That's the news today. Allow me to decipher:
First, we've got cars. Southern Republican senators opposed the proposed bailout of the auto industry, arguing that the federal government shouldn't be paying taxpayer dollars to prop up Detroit. Well, turns out there's a healthy dose of hypocrisy there. These same senators gave big tax breaks to foreign car makers to entice them to open plants in the South, and threw some cash their way to help with training. Looks like regional concerns trump ideology here.
On to HUD -- the Department of Housing and Urban Development, that is. For a while, it's been hard to distinguish HUD from crud -- it's an underfunded, understaffed, dysfunctional agency. Can Obama pull it together? He certainly hopes so.
Shoes: the new rotten tomatoes. Except that it's getting pretty serious. Now it appears that the (in)famous shoe thrower is getting tortured in Iraqi custody.
And finally what you've all been waiting for. Crud. Shit. Or, as Obama would have it, poop. After dodging questions from reporters this morning, he chatted with a group of young children, and told them his secret Iraq withdrawal strategy and the lessons of responsibility as applied to feces.