The media is already starting to turn on President Obama. They don't want to answer questions, and their promises of transparency seem to be empty, with the media getting only very controlled access to the Administration. This is just another part of the permanent campaign—message control.
Fundies aren't happy about this: President Obama has lifted the ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions.
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee is now a deputy al-Qaeda leader in Yemen.
Citigroup and Bank of America are practically nationalized thanks to the government bailouts and the attached strings. Meanwhile, Senator Isakson wants a 9/11-style investigation into what happened to cause the credit meltdown.
House Minority Leader John Boehner has a dozen "fun" facts about the Omnibus Democrat Agenda Spending Bill, which President Obama is pleased with and thinks will pass after meeting with Republicans and reminding them that he won. Senator Jim DeMint outlines the Republicans' response, with a real policy, to the Democrat plan. Here's the official House Republicans' plan.
Former Clinton Labor Secretary and Obama economic advisor Robert Reich wants to make sure that the "stimulus" money goes to minorities and not "white male construction workers."
New York Governor David Patterson has named his pick to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate: a moderate Democrat, Kirsten Gillibrand. Liberals are not happy.
John McCain is being a thorn in the side of Senate Republicans. Can't they just kick him out of the party already?
Tough times call for creative measures: the DOT might start selling ads on the HERO trucks around Atlanta. State lawmakers also spent some time grilling the Chancellor of the University System. One state Senator claims that one item that can't be cut from the budget is the Plains visitor center.
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle says that the cost of keeping the property tax grants could be furloughed state jobs.
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