Here’s the always-edgy Politico pushing the boundaries of heteronormativity.
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Here’s the always-edgy Politico pushing the boundaries of heteronormativity.
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Marty
I can see Cuba from my house – Marco Rubio
Napoleon
Remember, Mike Allen is one of the number of so called MSM who if you pay close attention to him you realize he is all but a paid Republican operative.
Patricia Kayden
“Manhunt DC”. Ha! Are there no gorgeous Dems that Mike and Jim can drool over? (Not including Obama, of course).
Betty Cracker
Wow, I’m not sure Rubio’s hairline is going to make it to 2016. He’ll be the Senate Combover Caucus within the year from the looks of that photo…
Patricia Kayden
More proof that Fox News is an arm of the Repub party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/12/04/roger-ailes-wanted-petraeus-to-run-for-president/
japa21
OT, but here is that number again. WaPo poll on who is to blame if no deal is reached.
54% GOP
27% Obama
http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/12/04/National-Politics/Polling/release_181.xml
Princess
O/T Per the Washington Post Pew Poll out this morning, only 27% of Americans think President Obama will be to blame if the fiscal cliff negotiations fail.
27%. It’s uncanny.
ETA: Jinx!
Linda Featheringill
@Patricia Kayden:
Uncle Joe is of a different generation but is still pretty cute.
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: Rupert’s just upset he can’t run for President.
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
From what I can see, he’s already in it. Jeebus, dude, have some dignity. Be a better person than Donald Trump, at least.
geg6
@Linda Featheringill:
Agreed. Greatest smile ever. And a great sense of humor about himself. Dude loves Fakejoebiden. How can you not melt for that?
dantoujours
@Patricia Kayden: Don’t you mean that the Republican Party is an arm of the Murdoch media empire?
Just Some Fuckhead
Years ago I saw a profile on someone – maybe Tom Delay, I forget – by Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei wherein they described their subject as “born again” with no scare quotes, no explanation of what it means to be born twice, just insider speak from Jesus-insiders.
I immediately knew we had a problem.
MattF
@Betty Cracker: And if his hairline recedes, his ears will look bigger… which is hard to imagine.
mistermix
@Betty Cracker: Now you’ve got me looking at the Eddie Munster V on Ryan’s head.
Cassidy
Republicans must write some really wierd fanfic.
Mudge
Just saw at KOS that 27% would blame Obama if we get onto the fiscal incline after January 1. The Kung Fu Monkey 27% strikes again.
japa21
@Princess: That was uncanny.
MattF
@Mudge: And, don’t forget, 27% is a majority of the people who matter.
vayama
Why does Marco Rubio look like Matt Taibbi’s fat older brother?
General Stuck
Gergen has another case of vapors. This time cuz the mommy party isn’t nurturing the daddy party to make them feel loved and shit. Never mind, The drinking, drugging and whoring, mommy has had enough and now mommy got herself a divorce attorney. Daddy is fucked rat.
Tenzil Kem
No discussion of Rubio’s combover is complete without this picture: http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2012/05/picture-of-day-marco-rubios-comb-over.html
Steeplejack
@Mistermix:
Er, should that be “heteronormativity”?
Hal
On what platform is Paul Ryan going to run in 2016? He was summarily rejected this year, his plans for Medicare and Social Security are massively unpopular, and that’s not going to change, and he really isn’t known for anything else.
Rubio’s entire appeal is that he will somehow bridge the gap with Latino/Hispanic voters, but that seems largely a fantasy. He’s not massively popular in Florida, where he only one in a three way race, and by 2016 is Obama has signed any sort of Dream Act, what limited appeal and use he would have had will be done.
Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.
1badbaba3
C’mon, you guys! They are dreamy. Or are they hunky? I cannot decide. Help a brother out, y’all.
