Have you been wondering why power couple Steven Rattner and Maureen White, rich Democratic fundraisers and friends to all local plutocrats, are supporting Harold Ford? Because Kirsten Gillibrand broke Maureen's brothers heart.

Click to viewRush Limbaugh: "We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax." What?? (And that is one of like ten other ways he attempted to tie the death of tens of thousands to Barack Obama, somehow.) [Related?]

Lady-slasher Hiram Monserrate will be censured (which is meaningless) or expelled (which his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, says they can't do, though they can). Andrew Cuomo's investigation of Pedro Espada for tax and campaign finance fraud is heating up, too!

In time for primary season: conservative Tennessee Democrat, would-be New York Senate candidate, Julia Allison ex-boyfriend, and gay marriage opponent Harold Ford, Jr. supports gay marriage. Finding Democrats who already support Democratic policies to run in liberal states is hard!

You can watch the entire miserable segment here, if you are in too good a mood this morning! George just lets Rudy babble on and on and on, without bothering to correct or challenge him, on anything. Like, for example, in addition to 9/11, some other guy did the exact same thing as this underwear bomber did, in December of 2001, only with a shoe, instead of underwear. And everyone knows and remembers this. George remembers this! But why bother to bring it up?

Holocaust shooter and neo-Nazi weirdo James Von Brunn died in prison. In additional being a killer, he was a known "multiculturalist." Cause of death is unknown, though it may have something to do with getting shot, or being 89. [TPM]

The New York Times' list of New Year's Resolutions from NYC notables included calls to help the poor, improve transportation, fund education, and bolster the city's image. Then there was evil billionaire plutocrat and opulent party-thrower Stephen Schwarzman's suggestion:

America's most hated political figure, former Vice President Dick Cheney, has inserted himself into the news again. He said something about Obama, and terror. That has been a wonderful 2009 trend, reporting on what Cheney mumbles.

Times Magazine interview condenser Deborah Solomon is her usual condescending self in her interview with actual criminal, torture memo author, and terrible lawyer John Yoo. But this guy deserves way, way worse than Solomon's bored contempt.

Oh, look, Karl Rove just got divorced. Now he can finally gay marry Jeff Gannon, in Argentina. (Also this means that we totally believe Randy Quaid when he says Rove hit on his wife.)

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is everywhere! Why? Because he owns a hippie grocery store chain, is himself hippieish, and also he is a conservative libertarian dude! That makes the things he has to say newsworthy!

With, let's say, 140% of the vote reporting, we are deeply ashamed to announce that Girls Gone Wild impresario Joe Francis is Gawker's Douche of the Decade.

Occasionally, Bill Kristol lets his "boring hack" disguise slip and reveals his "shameless raging partisan asshole" side. Like in a Weekly Standard post, today, about how Democratic Senator Ben Nelson should kill health care reform because of the weather!

Earlier this week, we called congressman Jason Chaffetz a self-hating weirdo, an asshole, a probable closet case, and the son of Kitty Dukakis. He is not the son of Kitty Dukakis. We regret the error.

It's the time of the year when hotly-anticipated prestige pictures clog our tiny art house theaters. I'm laying down some ground rules about movie theater seat saving, because I'm sick of having the film ruined by you assholes.

Washington DC will allow gay marriage, yay! But because DC is not allowed to govern itself, the legislation can still be revoked by the US Congress. No one in Congress really wants to get involved. Besides one Republican hero! (Corrected!)

On Monday, we apologized to New Republic publisher Marty Peretz, for asserting, without evidence, that he likes Joe Lieberman, the famous asshole. We now rescind that apology.

Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was convicted on two of the eight felony corruption charges he was facing. So this is precedent to press charges against everyone in Albany.

Oh, seriously? "In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair 'amnesty.'"

"In an interview at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group where he is a fellow, Mr. Meese said the 'liberal ideas of extending the power of the state' were to blame for an out-of-control criminal justice system." Ahem.