(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)
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While you’re busy lamenting that President Obama is constitutionally constrained from winning his third term, here’s news of the guy I predict will be the Republican challenger in 2016. Dave Weigel, reporting on the anti-choice cadres at yesterday’s ‘March for Life’:
… What I found new, and interesting, was the concerted effort to emphasize the fun and beauty of babies, and downplay the Bible-banging and pictures of shredded fetuses. It’s been happening for a while, but it’s explicit now. Even Rick Santorum, who showed up at a pre-March seminar at the Family Research Council, was talking about it.
“This is a movement about unconditional love,” said Santorum. “Not a movement of judgment. That’s an incredible important transition for this movement in, what I think, is a very positive direction… for the young people, this is visual, and it’s hard to see the little baby in there and say it’s not a life.”
Of course, Santorum (who was wearing a jersey from the University of Dubuque), went on to challenge liberals to defend the culture of death. “Why don’t they go out there and say, we need more abortions, if it’s such a great thing?” he asked. And when a questioner asked him to run for president, he confirmed he was thinking about it and reminded everyone that he’d won 11 primaries or caucuses, only some of them binding, in 2012.
Unconditional love! Let the Savonarola rebranding begin!
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Apart from staying on those New-Year-resolution diets (who can eat when considering Rick Sanctorum?), what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Baud
I’m going to have an abortion because apparently we need more of them.
Ash Can
REBRANDING!!!
BGinCHI
Apparently for Santorum and his ilk, “it’s hard to see the little baby in there and say it’s not a life,” but impossible to see a person of color, or someone who has lost a job, or someone who can’t afford health care but needs it as also a life.
Fuck their hypocrisy.
raven
Finishing off the navy bean soup with smoked turkey necks, carrots and collard. Soon as the cornbread is done we’ll chow down!
aimai
Ok, I’ll be the first to say it. We need more abortions. And I’d like to start with the entire Republican Candidate line up in 2016–who is with me?
jonas
@BGinCHI: They’re ardent defenders of human dignity, from conception all the way to birth.
some guy
unconditional love.
unconditional love for increases in WIC funding
unconditional love for universal pre-K
unconditional love for subsidized daycare
uh-huh. unconditional love.
TooManyJens
Um, anyone know what this is about?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dinesh-dsouza-indicted-for-campaign
EDIT: Wait, there’s more: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/DineshDSouzaCharges.php
Bill in Section 147
Why do Republicans always think that women do not have even a remote concept of abortion and are always trying to Conservasplain how special their special love of women is. Maybe Uncle Sugar should buy the women a hearing aid so when you line the walkways to the clinic they can hear you scream, “When I am in heaven I will still love your poor lost soul burning forever in the fiery pit of hell.”
patrick II
I wonder how much this change in strategy, and particularly for the Catholic Santorum, has to do with the new Pope’s emphasis on love and kindness. Conservative Catholics make up a pretty large segment of the anti-abortion single issue voters.
raven
@some guy: My wife works with WIC and they got their breastfeeding peer counselor program extended.
kdaug
I’ll have two.
A more interesting question: Where do these scolds come from? What peculiar form of psychosis makes people want to insert themselves into the lives of others?
Schlemizel
Since the most reliable source of news on TV these days is The Daily Show I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that cracked.com does history better than most media. Juicers will appreciate this article
http://www.cracked.com/article_20777_5-famous-pieces-presidential-trivia-that-are-total-bs.html
shelly
Hell ya, that’s all I do all day long, walk around calling for more abortions cause they’re just so greeeeeaaaat!
Quoting Charlie Pierce: Have I told you lately what a colossal dick Santorum is?
max
here’s news of the guy I predict will be the Republican challenger in 2016.
I’m not making any bets, on account I can’t tell who is in (versus who is building the brand). In terms of inside track, Ryan looks like he has a slight edge here. But Santorum will definitely be in the mix. Vague punnery not really intended.
what’s on the agenda for the evening?
This here household got one them political survey things from one John Boehner, no less. (No, not a mistaken addressee, which I sometimes get, like the the cheap pro-life postcard printed entirely in red, that indicated that abortion threatens the lives of elderly women.) I really don’t know what they were thinking, but I am thinking about filling it in and sending it back, sans donation.
