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February 23, 2008
Wingnut of the Week
Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) on last night's Real Time with Bill Maher:
REP. KINGSTON: Through Axelrod and their campaign spokesmen, they've let this thing grown -- grow. And when you combine that with the fact that [Senator Obama] would not say the pledge of allegiance and won't put an American lapel pin on his coat. That's things voters are watching and it's because this Democrat primary--BILL MAHER: Wait a second, he won't say the pledge of allegiance?
REP. KINGSTON: Well the famous picture of him standing while Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton had their hand over their hearts saluting the flag during the pledge and Obama has his hands deliberately down -- that is disturbing to Americans.
It's always awesome when a slack-jawed Republican both lies and uses the epithetical "Demcrat primary" in the same run. The "famous" photograph the congressman is talking about was taken during the National Anthem. Not the pledge. There's no rule or etiquette that dictates a hand over the heart for the anthem. And finally... Congressman Kingston wasn't wearing a goddamn lapel pin on the show last night either.
10:24 AM | Comments (16) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The War Has Largely Ended
I don't like quoting giant passages from a news story, but you should read all of this from Bizarro Iraq (where the surge didn't work):
BAGHDAD — Rockets or mortars hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Saturday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months.Nearly 10 blasts could be heard in the sprawling area along the Tigris River that houses the U.S. and British embassies, the Iraqi government headquarters and thousands of American troops. It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties.
Maj. Brad Leighton, a U.S. military spokesman, confirmed the Green Zone was hit by indirect fire _ the military's term for a rocket or mortar attack _ but could not provide more details.
It was the fourth time this week that U.S. outposts in Baghdad appeared to be the targets of rocket or mortar attacks. At least six people have been killed.
The al-Sadr news is good. The rest is not so good. But what does it matter? The war has largely ended.
10:15 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Non-Reality Based Pentagon
Remember the story Senator Obama told about the soldier in Afghanistan who had to scavenge ammunition from the Taliban? The winguts went crazy and immediately claimed that Senator Obama made the whole thing up. But imagine their shock-horror when they learned it was true:
ABCNews' Jake Tapper talked to the soldier in question, who confirmed the story he'd told Obama. Now NBC News also appears to have confirmed the story by talking to the Army Captain in question.But Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman is telling reporters he doesn't think it's true...
The soldier says it's true. The Army captain says it's true. ABC and NBC say it's true. And the Pentagon? Of course not.
09:55 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
AP -- On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised the American flag.
If you haven't seen Spielberg & Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima... see it today.
09:43 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 22, 2008
Bizarro Iraq
Where the surge didn't work and the war isn't largely over:
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish troops launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday — a move that dramatically escalates Turkey's conflict with the militants. It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. It also raised concerns that it could trigger a wider conflict with the U.S.-backed Iraqi Kurds, despite Turkey's assurances that its only target was the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
This hasn't even been addressed as part of any kind of "progress" on the ground. Additionally, we're no longer able to claim that invasions like this are illegal. Good job, Bushies!
11:58 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
One Nation Under Fear
This is the new fear mongering spot from GOP.gov and it's 24-tastic. What the ad doesn't say is:
[The Protect America Act] expired because George Bush threatened to veto any extensions and House Republicans unanimously voted against any extension. Our blood, to be gushing shortly like a volcanic eruption, will be on their loving, protective hands.
But who gives a shit about the details because we're all going to die! YAARRRR!
Meanwhile, did you know that you can pre-order my book? It's due out in September and I'm actually still writing it, but why not plan ahead by going here and reserving a copy. In it, I write lots of words about fear mongering and how the Republicans are cowards.
Chapters include: Glenn Beck's unfortunate last name; the myth about why we haven't been attacked since 9/11; the complete story about how I worked at the same radio station as fear monger, crazy person and Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy; an epic chapter about fear mongers throughout history; and many more.
10:31 AM | Comments (7) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:52 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 21, 2008
The End of the Debate
Senator Clinton tonight:
And I remember sitting up there and watching them come in: those who could walk were walking; those who had lost limbs were trying with great courage to get themselves in without the help of others; some were in wheelchairs and some were on gurneys. And the speaker representing these wounded warriors had had most of his face disfigured by the results of fire from a roadside bomb.
Senator Clinton voted to send these soldiers to war in Iraq for reasons which turned out to be lies. I'm not sure how she can turn this into a positive note at the end of the debate. The cable news people are praising her for this statement. I, on the other hand, thought it was disgraceful. But you know, maybe she deserves a pass on her unapologetic support for the biggest foreign policy disaster since Vietnam.
