Will Burris be seated? Yes? No? Why? Why not?

13 comments December 30th, 2008

 

C’mon, you smarty-pantses. Tell me what’s going to happen and why.

Frankly, I ain’t too sure. But the whole thing is kind of fun.

The lasting effects of the Bush administration’s war on science

5 comments December 30th, 2008

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker SAYS he was initially skeptical of arguments that the Bush administration has been more hostile to science than its predecessors, “but I have now been turned around, and I see that the accusations are correct, that there is a Republican war on science, and that it does seem unprecedented.”

Blago to appoint Roland Burris to Senate?

3 comments December 30th, 2008

It says HERE that Rod Blagojevich will announce this afternoon that he’s appointing former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris (above) to the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency.

UPDATE: Background on Burris HERE.

UPDATE II: Harry Reid SAYS Burris is “unacceptable.”

UPDATE III: I’ve got two problems with Roland Burris: 1) Anybody stupid enough to accept this Senate appointment from the scandal-plagued likes of Blago is, ipso facto, unqualified to serve; 2) Burris referred today to his previous service as state comptroller, but he mispronounced the word. The preferred pronunication of “comptroller,” strangely enough, is the same as that for the word “controller.”  The “comp” pronunciation is acceptable, but not preferred. Call me fussy, but stuff like that is important if America is going to undo the damage to its image resulting from eight years of Bushisms.

The unkindest cut of all?

1 comment December 30th, 2008

 

A former State Department aide to Colin Powell SAYS George W. Bush came to the presidency with no more foreign-policy expertise than Sarah Palin.

Whoa! That’s mean!

Is racism a plus in bid for RNC chairmanship?

2 comments December 30th, 2008

 

I mentioned HERE the other day the growing controversy over the use of a racist parody song in the contest for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

The LATEST DISPATCH from the battlefront suggests that candidate Chip Saltsman (above) might actually have benefitted from his bigoted gesture. (Don’t miss the part where an RNC member says GOPers who object to Saltsman’s racism are just “pandering to the national press.”)

Behold the further Southernization of the GOP!

Another bunch of bad predictions for 2008

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Most of THESE are about the economy.