“3. Do you agree with the Republican position that lower taxes promote economic growth and job creation?” “Oh, HELL NO.”
max
[‘”10. Do you agree that the debt limit should used as an action-forcing mechanism to achieve real spending cuts?” “BAHAHAHA.”‘]
some guy
Santorum 4 President. the jokes write themselves
Villago Delenda Est
They keep tossing up the babies, when it’s very obvious from everything they do that it’s really about punishing sluts.
Santorum is a monster.
JPL
I wonder what the pro lifers think about keeping a brain dead woman alive in order to protect a fetus that is distinctly abnormal according to sonograms. If the fetus can feel pain, which is the belief of many pro-lifers, wouldn’t this be construed as torture. It’s time to let Marlise Munoz rip.
LanceThruster
Unconditional love!*
*(Some conditions may apply – Not valid in Red States)
Villago Delenda Est
@aimai:
Rih Santorum is, all by himself, a strong argument for the legalization of retroactive abortion in specific cases.
LanceThruster
Sounds like a marketing catchphrase.
Santorum – When your love is unconditional!
sensesfail
@kdaug:
With conservatives, it’s worse than that:
With one breath, they will scream that the government should restrict freedoms for certain groups (e.g. women).
With the next breath, they will scream about the “evil” government taking away their freedoms.
Betty Cracker
Does anyone seriously believe Santorum will be the GOP nominee? I don’t doubt he’ll run, but does anyone really think he’ll win? I’m not sure even the Republicans are that goddamn stupid, though on the other hand, their bench has been seriously screwed with the fall of McDonnell and Christie…
@aimai: Co-signed!
Violet
That cartoon made me laugh! Stupid autocorrect!
As for the forced birthers, I heard some interview on NPR yesterday and whoever from the forced birther side they were interviewing said there were so many young faces at their march and it was incredibly encouraging for the movement going forward.
Does anyone have any demographic info on the forced birther movement?
Villago Delenda Est
@some guy:
The instant you leave the birth canal, you’re on your own, kid. Good luck.
LanceThruster
@Betty Cracker:
Facts not in evidence.
kdaug
ETA, just read down one post and saw John was asking the same damned question.
“Who the fuck are you to judge?”
Screw it. Got a shindig worth braving the crap weather for tonight. I’ll check back and see if y’all have figured it out..
ThresherK
Looking for some advice for an enameled cast-iron skillet.
I can destroy the seasoning on a standard, brand-new, pre-seasoned Lodge like nobody’s business. Really, I can make one of them rust in the middle of Death Valley.
Thinking of buying something else. Any name-brand recommendations?
Big R
@TooManyJens: Roll that back. THE Dinesh D’Souza? How do prominent, and presumably intelligent, people (of whatever political stripe) get the notion that this is a good idea?
KG
@max: Ryan hasn’t run for president before, therefore, under the unwritten rules of the Republican primary system, he cannot be the nominee. Ignore the nominations of Ford and GWB, the GOP does. Again, the GOP always goes with whoever is next in line. I see three possible contenders for this title: Santorum, Newt, and Huckabee. Jeb is a wild card because of his lineage. None of these other potential candidates are going to win, that’s just not how the GOP rolls.
2liberal
i have lost 10 pounds this month. The real test is next month – goal is to lose 5 LBs minimum and stretch goal of another 10 LBS.
Big R
@ThresherK: Are you cleaning your Lodge with soap and water? Don’t do that, except once a year, after which you immediately re-season.
Clean that Lodge with kosher salt. Seriously.
TooManyJens
@Big R:
The very one.
And to answer your question: “intelligent” assumes facts not in evidence, and “prominent” means likely to believe he can get away with it.
Southern Beale
Right-winger D’nesh D’souza was indicted for campaign finance fraud today. So, that happened.
gbear
@Bill in Section 147:
You know, that pretty much sums up everything that the christian conservatives are about.
schrodinger's cat
Republican Utopia
No access to contraception
No science education
Tax cuts for the 1%
Laissez-faire economics
Establishment of a state religion
No safety net
This will keep any potential immigrants away, so need for immigration reform.
