Finally President Obama got the bi-partisanship he wanted.  Just one day after he asked for more in the State of the Union, uber-bankster Ben Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. There were 30 "NO" votes, including 12 Democrats and 18 Republicans in the 70-30 tally.  So we now know that although the Republicans will fight to a man to block Americans from getting health care, or the right to unionize, or consumer and fraud protections, they will reach across the aisle and join with a few sold-out Democrats when it comes to protecting the interests of the Fed and the giant banksters.

In Strange news...Stan Dai, the arrested Landrieu phone tamperer who wrote an anti-feminist parody called The Penis Monologues as a conservative activist in college, went on to work for a program designed to get women and minority students interested in espionage work. Ok - he's interesting in spying....now we get it - he's just particularly interested in spying on Democratic women....