The Political Whore

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. Is the new president up to butchering a little pork?

I don’t know which is better: Joe Scarborough saying “fuck you” live on MSNBC or Mike Barnacle’s mouth-agape expression right after it happens. Keep up the good work, Joe.

• Obama starts measuring the drapes as Bush looks on.
• The only different between AIG and common thieves is sometimes thieves have honor.
• Wither the South in national politics.
• More crappy economic news leaves Wall Street mired in a funk.
• Who the hell is M. Thomas Eisenstadt?
• Online poker players unite: Bush is about to ban your favorite game.
• Good news Tatangelo: Genetically modified beer might extend your life.
• Rays Evan Longoria a unanimous vote for AL Rookie of the Year.

Politics and media headlines on a Monday morning. What could be better than that? Daily updates in the box to the right, that’s what:

• Chicago considers forming a “gay-friendly” high school.
• Krugman wins the Nobel Prize for Economics.
• Weekend newspaper endorsements: Obama 15, McCain 0. (That gives Obama a two touchdown-plus lead.)
• 14 presidential candidates on the Florida ballot; getting on just takes a meeting you dub your “national convention” and 27 members in your political party. Trust me, the Whore Party will be ready for 2012, you betcha.
• Watch for McCain “push-back” on TV to start around Oct. 20, for early voting.
• The felon vote.
• Other than on Amendment 2, voters have little awareness of other constitutional amendments on the ballot.
• Newspaper web advertising revenue growth “slows to a crawl.”
• Tampa Tribune endorses two incumbents and Blair challenger Kevin Beckner.
• Another senseless Internet-related death.
• Yeah, there’s another tropical storm wayyyyy the hell out there.
• Democratic glee at the Republican dismay. It’s called schadenfreude.
• Kristol: McCain should fire his campaign.
• Washington politicians, lobbyists shielded Wall Street from liability for bad loans.
• The “Barack Osama” absentee ballot in upstate New York.
• McCain’s web-only Ayers ad is a “pants on fire” lie.
• McCain’s fans are turning on him; booing him for saying they didn’t need to be afraid of Obama:

Check out the following clip of McCain speaking about the recently passed G.I. Bill:

Now realize McCain was against this bill, and even proposed an alternate version that did not contain the provisions he’s bragging on in this video.

• Seymore Hersh’s latest New Yorker piece, on Bush’s increased covert action against Iran, is a doozy.
• Obama takes aim at southern voters.
• Tampa looks at minimum zoning requirements.
• Wall Street feasts on finger nails before the open.
• Some cry over Wal-Mart’s spilled milk.
• Will they or won’t they? Hollywood actors prepare to strike.
• Checking in on Oliver Stone’s W.
• The Bucs re-sign Earnest Graham.