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Michael Steele has asked all the top staffers at the RNC to resign. Maybe he wants to give jobs to the old Bush White House staff?

Oh this is just priceless:

Republicans wrapped up their retreat Friday by signaling they are losing patience with President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) criticized the new administration on Friday, saying it had promised to reach out to Republicans on the Capitol Hill, but then offered an economic recovery package that included few, if any, proposals from the minority party.

Romney, who helped write the House Republican substitute voted down Wednesday afternoon, said enough of the rhetoric, it's time for Obama to act.

And what the fuck did the Democrats get with Bush? Hell we questioned his policies and were called “traitors” and “unpatriotic”, and now the Mittster has his magical panties all up in a bunch. Welcome to what the detractors from the previous administration went through. If you don’t like it then get the hell out of the country. That is something else we heard too.

The talk today will be this:

The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen’s capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by an American counterterrorism official.

Of course buried deeper in the article is this:

The wingnuts have found their ammo against Obama that could lead to his removal from office. On day 1 he is already violating rules!

The astute reporters at Clownhall Townhall, with cues from CNN, already notes this major violation:

Obama Breaks Reagan/Bush Oval Office Jacket Rule 

You can even see the seriouseness of this violation of rules in the comments on their site:

douglas writes:
Wednesday, January, 21, 2009 2:00 PM

lack of respect

first sign of whats ahead, he does not respect the tridition (sic) of the office and shows that on day one.

Yes because out of everything facing the nation today, the proper outer attire trumps it all.

I was going through some old files and found some old Flash games I had made way back in the infancy days of this blog (yes my graphic work sucks - I much prefer working in 3D). Here was the Bush Cannon game I made back in 2005 and had on the blog for several months. Today it seems so appropriate, but I just can't figure out why. (And I would love to find the time to do some more game development in Flash. It's so much fun)

As most, I spent a lot of time yesterday watching the miracle that was flight 1549. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the plane, is a hero to the end for his handling of the disaster at 3,000 feet.

Something that I did notice while checking out blogosphere coverage of the near tragedy was that people seemed to be kind of shocked over the notion that birds can bring down a big jet. For example, here’s Malkin’s posting;

Speculation: The plane hit a flock of birds?

She’s questioning the whole “flock of birds” thing, when in actuality birds account for tons of airplane problems, including engine failure. It wasn’t that long ago that G.E. actually tested engines by releasing live birds into engines (I knew one of the people who worked there doing this).

I just had to point out Malkin though. If there were rumors that some brown person was trying to take over the plane, then the whole “speculation” work wouldn’t be there. Instead it would read more like “jihadists hijack airplane”.

True we now get to wait for the pre-emptive strike against all birds. We must attack them there so they don’t attack us there! Bush has 4 days left in office – could we see another war?

Bush on King last night:

KING: So there's nothing you've done in the area of treatment of prisoners that causes you any kind of pause?

G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was -- you know, it had legal -- legal opinions behind it. Look, you're sitting there, you've captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He's the guy that ordered the September the 11th attacks. And we want to know what he knows in order to protect the United States of America. And I got legal opinions that said whatever we're going to do is legal. And my job is to protect you, Larry. And I've given it my all. I've given it my all.

So it’s legal because Bush went out and got attorneys to say it is legal – law be damned. Hell – why didn’t Clinton just get a lawyer to say “hey, the President can lie under oath, it’s legal”. That would have got away with that whole impeachment mess. Maybe Bernie Madoff should get a lawyer to say his scheme was legal, then he wouldn’t have to worry about facing charges.

Funny, but I always thought the third branch decided what was legal. Why even have a judicial branch if the administrative branch will now decide what is legal and not?

The Obama administration needs pushed to prosecute Bush and everyone involved in this. It’s part of the healing process this country really needs – to know that justice still drives the American way. By not prosecuting, we are opening up a dangerous precedent in which the President can trump the Constitution and the rule of law, and that can’t be allowed to happen.

Voinovich that Son of a bitch (as my great grandmother always referred to him as) announced this morning that he is retiring. When rumors started circulating about this the other day, I said it could become a very hopeful pickup for Democrats in 2010. Hopefully someone like Tim Ryan will become the next senator for our state.