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From Jib-Jab:

Congratulations to our good friend Representative Thad Viers for passing the bar. We could make a lot of jokes about this one, but we will leave that to one of those other bloggers.

Good job buddy!

That’s right, we are voting for Ron Paul. And it’s not because he’s for less government or wants to pull us out of Iraq. Nor is it because his peeps hang spray painted bed sheets from Interstate overpasses.

We are voting for Ron Paul for her:

Best yet, check her out shot-gun a beer:

Miracle Beer Diet - The best bloopers are here

WHAT!?!? Will you marry us? All of us…except the us’s that are already married.

Watch more by clicking here.

Sorry guys, we are pretty slammed up this morning so we can’t get to serving you The First Round. Our apologies.

The State

• Tears and remembrance
• South Carolina’s favorite son returns
• Charleston mayor seeks new term amid criticism of fire response
• State education chief plans to push public school choice again
• State Chamber supports state immigration reform bill
• Lobbyists may be playing bigger role
• Beach fire | ‘Profoundly tragic’

Greenville News

• Graham foe earlt in pushing for debates
• Candidates enter last week before municipal elections
• Actor-activist Danny Glover to be in town today
• Donors here favor Giuliani, Edwards
• Intense weeks of campaigning ahead in state
• State to encourage gang tattoo removals
• Volunteers see devastation from California wildfires

SHJ

• Ex-president thrills crowds with warmth
• Woodruff council dismisses planning director
• Cherokee school board election change to stand
• Council, planning commission could be at odds
• McClurkin wins cheers at Obama event despite gay protest
• Former President Clinton will speak at USC Upstate on Monday

Post & Courier

• City taxes at issue in mayor’s race
• Teen remembered as ‘truly beautiful’
• District 1 candidates not forgetting Daniel Is.
• Need for power fuels mercury contamination
• Plan would protect neighborhood integrity
• Senators to study state’s taxes
• ‘Keeper of the culture’ joins new Gullah panel

• Comedian revels in presidential bid

One of the craziest things we’ve ever seen in college football.

Senator Jim DeMint today released a new website, asking online activists to get involved and become a member of his “100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform.”

Check out his new site and sign the petition at www.jimdemint.com today.

Here’s a note that Senator DeMint just sent out:

My Fellow Taxpayer,

I need you to join 100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform today by visiting www.jimdemint.com.

In 1987, Ronald Reagan vetoed a bill that had 121 earmarks, saying “I haven’t seen this much lard since I handed out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair.”

By 2005, this corrupting system exploded as we stuffed 13,997 wasteful earmarks into spending bills, including the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska and the Teapot Museum in North Carolina. In fact, just since 2000, Congress has spent more than $170 BILLION of your tax dollars on these pork barrel projects.

Today Democrats rule Congress, Republicans have quit acting like Republicans, wasteful spending has become the norm, and our nation’s capital has become a place where it seems that the words “conservativism” and “integrity” have lost their meaning.  Reagan conservatives are rightly upset as politicians have continuously betrayed our trust.

If my words sound dreary, it is because I think about the hundreds of thousands of conservative activists around the country who have worked for years to send Republicans to Washington. Those activists have been let down by politicians who decry our mounting national debt during campaign season and yet return to Washington and continue to spend hand over fist at the expense of American taxpayers. Who can blame Americans for losing trust in Republicans last November?

The bipartisan culture of corruption in Washington is best seen in the use of earmarks - pork barrel spending inserted into legislation in the dead of night. Some politicians might try to use earmarks to influence voters, but American taxpayers aren’t buying it. They see wasteful projects for what they are… higher taxes and a reckless use of resources in the face of a looming health care and social security crisis. Some members of Congress may have lost their way, but Republicans all across America know exactly what needs to be done.

It’s time to change the culture of corruption in Washington and it begins by eliminating earmarks.

But I can’t do it alone. It’s time to take the fight to the ground.  That’s why I’m using my campaign resources to build 100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform.

Using new online technologies and a new state of the art website at www.jimdemint.com, we are recruiting 100,000 supporters across the nation to pressure Congress into passing real earmark reform.  That’s where you come in.

I need you to join 100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform.  Just visit   www.jimdemint.com and sign our petition. In the next few weeks, I will submit your petition to my fellow members of Congress. I will then contact you immediately to let you know what you can do to help.

I hope I can count on your help to reform a broken Washington and close down the Congressional favor factory.

Visit www.jimdemint.com today.

Sincerely,

Jim DeMint

The State

• Charleston mayor seeks new term amid criticism of fire response
• State education chief plans to push public school choice again
• State Chamber supports state immigration reform bill
• Lobbyists may be playing bigger role
• Beach fire | ‘Profoundly tragic’

Greenville News

• Actor-activist Danny Glover to be in town today
• Donors here favor Giuliani, Edwards
• Intense weeks of campaigning ahead in state
• State to encourage gang tattoo removals
• Volunteers see devastation from California wildfires

SHJ

• Council, planning commission could be at odds
• McClurkin wins cheers at Obama event despite gay protest
• Former President Clinton will speak at USC Upstate on Monday

Post & Courier

• Need for power fuels mercury contamination
• Plan would protect neighborhood integrity
• Senators to study state’s taxes
• ‘Keeper of the culture’ joins new Gullah panel

• Comedian revels in presidential bid

More News

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• Congress Takes Up Spending Bills

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• Youth vote an untapped source of support

• McCain comeback still a gamble

• GOP could be best gauge of Hillary success

• Tancredo will not seek re-election

• Florida Dems say loss of delegates hurts 2008 chances

2008 | Republicans

• McCain says it’s ‘hard to imagine’ Giuliani as GOP nominee

• Giuliani’s iron fist

• New Iowa poll shows large gains for Romney & Huckabee; tightening among Dems

• Huckabee Surges, Edwards Fades

• Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson speaks out on Iraq

 2008 | Democrats

• Obama accuses Clinton over pensions

• Edwards Goes Courting in New Hampshire

• Clinton praised by husband in Harlem

• Richardson touts geopolitics resumé to Arab-Americans

Do you run your life by your blackberry? Is your alarm clock your blackberry? Is your entire schedule in your blackberry?

If you are like us, you are running an hour late this morning. It seems that a few years ago Congress passed legislation pushing day light savings time from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November. The change was enacted this year. However, most blackberries are not set to the new change. So many people are running about an hour late today…including us. CRAP!!!

Florida Governor Charlie Crist is so much cooler than Mark Sanford.  Check out this article about Crist throwing down with smoking hot chicks at a Florida college bar.