The Rational Online News Network For 1/9/09

On TRONN today.

At The Kos, the video is up showing how Roland Burris lies like a seasoned politician.


At Media Matters, Jamison Foser looks at the pitiful move by the conservative media to bring down FDR and his new deal plan.

On Fox News, for example, Brit Hume insisted this week that "everybody agrees, I think, on both sides of the spectrum now, that the New Deal failed."

Unless by "both sides of the spectrum," Hume means "far-right ideologues who have shows on Fox News and far-right ideologues who do not yet have shows on Fox News," he's overstating the consensus by a fair amount.

Maybe pitiful is being so nice.

As always, Think Progress has a plethora of quality reads for your day. From the worst Vice President ever lying again about no one in that shameful Administration foreseeing the economic crisis , to Bush likely to get little for his post-Presidency lectures. And in the middle of all this news, watch this comment from Nancy Pelosi with how she feels Bush is a failurw:


At firedoglake, score a semi-victory for equal employment rights, as the House passed two bills, the Ledbetter and Pay Equity Bills, to the Senate today.

And over at TPM, Josh Marshall dubs Blagojevich a new nickname : Rod God after that wonderful press conference.


And, of course, their always wonderful 100 second Daily American TV news media roundup:

The Rational Online News Network, for January 9, 2009.