Poor Rush Limbaugh. He’s got fame, fortune, and all the teenage Dominican prostitutes his Viagra prescription can handle, but they won’t let him have a piece of an NFL team – not even a crappy one. According to ESPN, the group putting together a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams says that “Limbaugh’s participation had become a complication in the group’s efforts and the bid will move forward without him.” Too bad; the Rams could’ve picked up Michael Vick next season, and been the class of the NFL. Of course, it’s the Rams cheerleaders I feel sorry for in all this. They’ll never get to experience the manly, musky smell of Rush and his big cigar.

I’ve read this story a couple of times now, but am still having a tough time wrapping my head around exactly what these idiot Republicans think is going on. Apparently, they’re accusing the Council on American Islamic Relations of trying to infiltrate the government with Muslim Manchurian interns or something. They base this on a book published by the maverick journalists at World Net Daily (not quite as prestigious as NewsMax, but they’re still doing the big work), that had white kids grow beards and “infiltrate” the Council, and then steal documents, which they claim prove that the Council is “connected to or supports terrorists [and] is running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related offices.” As proof, they offered up a pretty standard PR and lobbying strategy document.

The Senate Majority Leader is mighty ticked off by Chuck Schumer’s assertion that the Majority Leader would have to be the one to, um, lead on health care reform and a “public option.” This chump really needs to be put out to pasture.

Joe Biden has been the most skeptical of the plan to escalate the war (or whatever the hell it is we’re doing over there) in Afghanistan by sending 40,000 more troops. For this, Arianna Huffington says he ought to resign. No, not for being an un-American traitor, but to make a stand, the way people like Colin Powell should have done before we invaded Iraq. I suppose I get her point, but I don’t think it would do much good (for one thing, Biden doesn’t seem to get much respect from anybody). It’d be better if Obama would just pick up a couple history books and decide that maybe it’d be better to declare victory and get the hell out. I mean, nothing good ever – ever – comes out of trying to occupy Afghanistan.

Oh well, the Dow’s over 10,000, so everything’s going just great again. I know my life is magically better. Michael Moore is coming up on the Today Show to talk about it. He’s no Rush Limbaugh, but I wish I could stick around to watch.

But, it’s off to work I must go.