MASSIVE UPDATE, including two blogosphere -Gates. The updated version of the previous diary was excruciatingly long, and I figure it might have been hell on some people’s computers. Much easier to just separate it out. I think this one’s more pictures than text, so it shouldn’t be as painful to read.
Jay Z-Gate, Parts I and II
President Obama announced today his intent to nominate Major L. Tammy Duckworth to be the Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Duckworth is an OIF veteran, who has fought tirelessly on behalf of injured veterans to get them better care.
Wowie. All of these Federal employees are treating the new bosses like liberators. First State and now Justice. Does it kinda make you wonder why? Tuesday February 3, 2009 in 100 seconds.
The republicans don’t seem quite so enthusiastic about the new guy and his ideas.
“Dude, they are just not that into you!” (Stolen from Rachel Maddow, who kinda stole it from a lame movie). Here is one reason.
Okaaaay. He must have forgotten about all of the contractors in Iraq as well.
Tomorrow, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner will implement a pay cap of $500,000 to executives of companies receiving bailout money.
The New York Times reports the plan, which is similar, though not as strict as the plan proposed by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) this week, will allow for bonuses, but no large than their pay base. (Whether this means bonuses cannot exceed their base salary or total more than $500,000 plus salary is still in question). McCaskill’s plan banned any bonuses at all.
Here’s the story;
What is it with Democrats and taxes? First it was Tim Geithner, then Nancy Killefer, and now HHS pick Tom Daschle.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a statement Tuesday from the White House.
Okay who’s our next choice? Wesley Snipes? Willie Nelson? Come on, Democrats. Pay your friggin’ taxes before you apply for a job with the government, okay?
Have we had any real trolls? I am not able to read all of the diaries but read most and I do not remember seeing a troll at Motley Moose. I know that
Anyone here occasionally miss the Primaries? The spectacular array of scandalous -Gates was enough to excite the most docile of observers. So come on, who misses the amusement just a teeeeeensy bit? A lot of you probably don’t, but someone out there does. Be honest. Raise your hand.
Okay, I’ll fess to it. By the end of it, naturally, I was ready for it to come to a conclusion with a quickness, but for a while there, it really was a blast. Remember the passion — sometimes a bit overdone (…okay, more than a bit) — on both sides? Remember when DKos and MyDD were hard-fought battlefields? Remember back when we didn’t know what a “PUMA” was? (Don’t you wish we still didn’t?) Really, some of it was pretty fun. Certainly entertaining, if nothing else. It held our attentions well, didn’t it? Hell, a lot of us became friends during the Primaries — that’s at least where most of us first became familiar with one another.
Image courtesy of ABC News.
According to this well written piece from David Porter, also carried at HuffPo – US Army General David Petraeus is working to override US President Barack Obama.
(Cross posted at The National Gadfly)
Paul Krugman has a hard hitting opinion piece in which he goes after “Senior Administration Officials” on the TARP II
Question: what happens if you lose vast amounts of other people’s money? Answer: you get a big gift from the federal government – but the president says some very harsh things about you before forking over the cash. …
There are a number of things that are happening, and a number of things that are not happening (but which should be happenin) that give me pause.
The announcement that Brandeis University was going to close the Rose Art Museum and sell off part or most of the collection, a collection that includes one of the best representations of America in the 1950s and 1960s – a time when the center of art theory and practice moved from Europe to the USA, caused a ruffle in my house. My artist wife is very fond of the Rose, was just up there in the past year, and, frankly, couldn’t believe the University’s decision.