Bristol Palin has decided that she’s had enough of Levi Strauss Johnston and chased him off to the Alaskan bush.  Details in the 10 o’clock news.

Hedge funds, no longer magically able to make money from thin air, are laying off tens of thousands of employees.   Give them bonuses!

The UK economy is looking at it’s worst year since 1931.   I assume ( Read more... )

The problem is that if Obama’s people are looking at a vast mess, what about the Republicans who allowed it to get out of hand in a big way?  Well, frankly, they don’t have a clue as to what to do, because they really didn’t have a clue about the whole affair in the first place.   Or they knowingly let their buds in for a slice of the pie without a ( Read more... )

Now that the Republicans don’t seem be be getting any leverage out of calling Democrats a buncha liberals (’socialists‘ seems to be the term in use, and I’m waiting for ‘pinko Commie’ any day now), they are now starting to go after each other; Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele are going at each other for being a disgrace to the party and so on.

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While the Democratic establishment is working on a plan to flush Burris out of his seat with a special election, Burris is countering with a threat to challenge it through the courts and hope that the Democratic poobahs give up.  Also, Burris is inspiring various black Chicago notables to talk like Burris inherited the Senate seat from Obama as the ( Read more... )

The new African American head of the Republican party making racist comments about Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal, going on about ’slum love’. Same guy who was talking about his hip-hopization of the face of the GOP (I want to watch Boehner and Cantor do hip-hop in the well of the House, yes I do)  and threatening GOP Senators who voted for ( Read more... )

Obama gave a fantastic speech, even for him.

Bobby Jindal was - well, bad wasn’t the word for it.  Appalling doesn’t touch it.  I think I just saw what happens when someone decides to do forbidden DNA mixing of Arnold Horshack, Kenneth Purcell (the page from 30 Rock), Arnold Stang and Eddie Haskell, shaken, not stirred.  One pundit said that he was ( Read more... )

On the one hand, practically everyone in Illinois Democratic politics has called for Burris to resign  his Senate seat, along with the big Chicago newspapers and the Washington Post.  Senator Durbin corralled him today and told him to his face.   His response:

We are not hearing that I should resign. Quite to the contrary, we keep hearing from ( Read more... )

• Senator Schumer is saying that if a state government doesn’t want any of the stimulus money, they shouldn’t be forced to take it; however, you can’t pick what parts you will or won’t take.  Sounds good to me.   And Governor Sanford of South Carolina says that he’ll pray for you if you’re down and out, but horrors, can’t take that stimulus money. I ( Read more... )

Now Attorney General Lisa Madigan (major Democratic pol in Illinois) wants Burris investigated.  He’s toast, sooner or later.    His desire to run for the seat in 2010 was feeble at best, but this and the Republican upset over things will make it impossible to win even the Primaries, and it’s obvious that he BS’d the impeachment committee about his ( Read more... )

“Anyone who suggests otherwise,” Mr. Burris added, “or would insinuate that my testimony in person or in writing is anything other than fully compliant with the committee and consistent with the truth is simply playing at partisan politics.”

Roland Burris NOW admits that Blago’s brother hit him up for big contributions just before the selection of ( Read more... )