By GottaLaff
Lawrence O'Donnell takes Jim DeMint down... and out... with facts:
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"The penalty for not paying the tax penalty... is nothing... There isn't a real individual mandate in this bill, because there isn't a real penalty for violating an individual mandate.
The Republicans.... reeeaallly like scaring you."
By GottaLaff
Paddy linked to this earlier in her post about Tancredo slamming John McCain.
I thought I'd follow up on his entertaining rip-itude, this time of Bumpits McGhostWriter:
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) ripped into fellow Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin [...]
Presenting another episode of "Tea Tantrumers Eating Their Own":
"I really don’t have this feeling about her as being presidential," he said. "I don’t know what it is exactly. I don’t know if the issues really are that difficult for her or not.”
We do. They are. Next:
Tancredo said Palin doesn't seem to be attempting to improve as a candidate and suggested that her goal seems to be to "make a lot of money and stay in the mix."
While you're right about raking in the cash, Tom, she may very well have tried to improve and hit a wall. Think: Peter Principle.
As for that bad taste in his mouth he gets when he starts to let his mind wander to Bumpits' campaigning for Gramm-pa McCain, Tommy feels it's self-serving, a way to score a few personal points:
So she is just as much an unprincipled politician as all the rest of them?
“To a large extent.’’
And you still love her?
“I didn’t say that!’’
"I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for the Republican candidate in 2012, and in fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have a catastrophic election result."
-- Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, quoted by Marc Ambinder, on Sarah Palin's electoral prospects in 2012.
By GottaLaff
I'm stepping out for awhile, but this might get you revved up for what's coming in the next few weeks:
In a shift from the apolitical tone the presidential candidates took during Hurricane Gustav, Barack Obama did not temper his rhetoric Saturday, as his spokesman accused John McCain of “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”You wanted tough? You got tough.“John McCain wants to have a debate about national security let’s have that debate. I warned that going into Iraq would distract us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheer-leaded for it. John McCain was wrong and I was right,” Obama told a screaming New Hampshire crowd.
“The McCain-Palin ticket, they don’t want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we’ve just seen. And they know it,” Obama said. “As a consequence what they’re going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you.
“They’re going to talk about pigs and they’re going to talk about lipstick, they’re going to talk about Paris Hilton, they’re going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do.” [...]
The McCain campaign criticized Obama for showing “zero restraint” given the storm and said “today’s attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama.”
The Obama camp’s response was even tougher. “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking.”
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