10:37 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Real Question About McCain
Why does Senator McCain have a thing for women without eye pupils?
Hair: blonde. Eye color: white?
Here's my serious take: this scandal conveniently rallies the far-right conservative wing to Senator McCain's defense and the last puzzle piece falls into place for the Republicans in the general election.
I think it's an "almost crime" (hence the Broken Social Scene song appearing as today's Morning Awesome). It plays to the hypocrisy of the Republicans which we were already aware of. But unlike the scandals of the Bush administration, it doesn't really have a hardcore crime attached to it. That we know of.
So it helps the GOP secure the wayward dittoheads. Plus it will be seen as a draw among wingnuts in the Middle West who will likely weigh in like so: "maybe he had an affair with a lobbyist, but it's the liberal New York Times saying it, so... vote for the Republican candidate anyway."
I can't believe I'm saying this but... this helps John McCain.
01:42 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Attack The Strengths
Wayne Slater on Karl Rove's political strategy:
In 2004, the number one thing that John Kerry offered was his heroic service in Vietnam, and so what Rove did was attack the strength of Kerry, not his weakness. What you had to do was confront Kerry's strength in Vietnam by raising doubts about whether or not he was a hero and whether or not his service was really all that noble. And you do that in part with a surrogate group, raising questions about whether his medals were truly warranted, and beyond that, pressing the case of John Kerry, who came back from the war as an opponent of the war.
And here's the new 527 ad presently running in Ohio which picks up on the Clinton campaign's attack on Senator Obama's speeches -- his most visible strength:
Against the Republicans, it's excusable. Against another Democrat? Sorry, no.
12:19 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
New Huffington Post Item
I posted a rant calling for Bill O'Reilly to resign in disgrace. You might enjoy it.
08:40 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:20 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 20, 2008
Whither Cindy's pride now?
How proud is Cindy McCain of this?
WASHINGTON — Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
Here's the thing: the NYT is not the Weekly World News. They don't run this kind of a report about a presidential candidate without the report an anal cavity search first (especially after Jayson Blair and Judy Miller they don't).
As much as Falafel O'Reilly would like to keep using the word "lynching" in connection with Michelle Obama, I think that ginned up story about that particular potential first lady just got eclipsed. We can only hope the McCain campaign keeps issues blanket denials like this one:
"It is a shame that the New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign. John McCain has a 24-year record of serving our country with honor and integrity. He has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists, and he will not allow a smear campaign to distract from the issues at stake in this election."Americans are sick and tired of this kind of gutter politics, and there is nothing in this story to suggest that John McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career."
Uh, sorry, guys. He was one of the Keating Five. He, by his own admission, violated the public trust puh-lenty. And flying around on a lobbyist's corporate jet is a long long way from the straight talk express.
I don't see this story going away.
09:36 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By JumpyPants
They Pay This Guy How Much?
Mark Penn in today's conference call, by way of Sam Stein:
Disagreements between the two camps extended well beyond delegate math. Putting an optimistic take on a larger-than-expected Wisconsin loss, Clinton's chief strategist Mark Penn once again stressed that Obama had yet to win states that would portend a strong general election run."It would be hard to imagine a nominee from this party who didn't win New York, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania," said Penn.
Okay let me explain how stupid this is -- again.
First, Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio haven't voted yet and thusly Senator Obama couldn't have lost those states unless there's a Mark Penn Sweaty Fat Guy Time-Space Flux Capacitor I'm unaware of.
Second, Senator Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan.
Third, what if Senator Clinton ends up losing in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania? So... Mark Penn wouldn't be able to imagine her as the nominee then? Atta boy. That's thinking ahead!
And most importantly... Not beating Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton in those states means nothing about how Senator Obama will perform against a Republican. Meanwhile, does he honestly believe Senator Clinton will beat Senator McCain in Texas just because she might defeat Senator Obama there?
They're paying him $4.3 million for this nonsense, and I feel really bad for Senator Clinton. I seriously do. It's obvious that Mark Penn has hurt her campaign far more than he's helped.
03:13 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Frigging Idiot
With friends like these who needs swift boaters.
For the record, here's an overview of Senator Obama's accomplishments in the U.S. Senate. Sheesh. Someone get Senator Watson a goddamn computer and a link to Wikipedia.
01:57 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
O'Reilly Must Be Fired Now
“I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels”
This is the latest in a long, long line of horribly racist remarks from FOX News pundits. But don't tell Susan Estrich who thinks I'm making it all up.
Might be time for a new petition (here's one I started a while ago).
