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Yeah, because there's nothing going on back at home. Here is the whining.

Hannity whines that Obama's Afghanistan address "takes away time" from his show

By GottaLaff

Pot. Kettle. Ego:

Even if he's kidding, his lame attempt at humor is pitiful. Come on, Sean, the little "annointed" dig is so 2008 ago.

And darn that Commander in Chief for speaking to America about decisions that affect the entire world! How dare he stop dithering! Who does he think he is?

Seany is clearly longing for this kind of completely acceptable prime time media disruption:

BushCo's wars. Obama's headaches.

H/t: DAKGirl

Video- Chris Wallace: Obama not appearing on Fox News because of "pettiness" and "childishness"

Whine and cheesy: Alberto Gonzales ‘angry’ his reputation is tarnished

By GottaLaff

Here's an idea, Gonzo: Take some responsibility for the well-deserved torrent of ridicule and insults you receive on a regular basis:

The New York Times Magazine has a new interview with former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales [...] Gonzales said that he has been upset at the way his legacy has been ruined:

Would you agree that your reputation was damaged by your service as attorney general?

It has had an effect, a negative effect, no question about it, and at times it makes me angry because it is undeserved. But I don’t want to sound like I am whining. At the end of the day, I’ve been the attorney general of the United States. It’s a remarkable privilege, and I stand behind my service.

[...] “What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?” he asked last year. (Here’s a reminder.) Gonzales still has not received any offers for jobs from any law firms since leaving the White House.

Florida Gov’t Cancels Tea Party Fearing ‘Too Many Attendees’

By GottaLaff

From the Department of Neener Nanner:

See, Big Government is infringing on all those Tea Parties, see, because they're so gosh-durned popular that they have to be shut down. The injustice! Whatever happened to free speech and freedom to spontaneously assemble?! Why... why... this is absotively unAmurkin!

[T]today in Cape Coral, Florida [...] city officials canceled a tax day tea party gathering because they “feel too many people could show-up.”

That’s right, folks, the God-given, long-held American right to assemble and protest the actions of our government has been canceled due to too much popularity of the protest.

And what does it come down to? Money. You see, the city officials want an insurance policy taken out so that organizers can cover any loss that might occur as a result of the rally. And those insurance policies cost hundreds of dollars.

The tea party organizers of Cape Coral, though, aren’t the only ones to find this restriction of their free speech and rights to assemble. Tea party organizers all across the country have begun to find out just how difficult, if not impossible, it is to be “allowed” to exercise their God-given right to speak their minds against government excess and criminality. City governments all across the country are charging fees for “permits,” forcing organizers to pay out huge sums for “insurance policies,” and binding tea party organizers in all sorts of government red tape.

In many instances, organizers are being told that they aren’t “allowed” to hold rallies on government property. Imagine that? We, the taxpayers of the city/state/federal government aren’t “allowed” to gather on property that our own taxes paid for.

Thinking back... hmmm. What does this remind me of? Oh yeah! This , this, this, and this.

And then there are the “permits” required to reserve the day, arrange the police protection, and clean up afterward. Often those “permits” can only be applied for at certain times a year, precluding any spontaneous assembly. Also, these “permits” can be denied with no reason stated quashing at birth any plan to exercise the right of assembly.

Welcome to our world.

Here one might wonder how it is that we so often see those lefties appearing on our TV sets engaging in their many organized protests? Don’t the flotsam and jetsam of the far left seem to have large protests all the time? One might be drawn to imagine that the government is involved in some sort of grand conspiracy to allow those with anti-American sentiment, the moonbats of the left, to march with impunity. But, hold the tinfoil hats, won’t you? Because the wackjobs of anti-war ilk and the shrill, circus acts of the Code Pinkos are expected to cut through the same red tape the tea party organizers have been confronted with. The lefties are just better at it.

Well, yeah. ::blushing:: There is that superiority factor. But, ahem, that aside, see previous links to a few little setbacks we've experienced.

Your new president is one of them. Being part of government, these leftie protest marchers help write the rules, being intimately associated with government they are quite well informed about what is required and how to get around or satisfy those rules. [...]

Americans do not have the rights they always thought they did. There is no right to protest government. There is no right to assemble. The people have no rights at all to voice their displeasure. Shut up people. Go home. Nothing to see here. Go quietly back to your IPods and DVDs. Big daddy government will take care of you. The Obemmessiah will decide what’s best for you. Don’t worry your little heads. Oh, and thank you for your payments on April 15th.

Oh, sorry. For a minute there, I thought they said Bushemessiah. Big Bush daddy government. My bad. That was so 2001-2008 ago, remember? We've got the bruises, scars, illegal search and seizure marks, and prison records to prove it.

Put away the tar and feathers, won’t you? There’s a nice fella.

Wow.

Oh, and what's that saying about the shoe and the other foot?

Bob the Author vs. Joe the Bummer

By GottaLaff


Advice to Joe Scarborough: If you don't like being lumped in with neo-McCarthyist types, then you might think about adjusting your message. And really, if you're going to mess with our pal Bob Cesca with whining like this...

