The "Push Back": Jargon 2009

The Really: New favorite code word for political pundits is "push back". Two words or one? It means "getting shit for something" or "backlash". Sometimes indicted people push back. Sometimes photographers push back too (at 0:13).

Hillary Clinton Accepts Post As Secretary Of State

The Really: It was really the right move for Hillary to eat some of her words and accept the job.

What do we mean by eating her words? Well, it was less then 6 months ago that Hillary was telling us that Obama was too immature and unqualified to be President of the United States and now she works for that unqualified President Elect! Go figure.

As I told a friend earlier this week, I hope no one in NY got too attached to her because Hillary has two words for New Yorkers, "I'm Gone!"

The Not So Political Truth About Rahm

The Really: Not that there is anything really wrong with it, but its just a little tid bit we thought we would share.

Taken directly from a Rolling Stone Article: Click the link to read the whole article.
When Rahm was a boy, his mother forced him to take ballet lessons, and he threw himself into it with the same intensity he would later bring to politics, winning a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet. Friends jokingly theorize that his toughness is actually an outgrowth of being a ballet dancer: With that sort of thing on your resume, you had better be ready to fight if you hope to survive in Chicago politics. "The guy had been a ballet dancer in college," says Bruce Reed, "yet grown men lived in mortal fear of what he might do to them if they couldn't get the answer he wanted."

Obama Accepts The Challenge Ahead

The Really: Yes, he really can now.