just in time to poop on yr party...
... here's
Matt Gonzalez:
"On the street when I am approached by an Obama/Biden volunteer or someone who tells me they’re voting for Obama, I usually ask “What about the FISA vote?” And each time I hear in return “What’s that?” Or if I say, “You know he supports the death penalty,” I usually hear in response, “No he doesn’t.”
At what point will there be intellectual honesty about what is happening? People are voting for Obama because they find him to be an engaging public speaker and like his message regardless of his history of being part of the very problem he professes to want to fix. Most people don’t want the actual facts to interfere with the desperate hope that he is everything they want him to be."
Yeah, okay: nobody gives a fuck about Nader; we've been down that road before. My concern, which Gonzalez elucidates much more elaborately than I would, is that we are collectively buying into an elaborate sham. Not to denigrate the hard work (and hard-earned pay) some of us have been donating to The Cause, but: What gives, fellas? Where do you see us a year from now? Four? Hope? Change?! Yikes!!!
Labels: Barry O, party pooping
PHILLY CHAMPIONS.If you have misplaced your reddie tighties just bring a tree and get on the first glass roof you can find with friends who clearly can not name the team the phillies played.
the other corrupt alaskan
you've probably realized that everyone representing the state of alaska is a dirty crook and filthy liar. this is of course patently true. you heard about the conviction of good ol' senator ted stevens who made a career of naming everything in alaska after himself. but do you know don young? well
here is what he would look like if he had animal parts on his face.
he was the chair of the house transportation & infrastructure committee when i was a lowly hill staffer staffin' the committee for my boss. the biggest thing to go through the committee was the famous 2005 highway bill, or
SAFETEA-LU, which included the oft-heralded 'bridge to nowhere', along with upwards of $40 million in delightful earmarks i had the pleasure of providing to the good people of indiana. you're welcome.
don's office was in a lovely corner of rayburn house office building, and featured an enormous grizzly bear skin stretched over his front desk. to his credit, he ran an efficient meeting. also: he's a crook, blah blah blah.
one of the perks of being the chair of the committee is: you get to be in charge of coming up with wacky acronyms that suit your fancy, or in this case, float your boat. the SAFETEA was simple enough "Safe, accountable, efficient, transportation equity act", and it was originally called SAFETEA. then ol' don decided to throw on the "LU" at the end ("a legacy for users"). why? because his effing wife's name is Lu.
but maybe you didn't hear about this?: in june,
the Hill (a newspaper for staffers) uncovered a memo apparently written by Young's staff to new interns about
protocol for life as an intern for Don, including dealing with ol' Lu.
feast your soul on it, and then consider this: it's probably this nutty in most offices. if was just as bats in mine.
Labels: congress
general poop
a fine
example of who is voting for McCain + Palin.
The best part is when he says "I took one for the cause" which is basically saying, I hate what I did but I think its going to better the world.
Also
this is another example of how liberals are far superior in ripping on opponents while also be quite hilarious. Perhaps Palin just makes it too easy.
So far all the conservatives have is a
movie that can't even make a quarter of its budget back. And its excuse for not being good at all is a
conspiracy. I do not know what its excuse for attacking micheal moore years after F911 is.
dick morris still washed up "analyst"
as ayatollah pointed out, his snickerworthy "DICK MORRIS MAPS 2008" feature on the "news" site newsmax, has been laughably laughable; a chortle-worthy gasfest. hey! here's this week's:
let's see. south carolina? toss up (nevermind mccain's
11 point lead!). tennessee? leans obama (nevermind mccain's
15.7 point lead). arkansas? solid obama (nevermind mccain's
16.3 point lead)! and arizona (
+11.3, mccain) is totally leaning obama. they hate mccain there.
dick morris has never offered anything worthwhile to anyone. anyone who pays that assbag money for his "analysis" might as well be throwing jackson after jackson into a flaming poopsewer. lucky for newsmax, that's what newsmax is. since nary a prediction of his has any basis in reality, if these divinings come to pass we can refer to morris more accurately as the toupeed, gargantuan oracle-wizard he truly is.
interestingly, i recently learned i am now a land owner in arkansas (40 acres, no mule). i look forward to obama's 10 point victory in arkansas come november 4th. we'll call the hogs together, you and i.
Ohio's 'druthers
Says it all, really. Ayatolla, he's talking to you.
we were promised changes to the blog format months ago. cowboy, where the fuck are they?
front & back covers of this month's Nature
for real.
if earmarks were banned, government would shut down
seriously. and
this is the first piece i've read on the issue that gets it more or less right.
i'm just as pissed about earmarks as the next guy, and i'm all for lowering or capping the amount allotted to each member to the extent it can be done. and by all means, the projects and sponsoring members should be clearly available to the public (which was nowhere near the case when i was scoring them for my old boss).
but appropriations bills are too big, have by definition too many programs, that they
will not pass if there's no carrot in there for individual members to sweeten the deal. it's absolute, unequivocal hogwash to believe otherwise.
bush tried that shit in 2005 with the labor-HHS appropriations bill. it was defeated by a laughable, laughable margin and subsequently re-earmarked.
if mccain had his way, government would cease to operate. it could no more spend than collect taxes. anarchy would rain down like manna, and jazon zeh would be unanimously elected prime minister of Earthachussets.
on second thought, vote mccain.
eerie nov. 4 foreshadowing?
you be the judge.
Dick Morris Shits Pants
Morris released his latest electoral map. Any comment on how accurate
this is?