PurpleGirl
Discovering Communications has begun advertising their Puppy Bowl (on Animal Planet channel). I’ll be watching the Kitten Bowl on the Hallmark Channel.
Puppies and Kitties… Yay.
schrodinger's cat
@Southern Beale: He had it coming!
scav
Still a bit long for their bumper sticker, but they sure are giving it a hell of a coordinated road test today.
SarahT
I’m having an abortion as I type this. Hang on a minute…ah, that’s better ! Off yto celebrate death, now. Have a good night, everyone.
jl
Like commenter someguy, I am sure that Rih will put one and one together, and realize that if babies are so cute and beautiful, it would be worth working really hard to spring adequate private and public coin to give all those bright and beautiful kids a good start in life.
But maybe not…
And the GOP should be cursed wit this guy, who is so mean spirited he cannot resist any cheap shot that crosses his mind:
“Why don’t they go out there and say, we need more abortions, if it’s such a great thing?”
Edit: I should have said false repulsive smear, but I am trying for a little civility here.
Villago Delenda Est
That word, Mr. Santorum…it does not mean what you think it means.
Villago Delenda Est
@TooManyJens:
Word.
Jim Foolish Literalist
I heard Mark McKinnon, Beltway-designated moderate-centrist-Republican, say that he thought Santorum will run if Huckabee doesn’t. Peronsally, I think Santorum is the stronger candidate because in between his really weird musings on anything connected with lady parts– the clip of him saying “birth control is NOT okay” skeeves me out beyond snark, the boy ain’t right– he actually talks about jobs as something more than something bestowed by Our Overlords. He was one dumb remark about Kennedy from putting a serious hurt (if not an actual loss) on Our Willard. I think Huckabee would rack up a few Southern states and fade away.
Villago Delenda Est
@PurpleGirl:
Oh, come on now. Richard Sherman is at least as adorable as your average puppy or kitty.
Also, too, he’s a Seahawk!
JPL
@TooManyJens: One wonders who campaign he was funneling the illegal funds.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
Huckabee has his pardon problem, and I don’t think any of Santorum’s kids have engaged in malice aforethought animal cruelty.
The Other Chuck
@ThresherK: Lodge makes good enameled cast iron too. Just as good as Le Creuset and way less spendy.
I eventually gave up on the bare cast iron fetish, because frankly it’s just annoying. Half the annoyance is listening to all the opinions about seasoning. Here’s mine: Seasoning is just something you put back on occasionally, it’s not a bloody heirloom. Daily soaping is still out, but if the pan’s filthy, it needs washing, period. Seasoning is a hard thin layer of completely polymerized oil, not old rancid grease.
Oh, and for rust? CLR.
PaulW
@Southern Beale:
The D’nesh thing needs to be its own thread, BJ peeps. Make it happen.
ThresherK
@Big R: I don’t know how to describe its current state. There was rust, which I scrubbed kosher salt into with a ScotchBrite device. Then after wiping out, I boiled with water and a lot of crud came off. It left me with what I though was no rust, but attempts to re-Crisco it got me to where rubbing that off showed I’d run out of the paper towels before I ran out of dark gunk.
Are you a fan of the “soaking with vinegar & water, then scrubbing” derusting method?
(PS Everything I can have ruined with that new Lodge I’ve also done with an old piece or three that have been found in the proverbial late great aunt’s attic.)
CaseyL
Oh, Joy indeed: FBI subpoenas Christie records, D’Souza is under indictment, and the McDonnells are about to test the limits of spousal privilege.
Not a bad day. Not a bad day at all.
Mike in NC
Has any part of the Wingnut Wurlitzer yet sounded the alarm about the plans of “That One” to amend the Constitution to become Dictator-for-Life? So disappointing.
JPL
@TooManyJens: Huffington said he was campaigning for Wendy Long in her bid to beat Kristen Gillibrand. That would just be stupid. Cuomo was correct that NY is a moderate state.
raven
@The Other Chuck: Just keep making roux in it.
