Well, this is certainly interesting …

From the Hill to Ben Smith and Politico, and all the right ring blogs comes the news that Bill Ayers has been recently claiming authorship of “Dreams of My Father”.  Today’s source is  Anne Leary of  Back yard Conservative.  The picture is one she took during the encounter and is there, along with her story, [...]

Thursday Morning News Links (with a little help from my friend Katiebird)

News from the Boston Area
Good morning, Conflucians! It’s another gray day in New England, but at least the Red Sox are still in first place.
Kansas City Royals play Red Sox this weekend.
José Guillen returned to the lineup — but as the designated hitter — and could spend time this weekend battling the Green [...]

Amazing News: Alexi Giannoulias Plans to Run for Obama’s Former Senate Seat

Holy Toledo! Former mob-connected investment banker and Obama basketball buddy and current Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is going to challenge recently appointed Senator Roland Burris for Senate in 2010, according to Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, 32, opens his exploratory bid for Senator today hoping his [...]

Hoodwinker and bamboozler: Burris and Blago

Burris and Blagojevich had no problem playing Harry Reid and the rest of a the Senate like a violin. They race-baited, they turned hasty and stupid claims about the Senate’s power back on the Senate, they masterfully orchestrated p.r. And all along any ordinary non-politician knew that these two were just like Paul Newman and [...]

Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You

Today’s New York Times reports it, but we tried to tell the Cheeto gang back in January ‘08.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that overhauling Social Security and Medicare would be “a central part” of his administration’s efforts to contain federal spending, signaling for the first time that he would wade into the thorny [...]

Is this the hopey hopey change they told us about?

What a difference a day or two makes in D.C. Yesterday, Harry Reid and the Senate refused to seat Roland Burris because of the “taint” of being appointed by Rod Blagojevich.

Senator Diane Feinstein says that Roland Burris’ Appointment is Legitimate

Fox News Reports:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee that soon could take up Burris’ case, said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has the right to appoint a senator despite the allegations of corruption against him.
“Does the governor have the power, under law, to make the appointment? And the answer is yes,” [...]

2. The first Obama appointee to resign after a scandal in 2009 will be:

BILL RICHARDSON
We already have the answer for one of the question’s posed by the Dakini’s office pool.  It’s hard to know what to say other than welcome to Scamalot folks where pay-to-play is the  everyday way!  It certainly says a lot that this is the first answer so early and so BEFORE the swear in. 
This just in from [...]

Chicago Political Drama Continues

BREAKING NEWS:
Illinois Governor Blagojevich is set to announce his selection to replace Barack Obama in the Senate.  This from CNN.
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(CNN)– Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected Tuesday to name former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, CNN affiliates the Chicago Tribune and WLS-TV reported, citing sources familiar with the decision.

Illinois Gov. Rod [...]

Sunday: The Chicago Tammany Hall

Following up on what myiq2xu wrote below, Conason and the media are frantically trying to spin the newest scandal into the molehill that Whitewater was, er, before they spun that up into a mountain.  So, I guess we can just forget all the nasty things they said about the Clintons back then?  I just know [...]