UPDATE: Forgot to post the obligatory Photoshop of O'Reilly inside a falafel.
01:44 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Yo Bushie! 19 Percent!
This is staggering, but not surprising.
Overall, 19% of Americans say that they approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, 77% disapprove, and 4% are undecided.Feb 2008 - 19%
Jan 2008 - 34%
Dec 2007 - 32%
Will Senator Reid and the Senate Blue Dogs continue to capitulate to this guy? Seriously? On that tip, here's to Speaker Pelosi for standing up to this failure of a nothing on FISA. Go!
(h/t Atrios)
12:59 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
There Will Be Swift Boating
Nothing is impossible, but it's becoming clear that it's mathematically improbable that Senator Clinton will get this nomination based on the popular vote and pledged delegates. The only way she can win this thing is to grab up superdelegates who don't mind breaking from the popular vote while she drags this ugliness all the way to the convention in August. We know by now that this will shred the party.
But that's not the worst of it. Meanwhile, a pro-Clinton 527 group will be launching a severely negative Swift Boat style ad campaign against Senator Obama in Ohio. This on top of the campaign's embarrassingly negative attacks.
At this point, without a legitimate path to the nomination, Senator Clinton needs to seriously consider stepping down sometime between now and the day after the Texas/Ohio primaries in two weeks. Am I wrong on this? Seriously -- does anyone see it differently? I can't see a way for her to win this thing with the party and her dignity intact.
UPDATE: From Paddy in the comments:
It gets worse Bob. Now they've got a website set up to lie to people about the delegate counts and Michigan, Florida primaries- Clinton plots
12:33 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
One Step Closer
Photo: Getty Images
Wisconsin
Barack Obama 645,554 58.1%
Hillary Clinton 452,590 40.7%Hawaii
Barack Obama 28,347 75.7%
Hillary Clinton 8,835 23.6%
That Wisconsin margin? The same as the McCain-Huckabee margin, and Senator McCain is the presumptive nominee.
According to Chuck Todd's math, Senator Clinton needs to win ALL of the rest of the states up for grabs... with 58 percent of the vote. If Senator Obama wins the states he's favored in, Senator Clinton needs to win the rest of the states with 65 percent of the vote.
And on an editorial note... Here's the problem with negative attacks like the plagiarism thing this week. When you sell your soul and employ Karl Rove's "attack the positives" strategy -- and you still lose by landslide margins? I can't imagine that feels so good.
08:53 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:48 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 19, 2008
Wisconsin Doesn't Count
Senator Obama has won Wisconsin by upwards of 13 percentage points. Some exit polls indicate as much as a 60-40 split. And... Senator Obama has evidently won among women voters.
Senator Obama's speech tonight was his usual stump speech without teleprompters, so everyone who complains about the senator not talking about solutions got a shitload of solutions tonight. Naturally, though, the attack tomorrow will be that Senator Obama doesn't have as many solutions as Senator Clinton. Her next speech will be a gigantic list of solutions on a really long scroll. "Loooook at aaaallll these solutions, Cleveland! Yay!" (clap-clap, point-point)
UPDATE: Exit poll numbers (from Drudge, but whatever):
Wisconsin Exit Polls:
Obama Won:
Women (51-49)
All age groups under 65
All education levels
All regions of the state -- urban, suburban and rural
Voters without college degrees (50-48)
Democrats (50-49)
Whites (53-46)
White men (59-38)
Voters who decided in the last week (58-42)Won or tied voters of all income levels
Tied among white women
Tied among union members
Tied among union households
(Site note: I was planning to liveblog tonight, but decided to liveblog Thursday's debate instead.)
10:17 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Afternoon Awesome
YAAARRR! When I suggested that Senator Clinton needed a cool song, this is precisely the level of awesome I had in mind.
(h/t Paddy. Damn you.)
05:21 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Okay, so who is left, exactly?
The latest Gallup has Obama beating Clinton among Hispanic voters (h/t TPM).
So...let's do a quick tally of all the groups that Mark Penn feels are marginal for the Democratic nominee: Hispanics, young people, college educated voters, white males, African-Americans, independents, progressives, moderate Republicans, and of course voters in Minnesota, Illinois, Idaho, Washington, Virginia, Maine, Maryland, D.C., Connecticut, Georgia, etc.
Oh, and:
Gallup also finds that Obama has gained among middle-aged voters, women, and self-identified Dems.
He is, however, trailing in support from batshit campaign advisors who work for Hillary Clinton.
01:21 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By JumpyPants
BREAKING: Obama Attacks Old Lady!
