While President Obama was busy laying out his agenda for the country this week, Republicans were busy CPAC-ing, teabagging, and generally having a gay old time.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In fact, it'd be downright hypocritical of you to say that there was.
And, as all right-thinking Americans know, hypocrisy is the enemy of democracy.
Or something.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Roundtable: Former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr (D-TN), GOP Strategist Mike Murphy, Dee Dee Myers (Vanity Fair), and Joe Scarborough (MSNBC).
This Week: OMB Director Peter Orszag; Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Karl Rove, Democratic Pollster Stan Greenberg, Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation), and George Will (ABC News).
Face the Nation: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Fox News Sunday: Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen; Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ); Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
State of the Union: Mike Mullen; Suze Orman (CNBC); Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI).
Reliable Sources [segment]: Syndicated Columnist Steve Roberts; Stephen Hayes (The Weekly Standard); Political Analyst Keli Goff; Barbara Starr (CNN); Gossip Columnist Liz Smith.
The Chris Matthews Show: Andrea Mitchell (NBC News); David Ignatius (The Washington Post); Steve Inskeep (NPR); Helene Cooper (The New York Times).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair); Author Fawaz Gerges; Author Bernard-Henri Levy; Author Asra Nomani; Martin Wolf (The Financial Times); Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature the first television interview with Harry Markopolos, the man who blew the whistle to the SEC about Bernie Madoff.
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Back from their President's Day weeklong vacation...
Jon Stewart bit into Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to President Obama's address to Congress.
The Daily Show
Monday: Author Harold Varmus ("The Art and Politics of Science")
Tuesday: Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Wednesday: CNBC Analyst Rick Santelli
Thursday: Actor Billy Crudup ("Watchmen")
And Stephen Colbert challenged Michael Steele to come on "The Report" for a freestyle rap session about conservatism.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Musician David Byrne
Tuesday: Author Mark Bittman ("Food Matters")
Wednesday: Author Carl Wilson ("Let's Talk About Love")
Thursday: Author Steven Johnson ("The Invention of Air")
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In a related story...
Steele hit the airwaves with WABC Radio host Curtis Sliwa, where he proceeded to drop it like it's hot.
SLIWA: Now, using a little bit of that street terminology, are you giving him any slum love, Michael?
STEELE: (laughter)
SLIWA: Because he is — when guys look at him and young women look at him — they say oh, that's the slumdog millionaire, governor. So, give me some slum love.
STEELE: I love it. (inaudible) ... some slum love out to my buddy. Gov. Bobby Jindal is doing a friggin' awesome job in his state. He's really turned around on some core principles — like hey, government ought not be corrupt. The good stuff ... the easy stuff.
And there was plenty of slum love to go around.
Noted Commie-hunter Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) took it to the street.
"Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man," she said.
But that sentiment was not universally echoed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates @ The Atlantic had a polite request for MC Steele:
Dear Michael. For the black in all of us. Please stop now. Talk like a regular human being and stop trying to teach the dun language. You are not prepared.
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In other news...
Times are tough for former FLOTUS Laura Bush.
"We have very little furniture. We don't have a kitchen table or a dining room table," she said. "Friends loaned me a kitchen table and the other night I had 16 people for dinner and I had to borrow chairs from the Secret Service next door."
Meanwhile, the new and improved FLOTUS appears to be settling in just fine at the White House.
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Stick a fork in me.
- Trix