Maria Shriver's Project to Improve Women's Lives

Maria Shriver says it's time to make women more successful. I'll say.
See Shriver's op-ed at HP here.

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This new project aims to produce a "Shriver Report" that also will assess the status of women in government, business, faith institutions and healthcare, fields whose higher levels were all but closed to them in the Kennedy era.

Shriver's effort dovetails with an executive order recently signed by President Obama ordering a federal examination of women's status.

"Examining ways to improve the lives of women in this country is a noble cause, and I congratulate Maria Shriver and CAP on launching this new venture," White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said in a statement. "Maria's contributions to better understanding American women today are invaluable, and we look forward to the results of this work."

In a statement, Shriver said: "The world has changed dramatically since my uncle launched his commission in 1961, and the fact is we need a new portrait of the American woman so we can better understand what she needs to be successful in this complicated world. The truth is, we are now what I like to call, 'A Woman's Nation'. " LAT

Shriver was also a guest speaker at the Leadership for Health Summit held in Los Angeles today and tomorrow.

Palin Makes a Fannie Freddie Blunder

Ms. Mooseburger and her kill. 

It's a pretty big one if you ask me. She set herself up by coming out swinging, throwing rocks at everyone the night of her speech, including the media, and then ditching the media. I hope she's vetted like a moose is dressed.

HuffPo: Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization."
Here's more:

"You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."

Can't wait til Ms. Mooseburger is on the loose.

In this video, everyone cheers obliviously and they say Obama supporters drank the Kool-Aid. Palin-McCain supports gulped.