Arrogance personified
Despite the heap of legal troubles he’s in, Governor Blago today announced his pick for Obama’s Senate seat (and no, it isn’t Senate Candidate #5):
Some members of the CBC are ok with “diversity”
… as long as that diversity means appointing more black people to cabinet/admin positions than any other. Via The Hill:
Kathleen Parker graduates from Democrat Party University
Completing her metamorphosis from solid conservative to pandering beltway liberal, Kathleen Parker’s latest column “explains” why Caroline Kennedy’s “experience” makes her more qualified to replace Hillary in the Senate than Gov. Palin’s “lack of experience” made her to be VP.
Rep. William “Fridge” Jefferson loses reelection bid
Nancy Pelosi no longer has the problem of Jefferson on her back and the Republicans pick up seat (h/t ST reader MD):
The NYT versus Charlie Rangel
Things are heating up between Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and the NYT. The NYT has done some surprisingly good reporting on Rangel’s penchant for quid pro quo. Rangel responded to a recent article by writing a letter to the editor trying to debunk what reporter David Kocieniewski. Here’s what Rangel wrote – but it gets really interesting as the NYT included Kocieniewski’s response to Rangel’s letter on the same page.
MN Senate race count getting goofier by the day
Chris Cillizza does his best to sort through the “he said/he said” coming out of Minnesota as stories of “lost and found and lost again” ballots continue.