Now we know why the Louisiana Republican was the only one to cross party lines and vote for the healthcare fiasco.
He wanted to be invited to BO’s Superbowl party.
OK, he is from New Orleans, but so are a whole slew of equally compliant Dems.
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Very funny blogger and now writer for a conservation news organization, Jim Treacher, was run over while crossing a DC street by… a State Department security vehicle. The details are here. I’m thinking they could not have picked a worse person to hit from a media standpoint. Follow ups consisted of evasion, obfuscation and an attempt at intimidation. I doubt that will work.
via Europe Feels Snubbed by Obama – NYTimes.com. Golly, don’t you remember that whole Brandenburg Gate affair last year? It was in all the papers. All of them. The Cook Political Report has been handicapping the various races up-coming in 2010. (See here.) The results are surprising, with there even being a (remote) possibility of a GOP majority in the Senate. There are 36 races for US Senator. Ten of them will be for open seats, including Roland Burris’ in Illinois and six retiring Republicans. Cook rates 11 races as likely for the Dems, ranging from strong (e.g. Pat Leahy, VT) to marginal (the contest for Dodd’s seat in CT). Cook rates 16 as likely for the Democrats, again, ranging from strong (e.g. Charles Grassley of Iowa) to marginal (David Vitter in Louisiana). It rates nine as a “toss up”, including Harry Reid in Nevada. Five of the nine are Dems. Adding injury to injury, the GOP has a strong chance to capture Joe Biden’s seat and an outside chance at President Obama’s seat. Turncoat Arlen Specter may not even survive the Democrat primary.
via N.L. Premier Williams set to have heart surgery in U.S.. Via Herr Doktor von Rundfunk. I guess he wanted to use the world’s best healthcare system while it still exists.
So I guess $300 million in Medicaid amnesty wasn’t enough to buy Ben Nelson’s vote on the healthcare plan. He also got another half million in free advertising from the DNC, most likely at the urging of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who heads up the Dem’s Senate Re-Election Committee. Menendez, a smug veteran of the take-no-prisoners political wars of Hudson County1 , was caught off-guard by the Dem Debacle in Massachusetts and is facing the possibility of an upset in Illinois. The last thing he needs is the perception of a domino effect. Thus the damage control. But Menendez is more of a tactician than a strategist. Hence his recent call to “drive a wedge” between the moderate and right wings of the Republicans in an effort to weaken it rather than strengthen his own party. But the structural damage of huge deficits and high unemployment remain, and pumping some left-over largesse from the 2008 coffers into Nebraska isn’t going to help. He has bigger problems.
via As food distribution improves, Haitians want U.S to ‘take over’ – washingtonpost.com. I suggest that we evacuate every last person in Haiti to, say, South Florida, and then let the Army Corps of Engineers demolish and rebuild the entire country. Think of it as “terraforming” an unearthly environment; like Antarctica or Mars, but with toxic waste and malaria. As monstrously expensive as that would be, it would probably be cheaper than the piecemeal approach we have now, which includes annually sending Haiti more foreign aid per capita than any other country in the world, including Israel and South Korea. Such a project could also be used as a dumping ground for all the socialists and technocrats in the Obama administration and Congress who are currently looking to radically reform this country. Trouble is, America works just fine and they are making things worse, so let’s send them to Haiti where they can’t do any more damage than what is already there.
via The Caucus – Obama Notwithstanding, Democrats Defend ‘Messy’ Lawmaking – NYTimes.com. OK, this is pathetic, ironic and humorous all at the same time, never mind that a) he’s from Chicago fer crissakes and b) he is willing to cast anyone to the wolves, including the very people he relies upon to get him his legislation.
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