You'd think he'd have a better sense of humor with that mustache

To Joseph Farah and the rest of the humorless WorldNut Daily weirdos suing Esquire (over a parody, for cryin' out loud): bite me. 

(Said parody can be found here.)  

Michele Bachmann Hearts Government! No, really!

As much as I was amused by Gacygate, Kommandant B's need to provide ample supplies of self-parody doesn't end there, especially when her own family's need to get paid by Medicaid or farm subsidies is considered. She also might want to tighten up that low batting average at PolitiFact, especially in the wake of not quite comprehending how many millions of barrels the strategic oil reserve has left.

Classy, again

You know you're better off running a dead parrot for office when you're the Wisconsin GOP and you choose this guy to run in a recall election:

Madison - A GOP candidate from Green Bay running in a Senate recall race has been convicted of two misdemeanor counts, arrested on other occasions, and now faces another probe by the Oconto County Sheriff's Department.

The incidents involving David VanderLeest, which were raised by Democrats Wednesday, stem from domestic violence allegations. VanderLeest, 34, helped organize the recall against Sen. Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) and is the only Republican on the ballot challenging Hansen in the July 19 election.

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VanderLeest, a Green Bay wind farm developer with a history of other legal troubles, was convicted of two misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges in 2007 as part of a plea deal in Brown County Circuit Court. Also Wednesday, Democrats pointed to at least two other dates in which VanderLeest was arrested for alleged domestic abuse involving his ex-wife in 2006 and 2009 but was not convicted.

His former wife also obtained restraining orders against him in 2005 and again in 2006. VanderLeest, who is not a lawyer, represented himself in the court cases.

As part of the 2007 plea deal, VanderLeest avoided a felony charge of intimidating a witness and misdemeanor battery and bail jumping charges. VanderLeest entered an Alford plea, which means he maintained his innocence but acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him. In the plea hearing, the judge in the case stressed VanderLeest had received leniency, according to a court transcript released by the Democratic Party.

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The Democratic Party Wednesday also released Green Bay Police Department reports on separate incidents in 2006 in which VanderLeest was arrested for pulling out a chunk of his ex-wife's hair and for throwing her to the kitchen floor to keep her from calling police. Those arrests led to the later charges and 2007 plea deal.

VanderLeest was also charged in 2009 with battery and disorderly conduct - those charges were dropped by prosecutors, according to court records.

First, David "Chokey" Prosser, and now this. My, Wisconsin politics is interesting in the Chinese sense of the word, isn't it?