Nightly Ramble:The Ongoing Saga of Blago And Obama;Taxes, More

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

Snow, freezing rain, grey skies, just plain yuck, miserable driving, freezing my cheeks off… yep. Gotta be the holiday season. I know I’ve not put up any Christmas light shots, but that’s mostly because there hasn’t been enough snow to take one. The snow sets the lights off so well.

Lots going on, let’s get to it.

• Without question, we’ll all be adding a new word to our vocabulary… we’ll all be learning how to pronounce ‘Blagojevich‘. The irony of the day must be that Blagojevich ran on an anti-corruption platform.
• Joyner over at OTB, by way of a WaPo article, points out that Blago was threatening the Tribune, too.
  

  As media analysts question the continuing relevance of newspapers, prosecutors are charging Blagojevich in an extraordinary scheme to silence critics at the state’s largest paper — even as they were urging editors not to undermine the investigation with premature disclosures.

  As it is, Blagojevich is likely going to spend a long time in jail and the Tribune is going bankrupt.

  

  AP Photo

  Well, yeah… but why did the Trib not scream bloody murder? Frankly, that they played along, and held their silence speaks to me of being part of the problem. You know full well they’d not do so were a republican involved. Say, George Ryan, for example. they oughta be very glad indeed they’re going chapter 11 is the worst of it. And as for the WaPo, weren’t they nodding with some degree of approval, along with the Kossacks, as Obama’s thugs excluded Fox news from their election activities?

• The Politico examines the (known) risks to Obama on this Blago thing.  I’m unconvinced all the elements have been accounted for yet, though. As Scooter Libby showed us, the investigation can be unpredictable. The Democrats seem quite willing to dump on Blago, and just now, we see Obama calling on Blago to resign, apparently in hopes of making the case go away sooner. Apparently, they remember the nature of other such investigations, and are less than thrilled about the same weapon being now aimed at THEM. Well, they’d better get used to it.
• We mentioned a three month tax break here a few days ago. Glenn Reynolds does so today, and says, aptly enough:
  

  Too bad about the lack of graft, though. That’s probably a deal-killer . . . .

  Well, yeah.  It’s painful to put it that way, but in reality, that’s what it comes down to, in more ways, I think, than Glenn is willing to say.

•  Does anyone seriously think the Big Three are going to be able to solve their problems in three months, without the Unions disappearing outright? Another question to file under ‘Unions are killing America’.
• Oh, Shut UP, Dee Dee. I don’t recall the Clintonistas… yourself included, screaming quite so loudly about the long line of women Bubba groped, which had the quality of being real instead of a cardboard cutout.  What was the phrase again? ‘Trailer Trash’? Funny how we don’t see that being directed at Mrs Clinton’s cutout.
• My best to your mother, Billy. That operation can be a life changer, and I’m hopeful she finds it so. 
• I don’t use an Ipod myself, or a Zune, either. I have a Sansa E250, running Rockbox. Much better. If you have an MP3 player, look seriously at Rockbox firmware. Trust me… it’s worth it.
• Nah. Terrorism isn’t an Islam problem, right? 
• Speaking of which, how’d they manage to get almost all the way through a Haj without something blowing up taking a few dozen people with it?
• OK, if he didn’t have time to find himself a girl, how is it he had time for this? Can you say “Super-Geek”? (Shudder)