I’d like to begin this week on a more solemn note, reiterating the information about the cancer fundraiser mentioned during “Tweets of the Week”. My friends Fingers Malloy and John Brodigan from FTR Radio each lost a parent to cancer in the same month last year. They decided to try and raise a bit to help cancer research and were hoping to get around $1000. They’re up over $5000 now both guys were on the air last night movingly expressing their gratitude. Their official push for donations ended last night but the donation page remains active. You can still donate here. Thanks.

The h/t and context for this first vid come from Guy Benson at Townhall.com. The killer quote from Wonder Boy Geithner to Paul Ryan comes at the end and it is stunning.

“You are right to say we’re not coming before you today to say ‘we have a definitive solution to that long term problem.’ What we do know is, we don’t like yours.”

Here is the full exchange between Chelsea Handler and Rosie O’Donnell on “Little People”. It’s been established that I’m not the most politically correct guy around but this conversation had even me shaking my head.

Hey kids, for the first time since the 1990s, Dick Morris gets something right!

Here’s one that we could have easily used for “It’s Not Just Me Anymore” but I found the other clip first. Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver calls the president’s new budget a “nervous breakdown on paper”.

In this clip, the once glorious Peggy Noonan (I still haven’t quite gotten over her being duped by Obama in 2008) shows Mika Brzezinski how a thought process actually works.

Before we get to the final clip, I’d like to share my favorite CPAC 2012 moment with you. On Friday night, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a tiny woman surrounded by people just a few feet away. I never ask to have my picture taken with celebrities at these gatherings (big ego, but you all knew that) but I wasn’t going to pass up a chance to meet the great Phyllis Schlafly:

Finally, in case you missed it, here is Sarah Palin’s CPAC speech. I was watching it from the Bloggers Lounge adjacent to the balcony that overlooks the stage. The atmosphere was beyond electric, we were typing and cheering out loud and the speech left most of us in the room too depressed to have a real discussion about the candidates who were actually running.

But the bar was open.