Recharging the Batteries

So this is going to be a light week. I was away from the news practically all day and it was a pretty darn good feeling. So I'll round things up once or twice a day until I swing back into the grind when I get home.

I saw Obama's presser today. On the policy substance, I think he's starting to understand the enormity of the problem. Think seven trillion dollars of enormity. And so the stimulus will be big, hopefully big enough to do the job. As it should be, the Congress is going to pass this stimulus so it's waiting on Obama's desk January 20. I hope that's not too late. As for the continuing "he's blocking out the left" saga, on the policy he has pretty much met the moment, so I'm optimistic. See Bob Borosage for more.

The Citibank bailout blows.

What will Hannity and Colmes be like without Alan Colmes??? Probably the same way it is right now. I guess Alan finally woke up one day and got some self-respect.

Ted Kaufman will be the next Senator from Delaware, which seems like a backroom deal to put in a placeholder until Joe Biden's son gets back from Iraq.

OK, TTFN.

Is There Anyone Worse Than Alan Colmes?

Here Robert Gibbs is going along with the perfect response to Sean Hannity's Ayers obsession, asking if Hannity is an anti-Semite because he had a known anti-Semite as the centerpiece of his smear job show on Barack Obama, and Alan Colmes throws the lifeline:



Hannity is bobbing and weaving, knowing that he's caught, hiding behind this idea that he's a "journalist" and he talks to a lot of people with whom he disagrees, which is completely besides the point because he made this Andy Martin guy the centerpiece of the show and completely agrees with his thoughts about Obama... and along comes Colmes, saying "Sean is not an anti-Semite."

That's not the point, Alan. The point is how guilt by association is simply idiotic. And the thing is, I've heard Colmes use the same kind of logic on his radio show. But I guess Hannity was feeling too much heat, and somebody in the booth zapped Colmes and told him to do his duty as the Fox News "liberal" lickspittle.

Pathetic.