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Well, she’s done.

Rep. Michele Bachmann will “suspend her campaign” a senior campaign officials tells ABC News, just hours after placing last in the Iowa caucuses and vowing to continue in South Carolina.

Bachmann finished sixth in Tuesday’s Iowa caucus.

Awwww, isn’t that tooooo bad?&#160 Michelle “Malicious” Malkin’s hand-picked honey-girl candidate, out.&#160 Fall down, go boom.&#160

Iowa has played a visible and vital role in Bachmann’s campaign since its inception.

It became the backdrop of her presidential bid when in June she announced her candidacy &#160 (Their link, not mine.&#160 -DV)

Yeah, it’s called “putting all your eggs in one basket, then dropping the basket”.

in her hometown of Waterloo.

Waterloo?&#160 She sure about that?

Thanks for playing, Shelly girl.&#160 And, as your strap-on buddy “Malicious” would say, DLTDHYITAOTWO.

We paid a lot for that door.

Drudge has it up that Kim Jong “Mentally” Il has packed it in.

Y’all know what that means…

PARRRRR-TEHHHHH!!!1!ONE!!!

(Pun very definitely intended.)

Denizens, to officially&#160 start your week off, we have this from the Sibling Unit&#153:

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not…

… a Congress!

“Indeed”, as the Puppy Blender&#153 would say.

From that, we jump to some breaking news that’s hitting Fox as I type this (and confirmed by Drudge via CNN)…that Bawney Fag is bailing out on Congress.

Merry Christmas, Denizens!&#160

ABC News has broken the news (confirmed by Roto-Reuters) that NATO forces have killed Moammar Qaddafi.

More later, possibly.

UPDATE:&#160 The Picture&#153 is below the fold, for those of you who want to look (it ain’t pretty, you’ve been warned)…

(Hat tip:&#160 Hot Air via Michelle.)

Not sure why it’s taken this long, but the Ayatollah’s approval rating (according to Gallup – everyone else’s mileage may vary ‘n all that) has finally crashed through the 40% barrier to settle at 39%.

Translation:&#160 He’s lost all the independents, and is now beginning to lose part of the base.&#160 (You can figure out for yourselves which part of it.&#160 It ain’t the 99%-ers, that’s for damned sure.)

At this rate – assuming the GOP nominates the right candidate (and that’s by no means a given) – the only question will be whether it’s a 49- or 50-state landslide.

He’s in.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Rick Perry said Saturday he’s running for president to “get America working again” and to bring Texas’ economic success and vision of limited government to Washington.

“That’s why, with the support of my family, and unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today my candidacy for President of the United States,” he told a crowd of conservative bloggers meeting in South Carolina , the first southern state that will vote in the Republican nominating contest.

Now, those of you who aren’t the Uninitiated&#153 know that no one’ll ever confuse me with the president of the Big Dickhead Perry fan club.&#160 In fact, I’ve been downright inhospitable to the man.

But he has my vote.&#160 Primarily because no other candidate in this field has shown the cojones&#160 to call B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi what he is – a miserable failure in the White House.

Perry/Bachmann 2012.

Sanity appears to have held on in Wisconsin last night (h/t Drudge):

After tens of millions of dollars spent by outside interest groups, dozens of attack ads and exhaustive get-out-the-vote efforts, Democrats on Tuesday fell short of their goal of taking control of the state Senate and stopping the agenda of Gov. Scott Walker.

Republicans won four of six recall races, meaning the party still holds a narrow 17-16 majority in the Senate — at least until next week, when Sens. Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, and Jim Holperin, D-Conover face their own recall elections. A third Democrat, Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, easily survived a recall attempt last month.

Sens. Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, and Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, successfully defended their seats Tuesday.

Hey, unions!

This&#160 is what democracy looks like…!!!1!!ONE!!1!!ELEVEN!!!1!&#160

…the General donned the ball-and-chain married the Generalette.

Happy anniversary, guys!&#160

Nine years ago today, Alan K. Henderson got into this thing we call blogging.

It’s important to this Sith Lord&#153, because he’s the one that got me&#160 into it.

MERLIN:&#160 That’s right – blame everyone else but yourself.

KORRIOTH:&#160 Typical li…

[Venomous gestures.&#160 Both Merlin & Korrioth go flying into the nearest bulkhead.]

VENOMOUS:&#160 Grrrr.

Anyway, happy blogiversary, Alan.

Fox News is reporting (and Wikipedia, crappy source that it is, has apparantly confirmed) that Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian has died.&#160 (No word on whether anyone helped him or not.)

Good.&#160 Fucking.&#160 Riddance.

Denizens, go read this tear-jerker of a story.

Suddenly, it’s a wee bit dusty in here.

SUCK IT, AL-QAIDA!!!&#160

Reports are coming in that the 21:30 CT Presidential speech is going to report that Osama Bin Laden has been killed.

UPDATE 21:47 CT — Pentagon officials via Fox News are stating that the Al Queda leader was killed one week ago in a US military bombing. DNA testing on the body is what was the delay in confirmation was for. No news if he was killed in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

UPDATE 22:10 CT — AP reports that he was killed in a compound in Islamabad, Pakistan.

UPDATE 22:28 CT — Reports on Fox News are saying that it was a covert US ground operation in Pakistan that took out Bin Laden and that’s how the body was retrieved for DNA testing.

What should this tell the rest of the world? Plain and simple. We.WILL.FIND.YOU!!!!!

UPDATE 22:35 CT — President is now commenting on the news.

UPDATE 10:00 5/2/2011 — Please continue to pray for those members of our military all across the globe, but especially those still in harms way in Pakistan and Afghanistan. As you can imagine, this is GOING to cause retaliation strikes by just about every extremist anti-American group in the region.

In a piece of great news to start the Vicar’s cruise off on the right foot, a federal judge – who for once, wasn’t&#160 acting in the role of a black-robed tyrant-wannabe – just took Bambicare and shoved it right back up Bambi’s ass:

The full text of the decision from Federal Judge Roger Vinson is not available yet, but according to reporters who’ve seen the decision, he’s ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 26 state attorney generals challenging the law. The judge ruled the individual mandate that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance invalid and, according to the decision, “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”

And what makes it even more delicious is the way this Hemingway turd phrased it.&#160 You could almost see & hear the tears flowing as he wrote it.

One down, two to go.&#160 Gotta love it.