...you'll lose. Especially when you are so easily contradicted:

SCARBOROUGH: You’re not going to get Republicans to line up and support tax cuts for people who don’t pay taxes. That’s taking you to a position now where you have the federal government — and this is very dangerous — just writing checks to people for doing nothing. It’s not even welfare. … If you want pure straight socialism, if you want to buy off people, do that.

See, Joe, when you're on the national Tee Vee Machine where everyone can see you and hear you and YouTube you, and you get a reasonable response in which you get two passing mentions, then what's the beef?

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance -- which Scarborough called "dainty" [...] Deriding Obama's score, Scarborough said: "You know Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man." [...] After guest Harold Ford Jr. said that Obama's bowling showed a "humble" and "human" side to him, Scarborough replied, "A very human side? A prissy side."

And via the Awesomest of Awesome Bob Cesca:

[SCARBOROUGH:] You have the federal government writing checks to people for doing nothing. For doing absolutely nothing. This is as close to unprecedented of a total all out socialist bill as I've ever seen.

[SCARBOROUGH:] But I will tell you, I am personally concerned by any politician that talks about the redistribution of wealth- that the Warren court was not radical enough, I'm concerned when somebody tells a guy that wants to start a small business that he should be for spreading the wealth- these are things that cause concerns, not just conservative -- fiscal conservatives.

Maybe Newsweek is right. Maybe socialism is upon us.

And so mentioning that Scarborough is reflecting neo-McCarthyism is somehow "name-calling?"

That's funny.

Unless, Bob, your name is Joe and you don't have a sense of humor... or apparently, of perspective.

McCain: Not many regrets about campaign

By GottaLaff

Gramm-pa may not have regrets about his campaign or his choice of running mates, but many of us disagree. And yes, that was an understatement:

Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, said Sunday he had few regrets about his White House campaign and no second thoughts about picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

“I don’t have a lot of regrets about it. I think we ran an honorable campaign,” McCain said on “Fox News Sunday.”

He's right, if you define "honorable" as smearing, lying, innuendo, confusion, contradiction, impulsiveness, bad judgment, and incompetence.

Asked specifically about Palin, McCain stressed that there were no regrets.

“I think the world of Sarah Palin. She energized our party. She has a bright future in our party. I’m pleased to have known her and her wonderful family,” he stated.

Her wonderful family. Uh-huh. Moving on...

He said he would not vote for the $825 billion stimulus package in its current form, urging a greater emphasis on tax cuts.

Because, you know, all those Bush tax cuts have resulted in overwhelming prosperity. Or am I just one of those bothersome whiners?

Palin: Waaaah!

By GottaLaff

Apparently, those pro-Palin interviews that we posted yesterday are a big misleading sham. The doggone media are lookin' to do Grandma Grizzly in, see, and we bloggers also too keep pushin' rumors like nobody's business, see.

All that talkin' Grandma's been doin' has all been edited and shuffled and designed to turn the world against her.

That sounds awfully familiar. I could have sworn she said that very same thing back in the day of the Katie Couric interviews and the Charles Gibson interviews. Now why would I make a connection like that? Oh, I know why... because she did.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s office accused the media Friday of habitually taking her remarks out of context “to create adversarial situations,” and of pursuing “erroneous and often outrageous leads on a variety of non-issues.”

Gee, that never happened to Barack Obama, and it was never due to any malicious rumor that Grandma pushed.

The statement also charged that some members of the media, including independent bloggers and the Atlantic, were continuing “to give credence to the sensational allegation that the governor’s child, Trig, is not hers.”

“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern,” Palin said in a statement released by her office Friday. “But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”

The day Grandma's held accountable for anything is the day BushCo will... be held accountable for anything.

And she says "salacious" as if it's a bad thing.

The governor also said press coverage had distorted her recent remarks about aspiring New York senator Caroline Kennedy. “I was not commenting at all on Caroline Kennedy as a prospective U.S. senator, but rather on the seemingly arbitrary ways in which news organizations determine the level and kind of scrutiny given to those who aspire to public office,” she said. “In fact, I consider Ms. Kennedy qualified and experienced, and she could serve New York well.”

Palin said, “It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be.”

Well, Granny, I'd like to expand on that "class issue" remark you made. You're right. There is a class issue, and here it is: You don't have any.

To add more ammunition to our growing stash of sound bites, Grandma kicked up a fuss about accusations about her future son-in-law.

Palin’s office also charged that reporters were unfairly scrutinizing the governor and her family. “Just this week, false stories in the media surfaced alleging improper influence by the Palin administration or the governor herself,” they said in the Friday statement, pointing to a report by an Alaska paper on union charges that her administration had delayed serving an arrest warrant on the mother of Levi Johnston, fiance of Bristol Palin. Union officials later changed the substance of those allegations considerably.

If anyone endured false rumors and smears (again, many fueled by Palin herself) in the past year, it's been Obama. He handled them with grace, poise, and the truth. If Palin is nail-biting herself into a self-pitying frenzy and whining and battling the media over this stuff, she is even more inept than she's already shown herself to be.

As I've said often and loudly, Palin is Bush III... in heels*.

*See how I avoided the "L"** word?

** lipstick***

*** I guess I didn't avoid it after all.

H/t: Ellen