Monday, November 24th, 2008
UHH… SOUNDS GOOD: “Ted Kaufman, a longtime aide to Joe Biden, will be appointed by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the vacancy created by the vice president-elect once he resigns from the Senate, according to a Democratic source familiar with the decision.” Joe Biden controls the hell out of that state! He made the lady governor appoint some slave of his as a replacement until 2010 when his son, Beau, will more or less name himself the winner of the Senate election before it even happens. [WP/The Fix]
Our nation’s Presidents have a long and glorious history of promising “bipartisan healing” and such when it comes to Cabinet appointments. They say they will appoint members of the opposition party to important positions and then they give some toothless middle-of-the-roader an invisible Cabinet post that nobody cares about. Remember Norman Mineta, the Democratic transportation secretary in the early George W. Bush years? No? That’s because he was completely boring and unimportant. (He did have an 
Oh hey Friday slow news day, etc.! The various news outlets keep insisting that Hillary Clinton has quietly (as quietly as she can do anything) taken up Barack Obama on his offer to be Secretary of Diplomatic Teas and Bombing Things, so we pass that information along to you, the reader. Did you know that Bill Clinton turned over the names of over two-hundred-thousand donors to his foundation and memorial dildo farm in Little Rock, so that his wife could have this job? True story! 
Possible next White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is being terribly cruel to his fan base by reminding them that he is already married, with children. “I do know something about the White House and I have children now. I have a family,” he told WLS-TV in Chicago. These “children” of his might require more of his time or something, more time than a Chief of Staff could really afford, so he might have to stick with his day job of being a huge dick to all his colleagues in the House of Representatives. Why is he playing so hard to get? 
Since bringing on Josh “Yosh” Bolten as Chief of Staff, the White House has been replacing their dead weight with experience political heavy-hitters and respected old Washington favorites left and right. Robert Gates, Hank Paulsen, Fred Fielding, Tony Snow, and now Ed Gillespie are just some of the big names Bolten’s lured to the White House to shake things up, give the President slightly less insane advice, and generally try to pry his brain from the grips of Dick Cheney’s mind-rays. 