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Does this remind you of anybody? (Don’t let the fact she’s reading a book throw you.)

A reader at Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo:

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were in the front seat.

They drove the Iraq car off a cliff.

Then they turned to the Dems in the back seat.

And said the Dems couldn’t complain unless they could come up with a plan of their own.

The tragedy is that there is no rational hope for a plan (any plan) that will work well. When you’ve driven the car off the cliff, your range of options is quite limited. We’re in the hands of gravity at this point.

Gravity will do what gravity will do. Seat belts fastened?

The most important thing now is to keep Bush and Co. from driving over any additional cliffs.

I don’t usually watch Jay Leno’s Tonight show, so I’m glad Crooks and Liars linked to a version of this video. That’s what inspired me to go find this one. NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory:

Via Daily Kos, a Missouri Senate campaign ad, featuring Michael J. Fox on stem cell research:

Fox is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.

One congressman imitates the Saturday Night Massacre and fires investigators looking into ethics issues. Now, via Crooks and Liars, we learn that another is compiling his own enemies list:

E-mails received by CREW [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] have prompted us to ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) violated the law by intimidating government personnel “in the national security field” who support his opponent, Joe Sestak.

The first e-mail describes a “hit list” compiled of Weldon opponent’s supporters. In addition, that e-mail notes the Weldon said something to the effect of “If they don’t think there will be retribution before or after the election, they’re kidding themselves.” The second e-mail states that Weldon had his staff contact Navy personnel to get information on Sestak.

Nixon is not the best role model, guys.

According the Census Bureau estimates, the U.S. population hit 300 million on Tuesday.

Good thing, too. We need as many people as we can get to share the cost of this administration’s war in Iraq.

Let’s see — so far it’s cost 2,788 U.S. lives, but, hey — there’s plenty more where they came from, right?

In dollars, the bill runs about $300 billon. Now, if we all chip in, that’s only $1,000 from each and every man, woman and child in the U.S. right now.

Oops — too late. Make that $1,100. No, make it $1,110. Uh…

More people! Quick! We need more people!