Judd Gregg for Commie Secretary?

There's rumours on the internets tonight that Barack H. Obama will nominate Senator Judd "double-letter" Gregg to fill the post of commerce secretary nominee, vacated by possible New Mexican criminal, Bill Richardson.

What's noteworthy about Judd? That whole "I've got an R next to my name" thing is highly significant, given where Mr. Gregg hails from: New Hampshire. Who is the Governor of New Hampshire? The guy elected to fill Senate vacancies, should one occour? Why, it's none other than John Lynch, a card-carrying Democrat! How very exciting!

Gregg's replacement, should that appointment come to pass, would almost certainly be a Democrat, bumping the balance of power in the Senate to 59-40. What's that you say? "59-40? That's not enough Senators! There's supposed to be one hundred!" Well, right you are, avid reader! What's going on with that missing seat? It's up to debate in the legal system of Minnesota! Al Franken has abso-fucking--lutely won the seat fair and square, but Norm Coleman (R-Douchebag) has decided to challenge the thing all the way through the courts just to waste everyone's time. 'Cause he can.

60-40! 60-40! Possible super-majority! What would this mean for the long run? More bills passing congress, and general bragging rights. Also, things are not looking too good for Republican chances next year in four or more of the 19 Republican seats. On the other hand, the Dems will have 17 seats in play, only 2, mayyyyybe 3 truely competitive races to defend.

I'm saying that it's gonna end up 62-38 after 11/2/10 has  come and gone. Which doesn't really do much more than say "Fuck you, Joe Lieberman, you matter even less than you did before! Go cry about it, why don't you?"

Nice.

The GOP's Ever Speedy March to the Brink of Madness

Yesterday, President Oath-Flubber went to the Hill to talk with Congressional Republicans about what the Hell is it that they want in terms of things that will get them to stop wishing our Great Leader ill. Obama today says that he's confident the Democratic-sponsored stimulus bill will pass, but Republicans led by John "Boner" Boehner brought their own counter-bill to the House, just to screw with everybody.

Let's get this straight: "No! No spending! Debt is suddenly something that the GOP feels strongly about! Really, we do! C'mon, you guys a trillion is tooooooooooooo much! Ick!" 

The next day... "Unless we are the ones proposing it, because then we give more money to our donors, instead of it going to useful things, like, we don't know, jobs, or other liberal BS."

Would someone please point out to John Boehner that he is an incompetent moron? He doesn't seem to fully grasp that, even though from the very millisecond he took over as House Majority Leader in February 2006, Republican numbers in the house have, how can this be put nicely? Dropped like a stone? Just peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooowwwwwKERSPLAT, like that. They had many, then they had few. And it ain't getting any better. Majority opinion seems to be that they are running around like chickens sans-heads, but that's the way our boy Boehner likes it.

Heckuva job, Boner.

Swear to Gald

Okay, for real this time:

TheDailyBlerg is up and running. Systems are now GO. Full speed ahead, all that jazz.

Happy aniversaweek, Obamerica! You've had seven days, now where's our money? 1,454 days of [less-than-] SecretMuslim socialism to go. 

Inauguration Day

Somehow it never really felt real before now. It's been a big, celebratory day, filled with happy champagne, so I don't really feel like writing a ton here, but here goes:

We really fucking did it. We really fucking did it. He's the HONEST TO FUCKING GOODNESS President of the United States. REALLY. For serious. No Bush. No Palin. No McCain. No Mittens. No crazy bullshit people in charge. We've got real people, with realy brains, and real ideas, and real real real ways to behave in a civilized world.

NO MORE DICK CHENEY!!!! ADIOS, DARTH A-HOLE!

Racist Dems Not Racist No Mo

In a sort-of-making-amends-type-of-fashion, Harry Reid [he of anti-black Senator fame] met with possible-Senator Roland Burris to talk about maybe following the law and letting Burris hang out with the cool kids on Capitol Hill. In his statement, Reid called Burris an "extremely nice man," which so totally not something relevant to being a Senator, thank you Mr. Racist Mormon. Hopefully this will all be over soon so real news will be talked about, like that other non-determined Senate race, or Ann Coulter being banned-not-banned from NBC. 

...or that Gaza thing, but who cares about that, anyway?

Roland, Roland, Roland...

I'm sorry everybody. Really. It sucks, I know, but the sitting Gov of Illinois appointed Burris to the Senate, taint and all, and there's nothing more to it. Everybody dropped the ball in terms of getting him [Blago] out of office in time to prevent an appointment, and he blew everybody off and did the darn thing anyway. "What a punk!" you might say to yourself, Mr. Reid. But that's kinda all you get to do. Sorry, but rules are rules. That's gonna be an awkward Senatorial lunchroom in a couple of weeks. I just see Harry and Roland sitting over their coffee, looking sheepish. Blerg.

Spy vs. Why?

Leon Panetta was tapped by Prez-Elect Obama to be the head of the CIA. Despite Sean Hannity's point that Panetta says he didn't know about the whole Lewinsky mess while White House Chief of Staff (y'know, right under his nose), there is significant griping from high-ranking Dems (Feintein, Rockefeller) that Panetta doesn't have any sort of security background. And yeah, okay, maybe he doesn't, but a good point was finally made today by Rachel Maddow on Countdown, that appointing someone who Senate leaders (who signed off on torture, wire-tapping, etc.) don't like doesn't really matter. 

They get to have their say when it comes to hearings and the like, but no, BO doesn't need to actually run things by these people who worked with the Bush Administration on these controversial issues. 

I was unclear about how I felt over here about the Panetta pick, but now I think I'm in favor of it. I don't like career spy guys, and the position is basically bureaucratic. It's important to have someone giving BO the right info, not someone who is prone to "intel failures" due to differences in opinion over what's important.

The Youngest Congressman

Today saw the swearing in of Aaron Schock, the man charged with representing the 18th congressional district of Illinois in the 111th United States Congress. Why is this interesting, you ask? Aaron Schock is twenty-seven years old, and is the first member of congress to be born during the Regan Administration. It makes me feel old.

Way to Go! You Did It!

Thanks, Bill Richardson. Thanks for making all of your fans look like idiots. We really appreciate the help. How 'bout we all just refrain from appointing people to positions just because some lobby wants us to. Maybe that'd be a good idea, right? Damn you all.

Status of Forces

The DailyBlerg will return in it's own Daily-esque fashion on Monday, January 5th.