Better Donkey

Better late than never...  The unemployed South Carolina Senatorial candidate who surprised the world and probably even himself by winning the state's primary a few weeks back gets... drumroll, and go figure.. a website.

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Soon after the passing of Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.V.) on Monday, West Virginia Secretary of State Nathalie Tennant  announced that there would not be a special election to fill his empty Senate seat, saying that state laws demands candidates file before the primary election, which has already passed. That means Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin can appoint a successor to serve out the remainder of the Sen. Byrd's six year term which doesn´t end until after the 2012 election. The state's Republican party is said to be fuming and looking for a legal way to fight back.

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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney is in George Washington University Hospital this weekend after being admitted Friday. The fear is that Cheney could be having another heart attack. For anyone keeping count, it would be the 69-year-old's sixth. He had his first one at 37.

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Democrats in the Senate failed yesterday to pass a bill that would have provided financially troubled states a needed shot of cash while extending emergency unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who've lost their job during the recession. The measure failed with a 57 to 41 vote, with Republicans complaining that the measure would deepen budgetary problems.

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Talk about baggage.

U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid is having a tough time as it is, trying to drive a left-leaning Congressional agenda while reporting to a constituency that seems more and more like an ongoing Tea Party convention.

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I was taking the DC metro this morning and overheard a group of tourists talking about President Obama. One called him a socialist. Just so happens that I was reading the latest edition of The Economist, a story dealing with just that.

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. military's top commander in Afghanistan, is in hot water for criticizing White House officials to a writer from Rolling Stone magazine. President Obama has yet to decide whether or not to fire McChrystal, whose reported comments reveal serious fractures in U.S. military policy that's driving the nine-year-old war. McChrystal is said to be extremely frustrated with Mr. Obama's handling of things.

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On the campaign trail, presidential hopeful Barak Obama made much ado about trimming down the influence of special interest groups and lobbyists. He has been under fire for not living up to that pledge - which, by the way, was dealt a severe blow when the U.S. Supreme Court in January blocked a ban on corporate political spending.

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Short on specifics and lacking self-criticism.

That's how The New York Times op-ed writers spun President Obama's oil speech last night.

Anybody looking for a Khrushchev style shoe pounding last night went to bed feeling half-empty.

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Here's the ugly Chapter Next in Congressman Bob Etheridge's street-side meltdown: a conservative students' group is calling for his resignation and prosecution for assault.

In this video gone viral, the lanky Democratic lawmaker from South Carolina manhandles a kid with a cellphone camera after he asks if Etheridge fully supports the Obama agenda.

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