Friday, January 20, 2006

Six Of One Yawn. The GOP plans to swap one corrupt Republican for another. Shocking. K STREET HELPS Blunt and Boehner in race to succeed DeLay. Allies of the ex-majority leader, including lobbyist Susan Hirschmann, support Blunt of Missouri. Energy lobbyist Drew Maloney also backs Blunt, who gets help from Baby Bell phone companies, FedEx and the airline industry. Boehner of Ohio, who received a lobbying-industry award for building “strong business-government relations” in 2005, gets help from tax and pension lobbyist Bruce Gates and Citigroup Inc. lobbyist Bob Shellhas. Boehner splits tobacco support with Blunt, whose wife has lobbied for the industry. (Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.) 8:57:39 AM    comment []

Feel Safe? For 74 minutes America knew Osama Bin Laden had issued another threat to America. The President did not. UPDATE: Rob Port seeks to mangle reality and also raise the “liberal bias” bugaboo. First off, it isn’t liberal bias to report that the President had no clue Bin Laden was issuing a new tape. Secondly, this wasn’t like the President was giving some damn speech of import — he was doing the used car salesman shtick, selling the Edsel of an economy that can’t seem to do much for anyone beyond the CEO set. Somehow I think the president’s job is supposed to be about acting as commander in chief instead of acting the fool. (Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.) 8:50:04 AM    comment []

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