Hillary as Secretary of State?

Not only does President-elect Obama want a $50 billion bailout for the auto industry (or at least the UAW), he also wants to have a car czar responsible for oversight.  I wonder if he'll tap another former Clinton Administration official for that position?

 

Wesley Pruden compares the attempt to sell a bailout for the auto industry to a used car salesman.

 

Hillary and Obama met to possibly discuss whether Hillary would want to be Obama's Secretary of State.

 

Here's something I referenced yesterday.  The cost of the bailouts is just a drop in the bucket compared to the federal government's unfunded liabilities.

 

An 8^th grader in suburban Chicago decided to test the tolerance of liberals by wearing a McCain t-shirt to school one day and an Obama one the next.  Guess which day was more pleasant?

 

Stupid union tricks:  a labor union in Erie, Pennsylvania is trying to get a fired bus driver reinstated.  He was originally fired for hitting his third pedestrian since 2000.

 

The Dallas, Texas Independent School District has been giving illegal immigrants fake Social Security numbers so they could be hired quickly.

 

South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is going to demand a vote to determine whether Ted Stevens can stay in the Republican caucus.  At least somebody gets it.

 

The United States Postal Service is running deficits now.  What do you expect?  It's a government operation.

 

The Mayors of Atlanta, Phoenix, and Philadelphia are trying to get a piece of the bailout pie.

 

The King family wants royalties from any merchandise that portrays Barack Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  I've never seen people so eager to profit from somebody's death as the King family; it's really pathetic.

 

The Warner Robins City Council met yesterday with Mayor Donald Walker in what seemed to be a productive meeting.  The biggest thing on the agenda seemed to be the cost of living raise for city employees.

 

The dogs that were saved from Michael Vick's dogfighting operation are now being featured on a series of wine bottles.

 

The Tour of Georgia won't happen in 2009.