uh huh.

[seperis]

To take this election to a truly and abysmally shallow place.

...Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff elect. You know, I can't honestly say I'd ever looked at a government official and thought, huh, but this is a huh.

Context: I mean, huh. I feel faintly dirty speaking thus of a politician. Yet a good dirty.

Kind of ashamed. Mostly not. My curiosity is pretty much focused on the following things:

1.) Treasury. Very curious. I mean, yes, presidential appointment is really honorable, but who the hell really wants that job right now?

ETA: For more on this, sheila_cpa goes over the current potentials here for mulling.

2.) What will happen to Lieberman. I think Lieberman is probably wondering the same thing.

3.) So. Alaska? What's up with that?

You know, I remember when writing here was a lot more interesting. Sadly, work is not necessarily busy but rather short, intense periods of activity followed by waiting for activity. I am stumped. Also, my boss wants to take a vacation and keeps mentioning places that involve either a.) warfare and strangely high casualty rates b.) crazy animals or c.) no running water for a million miles. I--the guy's belt matches his shoes, okay? He isn't going to make it without a toilet. I'm just saying, there's adventure and then there's, you know, sanitation. He doesn't believe me. I find this hilarious.

Yes, that was riveting. I know.

Comments

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Rahm Emanuel's a bull terrier -- sometimes you get Spuds MacKenzie, sometimes you get a kid in the ER with its arm bitten off. While there are places in an administration for a bull terrier, for Chief of Staff, you might be better off with a good sheepdog.

If Lieberman has any sense of self-preservation, he'll start caucusing with the Republicans. His loyalty to the Dems thus far has been a little boggling -- they betrayed him badly in his Senate race and then the DNC put a bounty on his head once he agreed to speak at the GOP convention. He's the leper in the nudist colony as far as the Dems go; the GOP will at least treat him like the fun crazy uncle.

Re: Treasury -- Facing down the economy has got to be easier for Larry Summers than getting run out of Cambridge on a rail.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that's his best bet as well, to be honest. I'm not thrilled with his RNC appearances or his statements during the campaign, but OTOH, I can kind of see why he chose that route.