Tea Baggers have no manners. Just ask the president.

By GottaLaff

Okay, kiddies, what did your parents tell you to say after somebody is generous enough to treat you to something special?

::tapping foot:: I'm waiting. ... ...

Ready? Good.

Now say it with me:

"Thank you!"

Very good, boys and girls.

Now someone please teach that very basic common courtesy to the Tea Tantrumers:

MIAMI (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday he's amused by the anti-tax tea party protests that have been taking place around Tax Day.

Obama told a fundraiser in Miami that he's cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters.

"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he said.

Etiquette is apparently not their strong suit.

Barney Frank gets a high-altitude haranguing on health care

WTF were the flight attendants doing? I really like Barney's partner.

Barney Frank has enemies, even 30,000 feet in the air.

Flying back to Boston from LA yesterday, the congressman was assailed by a pair of ophthalmologists upset about the health care reform bill. An argument ensued that prompted some passengers to wonder if the plane might be forced to land.

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The problem started soon after the ophthalmologists - two sisters on their way to a conference in Boston - boarded the Virgin flight. When they discovered that Frank was sitting nearby, the women loudly dissed the landmark health care bill as an "Obamanation."

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"They wanted to talk to me, but I apologized and said I like to read and watch on planes," Frank told us today. "They began to talk louder and that's when Jimmy (Ready) said, 'If you're trying to be bitchy, you're doing a good job."

Needless to say, the women didn't appreciate the remark, and things got heated. (Attempts to locate or ID the women were unsuccessful.) Sexton, who's an HR director for the UK-based retailer All Saints Spitalfields, said flight attendants weren't working hard enough to defuse the situation, so she got involved.

"The women had been drinking, and they were crying and shouting," Sexton said. "They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business." (She said Ready also upset another passenger, calling him "Santa Claus.") Finally, the parties calmed down and remained quiet for the rest of the flight. (Sexton was offered some complementary wine for her trouble.)

Said Frank: "It reminds me of the joke about the woman who's in a restaurant and Clark Gable's there. She complains to the waiter, 'Clark Gable is annoying me.' The waiter says, 'He's not even talking to you,' and she says, 'Yes, and I find that very annoying.'"

Don't Palin fans know they need to live up to their bumperstickers?

By GottaLaff

Celtic Diva nails it again. I'll give you a couple of excerpts, but go over to her place for some elaboration:

[M]y good friend (I'll call him "E") had called three times, which is unlike him. [...]

Nothing quite like being nearly sideswiped at 65mph with your child in the car!

The idiot woman with the "Choose Life" & "Palin 2012" bumper stickers on her BMW at least stopped her cellphone conversation long enough to flip me off after nearly slamming into me.

...no turn signal either, of course. [...]

The issue here isn't even that this woman made several bonehead moves on the road...we all screw up occasionally. The outrageous part of the story is that SHE put a 5-month-old and his father in danger by breaking the law and driving like a drunk woman. Then, SHE gave HIM the finger like it was HIS fault!

Preachy McFraudLips' devotees are following in the footsteps of their half-governor, all show and no go. What they lack are ghost writers and palm Sharpies.

Hyp. O. Crites.

Bush "dissed pretty much everyone in Washington"

By GottaLaff

"Psychological projection (or projection bias) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and/or emotions, which are ascribed to the outside world, like the weather, the government, a tool or another person or people."

Examples:

Last month, we noted that former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer's new book, Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor, was making Republicans nervous.

The book is out next week and, from brief excerpts obtained by the New York Daily News, it appears President Bush "dissed pretty much everyone in Washington."

On Barack Obama: "This is a dangerous world and this cat isn't remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you."

Yeah, right. Obama's clueless. What an inept, unqualified, dimwitted cowbo-- Oh wait. That's Bush.

But more importantly... "this cat"? Hello, Boy Georgie? This is Laffy. Maynard G. Krebs wants his vocabulary back.

On Joe Biden: "If bull was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire."

If lies and coarseness were currency, Boy Georgie would be the wealthiest man alive.

On Sarah Palin: "I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. What is she, the governor of Guam?"

What is he, mayor of BrainDeadia?

On Hillary Clinton: "Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk."

Wait till his fat keister is sitting in prison.

Rep. Shimkus walked out on Obama speech: 'Frustrated'

By GottaLaff

Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst was disturbing and way over the line. Now we see rudeness Exhibit B: Rep. John Shimkus. He couldn't wait it out for a few more measly minutes? If this is what happens when he gets frustrated, how effective a representative could he possibly be? A toddler would have acted more maturely.

The behavior of both of these brats is unAmerican and unacceptable. President Obama's health care address was important, to say the very least, and deserved attention from everyone in Congress, whether the mood struck them or not.

Prez O should show this guy what it's like and turn on his heel and walk away the next time Shimkus needs some urgent face time.

Okay, no, not really, that would be childish... but that's how frustrated I'm feeling right now:

Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, walked out.

"Congressman Shimkus was frustrated that the president was not offering any new ground and left with just minutes remaining in the speech,'' spokesman Steven Tomaszewski said today in response to our question about the late-speech walk-out.

"Regardless of the words the president used, the tone did not bring Republicans on board,'' the congressman's spokesman said. "As George Stephanopoulos said, 'He was right on the edge of anger,' and as Rachel Maddow said, 'I think liberals will be happy.'"

This is a more adult response than Shimkus and Wilson had.

VIDEOS-- Condi Rice: "If it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the conventions against torture."

By GottaLaff

Despite million of murders by Nazis, Condi Rice, "with all due respect", insists that Nazis were less of a threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda:


"No dear, you're wrong. We didn't torture anyone... Do your homework." Rice goes on to shut the student up, interrupting him, and resumes rattling on her version of the facts. "By the way, I didn't authorize anything."

Speaking with a group of Stanford students Monday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that al Qaeda is a greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany was because Germany "never attacked the homeland of the United States." In a defensive exchange with a student, she also insisted that the Bush administration had always wanted to hold trials for detainees, but the Supreme Court wouldn't let them.

Of course, the Supreme Court "stayed" the Bush administration's military commissions because they were woefully inadequate.

The most chilling quote (around 6:07): "We were told: Nothing that violates our obligations under the conventions against torture. And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the conventions against torture."

John Sidney McCain's (possible) very rude unprecedented intrusion

By GottaLaff

KUCINICH IS UP NOW!

I wouldn't put it past him:

"Perhaps hoping to turn a fresh page from the Democratic convention, advisers to Sen. John McCain are considering a Thursday night vice presidential announcement," according to Marc Ambinder, "although the unofficial word from campaign headquarters is that Friday is still more likely."
Thursday, of course, is the night Sen. Barack Obama formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination.

If McCain is seriously considering this unprecedented interruption into Obama's night, he's clearly taking advice from the same person Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez used when he announced his free agency during last year's World Series.