Updates

So, Chase got his rights traded to Houston. That's especially funny in light of his past experience with a team from Houston:



In other news, John Kerry is a colossal jerkwad, but we already knew that, didn't we?

The Bay State Democrat was regaling a group of business and civic leaders invited to the Capitol on the bizarre disappearance of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who was said to be hiking the Appalachian Trail.

“Too bad,” Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.”

Imagine if a Republican had said it. Think about it. The media outcry would have been much worse if this had happened:

“Too bad,” McCain said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Oregon. You know, Ted Kulongoski.”

Nothing against Governor Kulongoski, of course. I was just using him as an example. You can see the ridiculousness, though, right?

Yet another Obama nominee has tax problems

Via CBS:

Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary, said in a letter obtained by the Associated Press that she made "unintentional errors" on her taxes and has corrected her returns from three different years.

I honestly have to wonder whether Obama is intentionally seeking out nominees who have tax troubles. I've lost count of how many people have withdrawn their names from consideration. He really needs to strengthen his vetting process. As a point of comparison, I'm relatively certain that not nearly as many of President Bush's nominees withdrew like this.

Barney Frank pushes through more ridiculousness

Keep in mind that this is the same guy who was, in 2006, insisting that there was "nothing wrong" at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

He's now pushing for more salary regulations. However, he's not looking to regulate just top-earning executives' pays.

No. He wants more.

Via Byron York at the Washington Examiner:

But now, in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

Does anyone besides me find this to be little more than a power grab?