(Pat Oliphant via GoComics.com)
In the spirit of Confusion to Our Enemies!, some SotU schadenfreude to start the week:
WASHINGTON — The protocol is staid and formulaic. The president addresses Congress on the State of the Union, then the opposition party’s designee follows with a reply…
Not this year. The response, a once careful attempt at stagecraft fashioned under the close watch of party chiefs to be as uniform and on message as possible, has given way to political free agency…
For example, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, plans to spend part of Tuesday in a television studio off Capitol Hill recording his own unsanctioned rebuttal to Mr. Obama’s address that night. His staff plans to blast the video to news outlets around the world, and to the hundreds of thousands of people the senator reaches online through Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, will have top billing for the newest — and to some Republicans the most unwelcome — post-State of the Union event, the official Tea Party response.
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, not content to wait until Tuesday, got rolling last week when he released a statement in which he demanded that Mr. Obama answer accusations on a variety of issues, including National Security Agency surveillance and the Affordable Care Act. He then followed up with a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asking for a special prosecutor to look into accusations of political persecution by the Internal Revenue Service.
Competing with them for the soapbox will be Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House, who is to deliver the party’s official response.
“There is no clear leadership in the Republican Party right now, no clear direction or message, and no way to enforce discipline,” said Mark McKinnon, a veteran Republican strategist who has become an outspoken critic of his party. “And because there’s a vacuum, and no shortage of cameras, there are plenty of actors happy to audition.”…
Apart from wondering if “Popcorn Futures” should be a new category here, what’s on the agenda for the start of another week?
rikyrah
Decided not to fight the frigid/extreme cold this morning. Just called the job to say I’m staying put.
rikyrah
there wouldn’t be three responses if the MSM weren’t complicit. I have a hard time believing that if the Dems had come up with 3 responses to Shrub that the MSM wouldn’t have laughed them off the tv.
rikyrah
Saw the trailer for Peabody & Sherman. Outside of old Bullwinkle fans, how does this appeal to the young audience? I’m going to go see it because I loved Bullwinkle, but I just don’t think I’m the target audience. I found some clips on youtube and tried sitting down with my 5 year old niece yesterday, and she just didn’t get the appeal.
billgerat
FYWP
OzarkHillbilly
Presently working on a letter to Eric Holder demanding that he open investigations into allegations that Ted Cruz is a pedophile necrophiliac who is using his office to force young unmarried black and latino inner city women to give up their children to his “re-education camps” where they are then never heard from again.
Anyone else want to sign their names?
Mustang Bobby
According to Rand Paul, Bill Clinton cheated on his wife with an intern when he was president. How come we’re just now finding out about this?
I’m not feeling any schadenfreude for the folks in the cold wind and snow up north. This is some serious shit and people are dying.
rikyrah
GOP is Anti-Voting
by BooMan
Sun Jan 26th, 2014 at 11:11:31 AM EST
Tucker Carlson is concerned that some states are allowing 17 year olds to pre-register to vote and participate in party primaries if they will be 18 on election day. His argument is that 17 year olds are too immature to successfully order food at a restaurant, so they must be too stupid for their political opinions to be worthy of consideration.
However, Campus Reform reporter Katherine Timpf reassured him that some young people are disappointed in Barack Obama’s presidency and might actually vote for Republicans. This is the crux of the matter. Republicans oppose voter participation by any group who they think will not support them, while Democrats support the broadest voter participation possible.
Perhaps Democrats wouldn’t be quite so pro-voting if it worked against them, but I can’t imagine the Democrats arguing that their goal is to suppress certain voting groups. The Republicans do tend to couch their opposition to voting in terms of voter fraud in order to disguise their true intent, but they are often quite explicit about their desire to keep black turnout down, or to prevent college students from participating. There are groups that vote reliably Republican, but you never hear any talk from Democrats about suppressing their votes.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/1/26/111131/371
raven
Mika is totally upset about how Big Dog has been treated so well after the horrible amoral thing he did.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: Hell, I’m still pissed at the way Franklin treated Eleanor.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: And there is . . . Camelot.
Patricia Kayden
I can’t stop laughing at the title for this post. Y’all are really way too funny. SNL needs you!!
Let the clowning begin.
Kay
And then three men come out and step on her speech.
Perfect. Mission accomplished.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: This may be a stupid question but who is Big Dog? President Bill Clinton?
