Archive for November 17, 2009
Ring-in-Nose Doug Hoffman Un-Concedes to Un-Conceding to Conceding
Yesterday we learned that NY-23 Republican Tea Party candidate Doug Hoffman un-conceded to conceding in that district’s election earlier this month. Today he un-conceded to un-conceding to conceding.
Wow. Now this is the kind of hard-hitting guy you want to send to Washington. He’s true to his word and thank God there’s someone out there who’s willing to challenge those wimpy flip-flopping Democrats.
GOP Animal House Loses Its Tax Exempt Status
You remember the infamous C Street frat “Christian fellowship” house. (Think John Ensign (R-NV) and Tom Coburn (R-OK).) It’s the house that,
[H]as lately been the subject of unwanted attention thanks to its role in three GOP sex scandals. Ensign, who reportedly recently moved out of the house, was confronted there last year by his fellow C Streeters, including Coburn, about his affair with a top aide’s wife. South Carolina governor Mark Sanford revealed this summer that he had received counseling from the house’s denizens over his own randy hijinx with his Argentinean mistress. And the wife of former GOP congressman Chip Pickering has alleged in divorce proceedings that the house was the site of “wrongful conduct” between her husband and his girlfriend.
Well, bravo. It has lost its tax exempt status because the powers that be determined it wasn’t a real “church.” Then again, if you worship extra-marital sex, you might disagree.
The GOP Civil War — Is Ronald Reagan Being Purged?
Wow, this is big: Marco Rubio is running for the senate in Florida, as is Governor Charlie Crist. Crist is thought of as a moderate; Rubio is the favorite of the radical tea party-types. Apparently Rubio slammed Ronald Reagan’s immigration policy today, which I find fascinating because as we know, Republicans have regarded Reagan as a sacred saint for decades. Only a heretic would criticize him and far from slamming him, Republicans have instead been exaggerating the success of his policies for years.
So if the wingers win the GOP civil war, will Ronald Reagan eventually be purged — for being too liberal — like Dede Scozzafava was in NY-23?
Seriously. Having lived through 20 years of the GOP genuflecting to Reagan, it stuns me that anyone in that party would criticize him. He has been their untouchable god for such a long time.
This is going to be a vicious war.
Max Baucus In Trouble in Montana
A poll released on Monday shows that the wholly owned subsidiary of the health care industry, Max Baucus, a “Democrat” from Montana, has slipped in the polls by 20%:
A survey released Monday shows that just 44 percent approve of the job performance from Montana’s senior senator. That is down from two years ago when the same Montana State University-Billings poll showed Baucus with a 64 percent approval rating.
On Spending So Much Time on Sarah
Up until about five minutes ago I was still trying to decide how I felt about all the media attention being paid to Sarah Palin. By media I don’t mean Oprah or Barbara Walters. I mean the media that is picking her apart and calling out her lies.
On the one hand, she can be seen as an irrelevant bimbo; the creation of a bored, sensationalistic MSM, without legs to stand on unless she stands on theirs. So maybe we should ignore her as much as possible and concentrate on more important things.
On the other hand, I was appalled that such an ignorant liar could come so close to being the most powerful person on Earth and I thought she should be ruthlessly exposed in the hope that we never make that mistake again.
Now, after reading this post over at the Daily Dish, I’ve decided that we need to ruthlessly expose her, primarily because of these two sentences: “Like it or not, she is the current face of the GOP. That’s why it is necessary that she be treated as a serious politician and not simply as a celebrity.”
Remember Gov. Mark -Appalachia Trail- Sanford?
The South Carolina General Assembly has introduced a bill to impeach him for “serious misconduct in office.”
The Fox Business Network’s Ratings?
Insofar as the Fox Business Network (FBN) isn’t rated by any of the television ratings services (and hasn’t been since it debuted two years ago), I occasionally troll the Internets for tidbits about how it’s doing. I was blogging over at the News Hounds when FBN premiered in October, 2007 and watched the hype — Neil Cavuto and Co. were so sure they were going to blow CNBC out of the water.
Well, not yet. The most recent article I found about how Murdoch’s new baby is doing is here. Bottom line? “Disastrous.”
(Sound of baby crying.)
The Oxford Dictionary’s “Word of the Year:” Unfriend
There’s more here, including a list of the other words that were in the running, such as these:
death panel – a theoretical body that determines which patients deserve to live, when care is rationed
teabagger -a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)
Neda
Here’s a heads up about tonight’s Frontline on PBS. They’re doing a show titled, “A Death in Tehran.” It’s about Neda Agha Soltan — the woman who was gunned down in Iran last summer — and the events surrounding her murder. Here’s the trailer:
I’ll be watching.
“Sarah Palin’s Book Explodes”
Yeah, right. It’s “exploding.” That’s why Newsmax has a “Free Offer:”
When you “Click Here Now,” you go to another “Free Offer:”
Yep. That exploding book is “FREE with a Newsmax magazine offer” or for “just $4.97.”
The original price? $29.99.
Could that have been a typo? You know, “explodes’ rather than “implodes?”
“Treat Yourself”
Are you as sick of hearing that line of BS from corporate America as I am?
Short version: Buy this.
