TGIF Wild Card — 1/30/09

In the news this evening, the Dow Jones Average fell almost 9% in January, the worst January in Wall Street history, here . Tom Daschle has hit a tax bump on his way to becoming HHS secretary here . Alaskans are braced for an eruption that has nothing to do with Sarah Palin here . More than the P-I newsroom is all shook up in Seattle here . The national Republican Party elects its first black chairman here . And today’s Wild Card remains on the table …