I was kidding

I was joking with a friend of mine about the pom-poms placed under seats in the Brady Press Room for reporters during Obama's Press Conferences.
Then Jennifer Rubin tells us I may not be that far off.

In a Newsweek cover story — half cheerleading and half-denial — Jonathan Alter lauds the president’s ability to provide the confidence and vision needed to lift us out of the recession. “The president is well poised to bring us back from the brink,” he pronounces. It is not the policies that Alter focuses upon, but Obama’s supposed ability to provide psychological solace to us.

That ain't Helen Thomas.

Thanks GW

I enjoyed listening to GW's farewell press conference today. And in reflecting a bar rail conversation Friday night, keep us safe obama. You bought the job, now do it.
But GW will not go down as our greatest, nor our worst. But he is a good man.
And if you look at the before and after pictures, this is what the job does to you. Read those morning threat assessments and know pelosi is a couple heart beats from the job. It would do it to me.

Wacky Loquacious Brits

If you pay attention to international politics, you'll find some pretty bizarre characters. We have our share, but sometimes how you say it. From the subtle Cheney/Leahy exchange to banal Reid/GW.
But Boris Johnson, Tory(Conservative) Mayor of London is a dandy. I guess the mop topped toe head has a bit of grudge against the Labor Party PM Gordie Brown
Some of his darts:

• Mr. Johnson describes in some detail a tunnel planned under the Thames, which, he says, "is going to have a quite colossal bore" -- clearly the opening's too tempting not to take -- "a bore even more colossal than Gordon Brown himself."
• A Boris campaign pitch: "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."
• On Portsmouth: "[A city of] drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs."
• On himself: "Beneath the carefully constructed veneer of a blithering buffoon, there lurks a blithering buffoon."

and as someone stated online and I wish I could link his sentiments in wishing our politicians were this eloquently audacious and barb tongued

On Mr. Johnson's desk sits a tabloid cover mooting a possible June 4 poll. I point to it.

"Bring it on!" says Mr. Johnson, lighting up. "My message to Gordon Brown through the Wall Street Journal is: You great big quivering gelatinous invertebrate jelly of indecision, you marched your troops up to the top of the hill in October of [2007]. Show us that you've got enough guts to have an election June 4. Gordon: Man or Mouse?!"

to much fun, I like the guy.

It's Gonna Get Ugly Like Obob in the Morning Sun

First segment: As Israel prepares a self defensive land insertion into Gaza, Alan Dershowitz writes an opine providing moral and legal evidence for Israeli actions. His conclusion is solid:

Until the world recognises that Hamas is committing three war crimes - targeting Israeli civilians, using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and seeking the destruction of a member-state of the UN - and that Israel is acting in self-defence and out of military necessity, the conflict will continue.

Is it the subtle anti-Semitic beliefs held by many countries or a fear of standing up to tyranny? What else must Israel do to appease those who desire her ultimate demise? These questions must be answered by the UN Security Council. They must grow a pair and allow Israel to finish the job. We would demand the same unequivocally.
Next segment: A great piece describing the frustrations of millions of humanitarians in the NY Post. It sums up the feelings of many Americans and Israelis:

In fact, the president-elect may not know himself. He's a babe in the woods, and the woods are full of wolves. Fighting political rivals doesn't prepare you for fighting terrorist fanatics.

...

As for our president-elect, his all-too-coy insistence that "we have only one president at a time" has been selective from the start. Glad to pontificate on stimulus packages and union benefits, Obama has used the one-president mantra to avoid taking stands on difficult issues that bedevil or bewilder him.

Our president-elect needed to make a clear, prompt statement in support of Israel. He didn't. If I were an Israeli leader, I'd be worried, too.

Obama's notorious for avoiding firm stands that might alienate any important constituency. But you can't have it both ways in the Middle East. He needs to stand up in support of Israel. Now.

And finally, when the cowardly, treacherous and hideous beast that is ex-rep. mckinney was on a boat, she met the Israeli Navy. The Israeli craft justifiably rammed the boat carrying the dirty cohort of evil to prevent it from providing comfort to those who wish to recreate the Holocaust morals be damned.
Wouldn't you have loved for her to lay a hand on one of these lovelies who may not have shown the restraint that handcuffed a Capitol Police Officer?

