Obama, Edwards and Clinton have been going on and on about who can make change, who can make the best change, the biggest change, the change-y-ist change. Even Romney’s getting into the mix, and Huckabee is throwing the word around too. Change change change. All this talk of change makes me remember this classic SNL commercial.
Chris Dodd staged a bit of a filibuster yesterday in Washington, D.C., in an effort to keep telecom immunity out of a FISA bill. It’s rare that you feel exuberant about something a politician does, but this was one of those times.
Truthfully, I’m not sure who will get my vote in the Democratic primary, but I think Dodd deserves consideration.
To celebrate, a favorite moment from “West Wing.”
Here’s a link to an aricle from SFGate.com regarding President Bush’s holiday pardons. Twenty-nine total, including “carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws.” Scooter Libby wasn’t pardoned, which didn’t surprise me. I’m thinking that Bush will wait until the 11th hour to pull that trigger.
Then there was this:
On the list this year was William Charles Jordan Jr., a 64-year-old retiree from Dover, Pa., who was pardoned for his role in a college and NFL football gambling ring that federal authorities shut down on Super Bowl Sunday in 1997.
And he’s hoping that his grandkids don’t ever figure out what Google is…
Jordan said he did not want his eight grandchildren to know he was a felon, so he obtained the necessary paperwork through his congressman. He learned Tuesday the pardon came through.
And he concludes…
“It’s a nice Christmas present,” Jordan said. “I didn’t know what the odds were on getting one. I just sent the stuff in and hoped.”
I think it’s kind of funny that a guy busted for a gambling ring is speculating on what “the odds were” that he’d be pardoned. Maybe he’s hinting around at a potential new gambling line in Vegas.
And so what about this Scooter Libby pardon… I’d say even money that he gets a walk, and I’d probably put a few bucks on it.