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Can You Say Culture Of Corruption?
Riehl World View — The upside of losing an election as in 2008?There isn't much for the media to focus on but Democrats and we're not even getting started, yet. I suspect Dodd is going to be coming up in stories like this, as well. Hope, change ... and a side dish of pay to play, please. This is now the second instance linked in one way or another to the incoming administration. I guess Obama's judgment isn't very good. Or he's so acustomed to corruption being from Chicago, it didn't matter when he made the pick. Tsk, tsk .... WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to ...

It's a good thing...
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — It's a good thing... that the Democrats are ending the culture of corruption in American politics. Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at January 4, 2009 05:34 PM ...

The Bill Richardson Debacle: An Epic Fail For Obama
Pajamas Media — First Blago, now this - the transition has been a bumpy ride. [image] One of my not-so-guilty blogospheric pleasures is Failblog , a site dedicated to chronicling the foibles and fallibility of humankind. As I write this, the front page carries stories of the “Amateur Fireman Fail,” “Parking Fail,” and “Height Estimation Fail.” Perhaps due to especially notable failures, the concept of an “epic fail” has now entered into the lexicon; one hastens to note that epic fails are not solely and exclusively covered by Failblog . May I posit that the withdrawal of Governor Bill Richardson’s name as the ...

Where, Where the Hell Is Bill?
Hit & Run — Bill Richardson just loves his country too much to let an ongoing New Mexico influence-peddling investigation muck up his confirmation as Commerce Secretary, and so good-bye. Mildly bad news, maybe, for those of us who cling to any capital-C Character that comes along in an otherwise dreary sea, much like early-'80s Cleveland once embraced Super Joe Charboneau. More substantively, to the extent that the Department of Commerce impacts trade policy, it would theoretically seem unfortunate that a trade-bashing president-elect has let go a man once self-styled as a "market Democrat." But Richardson ...