The Week in a Flash

Me and Ty have been gettin ready for the Super Bowl this week like most men, so let me catch you up on what's been going on in the world.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was unanimously impeached by the state Senate on Thursday. He went on the morning show circuit this week to plead his case to the public, but he probably should have saved some of that money and bought a Snuggie.

Obama got his big stimulus package through Congress...now taxpayers are on the hook for another $819 billion dollars. Or maybe everybody in Congress will get part time jobs at Starbucks to pay it off, that's what thousands of college kids across the country do to pay off their debts.

On the Super Bowl, I got Pittsburgh, I can't stand Arizona because they slept through the last month of the season.

I leave you with some Miller High Life ads that didn't make the cut for the game on Sunday.

Russ Feingold's amendment to be

Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold will propose a constitutional amendment that would require a special election in the event of any Senate vacancies. They already do this in the House, so why not the Senate? Currently, 38 states allow for the governor to appoint someone to the senate for at most two years. As we have seen with Illinois and New York's vacancies, these can bring about controversies of their own, and besides have you looked at who they let be governor these days? Clearly these people can not be trusted, though as Minnesota has shown neither can voters.

This actually seems like a great idea, one whose time should have come years ago. In order for an amendment to pass, it needs a 2/3 majority in the House, a 2/3 majority in the Senate and then a simple majority approval in 3/4 of the state legislatures, so this will of course never pass.

Weekend Viewing: The War Briefing

This is a good documentary about the foreign policy issues facing Barack Obama in the coming years.

You can watch it in its entirety here.

Have a good weekend.

The Obamaberry

After Barack Obama was sworn in and official like a referee with a whistle, one of his first pieces of business was to make sure his favorite device came along too.

According to ABC News, Obama will be the first president to use a Blackberry in office.

Because of security concerns he'll only be able to talk to a few select people, but it's better than Bush's system of passing notes by carrier pigeon.

I wonder if he has to call the same customer service line that everybody else does...imagine taking that complaint call.

Maybe this will be his new ringtone:

Caroline Kennedy will NOT be your new senator New Yorkers

The New York Post is EXCLUSIVELY reporting that Caroline Kennedy has told New York Governor David Patterson she is withdrawing her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the US Senate. So now it is up to Andrew Cuomo, son of former governor Mario, to become the latestdynastic senator from New York. Gov. Patterson did say he is considering Cuomo, but Cuomo has not publicly expressed interest in the position. Otherwise Patterson will just pick someone who does not have any famous relatives, which shouldn't be allowed since their other senator's most famous relative is a daughter that was on Last Comic Standing.

Cooper Manning will be your new senator from New York.

A New Day.

Unless you were frozen solid on the side of a road the past few days, you know that Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation's 44th President yesterday.

Now that all the pomp and grandeur is over, its time for Barack to get to work.

According to the LA Times, Obama has already met with economic and foreign policy teams to figure out early strategy on the economy and Iraq, and he read a letter that George Bush left him.

5 to 1 odds that letter was written on construction paper with a blue crayon.

Good luck Barack, oh man are you gonna need it.

Fin.

And with that, Dubya has left the building.

As the saying goes, don't let the doorknob hit ya where the good Lord split ya, PEACE OUT!