* U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry editorializes on 2010 Census in Washington Times, says Democrats "politicized our nation's largest peacetime mobilization."
* BlueNC finds President Obama's shoutout to Attorney General Roy Cooper in the official White House transcript.
* The Independent begins the speculation on who might fill soon-to-be-Sen. Dan Blue's old seat in the House by looking at his competitors.
* Spokesman for the N.C. Republican Party disappointed that N&O editorial didn't prominently mention Gov. Mike Easley's party. (It's Democrat.)




Re: Quick Hits
I am just wondering who paid for Cooper to go to the White House to talk politics with the President? Why isn't he at home investigating Easley. Or did he get his marching orders from the President on what to do and when to do it? Of course it always takes the feds to investigate the Democrats here in NC. There is an old truism that if one party is in power for any length of time they tend to become corrupt. All anyone has to do to prove this truism is look at NC where there have only been 2 Republican governors since reconstruction (and for those that are educated in government schools that was in the second half of the 1800s). No wonder there is so much corruption in this state and Cooper is following in the footsteps put in the sand by the Blacks and the Phelps, and the rest of the Democrats that are or have been in jail.