If Gov. Sarah Palin decides to run for reelection, she may have an eager Democratic challenger in Ethan Berkowitz. Berkowitz served five terms in the state House — including seven years as the minority leader — before running for lieutenant governor in 2006 on a ticket with former Gov. Tony Knowles. The duo were beat by team Palin but only by a 7.3% margin. Berkowitz ran an even closer battle last year, losing out on a U.S. House seat to Don Young by a mere 16, 379 votes.

Poor Gordon: When Gordon Brown visited the White House, he presented Obama with a pen holder carved from an anti-slavery ship. Obama gave Brown a set of DVDs. DVDs that won’t work on players outside North America.

Gov. Sarah Palin has now joined Govs. Mark Sanford (S.C.) and Rick Perry (TX) in rejecting a large portion of the stimulus package being offered to her state. The punchlines (and headlines) will write themselves on this one since much of the money Palin is refusing was marked for education:

It really is no surprise that John McCain and Joe Lieberman like each other so much. They’re cut from the same cloth of standing on whichever side of an issue seems most advantageous at the moment. McCain was asked whether he would support his former running mate Sarah Palin if she ran for president in 2012. 
His response? 
“I can’t say something like that. We’ve got some great other young governors. I think you’re going to see the governors assume a greater leadership role in our Republican Party,” he said.
He then mentioned …

The election of Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the appointments following have left some Senate seats open. And there are still Senate races left to be decided. Politics- it’s fluid. 
A brief rundown on the seat shifting: 
Hillary Clinton’s Seat
Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t want the spot . Governor David Paterson has taken himself out of contention, as has Robert F. Kennedy Jr (who was rumored to be under consideration for the EPA spot) and Rep. Nita Lowey.  A long list of names are being floated around as a potential replacement- including Andrew …

This, dear readers, is the 500th post at Moue since we switched over from the old site. Yay us!
Well, okay, actually more like yay Brandy, since she does about 4/5 of the posting ’round here… Actually, come to think of it I really don’t do much around here at all, except for oiling the Victrola (which doesn’t really need oiling) and making sure nobody steals the ore cart (like anyone ever would).
Anyway, my favorite factoid of the new location is that, in the almost three months we’ve been here, one …

George Lakoff wrote in Don’t Think of an Elephant  that the Republican Party has (traditionally) been better at appearing cohesive from the outside despite existing inner turmoil. Republican groups with different agendas would work together with the understanding that the needs of all would eventually be met if groups waited their turn. This election cycle knocked down the wall around the Republicans, exposing their infighting, weaknesses and the last gasps of a party on life support. 
Why did the wall come down now? George W. Bush- easily blamed for most things wrong with …

Former Republican Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has a last name that sounds like a dish served at a sketchy truck stop in the Appalachians- which is enough on its own to earn a small bit of affection from me. But his new found habit of bluntly stating what the American people have known for awhile- that Sarah Palin is incompetent- has warmed my heart so that he may be my new favorite card in my Heartthrobs of the Bush Administration: Vol. One deck. 
Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of …

The McCain/Palin ticket could use some couples therapy:
John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
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Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”
Then again, if half the couple is already looking for greener pastures, is it too late?
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – With days still to go …

Halloween’s on a Friday this year, meaning there are even more opportunities to get drunk off of Pumpkin Spice Martinis and hit on people when you don’t even know what they look like.  Luckily, MSN has put together guides to Guys and Gals costumes so you’ll know how to best approach someone.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer a lot of different ideas, so my husband will never know what my slutty Abraham Lincoln costume says about me.
Sadly, the MSN guide also does not understand the concept of irony.  They seem to …