Am I the only one who thinks these glasses weren’t thoroughly vetted by the Obama administration?
Consider this an open thread.
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How Did I Get On All These Email Lists
Today’s entry:
The national organization, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, is filing an arrest request with Immigration and Customs Enforcement today and issuing a public demand for President Obama to honor his rhetoric about the Rule of Law by deporting his aunt Zeituni Onyango.
Seriously. I am reasonably sure I never signed up for alerts from Americans for Legal Immigration. Which one of you is signing me up for this crap?
Screw ’em
This is why Nancy Pelosi is the only Congressional leader I like. Here’s a discussion of her attitude towards House Republican opposition to the stimulus package:
“I think the take-away here is ‘screw ’em,’” half-joked a House Democratic aide.
“Remember, you have a speaker who has dealt with that for a couple years. She dealt with it as minority leader, she dealt with it as speaker [under President George W. Bush],” another staffer close to Pelosi said.
“What she realized with Obama coming in was that, yeah, we can go through this dance, but at the end of the day, this was going to be a tutorial for the Obama folks,” the person added. “They’re all going to vote against you and then come to your cocktail party that night.”
I think that Obama is smart to jerk off the Villagers with all this bullshit about bipartisanship. And in the Senate, there are Republicans who will cross over to vote with Democrats (and break filibusters). But, honestly, who gives a fuck what Michelle Bachman and Jack Kingston and Tom Tancredo think about anything? Screw ’em is right.
These Guys Kill Me
Apparently Andy McCarthy has ended his birth certificate fetish and conceded that President Obama is, in fact, and American, and is now kvetching because Keith Olbermann was part of the Super Bowl coverage.
Got that straight? After years of Republicans ridiculing Olbermann’s Countdown because he is nothing but a washed up sportscaster, McCarthy is pissy because Olbermann was broadcasting… a sporting event.
For the Haters
Some debate as to whether or not Tunch is actually losing some weight since I put him on a diet two months ago (only 1/2-2/3 cup a day of some organic diet food, the name of which escapes me), so here are some live action shots of Tunch rolling around on the office couch. Yes, he is still a little rubenesque (although as a Steelers cat, would that make him Reubenesque?), but I just don’t think he is as fat as you all claim he is:
I am not having a very productive day. I finally fell asleep at around 2:30, and then was up at the crack of dawn because I couldn’t sleep anymore and I wanted to watch Mike and Mike.
Six, baby. Six.
And after some thought, I don’t understand why Ben was not MVP. If that had been any other quarterback, he would have won it. If Elway, Favre, Brady, Montana, anyone, had driven their team down the field with two minutes left in the Super Bowl, starting the drive with a 1st and 20 and finishing with a touchdown frozen rope to the quarter of the end zone where only the receiver could make the catch to win his second Super Bowl, they would already be measuring for a bust. Put that into the context of the season, in which we never had a solid go to running back due to injuries, and the fact that other than Holmes and Miller, we have few offensive weapons (Ward always makes the clutch catches, but was hurt and a non-factor), and you would think Ben would have been a lock. For some reason, the NFL community just does not respect how good Ben is and it makes no sense to me.
*** Update ***
This 33 lb beauty was sent in over the weekend:
I love how this picture captures the “essence” of cat- “Sure, you may think that is all your property, and you may have work to do, but buddy, I got to get a nap.”
Whoever sent this one in, send more. I can tell right now he is going to be a crowd favorite.
Strike Force Update
Here’s the latest from the Red State Strike Force:
Well now we know why the Democrats don’t mind raising taxes – they don’t pay them.
Barack Obama has nominated another tax cheat.
With Tim Geithner we were told he was the indispensable man during the economic crisis. What about Tom Daschle? What makes him special?
In truth – nothing makes Daschle special other than he’s one of Barack Obama’s friends.
One tax cheat is enough.
Call 202-224-3121. Tell your Senator to vote no on Tom Daschle.
Sincerely yours,
Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com
Now, I’m firmly in the Glenn Greenwald/Matt Taibbi camp of people who are sickened by Daschle’s willingness to whore himself. But nothing special about Tom Daschle? The guy was the fucking Senate majority leader. How much more special can you be in Washington?
It’s also dumb to focus too much on the tax problems and not at all on the fact he took 200K from health care groups the last two years.
Tom Daschle is a fastball right down the middle to these clowns and they still miss it. I’m sure there’s a joke about pitchers and catchers in here, but I can’t think of it right now.
Tomlin Live and Unplugged
Oliver points out some real stupidity from Howard Fineman:
I realize it’s Super Bowl weekend and Fineman’s looking for a hook. But this one trying to put President Obama and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin in the same boat is ridiculous. God bless Mike Tomlin’s accomplishments on the football field, but he’s the head coach of a football team. He’s part of the entertainment industry.
Barack Obama is president of the United States. It’s not an entertainment job. Yeah, they’re both black. But then so are a lot of people in America.
At any rate, as a sign of how much things have changed, Tomlin last night was asked after the game what it meant that reporters all week had been making a big deal about his age, never mentioned that he was African-American (and I paraphrase):
“That is good, because I’ll keep getting older, but I’ll always be black.”
And, if history is any indication, he will be coach of the Steelers until he no longer wants the job.