Botsplainer
Drove youngest’s car to end of drive due to hard ice. Slipped on said hard ice while shuffling back to house.
Schlemizel
@rikyrah:
Funny, I am NOT going to see it because I am a huge fan of the old Bullwinkle show. I made the right call on the live action abomination, a movie so bad they don’t even run it on cable. This will be up there with it I bet. Both shows, along with the fractured fairy tales involved witty, smart, dialog something Hollywood seems unable to produce.
Patricia Kayden
@Mustang Bobby: Is Rand Paul also concerned that Senator David Vitter (who is now running for Louisiana Governor) also cheated on his wife with prostitutes? Republicans are in no position to speak about morality.
Schlemizel
@Patricia Kayden:
You must be new around these parts! Yes Bill Clinton is “the Big Dog”. That tag got stuck on him at least on the Internet, maybe IRL back in the 90’s
Eric U.
@Patricia Kayden: I’m still surprised Vitter isn’t ashamed to show his face in public given what he was paying those prostitutes to do.
Yatsuno
@Patricia Kayden: No no no. See that’s totes different, because Vitter found Jeebus afterwards and was FORGIVEN!!! The Clenis is a hippie libtard, and Jeebus don’t take kindly to those folk, so he might as well be Satan himself. And that’s yer wingnut logic rite thayre.
geg6
Can I just say that on this cold and snowy morning where the temperature has dropped 25 degrees in the last hour or so, that this warms the cockles of my cold heart?
McKinnon’s tears are delicious!
BillinGlendaleCA
I hope the Mika doesn’t let her children go to the beach, especially those in the south of France.
PurpleGirl
And we shouldn’t forget governor what’s-his-name who was “hiking the Appalachian Trail” when he was really in Argentina with his inamorata.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: You’re up early. If the 2016 election is about the Clenis, I’m gona start drink again.
Phylllis
Looks like we’ll definitely have to take a snow day in these parts Wednesday. Crossing my fingers that we can at least get in an abbreviated day tomorrow. Forecast is for 2-4 inches of snow beginning early Wednesday, on top of a day of freezing rain tomorrow.
Baud
If Rand Paul doesn’t ask for a contribution during his response, I’ll be really disappointed.
Hal
I really love how conservatives have latched onto the NSA controversy. Suddenly it’s “Obama’s NSA” as if the agency magically appeared in Jan of 2009. It’s the same with Rand Paul’s supposed opposition to drones. No, he isn’t opposed to drones, he is opposed to drone program existing under President Obama, which is undoubtedly being used to spy on Bubba in the parking of a wal-mart in Kentucky. Otherwise he couldn’t give a single fuck.
OzarkHillbilly
@PurpleGirl: And don’t forget Sen. “Toe Tapping” Larry Craig.
Geeno
@Patricia Kayden: Yes, it’s Bill. I’m not sure when he acquired the knick-name, but it was popularized when, during the ’92 campaign, Hilary was asked what it’s like to be married to Bill, and she said “Well, he’s a hard dog to keep on the porch.”
Schlemizel
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ol wide stance is gone now so he doesn’t count. but it is stunning to see how they are so willing to look for the mote in a Dems eye while ignoring the plank in their own.
Someone should teach them the bible!
danielx
One could almost feel sorry for McMorris Rogers. Seriously, how is she expected to compete with Larry, Curly and Moe?
It was 41 degrees last night at eleven pm and is now four degrees; makes me want to catch the first thing smoking that’s headed south. This place is sounding really good right about now.
Elizabelle
@Geeno:
Hadn’t heard that, but it’s an excellent description.
kindness
The Teavangelicals can’t help themselves. They are on a mission from God.
OzarkHillbilly
@Hal: It’s not the spying on Bubba that has him concerned, it’s the Hellfire missiles he knows they all carry that are targeted on good god-fearing white Christian folk who are just exercising their 2nd Amendment Rights ™ while at the local Wal Mart. And not only those in Kentucky I might add.
Mustang Bobby
@danielx: That’s about two hours from my house. Come by; we’ll drop the top on the Mustang, put on the RayBans and some Beach Boy tunes, and head for it.
Patricia Kayden
@PurpleGirl: Who was re-elected recently by the good folk of South Carolina! Again Repubs have no right to act self-righteous.
