Quick Hits

• Is the Palin e-mail hack just further evidence of how a McCain-Palin administration will turn over vital functions of the government (such as private communications) to private companies?


• With only a handful of investment banks still standing independently of a bankruptcy filing or a government bailout, is a Morgan Stanley-Wachovia deal next?


• How should Joe Biden feel about getting so little press these days when the attention given to GOP rival Sarah Palin skews far more negative than positive? I say I've got a debate to watch on Oct. 2 in St. Louis. (P.S. - Invite Wayne Allyn Root, Colorado's own Brian Rohrbough and Rosa Clemente just for skits and giggles).


• God save Levi Johnston. (And for the record, Maher loses me when he starts talking religion. If anyone say Friday's "Real Time," you noticed than self-proclaimed Britwit Andrew Sullivan lead the charge against Maher on his own show when the host started to promote his new film, "Religulous." I guess he got tired of will.i.am just sitting there, trying to look like he was enjoying the rhetorical banter and secretly bemoaning the fact he'd have a hard time taking the transcript of the show and turning it into a viral video hit.)
  


• Worth reading and certainly worth disagreeing with is this post from Wizbang, which essentially says the backlash against fervent, left-wing bloggers and other online commenters will galvanize support for John McCain and Sarah Palin. There are some interesting statistics in the article, but how they truly add up to support this argument is beyond me. Take note of this excerpt: "[t]here are Republican trolls as well as Democrat trolls, and Conservative trolls just as there are Liberal trolls, though it does seem to me that the Liberal variety breed a lot more."

Really? Also, don't forget Trig, Levi and the as-yet-to-be-named Bristol baby.