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We rejected asinine attempts to assign guilt by association when the Republican right tried for months to torpedo Obama’s presidential bid by tying him to Pastor Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. Now, we reject Reid’s asinine rejection of Burris’ legitimacy to represent Illinois in the Senate.

James Carville waxes ominous in a curious column at CNN.com, hinting at yet-to-be revealed sex scandals in the Democratic camp. That kind of unseemly nonsense took a terrible toll on Bill Clinton’s presidency and the whole country back in the ’90’s; it’s the last thing Democrats trying to govern and the whole country need now.

The fact Blagojevich is tainted by a bad reputation and corruption charges, and ever had something — anything — to do with Obama and/or anyone close to Obama, makes this equivalent to placing a warm cow pie in range of a swarm of flies.

Turns out that, just as the Big 3 CEO’s claimed, the unprecedented credit crisis and resulting market downturn, coming on the heels of an unprecedented, long, painful runup in fuel prices, with the economy sliding into recession, created a perfect storm for the whole auto industry, not just their companies.

President Bush acted Friday to provide a desperately needed bridge loan for troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler, effectively tiding them over until shortly after Barack Obama becomes president.
The $13.4 billion loan money to be drawn from funds appropriated for the financial-industry bailout is, literally, about the least Bush could do.
The president’s plan pressures [...]

President-elect Barack Obama is making many good personnel selections as he prepares for the duties and responsibilities of the highest office in America, but naming Pastor Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation is not one of them.
The charismatic senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California is likable and his inclusion will probably strike [...]

It may be that General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are lumbering, Jurassic beasts that deserve their looming extinction. But only a free-market fundamentalist, a lunatic or a Senate Republican — perhaps that’s redundant — would conclude that now is the moment to hasten Detroit’s demise.

Conservatives don’t like either solution because the United Auto Workers union wouldn’t get cut off at the knees and billions owed retired autoworkers in the form of pensions would still be the companies’ responsibility. If conservatives get their way, those pension costs will become taxpayers’ responsibility.

Whatever the future holds for Blagojevich, Illinois Democrats need to do some serious housecleaning. The guy they chose to run for governor and helped elect didn’t get to the jam he’s in now by being honest as the day is long up until recently.

“Some” on the left should quit trying to form another one of their time-tested circular firing squads and start acting as reality based as they’ve claimed to be throughout the New Dark Age of Bush.