Kausfiles Bucks Up the Democrats

Just in time to save Nancy Pelosi's job: George W. Bush reappears to remind voters why they elected the Democrats in 2008 ... P.S.: Why do I suspect John Yoo has seen a pre-election uptick in invitations from the MSM? ... 1:44 p.m.

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Why Do I Always Have to Buck Up the Left? WaPo blogger Greg Sargent, last Wednesday:

Yet Dems still aren't goosed up about this election in anywhere near the numbers they need to be -- mainly because the GOP enthusiasm levels are essentially steroidal at this point.

Needless to say, there isn't really any more time to turn this around.

No time to turn around the enthusiasm gap? Why isn't there plenty of time, even now? Democrats only have to get voters to show up and vote. They don't have to get them to vote enthusiastically, and Republicans won't get extra votes because they press the Ink-a-Vote pen down three times as hard ... I understand why it's too late to create an elaborate get-out-the-vote organization. But it's not too late, especially given the potential for Faster Politics, for Democrats to decide they need to take a few minutes on Nov. 2 and do what Democrats need Democrats to do ... I don't even think it would be too late if there were no Internet or Facebook or Feiler Faster Thesis. Didn't Donna Brazile used to specialize in pumping up African-American turnout at the very last minute? ... 1:40 p.m.

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"Virtual Fence" Fails: Remember that the fancy high-tech "virtual" fence was always a scam, foisted on us by the amnesty-obsessed Bush administration to appease border control sentiment while avoiding the indignity of building an actual, physical fence, which has been effective where it's been tried (e.g. on the California border near San Diego) ... 1:39 p.m.

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Missed Opportunities: California journalist William Bradley, demonstrating the historic good feelings betwen Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton:　

In fact, when [Gray] Davis left his post as Brown's gubernatorial chief of staff to run for the state assembly in Beverly Hills, Brown considered Clinton, just defeated for re-election as Arkansas governor, as his replacement.

1:37 p.m.

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Everyone's "idiotic" except Joe Klein! ... That's sort of the point of every Joe Klein blog post, no? (Sometimes the other people are "loathsome") ... P.S.: Klein calls Brit Hume "idiotic" for suggesting that "NPR fired Williams because he appears regularly on Fox News." Of course, Howie Kurtz said the same thing. Will Klein call Kurtz "idiotic"? Kurtz is kind of a big fish, and he works for Tina Brown now. Klein tends to punch at easy targets (like Fox) ... 1:25 p.m.

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Hey, Vivian Schiller! Here's a vote of confidence! Boston NPR station lets donors earmark their money not to go to NPR ... 1:24 p.m.

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Democrats Abandon "Card Check": Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennet says he would "not support" the labor-backed "card check" bill—which would allow unions to avoid a secret ballot when organizing and impose government-arbitrated contract terms in some circumstances ... The card check proposal now has a good chance of being Exhibit A in the post-election Case against Democratic Overreach. (Likely defense: "We were only pandering! You took us seriously!") ... Joe Manchin, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in West Virginia, has already abandoned card check ... 1:21 p.m.

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