Gas should stay at $4 per gallon

This clipmonkey and Charles Krauthammer rarely agree, but on Friday the often curmudgeonly and deeply out of touch Mr. Krauthammer was right on with his column on gas prices. Excerpt:

At $3 a gallon, Americans just grin and bear it, suck it up and, while complaining profusely, keep driving like crazy. At $4, it is a world transformed. Americans become rational creatures. Mass transit ridership is at a 50-year high. Driving is down 4 percent. (Any U.S. decline is something close to a miracle.) Hybrids and compacts are flying off the lots. SUV sales are in free fall.

This clipmonkey recently bought a house close to a Metro station so that he wouldn't have to fill his gas tank up continually. Now other monkeys will start following in his pawsteps.

Eff Joe Lieberman

Sen. Lieberman loves to pretend that he's a man of conscience, but really it's a cover for his warmongering agenda. As a fellow clipmonkey once told me, Lieberman, an aggressive opponent of violent video games, is okay with violence as long as it's the real thing. His current douchebaggery in support of the McCain campaign is particularly obnoxious. Nice to see that Obama b-slapped him, though. After this fall, Lieberman will be b-slapped by the entire Senate Democratic Caucus.

Yes she can

At the end of the day, she lost because she faced a more charismatic candidate, ran a lousy campaign, and was just too pigheaded early on in the race to admit her mistake in authorizing the Iraq War. But don't count her out. If she's smart, she'll cast aside Gov. Paterson in New York, and use that as a steppingstone to claim the White House in 2016.