Weekend political links

What Joe the Plumber Shows Us About the Left: In what kind of nation, do the media investigate critics more than candidates?

Cindy's lawyer responds to NYT attack. "It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here."

More Joe the Plumber Warning ... explicatives NOT deleted. Quote: You didn’t, unlike most of the other scandals that the Obamamedia have successfully buried, have to be a sad geek like me spending hours every day scouring obscure websites with even more obscure names to witness the crucifixion of Joe the Plumber. All you had to do was to turn on the evening news. And then you’d find yourself thinking “what’s up with this guy? Why do they go after him that hard? What the Hell did this ordinary guy-next-door plumber, somebody who’s just like me, do to earn that hatred and persecution?”, followed by the answer: “he dared question the Anointed One.”

WaPo's fantasy candidate. : There's never a "we know he would do this" because he "successfully championed legislation." There's never a "we know he's really committed to that" because "he risked his career by bucking his own party." Instead — as the WaPo again admits — "We had hoped, throughout this long campaign, to see more evidence that Mr. Obama might stand up to Democratic orthodoxy and end, as he said in his announcement speech, 'our chronic avoidance of tough decisions.'" Earth to WaPo: When you hope something, and it never comes true, that's called a "hoping in vain."