Bulworth
Well, Politico should be writing edgy, heteronormative stuff about Vice-President Elect, Paul Ryan, and Secretary-of-State nominee, Marc Rubio.
handsmile
And in news that actually matters, a claim that can never be made about any Politico article, HuffPo is breaking that Elizabeth Warren will be tapped to serve on the Senate Banking Committee:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/elizabeth-warren-banking-committee_n_2236898.html
Punchy
OT: anyone notice that TPM has really cut back on their blogging? It’s 10 AM EST and their last post was from 9pm last nite. What kind of pseudo-top-line political blog goes this many hours between posts?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@handsmile:
Nelson Muntz “Ha ha!”
ruemara
@Hal: Let’s be honest here. Have you seen anything in the modern GOP that could pass for reflection and self-assessment? Do they strike you as people with a good relationship with reality?
Napoleon
@handsmile:
Awesome – I hope the news gives Lloyd Blankfein an aneurism and he ends up face down in his caviar.
JGabriel
Rubio/Ryan Makeovers?
It’s a brand new show: Queer Eye for the Hate Guy!
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JGabriel
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japa21:
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: John Rogers and Tyrone are bloody fucking geniuses.
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magurakurin
@japa21:
I just saw that. Was going to post it. I am convinced now that the pollsters are just trolling with that 27% number. It’s uncanny.
Mino
@Betty Cracker: LOL
karen marie
Next time, please, put those smirking faces below the fold. I’m trying to keep down my food here.
karen marie
@Patricia Kayden: Petraeus needs a better dentist.
japa21
@JGabriel: Never read that before. Thank you. That was genius.
Lurking Canadian
@MattF:
Fixed for great Real American Center-Right Nation justice.
dmsilev
Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.
No word yet on whether she’s “hiking the Appalachian trail” if you know what I mean.
Lurking Canadian
@General Stuck: The sweet, sweet wingnut tears continue to flow. I’m hooked.
redshirt
@dmsilev: Secret Wingnut Conclave. Important stuff. You don’t need to ask any more questions.
Raven
@dmsilev: AMF Beetch!
Higgs Boson's Mate
@dmsilev:
She’s probably picking up another supply of Tana leaves.
flukebucket
@Hal:
Well, I guess McCain and Graham are getting a little bit stale.
aimai
@flukebucket:
If “stale” means “like the lees found at the bottom of a lost Roman Wine amphora dug up from the silt at the bottom of the Adriatic.”
aimai
Roger Moore
@Hal:
Because they look like what young, up-and-coming Republicans are supposed to look like and are capable of mouthing the right phrases. That’s what it takes to move up in Republican politics.
dmsilev
@flukebucket: I believe the word you’re looking for is ‘rancid’.
R-Jud
@dmsilev: It could be she is off having a Thelma and Louise-style adventure with Sarah Palin. But I doubt we’re that lucky.
Instead, she’ll probably come back from her break looking really “well-rested” and maybe even noticeably curvier in the chestal region.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
Would she know what to do with a man if she managed to catch one? And aren’t you supposed to have your partner lined up before going hiking on the Appalachian Trail? In any case, I’m pretty sure this is about her being out of town for a secret wingnut conclave, i.e. the double secret ALEC replacement, rather than anything personal. This will be obvious when she brings back a whole set of new legislation to propose.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Hal: “Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.”
Desperation from having a Presidential bench so shallow that if it were a wading pool it would be ankle deep? If it were a gene pool it could be depicted with a stump of a limbless tree that had burnt down?
slag
@General Stuck: I wish the WH would have thrown 2 or 3 written plans at the Repubs in the first round. I always feel like presenting people with more than one option changes the nature of the conversation from “Yes or no” to “Option A, B, or C”. I’d be surprised if studies didn’t back me up on this. Giving people binary choices rarely helps negotiations, I think.
That said, maybe they did that, and I just don’t know it. Or maybe they have specific reasons not to do that, and I just don’t know them.
GregB
@dmsilev:
She’s gone back to OZ for the funeral of her sister who was killed by a rogue flying house.
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: Just as guess based on her public performances, she’s probably in detox.
Suffern ACE
@Hal:
Pot legalization. They’ll never go for the ghey, but they’ll hope that keeping everything the same and allowing for pot legalization (at some unspecified future date) will inject new life into the Party.
