Good riddance.

Sweet!

Really?! Wow. Thanks for the heads up, Marindenver!

Yeah.  Health care reform is way too important to be turned into a media circus and nothing substantive ever actually happen.

Yeah, but now who are they going to find?

I Dr. Howard Dean available?

part of me thinks this makes sense, the other (more cynical) part thinks that this opens the floodgates with regards to GOP opposition to appointees.

And there seems to be a lot of calls for Howard “50-State-Strategy” Dean, MD, to fill the post . . . that would be good.

Damn damn about dashle though.  After the rape-job the GOP did on him previously, I’d really like have shoved him down their throats again, weird specs an all.

I guess cheating on your taxes has replaced cheating on your spouse as the new mea culpa for pols.

Well, at least for Democrats.  Republicans are still free to visit prostitutes and wear diapers.  For Freedom.

And right on cue, Darragh takes credit:

I love her echoing Hillary’s anti-McCain slogan. TELL THEM NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCA—wha??

Oh yes, porky stimulus package. What an entertaining character.

Now come on, how about a little understanding and compassion for the rich? They’re different than you and me, what with having to keep track of all their bank accounts and servants and whatnot. I can imagine how easy it would be to forget to do something inconsequential like paying one’s taxes.

And right on cue, Darragh takes credit:

Hey man, I singlehandedly torpedoed Richardson, just because I was pissed off about him shaving his beard. ROAOWWR! After PUMAPAC’s triumphant placement of Gillebrand in the senate (via the innovative strategy of writing to Paterson daily demanding the appointment of Carolyn Maloney), who could possibly question the power o’ the pack?

TPM and Politico are reporting that Daschle was apparently already rubbing Obama team members the wrong way by pushing for an administration job for Hindery, Daschle’s limo-and-driver benefactor.  Could he have been torpedoed by friendly fire?

Harriet Christian for HHS Sec. and first chief performance officer for the federal government!  FTW!!!

If you disagree, you’re a sexist pig and deserve to die, choking on a flaming bag of dicks.  Or possibly a bag of flaming dicks.  Whatever’s handy.

Sooo, Allan, you’re suggesting it wasn’t the PUMA Prowl that knocked Daschle out?  Also hearing that news about Hindery I am now convinced this is the best thing that could have happened.

What was the quip from Will Rogers?

I don’t belong to any organized political party, I’m a Democrat.

I’m for Howard Dean! For the best that Daschle bowed out. Geithner should have, too, IMHO.

Allan - I agree with you Michelle would be perfect, I saw her speak here in Jacksonville, she is smart, classy, and would bring a sharp mind to the problem of health care in the US, unfortunately as you say, Hillary fucked up that entire scenario.  I just WISH that Barack could put Michelle in the cabinet somewhere cause you know that she would be stellar.

marindenver—I agree with update 3, but some part of me still doesn’t want to see Dean ride of into obscurity.

Tom65—Perhaps it’s time to start using the term “country-lynching” (with all its terrible potential to be misheard): distracting a nation’s government with stupid trivia when it actually needs to get shit done.