstream Media. The same day as this piece, one by ex-Fox News reporter, Major Garrett, showed up at National Journal with the hilarious headline: Paul Ryan’s Finest Hour?

Garrett thinks Ryan is positively Churhillesque.

One supposes that that’s right–as long as Garrett was referring to Ryan record and the following Churchill quote (about Churchill’s switch in political parties and then a final return to the Conservatives).

“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to rerat.”

EVEN Charles Krauthammer turns into an unblinking tool when the subject is Paul Ryan. Maybe Krauthammer is enamored of Ryan because of Ryan’s refreshing ability not to be tied down to his previous positions on the issue of debt?

It’s all a bit hilarious: the Corporate Media Stooges try their best to pretend that Paul Ryan has no voting record before 2011. It’s so brazen, it’s proof that “conservatives” were paying attention during the Clinton years.
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Krauthammer argues for Paul Ryan in 2012, or GOP will ’sink’ on Medicare

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Is Glenn Beck going to bail on Fox News?

Is Fox News going to let Beck go?

Or is it all just elaborate corporate media kabuki theater?

James Hirsen calls it “Beck’s $200 Million Gamble.”

According to street buzz and a story by the New York Times’ Brian Stelter, Glenn Beck is considering a business startup to complete his media empire. The emoting host’s contract ends at the bottom of this year, and he would then be free to head up his own enterprise, a Beck owned and run television network.

But networks don’t come cheap. Or easy. Discovery is reported to have sunk more than $200 million into OWN, which started broadcasting Jan. 1. And in February, only about 135,000 people were watching OWN, a number down 10 percent from Discovery Heath, The New York Times reported. The network has already had to shuffle its programming.

Apparently, Hirsen has a good source, as he has written about as extensively on the subject as anyone on the net at this point.

Jon Friedman wonders “Glenn Beck: Why leave Fox News?“–and makes an excellent point.

According to Forbes, Beck could reap some $4 million a year from his Internet business, twice as much as Fox reportedly pays him.

Of course, the talk about Beck’s post-Fox options could be a negotiating ploy. If TV executives wanted to air the most riveting reality show imaginable, they could have cameras follow around a TV star whose contract is about to expire.

Earlier Beck released an interestingly-worded statement.

“Roger Ailes has built the most important voice in America today — Fox News — and it is an honor to do my show there every night. I have no intention whatsoever of doing the show I am doing now on Fox anywhere else.”

Notice the “…the show I am doing now on Fox…”

That doesn’t mean that he might do another type of show.

Which means that if Glenn Beck does jump the Fox news ship, the familiar Beck blackboard might very well be a prop of the past.

As always with stories that consist of one part news, one part whispers, one part speculation, the best advice would be:

Time will tell.

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A piece came out in the Huffington Post that demonstrates more clearly than anything I’ve written in the past month that in 2010, the Liberal Democrats and the Republican Establishment are one-in-the-same animal.

Daddy’s Girl Versus Sarah’s Boy: What’s an Alaska Democrat to Do?

The Alaska Senate election is only three weeks away. But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain. Should they remain allegiant to their party and vote for Scott McAdams, the Democratic candidate? Or should they abandon McAdams and write in incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski to try to save Alaska and the nation from Tea Party poster boy and Sarah Palin spawn Joe Miller, the Republican candidate?

How a Democrat should vote is a conundrum.

Republican Establishment types and Progressive Democrats are the political version of the Crips and the Bloods: the MO and goals are both the same; the colors are the only defining characteristic.

Both groups are about power: getting hold of it, holding onto it and using whatever means necessary to cling to it. Their fellow Americans?

Just pawns to be manipulated by either group, for whatever the political calculus works out to be the maximum advantage.

As with the talk of Democrats pressuring Kendrick Meek (D) to drop out of the Florida race to give erst-while Republican-turned-WTF? Charlie Crist (Opportunist) a chance to win Florida’s Senate seat, this HuffPo piece demonstrates the highest ethic governing both Establishment Republicans and Progressives: raw naked power.

I believe the French have a saying for this situation.

It goes something like, “Fuck ‘em both.”

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