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LIGHTNING ROUND: A LEGACY OF CORRUPTION.
- As Barack Obama is fond of saying, there can only be one president at a time. And right now, that might as well be Obama himself. While the president-elect is successfully injecting some confidence into the financial markets with a series of well-timed press conferences and leaks designed to unveil his economic team piece by piece, George W. Bush is pardoning turkeys, installing cronies in the federal bureaucracy, and making it easier for polluters to pollute and enrich themselves. Heckuvajob. I don't know why Bush hates our country, but he's certainly letting us know how he truly feels in his final days in office.
- Obama and Joe Biden are heading to Philly next week for a National Governors Association-sponsored event where the president-elect and vice president-elect will meet with governors from both parties and address the effect the economic crisis is having on state budgets. The Wall Street Journal notes that Sarah Palin and Obama will meet for the first time at the event.
- The Minnesota state Canvassing Board has denied a request by the Franken campaign that rejected absentee ballots be included in the recount, even as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie has expressed concern over the sheer volume of challenged ballots by both candidates.
- Sam takes a look at the internal politics of filling Barack Obama's Senate seat in Illinois and navigating the Daley machine.
- This weird op-ed in The Washington Post that argues Bill Clinton should take Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. John Quincy Adams went to Congress with lasting effect after losing his presidential reelection bid, the authors insist, so, ipso facto, Clinton could have the same success! It's airtight!
- I hope Newt Gingrich isn't just jerking me around about a 2012 presidential run.
- This conservative obsession with the supposed dominance of "The Historic Victimhood Narrative" in public schools (and rewriting history) is both bizarre and morbidly compelling. Yglesias is similarly fascinated, but puts our chosen national heroes in the proper historical context: "Similarly, the much-bemoaned-by-rightwingers greater attention given in recent decades to the contributions of women and ethnic minority groups is about trying to expand the circle of people who feel invested in the national narrative."
--Mori Dinauer
COMMENTS (13)
"...Sarah Palin and Obama will meet for the first time at the event."
Or "pal around," one might say.
Posted by: Grumpy | November 26, 2008 7:26 PM
i think it will be intrest.
good info. thank you for this news.
Posted by: john - laptop | November 26, 2008 10:34 PM
Another great job by Mori Dinauer, quoting another sheer genious, MattY. Gives this post that extra dollop of intellectual authority.
However, the cult of victimhood is all about obtaining power and not at all about warm, healthy, happy smiling inclusion. It's about stereotyping and racism, this time of another group.
Note that I'm not some racist interloper spreading hate. I'm actually a member of an oppressed group myself and thus my voice carries weight.
Posted by: 24AheadDotCom | November 27, 2008 12:22 AM
Yes, exactly what 24AheadDotCom said. Yes, exactly--your game is up, progs.
Posted by: Differentially-Abled Afro-Jewish Lesbian | November 27, 2008 3:04 AM
I don't know why Bush hates our country
For being so unappreciative of his genius, perhaps?
It's hard work!
Posted by: Allen K. | November 27, 2008 7:53 AM
"Yes, exactly--your game is up, progs."
Not quite yet--wait for the Obama economic team to start screwing the public.
Then they're through.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 27, 2008 12:00 PM
Mr./Ms Anonymous, I stand corrected, the piece de resistance will indeed be Obiwon and the Jedis' destruction of our economy and our entire society. Then their game will really be up and the peasants will be at the gates, pitchfork in hand....
Posted by: Handicapable Afro-Latina Transsexual | November 27, 2008 12:26 PM
Why couldn't Clinton be a success in the Senate?
Posted by: Vidor | November 27, 2008 5:30 PM
"George W. Bush is pardoning turkeys, installing cronies in the federal bureaucracy"
Well, at least he is not pardoning cronies and installing turkeys. Oh, wait, there is still two months left ...
Posted by: TS | November 27, 2008 7:53 PM
FORCE CONGRESS TO IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY, call Nancy Pelosi @1-202-225-0100 and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT. DC business hours only, call often, and spread it around.
Posted by: Mike Meyer | November 29, 2008 5:50 PM
Tomorrow Pres.-elect Barack O'Bilderberg will supposedly announce four more cabinet appointments. With all the conservative names floated since the election, who might he announce tomorrow? Felix Rodriguez? Binyamin Netanyahu? Or is he currently busy? Maybe give Dick Cheney a prominent place in his cabinet like Secy. of Energy? That would be fitting. How about Henry Kissinger?
Posted by: Anonymous | November 30, 2008 5:49 PM
We can only hope that Obama's battalion of Rubinistas will do for America over the next 4 years what the Grand Old Sh!t himself once did for America and for Citi. Please, please, let more Rubinistas get their paws on our economy, please.
Posted by: The Gall of the Cabal | November 30, 2008 7:44 PM
thanks info
laptop battery
Posted by: handbag | January 4, 2009 2:14 AM