OzarkHillbilly
And we thought the GOP had a problem with women. Japan: new head of public broadcaster shrugs off use of wartime sex slaves
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemizel: Well, if they get to pick on the Big Dog who hasn’t been in office for almost a decade and a half, than I get to pick on the guy who made tap dancing in bathroom stalls famous.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Patricia Kayden: Um, Rand Paul himself is in no position to comment on the treatment of a woman decades ago given is own history:
It’s almost always projection when Republicans make charges about a Democrat.
Cheers,
Scott.
mai naem
What these idiots don’t realize is that the only people who give a sheet about Bill Clinton and Monica are the right wing whack jobs who, guess what??? won’t never ever vote for a Democrat. Even if Jesus came down and became a registered Democrat, the whack jobs will never ever vote for a Dem. Nobody else cares. Most people like Bill, if for nothing else, they are nostalgic for his economy.
danielx
@Mustang Bobby:
Works for me; I want some grouper and boat drinks. Been there a few times – it’s a great place, family owned and they really do a nice job, although if you’re camping you want to watch out for the herd of hostile raccoons. Hop skip and jump from Bahia Honda, which has decent beaches and where you can walk a hundred yards from the Atlantic to the Gulf. None of which is news to you, I’m sure.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve been reading a new blog, at least to me, about Korea. The post, and comments, that I spent most of the night reading was about “Why do Koreans hate the Japanese”.
danielx
@OzarkHillbilly:
How DARE you make jokes about about Wide Stance..er, Larry Craig?
Mustang Bobby
@danielx:
No, but I still love it there, and I never get tired of it. The walk out on the old railroad bridge at Bahia Honda is a trip, imagining people driving cars on top of the trestles.
Ash Can
@OzarkHillbilly: The only thing Rand Paul cares about regarding good God-fearing white Christian folk is how much money they can send him, and how many votes he can get from them. He’s running a scam that happens to involve politics, that’s all.
Glocksman
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The BBC has had a few ‘background’ pieces on that issue.
Hell, even (I think) Tom Clancy mentioned it in one of his books where a character said ‘there are few quicker ways to become dead than to call a Korean a Jap’, or something along those lines.
OzarkHillbilly
@danielx: You know he found Jesus too, don’t you? In the Mens room, 3rd stall on the left.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ash Can: Shhhhhh, they might hear you.
debbie
@geg6:
It’s McKinnon, among others, who’s responsible for giving these clowns the microphone in the first place. When will he acknowledge that?
jayackroyd
I’m watching the American Library Association book awards announcements while trying to figure out why espresso machine won’t foam milk anymore.
Or, rather, I know why–hot water is leaking past the spigot seal, but I can’t figure out what to do about it. I got great advice here on a burr grinder–the handcranker I have is perfect.
Any ideas on the steamer?
debbie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Actually, it’ll show just how out of touch the GOP has become. Something two decades prior getting that kind of attention, while there still aren’t enough jobs? Bring it on!
aimai
@Kay: Yup! I mean, the same three men would have come out and stepped on Boehner’s speech if he had been tasked with it, because at this point its every lunatic for himself. But the visuals are striking–I do wish some enterprising journalist (if there were such a thing) would ask CMR point blank
Mustang Bobby
@danielx: On the other hand, this news item from the Miami Herald — “Big Pine Key gun owner has totally legal gun range in his back yard” — might make you want to stop off in Marathon.
MikeJ
The next republican that gets elected president is going to have the Jimmy Carter problem. No matter which half of the party he (and it will be a he) is from, the other half will hate him and will do everything they can to destroy him.
IowaOldLady
@mai naem: Exactly.
And the idea that Hilary is disqualified because her husband cheated is not going to win many women’s hearts.
Lee
Check out this crazy story of the primaries for Republican down ticket offices.
Even those down tickets races are having to talk crazy in order to get the Republican nomination.
Ash Can
@OzarkHillbilly: Heh! The great irony, of course, is that you can tell all the GOP marks to their faces that they’re being shaken down, with full-color audiovisual tools, and they’ll still refuse to believe it.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@OzarkHillbilly:
Prepare, for Jesus is coming.
Kay
@aimai:
My husband said a funny thing about the local Republican Party’s inability to control or dilute the influence of the their extreme members. “They are all John Boehner now”.
Boehner is like an old-style pol. Transactional, not ideological. He wants to cut deals and then enjoy himself, and we have a group of GOP men like that here. It’s the same dynamic. All the fun has gone out of it for them. They’re not round table, think tank guys and they don’t give a shit about “the conservative soul”.
