The bailout didn’t work. No, Gentle Reader, not the TARP (jury’s still out on that one, although fewer retail chains and banks collapsed after Christmas than I’d anticipated). No, I mean the shelving of my blogging. Roberts, Rules, Oath of Office Mulligan i. a short expository lump I need to stop blogging on such an all-consuming basis. That is the reality. I will be back, that’s reality, too. BUT, I don’t know when. (A little something called $$$ writing...
I must say, I quite agree with Libby: How refreshing. No more dress code. Out with the old and in with the new! Change has come to the White House. Sphere: Related Content
The vote to confirm Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State was nearly unanimous today. Two “Republican senators—David Vitter of Louisiana and Jim DeMint of South Carolina—voted against her nomination while 94 senators voted in favor.” At one point during the debate over Clinton’s confirmation Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chariman, John Kerry spoke on the Senate floor calling for a “swift confirmation” of Clinton and the Washington Wire also notes that John McCain joined in and went to bat for...
Look at the symbolism in one photograph: One young girl smiling, one congratulating her daddy, the new President reaching out with his open hands and the First Lady with the Lincoln Bible in her hand. For those of us who’ve spent a lifetime time to reach this day it was, and is, beyond words. John, Martin and Bobby were on the podium yesterday, we just couldn’t see them. Sphere: Related Content
The Obama Administration is embracing the internet, from changes on WhiteHouse.gov to officially tweaking “the name of a White House institution, the Weekly Radio Address,” by announcing that it’s now officially known as “President Barack Obama’s Weekly Video Address.” “President Barack Obama plans to publish a weekly video address every Saturday morning of his presidency,” says the official Web site. During the transition, Obama taped a weekly video address that his team posted on YouTube to try showcase what...
Paul Jamiol had this fitting cartoon posted on his Facebook this evening. I couldn’t help but wonder most of the day watching the Inauguration and all of the events, what was running through the minds of many of the Republican naysayers including those who might bemoan that “it seems unfair that Barack Obama should be the source of a new patriotism.” Sphere: Related Content
Sad news… On this momentous occassion that meant so much to Senator Ted Kennedy, news has broken that Kennedy was striken during the Inaugural Luncheon and was taken from the Capitol by ambulance. Senator Robert Byrd also suffered some health problem around the same time as Kennedy was striken. From The Caucus Live Blog of the day’s events: Senator Edward M. Kennedy collapsed during the inaugural luncheon. President Obama began his speech by noting by talking about “Teddy,” noting...
Today will be a day of many memorable quotes no doubt, but this one holds the feelings of so many of millions of people watching this historic day: “This is America happening,” said Evadey Minott of Brooklyn, New York. “It was prophesized by that we would have a day when everyone would come together. This is that day. I am excited. I am joyful. It brings tears to my eyes.” Sphere: Related Content
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