The tightening face

As seen by the Russian media: Дженнифер Рубин.

Great news from Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post: She thinks hack Ed Gillespie is likely to pull an upset over Mark Warner in the Virginia Senate race (echoing yesterday's "exclusive report" by Alex Pappas at the Daily Squalor and this morning's breakfast for Dr. William Kristol, the only pandit in history of a wrongness so pervasive as to get him sacked from the New York Times, a feat not even David Brooks has been able to accomplish). So I think we can take it as a given that Warner is safe.

Two late polls showing the gap in what was nearly a 30-point race shrinking to single digits has lifted Republicans’ spirits in Virginia.

Has they indeed, then?

Retroactionary Watch

Via Vixen Strangely:

Just watching Ed Gillespie tap-dance between the raindrops, as it were, talking at conman velocity and making sure every word is in pre-approved boilerplate, is priceless. He's trying to explain how simply because Romney signed off as chairman, president, CEO, and sole shareholder of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2001 doesn't mean he actually did anything for the company, in spite of evidence that he did, which takes some pretty fancy footwork.

But the most glorious part is at the end of the clip, with the resurgence of retroactionary Romney, the time traveler, fresh from Restoring our Future and galloping full tilt towards antiquity. It seems he resigned from Bain in 2001, retroactive to 1999, so that any work he might have inadvertently done for the company during the two years would have simply—dissolved, poof! into a haze of quantum contradictions.

Entangled time. Graphic from Wired.