(INSIDE
THE HOPPER™)
by
Halli Casser-Jayne
January 5, 2009
Terry
McAuliffe makes it official and
announces his run for Virginia Governor…It’s good to be an
African-American these days. Former
Ohio Secretary of State
Ken
Blackwell now appears to be the
favorite for Republican Nation Committee chairman with support of
conservatives including
Steve
Forbes and
Pat
Toomey as well as leading social
conservatives, including
James
Dobson and
Tony
Perkins. The problem with this? If
Blackwell wins, the Conservatives maintain their hold on the GOP…We
like hearing that New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
traveled to Israel this weekend in a show of solidarity for Israel’s
efforts in Gaza…Here at ITH we don’t normally agree with
Ann
Coulter, but she gets it right
when she says in her new book ~ whose title we won’t give you
because we don’t normally agree with Ann Coulter ~ that
Michelle Obama
tries too hard to look like
Jackie Kennedy.
But then Ann Coulter tries too hard to sound like
Cruella DaVille…This just in,
NBC's Today Show, under pressure from liberals, has cancelled
Coulter's Thursday appearance on the venerable morning show...Glad
to know that stupidity will continue its reign in Washington, D.C
and statehouses around the country. Just as the price of gas comes
down (the escalation of the price of gas which no one wants to admit
is responsible for some of the world economic crisis and might be
considered an Arab economic war, perhaps?) politicos at the state
and federal levels are talking up huge gas tax hikes…Well, it’s not
VP as everyone thought, but Virginia
Gov.
Tim Kaine gets paid back for his
early and unwavering support of
Barack
Obama by being named head of the
DNC, which he’ll accept as a part-time job until his term as
Governor ends and he becomes the full-time Chair of the DNC…
President George W. Bush will be
the first former prez without latter day secret service cover.
On the other hand
W leaves
office with some perks such as a Dallas office, staffers, a travel
budget, medical coverage and a $196,700 annual pension sorta a
presidential golden parachute and your personal gift to the outgoing
Pres...Future Prez
Barack
Obama admits to tearing up when
leaving Chicago for Washington, D.C. yesterday. See he’s not as cool
as people think he is, yeah, wright…Michelle
Obama accompanied daughters,
Sasha and
Malia to their
first day at their new school. Daddy was busy being
president-not-quite, so he couldn’t go…Law enforcement officials
want to talk to
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s
brother
Robert Blagojevich
who chairs his brother’s campaign fund. The word from brother
Robert’s legal counsel: “Not a prayer,” he’ll talk…House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
who for the last two years has been number one Dem on the Hill, as
of today is simply a facilitator for
Barack
Obama, the best outcome of the
2008 election, imo, of course…All eyes will be on the Senate
tomorrow when
Gov. Blagojevich’s
appointed Illinois Senator
Roland Burris
shows up.
Al Franken,
too? And will old
Harry Reid
back down, as he signaled Sunday that he might and avoid the
confrontation with Burris once promised? Stay tuned…If you haven’t
seen it, please do see
Kevin
Costner’s fun, poignant and
message-filled film,
Swing Vote.
It’s deceivingly good and got lost in the 2008 campaign hoopla.
Costner gives a wonderful underrated performance…According to a
recent Gallup Poll, President-elect
Barack
Obama’s
ratings have improved among conservative Republicans, up from 23% to
29%. Those conservatives are slow, but they get it eventually. Yes?
Hmm… Ah Caramba!,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
seeking a third term as Chief of New York City is speaking Spanish
at pressers. You won’t be surprised that Latinos make up as much as
20% of New York City’s voters…His heart just isn’t in it anymore,
heart surgeon and onetime Republican Senator
Bill
Frist has announced that he will
not run for Tennessee Governor in 2010. Heartache…PEBO has picked
photographer
Pete Souza
as the official White House photographer. It’s not Souza’s first
time in the job. He was also the official photog under President Ronald Reagan…
First lady Laura Bush
has sealed a deal worth millions with Scribner to publish a memoir
that will encompass her recollections of personal and historical
moments, including her eight years in the White House. Yawn…The
president-elect will roll out a major speech on the economy
Thursday. Can’t wait for more doom and gloom…The
Bush Family announced that their
18-year-old cat sometimes known as India, Willie and Kitty, all
better names than their owner
George
W. Bush is called by these days,
succumbed to kidney failure over the
weekend at the White House…Embarrassed by their own fumble, the
Obama Camp takes revenge on
Gov. Bill Richardson
with unidentified sources close to the incoming president saying
things like, “Richardson wasn’t forthcoming of his problem during
his vetting,” and leaking reports that Obama's team did not expect
Richardson "to take the Commerce job in the first place; they saw it
as a demotion. But Richardson surprised them by saying yes."
Wouldn’t it serve the incoming president to keep his staff’s mouth
shut so the story can limp away? Lot’s of lessons for PBOE to learn.
One is if a guy will screw his best friend, rest assured he’ll screw
you…The bi-partisan impeachment panel in Illinois has subpoenaed
Roland Burris
compelling him to testify on Wednesday, when Burris was expected to
be in D.C. to talk with Senators…Meanwhile, overplaying his hand,
Illinois Lt. Gov.
Pat Quinn,
who has suddenly seen the light as his chances for becoming Governor
grow is asking for the formation of a panel to clean-up Illinois’
corrupt government, of which he has long been a part…
Looks like Sen. Max
Baucus and
his wife, Wanda, have
quietly split. Nothing
lasts forever…Senate Majority leader
Harry
Reid says
President Bush is the “worst
president we’ve every had.” ITH says Harry Reid is the worst Senate
Majority Leader we’ve ever had. Na na na na na…George
W. Bush and
Dick
Cheney’s new monument to
themselves opened in the Green Zone in Iraq today, the largest
American embassy ever,
a
fortress-like compound, situated on 104-acres of prime Iraq land, in
fact 10 times the size of any other American Embassy in the world.
The cost for this new monument to The Bush Administration and the
Neo-Cons? A mere 700 million. But, hey, whose counting…Senate Dems
signal they plan to seat
Al
Franken as the next Senator from
Minnesota after
Norm Coleman
lost his latest battle with the Court, today. What it signals to
ITH? Expect a lot of drama out of the Dems over the next four years
starting with the seating of Franken from Minnehaha as their next
Senator. We’re about to become witness to the greatest comedy show
ever, folks…Everyone’s all a twitter that
PBOE’s
Twitter Site was twittered with by some twittering idiots…Why are
there a host of stories being written by reporters that
Barack
Obama isn’t who the voters hoped
that he would be, or he might be, or many thought he would be? Yes,
who he is is a guess because those same reporters who are writing
all these stories forgot to do what they’re supposed to be doing
during an election, reporting on who the candidate is…Charity homes
that former
President Jimmy Carter
helped to build are falling apart. Habitat for humanity?...
Diane
Feinstein, the California Democrat
who’s about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence is none too pleased over Obama’s pick of
former Clinton Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta
for CIA Chief, no siree she is not. “I was not informed about the
selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA Director, Feinstein told the
Washington Independent. “I know
nothing about this, other than what I’ve read. My position has
consistently been that I believe the Agency is best-served by having
an intelligence professional in charge at this time.” No siree,
Diane is not happy…And another unhappy Diane ~,Diane
Denish (D), New Mexico’s Lt. Gov.
who had a very, very bad day yesterday…And there you have, kids,
from the inside out.
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