Politics, Government & Public Policy: December 2008 Archives
John Lott (and his son?) humiliate the Minnesota canvassing board that is essentially rigging the Senate election in favor of national embarrassment Al Franken. I won't even attempt to excerpt the lashing the Lotts deliver to the corrupt Minnesota process and its executors. The pictures of the contested ballots speak for themselves. Norm Coleman's Senate seat is being stolen in plain daylight.
If you haven't watched the actual video of President Bush dodging the shoes, you'll be as impressed as I was at his ninja reflexes.
Is President-elect Barack Obama tied to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's corruption? The governor is accused of attempting to "sell" an appointment to Obama's recently vacated Senate seat and was arrested this morning by the FBI.
On Nov. 10, Blagojevich, his wife, Harris, Governor General Counsel, Advisor B and other Washington-based advisors participated at different times in a two-hour phone call in which they allegedly discussed, among other things, a deal involving the SEIU.Harris allegedly said they could work out a deal with the union and the President-elect where SEIU could help the President-elect with Blagojevich’s appointment of Senate Candidate 1, while Blagojevich would obtain a position as the national director of the Change to Win campaign and SEIU would get something favorable from the President-elect in the future.
But then again, it seems like Blagojevich didn't think he would get much from Obama.
Also during that call, Blagojevich agreed it was unlikely that Obama would name him Secretary of Health and Human Services or give him an ambassadorship because of all of the negative publicity surrounding him, according to the complaint. ...In a conversation with Harris on Nov. 11, the charges state, Blagojevich said he knew Obama wanted Senate Candidate 1 for the open seat but “they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. [Expletive] them.”
I sure hope Obama wasn't and isn't involved with this sort of thing.
Let's play another round of Guess The Party! A long Chicago Tribune article about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich being investigated for corruption can't find space to mention that he's a Democrat.
A source said today that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the information, and a spokesman for the governor did not immediately return a phone call for comment.A three-year federal corruption investigation of pay-to-play politics in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration has expanded to include his impending selection of a new U.S. senator to succeed President-elect Barack Obama, the Tribune has learned.
I bet if he had an "R" after his name they'd be sure to let us know.
Here's a long examination of how Wal-Mart performed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Is centrally directed emergency response and recovery from a natural disaster the only viable option anymore? This belief “seems to be faulty,” judging from the poor response from the federal government and the comparatively effective response from private retailers after Hurricane Katrina, argues economist Steven Horwitz, Ph.D. “Big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart were extraordinarily successful in providing help to damaged communities in the days, weeks, and months after the storm,” he declared.
I hope our government bureaucrats are reading this.
Leftists don't like the way Obama's cabinet is shaping up.
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.
Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss.
“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it's all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.
They told me that if I voted for John McCain, we’d get a third Bush term. And they were right!
The joke's the same no matter which party wins: the ideologues are thrown under the bus when they're no longer needed.
With their enlarged majority, would it be too much to hope that Democrats would start disowning their corrupt members for a change? Instapundit names a few names:
Rep. Rangel may prove Democrats’ albatross amid party’s loud claims of public integrity. Well, along with William Jefferson, Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Barney Frank . . . .
But don't forget Alcee Hastings just because he hasn't been in the news recently!
