Wonkette
- It looks like Barack Obama has narrowed down his Treasury Secretary choices to abrasive ex-Clintonite Larry Summers and New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner. [Politico]
- President-elect Obama will meet with his team of economic advisors today and then talk to the press, but he probably won’t be making any major personnel announcements. [Reuters]
- Oh super: Rahm Emanuel served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac for 15 months between 2000 and 2001. (Republicans eagerly investigate whether William Ayers was ever on this board.) [ABC News]
- The engine fueling economic stability in California — the gay wedding industry, natch — came to a grinding halt on Tuesday. We smell a bailout in the works! [New York Times]
- A suicide bomber, possibly female, struck at a market in North Ossetia, killing 12. [CNN]
- Henry Waxman is angling to steal John Dingell’s chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but Dingell will not go easily. [The Hill]
I love that Rahm Emanuel once said that his first name translates as “go screw yourself.”
What should the next RNC chairman do? Your ideas are needed at:
http://ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/
I have to pass this along where Kathleen Parker of NRO infamy says growing up that the nigra nanny she had made teh blacks love her:
“I was usually perched on that counter [black family's grocery store], daily treated to an ice-cream sandwich, and otherwise the center of much fawning attention. I assumed that all those customers who stopped by to linger had come to see me. They certainly gave me no reason to think otherwise. ”
What is it with stoopid white people….it’s all about them. Thus Parker can try to be cracker-cool about Hopey’s win.
This is worse to be than a wingnut.
PS Dingell will crotch-kick Waxman, period.
“A suicide bomber, possibly female, struck at a market in North Ossetia, killing 12″
Sexist.
So does this mean… Ellen Degeneres is unmarried again? Hell yeah, I’ve got my shot! *freshens breath*
Give Waxman whatever he wants, just get his face off TV, it’s hideous.
Obama should start hanging around the White House, just sorta checking stuff out with a possee of big black men, just to give Bush that uneasy feeling
But it is the cheesemakers who are blessed.
Tommy Says Soooo: Here’s the link, you might have to sign up for the site, though. But you can learn that Parker “cried twice” for Hopey. How ’bout she cry for the wreckage caused by Bush? I used to think I hated liberal guilt more than conservative hypocrisy….thanks for reminding me, KP:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110602126.html?sub=new
If Hopey picks Summers, my attitude shifts from Cautiously Optimistic to Full On Cynical. Dude’s not even in office yet.
What happened to Sheila Bair, the banker’s Kathleen Sibelius?
I’m just waiting to hear whom he’ll pick for Secretary or Miscegenation. I am pulling for Iman, since she got the nice Muslin name.
Tommy Says Soooo: “for” for “or”. Sheesh.
John Dingell has represented parts of Detroit and its burbs since 1955. Detroit. Henry Waxman has represented Malibu, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood since 1975. As tough as Mr. Waxman maybe, I know where I’m putting my money in THAT fight.
Kathleen Parker - not a southerner.
Parker Kathleen - southerner.
F the Repubs. F Fox news. I am ready to go full on Jihad for Rahm! Let’s not let a pothole in the runway slow down the Hopegasm, let’s all stay involved.
Deepthroat: The bomber was a tranny.
Timothy Geithner, please. Summers is a smart guy, but he’s a well known douche.
Vewol Mevemont: Geither will the token non-asshole in the Obama administration.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ZOMGWTFOTLBBQ
Ok, who left the fucking cake out in the rain?
WestEdEd: Sorry, but Rahm Emmanuel *is* a Republican as far as I’m concerned. A moderate, Rockefeller republican, but a republican. The fucker pushed Nafta through. That’s enough for me.
That said, I’m glad he’s on the team, because he’s tough and he’s Mossad, which should give the administration some credibility abroad, like in Florida.
It may be a curious ongoing theme of Hopemaster’s administration that the Ghost of Bill Ayres will float around the non-wingnut world if only because he will be stoked by Asshat Radio. Would that he speak out eventually and put some of this malarkey to rest. Since gun sales are soaring in bitterz states they might actually find out they have a lot in common with each other.
