Busy day for us, so light posting, and a light wrapup. Big ups to ShortFormBlog for finding the best clip of yesterday’s exciting car chase, featuring the killer play-by-play of Shepard Smith.
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FRESHLY RELEASED! New trailer for the Robert-Smigel-directed, Patton-Oswalt-starring Big Fan
The end to this election saga means that Democrats will now have a 60-seat majority that should theoretically allow them to block filibusters and pass whatever kinds of crazy commie legislation they want. However, a key stumbling block to this new found electoral dominance is the fact that the Democratic caucus is a bunch of weenies.
Democrats will need all the votes they can get to pass the Waxmen-Markey bill, which is the country’s first set of laws trying to stem the tide of climate change. Tom Friedman has a great column today pointing out that, while the bill kind of stinks and it is absurd we couldn’t do better, it is critical that the Senate pass it and pass it quickly. If reading isn’t really your thing, his key points are that the U.S. government needs to do SOMETHING to prove it is serious about climate change and that this bill is better than nothing.
See, you could have gotten your news hours ago, but by waiting and reading it here you are getting something those chumps who read the morning papers didn’t get: The news that the Supreme Court has just ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to appeal their detentions in civilian courts. Now the next phase of the terrorists devious plot to drain our resources through lawsuits and trying to get “civil rights” can take affect.
The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Al Franken the winner of the state’s hotly contested 2008 U.S. Senate race.
