Worked Up

Wingnutman
…Vice President Joe Biden remains a loyal wingman, talking up the president even to people who won't be eligible to vote for another decade or so. During a recent visit to an after-school program in Redwood City, California, Biden repeatedly described Obama as "really cool" to a group of third-graders. (thefoxnation.com, 10/21/10)

Picture the reaction to this…Vice President Dick Cheney visits an elementary school and describes President Bush to third graders as “really cool.”

Citizen’s Arrest
The federal bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could more than double in size during the next three years, according to projections from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The federally controlled mortgage giants will likely need at least another $73 billion and perhaps as much $215 billion from taxpayers in the next three years to meet their financial obligations. (Washington Post, 10/21/10)

Will someone please PLEASE explain to RedStateVT why Barney Frank is not in jail? Compared to Barney, Bernie Madoff is a petty thief.

Clear as Mud
Like many other news organizations, NPR expects its journalists to avoid situations that might call its impartiality into question — an expectation written into the organization’s ethics code. (NYT, 10/22/10)

So, to be clear, if Juan Williams had said that he disagreed completely with Bill O’Reilly then he also would have been fired. Do we have that right?

Money, it’s a Hit
After reading the New York Times this morning with its myriad of stories about big business contributions to Republicans, a rich Texan’s contributions to Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce’s contributions to Republicans etc., we saw this in the Wall Street Journal:

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending. (WSJ, 10/22/10)