Congratulations to America's number one unwed couple, Bristol Palin and Larry Johnson, now the proud parents of a baby boy named Tripp. To help them start a new life, People magazine paid them $300,000 for pictures and an interview. Maybe it can go to a scholarship fund so the doting parents can finish high school. Sarah Palin issued a statement that they were not dropouts: "You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time," the former Republican vice presidential nominee told People magazine in a phone message on New Year's Eve. "They are certainly not high school dropouts." So, maybe they are resting. It could be worse if they had decided to stay home and help out Larry's mom with her new business...
What's up with these Palins and the names they come up with for their kids? Track, Trig, Tripp? I guess the poor boy's nickname later in life will be Long Strange...
Harry Reid needs to get over himself, and stop acting like what he says is the law of the land. After all, he's not the Decider... First, he says the Democrats will not seat whomever Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich names as replacement for Obama's Senate seat, then he may try and seat Al Franken from Minnesota before all of the legal challenges and recounting has finished.
Franken is currently ahead by 49 votes or so, with 900 left to be looked at today. Norm Coleman's term ends at noon today, so the Democrats are going to take action immediately on this, probably will have done something by the time this is published. As far as Roland Burris is concerned, the Governor made an OK choice, though cynically making the Democrats seem racist if they don't seat a black man to replace a black Senator. Because Mr Burris really wants to be Senator as a cap to his public career, he is going along and playing it to the hilt. Hey, let it be, let Roland be seated, and if you are going to indict the Governor, get on with it instead of making excuses and asking for extensions.
Colorado's Governor Bill Ritter is announcing today that he has chosen the head of Denver's public schools, Michael Bennett, as replacement for Ken Salazar. He was the dark horse candidate, and people are scratching their heads as to why he was picked. Probably because Ritter asked the Obama transition team for advice, and they expressed interest in Mr Bennett. As an aside, when Obama was seated as Senator, he was 99th in ranking, with Ken Salazar being 100th. As the lowest members on the totem pole, they got to know each other, at least in a jokingly way. For Ken, it later bore fruit...
Israel is amassed at the Gaza border, looking over its shoulder asking "please don't make us do this!" They will probably bomb the place and go in tonight, by the light of a half-moon. They don't want to occupy the place and take on the responsibility of 1.6 million hungry people, but they can't stop now and appear weak to the Arabs and their own sense of machismo. Reasonable? Not us... not with elections coming up in February.
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