Blog Bits

From around the blogs:

1. Dim-Post blogs on how Obam has found a way to balance the US budget – requiring all his Cabinet members to pay tax 🙂
2. Homepaddock tells us of Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean having to stop some escaping cows with her parliamentary truck!
3. Alf Grumble MP grumbles about the decision of the Employment Relations Authority that telling your boss to “stick his job up his arse” does not constitute quittin.
4. Karl du Fresne blogs on how John Key is changing the political landscape.
5. Matt Nolan has a depressing chart showing why the US recession may be the worst in recent history.
6. Bryce Edwards has a compulsory read blog on he future of NZ First.
7. Bernard Hickey encourages Dunedin residents to have a rates revolt to stop $188 million stadium.
8. Bruce Simpson at Aardvark suggests a ccode of practice for the media and blogging industries to deal with attrbutions.