Barack Obama bumped into an old lady while campaigning in a supermarket in Madison, WI today, and the old lady was "banged up pretty bad," said shopper/Clinton campaign advisor Howard Wolfson. The old lady in question, Mabel Steinkowitz, said she did have a bruise on her arm, but that it might have been from "when [she] fell while shoveling snow. I don't think it was from Senator Obama, who said he was sorry." Hillary Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn countered, saying, "Did Senator Obama hurt this old lady by giving her a Charley Horse or by not providing her a health care plan that will treat her injuries or by not balancing the budget because of his lack of experience so that she has to pay higher taxes and can't hire a skilled Latino legal immigrant to shovel her snow isn't the issue. The issue is that Senator Obama hurts old ladies."
I'm sorry, I just can't resist posting these slightly fake news stories because they just pop into my head after reading the actual news stories that show how painfully desperate the Clinton camp is to do anything and everything to smear Obama/"win" the primary.
12:24 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By JumpyPants
Clinton plans to "build dele-bots"
Mark Penn, senior campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, intimated today that his campaign will build robotic delegates who will not waver in their dedication to Senator Clinton. Penn added that the so-called "dele-bots" may also be equipped with flame throwers and submachine guns and also, "maybe shark teeth, you know, to take out the pledged delegates or super-delegates." Penn clarified that no actual voters would be harmed "at least not voters from significant states."
Okay, all of that is not true, though I forgive you for believing otherwise. Because the Clinton campaign's latest salvo to win through crappiness is almost as absurd as building evil robot delegates:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
What? Isn’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?
[snip]
“I swear it is not happening now, but as we get closer to the convention, if it is a stalemate, everybody will be going after everybody’s delegates,” a senior Clinton official told me Monday afternoon. “All the rules will be going out the window.”
Why don't Clinton and her advisors understand that the more they act like troglodytes, the less people want to vote for them? Is it because they're raging egomaniacs, or because they're stupid? Or, perhaps, they're stupid raging egomaniacs?
10:29 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By JumpyPants
Ready On Day One?
Presidencies fail or succeed largely on the backs of the people surrounding the president. President Grant, for example, was the victim of his greedy appointees. Some would argue that President Bush wouldn't be such a goddamn disaster if the people around him weren't so incompetent.
Senator Clinton can't possibly be "ready on day one" if she hires a White House staff/cabinet as awful as the political stupids who are destroying her campaign right now. To wit:
"I swear it is not happening now, but as we get closer to the convention, if it is a stalemate, everybody will be going after everybody’s delegates," a senior campaign official told the Politico. "All the rules will be going out the window."
The rules will be out the window, eh? Planning to destroy this village in order to save it, eh? Good luck with that, Clinton Campaign Smartie.
09:14 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:55 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 18, 2008
Scary Ignorance Caught On Tape
Nicole Belle posted this at C&L. And I nearly yacked up my lunch.
See, if the Republicans legitimately wanted to improve public education, they'd eventually educate themselves out of business. So they invent things like No Child Left Behind and school vouchers, each designed to keep America stupid. I mean, why the hell would the GOP want fewer of these ignoramusses?
03:24 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Desperation
Howard Wolfson is accusing Senator Obama of plagiarizing a speech passage from Governor Deval Patrick.
Wolfson said: “Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric and the strength of his promises and, as we have seen in the last couple of days, he’s breaking his promises and his rhetoric isn’t his own.”Obama closely echoed a passage from a speech that Deval Patrick, now the Massachusetts governor, used at a campaign rally when he was running for that office in 2006.
Governor Patrick, however, says that he and Senator Obama have discussed this idea on the phone several times during the primary campaign. Nevertheless, this really is a desperate attack. After all, politicians repeat similar themes all the damn time. It's like attacking a politician for wearing a suit and a tie -- or a pants suit and pearls. You can get away with this kind of an attack, but it's not entirely genuine, and it's all too easy to counter-attack.
For instance, I looked up Senator Clinton's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech from last week. Here's a particularly familiar line:
"Are you ready to take back the White House..."
That sounds an awful lot like this one:
"...and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! YAAARRR!"
She could easily have said, "Are you ready to reclaim the White House?" But instead, she used the same words made famous by Howard Dean four years ago.
But that's small-time. Here's a major problem for Senator Clinton's campaign if her staff and surrogates really want to engage in this so-called "plagiarism" debate. At the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Senator Clinton employed what's called "anaphora" -- a common technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis in a speech:
I see an America where we stand up to the oil companies...I see an America where we say that 47 million people uninsured...
