What Is Up With Politics Today?

It’s possible that farewell was too strong a word.  Maybe I should have said…I’m going into blogger rehab don’t comment, it’s too much like getting a hit or a drink or whatever the hell it is you aren’t allowed to have when you’re in rehab.  But I didn’t and y’all did and I keep coming back so I guess I’ll keep giving it away for free.  My grandma would be so disappointed that her ‘don’t give the milk for free’ speech didn’t stick.  Anywho.  I’m still ditching the other one because I can’t find my focus so don’t go over there and try to talk me out of it.  I mean it. 

So…I picked a bad time to quit anyway, right?  I mean it almost killed me not to do something on the inauguration…like when they screwed up the swearing in..or THE hat (OMG not political but geesh)…or Obama having to go through the swearing in again just to shut some half brained nut jobs from being all pissy.  Or how happy I was and how choked up I got (I can be such a girl). 

So anywho…I guess I fell off the wagon and will now be back to posting semi regularly, as work and my motivation/irritation with the government permit.

I haven’t been posting a lot lately and that is due to an increase in work elsewhere.  As much as I love my blog I know that it is no longer my priority and instead of doing a half ass job of it I’m going to be leaving.  I’ll still be visiting some of my favorite blogs here but this one will become inactive (unless the ptb decide to give it to someone else.)

Besides there are waaaaay better political blogs out there and I’ll just comment on them when I’m feeling politically snarky.  Speaking of other blogs you should totally check out now that I’m not here.

The Relevant Rhino

Right is Wrong

News Today

There are others but those are my favs. 

<3 Birdie

How could I not lead with that?  In case you were wondering that was a quote from Sarah Palin in her upcoming Esquire interview.  Really the entire thing makes her look like a media slut.  I’m obviously not all go Palin, but I don’t hate her either.  BUT, and of course there is a but….she needs to chill out.  I get that she doesn’t want to let go of the spotlight and that she wants to be top dog or queen bee or whatever but if she doesn’t let up she isn’t going to have a prayer of getting the Republican nomination in 2012 (and why in the name of God she would want to run against Obama again is totally beyond me but whatever).  Seriously if she doesn’t back off she’s not going to give people a chance to forget her…kind of like breaking up with your boyfriend.  You know they suck and you are breaking up with them for a reason but after a year or two you only remember the good things.  She needs to quit being the crazy exgirlfriend and let us forget the hideous interviews and remember only the charming bits.

I come back to see there is someone in the United States threatening to kill President Bush.  I’m shocked….really. 

Seriously though…napalm?  I mean if I was going to get everyone all riled up I’d at least come up with something that wouldn’t be next to impossible to do.  While we’re at how I’d threaten the president’s life…I wouldn’t.  I mean really.  If you are planning to kill someone are you really going to broadcast it to everyone you meet and then give the FBI all the dirty details?  Nope.  I’m gonna keep it to myself till I get my way.  When I tell my husband I’m going to kill him, do I mean it?  No.  Should the police question me for it? No.  Should I be detained? No.  Should I be on the front page of CNN, hell no.

Yeah…so CNN needs to go find real news to cover and leave the never gonna happen in a million years threats alone.

Dude was Clinton’s budget director, a political animal, and a chief of staff which makes him qualified how, exactly, to run an intelligence agency??  Ok…he’s supposed to have integrity, which is good and he’s supposedly pretty likeable and he’s all for bipartisanship but, I dunno.  He just doesn’t seem all that qualified.

I can understand Obama not wanting to pick anyone who has/had ties with Bush, I really do because of how screwed up everything was/is.  BUT that doesn’t mean that he has to go all the way out in the middle of oddville to find someone.  I guess I’d feel better if the person he chose had some sort of intelligence experience or, heck I’d settle for military experience. 

Someone tell me I’m wrong and why this guy is a perfect fit, please?

I think it is really sweet that Obama is somewhat sentimental.  Most men I know just aren’t.  In the news reports about his farewell to his home in Chicago he admitted to getting choked up when looking around the empty house that he has raised his family in. 

I’m sure he and his family will make the White House into a loving home (pretty cool to think of kids playing there) but it will never be the same for them.  Then I was wondering if he’d be able to go back and live there after his eight years and I can’t imagine it.  Once a president I would think you’d always need protection/seclusion and what not but then maybe I’m wrong and people don’t care about you once you are out of office.

Anywho.  It was nice to see the softer side of Mr. Serious.

Alrighty.  I’m all about freedom of expression and being able to worship (or not) as you please.  So you might think I wouldn’t have a problem with a dude trying to take ‘so help me God’ and a prayer out of the inauguration ceremony, right? 

Wrong.  I think it should be totally up to the president.  I think if the incoming president wanted it out it should be out but for some random atheist to say his way is the only way (and that is totally what he is doing.  He wants it taken out because it offends his belief system and it isn’t fair to him) is kind of narrow minded.

Now if the same request was being made by Obama because he, as the person taking the oath, didn’t believe in God I’d be totally ok with it.

What do you think?

Ok…I get that airlines have to be careful and need to screen people like crazy so nothing like 9/11 ever happens again BUT wtf were they thinking?  If you read the news reports it is clearly (least it looks that way to me) a case of some passengers overreacting and then the company pandering to the majority. (if you haven’t read the story, Muslims were overheard making ‘suspicious’ remarks…yeah right, b/c terrorists are going to broadcast their intent) Even after the FBI is like, dudes y’all overreacted and they’re good to go the company still wouldn’t let them on the flight.  The family gets an apology from the company but it pretty much says we’re sorry your feelings were hurt but what we did was right. Uhm… no.  AirTran, y’all suck. 

What the hell does this have to do with politics? Yeah, not much but it irritated me and I wanted to share the stupidity.

So the allegedly corrupt Gov Blagojevich appointed Roland Burris to fill Obama’s Senate seat.  I have several problems with this.  First, Blagojevich has no business appointing anyone.  He should, at the very least, realize that anyone he does appoint is going to appear to be corrupt as well.  It doesn’t matter that nothing has been proven yet, and it doesn’t matter if the guy he appoints is clean.  What matters is appearance. 

As for Burris.  He should have had the nerve to tell Blagojevich to go blow himself and turned down the offer until the charges against him were proven one way or the other.  The fact that he accepted makes me think he’s dirty too.  And again, it doesn’t even matter if he is or not…it’s all about perception.

So yeah, I think the Democrats should block him and I don’t think he should get to be senator, ever.  He should have said no.