I think I smell something …
Rahmbo Seizes the Census
(FoxNews.com) Utah’s congressional delegation is calling President (Barack Hussein) Obama’s decision to move the U.S. census into the White House a purely partisan move and potentially dangerous to congressional redistricting around the country.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah: “This is nothing more than a political land grab.”
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah: “It takes something that is supposedly apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy (WH Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) who is infamously political.”
The U.S. census is conducted every 10 years by the Commerce Department. Its results determine the decennial redrawing of congressional districts. Read more.
Did Somebody Hire a Publicist?
I was so impressed by the heroic US Airways pilot who shunned publicity in the days immediately following his textbook water landing of an Airbus 320 passenger jet in the Hudson River after giant geese were sucked into the plane’s engines.
For once, I thought, a guy who says he derives satisfaction from just doing his job and actually means it.
Then he showed up at the Super Bowl. Then on TODAY. Then on 60 Minutes. Then with David Letterman. And on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox New Channel tabloid show. What’s next? Jerry Springer?
Capt. “Sully” showed incredible courage and skill. Then he demonstrated class by resisting the urge to exploit his unwelcome fame. But now I fear the worst. I fear someone got to him, talked him into the publicity blitz and promised a big book deal.
Captain, just fly the plane.
Medical Malpractice
Read today’s reports on massive job cuts within the University of Chicago Medical Center, then try to convince me that this is not a clear case of an organization exploiting a struggling economy to justify huge cost cuts merely to prop up its bottom line. I challenge anyone to find a valid explanation for the elimination of 450 jobs, other than, “Well, everybody else is doing it.”
Makes you wonder how many other organizations are killing jobs under the guise of “the economy.”
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