Over a million people are still without power after ice storms swept the country last week. First Bush broke the levies and drowned New Orleans, now Obama has frozen half the country from Texas to Main.   God help us in 2012, when Palin blows up the Rockies!

Maybe Obama fell asleep in his warm, cozy office and forgot to make the call to FEMA.  Where is the media screaming about a lack of federal response to this crisis?

Iraq held another election and judging by the lacklustre, bare-bones reporting, nobody really cares. Not even the president, who didn’t bother to mention it in his weekly address - classy!

The AP hasn’t even bothered to fix their eggregious error in the headline, claiming major violence without the “no” in front. There was no major violence, hence the lack of media/presidential interest.

Update: the White House issued a statement, hours after they should have.

Obama’s ‘Dear Mahmoud’ letter to Iran has gone over like a lead nuclear warhead. There’s a way to deal with genocidal madmen, and the earnest pen-pal approach is not it.  A spokesman for the crazed leader (of Iran) had this to say:

“This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed”

Glad we got that cleared up.

On Obama’s website before the election (and on the new White House site):

“too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days.”

Obama after the election - signing the Lilly Ledbetter pay discrimination bill on his first day in office with no public review, a bill based on a well-established lie:

Ledbetter did not argue that the limitations period should be tolled in her case, and for good reason. Ledbetter testified that she knew by 1992 that her pay was out of line with her peers. In 1995, she spoke to her supervisor about the problem, telling him that “I knew definitely that they were all making a thousand at least more per month than I was and that I would like to get in line.” Yet Ledbetter waited until 1998 to file her EEOC complaint.

This delay is particularly difficult to understand given the fact that, in 1982, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint with the EEOC. That dispute was settled without litigation shortly thereafter. Had Ledbetter followed the same course with her pay claim, she would have had her day in court, and Goodyear would have had a fair chance to defend itself. That this did not occur is Ledbetter’s fault.

Would it be easier for those democrat nominees who haven’t cheated or ‘forgotten’ to pay their taxes to raise their hands?  Today it’s Tom Daschle. - $101,000 in unpaid back taxes since 2005.  Incredible.

Update: even more incredible, another $83,333 in consulting income not claimed, for a total of over $350,000 in income not claimed.  A normal person would be looking at a huge fine and/or jail time, not appointment to a top government post.

If Daschle doesn’t have the integrity to withdraw, the President should remove his nomination.  Look for those early approval numbers to take a big hit next week.

CNN has unveiled an assortment of over-the-top-and-into-the-tank t-shirts to celebrate the new administration. Even for CNN, this is embarassing.

Despite administration plans to banish Joe Biden to a windowless, phone-free room  in the back of the White House, the Vice President is determined to stay in the headlines.  That hasn’t worked out too well so far, and will likely not go much further.  Having delivered those Delaware votes in November, his job is essentially done.

The so-called stimulus bill is more of a ‘future democrat voter’ incubator.  A small but financially ruinous change will remove the cap on welfare transfers to states from the Treasury.  This will create no new jobs but it will greatly expand dependence on welfare.

If there is one member of Congress who has read the 600+page bill, I’d like to hear about it.

A contract worker planted a virus to destroy all the Fannie Mae data on their servers. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the FBI is combing through his cell phone records right about now as it’s unlikely he just woke up with the burning desire to erase the entire corporate memory.  Could be very interesting, and one B. Frank may not be having as much fun this Superbowl weekend as he’d hoped.

Politico asks what should be an irrelevant question.