House Proud
A belated salute to the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott, who July 4th shared with readers his meditations on America and the world’s obsession with replicating homes of the great and the good, or at least George Washington.  
Mount Vernon, soon to host another superfluous “Presidential Library,” holds first place in the nation’s […]

What Would George Drive?  
National Resource Wonkette tries to probe the deeper meaning of the Washington Post’s probe of the unfortunate Founding Fathers impersonators revival.
In a new ad, automobile welfare queen Chrysler has George Washington scattering his enemies with a sensible sedan, and the Post thinks they may be tipping their tricorn towards the Teabaggers.
Hats […]

No Middle Ground 
Having already  incorporated Truman and Kennedy into the conservative pantheon, reactionaries are now critiquing Barack Obama for being just not FDR-ish enough
Portly torture enthusiast,  former Bush speech writer and stain on the Washington Post op/ed page Mark Theeson is out with an exciting new line of pretend argument: […]

Crime Seen
Rick “Re-Animator” Barber triumphantly mobilized George Washington’s ghost in the Alabama 2nd House District campaign, and now our first Republican president has been summoned to the cause. 
Plus Holocaust victims!  

Over The Top don’t begin to describe it. 

I think we know where Rick is going with this:

Must Keep Straight Face
Would be Republican congressional candidate Rick “Ric” Barber is lashing out against  oppression the only way he knows how: summoning the bewigged ghosts of unspecified 18th Century greats to join him in war on the federal government.
Just how this founder-iffic militia uprising is to be coordinated through his Congressional franking privilege […]