An open-carry gun rally in Maine worried African-American and other residents who saw the prominently-featured Confederate flags waving above anti-Obama signs. But remember: Republicans “never” use President Obama’s race to provoke anger. (Portland Daily Sun)
Everything That Is Wrong with the US Senate in One Sentence
One Senator, Richard Shelby (R-AL), can singlehandedly shut down the entire Senate because the administration gave a big military spending contract to Boeing instead of a European company.
CBS is considering airing a commercial for gay dating site ManCrunch.com during the Super Bowl in response to the uproar over its decision to show an anti-choice commercial from Focus on the Family. Because those two things basically cancel each other out forever. (FOX News)
Even Michele Bachmann—who is insane—will not go to next week’s teabagger “convention” scam. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
If you bought a Toyota from basically anywhere in the world, it is probably broken. (NYT)
In Case You Wanted to Watch President Obama on TV Without a Parental Permission Slip
The Senate will just shut down this afternoon and everyone will go to Pennsylvania to remind Pennsylvanians that Arlen Specter is a Democrat for now. (CQ Politics)
In addition to being the first black president, the first Muslim president, the first president to really be born in Kenya, and the first president to be heckled during a speech to Congress by a member of the House of Representatives, President Obama will be the first president to do five back-to-back TV interviews this Sunday on every network imaginable except FOX. (NYT)
American Special Forces traveled to sunny, government-less Somalia yesterday to destroy one of al-Qaeda’s top militants. (WSJ)
Almost three-quarters of doctors believe that there should be some form of public healthcare option. But who cares what they think. We have more important things to worry about, like, say, socialism and Obama’s birth certificate. (NPR)
That little troublemaker, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, shows up to his press briefings whenever he feels like, sometimes whole MINUTES after they were supposed to have started. This is greatly annoying to the Washington media establishment as well as… actually, just the Washington media establishment. (CNN)
Oklahoma’s crochety old man distinguished gentleman Sen. Jim Inhofe is going to vote against Sonia Sotomayor without even meeting with her, but it doesn’t matter because she’s going to get confirmed anyway because of racism, or something. So let’s just get these confirmation hearings over with so Jim Inhofe can go back to sitting on his porch with his shotgun, keeping the durn kids offa his lawn. (Tulsa World)
CAPITOL HILL (CNN) — Just hours after Congressional leaders posted the final version of a $789 billion stimulus deal, staffers on Capitol Hill faced both a surge of demand on key Web sites and an apparent technical glitch that crashed those sites off and on throughout the morning.
A spokesman for the Senate appropriations committee told CNN Radio that their site had been up and down all Friday morning. He said technicians had found an apparent server problem that was not related to increased demand.
Well, it’s just another day at the Governor’s office, working on the budget, helping Illinois families, dodging questions about his indictment. You know, the usual. (ABC News)
Howard Dean says Blago has committed a “disgraceful abuse of the public trust” and should resign in order to save the legislature the trouble of impeaching him. Howard Dean is going to go to Illinois to root out corruption. And then he’s going to go to New Hampshire! And South Carolina! And New Mexico! Yaaaaahhhh!! (TPM Election Central)
Also jumping on the “Blago should resign” bandwagon: all fifty Democratic U.S. Senators. Thanks, Rod, for helping create this impressive display of Democratic unity. (Politico)
Hilariously, the state with the most corruption per capita is… North Dakota! Yes, tiny North Dakota has a whopping 8.3 corruption convictions per 100,000 residents, compared to Illinois 3.9. Of course, this just means that North Dakota is better a prosecuting corruption, which doesn’t bode well for the morals of Illinois juries. (USA Today)
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