A New Circus Comes to Town – They’re going to need more than three rings by P.J. O’Rourke
The Bear on Jan 15 2009 at 9:20 am | Filed under: Culture of Corruption
Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn’t president yet? That depends upon how quickly Barack Obama is able to apply the lessons he’s learned from Management Secrets of the Illinois Governors. So far he’s not doing very well. He has allowed America’s current number one jackleg, crackpot, smut-mouth, slime-licking politician to give the Obama Senate seat to a lovable old African-American doofus whom no one has the heart to execrate. Roland Burris will be the kind of ornament to this year’s Senate that the broken plastic Rudolph with its antlers missing was to last year’s Christmas tree.
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Even a Blagojevich knows that Washington isn’t Chicago. In Washington you don’t place a loyal and able political ally in some obscure public office to garner campaign contribution boodle from local highway contractors. And–oops, that seems to have been the problem with the Bill Richardson nomination. Come on, Obama, what kind of Democrat are you? I thought Democrats were supposed to be good at this stuff.
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