Here he is taking on some teabaggers, though I would suggest that people who think that Act Pink does any good listen to his comments toward the end, when he says that, “Disruption never helps your cause. It makes you look like you are afraid to have rational discussions. You just drive people away.”
*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.
Tom Delay will be appearing on Dancing With the Stars.
Not much of a joke, but the best I could come up with.
Please make better ones below.
But when you hear him answering back, in complete sentences, and he is saying, “Michelle Bachmann, you should run for President….Well, yes, that is batsh%$ insane.
To be fair, Michelle Bachmann is not claiming that God told her to run for President, though she did say that God told her to run for Congress, she’s just saying that she expects God to ask her to run for president.
“The phrase ‘paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur’ is not in the aardvark’s vocabulary, so, in his mind, he substitutes ‘crazy as a panrovian monk’ . . . ” (Cerebus #5 p 13)
I feel embarrassment sharing a country with her….How do her constituents not go through life with bags over their heads to conceal their identities.
Krugman nails it on MSNBC:
Of course, this does not prevent the White House from capitulating on the public option, because, as I’ve said before, Barack Obama does not care about healthcare reform, he cares about being able to sign some sort of healthcare reform bill, even if it is bad and has no real reform, because he gets to claim success.
They are talking Co-Ops, which we know won’t work, because they haven’t worked. If they were even marginally successful, we would see hundreds of them, some of them huge, and we don’t….They can be counted on the fingers.
In a move that has “Epic Fail” written all over it, the Police are attempting to staff up by actively recruiting ZANU-PF youth militia members to the force.
As if the state security apparatus were not brutal, politicized and corrupt already.
We also have Arthur Mutambara, head of the MDC-M, stating the obvious, and noting that neither the MDC-M nor Tsvangerai’s MDC-T have any meaningful control of the government.
On the brighter side, we are now seeing divisions in the ZANU-PF over who should succeed late Vice President Joseph Msika, and it appears that the split is between the people originally from ZANU (Robert Mugabe) and PF-ZAPU (Joshua Nkomo).
One hopes that the MDC, both -T and -M, can use this discord to get some meaningful influence in this dynamic.
He is saying that Democrats who work to kill or minimize the public option will be primaried:
Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean fired one of the clearest warning shots at hesitant Democratic lawmakers on Thursday, insisting that if the party was unable to produce a health care bill with a public plan, there would be electoral consequences.
“I do think there will be primaries as the result of all this, if the bill doesn’t pass with a public option,” Dean said, in a phone interview with the Huffington Post.
The essence of the problem is that no one fears the people, the majority of the people who favor real healthcare reform, and it has to be more than primaries.
We have to be willing to support Green Party candidates and the like in the general election against the most egregious of the Blue Dogs in the general.
If we lose 4-5 seats this way, it will move 40-50 allegedly Democratic Party votes in our direction in Congress.
We can see the effects of real challenges to incumbents in the voting patterns of Arlen Specter, which have become much more loyal since Sestak decided to run against him in the primary.
Right now, there are no consequences for DINOs who actively oppose core party values.
He’s the Daily Show‘s “Senior Black Correspondent.”
Seriously, this actual letter from Michelle Bachmann (R-Land of Oz), leaves me without a proper rejoinder.
I know that there should be some sort of rejoinder to this, something witty and devastating, but the stupidity, and self-centered immaturity stun me, and I’ve got a 12 year old daughter:
Don’t let them Palinize me!
Dear Friend:
Last month, I appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News Channel. I was talking about the Democrats’ latest scheme to pick the taxpayer’s pocket to pay for a $1.5-billion slush fund for ACORN.
Before getting into the meat of this terrible new anti-taxpayer proposal, Sean Hannity said that he considers me “the second most hated Republican woman,” second only to Governor Sarah Palin.
With Governor Palin taking a well-deserved step out of the spotlight, it appears that I may be absorbing even more of the liberals’ scorn.
And, I’d really appreciate your support so that I can defend myself against their attacks. Click here to make a donation!
I’m out there every day speaking the truth about their attempts to guide this nation into socialism:
• Their government-run health care proposal that will put government bureaucrats in between you and your doctor and end up rationing care — and the most vulnerable will suffer first and most.
• Their cap-and-trade national energy tax that will drive up energy costs for every American and send our jobs overseas.
• Their spending spree that has pushed the national budget deficit over the $1 trillion mark for the first time in our history. We’re already closing in on $2 trillion and there’s no end in sight to their spending.
• Their dozens of White House czars with power over your lives and futures and absolutely no accountability to Congress or the people.
• And, speaking of unaccountable — when are they going to open up the Fed’s books to the public?
• Their political patronage to groups like ACORN — doling out billions of your tax dollars and partnering with them to collect your private information for the Census.
But just as they did with Sarah Palin, the more I talk about the issues, the more they attack with below-the-belt personal hits. In fact, yesterday, a Minnesota paper gave a full column to a hit piece on one of my kids!
Can you help me to defend against these attacks? Click here to make a donation! [Yeah, like I’d supply a frelling link to that nutjob]
I’ll tell you the truth: Their sticks and stones will not stop me from going out and speaking the truth about their bad policies! And, your support really helps!
