Bush administration still ignoring everybody but business

Here’s how it works – legislature passes laws, executive acts on them, judicial rules on laws. It’s a system that’s suppose to work rather well. Those Bush guys don’t really care when they can pass a lot of rules that help businesses ignore environmental regulations so they can get rich.

Stay classic, Bush administration.

After the election’s over, Ayers finally speaks

William Ayers, called a “domestic terrorist” by the McCain/Palin campaign, has finally broken his media silence in an interview with the New Yorker.

Turns out, other than being an old guy who likes to wear an earring in each ear and wear Boondocks T-shirts, he’s pretty understanding about the whole “Obama didn’t want to have to do anything with me” stuff from the campaign:

Ayers seemed curiously calm and cheerful about the way he had been made an issue in the campaign. He seemed unbothered to have been part of what he called “the Swiftboating” process of the 2008 campaign.

“It’s all guilt by association,” Ayers said. “They made me into a cartoon character—they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life.” Ayers said that once his name became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with the Obama circle. “That’s not my world,” he said.

This is the guy everybody was suppose to be afraid of?

15% think the country is doing well. Who?

The Houston Chronicle dares to ask the question – who is the 15% who thinks the United States is heading in the right direction?

You might be shocked to know- McCain supporters. I would have figured that 1% of the US thinks the country is going great – I mean, they got all of the tax breaks for the last 8 years and a bailout. The other 14%? Unable to read a newspaper. Who knows.

Remember those Michigan Republicans who wanted to use foreclosure roles?

First it was “Hey, if you’re name is on a foreclosure roll, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote” by Republicans up in Michigan.

Then it was “Woah – no way, we’d never do that – how dare you accuse us!” when the Obama campaign launched a lawsuit to stop this practice from occurring.

Turns out from the settlement – well, yeah, Republicans did have a plan to use foreclosure rolls to deny people the vote, but now they won’t because if they do they’ll e sued into oblivion.

And yet it’s ACORN that’s on the verge of destroying democracy by, um, registering people to vote instead of trying to remove their right to vote?

Palin’s Secret Weapon: Don’t Hit a Girl

WaPo Style sectino had an interesting question about what makes Governor Palin so effective as a VP attack dog for Senator McCain. Basically, it’s because you’re not allowed to hit a girl. Of course, you can hit back, as long as you’re a girl too.

As Palin continues to throw wild punches, analysts have suggested that perhaps some Obama surrogate should strike back. Of course, that surrogate should be a woman. Catfights, it seems, are perfectly acceptable.

As someone with four little sisters who were allowed to beat up on me without being allowed to hit back, I know how it goes.

Horrible, awful man says Obama would act like Wright

Is there any depth of awfulness that Newt Gingrich won’t go to? That adulterous, lying, hypocritical bastard who’s now saying Obama would be like Reverend Wright in temperament:

“And his temperament would lead him to much more like [Chicago Mayor] Richie Daley than like Rev. Wright. He’s not going to have that,” said Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and titular leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution.

And why should we believe anything Mr. Gingrich says? Ever?

Palin Emails Pricier than, uh, everything else

You have to love how Governor Palin is milking this “I’m running for Vice-President” for all that it’s worth.   Evidently, there’s <a href=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27228287/”>a $15 million price tag for viewing her emails</a>.  You’ve got to love how they calculate that number:

it would take up to six hours of a programmer’s time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for “security” checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that’s $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960.

Seriously. I can do a Google search on my email, Click and Drag all of them into a folder. 60 minutes tops. I’m trying really hard to be nice to Governor Palin, but it’s getting really hard.

The Palin double standard

So, it’s OK for Governor Palin to not release emails, or memos, or anything she doesn’t want to, but she wants to have the Obama campaign turn over all links to ACORN?

This isn’t the first time the Palin documents double standards has applied. She once demanded her Republican rival in a campaign produce a marriage certificate to prove they were really married to their wife (because she used her maiden name).

I’ve tried to avoid doing the really negative thing on Palin, but this hypocrisy just burns me. The standards apply to everyone – but her.

How does Palin stay to perky? Denial!

Oh, Senator Palin – you’re ability to ignore the events around you is just so adorable if you weren’t trying to become Vice-President:

At those times on the campaign trail when sometimes it’s easy to get a little bit discouraged, when, you know, when you happen to turn on the news when your campaign staffers will let you turn on the news,” she said, prompting laughter from the group. “Usually they’re like ‘Oh my gosh, don’t watch. You’re going to, you know, you’re going to get depressed.’

Gee, I wonder how she’d do if she had to become President. “Don’t look at the TV and the hordes of flesh eating zombies attacking the capital, Ms. President. It’ll just make you sad. Here – look a lol cats instead. See – the kitty has an invisible cheeseburger!”

Steven’s Trial covers puppies. No – really.

You know, just when I think political news can’t get any weirder, it does. Washington Post, while covering the Stevens bribery trial, is reporting about testimony of the cutest kind:

Dana Milbank: Good afternoon from the courthouse on Pennsylvania, where the Ted Stevens trial has reached a climactic moment: his wife, Cat Stevens, had just begun to testify about the couple’s sled-dog puppies when the judge declared a recess.

Can this trial get any better?