Cacti
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
I heard Mark McKinnon, Beltway-designated moderate-centrist-Republican, say that he thought Santorum will run if Huckabee doesn’t. Peronsally, I think Santorum is the stronger candidate because in between his really weird musings on anything connected with lady parts– the clip of him saying “birth control is NOT okay” skeeves me out beyond snark, the boy ain’t right
Santorum would finally be a candidate that the true believers would get behind…
And would go on to a Goldwater-esque curb stomping in the general election.
Jim Foolish Literalist
@Mike in NC: I wonder if Obama would go for three if he could. Bubba would’ve, Reagan’s intimates knew he shouldn’t, Dumbya was bored once he vindicated/trumped Poppy and his war was no fun anymore.
Mike in NC
@TooManyJens:
Stand up guy sacrifices himself to draw heat from Chris Christie scandals. You da man!
scav
@raven: <snort>
jl
@Villago Delenda Est:
Let’s persuade the GOP to draft Sherman for 2016. He can go into ‘respect mah authoratah” mode with dash and flair.
He can also switch off his jackass mode (edit: at least when he is apologizing or at damage control pressers), which will distinguish him from the other candidates, and if he can slip through the primaries that will be good in the general.
He apparently has no indictments or convictions, which will distinguish him from the ‘responsible moderate corporatist’ GOPers.
Jeb can be his VP, for balance.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL:
He’s not called Dumbshit D’Dumbass for nothing, you know.
Comrade Jake
Love the Dinesh story – couldn’t have happened to a better asshat.
raven
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Jim Foolish Literalist
@Mike in NC: and draw attention to Obama’s IRS plot against Kelsey Grammar and Jon Cryer!
@Cacti: Santorum will never be more than a spoiler-shit stirrer. When it looked like he might have a chance last time, the GOP establishment was in a blind panic. The convention would’ve drafted Jebbie or Little Mitch. Just occurred to me, Mitch Daniels looks a bit like Vladmir Putin’s non-tiger-wrestling younger brother.
Villago Delenda Est
@jl:
A problem, though, is Sherman comes off waaaaay too intelligent when he’s not on an adrenalin high after making a play that arguably sent his team to the Superbowl.
Also, too, the guy has the same problem with melanin that Obama has.
srv
We need an Act Blue for Santorum
For the children.
geg6
@PaulW:
Yeah. Too delicious.
@Cacti:
Oh please please PLEASE! The FSM doesn’t love me enough though, so I’m not going to get too excited. Yet. Never underestimate the level of stupid among GOP primary voters.
ThresherK
@The Other Chuck: I treasure my Lodge enameled Dutch oven, especially for the interior. It gets dirty (chili, especially) but I can get the actual food matter out of it.
How do you find the use of “complete enamel” like inside inside their Dutch ovens vs. the “black matte enamel” of the skillets?
I notice that others like Cuisinart have many of the same restrictions: “Can” be dishwashered, but you really shouldn’t. “Porcelain enamel interior”, no metal utensils/cleaning implements.
scav
Ohhhh I am a mean person. Things may finally get a little unblocked about catching up ‘mercan credit cards to socialíst technology. 1.1million cards at Neiman Marcus over several months. Kee-rist another mess. But hitting closer to those delicate toes whose economic whining changes policy faster.
Villago Delenda Est
From the US Attorney’s press release:
“The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.”
So don’t jump to any conclusions. I’m talking to you, Ed Meese.
Yatsuno
@max:
Please please PLEASE tell me that was your actual answer…
Villago Delenda Est
@Yatsuno:
Please proceed, Rethuglicans!
Schlemizel
@Betty Cracker:
I believe that Huckleberry has a better chance as he pretends to be sane unlike little Rickey. It is possible that he could carry the wingnut primary vote but that would speed the end of today’s GOP as the faux-libertarians and the business wing would see a disaster & want a slightly less frothy candidate. Pasta how I wish that would happen – any decent Dem against Ol Frothy and Ryan/Paul. My guess is the fighting would leak down into the local races & give the new President a sane Congress to work with.
geg6
Meanwhile, John made chicken noodle soup and the Pens are on. Do I drink the only bottle of wine in the house with the soup and good crusty bread? I say yes even though it’s a red, Comfort food and drink on a 7F evening.
