The "Saxbe Fix" and Delicious Irony

1. Sometimes, the irony is just too delicious. The Constitution (Article One, Section Six) prohibits a Senator from being appointed to an executive position, if the pay for that position was increased during the Senator's term in office. This provision would thus make Sen. Hillary Clinton constitutionally ineligible to be Secretary of State. But here's where it gets good. In the 1970's, they cooked up a scheme to evade that provision, by legislatively reducing the salary of the executive position to its pre-raise level. Here's the best part -- the scheme was invented by Richard Nixon, and the guy he appointed (Sen. William Saxbe) was the clean-up crew after the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre", when Nixon shredded the Justice Department to continue the cover-up of Watergate (Saxbe had nothing to do with it -- he was pretty much a good guy). The scheme even has a shady-sounding name -- "the Saxbe fix". This is just perfect! So here we have Hillary Clinton, who made her bones on the staff of the Congressional Committee that was impeaching Nixon for abuse of power, and who's been pontificating self-righteously about the current Administration's alleged disrespect for the Constitution. And now she's benefitting from a sneaky Nixonian scheme to completely vitiate a clear provision of the Constitution. I love it.

2. The Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood, is once again caught red handed conspiring to cover up the rape of a child, in order to cash in on the abortion. All with government funding. With complete impunity. Waiting for indictments or investigations? Don't hold your breath.

3. The leadership of the Party of Herod and the transition team for the 100% anti-life President-elect are giving hints as to their plans for January. At the top of the list is expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research. But he was supposed to be more pro-life than the other guy!

4. From the "You Have Got to Be Kidding" department. Elliot Spitzer has been engaged as a new political columnist for Slate online. Here's the best part: the column will be called "The Best Policy". I seem to remember an old saying that "honesty is the best policy". Perhaps they could enlighten us about his particular qualifications to write about honesty in public or private life, because they are far from self-evident.

5. Stop the presses! Breaking news, and Time Magazine has it cold -- the Pope is Catholic! Film at 11.

6. This is an odd toy -- an online calculator that will assess your risk of divorce. Mine came out so low that it was "N/A". Whew.