Is there something fishy here? Logo courtesy OFA

If you ever doubt the power of conservative talk radio, consider this: The No. 1 search term on Google right now is “Obama health care logo.” Your Gaggler had literally no idea what it was about so she, naturally, Googled it.  It turns out that radio host Rush Limbaugh on his show today went after the logo being used by Organizing for America in its push for health-care reform. Citing the conservative blog Sweetness & Light, Limbaugh told his listeners the OFA logo looks similar to a Nazi symbol. Limbaugh brought up the comparison in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comment about protestors at town hall meetings this week, telling a reporter that she spotted people “carrying swastikas.” “They accuse us of being Nazis, and Obama's got a health-care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook,” Limbaugh said today. Seriously, Rush? Well, doctors everywhere should be in the doghouse then, considering the logo incorporates the caduceus, a symbol of medicine dating back to ancient Greece. As conspiraces go, this one seems pretty lame.

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We here at the Gaggle do politics, but we couldn't help take note of Paula Abdul's recent departure as a judge on American Idol after eight seasons. The staging of her leave looks oddly familiar, we thought to ourselves. After all, it was only a month ago that we witnessed an equally bizarre and sudden exit of another big player in her own field: Sarah Palin. It turns out, both women and their resignations are far more similar than they are different. Let's pick apart the comparison:

By a vote of 68 to 31, the full Senate confirmed federal judge Sonia Sotomayor this afternoon to the bench of the Supreme Court. The confirmation makes Sotomayor, elevated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, the first Hispanic justice to sit on the nation's highest court. It comes as a victory for Sotomayor, who underwent a week under the lights of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but also for Senate Democrats who strongly supported her nomination and fought off GOP attempts to focus on personal missteps, including her reputation as a fierce questioner and a comment she made in a series of speeches that suggested her gender and race would lead to better decisions than other court members would reach. President Obama, who nominated Sotomayor in May, was pleased by the news that his first appointment to the Supreme Court had been approved. Speaking briefly at the White House immediately after the vote, he told reporters that he thought it was "a wonderful day for America."

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John Edwards can't be happy to see this: Rielle Hunter, Edwards’s former mistress, showed up this morning at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., where a grand jury is reportedly probing whether the Democratic presidential hopeful misused his campaign funds. As your Gaggler reported earlier this year, the feds are looking into payments Edwards’s political action committee paid Hunter, who briefly worked as a videographer for the campaign. According to campaign finance records, Edwards’s PAC paid a firm affiliated with Hunter more than $100,000 for making a few short films. But as the Charlotte Observer has reported, the probe is also looking into the finances of several previously unknown non-profit groups with ties to Edwards who reportedly failed to disclose their fund-raising. Edwards has denied any wrong-doing.

With some exceptions, grand jury proceedings are largely kept under wraps. But a big question has to be whether the probe will look into some of the more salacious aspects of Edwards’s troubles.