O, Dana

The other night, Dana Perino, the White House Press Secretary, was on The Daily Show. When Jon Stewart asked her if she had ever been asked to lie, she (of course) said, "no" and promptly gulped. I'm no expert on human behavior but it seemed awfully telling.

Jon Stewart also asked her, "The President has said that he's going to sprint to the finish. Can you get him to run faster?"

I'm willing to pitch in for some new Asics.

On a related note, take a look at this article written by Greg Palast regarding how the Feds took Eliot Spitzer down just in time to allow Ben Bernanke to loan $200 billion to bail out predator banks while "Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet."

Yeah, I know, I know. What the governor did was wrong. But the timing is impeccable.

There's a Monster in My Pants

Dear Eliot -

Why? Why did you have to become our two-faced, corruption-busting, whoring governor?

Yes, we all have our sins and failures. Yes, call girls need lovin' too. Yes, people are tempted into extra-marital affairs all the time. (What else could explain the phenomenal success of the Jerry Springer show? Or the scandal-induced sales of People magazine thanks to people like Brad Pitt?)

But, unlike the stars in Hollywood or the slack-jawed yokels found across America, we trusted you.

Why couldn't you keep it in your pants for just a few short years?

Sincerely, Confused in Rochester

P.S. $5,500 per hour? Tax-free? By working one hour per week, one can bring home close to $300K annually? Why doesn't anyone tell aspiring young MBAs this before they incur massive debt, mortgages, wrinkles and flab?