I live in a fly over state

Indiana is considered part of the Heartland. We are "flyover state." Our nickname, a Hoosier, pretty much means a rube or dumb hick. Thanks to obama, our state is not next to a state that is considered the new Holy City to the MSM. Chicago. Of course, like Jerusalem, it is a city of strife and conflict thanks to Daley and Machine he built coming back to haunt many. But I digress.
Not that I want the coverage and glory of a state like Cali or New York, but it is what it is.
New York has become another locale of political debate with the pre-coronation, or swearing in of another Kennedy, by the press. Some say it is bunk. Some say her lack of experience matches with others. Some may say, like obama, she will get the valued seat no matter hell or high water. Even though:

The road trip included stops in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to help convince Gov. David Paterson and voters she's the one to replace Clinton in the U.S. Senate.
But it was a tough crowd.
The black SUV pulled up to Syracuse city hall Wednesday morning. It was stop one on Kennedy's upstate tour.
But after meeting with Mayor Matt Driscoll, she ran into a buzz saw -- angry reporters who wanted her to do more talking and less listening.

What? Angry reporters asking questions towards a democrat or a Kennedy! That is news. I really don't have a beef with her, she is a result of tragedy and a dark adoration of the public. And she is kinda ginchy for an older woman.
But New York isn't done, next is the cheating, ex-cokehead Gov. Paterson. The skit mocking him on SNL may have been the most daring in recent years. Kudos you blithering idiots of smug liberal rhetoric.

A crime is only a crime if you get caught

As the world and MSM have discovered, there is corruption in the Land of Lincoln. And in testament of moral compass, obama will lead us to salvation. blah blah blah. You wanna read some real crap? Try this feeble attempt of a corrupt politician to whitewash his crimes. It's the old "I'm not as a bad as this guy" blabber that shows no remorse. Our defender of his convicted convictions, ol' Rosty himself. He served Illinois from 1959 to 1995. He was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Of course there is another chairman of that certain committee curently under investigation of the most ethical Congress of all time, Rep. Rangel. But that is a trivial matter (note sarcasm.)
Rosty defending himself,

During my career as a public official, I always tried to steer away from the minority of my colleagues who viewed public service as a potential commercial enterprise. They’ve always been there and can be found in state capitols and in Washington.

failed. Wait maybe remorse or sympathy will suffice ...

It is painful to recall my situation and, on a personal level, I can sympathize with the pain the governor’s family must feel and can uniquely understand their concerns about what comes next.

But I find his reported behavior troubling. There’s a big difference between running a sloppy office and staging a personally-beneficial auction to make policy and personnel decisions. That’s what disturbs the public. It bothers me, too.

failed.

Okay, maybe I'll admit I erred with contrite manner ... oh wait. My crimes,

Indicted for 17 counts of embezzling public and campaign funds, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.

+Abusing Congressional Payroll: Accused of placing on his Congressional payroll from July 1971 to July 1992 at least 14 people who did little or nor official work, but who performed a variety of personal services for him, his family, his family insurance businesses and his campaign organizations. Payments to these people exceeded $500,000.

+Trading Stamp Vouchers for Cash: Accused of taking cash on numerous occasions from 1978 to 1991 in exchange for vouchers that members of Congress use to buy stamps. Charged that he obtained at least $50,000 in cash by disguising transactions at the post office as stamp purchases.

+Misusing Office Expense Accounts: Accused of charging Congress more than $40,000 for items from the House stationery store, including hand-painted chairs, crystal sculptures, and fine china, which he gave as gifts to his friends.

+Misusing Personal Vehicles: Accused of buying seven vehicles from 1987 to 1992 for use by himself and his family and paying for them with more than $70,000 in official House funds, and $100,000 from his campaign funds.

+Obstruction of Justice: Charged that he had a House employee engrave brass plaques for him at no charge and then told the employee not to mention this to the grand jury investigating the case.

Not much of a mea culpa there Rosty. You were a criminal and typical corrupt scumbag politican. GO AWAY!

Chicago owns New Orleans

Not only have my beloved Bears knocked the Saints out of post season action three years in a row, but we surpassed the Big Easy in corruption!!!!!
How about dem apples???
Okay, so the corruption is not something to brag about and I really have nothing against the Saints.
Quick note, as the heat gets pressed on obambi's pit bull emanuel, I do have to side with him on not taking questions at his child's school function. The press should be somewhat respectful and not act as paparazzi. With that being said, once he is not around his children, you may attack at will with extreme prejudice. Nothing personal, but republicans would get the same treatment.

so easy, it could get boring

Kass will do

As Chicago guts out another scandal, I know there are other cities in Illinois, but we are talking about my kind of town. Kass has tried to take Royko's spot in terms if fretting out governmental corruption and incompetence. Well Christmas came early.

