Archive for June 29, 2009
Personal Note: Eric J. Vanzura – The Best Hospitalist In the World!
Hospitalist?
A bad word, I know, but he’s amazing.
Healthcare as it could/should be.
A house call.
Empathy.
H/t to him.
Greta Van Sustern: On the Record as a Hypocrite
Fox “legal analyst” Greta Van Suteren lead her show tonight with talk about President Obama and health care with Donald Trump, on oil and OPEC. (Since when is Trump an expert on that?)
Van Susteren, the belle of winger legal “news” and of missing, dead white girls — who ignored the biggest trial in the history of the Bush administration — has suddenly (as of 1-20-09) turned her eye toward politics?
Interesting.
Ever Hear Fox News Bellyache About the Time George W. Spent Golfing?
As we know, according to the wingers, President Obama can’t do anything right. And as we also know, that won’t change until he’s out of office. One of their favorite targets, as this headline from today’s FoxNews.com illustrates, is his love of golf. Obama tends to play golf for two or three hours every now and then on a Sunday afternoon.
Remember George W. Bush’s love of golf? And his seemingly-endless vacations? Ever hear Fox scream about that?
Me either.
What with at least four years to go, they really should pace themselves. If they don’t, it won’t be long before they’re whining about how much time Obama spends, oh, I don’t know, flossing his teeth.
Hold on there wingers! Take a breath. Like I said, pace yourself.
Is the Extreme Right Trying to Destroy Charlie Crist?
The 2010 Florida senate race is heating up, with current Governor Charlie Crist, a moderate Republican, and Marco Rubio, a winger known as the “Cuban Newt Gingrich,” the most prominent candidates. Rubio has been endorsed by the Club for Growth and Mike Huckabee so one would assume that the nuts who run Republican party these days — Limbaugh, Rove, et. al. — support him too.
That said, there have long been rumors that Charlie Crist is gay. Yes, he’s married but he tied the knot late last year (he was married in l979 but divorced less than a year later) and some speculated then that he did so precisely so he could stave off such rumors in the face of his then-anticipated senate run.
Fast forward to today and winger Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. It prints an editorial titled: Hurricane Charlie: The Republican Barney Frank. Everyone knows that Barney Frank, the Massachusetts senator, is an openly gay man.
Is the WSJ, on behalf of its winger friends, trying to destroy Charlie Crist in order to make way for Marco Rubio? Sure looks like it to me.
NRO Says Madoff Sentence Way Too Long
Eli Lehrer of the conservative National Review Online laments the 150 year prison sentence handed down today to Bernie Madoff:
Bernard Madoff is an evil con man. He should spend the nearly all the rest of his miserable life in prison. But the 150-year sentence he received is too long. In fact, the something close to 12-year sentence his defense attorney recommended is pretty reasonable.
This is the same crowd that thinks it’s just fine, thank you very much, to put the guys we rounded up and plucked off of the sand in Iraq into a cell somewhere, indefinitely, without being charged and without the benefit of a trial. Justice for some.
Love Them Car Chases!
Would have loved to have had a break from Madoff-Jackson-Sotomayor-Mays, Madoff-Jackson-Sotomayor-Mays, Madoff-Jackson-Sotomayor-Mays but drat, I missed it:
Make the News Fun!
That would be Chris Cillizza’s advice to his fellow air talking heads on how to get airtime. (Never thought much of Cillizza’s intellect, an opinion which has thus been solidified).
Oh, and note to Keith Olbermann: Stop inviting Cillizza on so often. He adds nothing.
The Wingers are Lovin’ the Supreme Court Today
I haven’t watched much television “news” today but I know, given the Supreme Court’s reversal of Sonia Sotomayor’s “firefighter decision,” the wingers are jumping up and down about how wonderful the formerly-hated activist Supreme Court justices are. (Ignoring the fact that four justices dissented.)
Remember Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald?
She is the doctor who biopsied a lump in her breast and treated herself for cancer for months while stuck in the Antarctic ten years ago. What a brave and tough lady.
Sadly, she died last week at the too-young age of 57. The money quote from her obituary in the L.A. Times:
I was so happy there, FitzGerald told CBS. I figured I was going to die anyway, and I’d rather stay in… my perfect home. The people are what make a home. … I learned about community. I learned about friendship. What an important thing to find out, even if it is the last year of your life.
RIP.
Rudy Giuliani As Moral Authority?
The folks at Morning Joe invited the thrice-married Rudy Giuliani on this morning to opine on whether Mark Sanford should resign.
Maybe it’s just me but what were the bookers at MSNBC thinking? Rudy as moral authority? What a joke.
