The new round of anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin is illuminating. These leakers must really want to hurt Palin. They are so incompetent that have hurt themselves more. They have proved to be untrustworty and disloyal. They are clearly poor political operatives to have begun all this self-serving leaking with two weeks to go in the campaign. Not only did the leakers expose their disloyalty and incompetence, they have now made Palin a sympathetic figure.
Counterintuitive Rahm Emanuel – good pick by Obama, evidence of pragmatism. Chief of staff is a good position for Emanuel in that he is loyal and ruthless. He will be mostly behind the scenes protecting Obama and running a tight ship. Instapundit thinks he will play bad cop to congress and interest groups. Even better.
Joe Lieberman – Hartford Courant’s Stan Simpson makes the case to kick him out of the party. On the heals of Rahm Emanuel, an overly aggressive move means GOP will have its theme…Democrats are not serious about bipartisanship and different tone in Washington. I think this is for show and they won’t follow through.
Speaking of a new kind of politics – will Obama pursue card check and unfairness doctrine in first 100 days? That would be a Clintonian-style early term disaster. At least it should be.
Republicans aren’t serious about cleaning house. Meet the new boss.
Wall Street votes – worst two-day performance in history.
Yahoo! has gone from one of the greediest CEO’s to one of the worst.
John Kerry will not be Secretary of State. His campaigning for the position is unseemly and his pomposity and verbosity would make him a disaster. Prediction, he will be offered Homeland Security instead via an appeal to his ego (I heard somehwere he served in Vietnam and is a self proclaimed national security expert. Plus, with a attack all but guarenteed by his Senate colleague Joe Biden, it’s a critical position).
Why does Eliiot Spitzer get off (again) and the booker and the hooker get arrested?
Amazon customers top history books of 2008. Number four, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution. Author T.J. English joined me for a fun discussion about this excellent book,
Did you ever wonder what Chris Matthews sounds like naked?