Happy New Year

Here’s hoping that 2010 is a much much much better year than 2009 *Takes huge swig of chardonnay*

For your listening enjoyment, back by popular demand, (me), here’s the Irish  Auld Lang Syne:

My Top 10 Top 10 Lists For 2009 And Predictions For 2010

Because I’m too lazy to come up with one, myself…here they are in no particular order:

1. Little Miss Attila: We Don’t Need No Steenking Predictions . . .

2. Frugal Cafe: Closing Out 2009 with My Own Top 10 List… Top Ten Best Sarah Palin Quotes

3. Patterico: The 15 bloggiest stories of 2009

4. Doug Ross: My First Prediction For 2010: Illinois Based Terrorists To Be Freed, Unionized, Hired As        TSA Baggage Screeners

5. Phyllis Schlafly: Ten New Reasons Why Obamacare Can Still Be Killed

6. The Anchoress: 2010 Predictions? – UPDATED

7. Fox News: Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009

8. Michelle Malkin: Best (er, worst) of 2009: Hate mail edition (Content Warning)

9. Ed Morrissey, Hot Air: Persons of the Year

10. Moonbattery: Go, Crystal Ball, Go! and What the State-Run Lamestream Media Missed in 2009

I know, I know…some of the lists have more or less than 10 – NITPICKERS!

MORE:

Bob McCarty: Top BMW Stories the Mainstream Media Missed

I think these “What the MSM missed” lists may have to done on a biannual, triannual quad-annual basis in order to keep up with them all.

Dri at AoSHQ: The 30 Most Disturbing Ads of 2009.

BlackisWhite Imperial Consigliere: 2009: The Year In Review: Betrayal Edition

Demure Thoughts: Ten Shitty Things about 2009

Accuracy In Media: Watch The Decline: The Media Lowlights Of 2009

AoSHQ: The Top 10 Conservative Movies Of The Decade

Dana Loesche, Big Government: It’s a Wrap: The Most Under-Reported Stories of 2009

Pundet and Pundette: The year in pictures

Cassie Fiano: Blogosphere Round-up: 2010 Predictions

UPDATE:

Oh, uh huh….See? See? – What did I tell you? I knew there would be nitpickers!

No, they’re not all lists of ten, or even particularly lists…why should I let that stop me? I had my heart set on “my top ten top ten lists”, by God, don’t ruin my fun!

Troglodyte!

We Are Being Governed By Children

Lying, petty, hypocritical, finger-pointing children who do not have grown up priorities.

Oh. My. Gosh.

On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns — if any — from the Bush Administration.

Let that sink in…instead of treating the issue as a national security problem, their first instinct was to treat it as a political one.

I was just saying the other day, after Gibbs played the (by now fully expected, and unsurprising) “blame Bush” card:

Weak!

They still have no idea how petty and small this makes them look?

Apparently not.

The idea was that we’d show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could,” says a staffer in the counsel’s office. “We were told that classified material involving anything related to al Qaeda operating in Yemen or Nigeria was fair game and that we’d declassify it if necessary.”

The White House, according to the source, is in full defensive spin mode.

This is via the Prowler, mind you, which also notes that David Axelrod sits in on national security briefings with the President, something political advisers, like Karl Rove, traditionally have not done.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

SEE ALSO:

Verum Serum: White House Finds Way to Blame Bush for Terror Attempt

What the grown ups are saying:

Cheney and Congressional Leaders React to Obama’s National Security Policy

RELATED:

Mind Numbingly Hypocritical: Gibbs Decries “The Blame Game”

MORE:

I said it first!

Mike Hendrix, Cold Fury:

Fire Napolitano? What’s the point?

Andrew McCarthy:

The ‘Fire Napolitano’ Debate

Me, 4 days ago:

Janet Napolitano Echoes Obama:

I understand the disgust with Napolitano, but why would Obama fire her if this is in fact his own policy she’s echoing?

Just sayin’, just sayin’, just sayin’.

UPDATE:

“Full spin mode” in action:

Democrat Spinners: Obama More Aggressive Than Bush Against Al Qaeda