Merry Christmas

It recently came to my attention that we're not doing all that bad in the War Against Terrorism. Even though Pakistan's spending it's money about as uselessly as the PA - on anti-India operations - Musharaff still knows when ass-kicking is necessary. And with Rudd's continued support of the Afghan skirmishes, NATO's pulled off some stunningly important victories. India's also still doing its part (although is anyone else bothered that the BBC Int'l news map's featurin' a half-swastika?).

Also, one of the original smoking gun excuses for the recent hike in pork-barrel earmarking has finally - in the financial sense - matured. This of course from the state previously administered by Romney, who's on Allahpundit's shitlist although "Dave in Texas" is going the AT route and being a little nicer to the candidate than was Ace.

But Huck's not having a swell time as are the rest of us. He'd been going at it with Coulter, Rush and Rice, and wouldn't you know it got pwned by an elementary scholar:

“Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.
Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.

In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a higher level.

“My favorite author is C. S. Lewis,” she said.