President Plays Hoops; Wins Polls

By Megan Carpentier  |  April 28, 2009 | 2:00pm
  • Barack Obama shot some hoops with the women of the NCAA champion Huskies and won. (Pic at left is from early April.) The jersey they gave him, though, was a bit too small. [The Swamp]
  • He then had Rahm Emanuel rip a new asshole for the guy that approved the Air Force One photo op over New York City yesterday that scared the bejesus out of everyone. [ABC News, Politico]
  • About two-thirds of Americans continue to think Obama’s doing a good job, and another third are Republicans and tea-baggers. [Real Clear Politics]
  • White people still think black people have it pretty good in America, and a lot of black people know that, just because we have an African-American President, it doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist. [NY Times]
  • In other poll news, most Americans don’t want some big series of hearings on torture because they would rather our government focus on fixing the fucking economy. [CBS News]
  • Republicans want to prove that the Democrats didn’t care about it in 2002 any more than a lot of Americans do now. [Politico]
  • Newt Gingrich wasn’t a fan of torture before Republicans took the White House. Apparently, Newt’s moral compass points in the direction of whatever gets him elected when it’s not pointing in the direction of a new piece of ass. [Huffington Post]
  • More people will continue to crap their pants because of pigs. [Time]
  • Obama is there, though, to hold the nation’s hair out of the toilet. [NY Times]
  • Mostly because Republicans are still pissed that a Democratic nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t plan to try to reverse Roe v. Wade and thus they don’t want her confirmed. [Plum Line]
  • Please take a minute to note that abortion politics weren’t remotely part of the debate when a man was the nominee. Just sayin’.
  • According to official talking points of wing-nuttery, Obama imported the piggie disease just to ram through the Sebelius nomination. [Washington Independent]
  • Five members of Congress were arrested at the Sudanese embassy in a protest over Darfur because no one’s paying attention to it anymore. [Politico]
  • GM released its restructuring plan and it calls for the elimination of 21,000 jobs, 2,600 dealers, Pontiac, Hummer, Saturn and Saab. [LA Times]
  • The universe of gun-owners — including Ducks Unlimited — is pissed at Rush Limbaugh for doing commercials for the Humane Society. Normally, I’d say not to piss off dudes with guns, but I’m sort of fine with Limbaugh pissing off dudes with guns. [Washington Times]