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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/PalinPAC.jpg” alt=”" width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The front page of Sarah Palin’s site urges citizen action against government corruption. Wait. Maybe it’s on a different page. A different site? On her Twitter account?

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/APR_11_18.jpg” width=”550″ height=”325″ //p pVisual source: a href=”http://newseum.org”Newseum/a/p pa href=”http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/a-decade-of-missed-chances-is-dragging-down-prospects-in-u-s-ezra-klein.html”Ezra Klein/a:/p blockquoteEven the opportunities we have seized are mostly coming undone. In one of his presidency’s more bipartisan moments, George W. Bush joined with Senator Ted Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/30549/night_owls1.jpg” alt=”night owls” height=”98″ width=”550″ //div Justin Elliott, at a href=”http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/fords_theatre_flunks_oreillys_lincoln_book/singleton/”Salon/a: blockquoteA reviewer for the official National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s Theatre has recommended that Bill O’Reilly’s bestselling new book about the Lincoln assassination not be sold at the historic site “because of the lack of documentation and the factu

pemEven though Sarah Palin isn’t running for president, one Republican candidate is stepping into the void and asking a religious figure to pls refudiate something. After tonight’s Republican debate, America’s long national nightmare of not knowing Michele Bachmann’s thoughts on Slovakian politics will be over. And because retiring senators can’t get back at the president by ripping out the “o”s from their office keyboards and gluing shut the desk drawers, Jim Webb instead chose to vote against the American Jobs Act.

pRick Perry took an absolute beating last night over his decision to require Merck’s HPV vaccine for Texas schoolgirls, not just during the debate from Michele Bachmann, but also afterwards from Fox’s Sarah Palin and Greta van Susteren./p pPalin was particularly harsh, invoking her experience as a half-term governor (she decided not to require the HPV vaccine) to make the case that Perry’s decision was “evidence of some crony capitalism” at work./p div class=”dkimg-c”object width=”550″ height=”341″param name=”movie&#822

Still to be negotiated: whether Palin can enter the debate by driving her bus through a ring of fire. I think CNN may be trying to kill us. They have announced who has been invited to their September 12th debate, and it includes, rather inexplicably, two “candidates” who aren’t currently even running for the office : In a statement, CNN announces its line-up for the September 12 Tea Party Express co-sponsored debate in Tampa: Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman.