CNet: Senators Propose Granting President Emergency Internet Power

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html

Passed along by a reader, in my feedback this morning:

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only

Alas poor Dirty Harry, Jay Newton-Small, Time:

Both Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York say they firmly believe Reid will be reelected, but for several months the number two and three Democrats in the Senate

“Second you have, something we’ve never before seen, a Chicago machine in the White House. The ruthlessness, the willingness to bribe senators, the fundamental dishonesty of the system… This is a ruthless machine that doesn’t care what it says, it

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

This is the The “ChooChoo, Daddy!” Edition.

• The Honeymoon is officially over:  Jennifer Rubin:
  

  The jig is up.

  The stimulus is a

The Obama administration is stuck on stupid    Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine, provides a hint of possible Obama adminstration plan to try a Clinton like weasel on the release of terrorists into the United States:

I am neither a lawyer, play one on television, nor give press conferences pretending to me one.    In other words, I am not Barack Obama,  Helene Cooper, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama vowed to try to stop

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

I am tired of the media droning about Mrs Schlossberg  wanting Mrs. Clinton’s seat.   Here is picture of the Mrs. Clinton’s seat as well as her ass.    As for the seat Mrs. Clinton is filling in the Senate, that remains

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

Over at OTB, James notes a pattern I started taking note of last night:

The Outrage of the Day comes to us from Josh Marshall, a pretty even keeled fellow.   John McCain said this to reporters.

“I believe that

Two U.S. senators, two former Cabinet members, and a former ambassador to the United Nations received loans from Countrywide Financial through a little-known program that waived points, lender fees, and company borrowing rules for prominent people.

Senators Christopher Dodd, Democrat

Bluto is working a story that I admit only loosely following. It doesn’t quote cleanly, so I’ll have you go read the thing.

The update gives a nifty tease:

The New York Sun’s editorial board notes that Rockefeller deliberately manipulated