Consternation

The Democrats' choice of Denver to anoint their presidential nominee in 2008 has stirred up angst among unions, one of the party's core groups, because of Colorado's reputation as an unfriendly place for organized labor.

"There is consternation about the fact that a nonunion venue was chosen," said Mitch Ackerman, president of the Colorado Council of the Service Employees International Union. "And there is some consternation that this is a town where workers really struggle to form unions."

- AP

Things must be pretty bad. He used the word "consternation" twice.

Voter fraud

Democrats say the threat is overstated and have opposed voter identification laws, which they say disenfranchise the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely to have photo IDs and are more likely to be Democrats.

- NY Times

Macsmind has some good analysis of the story here.

Coyote attacks baby

Wildlife officials are investigating what could be the first coyote attack on a human in New Jersey following a backyard attack on a toddler that was foiled by an 11-year-old.

The toddler's grandfather, Philip Palludan, who [says] he is familiar with coyotes having seen them out West, said the animal that attacked the toddler was about the size of a German shepherd.

- AP

They grow really big coyotes in New Jersey.

Or small German shepherds.

More hypocrisy from Edwards

"What he said is wrong because it's wrong. It has to be condemned, we have to speak out when people use this kind of language. This is a very serious matter, it should be taken very seriously."

- Democratic candidate John Edwards, referring to Imus

People use that kind of language every day. It is routinely ignored by liberals unless they can use it to advance the cause of liberalism.

Undead

Three years ago, it took a nasty, industrial-strength assault by Karl Rove & Co. to oust Democratic leader Tom Daschle from his Senate seat. But if Republicans thought they had seen the last of the resilient South Dakotan, they were wrong. He’s back, this time behind the scenes, as a sort of secret sauce in the surging presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

- Howard Fineman

This is more pathetic than scary, sort of like a grade-B horror movie.

Picture Daschle's rotting political corpse, shambling along.

The Groveler

As usual, just like Kramer a/k/a Michael Richards, the even less sympathetic Imus made the grovelling White Man's Mea Culpa World Tour. Yes, what Imus said was racist, but he has a history of that and of saying anti-Semitic things far worse. There was no grovelling tour for those comments. The over-reaction to these comments is absurd. As is his extreme, shameless, phony grovelling to racists, who've said as bad, if not far worse.

- Debbie Schlussel

Scarred for life

The 10 members of the Rutgers team spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about the on-air comments, made the day after the team lost the NCAA championship game to Tennessee.

Some of them wiped away tears as their coach, C. Vivian Stringer, criticized Imus for "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, abominable and unconscionable." The women, eight of whom are black, called his comments insensitive and hurtful.

"It kind of scars us. We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to change that," said Matee Ajavon, a junior guard. "I think that this has scarred me for life."

- AP/Washington Times

If this is the worst adversity she ever faces in her life, it is going to be a pretty easy life.