WestEdEd: Rahm’s Jihad has a nice ring to it.
Here’s a fun thought when you’re thinking about Hopey’s HIRES….all the douchebags from the Bush Admin who won’t be able to get jobs due to the economy. Usually they could waltz off to Wall Street. That ain’t happening. I think Michael Chertoff will be a greeter at Wal-Mart and Dana Perino will pose for Hustler.
BitterKlingon: I suppose “fuck off and die” or “mass suicides, please” aren’t constructive enough ideas for the next chairman” . . .
Terry: Dingell is pretty bionic by now. He is currently having one of his knees replaced and it seemed that every six months or so he would be at Bethesda getting some surgical stainless steel inserted in his joints.
He and Pelosi hate each other, though. He is in favor of global warming and wants to kill all the polar bears ASAP while she sees the future as a post-industrial agrarian paradise full of happy peasants.
just read David Brooks this morning and am having an aneurysm. BRB.
he thinks Obama should avoid doing anything that “freaks out” anyone right of Nancy Pelosi, a well-known leftist extremist.
larry summers is a douchebag who said africa was under-polluted, and that dumping waste there made perfect economic sense, since the people who live there don’t live long enough to get cancer anyway.
10 points for HILARITY
0 points for actually ever having power anywhere ever.
Norbert: i like how he repeats that bullshit about america being a “center-right” nation, even though a majority of americans agree with a billion things that prove him wrong, other than the one statistic about people not trusting government that he used. of course people don’t trust the government right now. bush is still president.
To demonstrate how much he believes we should all work together, President-Elect Obama should appoint Walnuts as Secretary of Getting Kids Off the White House Lawn.
Sarah Palin could be Secretary of Aerial Wildlife Strafing.
Terry: Yeah. Henry Waxman might represent Malibu, but John Dingell represents the place where they actually make Malibus.
Tommy Says Soooo: “…and Dana Perino will pose for Hustler.” Finally! She’s so pretty!
Norbert: Brooks is like the kid who loses on the playground and wants to play one more game to prove he really did win. Sorry David: fail.
V572625694: I was hoping Dana would go into prostitution. I’d buy that for a dollar!
One of the side effects of Prop H8TE passing in Cali is all the money our economy is losing now that there are no more gay weddings. Bitters don’t get married; they just have bastard babies and live on the doll.
Let’s get an Obamadministration House Hunting (OHH! Look!) watch going.
Black Suburbans cruising the tonier hoods should be reported immediately.
Any out-of-area HHers (espec from Illinois) should be asked these Pavlovian key-word questions:
1. “HOPE to find something quickly?”
2. “Looking for a CHANGE from your old residence?”
3. “This is a great COMMUNITY. Wow, where’d you get that ORGANIZER?!”
“Tell” replies would be:
1. “In my DREAMS!”
2. “Yes, if WE CAN - something with more AUDACITY.”
3. “I had to SACRIFICE some features but it keeps everything TOGETHER!”
This is an old joke, but I think it should really happen. LGBTA Californians in the wedding industry should go on strike till Prop8 is repealed. Try to get a dress, bitches, try.
Whoa! List of Obama’s economic advisory team just came out and I am SO PISSED that it doesn’t include that venerable oracle ALAN GREENSPAN. I was hoping they’d invite him just so’s they could carve him up and grill him on the BBQ. Fuckin asshole. Plus fuck his stupid trophy wife, even if she IS a Penn graduate.
Larry Summers is an arrant asshat. Not only was he King Deregulation during the Clinton years (and we see how well that worked out), he is also enough of a dope to cite anecdata and idiotic pseudo-science about how women aren’t as good at the science and math in a faculty meeting with distinguished women scientists who could kick his intellectual ass six ways to Sunday.
And then he was surprised to find himself the laughing stock of everybody who knew how to read multisyllable words.
NO LARRY SUMMERS!