So though Illinois isn't surprised—this is after all the home of the Chicago Way—the national media must be shocked.

They've been clinging to the ridiculous notion that Chicago is Camelot for months now, cleaving to the idea with the willfulness of stubborn children. It must help them see Obama as some pristine creature, perhaps a gentle faun of a magic forest, unstained by our grubby politics, a bedtime story for grown-ups who insist upon fairy tales. But now the national media may finally be forced to confront reality.

Even national pundits with tingles running up their legs can't ignore the tape recordings in which Blagojevich speculated how he'd get the gold for picking Obama's successor.

"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich allegedly said on tape. "You hear what I'm saying? And if I don't get what I want, and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat myself."

Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich allegedly said, "is a [expletive] valuable thing. You don't just give it away for nothing."

Then, on Nov. 5, he allegedly said, "I've got this thing, and it's [expletive] golden and, uh, I'm just not going to give it up for [expletive] nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it, I can parachute me there."

If a jury hears that tape, it's [expletive] over.

finally

Because this is no fairy tale. This isn't Camelot.

This is Chicago.

And a governor is on the grill.

As Kass states in the article, I agree that obama is free at the moment. But obama has been part of the Machine. Now there is speculation of his little pit bull, rahm emanuel, may be on tape. Not saying rahm is corrupt by any means, but I'm sure the bus is warming up for another person to get tossed under.
Does Meineke cover wheel alignment repair after so many friends you have run over mr. obama?
I love this from politico

One prominent Chicago Democrat close to many of those named in the indictment suggested the risk for Obama is “Whitewater-type exposure.” That was a reference to an Arkansas real estate deal that produced a series lengthy and highly intrusive investigations in the 1990s that never proved illegality by the Clintons.

What this Democrat meant with his analogy—which on the facts so far seems a bit premature—was that Obama could suffer by being in the proximity of a back-scratching and deal-making culture, even if he was mostly a bystander. “What will splatter on to Obama is he is to some degree a product of this culture, and he has never entirely stood against it,” said the Democrat, who wanted anonymity for fear of antagonizing the president-elect.

That is the point I have maintained all along. Obama may not be corrupt, but he used many people and stood by making a feeble attempt at looking innocent and staring at his feet to attain power. He never stood for anything as long as it served his purpose.
What will he do in office?

Where are you Mike Royko?

I will add more after my brief stint in kitchen, but ... this could get fun.

Gov. Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested at their homes this morning in a probe involving the governor’s quest to fill Sen. Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

The charges also include alleged attempts by the governor to influence the Tribune editorial board.

The governor threatened that if the Tribune didn’t support the governor, he wouldn’t approve the sale of Wrigley Field.

The complaint contends Blagojevich threatened to withhold substantial state assistance to the Tribune Company in connection with the sale of Wrigley to induce the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members sharply critical of Blagojevich.

add Blogo to ex-Rep. Jefferson soon Rep. Rangel and who knows next?
What really chafes me is listening to Blogo have a blast watching the Cubs in booth after the famous seventh inning stretch. Now he leans on the Trib to fire people to get money to aid the Cubs/Wrigley Field. He tried to censor a newspaper. And used a team he allegedly cheered for. More friends of Obama.

you mean she used us?

I love the smack on her constituents of New York. Like Bill, y'all just another step in her self serving ladder to heavenly political nirvana. He's right, this the change you nimrods voted for in obama.

some quality leaders ya got there!

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
not only a rude jack ass to a sitting President, but one who obviously has little respect for the stinky tourists/voters/people you are to answer to you incompetent moron!

more of the same

As the last bastion against all things status quo in the Beltway, El-Presidente Electo Obama, fights the power and the establishment. As he brings his audacity of hope, change and to fight things that go bump in the night, he shows his true self.
1st - VP Biden, the lifer who redefines blowhard
2nd - Sec of State, Queen Hillary, never heard of her, from Hitch

Both President and Sen. Clinton, while in office, made it obvious to foreign powers that they and their relatives were wide open to suggestions from lobbyists and middlemen.

