Me, my. My administration did more and better and made whites whiter without using bleach.

Shut up, Mr. President. You are not eloquent, and you are not particularly good at speaking in a press conference. Your "ME, MY, MY ADMIN" pathetic statements do not serve.

Better to say nothing and let folks think you're an idiot than to open your mouth in a press conference and demonstrate you are.

What a waste of oxygen.

From over at Hullabaloo:

Continuing resolution....

EK: The Senate passed the Continuing Resolution 79-16 this afternoon. Another way of saying that: The Senate voted to defund the implementation of both health-care reform and financial-regulation reform....

Republicans had been talking about attacking the health-reform law by defunding it, but few thought they'd succeed without a fight. The assumption was that Democrats would shut down the government before they let Republicans take that money. But as it happened, there was no fight at all. The omnibus spending bill collapsed, and the continuing resolution compromise was reached within a few days. Most senators probably don't even know the implications their vote had for the implementation of bills passed over the past year

Jennifer Rubin: I don't see how Democrats could have missed the implications of the defeat of the omnibus for ObamaCare. The aide, with obvious relish, dismissed the idea that Democrats in effect missed this one. He told me, "I think senators knew there was funding in the omni. That makes it all the sweeter: [Senate Democrats] would have had to force a fight to spend more and fund a bill that half the country not only hates, but wants to defund."

If this was all a secret, it was a poorly kept one. Republican leadership offices blasted out e-mails and press releases to activists and members of Congress warning that the omnibus included a billion dollars to fund ObamaCare. Republicans talked about it on the floor. I don't see how anyone voting, on either side of the aisle, could have missed this. Liberals might not have wanted to highlight it, but that's different than being unaware.

How did Democrats wind up in this fix? A GOP operative and former Senate staffer e-mails me that "after the omnibus collapsed, [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid didn't have an alternative. If conservatives are feeling bad about START, they should be really happy about this. With the new Congress in January, the GOP will be in a strong position on fighting ObamaCare."

[W]hen it comes to politics -- no, I don't cry. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

  If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for [the American people] and the policies that they're about to face.

The nomination of Ms. Seitz, a lawyer with Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, could provide one of the first tests of how Mr. Obama and Republicans get along in the next Congress. Partisan battles have prevented many of Mr. Obama's nominees from being confirmed, including the Justice Department's No. 2 official and several nominees to the federal appeals court bench.

The Sidley Austin firm is regarded as Republican-leaning, though Ms. Seitz has liberal credentials, having written a legal brief that proved influential in a 2003 Supreme Court ruling that upheld some affirmative-action policies in university admissions.

SNIP

Ms. Seitz, 54 years old, was a Rhodes Scholar and clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.

Carter Phillips, a managing partner at Sidley Austin, cited Ms. Seitz's work in the 2003 case that upheld the University of Michigan's law school affirmative-action policy. She wrote the brief on behalf of 29 high-ranking former military officials, arguing that military academies employed similar affirmative-action procedures that helped military cohesiveness.

While some affirmative-action foes could object to Ms. Seitz's work, Mr. Phillips, a conservative, noted: "We were representing retired military officers, not the long-haired radicals."

[Of course, Sidley Austin is also the law firm where Barack worked as a summer associate, and where he met Michelle, who was an associate.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has launched a panel dubbed the WikiLeaks Task Force, or "WTF", to investigate the impact of diplomatic cables and military documents released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks.

The task force, which is being led by the CIA's Counterintelligence Center, will examine how the release of these classified documents could affect diplomatic relationships, according to the Washington Post.

"The director asked the task force to examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency's foreign relationships or operations," CIA spokesman George Little told the paper.