Doubtful. He’s near the top end of the bell curve, but there’s so much competition I can’t imagine he’s tops.

But is he the stupidest? Quite possibly. Not only is he under active investigation for corruption, but he still tries to sell a senate seat to anybody who will listen. There are literally zero people outside his administration who aren’t happy to see him go down, including his own father in law. He has no allies anywhere.

Dear IL Leg: Please impeach and convict this jackass and get him out of office, today.

You can pry my gay marriage certificate from my cold dead hands.

If you wanna be my [decider of who I get to marry], you gotta get with my friends.

My Fellow Californians: We’ll just have to work on this prop 8 thing again, next possible opportunity.

A new website explores this burgeoning controversy.

Now if those lazy duffers would get off their asses and make the WMD Even Stephven available….

But whatever you personally think of his legacy, perhaps the last two months can put and end to the idea that clearly Al Gore was a fool for not asking Clinton to stump for him more in 2000?

I support the WGA. The medium is not the message, and this childish contract evasion serves no-one well in the long run.

The problem with the non-mowing solutions outlined is that a lot of them are also bad for the groundwater supply. Every square foot of pavement is gallons of rainwater diverted from soaking into the ground and instead sent into the sewer system, where it has to be cleaned up (and often won’t ever find its way into local waterways).

When I was 12, we moved from a Chicago 3-flat to a 1 acre lot with a ranch house. Every year, my parents convert more of the yard into trees, flowers and shrubbery, resulting in less lawn mowing. (This is mostly because mowing the lawn for 90 minutes totally blows, but it also looks nice). But paving would be a disaster, especially in urban settings where water runoff from a paved driveway has to be diverted out of the groundwater to avoid toxic runoff.

Of course, most Chicago suburbs don’t allow gravel driveways. Back in the day, alleys in the city were cinder (from people’s coal stoves, natch), but since that was phased out and the city took over maintenance, they’ve been paved.

In response, Fox News analyst Mort Kondracke had this to say:

“If Fox, you know, was embarrassingly right wing or something like that, it would be plain for all to see.”

And he’s right. It took another two sentences for him to compare democrats to Stalin.

I’m convinced!

Let him go. If he wants to bet on the GOP re-taking control of the Senate in 2008 — well, good luck with that. The only practical result would be that he would lose his chairmanship, and he’s doing a bad job of that anyway.

There would be no power change ala 2001. That flip was only possible because of a compromise deal made in January of 2001. When the Senate first met to establish rules for that session, the Dems technically had a majority because Al Gore was still the President of the Senate. The deal was, equal representation on committees, various other concessions, and an out clause that if any seat flipped from the GOP to Dem caucus the dems could re-take control of the committees and rules process. Which then happened.