Thursday, July 18, 2002

Going Down Fighting: Soon to be ex-Congressman James Traficant, owner of one of the Ten-Top-Toupees-on-TV, has been putting on quite a show this week. Convicted of taking kickbacks, payoffs and everything but the dog's dinner he wound up his own defense before the House Ethics committee with a paranoid flourish seldom seen on the Hill.

That Tangled Web: We give the dems and the media until the end of the week to move on from the whole accounting scandal. Howie Kurtz's column this morning shows why the worms from the can they opened in trying to blame Bush are turning into pythons.

Talking to Themselves: Check out this NYTimes poll for sheer political delusion. They even quote an "unemployed hair dresser" from Elmira, N.Y. as an expert on economics. LComStaff will fly this lady to New York City to do all staff hair if she can explain Dick Cheney's prior business dealings and how it changes her life.

Deep Freeze Donahue: The WSJ's Tunku Varadarajan (the man with the name that sounds like a ball bouncing down the stairs) takes on the Donahue-Chung-O'Reilly menage-au-tiresome and comes up with O'Reilly as the eventual winner. What's confusing about the thawing of Donahue, from what we thought would be the permanent retirement fridge, is why those who did it think this country craves being screamed at after dinner.

Gotcha! This fun little item from Mickey Kaus' Kausfile concerns NYTimes columnists slurping material from the same DNC dog dish. And, continuing the dog theme, we loved the attached comment by poster "901atTheRiver."

One Man Band: If anything gets done at our totally messed up State Department we can thank National Review's young Joel Mowbray. Detained, demeaned and lied to by State functionaries, he keeps hammering away. Here's his latest as published in the New York Post.

-Your Yearning-for-Friday LComStaff