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Ferrell Returns to SNL

The return of Will Ferrell to Saturday Night Live as President Bush last night might be one of the funniest skits ever.

Late Late Nite FDL: Do Something Nice
Now is the time for all us to remind all our friends and neighbors to get out and vote. Vote early and request a paper ballot if at all possible. Maybe offer a ride to those in need. So how about sending this song along with a nice friendly reminder? Tell them firedoglake sent you.

King Curtis “Memphis Soul Stew”

Now is the time for all us to remind all our friends and neighbors to get out and vote. Vote early and request a paper ballot if at all possible. Maybe offer a ride to those in need. So how about sending this song along with a nice friendly reminder? Tell them firedoglake sent you.

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Crisis no reason to cut aid, trade: Bush
President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the United States must stay committed to free trade and development aid policies despite difficulties spawned by the global financial crisis…

GOP lawmakers repeatedly call liberals ?anti-American? on House floor.
CQ’s Jonathan Allen notes that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), and Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) aren’t alone in believing that progressives are “anti-American” or “hate real Americans.” In fact, on the House floor on Sept. 17, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said that Democrats were for “anti-American energy, just as many other things […]

CQ’s Jonathan Allen notes that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), and Rep. Randy Kuhl (R-NY) aren’t alone in believing that progressives are “anti-American” or “hate real Americans.” In fact, on the House floor on Sept. 17, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said that Democrats were for “anti-American energy, just as many other things that they support seem to be anti-American power and anti-American control.” In the past year, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has called Columbia University and a Los Angeles Superior Court judge “anti-American” for opposing the war in Iraq.

UPDATE: Watch Foxx’s comments here:

McCain Assails Obama’s Plans as Socialist
CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 18 — Sen. John McCain and several of his key advisers began sharpening a new line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday — likening the Democratic presidential nominee’s tax proposals to socialism and saying they would not be welcomed by average, working-class…

Willie Sutton Goes to Harvard
“Because that’s where the money is.” — Willie Sutton, when asked in 1934 why he robbed banks WASHINGTON — Washington is having a Willie Sutton Moment. Such moments occur when government, finding its revenue insufficient for its agenda, glimpses some money it does not control but would like to. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., recently convened a discussion of how colleges and universities should be spending their endowments. Grassley, who says more than 135 institutions each have endowments of more than $500 million, says perhaps they should be required to spend 5 percent of their endowments each year. Welch has introduced legislation to require that percentage be spent to reduce tuition and other student expenses.

Long National Nightmare
Last night, I woke up in a sweat. I’d had a very bizarre dream . . . NOVEMBER 5 — There was Wilson over Hughes. And, of course, Truman over Dewey. But there’s never been a surprise in presidential politics like the one that awaited Americans this morning, who woke up to discover that, somehow, John McCain had been elected president over Barack Obama. Not a single poll, tracking or otherwise, had McCain ahead. The articles had all been written: Michael Scherer of Time, “McCain’s Struggles: Four Ways He Went Wrong”; Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, “We’re Heading Left Once Again”; and Joan Vennochi of the Boston Globe, “That’s It for McCain.” To be fair to them, it was hard to find a single major pundit anywhere who predicted McCain would win — though the astute Michael Barone, author of The Almanac of American Politics, did pen a column 17 days before the vote warning that a surprise was possible. Given Barone’s credentials, someone should have listened.

How Safe Is This Election?
The GOP attack machine isn’t dead yet, but the wheels have started coming off.

US Attorney’s Office Involved In Voter-Fraud Probe in NM
We’ve got a bit more information on the FBI’s investigation into voter fraud that’s taking place in New Mexico. Last Friday, the Associated Press reported that FBI agents had met with Bernalillo County clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver, “after she notified…