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As it happens, when I finish this chat I am pointing my car south to Norfolk for tonight's Glenn Beck/Bill O'Reilly "Bold and Fresh" tour appearance.  Please advise me on what you think I should wear.

Book should be done in another month or so, then out in the fall.

Then I can only imagine your reaction, Congressman Souder, to the news in today's paper that D.C. schools will now be supplying students with Trojan "Magnum" condoms.

What I do with birthers in my personal time is mybusiness.   (Now that should give birth to some speculation. . .)

It's probably Pennsylvania Dutch, if it's in Arlen's lexicon.  Haven't seen the exit polls so I don't know if the Pennsylvania Dutch came out for him.  And now come to think of it I once heard Pennsylvania Dutch is a bastardization of Pennsylvania Deutsch, so the stuff is probably German.

Then what's that white powdery substance around your nostrils?

But Rand Paul is probably opposed to those child labor laws because he does not want to see the government interfering in private enterprise.

Happily, even the South seems accept by now, two generations later, that the Civil Rights Act was a good thing.    Though I should say I was impressed by Rand Paul's stand, until his big climbdown yesterday.  It's an abhorrent view, but you have to give him credit for taking his libertarianism seriously -- to the point of political suicide.   

If only I had one with the "Don't Tread on Me" pattern.

This was another item the great DeLong found, but it was left on the cutting room floor.

Here it is.  I particularly like the tasteless pledge to "blow up" the event.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/rahm-emanuel-plans-sons-bar-mitzvah-fire-israeli/story?id=10686544

Do you think he has to enter a PIN when he presses the lobbyists' buttons?

I feel just the opposite.  When the interviews are about the usual topics in the news, you get the canned responses.  In this case Maddow (actually Robert Seigel started it on NPR) took him to a place where he gave a candid answer.  It tells us a great deal more about him than his boilerplate policy positions on issues of the day.

Now we're talking.

See this space next week for my "Letter from a Norfolk Jail."

Well, Michael is hardly an objectivist observer.

Only if Obama flew commercial.   Paul thinks it's ok to prohibit segregation of government facilities (like Air Force One), just not private ones.    Besides, we press hacks get the back of Air Force One, and nobody would call that sort of discrimination unfair.

Fur sure.

Another birther conspiracy!

But I'll bet Haley Barbour will invite him to go swimming off the Mississippi coast.

This is getting me in the perfect frame of mind for Bold and Fresh tonight.

But surely the Tea Party folks in Massachusetts will be reassured that Brown changed his vote to yes on the financial bill after he was reassured by. . . Barney Frank!

Not pushed so much as steamrolled.    The Washington Sketch wishes to nominate Alex Jones for the position.

You think there's a Q&A?   But I think I'm in the nosebleed seats -- will have to yell it very loud. 

The first lady has them on a diet of nothing but organic kale.  I'm going to get me some on the way down to Norfolk.

I agree-- and Kagan herself said so, before she was a contender herself.  Although in this case I think it would be perfectly appropriate to ask some softball questions.

The ticket says no recording devices, but nothing about chalk.

And thank goodness they didn't make good on that.  Where would the Washington Sketch be without these guys?

The photos in drag are actually Rudy Giuliani.

Old Speckled Hen.

(What did you think I was going to say?)

Ok folks, I'm off to the Tidewater region.  It's going to be a bold and fresh night -- I can feel it already.

Thanks for chatting.