Patrick Gaspard’s $37K disclosure form lie.

It’s not the lying, really:

President Barack Obama’s political director failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House.

Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House.

Continue reading Patrick Gaspard’s $37K disclosure form lie.

Now THAT’S what I’m talking about.

(Via Bankofkev) It’s never going to show up over here in a format that I can comprehend, but that’s all right. It exists. It will be enjoyed by somebody.

That’s enough.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, the trailer quelled my fears. Continue reading Now THAT’S what I’m talking about.

The Dodd-Frank procedural dance.

OK, here’s the situation on the Dodd-Frank financial bill.  The Democrats need 60 to get it over the finish line, and they currently have 58 Democrats in the Senate. They got 60 aye votes on the first version.

  • Senators Feingold (D) and Cantwell (D) both voted against Dodd-Frank last time.
  • Senator Brown (R) voted for the first version, but is being reported now as having switched his vote to ‘no’ over the last-minute addition of new taxes to the final version (H/T: Instapundit).
  • Senator Collins (R) also voted for the first version, and is likewise balking over the new taxes (no commitment).
  • Senator Snowe (R), who also voted for the first version, is sounding iffy on voting for this one, again because of the new taxes.
  • In other words: one switch to no and probably a second.
  • Senator Grassley (R) is about the only remaining potential pickup (he voted for cloture), and he won’t commit to signing off on the final version.
  • And, of course, Senator Byrd died last weekend.

Continue reading The Dodd-Frank procedural dance.

#rsrh Crazed Sex Poodle Does San Diego!

[UPDATE]: I see I’m not the only one who picked this new nickname for Al.

And my, but how the media hungry have fallen.  The newspaper calls this speech to a crowd of HR people a ‘rare public appearance’ for the C.S.P.:

Little has been seen of Gore in the past several weeks since confirmed reports of a split with his wife, Tipper, and after allegations surfaced that a 54-year-old masseuse in Oregon reported Gore made unwanted sexual advances toward her in 2006 and accused him of being “a crazed sex poodle.

“While 10News cameras were ushered out of the Convention Center by members of Gore’s camp prior to his speech…

Bolding mine (and as soon as I remember where I saw this first, I’ll H/T it).  Used to be that the most dangerous place in the world to be was to be between the Cubslayer and a video camera.  But one report of begging to have one’s second chakra released, and all of a sudden Al Gore’s imitating Howard Hughes… yeah, I know:  “All of a sudden?”  I mean to say, he’s more public about it now, if you’ll pardon the irony.  Or is that sarcasm?

Moe Lane.

Time for the *important* Byrd succession question.

Now that it’s been determined by the Secretary of State for WV that there will be no special election for Byrd’s now-vacant seat…

OK, let me just note something here. The seat was held by a Democrat; the Governor is a Democrat; the state government is more or less dominated by Democrats.  The people of West Virginia seem more or less happy about this state of affairs, and state law really does suggest that there is an issue with the fact that the filing period for 2010 has already passed.  Governor Manchin isn’t putting himself in the seat, and he’s probably not going to pull a Blagojevich and try to sell it to the highest Democratic bidder.  There’s not much for us to work with with regard to pushing for a 2010 special election, sorry. Continue reading Time for the *important* Byrd succession question.

Hypocrisy Watch: Rep Herseth-Sandlin (D, SD-AL).

Make up your mind, Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin:

Last week, we examined whether Max Sandlin’s job as a lobbyist would be something that Republicans try to exploit, like they did in the 2004 Daschle/Thune contest. Herseth Sandlin emphatically said that her husband should not be attacked in the campaign.

I didn’t know it at the time, but Max Sandlin already had jumped into the battle by sending out a fundraising letter on behalf of his wife.

Continue reading Hypocrisy Watch: Rep Herseth-Sandlin (D, SD-AL).