Mnemosyne
@kdaug:
Voyeurism. Most people can fulfill the need with movies and TV, but the lives of fundamentalists are so hemmed in that they don’t have many outlets other than trying to insert themselves directly into strangers’ lives.
Schlemizel
@geg6:
Waahhhh – if it were 50 degrees warmer water would still freeze here at the moment! Drinking, red, white does not matter, although brown really would be preferred, drinking is the ONLY answer!
ranchandsyrup
Getting ready for anniversary trip this weekend. My wife put up a post about the concert we’re going to see.
max
@KG: Ryan hasn’t run for president before, therefore, under the unwritten rules of the Republican primary system, he cannot be the nominee. Ignore the nominations of Ford and GWB, the GOP does. Again, the GOP always goes with whoever is next in line. I see three possible contenders for this title: Santorum, Newt, and Huckabee. Jeb is a wild card because of his lineage. None of these other potential candidates are going to win, that’s just not how the GOP rolls.
But Ryan did run for VP so he has that. Right now, the name recognition for the R primaries seems to be Rand Paul/Jeb!/Christie/Ryan, with Christie sinking.
The R’s lack good candidates, by which I mean they have candidates that represent their public positions and that’s not good for them. (That being the whole point of Christie – a guy who is a hard R but doesn’t SEEM to be a hard R.)
At any rate, Ryan has lots of establishment love, so a Paul/Ryan race would probably go to Ryan, for example, but there will be other candidates in the mix, and none of them have the proper mix of ‘likability’ and ruthless ideological dedication.
max
[‘Jump ball! Where’s Mitt?’]
SectarianSofa
@TooManyJens:
Heh, just saw that. Came here to see if anyone had mentioned it yet.
Elizabelle
Ah, you’re already discussing Dinesh D’Souza’s legal troubles.
Another day, another Republican up for public corruption. Indicted yet!
[The candidate appears to be Wendy Long, a fellow alumna of Dartmouth.]
Corruption of the electoral process.
ThresherK
@The Other Chuck: I treasure my Lodge enameled Dutch oven, especially for the interior. It gets dirty (chili, especially) but I can get the actual food matter out of it.
Currenlty mulling over the use of “complete enamel” like inside inside their Dutch ovens vs. the “black matte enamel” of the skillets.
I noted that Cuisnart’s enameled cast iron skillet also has the same kind of restrictions: No metal utensils, no metal brushes/pads to clean (but I shouldn’t need to), good to 500F, and you can dishwasher it but you really shouldn’t. If that seems to be the way everyone is making the enameled skillets, I can live with those conditions.
(PS My other comment is in moderation.)
Jim Foolish Literalist
@max: If Ryan goes for it, and fades as I think he will/would, Mika and David Gregory will be bewildered indeed. I think he’s peaked. I’ll defer to the Cheeseheads among us, but I don’t see him as a Senator much less governor. I think Paulie Blue-Eyes destiny lies in the tall grass of Uncle Ruperts broad and verdant pastures.
burnspbesq
@Elizabelle:
Schadenfreudelicious.
sparrow
@Mnemosyne: Also, when you live a miserable, hemmed-in life, one of the perks is supposed to be how much BETTER you are than everyone else. And one of the easiest ways to feel that is to lord it over people who are GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY… of doing something you’ve never even been tempted to do, because you’re a man (so no abortions) and you’re straight (so no gay marrying). It’s all about scoring easy points.
burnspbesq
Here in SoCal, we are getting ready for the realization of the dumbest concept in the history of professional sports in America: hockey at Dodger Stadium.
KG
@max: I don’t buy Ryan, but I can’t think of a GOP VP nominee that lost and ran after, other than Dole, but there was two decades between losing and running again (though he may have had a brief campaign in 1980). It’s possible, but not likely. If I were a betting man (wait, I am, just not on politics), I’d say Huckabee would be the favorite if he gets in. There will be someone running on the basis that it’s “his turn”, and that’s the guy that you should put money on.
Personally, the only Republican I’d consider voting for would be Huntsman, but I don’t think he’s going to run (and there’s actually rumors of him running for governor of California, which would be… interesting).
Botsplainer
@CaseyL:
Most of the time a guy falls on his sword to protect mom on behalf of the kids. The next six months will reveal if he’s got the stones to do it.
