Wonkette
- A Congressional Democrat told a radio program that the Obama team quietly encouraged opposition against Nancy Pelosi’s porky stimulus bill. [Political Punch]
- President Obama has a new plan to cap executive compensation at companies receiving bailout money at $500,000, with exceptions if shareholders allow it. [CNN]
- The Beanie Babies whose name bore a striking resemblance to the First Daughters’, because they were exactly the same, have now been changed to Mariah and Sydney after Michelle Obama complained. [AP]
- Google Maps for Mobile now makes it easier than ever for your friends to stalk you, if you’re cool with that. [The Register]
- Many of Tom Daschle’s former Senate colleagues were shocked to see him withdraw his nomination yesterday. [CNN]
- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas told the European parliament that the brief war in Gaza left at least 90,000 Palestinians homeless. [Al Jazeera English]
Many of Daschle’s former Senate colleagues are shocked because they realized that someone may start looking at THEIR taxes.
What’s the point of the Democrats being “blue dogs” and going against the grain if the Repubs are all androids? Is leading by example honorable even when you’re leading me off the edge of a cliff?
I for one was looking forward to having him questioned about why he thought sporting Dr. Caligari glasses was a good idea.
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Capping executive pay? Why that’s… that’s… Socialism!
When will Barack Obama learn that the only way to get the US out of this mess is to slash marginal tax rates, cut corporate taxes, allow the banks to fail, allow unemployment to rocket to 40% , allow another 10 million home foreclosures, eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and start a war with China.
Serolf Divad: That’s for the second term. Then no one asks why.
Re: Beanie Babies
Good. The Obamas have dibs on whoring out Malia and Sasha.
$500,000? There’s going to be a firesale on Hamptons property.
I guess Daschle was very emotional about having to withdraw his name, as I would be if I had to skulk back to a gig where I made $5 million a year and got $350K worth of limo rides.
Then later at the White House Super Bowl party the president quietly encouraged Republican guests to try the chokey presidential pretzels.
WadISay:
Hey, don’t be snide. $5 mil won’t even buy you half decent private island with a eight bedroom “cottage” a heliport and a marina these days.
The $500,000 cap is only for cash. They still get to keep the other typical executive bonus stuff like mink underwear, gold plated bidets, topless lunches, Platinum Trucknutz, and a weekly spanking/diaper change by Mistress Dunwoody and her naughty bits.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Also, Barry can kiss the CEO vote good-bye.
Monsieur Grumpe: Mink underwear sounds awesome right now. It’s funking cold here!
Poor Daschhole will have to take his Hong Kong Cavalier glasses and console himself with sleeping with many beautiful lobbyists on top of a pile of tax-free money.
BTW, it doesn’t say much about our readership that the flashing sidebar ad is targeting “JANE AUSTEN ADDICTS HEY DUMBSHITS IT’S THE 6TH MR. DARCY NOVEL!!1!”
norbizness:
I’m going to get started on that right after I finish the Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country novelization I’m working on.
$500k/yr? Damn. And all it takes is to bankrupt your company? Sign me up!
Serolf Divad: OR . . . eliminate the departments of education, transportation, homeland security, intelligence, and most of defense, disengage from international diplomacy completely, eliminate the federal reserve, give everybody a gun and some weed, murder all bureaucrats, and replace our money with arbitrarily chosen shiny metals. Then just sit back for 7 years and let the free market work baby.
groove: And to think that I got fired for refusing to upsell cookies and bottled water at the Subway sandwich assembly line. I should have bankrupted us from above with coke parties and corporate jets, then I could be pulling in a sweet half-million per year.
Wait till the banks realize they can hire Indian or Chinese MBAs. 100% of the asshole for 1/10th the price.
ManchuCandidate:
Oops, they already did.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/01/bailed-out-banks-sought-f_n_162877.html
Time to start taxing those fuckin’ Mega-Churches, also.
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Can you believe those cheap shits at Beanie Babies didn’t even offer Michelle a licensing fee?
C’mon, people! It about respect. There are RULES to this game!
There’s got to be an easy online shortcut way to say “Malia and Shasha” in the pervy way Pastor Prison Pussy did during his inaugural shout out to irrationalism.
Ma-LEE-uh and SA-sha
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p.4
Things will get really interesting when Blago subpoenas Obama and half his staff for Blago’s upcoming trial.
Anyone else decided to not pay their taxes now? I hear millions have had it with the Democrats and have said “screw this - I’m mad as hell and not gonna take it any more”.