Barrel Strength

Amidst the pretzel-like efforts of the Eyebrowed One and his familiars to extract themselves from the wreckage of the Railway Committee Hall Putsch, we come across this cropper from the Litigious Geezer™:

In sum, there’s a point I wanted to make: an Opposition coalition does, indeed, exist. Principally, it’s the coalition calling itself the Liberal Party of Canada.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first allow the warm respite of wallowing in the oozing muck of tautologies.

Obama declares that his staff have been cleared of wrong-doing in the Blagojevich Senate seat sale… thanks to an internal review:

Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama spokesman, said an internal review found “the president-elect’s staff was not involved in inappropriate discussions with the Governor or his staff over the selection of his successor as U.S. senator.”

After all, what power could tapes and other damning testimony have in the face of the unquestioned simon-purity of Diogenes Illinoiensis?

UPDATE

Make that twenty-one instances of Rahm Emmanuel caught on tape by the feds discussing the the seat sale.

Who conducted that internal review, Lionel Hutz?!?