June 2008

Just Get It Over With and Impeach the Dumbass

 

I believe this is called a double dog dare to Blagojevich to bring back the Lege:

 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – It started as political banter. But now the idea of trying to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich could be closer than ever to becoming reality.

House Speaker Michael Madigan says it will take 60 votes in the House to seek impeachment, when asked if the governor would need to be criminally charged first.

He also acknowledges his top lawyer has researched the issue. The speaker says — quote "It’s just to be prepared, that’s all."

Some lawmakers fear the governor could be asking for more impeachment talk if he brings legislators back to town and they repeat another summer of special sessions and fighting.

Blagojevich wants lawmakers to fix a budget he says is $2 billion out of whack by July First.

House Democrats say special sessions alone wouldn’t trigger impeachment but acknowledge the sessions could provide an avenue to pursue it.

The Salad Bar?

 

 

David Brooks is an asshole. 

Let me just say, Obama would do fine at the Applebees I go to (the girls like their Mac and Cheese).  He has two young girls and it’s pretty damn easy to take them to Applebees or Chilis. And what the hell Applebees is Brooks going to–since they don’t have salad bars…

Our discourse keeps getting stupider every day.  David Brooks goes and visits the homespun folks and thinks he’s one of them.

Oh, and how does David Brooks do at Harold’s? Oh wait…that doesn’t count. They have black people there (the closest three Applebees to me almost always have a majority of patrons who are black–but I think we know what Brooks is thinking of here).  

Thinking your Slats Grobnik’s best friend doesn’t qualify one to know what Slats thought.