Anoniminous
@geg6:
The No Red Wine with Chicken Rule is overblown. Depending on the seasonings a young zinfandel or other light red is perfectly fine.
Schlemizel
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
I see Ryan as the default for the Koch wing of the GOP, who else cold carry their water in such a pretty package, with the media supplied aura of seriousness? The wet-dream ticket for them would be to add Ayn Paul as VP to suck in the young & stupid. That only leaves the holy rollers. They will congeal around frothy or huckelberry. Its possible one side will fall in with the other but not for long & not with any enthusiasm.
Botsplainer
This is not the family that people will vote into the White House.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/03/05/bill-maher-childishly-attacks-mike-huckabees-family-being-overweight
Especially as it turns out that one of those lumps tortured and hung a dog.
KG
@burnspbesq: I dunno, professional football in Jacksonville is a thing. And in two weeks we will see an outdoor, cold weather Super Bowl.
Schlemizel
@burnspbesq:
What are night time temps expected to be? We went last weekend to the Gopher games outside, it was 10 degrees or colder. They had to WARM the ice in order to make it work (colder than about 22 and what the zamboni lays down will not bond & just chips off). Dumbest damn idea in history. We have not played outside in years for a very good reason.
We were bundled all to hell & it was not terrible but its a crappy place to watch hockey because you are half a mile from the ice. Log story but we really didn’t have a choice & had to go.
Outdoor hockey in LA – may be the newest dumbest idea ever
Botsplainer
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/17/details-of-huckabees-dog-torture-episode-coming-out/
Hung, cut throat of and stoned a stray dog. Mike managed to get the prosecutor fired.
Anoniminous
@Schlemizel:
With no “it’s his turn” candidate I’d place my bet on the Corporate Wing candidate once they
buydecide on one. Jeb is obvious. I’m not convinced he’s interested.KG
@Schlemizel: high of 79, low of 50. people in the stands
will likely be in swimwearwill be in tshirts because the game starts at 7.burnspbesq
@Schlemizel:
Saturday’s expected high is in the upper 70s, low in the mid-40s. Typical January weather here. Will almost certainly be in the 70s at game time.
TerryC
Perhaps this is a wild concept, but if one really believes that a not-to-be-harmed human life begins at conception (whatever you mean by that), then there is a problem in one’s beliefs far larger than pregnancy termination by humans.
More than half of all pregnancies end up terminated without a birth and also without human agency causing the termination. I’ve heard 55M abortions by humans mentioned recently. That’s a fraction of the ~800M non human-induced abortions that happened since Roe v Wade that someone did—but it wasn’t Libtards. Hmm.
If all of those were precious human lives, where’s all the anger at the being responsible for 800M more abortions: Whatever deity one thinks is in charge.
BruceFromOhio
@TooManyJens: What it’s about is, Helium Boy fucked up thinking he wouldn’t get caught, or what he was doing wasn’t worth getting tracked down and cuffed.
Left to stir the pot of some unbelievably delicious-smelling concoction MrsFromOhio has conjured up out of the Julie Sanhi Book of Magic, sipping some Jim Beam Black, and eyeing a craft-brewed stout as it warms up a bit from it’s stint in the garage, dreading the imminent cold of a 3F Friday morning commute.
Typical January weather here, too!
Yatsuno
@Villago Delenda Est: He’s also 25. And considering his background, most likely not sympathetic to the GOP platform. Also too: braids.
BruceFromOhio
“This is a movement about unconditional love,” said Santorum.
No, it isn’t. You were a ratfuck soulless two-bit sonofabitch then, you are ratfuck soulless two-bit sonofabitch now, and you will always be a two-bit ratfucking soulless sonofabitch. Even so, I love you unconditionally, as much as one can love a dysfunctional in-law who will never amount to much more than a two-bit ratfuck… well, you know.
raven
@Yatsuno: Them’s dreads not braids.
Kay
@TooManyJens:
They’re called “conduits”. It’s against the law to make a political donation acting as someone else; using a conduit.
It happens fairly frequently in this state. The usual situation is where an employer gets his employees to write checks to a campaign or candidate and then reimburses the employee. You can’t do that.
