BO’s Book Deal Reeks

As Eric rambled:

The Book: You’ve heard about Obama’s half billion dollar kids book deal, right?  How many copies are being sold to school districts on the taxpayer dime, I wonder?  And he didn’t even write the bloody

Mark Hemingway at The Corner:

I was perusing an old column by Kevin Rennie, the former Connecticut state legislator that broke the cottage story, and noticed this interesting tidbit:

During the fourth quarter of 2008, Dodd’s Senate re-election campaign

Today’s BitsBlog SNARK OF THE DAY award goes to an un-named reader of Mark Steyn.

Re my item below on the Illinois Senate’s proposed legislation on the planetary status of Pluto, a reader says:

I think it’s brilliant. But in

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This is the Towtruck edition. Seems to be the Naional car has quit, and is sitting at the sid eof the road.

The House passed Porkulus, the Pelosi/Reid/Obama Debt Plan, New York Times:

Stimulus Bill Passes in the House With No G.O.P. Support

WASHINGTON – The House approved a $787 billion economic stimulus package Friday afternoon, with Democrats successfully promoting it

Time to let your voice be heard… loudly and repeatedly.
Here’s where.

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Yes, we’re still trying to shovel out from under the snow, but we’ll carry on with a little wishful thinking. Forgive me, but I

The House  republicans set an example  for the jelly spined republicans in the Senate to which to uphold.    The Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan passed the House nary a single republcan vote.  David Espo, AP:

WASHINGTON – In a swift victory

Welcome, one and all to the very Snowbound edition of the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Yeah, the usual Nightly Ramble sign is under all that snow, somewhere.  We got at least most of

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Another cold week in front of us, (The plains states are below Zero as of this morning’s check) but thing are already heating

As I am given  to understand it, when one declares that he has fixed a horse race, it’s taken for granted that the jockey has been paid-off.

Did Barack Obama garner the Kennedy family endorsement by making an illegal promise

Kirsten Gillibrand has been appointed to the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy is upset, Reid J. Epstien, Newsday:

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy said Thursday Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand’s gun control views make her unacceptable for the U.S. Senate and threatened a primary

Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post asks:

Does a Glass Ceiling Persist in Politics?
Kennedy’s Withdrawal Illustrates a Double Standard, Some Say

With her abrupt exit this week from consideration for the Senate, Caroline Kennedy added her name to a growing

Carolyn McCarthy is many things.  McCarthy is a widow, bitter,  and Congressional Representative for New York’s Fourth Congressional District.   However above everything else, Mrs. McCarthy is profoundly stupid.

Mrs. McCarthy’s husband Dennis was murdered by Colin Ferguson December 7,

Fox News, this monring:

New York Gov. David Paterson will name Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat, to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, a Democratic official with knowledge of the governor’s decision told FOX News on Thursday night.