Looks like John McCain's good humor on SNL last night was more forced than we knew.

From CNN:
McCain's national finance co-chair resigns

WASHINGTON (CNN) — John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down — the latest adviser to leave the Republican senator's presidential campaign due to ties with lobbyists.

Former Texas Congressman Thomas G. Loeffler, a major fundraiser for McCain, is the fifth person to leave the campaign in the last eight days over questions about lobbying or past connections to lobbyists.

...but consider the source.

Mark Davis, a Dallas/Fort Worth-area wingnut talk-show gas-bag (sorry for the redundancies, there) has a regular weekly column in the Dallas Morning News. Most weeks, it's typical RWCM bull, and easily discarded as red meat for his followers. Today, it's actually a seemingly reasoned consideration of whether there will be a so-called "dream ticket" of either Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama.

Until you get to the last paragraph, that is. And, then, Davis finds a subtle way to knife Obama. It's even subtler than the HRC "as far as I know" method -- and therein lies the tale. More below.

This is a short one, and I apologize for that.

Just thought I would note that the ABC News Web site is carrying a story saying John Edwards is leaning toward an endorsement of Hillary Clinton:

Though he sometimes aligned himself with Obama — and against Clinton — as a candidate, several Edwards campaign insiders say the former senator began to sour on Obama toward the end of his own campaign, and ultimately left the race questioning whether Obama had the toughness needed to prevail in a presidential race.

Hope it's not true. We shall see.

This News Hounds story, as well as  this AP article by David Bauder (this link is from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), combine to make two things clear:

1. Roger Ailes of Fox News has decided to get tough with a particular cable provider, probably as only the first of many.

2. He's picked a really bad time to do that.

More below...

This will be a very quick one. I'm at work. Wish I could write more.

Simply put, folks, here is what the Democrats must do to counter how the Republicans will use the constant drumbeat of today's terror plot news against the Dems (below the fold)...

The Bush Administration clearly has reached an important decision this weekend about the tragedy in New Orleans. Mind you, it was not how to handle disasters in the future or, better yet, prevent them by trying to undo decades of really stupid environmental policies. It was, rather, how to (try to) wave off press questions about how badly BushCo FUBAR'd this one.

One BushCo official after another, when on-camera today during the long series of Sunday interviews, has been adopting the same basic line of -- if you can call it this -- defense. It may show us how these guys handled FUBAR episodes when they were younger and had to answer to someone other than the American public.

Up-front disclaimer: If this has already been here, I apologize. I haven't seen it, and I did search for it (on dKos site, that is). (See below for sources.)

This week's episode of Boston Legal on ABC television was originally to give Faux News a hard time. Now, suddenly, ABC (owned by Disney) has ordered all of that purged. Talk about your chilling factor. Read for yourself in this article from AlterNet.

Acknowledgement: First learned of this from an item at Wonkette.

On the same day as it gushes breathlessly that the GWB Presidential Library will be built in Dallas, the Dallas Morning News has announced something that should make any north Texan progressive (and, yeah, there are a few of us) either sick, furious, or a combination of both: a man who may well be the paper's most far-right editor -- and, considering that this is the Dallas Morning News, that's saying something -- is now in charge of its revamped Sunday op-ed section. More below the fold.