Kay
@TooManyJens:
This was a conduit prosecution. It’s basically money laundering in campaign finance.
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Couldn’t happen to a nicer man. Hope there is jail time in his near future. Another law breaking Christianist caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
Patricia Kayden
@Elizabelle: Couldn’t happen to a nicer man. Hope there is jail time in his near future. Another law breaking Christianist caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
Looking more closely, you are correct — I thought they were braids, too. Dreads are probably easier to keep up when you’re a pro athlete. Still a class marker here in Hell-Lay, and a middle/upper-class marker at that.
Kay
If Christie is out (and I believe he’s out) and Kasich wins re-election as governor I think they push Kasich next because Walker is unelectable and they’re going to want a governor against Clinton, preferably from a state they need to win.
Keith G
I have never been overly concerned with political correctness, so I am a bit surprised with myself that I am feeling that we are past the point where we can be using the term ‘abortion’ to connotate a punishment, the removal of an irritation, or the ending of an existing life.
To do so is to energize the word with the very meanings that are used by those who are determined to end access to safe and legal abortions.
That probably sounds too sensitive and maybe it is.
Jim Foolish Literalist
Ugh. Joan Walsh just got rings run around her by Mcihael Steele on Huckabee and the “libido” comments.
@Kay: What’s your thumbnail take on Kasich’s chances?
Bubblegum Tate
@Violet:
I’m sure it tracks pretty closely with Fox News’ demographic.
I vaguely recall forced birthers waving around a poll a little while back in which young voters said that they didn’t much like abortion. The forced birthers, naturally, took that poll to mean that the young voters are forced birthers as well; a quick jaunt into the details of the poll showed what you might expect: While young voters don’t like abortion, they have no interest in outlawing it.
Kay
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
Re-elect or GOP primary?
Jim Foolish Literalist
@Kay: I was thinking GOP primary, but do you think he’ll be re-elected? He’s shown himself to be pretty flexible when it suits him, hasn’t he?
tybee
@ThresherK:
if you can hose up a plain jane cast iron pan, you’ll do the same to an enamel clad one.
after cooking, clean it while it is still warm – use soap and water and a scotch pad if you feel it necessary – but after washing it, dry it immediately on a burner and wipe it down with oil or cooking spray when it is completely dried and still fairly warm.
we have several cast iron frying pans and skillets that are over 100 years old…and they look fine.
tybee
@Southern Beale:
that made my day. :)
geg6
@Anoniminous:
Oh, I know. But I, myself prefer a white with something so light as soup. But it’s a Pinot noir, so it’s light enough. And will be delish with the raspberry cheesecake we’re having with dessert.
Kay
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
He polls ahead of the FitzGerald (the challenger) but Kasich is weak himself. A lot of the time Kasich sort of hovers around 40. His Democratic opponent made a mistake and had to replace his lt governor pick, but I think it happened early enough that it won’t hurt him.
I met FitzGerald when he came out here and I was pretty impressed. I went because people told me “you will be impressed” and I was. He’s very focused and intense.
But, I would still say Kasich is the favorite for re-elect.
If he wins his governor race I would think he’d be their strongest primary candidate. I know Republicans here want a governor against Clinton because they will run on how she’s a horrible, out of touch DC politician and their governor is a yeoman farmer toiling away in the laboratory of the states.
Which isn’t a bad approach, actually :)
Schlemizel
@KG: @burnspbesq:
The problem is you can chill the ice even if it is 75 or so as long as the sun is not on the ice. It really takes a couple of weeks to get the surface in good playing condition. Ideally you should play a few games on it with kids or seniors as they are not has hard on the ice
Schlemizel
@BruceFromOhio:
I only hit you because I love you!
Its all about love
rikyrah
Dinesh D’Souza indicted for violating U.S. election law
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:04pm EST
(Reuters) – Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
According to an indictment made public on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, D’Souza around August 2012 reimbursed people who he had directed to contribute $20,000 to the candidate’s campaign. The candidate was not named in the indictment.
Attempts to reach D’Souza and a lawyer representing him were unsuccessful.
D’Souza was charged in the indictment with one count of making illegal
contributions in the names of others, and one count of causing false
statements to be made.
