This one is a video multiple choice. The choices can be viewed after the jump. Answer A, B or C in the comments. QUESTION: Barack Obama’s first three weeks in office most resemble which of the following:

Hey, aren’t we all looking for a safe and lucrative investment in these troubled times? Grace Napolitano, a Democratic congresswoman from California, seems to have found one–her own campaign–according to this report from Tim Burger at Bloomberg: Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — During a decade in Congress, California Representative Grace Napolitano has pocketed more than $200,000 [...]

Max Boot makes some good points along the way to an extremely faulty conclusion in his Washington Post op-ed piece supporting Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan today. The good points are essentially strawmen, though. He’s absolutely right that the United States shouldn’t try to remove Karzai from office, as we did Ngo Dinh Diem [...]

In the history of the Obama Administration, Judd Gregg’s decision to pull out of the Commerce job will seem a pinprick. After all, how important is Commerce? Gregg himself voted to shutter the place–which was probably an early sign that he wasn’t the right guy for the job. But some pinpricks are also wake-up calls, and [...]

I don’t get it. Why is this job so hard to fill? It may be the sweetest gig in government. The pay is good. You get a paneled office with a view of the mall and a working fireplace. It comes with access to a government jet whenever you want one. You go on junkets [...]

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd: An affable fellow, great hair, pretty good debator, accomplished legislator, policy wonk, cute kids, cares about his country. But is he one of the heroes of the financial implosion? From Publisher’s Weekly, comes this news: Crown senior editor Sean Desmond has acquired a history of the congressional bailout of the financial [...]

First Richardson and now Gregg. Obama’s having a tough time filling this slot. Gregg’s statement: “I want to thank the President for nominating me to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce.  This was a great honor, and I had felt that I could bring some views and ideas that would assist him in [...]

Karl Rove: House Republicans had the wisdom to continue to talk to the Obama White House. This made them look gracious, even as the president edged toward a “my way or the highway” attitude. Pete Wehner: Right now President Obama and his team look at times amateurish and somewhat overmatched by events. The Bush Administration [...]

Let us pause once more to remember Halliburton, the company that used to run ads saying they got work “because of what we know, not who we know,” the company that won a sole-source contract from the Pentagon in the run-up to the war in Iraq, and won an umbrella military service contract, called LOGCAP, [...]