Baud
@Kay:
OT:
Schlemizel
@OzarkHillbilly:
I would assume that the gentleman pronounced it HEY-zeus and was working on a green card. O’l wide stance still remembers him fondly!
OzarkHillbilly
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: If Craig has anything to do with it.
Joey Maloney
@PurpleGirl: And we shouldn’t forget governor what’s-his-name who was “hiking the Appalachian Trail” when he was really in Argentina with his inamorata.
Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Rep. Stockman (R-NFA) yet? Apparently he hasn’t been seen in weeks, not in DC or his district, and his staff isn’t answering questions about it. He missed a bunch of roll call votes, including the budget that he’d pledged to vote against.
Keith G
The best defense is to go out on a well planned offensive.
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If you can make you opposition sound whiny instead of sounding like they have solution, you are on the road to winning.
quotes via WAPO
I hope that the West Wing will decide to up the pressure as promised. Sometimes they have seemed to start off in good stead but then lose focus and lose drive. Paul and McConnell are not popular/liked outside of their immediate constituency. The more they oink empty complaints about the President, the better.
Schlemizel
as if pre-planned todays Kliban’s cartoon continues the clown fight theme:
http://www.gocomics.com/kliban/2014/01/27
One of the FP’ers should bookmark this cartoon as it will be germane many times in the coming months.
Cervantes
@debbie:
Worse, he used to be a Democrat until he signed on with George W. Bush in ’99 or ’00.
Cervantes
@rikyrah:
Er … it’s too dark to read?
More seriously, Bullwinkle fans are, like fans of Groucho, by definition always young.
sensesfail
Rand Paul and Snapchat… there’s some mental imagery that I never wanted to have.
Keith G
@Joey Maloney: Our local TV news here in Tx sent a reporter to his residence….No esta alli
MattF
It’s the political version of natural selection– competition for limited resources and the struggle for survival, leading to the capture of constituencies and survival into the next generation. And then, along comes the meteor (aka Hillary) and it’s all irrelevant.
debbie
@Cervantes:
Yes, and I believe it was he who “mistakenly” mailed Bush’s debate book to Gore’s office in an attempt to frame them. Good times.
Kay
@Baud:
Fitting location for it, don’t you think?
K12 is a for-profit company, so the next time you hear Chris Christie claim that his privately-run schools are nonprofits, know that he’s flat-out lying. If you hollow your nonprofit out and fill all essential roles with a contractor, a forprofit company, nonprofit is meaningful only in terms of the federal tax code.
They’re having showings of a propaganda piece called The Cartel for School Choice Week. Get it? Public schools and teachers who belong to labor unions are part of a “cartel”. I plan to tell my fifth grader the greedy crime bosses down at his middle school who make the princely sum of 41k a year are operating a “cartel”.
Mrs. Bosco will be alarmed to learn she’s part of a criminal conspiracy :)
You know, every week is Bash Public Schools Week but this week will be particularly brutal. It pisses me off. If nothing else, one would think the so-called “adults” in this thing would realize public school kids can hear them when they bash public schools. These are the schools 90% of kids actually attend.
Amir Khalid
Will anyone be keeping track of the areas of disagreement between the various Republican responses to the real State of The Union address? I suspect a list of them would be fascinating to read.
Glocksman
@Mustang Bobby:
Wow.
Talk about unintended consequences.
State preemption laws usually aren’t written as broadly as Florida’s is, for good reason.
Shit, even properly constructed ranges run a risk of ricochets.
I was practicing years ago with a .45 at a new properly built range and had a ricochet come right back at me and hit the Zippo in my pocket hard enough to dent it.
Shooting in an urban environment is just stupid.
From the article:
If I had money coming out of my ass, I’d be tempted to buy that lot next to his and build my own private outdoor gun range.
And fire an M16 on full automatic at 3AM, followed by a few boxes of 12 gauge practice.
Let’s see his dream home then. :)
Cervantes
@Geeno:
In their social circle he’s been known, affectionately, as the Big Dog for a while, two decades and more.
What you’re referring to is an interview she gave in ’99.
Cervantes
@Elizabelle:
Yes. Arkansas idiom.
Cervantes
@“Give ’em Hell” Harry:
Keith G, actually.
Kay
@aimai:
I think it’s odd and almost a recognition that they’re behind the curve on advancing women that her focus will be “kitchen table issues”.
