Well at least we have one more Senator.

About 30 years too late.

Godspeed...

Outgoing Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) has announced that she will appoint longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman to fill Biden's seat.


I wonder what a Senate seat costs in Delaware?

I'm waiting for Hillary to resign so we can see who Paterson selects

Hopefully, it's Caroline Kennedy
But, Cuomo seems like a good man
I really liked his father

Hopefully that person can be a good Senator and help the Demo ticket in NY in 2010

he will be a good v.p. and a good man. history will look favorably upon this man.

An easy transition. How nice it is to see. Kind of boring news though, wouldn't you say. Come on media make some huge gossipy, juicy, scandal out of this. You know you can. You are experts at yellow journalism, of tabloid journalism. Go get 'em.

Another step toward us seeing the LAST of BUSH.  I'm counting down the minutes until January 20th.

In other news.  It's absolutely hilarious the way supporters of THE GIFT (aka Sarah Palin) swoop to her defense.  This was a woman who compared herself to a 'pit-bull', and was the head bomb thrower of the McCain campaign (remember "the heels are on and the gloves are off").  Now poor little "Sarah the victim" is host, guest, and caterer at her own pity party blaming EVERYONE (including her own campaign) for her disgrace, claiming that she was "naive" to the ways of the media even though she was at one time in her life a part of that same media.   She even has the delusion that she'd be treated better as a Democrat (Hillary'd eat her alive and give the leftovers to Obama in a doggie bag).  She is the perfect example of the Abraham Lincoln quote, "Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt."  Everytime she goes on one of these whinny little rants of self-pity, she removes any and all doubt that she is just as foolish as she appears.

If the GOP still thinks of her as the "rising star" of their party, then I hope they make her their goddess.  Her running in 2012 assures that Obama will have a second term as president.

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This makes me think of the photo's of Sen Biden taking the oath of office at his sons' hospital bedside.  Joe Biden has been an American public servant of the highest caliber - not just for Delaware, but for all of us for many, many years.  

Congratulations Joe - keep up the good work... for all of us.

Gee Norm, why can't you face the truth?

'...Adding a little salt on the wound: 44 percent of respondents said Coleman should concede...'

From HuffPost:

'...Coleman Election Challenge: Minnesotans Oppose

A majority of Minnesotans disagree with Norm Coleman's decision to contest the results of the state's Senate election, a new poll shows.

In a poll conducted by Survey USA, 49 percent of individuals said they did not agree with the Minnesota Republican's lawsuit challenging election results that show him losing to Al Franken by 225 votes. Forty-two percent said they did agree.

Adding a little salt on the wound: 44 percent of respondents said Coleman should concede, while 31 percent wanted the state to hold a new election.

The tide of public opinion, in the end, won't likely be enough to speed up Minnesota's already-long election process. Almost all examinations of the ballot breakdowns show that Coleman's Senate chances remain a long shot. But his campaign has insisted that they will exhaust their court challenges before conceding defeat.

In a brief press conference introducing their complaint, Coleman's lawyer, Fritz Knaak, said he "would not be surprised if this went a month a half, two months out ... Technically we could redo the entire recount. I can tell you right now, that is not in the plans."

The Coleman lawsuit itself is a site to behold. As Eric Kleefeld notes at Talking Points Memo: it "ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting and opposes the same maneuver when it goes against them, attacks not just the recount but votes that were counted for Franken all along, and overall throws everything against the wall to see what sticks."...'


Threaten to hold your breath until they let you play Senator again, Norm !!

Crybaby !!

Annother part of the 'Bush Legacy'
The Decider will be remembered !!


'...FDA SCIENTISTS SEEK RESCUE... If the FDA's work weren't so important, a story like this wouldn't be quite so painful.

In an unusually blunt letter, a group of federal scientists is complaining to the Obama transition team of widespread managerial misconduct in a division of the Food and Drug Administration. [...]

In their letter the FDA dissidents alleged that agency managers use intimidation to squelch scientific debate, leading to the approval of medical devices whose effectiveness is questionable and which may not be entirely safe.

"Managers with incompatible, discordant and irrelevant scientific and clinical expertise in devices...have ignored serious safety and effectiveness concerns of FDA experts," the letter said. "Managers have ordered, intimidated and coerced FDA experts to modify scientific evaluations, conclusions and recommendations in violation of the laws, rules and regulations, and to accept clinical and technical data that is not scientifically valid."



The scientists added that the FDA's scientific review process has been "corrupted and distorted" by Bush appointees, "thereby placing the American people at risk." They added, "Currently, there is an atmosphere at FDA in which the honest employee fears the dishonest employee, and not the other way around."

The scientists have also claim to have seen FDA managers committing "outrageous misconduct by ordering, coercing and intimidating FDA physicians and scientists," and "retaliating" against experts who "refuse to go along."

One has to assume the agency has been pretty thoroughly Bush-ified when scientists are practically begging the incoming president to come rescue them...'

I wonder what the going price is for his seat?

Thank you Joe for your years of selfless service in the Senate.  You are an example for your colleagues.

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