Just to give the most salient examples from the Clinton fundraising scandals of the late 1990s: The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight published a list of witnesses called before it who had either "fled or pled"—in other words, who had left the country to avoid testifying or invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination. Some Democratic members of the committee said that this was unfair to, say, the Buddhist nuns who raised the unlawful California temple dough for then-Vice President Al Gore, but however fair you want to be, the number of those who found it highly inconvenient to testify fluctuates between 94 and 120. If you recall the names John Huang, James Riady, Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, and others, you will remember the pattern of acquired amnesia syndrome and stubborn reluctance to testify, followed by sudden willingness on the part of the Democratic National Committee to return quite large sums of money from foreign sources.

3rd - AG Holder, nothing to see here, from Cohen

Soon after Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the former president and I had a brief telephone conversation. I had been downright heated about the pardon, a lot angrier than I had ever been about Monica Lewinsky. Clinton implied that I had things historically backward. Long after the Rich pardon had been forgotten, he said, the Lewinsky scandal would remain a vivid memory. That day is yet to come. The Rich pardon is back.

The vehicle for this lingering echo from the year 2001 is the choice of Eric Holder as Barack Obama's attorney general. Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general and he played a significant role in the pardon. When asked by the White House what he thought about a pardon for Rich, Holder replied, "Neutral, leaning towards favorable." These four words have stalked him ever since.

4th UN Ambassador Rice, not the read deal known as Condi. She was a "protege" of Albright, more Clinton. And we know how effective Albright was. From my original blog,

New toons

great website, RedPlanetCartoons

How are both alike?

Give up?

Both are one night stands.

The Code Pink moonbats represent all the liberal grassrooters whom obama/pelosi used to get elected.
And the lady feebly hiding herself had a cosmo induced encounter the previous eve.
Either way, someone got used and should have known better.

not sure when I'll be back

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It could sooner or later, but the house of obob needs some tending. we is good, it's external threats. be good and eat pork

and this is from overseas

alright ...

The sun will rise and the world will not end.
But, now we get to attack. And the treatment of this administration and anyone right of the troubled ideology of the left has left me a bit perturbed.
So now it's our turn, the bard wrote, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"
Are they not the fiercest cats you have ever seen?

Declan: He, who heard the sound of thy holy trumpet, and took not warning. He hath clearly wandered too far from the word of God. And Cornelius Bernard Hatcher, your hour has come. Let's get it on, Big Boy. It's time to get back on the path.

Let's Go Over This Again

As I have stated before, certain words should never have any sequence in flying out of your mouth:
John McCain: I knew John Keating
Dennis Kucinich: anything about aliens
Joe Biden: anything
Sarah Palin: let's talk about foreign policy
Barack Obama: spread the wealth

There is a reoccurring theme here bambinos,
Redistribution of Wealth
or
Redistribution of Wealth through legislation
Give him the House, give him the Senate and maybe the Supreme Court and then give him your paycheck
hat tip drudge

another thought is going through my massive cranium, is he meaning reparations? After doing some genealogy, my family didn't start getting here until after the 1880s. Sorry, I'm out. And what about the illegals, do they have to pay reparations as well?

Since we're on "obama is communist/socialist/white sox fan" topic:

it's a very catchy little ditty.

payback can be a ....

Barring the mother of all October surprises, st. obama the blind will win. One of issues that arises every Presidential election is choosing a SCOTUS Justice. There once was a tradition of a polite Senate approval for the President's nominee. Of course, we can imagine who was childish and started to make it difficult due to immature antics and petty partisan babble, the democrats.
Although this is from wikipedia, it has merit:
Name/ Appt. by / Conf. vote
Roberts (Chief Justice) G.W. Bush 78-22
Stevens Ford 98-0
Scalia Reagan 98-0
Kennedy Reagan 97-0
Souter G.H.W. Bush 90-9
Thomas G.H.W. Bush 52-48
Ginsburg Clinton 97-3
Breyer Clinton 87-9
Alito G.W. Bush 58-42

My point is the rabid partisanship on behalf of the democrats in republican selections in SCOTUS. When obama makes his selection, I hope to republicans make it as difficult pelosi following through on "ethical" congress promise.
And junior senator from the land of lincoln voted aganist both justices. So much for bucking party leadership and showing bipartinship.