1/7/09- TWD's Agenda For The Day: The Quick Runthrough

Photo from TPM (via image caption from Fox)

Here we go.

Today's worthless photo op of the week (see above) happened just an hour or so ago, as Obama, Bush the Shrub, Clinton, Bush the Father, and Jimmy Carter met (and are still meeting secretly).

The stance from both the President-elect and Harry Reid has changed on seating Roland Burris. Expect some fool on CNN to say that Blagoveich outsmarted Obama and that this is a loss for him.

Speaking of CNN, the argument against Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General has intensified. Paul Krugman is apart of that opposite, feeling that another insider who hasn't gotten things wrong in the past is being rewarded. That feeling is based of the famous Michael Moore-Gupta battle over Sicko, where Gupta got his facts wrong in trying to smear Sicko and its director:

What bothered me about the incident was that it was what Digby would call Village behavior: Moore is an outsider, he’s uncouth, so he gets smeared as unreliable even though he actually got it right. It’s sort of a minor-league version of the way people who pointed out in real time that Bush was misleading us into war are to this day considered less “serious” than people who waited until it was fashionable to reach that conclusion. And appointing Gupta now, although it’s a small thing, is just another example of the lack of accountability that always seems to be the rule when you get things wrong in a socially acceptable way.

On today's TRI, a focus on today's haunting of troops from Israel into Gaza as a possible ceasefire could take place. Is it for real feelings or just to win back emotional support from the rest of the world lost in the continued assault on Gaza? We'll see.

One of today's music threads will focus on whether people in the urban music world truly know why they are going to party it up crazy during the extended weekend of Obama's inauguration.

And in one of the the sports threads today, we'll get you ready for the corrupt, avarice filled College Presidents Game between Florida and Oklahoma (maybe I'll get around to calling it the National Championship game tomorrow, maybe).

That and more (and hopefully not less) at The Whole Delivery today, as the Pending Schedule will be in the comments section at 1:50 PM. Peace