Is Anyone Left in Venezuela Who is Sane?

The Business in Venezuela is getting worse. Chavez has closed the Columbian border. AFP is reporting:

A crisis between three Latin American nations worsened Tuesday when Venezuela said it was closing its border with Colombia, even as frantic diplomatic talks

When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

• They’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:

VITRIOL….Atrios:

The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

Gateway Pundit is reporting that FARC, a Columbia terrorist group, is rooting for Barack Obama  to be elected  President:

The FARC Terrorists were hoping and expecting that Barack Obama would win the US elections in November because he was most

Michelle Obama, a.k.a. the Bitch, is an American woman of African descent.  JammieWearingFool reports that the Bitch thinks we, the United States, are ‘Just Downright Mean‘.   She  has, two Ivy League degrees, an executive job, a million dollar

Did you see Hume, last night?

A study of the three broadcast network evening news programs indicates John McCain’s media fortunes have taken a dramatic turn south since early January. The Center for Media and Public Affairs says the percentage

OK< I should make mention that John McCain has clinched the nomination.

Huck has quit,  and  President Bush will endorse McCain.

Oh… and the sun came up today, too.

But I guess this is still good news by comparison. AsI

[Barack] Obama has exposed himself as a seriously inexperienced and flawed candidate. He hasn’t really been tested until now, and the glass jaw he showed in the first few days of the real bout must have the party establishment worried

OK, so, Hillary Clinton did win Texas and Ohio, which places the Democrat race at essentially all equal. Which once again, leaves the Democrats hanging on Florida.  You do know that’s going to come up again, right? It seems

• Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:
  

  “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

  … and notes:

  That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

  Exactly so. And I think I can

Hang down your head Rush Limbaugh.   Hang down your head in shame.   Saturday Night Live has done in a mere two weeks, what you have failed to so in twenty years of broadcsat excellence.   The main stream media has been

Piracy by another name, BBC:

Japan’s whaling fleet in the waters off Antarctica has been attacked again by protesters, Tokyo officials have said.

Activists from the Sea Shepherd group threw containers filled with a mild form of acid made

Noted today, in my “inbox”: Two stories.

• Michelle Obama complaining that using the middle name of her husband is a ‘fear bomb’.  
• And at the same time, from this source, we see calls for limits on “religious insults’ against Muslims.

(Bit Notes, this post is from fellow Swamp Stomper Bluto, who askas us to pass this one along. All Swamp Stompers: please echo))

The Jawa Report and The Dread Pundit Bluto declare war on the jihad forum that