By GottaLaff
Thanks, Ev, you're a real giver:
"If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months."
-- Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), in an interview with CBS News, giving one more gift to Republicans.
By GottaLaff
What vote would you like to redo?Heckuva job, Kingy.
Rep. King: I don’t really go back and re-live that sort of thing. Some of the big votes that I’ve thought about, some of the jury’s still out. And at this point, maybe I’d answer that question another way, probably the singular vote that stands out that went against the grain, and it turns out to be the best vote that I cast, was my “no” vote to the $51.5 billion to [Hurricane] Katrina. That probably was my best vote. But as far as doing something different again, I don’t know.
By GottaLaff
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All I can do at this point is shake my head. This is simply unacceptable:
UPDATE-- Great comment from my pal Mark Karlin at BuzzFlash on this, via e-mail to me:A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an “ancestor” of First Lady Michelle Obama.
The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning’s escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo.
Walker’s harmless update, however was followed by a highly-questionable comment from longtime SCGOP activist and former State Senate candidate, Rusty DePass. [...]
An early South Carolina supporter of former President George W. Bush, DePass has been active in Republican politics in South Carolina for decades. [...]
The comment has been removed from Facebook. No word yet on who yanked it.
the irony here is that the gorilla in quesition is an ancestor of the s.c. republican, my ancestor and yours tooH/t: The Joshua Blog
By GottaLaff
Billo the Clown--or is that Bile-O?-- thinks an awful lot of himself. More than anyone else does, anyway. He often inhales deeply to puff himself up with hot air so that he looks twice as big... like this:
Isn't he just the most Well-Read, Even-Handed, TaskMastery, Victimized Humble Pie Tee Vee Machine Faux host ever?"I'm also six months on the best-seller list," said Fox's bold fresh piece of humanity.
So, listen, anybody ever mention the shameless hustle of his own books on his own TV show?
"I plead guilty to that. But I'm a communicator. If people don't sample what I'm communicating, it doesn't work and I don't get a fair shake. My next book, out the latter part of 2010, is on Obama. He's becoming a historical figure not because he's black, but because his liberal agenda is taking the country in a direction we've never been before."
And how many hours a day does it take Bill O'Reilly to manipulate America's minds?
"I gave up radio three weeks ago, so my attention's no longer divided. For my nightly 8 p.m. show, I start 8 a.m. I write it all myself. The staff of 15 meets 7:30 every morning. Working for me, you've got to be a Navy SEAL. No mistakes. I need facts, or it'll get rammed down my throat. I read all the magazines and a dozen newspapers daily from all over -- Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco -- so I'm not just New York-centric. I read two to three books a week instead of watching TV. I try to absorb so I can give the best information because we're not ideologues, we're fact-based opinion makers."
And those 10 minutes a year he's maybe not working?
"I'm not one to hang out. I don't like boring people. So I do softball, ice hockey, neighborhood sports. I go fishing. I'm a diver. That means I go underwater so nobody can find me but the fish."
The man has issues. I accidentally had the teevee on MSNBC when I woke up and he was going on like this in the previous segment too. I can't watch the wacky doodle any more.
By GottaLaff
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"I'm so damn glad that you could never be my wife, 'cause I surely wouldn't have to listen to that prattle from you every day."In the next segment, New York Time's Bob Herbert wasted no time in saying that Dick owed Joan Walsh and Hardball's viewers an apology.
By GottaLaff
I don't need 400 words. I need five. I hope Oxy LimpDong fails.Limbaugh told his listeners that he was asked by “a major American print publication” to offer a 400-word statement explaining his “hope for the Obama presidency.” He responded:
So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.
By GottaLaff
President Bush, urging the Republican Party to become more “open-minded,” said the GOP is down but not out after getting “whipped” in 2008.
Bush, in a wide-ranging interview on “Fox News Sunday,” argued that the party would recover, just as it had following other setbacks. However, he cautioned Republicans that they must become more open-minded.
“It’s very important for our party not to narrow its focus, not to become so inward looking that we drive people away from a philosophy that is compassionate and decent,” Bush said, adding, “We shouldn’t have litmus tests as to whether or not you can be a Republican.”
How nostalgic. Remember when he was a compassionate conservative? Neither do I.
"We’ve got to be a party for a better future and for hope.”
Did some washed-up excuse for a president just steal a line from a far superior, future president? Why yes. Yes he did:
When asked what he would do after leaving office, the president said he wants to write a book, possibly on the toughest decisions he had to make while in the White House.
May I make a suggestion? Learn how to read first. Moving on...
Bush stressed that his own presidency was defined by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Criticized often for extending his presidential powers to execute the war on terrorism, Bush said that the constitution remained intact.
He is referring, of course, to that one little remnant of aging parchment that he saved and framed for posterity. The rest of the document was shredded by BushCo years ago.*
He also defended the often criticized interrogation techniques used to get information from military detainees and terrorism suspects, which have been described by critics as torture.
“I firmly reject the word torture,” said Bush. “Everything this administration did had a legal basis.”
See Constitution reference* above. And blog title.
Just catching bits and pieces off MSNBC. 17 bil with lots of strings attached. More when I get it.
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush will make an announcement about a rescue plan for the ailing U.S. automakers at 9 a.m. ET Friday, the White House said.
He's expected to announce that automakers will get $13.4 billion in short-term financing, which would come from the government's $700 billion financial bailout fund. An additional $4 billion could be available in February.
The auto companies must use the funds to become financially sound. If they are not financially viable by March 31, 2009, the loans will be called and all of the funds will be returned to Treasury. By the government's definition, financial viability is a positive net present value, which takes into account all current and future costs and can fully repay the government loan.
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