Well, I had doubts about it…but the youtube format was pretty good. The informality and the irreverence of questions was classicly American. The answer to Drudge’s mocking headline “Is This Any Way to Elect A President?” is: Hell, yeah. It’s a lot better than electing a President by having the Democratic candidate slimed via sleazy [...]

Where I’m not: 7:00 PM: That man’s facial hair does not represent my view. 7:01 PM: “We’re not sure how this is going to work,” says Anderson. CNN, your home for breaking news. 7:02 PM: Using kids to ask “adult questions” — I believe that’s someone on the Giuliani campaign’s job. 7:04 PM: FIRST QUESTION. [...]

Make impeachment an issue over the next 18 months…Including the impeachment of Nancy Pelosi! Allow the Jacobin–off with their heads!–wing of the party to control the agenda. Keep calling for votes on Iraq that will fail. Don’t call for votes on Iraq that might succeed (like the Salazar-Alexander Amendment). Even though the Republican field is [...]

Produce a Congressional agenda–like the Senate’s bipartisan children’s health coverage expansion–and allow the President to veto it. Produce other bipartisan bills–like the Salazar-Alexander amendment to incorporate the findings of the Iraq Study Group–that the President will also veto. I suspect there’s a bipartisan energy independence bill that the President will veto as well, at the [...]

Just in time for the resignation of “Trooper” Garrity, WikiHow’s How-to of the Day! How to Make a Citizen’s Arrest In many countries around the world, civilians are empowered to stop a perpetrator in the act of a serious crime and take the arrested to a courthouse or police station, or keep them from leaving [...]

Apparently, some of the Dem candidates have decided that a great way to celebrate tonight’s HISTORIC YouTube debate would be to… have more of it! Edwards and Dodd will be having their own personal bonus rounds after the debate is over. “Over” if you mean, “no longer have other people participating.” Though, really, it’s not [...]