Federal law in 2012 limited primary and general election campaign contributions to $2,500 each, for a total of $5,000, from any individual to any one candidate.
“As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process,” the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said in a statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bharara is an Obama appointee.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSBREA0M22W20140123
Jim Foolish Literalist
Unless your yeoman spent a couple of years drawing a paycheck from Lehmann Bros, right up to the collapse. I don’t for a moment think he’s responsible or even connected, it looks like he was a pretty part-time employee, but a good campaign consultant, I think especially a Republican one, could make a pretty good ad out of that. I remember Joan Walsh debating Kasich on Hardball and she brought up his Wall St work in response to his attempts to play the earnest incorruptible Heartlander. He didn’t like it at all, and Tweety couldn’t shout her down fast enough. Kasich is his last Republican man-crush now that Christie’s gone down.
I remember when Kasich was the original Paul Ryan, the earnest, boyish, wonky deficit hawk. I’m sure he’ll use all the weaselly Luztian language when/if he runs.
Kay
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
Kasich v Clinton would be a horrible race because we will have to re-enact Bill Clinton’s whole era, in some tedious dual-track recovered memory syndrome type deal where Kasich will be bragging about his time as a fiscal conservative in the GOP Congress and Hillary will be pretending she opposed NAFTA and talking about SCHIP.
I don’t know if I can take that. At this JUNCTURE :)
I cannot re-litigate that period, as Obama might say. I barely stood litigating it the first time.
The Other Chuck
@ThresherK: I love the enameled dutch oven, best thing on earth for braising. As for my big skillet pan, I just switched to stainless clad aluminum, namely Demeyere. I don’t recall which line, but it was priced pretty similar to all-clad with a much comfier handle. It’s big and roomy and holds and spreads heat awesomely well, but it has a hope of cooling down on time when I do remove it from the heat.
Citizen Alan
Do not mock The Huckaby. I fear The Huckaby more than any other Republican active today. He is as reactionary and conservative as any other GOP politician, but he can still get away with pretending to be a moderate simply because he’s soft-spoken and talks in the dulcet tones of a seminarian. He was the first person I ever saw talk rings around Jon Stewart in an interview. I remain convinced that the most dangerous thing about Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman is that they make The Huckaby seem reasonable in comparison.
Kay
@Jim Foolish Literalist:
It was weird, though, because that’s what Strickland did against Kasich. Wall Street!
It just failed miserably.
The conventional wisdom here is Strickland blew it because he was complacent, he waited too long to campaign, but I don’t know. Media people really had it in for Strickland. I think they actually took him down. They swooned over Kasich, in this sad, pathetic sort of way where he was this big success who had returned “home” and was doing us all a big favor by even dropping by so we all had to kiss his ass. It was appalling to watch. They were like…needy, hoping he thought we were worthy. Just a horrible scene.
Mnemosyne
@Citizen Alan:
Huckabee has two major skeletons in his closet that even our lapdog media can’t overlook: Wayne Dumond and, more crucially, Maurice Clemmons. Even conservative voters are not going to be able to ignore four (4) murdered police officers.
Add in all of his other deficits and he goes nowhere.
drkrick
@Botsplainer: Torturing a dog isn’t as good as torturing a poor person, but it will probably be good enough for most of the GOP primary voters.
But boy were they asking the stripes to do a LOT of work in that picture.
Geeno
@LanceThruster: Between that comment and your nym – you owe me a keyboard.
BruceFromOhio
@LanceThruster:
There’s your bumper sticker, people.
mclaren
If by “Republican challenger” you mean “disastrous failed candidate whose campaign doesn’t even get enough signatures to get on the ballot,” then, yes.
Cervantes
@Kay: His father was a mail-man. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stayed him from the swift completion of his appointed rounds.
What did Strickland’s father ever do for you?
johnny aquitard
@The Other Chuck: Use a small square of chain mail and hot water to scour the pan. (and no soap, of course)
Amazon and others sell pieces of maille made with stainless links for that exact purpose. Bought one and it works unbelievably well, better than any thing else, including salt.
The maille doesn’t scour the seasoning off. Not unless you have mistaken ‘seasoning’ for a blackened crust of dried food bits.