- House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, whose fellow Republicans have been critical of Obama’s social calendar, skipped watching Tuesday’s Obama presser to see the Britney Spears concert. Someone made him, y’all. [Think Progress, Huffington Post]
- Actor, former Senator and epic fail of a Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is brave enough to say that he wants Obama’s economic policies to fail because he doesn’t like them. Not that he doesn’t want them to pass, he just wants them all to fuck up the economy worse so Republican ideology can be proved right. Americans can suffer longer to give Freddo another chance in 2012. [Raw Story]
- Speaking of 2012, Sarah Palin is not polling in Iowa yet. Yet. [Iowa Independent]
- Hillary Clinton admitted that your little weed habit is the cause of a lot of death and destruction in Mexico, so you might want to skip saying, “But it’s not hurting anyone,” this weekend. [Washington Post]
- One of her dudes met with Burma’s foreign minister as part of the review of what to do about Burma since sanctions are an entirely ineffective foreign policy strategy. We’re still not sending anyone to Cuba, though. [Washington Post]
- The AIG execs in Britain are still not giving their bonuses back, and they’re asking the British government to investigate whether New York Attorney General Andrew “Shucking And Jiving Is Not A Racist Term” Cuomo is actually attempting to extort the money out of them by threatening to name them. [Reuters]
- Other New York lawmakers are set to do actual work for actual New Yorkers and repeal the Rockefeller-era drug laws that filled New York prisons with drug abusers and first-time, non-violent offenders. [NY Times]
- FBI Director Robert S. Mueller would like his delicious spying privileges renewed, please. [Washington Post]
- The U.S. Postal Service is going broke delivering you credit card applications you no longer qualify for. [Huffington Post]
- A rash of European lit majors laughed themselves nearly to death because of the following video. You’ve been warned. [Politico]
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