Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will face the world’s biggest climate protest ever.

Last week, Tiger Woods and the White House party crashers got more media coverage than health care, the Pew Research Center finds.

As Senate Democrats explore a circumvention of the public option by expanding Medicare and Medicaid, Orrin Hatch calls the plan an “awful idea.”

A Sarah Palin critic gets busted for throwing tomatoes at her. (He missed.)

The Wall Street Journal buries the phrase “death tax.”

Bucking William Jennings Bryan’s legacy, Beck and conservative populists throw their weight behind gold.

Steele: Government spending can’t can create jobs.

A statue of a ten-year-old Barack Obama will be erected in Jakarta.

But it’s not really a surge, is it?

Keith Olbermann says “declare victory and get out.”

Politico botches its Cheney interview over Bush’s botching of Afghanistan.

Harry Reid is “confident” that he’ll find a public option proposal that gets 60 votes.

TWI’s Dave Weigel and Politico’s Ben Smith talk Afghanistan, Bush and Bachmann on Bloggingheads.

As the ice over West Antarctica melts, global sea levels could rise by almost five feet by the end of the century.

On World AIDS Day, Twitter turns red.

After The Washington Times’ owner gave the paper to his son, the conservative publication is struggling with itself.

Palin 2012: the apocalyptic film, as envisioned by SNL.

Steele: Palin has the “gravitas” to be president.

The conservative 60 Plus Association launches a $2 million ad campaign in nine states to scorch health care reform.

But most Americans think that the reform won’t affect their lives.

There are only 17 women in the Senate, but four could be the key players in the battle over health care.

As some see a global warming slowdown, greenhouse gases have reached their highest levels since the pre-industrial age.

Smoking is down this year, but only slightly.

The social media imperative: A record label executive gets arrested for not tweeting.

The gun lobby claim that the Senate health bill would allow the government to crack down on gun ownership.

The weak public option compromises in the House and Senate bills could be bad politics.

Blanche Lincoln’s Website doesn’t exactly clarify her stance on the public option.

Glenn Beck plans an anti-Obama rally for Sept. 11, 2010.

Bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Illinois could create nearly 3,000 jobs in that area.

The GOP needs an intellectually vigorous voice — and Huckabee and Palin aren’t it.

As Palin channels Billy Graham, he says God used her to wake the country up.

To no one’s surprise, a study shows that skin color affects people’s perceptions of Obama.

The Post profiles embattled senator and health care swing vote Blanche Lincoln.

Obama urges China to talk with the Dalai Lama.

Fox News is finally getting the interview it’s been waiting for.

The Republican Governors Association took a $200,000 donation from iffy Florida attorney Scott Rothstein.

Tim Pawlenty’s gone from clean energy proponent to climate change denier in less than three years.

Post-Oprah, Palin talks “bullcrap” with Barbara Walters.

Did Palin poll her family before accepting McCain’s VP offer? Depends when you ask her.

After announcing her Twitter return and garnering 17,000 followers, Palin has published a grand total of zero tweets.

President 2.0 Barack Obama has never used Twitter.

Karl Rove rips into Obama for his bow to the Japanese Emperor.

The energy industry targets Lindsey Graham for supporting cap-and-trade — and sends a message to climate fence-sitters.

CNN gave Lou Dobbs $8 million to leave the network.

Hillary Clinton is more gaffe-prone than we tend to acknowledge.

New York Magazine tracks down Obamas around the globe.

This photo could come back to haunt Charlie Crist.

The Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit challenging the Washington Redskins’ name.

The “no’s” on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the “yeses.”

The conservative League of American Voters rips into government-run health care.

Politico illustrates the socialist “Scream” through the ages.

In conjunction with her book tour, Sarah Palin will take to Twitter.

After the Fort Hood shooting, televangelist Pat Robertson argues that Islam is “not a religion.”

Climate change denier James Inhofe plans to attend the Copenhagen conference to fight a climate agreement.

Tracy Morgan’s speculation on the first couple’s sex life doesn’t go over well with the Carnegie Hall audience.

In the video clip after the jump, Huckabee continues his verbal assault on Scozzafava and explains why he waited so long to endorse Hoffman.

My issue with that race and personal involvement was first of all I was never gonna support Dede. I made that clear, I said that on national television repeatedly. Her position on life alone was reason enough. That for me a non-negotiable. It’s not a political issue for me, it’s a moral issue. I’m not gonna vote for somebody who is not to the sancuaty of life. Just simple. I’m not gonna do it. They can be a Republican. I’ll share the convention with them. I’ll share the party with them. But I’m not gonna vote for ‘em. I’ll give them money.

So that issue plus the fact that she was an ACORN-sponsored, union-backed, left-of-center, cap-and-trade supporting,  other than those things, plus same-sex marriage and a dozen others, I mean, she was fine.

But there were two issues for me, one of which was I felt like that, as bad as the party’s process was, it was the party process in that district. Secondly, I had a personal issue because I had been invited over a year ago by the Conservative Party to go to Syracuse and speak at an awards banquet, which was last week or two weeks ago. And they had specifically asked me to not get involved in their race because they felt that if I came and made it a campaign event or injected myself into the race, it would be distracting from what they have been planning a year to do, which was honor five of their local Conservative Party heroes.

So it was part because I needed to fulfill my commitment to them and honor their request that I not get involved. They specifically asked me not to get involved.

Huckabee goes on to say that once Scozzafava dropped out, his decision to endorse Hoffman over Democrat Bill Owens was an easy one.

What made [NY-23] the mess that it turned out to be was that the party process by which they selected a nominee was at best hideous. To get 11 party bosses together without really thinking through the implications of what that candidate believe, to go to the pizza place and get back there and stuff themselves with pepperoni and be completely oblivious to the philosophy and the ideology of the candidate was insane.

And to put forth a candidate that was more liberal than 85 percent of the most liberal members of the Democrats in Congress didn’t make any sense. So it gave an opening for Hoffman to run as an independent. But the problem always in independent candidacies or third-party candidacies is it tends to guarantee the election of the one you like even less. And it was sort of born out of this.

Now when Dede left, as she should have, then you had a two-person race, but her then throwing her support to the Democrat showed her true colors. But it was just a train wreck, a total train wreck. I don’t blame Hoffman, I don’t even blame Dede, I blame the Republican Party establishment bosses who created the issue by putting somebody as the nominee that clearly was out of step with the Republican mainstream.

Of course, Scozzafava may have been out of step with Huckabee and other prominent conservatives, but in New York, as a study of ideology in state legislatures found, Scozzafava was actually slightly to the right of the average GOP legislator. In retrospect, perhaps she was a better match for her district than Hoffman, who lost to Bill Owens — the first Democrat elected to represent the district since the 1870s.

Here’s the video:

Owens’ biggest single donor was the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which contributed a total of $92,416 to his campaign — about 11 percent of the total. It’s a hefty sum, but not particularly surprising considering the source. As I pointed out yesterday, Hoffman received more than one-third of his campaign funds ($265,341) from his single largest donor, the Washington-based Club of Growth, which chipped in $83,260. That an independent advocacy group could almost match a national party’s fund is impressive, but could it work as a national strategy? 2010 is just around the corner.