Report: Rahm Emanuel Was the Go-Between on Senate Seat Talks
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ABOVE: The Anchoress displays her own brand of diplomacy
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Crooked Carol Browner: Obama’s ethically-challenged energy czar
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The word has come down to all wingnut welfare recipients that their job for this month is to try to figure out how to drag Obama into the Rod Blagojevich scandal. Andy McCarthy steps up to the plate at America’s Shittiest Website™ and completely whiffs it.
“I Have Never Spoken To The Governor On This Subject” — OK, Why Not?
ME: This seems passing strange. Until January 20 gets here, Obama is still the sitting U.S. senator occupying that seat. Obviously, it would be wrong for Obama to get involved in a corrupt deal to trade his seat. But what would be wrong about speaking to Blagojevich about who would be replacing him? He says the people of Illinois “deserve the best possible representation.” OK, well don’t they deserve it now, while he is still in office?
Umm, Andy, I think your phone is ringing.
Hello? … Oh hi, Kathryn Jean. … Fine, thanks. … Did I know what? … No! Really? … He resigned on November 16? … Well, yes, I do know what Google is. … No, really, you don’t need to mention this to Cliff May. …. No, please, it’s not necessary. … Well, for one thing he’ll cut my stipend. … I’d do anything Kathryn. … Well, except that. … How about I just buy you lunch? … At the Cheesecake Factory. … Yes, you can order whatever you want. … Okay, I’ll fix the post. … Bye, now.
A few minutes later, Andy updates his post:
CORRECTION: I apologize for being unaware that Obama had resigned his senate seat on November 16. (On that, while I see what’s in it for Obama in terms of avoiding uncomfortable votes before he assumes the presidency, I don’t see what’s in it for the people he was elected to represent, who are left without a senator for two months.) It doesn’t change my mind about anything I said in the post.
Andy, there goes your phone again.
Yes, Kathryn Jean, what now? … Where did I get the bit about being left without a Senator for two months? Well, it’s two months between the day he resigned and the Inauguration. … Get out of town! Blagojevich could have just appointed someone before the Inauguration? He can do that? … Yes, Kathryn, I already told you I know about Google. … You’re not going to mention this to Cliff May, are you? … Thanks. … Double order for a doggy bag? … Sure, why not. … Okay, bye again. See you on Thursday.
Just in case you need a road-map to follow Andy’s meanderings on all this, here it is: Barack Obama had an interest in talking to Blagojevich because it was part of his job as Senator to discuss his replacement and, if even if he wasn’t Senator, he had an interest in talking to Blagojevich because, well, he just did, that’s all. Hey! Quick, look over there! There’s a terrorist driving a cab!!
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Rescuing 50 Million People From Brutal Regimes Has Given Bush a Bad Name With Muslims
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1 Bosso fataka.
2 Cf., et seq.
Yeesh, it’s quiet around here.
I can’t speak for the rest of my co-bloggers, but there’s been a dearth of quality wingnuttery of late. Or maybe I’ve just lost my passion for critiquing them now that they’re politically irrelevant for the time being. Should I hope that the GOP takes back the House in 2010 just to get some fresh inspiration?
UPDATE: Oh, for some reason I didn’t see the bazillion new posts Gavin has put up the past few days. Please disregard.
UPDATE II: I guess I can still get my ya-ya’s out by trashing the Democrats:
Panel Overseeing Bailout Criticizes Treasury Department
The congressional panel overseeing the $700 billion economic rescue plan laced into the Treasury Department today for misleading Congress over how the money is being used.
“We’ve been lied to. We’ve been bamboozled. What we have here is one big mess,” said Rep. Davis Scott (D-Ga.), who like several others on the House Financial Services Committee focused on the fact that the hundreds of billions of dollars used to shore up the capital position of banks is not being felt in the form of easier credit for homeowners and businesses.
The committee convened today to review the progress to date of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and review a pair of critical reports from a congressionally appointed oversight panel and the General Accountabilty Office. The two groups questioned whether the Treasury has adequately diagnosed the economy’s ills, and understands whether its planned uses for TARP funds will help.
At some point, you have to stop blaming the Bush administration for massive policy failures. After all, the administration has delivered us eight years’ worth of them — why would they stop now with less than two months to go in office?
The blame for this pathetic debacle rests solely on the Democrats who are throwing up their hands and shouting that no one could have predicted that the Bush administration would screw them one last time. Or maybe they’re just bad people and they don’t care. Who can say?