JGabriel
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dmsilev:
I suspect Otis is drying out in rehab:
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phil
Is Ryan wearing colored contacts? You can see a very dark circle around his irises.
hitchhiker
@slag:
That’s how they teach you to deal with balky toddlers (all of them, that is):
Wrong: Good morning cupcake, here’s your sugar-bomb cereal.
Right: Good morning cupcake, would you like blue sugar bomb cereal or yellow sugar bomb cereal?
Makes ’em feel like they have some authority. :)
slag
@hitchhiker: Indeed. And it’s not just balky toddlers. We all need to feel a sense of control and authority, no matter the age. It’s just, in this case, the toddler analogy is probably the most appropriate.
Cacti
@dmsilev:
Maybe she’s made that long overdue trip to the Betty Ford clinic.
Roger Moore
@phil:
Yes. He doesn’t want you to know he’s so full of shit his eyes are brown.
Kane
Considering the thought of Rubio and Ryan makeovers:
http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/2012-kennedy-center-honors/1-286566
Ash Can
So far, I’ve seen no indication that the GOP learned anything from this election, so there’s no reason they wouldn’t double down and regard these two overhyped frauds as the wave of the future. Some of them, anyway — I still wouldn’t be surprised to see Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich get the nomination in 2016.
As for Jan Brewer, count me among those whose first thought was that she must have gone to some dry-out tank.
Gindy51
@Ash Can: Maybe she sobered up enough to actually see her face in the mirror and went for some plastic surgery.
Judas Escargot, Bringer of Loaves and Fish Sandwiches
@handsmile:
Prediction: If Reid doesn’t nix the filibuster (for at least nominations), she gets blocked.
For whatever reason, Wall Street is terrified of that woman. Part of what made it so enjoyable to vote for her.
Do it, Harry. I still have the Bush Years’ chorus of “Uppordownvote! Uppordownvote!” echoing in my ears. Only you can cure me of this earworm.
Villago Delenda Est
Allen and Vandehei need to be in the lead tumbrel.
Which will be very crowded, what with Dancin’ Dave, BoBo, the Moustasche, and assclown extraordinaire Hiatt sharing it with them.
handsmile
@Judas Escargot, Bringer of Loaves and Fish Sandwiches:
Given the arcana of Senate rules, I may well be wrong but I don’t believe that committee assignments can be blocked by the other party, i.e., the Senate leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties is permitted to assign committee membership without challenge. I think the deployment of a Senate filibuster would only apply in the case of certain nominations to the Executive branch or to the judiciary.
How fortunate for you that you had the chance to vote for Elizabeth Warren and to benefit from being her constituent. I had to settle for simply donating to her campaign (though I too may very well benefit from her advocacy of consumer financial protections).
Juju
@dmsilev: Rehab.
ranchandsyrup
Whenever the right is getting beat up in the arena of ideas and policy, they turn to the “We’re still better looking” angle. Mean Girls.
Marmot
@ranchandsyrup: Which is just weird. Those’re some goofy looking motherfuckers.
johnny aquitard
@dmsilev:
Naw, I say someone finally got her drunk ass to rehab and told her to dry the hell out.
nellcote
@Judas Escargot, Bringer of Loaves and Fish Sandwiches:
It’s just a committe assignment not a freaking ambassadorship. Goopers don’t get to block.
BenTheTipsyBear
Worthy of Charlie Pierce’s subtitle for Politico: “Tiger Beat on the Potomac”.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
Sometimes a person’s face really works against him/her. Santorum always has that slight sneer that, I think, is less a hint as to his feelings than it is just the geography of his face. Cheney, by contrast, was probably pure malice. Rubio looks young, a little dumb (or at least like someone who doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does). Romney looked soooooooo much like a glad-handing, back-slapping banker (vulture capitalist). Ryan, on the other hand, is blessed with features and expressions that seem to convey sincerity and intelligence. (Oh, how looks can be deceiving!)