Well, if teh Fred says it...

"I want his policies that I believe take us in the wrong direction to fail," Thompson told Roberts on CNN's American Morning.

"If he takes us down the road of tripling our national debt in ten years and making us vulnerable to higher interest rates and higher inflation, and things of that nature, I want all those policies not to succeed," he said.

Thompson, who made the rising cost of entitlement spending a focus of his 2008 presidential run, said he'd be happy to help Obama overhaul those programs.

"If he wants to do that, I will join with him. I'll do everything I can to make him succeed with regard to that because that's the whole ball game in terms of our fiscal future in this country," said the former Tennessee senator.

Thanks to WilliamA.

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NBC is a crap network, but they made the right choice to replace the nonpartisan Johnny Carson. Even though I hated that decision at the time.

But then, at that time, I could still remember Letterman being funny within recent memory.

So how's NBC doing in the ratings otherwise? Howzabout they just fell behind Univision (Si, Univision) in the coveted 18-34 demo last week?

So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em: NBC is developing a "telenovela" (Spanish language cleavage show with soap-opera storylines) based on the Colombian hit Sin tetas no hay paraiso," which translates as, seriously, "Without Tits There Is No Paradise." Or breasts-- but you get the cognate.

It's about a woman who covets massive breasts, gets breast enhancement surgery, and then uses her uberknockers to attract clients as a whore.

I have to admit: It beats hell out of Frasier.*

Thanks to MattM.

* Pardon the old reference. I literally have no idea what's on NBC these days. Apart from the okay The Office and the meh 30 Rock.

Here's a top ten, reduced to top three, due to cutbacks and layoffs from the Obama Economy.

Top Three Other Spanish-Language Telenovelas NBC Is Developing

3. Las Vaginas

2. The Senor Thunderpants Fuck-Hour

...and...

1. A new series based on the Colombian version of Friends, but starring all women, tentatively titled, Ay, Mira! La Docena de Tetas! ("Hey, Look! A Dozen Tits!")

That's all I got. I really don't speak any Spanish.

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Anyone who thought the new administration wasn't serious about fighting terrorism better just sit down and STFU! The new sheriff and his gang of euphemizers who won't discuss shooting straight have shown their mettle. They will put the fear of God Allah Teleprompter Jesus into those Islamist terrorists Disaster causing men overseas who keep blowing up  creating localized incidents of an explosive nature where innocents are slaughtered inconvenienced in a big way.

WTF people? Do they really think they can change a few words and all of a sudden we are no longer at war with deranged devotees of Islam who are pretty sure what they are up to. They have no qualms about their Global Jihad to impose Sharia law and create a new Caliphate. Sorry for the straight talk there I wouldn't want to offend anyone or make them feel uncomfortable.

I wish this wasn't symptomatic of the mindset of our moral betters on the left, but I have lived among them enough to know that they really believe the bad guys are simply chafed that we call them what they are names. And if we would quit classifying people who do evil things as evil then we wouldn't have to hear the word evil and voila bunnies, unicorns and decaf soy lattes for everyone. To call them dangerously naive is an understatement and these are the folks who are going to negotiate with Ahm-a-nuttah-job, Putin and the Chinese? We are in deep shite.

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A breath of fresh air after the Palin lawsuit unpleasantness.

...he Quinnipiac poll, released Wednesday, shows the embattled Specter behind Toomey, 41-27...

...The Quinnipiac poll also spells bad things for Specter if he makes the general election, with just 31 percent of those voters saying they would vote for him and 33 percent saying they would vote for an unnamed Democrat.

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They're already $500,000 in the hole, and the absurd filings just keep on coming.

See also Geraghty's take-down of the latest hit-piece on Palin, from the Conde Nast magazine Portfolio. The author takes contradictory positions to meet his predetermined narrative that Palin is always wrong:

McGinniss at first shakes his head at Alaskans’ resentment of oil companies and their belief that the industry exploited Alaska with the “illicitly bought-and-paid-for cooperation of the state’s elected and appointed officials“ and then, two paragraphs later, details . . . illicitly bought-and-paid-for cooperation from the state’s elected and appointed officials.

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Will Hollywood ever make a heroic movie about Iraq? Probably not.

But the Japanese have. Trouble is -- this being Japan -- it stars animated bunnies fighting terrorist cats.

The American title is Apocalypse Meow.

Yeah, it's weird.

Moved: I was never really comfortable adding this to a report on US combat casualties. It just didn't seem to be worthy of its own post, so I tucked it into an update to the latest one.

It was a mistake and I've now cleared this off into its own post.

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Damn, that Obama is a clever general.

In the first two months of this year 19 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, down from 148 in the same period two years ago, Major-General David Perkins told a joint news conference with Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim Moussawi.

Moussawi said the number of militant attacks documented last week in Baghdad was at a record low.

"U.S. combat deaths (in Iraq) are at the lowest level since the war began six years ago today, a decrease of over 90 percent," Perkins said.

I had meant to link this earlier: "the most relentlessly upbeat Iraq news segment you'll ever see." Unfortunately, yes, as such reports aren't precisely welcome in newsrooms.

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Hey, why not. She dishes at BloggingHeads.

Blogs

The greatest sexovation the world has created.

That's snark, by the way.

Thanks to someone.

Skip to 11:00 or So... To hear Althouse hitting one of my bugaboos about the problem with male/female interaction of late.

I wrote about that some time ago.

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...defending Obama, and making the joke at Bush's expense.

Nothing funny about Obama -- why, comedians even expressly repudiate any jokes tossed into their wheelhouse.

Letterman's point, to the extent he has one, is that Obama should be given slack on his teleprompter addiction -- after all, he just wants to "get the words right." Then he contrasts Obama with a teleprompter to Bush without one. Audience laughs. Ha, ha, ha.

Of course, if he wanted to do the with teleprompter/without teleprompter joke, he could have just used Uhh-bama's stumbles, eh? Like the embarrassing moments tucked into this video.

Nothing funny about this president. Nothing.

So, if you want to see it, here it is:

(Vid thanks to Sandy Berger, helping me avoid linking the HuffPo.)

If you do watch, enjoy Letterman lecturing us all that we can't knock Obama, not at all, because, for goodness sakes, the man's inherited a crisis and "at least he's trying."

A while ago I lost most of my funny and so I turned to pure politics. I see Letterman is following my lead.

Obama's Woobie: You can't take a baby's woobie.

Thanks to Craig C.

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Timmah "The Only Man Who Can Save Us" nearly tanked the dollar because he's, how do I put this? Oh yeah, a fucking moron.

Yesterday China floated the idea of a new currency to replace the dollar.

Today Timmy said, "neato!"

"I havenÂ’t read the governorÂ’s proposal. HeÂ’s a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. I generally find him sensible on every issue," Geithner said, saying that however his interpretation of the proposal was to increase the use of International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights -- shares in the body held by its members -- not creating a new currency in the literal sense.

"We’re actually quite open to that suggestion – you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union," he said.

Even the moderator of the event saw this was a problem and kind of got Timmah back on track

Needless to say, in the mean time currency traders ran for the hills.

When asked last night at his news conference this same issue, Obama said, "I don't believe that there's a need for a global currency." See the difference? When even Obama gets it and you don't, there's a problem.

And yes, I get there's a technical difference in what he's talking about, 'special drawing rights', and a new currency. The thing is, the Treasury Secretary isn't some anonymous technocrat, he's the global spokesman for the US government on financial matters. Geithner doesn't seem to understand he's not back at the NY Fed or the IMF talking theoretically with his fellow economists and bankers. This is a bigger and broader job and one he's clearly not up to.

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