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And perhaps run for governor:

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback will make it official Thursday. CNN.com reports Brownback will announce he plans to leave the Senate in 2010.

The move is not unexpected. Brownback is widely believed to be considering a run for governor.

Brownback is the second Republican senator to state he’s leaving Congress. Florida Senator Mel Martinez also announced plans to leave.

Brownback unsuccessfully ran for the GOP presidential nomination this year.

Brownback won a special election to fill the rest of Bob Dole’s senate term in 1996. Dole resigned to run for president, a race he lost. Brownback won election to a full term in 1998 and a second term in 2004. At the time, he said he would not seek a third-term.

If he decides to run for governor, Brownback will face competition from Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh. He is currently raising money as he explores his own campaign for governor.

Governor Kathleen Sebelius cannot run for a third-term under Kansas law. After dropping out of contention for a place in Barack Obama’s cabinet to focus on the economic problems in Kansas, Sebelius is believed to considering a run for the Senate in 2010.

So, Brownback keeps his word – becoming a rather rare politician – and will now try for governor, while the current governor may vie to replace him. Kansas could end up being very interesting in 2010.

He who controls the past, controls the present – seems that the State of Illinois has removed a picture of Obama and Blagojevich in close conversation from a State website. Meanwhile, a news story stating that Obama was to meet Blagojevich regarding his replacement also seems to have disappeared.

I realize that the entire left and the MSM (I know, same/same) have a vested interest in protecting Obama – understanding that if he’s a flop, the left is finished for good in the United States…but adding this to the creepy cult of personality about Obama, one gets a shiver down the spine, and a feeling of gratitude for the Founders and their wise provision for the ultimate defense of liberty.

Then I’m fit to be Emperor – and anyone else who has a drunk uncle who swam away from a Buick is fully qualified to compete with her…

Of Obama and Co:

In a recent conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel offered some advice on a Democratic House leadership race. Pelosi’s response, according to several Democratic sources: It is “an internal House Democratic Caucus matter, and we’ll handle it.”

Democratic insiders say there’s no animosity between Pelosi and Emanuel, who’s leaving his post as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus to become the next White House chief of staff.

But the speaker is laying down the law nonetheless.

In talks with Emanuel and others, sources say, Pelosi has “set parameters” for what she wants from Barack Obama and his White House staff — no surprises, and no backdoor efforts to go around her and other Democratic leaders by cutting deals with moderate New Democrats or conservative Blue Dogs.

Specifically, Pelosi has told Emanuel that she wants to know when representatives of the incoming administration have any contact with her rank-and-file Democrats — and why, sources say.

Given that Pelosi is bereft of ideas other than mindless parroting of received liberal dogma, this can’t be a move to ensure ideological purity – its likely just a power play where Pelosi wants to be Queen of the Hill who is in the loop on all Obama legislative efforts, thus allowing Pelosi to be the dispenser of swag to the Democratic caucus. As a Speaker Pelosi has been a utter failure with even a weakened and lame-duck President Bush able to run rings around her – Pelosi wants an end to that.

This will be rather interesting to watch – Democrats have no ideas and they are mostly just a collection of corrupt special interests united in defense of abortion and in opposition to the GOP. Elitist and very self assured, Democrats view power as their birth right and with their coming take over on January 20th, the universe will be back into its right relationship – and they won’t really be thinking that they could lose down the road, as they have convinced themselves they didn’t lose in 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2004 but were, instead, the victims of a GOP dirty trick to which they are now wise. Arrogance and hubris are a toxic mix, and it will be slopping over the Democratic party as they come into power in January. The question will be how long before they start ripping each other to shreds, entirely uninterested in whatever it is we’re doing because, well, we’re the minority party and now all that talk of respecting the minority in politics is tossed aside.

Look for leaks, slander campaigns and an MSM which will be torn to pieces as each section of it is commandeered by an element of the Democratic party and is set athwart all other Democrats and parts of the MSM not on side.

Then we’ve got just your thing:

“I think the deniers should put their names on a big list to be handed to future generations,” writes Smiths. “These are the people that screwed the planet.”

Very well, “Smiths”. The big list begins.

I’m in. Had it with this nonsense – biggest hoax since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and lets just hope it doesn’t cost as much blood and treasure as that one did.

By the Feds, in regards to the Obama Senate seat:

Sneed hears rumbles President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations by the feds — dealing with his boss’ vacant Senate seat!

A lot of chit-chat?

Hot air?

Or trouble?

• • To date: Rahm’s been mum. Stay tuned.

Its trouble, and why Obama is dodging the issue – I wonder if we can get a pool going on whether or not Emanuel will be CoS come January 20th…

This is the 64th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge – feel free to discuss our magnificent servicemembers past and present and the sublime sacrifices Americans have made for the liberty of the world.

And if you want, you can discuss things of far less importance.

Not good news for Obama and his Democrats:

Forty five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say it is likely President-elect Obama or one of his top campaign aides was involved in the unfolding Blagojevich scandal in Illinois, including 23% who say it is Very Likely.

Just 11% say it is not at all likely, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Thursday and Friday nights.

That 11% needs to be located and isolated – they’ve got to be, oh, robots or space aliens or people lacking the wit to not stick their fingers in electric sockets. Very strange that anyone could say that Illinois Senator Obama is not at all likely to be involved in a scandal involving Illinois Governor Blagojevich regarding finding a replacement for Illinois Senator Obama.

Anyways – the bloom is really getting off the rose here. Now, to be sure, as January 20th approaches we’ll be back on full messiah mode in the MSM coverage of Obama, but that will mostly amount to preaching to the choir. For those not dimwitted in their Obama enthusiasm, the concept that Obama really represents change is at a discount. For Obama to really get past this and set a new course he’s going to have to make a dramatic break with this own side on the matter of corruption, and thus far we’ve seen no indicator that Obama has the courage to step that far out of line.

It will be a pity if Obama fails this basic test – a pity, but entirely expected by all of us who warned against Obama. Still, one does hope and pray that some how, some way, Obama will awaken from the liberal stupor and realize that doing the right thing will work.

Good to have a baseline database on this as it will become ever more complex as time goes on – so, if you want to know where we stand with Democrat corruption, go here.

Will the last person in the Obama Administration not touched by scandal please turn out the lights on liberalism:

A federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, did similar work in New Mexico after making contributions to Governor Bill Richardson’s political action committees.

The grand jury in Albuquerque is looking into Beverly Hills, California-based CDR Financial Products Inc., which received almost $1.5 million in fees from the New Mexico Finance Authority in 2004 after donating $100,000 to Richardson’s efforts to register Hispanic and American Indian voters and pay for expenses at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, people familiar with the matter said.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked current and former officials from the state agency if any staff members in the governor’s office influenced CDR’s hiring, said the people, who declined to be identified because the proceedings are secret. Richardson, who is President-elect Barack Obama’s designate for Commerce Secretary, has a staff of at least 30 people.

“They’re looking at everything related to CDR,” William Sisneros, the finance agency’s chief executive officer, said of the FBI probe. “They’re just trying to evaluate all the relationships to see what CDR was doing for the money.”

Par for the course in Democratic politics, to be sure – but deadly for the incoming Obama Administration which got us all hopeful about change, and such…