First of all, the governor of Illinois was impeached today for allegedly putting President elect Obama's Senatorial seat up for sale. He's allowed to appoint the successor. Since he was indicted by way of wire-tapping for the offense, he decided to appoint someone anyway because he could. He's not going down easy. He appointed a man who at one time ran against him. More about that man later. The governor, who ran on a platform of reform against corruption in government (gotta love Chicago politics), has never actually said anything directly toward the indictment saying that the House is picking on him for trying to "help the people." Political theater.
The senatorial successor, Roland Burris, tried to show up for his first day of work at the Capital in Washington only to be turned away at the door. The Secretary of the Senate refused his credentials because they weren't signed by the Secretary of State of Illinois, who refused to sign them because of the scandal of the indictment. Mind you, there was no impeachment at that time, there was no conviction, there was only the indictment. He is still the legal governor of Illinois. Was he the legal Junior Senator of Illinois or not? The top Democrat in the Senate, Harry Reid, said before he showed up that they wouldn't let him in, and they didn't, but Burris still showed up and made them keep him out.
Okay, before this all started I didn't know and didn't care. I thought when Gov. Blago (his name is really long and I don't want to type it) gave his press conference and announced that Burris was his choice for Senator - poor guy. He's so happy and he was chosen by a loser. He can't possibly really be a Senator, yet he's taken that stance and stood by it ever since. He showed up for work, had the door shut in his face and then come back the next day. Good for him. He's making them work at proving he's not the Junior Senator from Illinois. He's stating his case and making them prove every word and not playing their politics as usual.
The other stories being thrown around are the new documentary about Sarah Palin where she complains that she would have been treated differently if she had been the Democratic choice. I think I agree. The Republicans are kinda snooty. She wonders how the media is going to treat Caroline Kennedy compared to her as a candidate. Hmm, it's not fair, but it's not going to be the same. Whether it's spoken or not spoken she is the daughter of John Kennedy and there is an unspoken deference for her. Still, when Kennedy first announced her interest in the Senate seat, there was an undo amount of air time on that huge amount of chicken that she put in her mouth in the Harlem kitchen. Really, was that necessary? She might not have been the executive of a town or state budget but Kennedy has not been idle her entire life. She has been kinda busy with her own public service agenda.
The other thing Palin was moaning about was the unfair shots the media took at her family. She said that Obama at one time said that family was off limits and she naively thought that hers were off limits, too. Actually, he said that in reaction to the shots being taken at her family. I wish she had remembered that. And, when you drag your family up with you on the podium at every stop around the country, you can't call it "off limits" when someone mentions them in the press. She needs to get a thicker skin. She clearly intends to be around for a while so some lessons on dealing with the media are sorely needed. Really, Sarah, get a consultant. A high priced one would be good. Cause people still find you interesting, but it can go bad fast.
I imagine that I'll still be watching the same things tomorrow. It's kinda like watching a soap opera that way. Oh, yes, there is one more thing. The BCS Championship. It's kind of unreal, actually. I watched the last half of the game. OU lost. Very sad for our team. I woke up and turned the TV on and went in to take my morning pills and heard the President elect in his press conference talking about - the BCS bowl? the commentators talking about the Oklahoma connection of one of the nominees? is this the press conference? Headline News was asking for comments all day on if people like the way the BCS Championship is decided. The President elect is commenting on it during his press conference. Really?
On a different note, I played my new Star Wars Lego game yesterday, when I opened up my new/ different XBox. Yes, the note that came along with the XBox they sent back said that they didn't fix my XBox they sent a different one. It didn't say a new one, it said a different one. It froze twice while I was online, but I'm afraid that might be because my internet speed is too slow. Until it does that to a game when I'm offline I think I'm good. At least the game started, although that did me no good when I was playing. I suck. Josh and Alex got me this game cause it got good ratings "for people like me" (who SUCK at games like this!). It is fun though. I got my Jedi lego man to jump and use his light saber to cut everything around him into little lego pieces, and lift things with his Jedi mind powers. It really is cute.
I also got to play GHWT with Michele online using my new wireless headset. Thankfully it turns out Michele's headset is fine and when I finally synced mine with the box we were all good to go. We played a lot of sets and when we went head to head Michele kicked my butt.
Whew. That's it. That's all I have. No, you can't have any more. I'm done in.
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