Wait, Katie Couric is Still On TV?

Howard Kurtz interviewed Katie Couric as her contract with CBS comes to a close.  Here's the money quote:

That’s why Couric has spent recent weeks in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is touring what she calls “this great unwashed middle of the country” in an effort to divine the mood of the midterms.

I don't know about y'all, but I took a shower today. 

6 Days Before Election Day . . .

And the voter fraud has already begun.  Hat tip to Instapundit. 

I'd say that I'm sure both sides engage in these shenanigans, but if the GOP were under any sort of suspicion of this kind of election tampering, then the media would be all over it. 

Voter fraud and election tampering in a democratic society (especially one of the stature of the United States of America) is totally despicable.  It's as though the Democrats and their agents who have done this (notably here, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader) concede that they cannot win on the merits of their policies and beliefs, so they must engage in criminal activity and steal the votes of their constituents and fellow citizens to keep their stranglehold on power.  Disgusting.

More Government Transparency

Treasury hiring FOIA officers "to withhold information from release to public". 

How loud would the howling be if this happened under Bush? 

Oh, Yes It Does

Some federal workers are getting together for a "Government Doesn't Suck" march. 

"It's time to turn the tables and remind the world that government employees just happen to be people -- people that don't suck," [Steven] Ressler said in a message sent to The Federal Eye on Sunday announcing the march. Government workers "are a lot of cool cats" who work hard, listen to good music and watch Stewart's "The Daily Show," "but that's all after they've spent a whole day keeping the country running," he said.

I think based on the above quotes from Mr. Ressler, it's safe to assume that he does kind of suck. 

So, who's in for the "IT BLOWS!" counter-protest?

What Does America Stand For?

Please watch this video of Dennis Prager speaking on a panel at the University of Denver.  He says everything much better than I ever could.

Obama's Leadership

There has been some discussion in the blogosphere lately about growing anti-Muslim sentiment and some believe that it is due to Obama's lack of leadership on this issue.  Following 9/11, Bush was proactive in exclaiming the virtues of Islam and pronouncing the terrorists as apostates of the so-called religion of peace.  Obama hasn't really continued that effort and his administration's efforts to return to dealing with terrorism as criminal activity and not as an act of war are leaving some Americans feeling more vulnerable to attack.  As such, it's presumed that this vulnerability leaves Americans more fearful of "the other" than they otherwise might be. 

Now we have Obama refusing to visit a Sikh temple because he will have to don a head covering to do so and the optics that creates would harm his image, or so he thinks.  I'm sure the Obama-is-a-closet-Muslim crowd would certainly pounce on that image.  But so what?  Why be beholden to them?  Especially when he's not even going to a mosque -- it's a Sikh temple for crying out loud!  Bush held hands with a Saudi royal (as is the apparent cultural norm in those parts) and Obama's worried about putting a handkerchief on his head?  Please. 

On a sidenote, Tunku Varadarajan claims in his article that "the old, bold Obama" is gone.  I would like evidence that such an Obama ever existed. 

Second sidenote:  for all the talk about how Obama would increase our stature in the world through his superior diplomacy and what-not, we got a President (and staff) who

• gives an iPod filled with his own speeches to the Queen of England
• gives DVDs that don't work to the British Prime Minister
• displays the Philippines flag upside down during an official visit
• and most certainly other transgressions that I can't remember or be bothered to find because it's too depressing

And yet, here's cowboy Bush sucking it up and holding hands with a Saudi prince because that's what grown men do in Saudi Arabia.  (Yes, I am overlooking the fact that the Saudi regime is about as unsavory as it gets.)  Who's more the citizen of the world -- Obama or Bush?

Damn Skippy

Get on with your bad self, Jim DeMint.