NYTimes’ Frank Rich, in his column today, has this on Obama’s situation — love the Baucus line:
“Obama has blundered, not by positioning himself too far to the left but by landing nowhere — frittering away his political capital by being too vague, too slow and too deferential to Congress. The smartest thing said as the Massachusetts returns came in Tuesday night was by Howard Fineman on MSNBC: “Obama took all his winnings and turned them over to Max Baucus.”
Very funny video from The Onion. Funny excerpt:
“We should just put corporations in office and cut out the middleman.”
If corporations are the same as people now, does that mean a merger is same-sex marriage?
And, is a hostile takeover the same as rape?
“Washington is a whorehouse, and every four years we elect a new piano player.” (Gore Vidal).
“Being a Cubs’ fan prepares you for life — and for Washington.” (H. Clinton)
1) The Senate is a swamp; this just deepens it a bit.
2) Let these GOP morons fillibuster.
3) Change the cloture rule. Super-majorities are always bad news.
4) Time for Obama’s Mr. Nice Guy period to end.
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman nails it in this piece:
Why, it’s none other than corpulent Fox News uberfuhurer Roger Ailes!
Ailes
Not exactly a shocker, but it needs to be stressed far more often.
…that Fox Noise wants viewers to believe GOP wack job in Massachusetts Senate race Tues. has a good chance of winning?
From Twitter’s funny showtitleforpalinonfox feed:
“Real American Grandstand”
“A Wasilla Cougar in King Rupert’s Court”
“Hee Haw: The Next Generation”
“The Biggest Loser”
In her New York Times column today, Gail Collins stresses a point about the Senate that can’t be said enough, a pathetic situation:
“There are 100 members of the Senate. But because of the filibuster rule, it takes only 41 to stop any bill from passing.
U.S. population: 307,006,550.
Population for the 20 least-populated states: 31,434,822.
That means that in the Senate, all it takes to stop legislation is one guy plus 40 senators representing 10.2 percent of the country.”