I see an America where we have schools worthy...
I see an America where college is affordable again...
And so forth. It was a seriously awesome section of her Jefferson-Jackson speech. It's a shame that (again, as long as the gloves are off and there has to be this ridiculous "plagiarism" debate) she lifted the "I see an America" anaphora from other politicians, including then-Governor Jimmy Carter. June, 1976:
I see an America poised not only at the brink of a new century, but at the dawn of a new era of honest, compassionate, responsive government.I see an America with a tax system that does not steal from the poor and give to the rich.
I see an America with a job for every man and woman who can work, and a decent standard of living for those who cannot.
I see an America in which my child and your child and every child receives an education second to none in the world.
I see an America in which Martin Luther King's dream is our national dream.
I see an America on the move again, united, its wounds healed, its head high, a diverse and vital nation, moving into its third century with confidence and competence and compassion, an America that lives up to the majesty of its Constitution and the simple decency of its people.
I also discovered that the "I see an America" line has been used by Congressman Kucinich:
I see an America where equal access and equal rights are obtained by all
And John Edwards with the "I see an America" anaphora:
I see an America where last year the CEO of one of the largest health insurance companies in America made hundreds of millions of dollars in one year. I see an America where ExxonMobil’s profits were $40 billion just a couple of years ago. Record amounts, record profits.
Hell, a Republican running for Congress in the New York 20th named John Wallace used the "I see an America" anaphora (pdf file -- there's a whole page of it, but Wallace is not worth quoting here).
What's the next attack, then? Senator Obama stole his haircut from whoever? Senator Obama's gestures are lifted from what's his name? Seriously, is this what Howard Wolfson and Mark Penn have been reduced to? Senator Clinton, if you really want to win this thing, you need to fire these guys.
12:25 PM | Comments (10) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Yummy Beef
If you're not a vegetarian or if you're not eating local beef, you should read this:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
It's the nation's largest beef recall ever. The Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., as it turns out, had an inordinate number of "downer cattles" -- cattle that were unable to walk which is an indicator of potential mad cow. That's bad enough, but the Westland people were torturing and abusing their downers in order to get them to move. The video, which CNN just showed a part of, is shocking and upsetting and I won't post it here.
Federal officials suspended operations at Westland/Hallmark after an undercover video from the Humane Society of the United States surfaced showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts.Two former employees were charged Friday. Five felony counts of animal cruelty and three misdemeanors were filed against a pen manager. Three misdemeanor counts _ illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal _ were filed against an employee who worked under that manager. Both were fired.
Authorities said the video showed workers kicking, shocking and otherwise abusing "downer" animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse. Some animals had water forced down their throats, San Bernardino County prosecutor Michael Ramos said.
Seven years ago, I made a choice to not eat beef or pork products and this story pretty much summarizes the reasons why. Corrupt agri-businesses, abuse, inhumane slaughter techniques, growth hormone and all the rest of it.
09:38 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
The Gettysburg Address, recited by the late Johnny Cash
09:25 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
February 17, 2008
So Hap-Hap-Happy Together
Remember this Bush-McCain moment?
This August 29, 2005 scene took place while Hurricane Katrina was destroying a large section of a major American city. Fun!
[August 29] 7:30 AM CDT — BUSH ADMINISTRATION NOTIFIED OF THE LEVEE BREACH: The administration finds out that a levee in New Orleans was breached. On this day, 28 “government agencies, from local Louisiana parishes to the White House, [reported that] that New Orleans levees” were breached.
Yay!
Cake!
Let them eat it!
01:16 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
I Cuss Too Much
''F--- you,'' he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.''Only an a------ would put together a budget like this,'' he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
''I'm calling you a f------ jerk!'' he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
These are all Senator McCain quotes. Can whoever e-mails me every day about my chronic use of obscenities please shut the fuck up?
12:40 PM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Nothing To Fear But Fear Mongering
Here's Bill Kristol this morning on FOX News Sunday basically outlining Senator McCain's entire campaign strategy for the general election. And it's all about the fear mongering.
At the end of the day it’ll be McCain against Obama in a national security election. The Democrats can say Nancy Pelosi’s fond of quoting Franklin Roosevelt, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” We do have something to fear but fear itself. We have terrorists to fear and we have people who want to kill Americans to fear. And people who totally want to destabilize the Middle East to fear. And I think that’s a pretty good argument for McCain to make against Obama.
Please keep advising Senator McCain, Bill Kristol. We'll see who wins the "Roosevelt was full of shit about fear" debate.
10:26 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
09:45 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
