The media is like a love-struck teenager, in love with the aloof older boy, Obama. No matter how he disses them he can do no wrong. Will there come a day the jilted lovers will have had enough?  I wonder what the odds are….

H/T HotAir, Weekly Standard

Dan Maffei “As long as we bring a new direction, even if we don’t accomplish everything at once” the change-hungry masses will be satisfied.

He didn’t specify what direction he and his fellow Democrats plan to take us, but he’s previously mentioned a need to get back to Keynesian economics. That’s not exactly reassuring. This change in direction may well lead to the road to serfdom.

The middle of the video is looking really good to me right now. Brrr!

In case you missed Blago’s press conference this afternoon, you know…when he named Roland Burris as Barack Obama’s replacement in the US Senate. It seems race baiting is all the rage these days.

David Axelrod, aide to Barack Obama, appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and was asked about President Bush’s tax cuts. Mr. Axelrod answered “And whether it, it, it expires or whether we repeal it a little bit early we’ll determine later, but it’s going to go.  It has to go.”

In the video above Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal argues that tax receipts went up after President Bush lowered taxes (and also John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan) because the tax cuts spurred economic expansion.

President Bush’s tax cuts lowered taxes for every taxpayer, not just the rich. So when Barack Obama allows the Bush tax cuts to expire he will be raising taxes on every tax payer. That’s not a wise thing to do during a recessession. As Mr. Moore said, we need tax policies that make poor people rich, not rich people poor.

Caroline Kennedy avoided the media for years, and with good reason. Listen to this interview where she says “You know” 30 times in under 2 1/2 minutes. To say she’s underwhelming would be an understatement.

H/T Hot Air

Brit Hume is a class act and I’m sorry to see him leave Special Report. Bret Baier has big shoes to fill.

H/T to Allahpundit at Hot Air who brings up a good point:

One point I haven’t heard anyone raise yet: Precisely because Caroline’s vulnerable on the latter point, Senate Democrats will be forced to shore up her credibility right away by giving her a high-profile role on prominent legislation — and it’s not hard to guess what that legislation will be. Everyone comfy with an absolute novice being thrust into an area of policy that’s famously complex? Hillary was going to play point man on health care for Teddy had she remained in the Senate; now, ironically, it’ll probably be her replacement, at least for purposes of photo ops.

So this very inexperienced woman not only may be appointed to the US Senate, but could also be given a high profile position on day one to help bolster her experience creds. So much for the United States being a meritocracy.

I’ve heard Caroline’s appointment is a done deal, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. Paterson can’t be very popular with New Yorkers right now, after proposing his whopping tax increases. He’ll have to weigh the benefits of having help from the Kennedy fundraising machine with the possible backlash from appointing a woman who’s never held a a full time job. Hmmm….sounds eerily similar to another senate seat in another state.

Dennis Miller’s list of the top ten pinheads of 2008. It must have been really hard to whittle the list down to 10!

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I’ve been to Barack Obama’s new Change.gov website which boasts “Open Government”.  You can vote on things, just like you can do on this blog. That’s all fine and good, but is that really what “Open Government” means? I thought it meant a government that’s open to and answers questions. Silly me.

Here’s Barack Obama at a news conference. A reporter had the nerve to ask him about Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Barack Obama told him not to waste his question. It’s a good thing that reporter isn’t travelling with Team Obama or he’d be thrown off the plane, or train, or whatever they’re travelling in this week.

It seems Obama isn’t really against “Don’t ask, don’t tell” after all.

H/T Hot Air

This is priceless. Scarborough takes the media to task for sending swarms of investigators to Wasilla, Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin, yet didn’t investigate Barack Obama’s background at all. The media fails to report anything about Obama until Obama tells them what to report. The media’s defense: instinct.

Are journalism schools teaching students to forget fact finding and just wing it on instinct?

First dog Barney dreams of the Olympics and then takes us on a tour of the White House Christmas decorations.

Of course, the RNC is being criticized for this ad and not surprisingly John McCain’s joined the chorus of critics. Here’s my question, why would Blago curse Obama for not going along with his pay to play scheme if Obama never know about it? Wouldn’t Obama need to know about it to refuse to participate?

H/T Hot Air