There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s what I focus on myself, but there’s a recognition on the D side that women shouldn’t be limited to those issues.
They’re really playing catch-up on a discussion Democrats had in the 1990s if they’re pointing to this speech as progress. The division of labor, where women talk about health care and unemployment and those sorts of ‘practical’ issues and men talk about Big Ideas like Liberty and Law is something Democrats dealt with 20 years ago. We don’t divide it up by gender anymore.
C.V. Danes
If only we had a “progressive” party that could take advantage of this situation…
Cervantes
@debbie:
Debate-prep materials including papers and a video, mailed to Gore’s campaign.
Yvette Lozano, McKinnon’s employee at Maverick Media, was indicted in 2001 (mail fraud, false statements to the FBI, perjury).
Both Lozano and McKinnon were previously Democrats.
Cervantes
@Kay:
Well, in the first place, if they gave a hoot about the well-being of those kids …
Hillary Rettig
The one who gets the Pets.com sock puppet to deliver his/her speech will win.
Kay
@Cervantes:
I don’t think they hear it, or recognize how pervasive it is. I know they don’t realize how dispiriting and relentless is feels to public school teachers. I’m not a teacher, I have no “dog” in that race and I hear it loud and clear. I agree with them. It’s true they’re being attacked. It is everywhere.
I was reading this nice story about how some ed promotion group wanted to “thank teachers” so they told this story where a surgeon called his 7th grade science teacher and thanked him. The teacher said, in the piece itself, “I am almost afraid to tell people I’m a public school teacher”. Left unspoken in that is “in the current climate”.
I mean, Jesus Christ. That’s where we are? This is a shameful job now? I don’t know how anyone who is paying attention can NOT hear it. All the PR efforts to “thank” teachers ring a little hollow when the guy says he’s afraid to say what he does for a living.
elmo
@Glocksman:
When I lived in Tennessee on my ten rural acres, I used to shoot in my yard all the time. But we shot toward a hill that was steep but not rocky, where we would have to have shot up at a 45 degree angle to overshoot the hill. We made sure there were no big rocks anywhere near our target area to prevent ricochets.
Meanwhile my uphill neighbor used to blast away with a full-auto, or with a .50 muzzleloader, whenever the mood struck him.
John PM
If the Tea Par tiers are really dissatisfied with the Republican party, shouldn’t they just leave, or kick out all the heretics. It’s like they want the benefits of belonging to one of the major parties while at the same time pretending to be independent of that party. But that is probably too cynical of me.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I have 2 sisters who are PS teachers and a # of friends and nothing p!sses me off more than the contempt Republicans have for teachers in general and the hatred of PS teachers in particular. You know the difference between a public school teacher and a private school teacher, don’t you?
Unions.
WaterGirl
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Yeah, they didn’t do anything wrong. Well, except for the kidnapping part.
Cervantes
@Kay:
How do you know this?
If we are thinking about the same people — “education reformers” and the politicians who support them — call me a cynic but I’d say that making public school teachers feel bad is, for many of them “collateral damage” at best. (For some I’d say it’s actually part of the program.)
Not by accident, if you ask me.
WaterGirl
@Glocksman: Background pieces? I thought that was Ezra’s new gig.
Cervantes
One other thing:
In my opinion, when it comes to schools (all, but especially public ones), we all have, er, “a ‘dog’ in that race.” These are our kids; they are all our kids — regardless of who their parents are.[*]
[*] I know, this is a radically dangerous idea to some here.
Phylllis
@Baud: our state superintendent of education is speaking at their Columbia, SC meeting. We know this because it was announced as a press release on our state government Dept of Ed web page. Still thinking about filing an ethics complaint about it, mainly for shits & giggles.
Phylllis
@Kay: I decided to go to the conference in Austin. I’m at the Doubletree. Wonder if we could do a mini BJ get-together while we’re there.
OzarkHillbilly
@Cervantes: This.
Read a letter in the local rag from a retired idiot (from his job, not being an idiot) complaining about school taxes when “he didn’t even go to these schools.” I sh!t you not.
Another Holocene Human
@rikyrah: Hell, there are groups that reliably cheat and vote Republican that the Democrats say nothing about, that is, households that own multiple homes in multiple states.
Gex
@John PM: It shows you what they really are, deep down. They are free loaders. They aren’t actually willing to do the work to form a party, get on ballots, build an electorally relevant base. They want to get all the things required to be a party handed to them.
