Andrew Sullivan may have temporarily stopped gossiping about Sarah Palin’s family. But in light of what he’s up to now, he may soon return. Here he takes issue with Palin’s speech nugget that Obama, “has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate.” Sullivan, rising to defend Obama’s record, writes

The 2007 Ethics Reform bill alone cannot be dismissed as simply non-existent. And since part of Palin’s own claim to substance is an ethics reform bill, it seems extremely weird that she should believe that Obama’s record is a total zero.

Barack Obama declared his candidacy February 10, 2007. The Ethics Reform bill passed January 18, 2007 by 96 to 2! I’m not sure Obama tagging his name onto Russell Feingold’s lay-up amendments in order to create a legislative resume in anticipation of his announcement counts as a substantive record. Man, was this Obama guy even . . . vetted???