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By CJP | December 11, 2008
 Good morning, Janes! With bailout money flowing, credit freezing and governors monetizing their goodie bags, it’s literally impossible for CJP to declare the biggest scandal in the country today.
So instead of making a judgement ourselves, how’s about we report, you decide, and we’ll all share a quiet smile over the fact that of all the people asking for money, explaining their bonuses and saying they haven’t spoken with Rod Blagojevich in YEARS, we haven’t seen a Jane among them.
Here’s your Morning Jane…
Top Domestic Story: The Economy
- Neel Kashkari went from Bailout czar to punching bag yesterday as members of the House Financial Services Committee unloaded on him with varying degrees of eloquence. One Fla. Republican vented, “We have been sold a pig-in-a-poke and a bait-and-switch has occurred.” Indeed. [Wall Street Journal]
- The House agreed to make up to $15 billion available to the Big Three, but Senate Republicans say they’ll delay the bill until they’ve come up with another plan. One House Dem. said delay is not an option, “If we wait 41 days we might not have one or more of the major automakers.” [The Hill]
Other Top Domestic Story: Motherbleeper-gate
- Barack Obama holds a press conference today to announce Tom Daschle as his pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (the post Blago said he might like from Obama), and will take questions from the media. Expect lots of q’s about Blagojevich, not so many about Daschle.
- Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. held a press conference (campaign kickoff?) to say he may be “Senate candidate 5,” but he never did anything wrong. Also, “I got the idea that…a short kid with a somewhat controversial but certainly a high profile name could be a senator from Illinois.”
- The new “Open for Questions” section at Change.gov is curiously free of any questions about the budding scandal. Politico finds all Blago questions had been removed by users because “they were found to be inappropriate.”
Top International Scandal: Robert Mugabe declared yesterday, “There is no cholera in Zimbabwe,” even as the World Health Organization said a deadly outbreak of the disease had killed more than 800 and infected thousands more. Mugabe said Western powers were using cholera as an excuse to plan war against his country. [Times of London]
We feel like Jennifer Anniston’s New Year’s Resolutions could include a moratorium on all discussion of Brad Pitt. And staying dressed. [Daily Mail]
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