Now think back to their start. “Keep government out of my Medicare.”
Freeloaders. Lazy. Unwilling to work. All the things they hate about the “takers” are really just traits that they have.
Another Holocene Human
@Schlemizel: Heh, in the 1990s my internet time was spent on fanpages and alt.slack. I did read newspapers but did you ever see the newspapers’ websites? They made your browser crash before they finished loading, so I think not. The most political newsgroup I was on was the urban transit group. It was kind of being bombed all the time by SubsidizeMyExurbanLifestyle,Libs! trolls.
Phylllis
@OzarkHillbilly: I always tell those kind of folks that I pay taxes for the county jail, and have no plans ever to use it. And I pay taxes for the fire service, and surely hope like hell I never need to use it. Damn glad it’s there, though.
Glocksman
@elmo:
Buying a bunch of land out in the middle of nowhere and building my own home with attached range is something I’d love to do.
When not being used as a range, it’d double as an RC aircraft takeoff/landing area.
That said, in an urban/suburban area a backyard range is just crazy even if you use sound suppressed weapons.
@Gex:
I dunno.
They’ve been working pretty hard over the last 30 years burrowing their way into the Republican party.
Hateful, bigoted, self-centered and intolerant they may be, but they’re not lazy.
Their real problem in cementing a takeover is too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
Every two-bit TP’er with ambition sees the next POTUS when they look in the mirror.
Cervantes
@Phylllis:
Yes, I know what you mean — and maybe telling them that helps them think.
The sad thing, though, is that too many of our public schools do, in fact, serve as emergency services and, worse, holding cells.
Kay
@Phylllis:
Sure! I’m only there one day (Sat.) but I would love to meet. I’ll email you and give you my cell number.
SiubhanDuinne
@Keith G:
The only recent news article I could find was from the Washington Times, and yeah, I know, it’s the Washington Times. Consider the source and other appropriate disclaimers. Still, if true, it’s interesting and to me raises more questions than it answers.
Mnemosyne
@Gex:
I’ve been saying the same thing for years — they want the benefits of living in a nice society without having to pay into it like the rest of us. It’s always projection with them.
gnomedad
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes. Or else this scary robot, here shown hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Cervantes
@Keith G:
@SiubhanDuinne:
He claims to have been on a congressional delegation:
Caveat lector: the report is from Breitbart (yesterday).
James in Silverdale, WA
Three responses, eh? Well, it takes three people to effectively shout, “n*****, n*****, n*****” !!!
The GOP is done. Bring out the forks. And the seeds of what comes after have yet to be sown.
bemused
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Mika can be such an annoying prissy tsktsker for a big city woman her age. No doubt her kids do a lot of eye-rolling.
slippy
I’m looking forward to Rand Paul once again demonstrating what an intellectual midget he is, and what a small-minded, pathetic little douche of a man can achieve if he’s got a big sack of Daddy’s Money on his back.
MattF
@slippy: Even the WaPo agrees that Paul just makes shit up:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/01/27/do-9-out-of-10-new-businesses-fail-as-rand-paul-claims/?hpid=z4
RaflW
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The point is to remind voters, over and over, that Bill was (and may still be) a cheat, and Hillary put(s) up with it.
Republican women are forgiving – which goes with the bulls*it narrative that Vitter et all repented and got forgiven – and Democratic women just have loose morals and don’t care that their husbands cheat.
The double-standard is sickening.
RaflW
FYWP
Villago Delenda Est
@Gex:
It’s always projection with these people. Always.
Particularly the parasites they worship as “makers.”
burnspbesq
The market for popcorn futures has collapsed, because no sane person wants to take the short side.
Patricia Kayden
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: So that must be where the Aqua Buddha meme comes from. I’ve always wondered why Charles Pierce refers to Rand Paul with that name. This blog is so educational. LOL.
Jebediah, RBG
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Is there a statute of limitations on kidnapping?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Jebediah, RBG: Dunno. The Texas law is here. The Limitations are here. It looks like the details matter.
Not that he would be charged, of course. Just “youthful hijinks” or some such thing. :-/ (Plus, she undoubtedly wouldn’t want to press charges at this late date.)
IANAL. HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jebediah, RBG
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Thanks. I agree that he wouldn’t be charged, but I was wondering if he had the possibility, even if only theoretical, hanging over him.