A couple of friends of 1115 and fellow 2003-vintage bloggers got some big media exposure (nullus) last week.
Kyle “Information Leafblower” Gustavson gets quizzed in the Washingtonian, and Byron “Your Favorite Rapper’s Least Favorite Blogger” Crawford gets a surprisingly positive profile in The Guardian.
Congratulations boys.
Tom Daschle has “tax problems” too.
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama’s secretary of health and human services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle [...]
TPM has a lovely little quote from the RNC meeting:
“We need a bottoms up party” — as yet unidentified state party chair
It’s really time for them to codify my suggested tag line:
Rudy Giuliani this morning provided his unique insight into Wall Street’s $18 million in bonuses that President Obama had slammed as irresponsible.
According to Rudy, stimulus packages don’t necessarily have to be government financed. The Wall Street bonuses represent a privately-financed stimulus package. (And, as everyone knows, whatever government can do, private [...]
Family: Octuplets’ mother has 6 other children – AP (1/30/09):
The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.
Stupidity really knows no bounds.
Margaret Carlson, expressing her disappointment at Obama not pulling the nominations of Tim Geithner and Eric Holder:
Everyone is entitled to a mistake, say those who are waving these two nominees through. By that measure, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich should become secretary of Commerce.
Americans will no doubt take heart from the record profits just posted by that bulwark of the U.S. economy, Exxon Mobil.
Although fourth quarter profits were just a measly $7.8 billion (compared to $11.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007), 2008 was still a record year. Exxon Mobil posted the highest annual [...]
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Yesterday, so-called Republican leader Mike Pence declared on Fox News:
Republicans have had no input whatsoever in the development of this so-called stimulus bill.
It’s easy to laugh at that — and people have — but it is actually 100% true. It’s not like anyone from the Democratic side actually sat down with the Republicans [...]
It’s where the proof is.