God bless and thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
From the Urban Dictionary:
Palinize:
To smear or mock someone using falsehoods, baseless accusations or unsubstantiated character assassinations for the purpose of blocking them from achieving a goal.
To exaggerate the truth or lie by omission.
To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to wrap my head before it f$#%ing explodes.
I would note, however, that she does not give one of the more popular definitions from the Urban Dictionary, you know, something like, Palinize, “When someone answers a question without any form of intelligence or foresight. In an attempt to divert from giving a correct answer and in the process sounding unintelligible.”
Letter to Karl Rovecomplaining that US Attorney David Iglesias was “missing in action” during the 2002 and 2004 elections (see pic below), and Harriet Miers fingers Karl Rove calling for his dismissal for explicitly political reasons:
The House panel focused most of its attention on Iglesias, a rising star in New Mexico who came to displease his political patrons. Miers told investigators that Rove called her in September 2006, “agitated” about the slow pace of public corruption cases against Democrats and weak efforts to pursue voter-fraud cases in the state. In the call, Miers said, Rove described Iglesias as a “serious problem” and said he wanted “something done” about it. Miers testified that she called then-Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty to pass along the concerns.
But when you see clear evidence of corruption and a deliberate attempt to undermine the role of the Department of Justice as a non-political enforcer of laws, what do we get from Obama and Holder? Crickets.
We need a special prosecutor. Because until people are prosecuted for crap like this, it will continue.
It appears that Rick Santorum* is making the pilgrimage to Iowa, indicating that he is looking to run for President in 2012:
Add former Sen. Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates.
POLITICO has learned Santorum will visit first-in-the-nation Iowa this fall for a series of appearances before the sort of conservative activists who dominate the state GOP’s key presidential caucuses.
While this might not be good for the nation, or for the caucus goers of Iowa, or any attempt to have sanity return to the Republican party in 2012, it is good for late night talk show hosts, columnist Dan Savage,† and anyone interested interested in heaping scorn on nonsensical quotes from Republicans, like yours truly.
This promises to be as entertaining as the Fred Thompson Clown show of 2008.
Of course, it could go horribly awry, as my father illustrated in 1968, when he noted, “Those stupid bastards nominated Richard Nixon! There is no way that we can lose now.”‡
*The definition of Santorum is, “That frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex”.
†Who coined said definition of “Santorum.”
‡Piss poor political forecasts run in my family, so do not take my predictions as gospel.
It now appears that the was a practical joke designed specifically ensnare the birthers.
It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration:
Fine cotton business paper: $11
Inkjet printer: $35
1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10
2 Shilling coin: $1
Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3
Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless
Morons.
No indications of any “hikes along the Appalachian trail,” my guess is that he is just sick and tired of an increasingly racist and anti-Hispanic GOP, and wants out.
It may also be that he does not want to be in the position of ,making the swing vote for cloture on healthcare reform, and you still need 60 votes even if he is gone (it rounds up).
Charlie Crist, who is running to replace him in 2010 (he had announced that he would not seek reelection) would appoint his successor, but has promised that he will nto appoint himself, so the dynamics are interesting.
I just can’t seem to come up with a word for this.
You see, the Democratic National committee (DNC) is doing its level best to make sure that everyone knows that the rent-a-riots at town hall meetings are AstroTurf that have been bought and paid for by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and His Evil Minions™.
What’s more, the DNC actually put out an ad about it (below), in which they suggest that people call the RNC to tell them to stop, but the RNC added a voice mail option to include this, which routes the calls to the DNC switchboard.
These are dangerous times, and the Republicans can’t deal with snippy callers….How can we expect them to keep us safe from Osama bin Laden?
Seriously, this is so chicken sh&% that it leaves me at a loss for words.
The vote was 68-31 in the Senate.
About the only real surprise here is that Republicans have structured this entire thing in a way seemingly designed to piss off the Hispanic Americans, all for a Justice who really won’t matter:
Not clear why they decided to be assholes about this…..Maybe Rush really does own the ‘Phants.
It’s to name the next United States Navy nuclear powered aircraft carrier the USS ENTERPRISE.
Actually, I’m not too set on the name….If they called it the Lexington, Saratoga, Enterprise, Ranger, Hornet, Midway, Coral Sea, or something with some history, but the idea that is being push by whack job Republicans, that it be named after Barry Goldwater, is just plain stupid.
Goldwater served in the USAF, and quite honestly, his claim to fame is having been crushed in a presidential election.
If you are going to name carriers after one term (GHW Bush) and ½ term unelected (Gerald Ford) presidents, you should name this one after LBJ or WJC, but I do not think that we should name warships after anyone.
Once again, the Republicans have me saying something that I would never imagined have saying in my wildest dreams, but William Shatner reading Palin’s resignation speech as poetry is brilliant.
You are not only a crank, but spinning at 4700 rpm.
And that is what she says about the birthers.
That’s what the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control has discovered, that under the anti-sex policies of George W. Bush, both Syphilis and teen pregnancy grew sharply.
Hoocoodanode?
Jon Stewarts takes the Obama birthers to the wood shed.