Archive for February 11, 2010
Another Tweet of the Day
From techweenie:
After all, Liz Cheney’s only claim to fame er, to any expertise about anything whatsoever, is the fact that she’s Dick’s daughter. Valerie Plame Wilson on the other hand is a former CIA agent. You know, as in she went through years of training.
Oh, and she wouldn’t be a “former” CIA officer if it weren’t for Liz’s Dick.
Fox News as America’s Ambassador?
Fox News is everywhere. It blankets the planet.
I don’t like that thought. I don’t want Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity to signify what the world sees as me or my country.
People Who Don’t Have Bill Clinton’s Health Care Benefits
Watching a presser (8:59 p.m. ET) featuring the cardiologist who treated Bill Clinton today. Thinking about the people who are watching who don’t have a doctor, much less a cardiologist.
This opens the door to a discussion about health insurance and the haves and the have nots, but the “liberal media” won’t go there. Instead, we’ll hear all about stents.
Tweet of the Day
From Devilstower:
No kidding. The move to repeal the death estate tax is one of my pet peeves. More on that later.
Bill Clinton Hospitalized — Chest Pain — Received Stent
NBC News reporting.
Poor guy. I don’t wish heart disease on anyone. I don’t know how people live with the constant fear of dropping dead. Of course, that could happen to anyone, but still…
Break Time
When white collar husbands are incarcerated for fraud, it’s the bejeweled wives that are left behind to tend the hearth, stem the society gossip, resuscitate the million dollar bank accounts, and inoculate the children from shame as they’re exiled from exclusive social circles.
Tisk, Tisk: Tim Pawlenty Uses a Teleprompter
Incredibly — what with all the work there is to do around here — one of Sarah Palin’s biggest beefs is that President Obama uses a teleprompter. But what have we here? This would be Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) delivering the State of the State address today:
Pawlenty has his eye on the White House and he’s a Sarah Palin kind of guy but obviously, his use of a teleprompter rules out the possibility of a Palin endorsement, heh?
Staggering
The Council of Economic Advisers is out with a report today that highlights the huge advantages the rich have in our society. Think Progress summarizes it. This sentence in their post says it all about income: “The top 1 percent of families now receive nearly 25 percent of income, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.” And this sentence says it all about taxes: “In the 2010 fiscal year, the Bush tax cuts will actually give millionaires more in tax breaks than 90 percent of Americans will earn in income.”
Is it any wonder we’re pissed?
Flatline
I’m having a hard time getting excited about anything today. I think my attitude is colored by my frustration and anger at how badly the Democrats are blowing it. Obama saying he doesn’t begrudge the huge bonuses Wall Street bankers paid themselves feels like the last straw, though I’ve had many last straw moments in the last seven or eight years.
Maybe I just need a day or two to get my strength back.
Live-Blogging Iran
Robert Mackey over at the New York Times is live-blogging the events taking place in Iran today as is StreetJournalist.
