Hot scoop from Jennifer Jacobs the Des Moines Register:
No Iowa Straw Poll for Jeb Bush.
The likely Republican presidential candidate will instead attend a competing event, the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, the day of the Iowa event, GOP sources in Iowa told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. A spokesman for Bush confirmed the report…
Late Monday, the founder of RedState, Erick Erickson, announced on his blog that Bush, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker would speak during the four-day RedState Gathering Aug. 6-9. The Register was first to report that Bush will address the GOP activists in Georgia on Aug. 8, the same day as the Iowa Straw Poll…
My emphasis, of course. Many a blogger — and not just among us DFHs, either — has mocked Erick “goat-fvcking child molester” Erickson’s self-promoting circle jerk, but TBogg’s takedowns were the best.
Of course, if he really wants to Raise Media Awareness, Infinite Ericks should nut up and challenge Joni “Pig Castrator” Ernst, mano a mano…
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Apart from ordering popcorn, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Amir Khalid
If Erick ibnu Erick were to challenge Joni Ernst, wouldn’t that be mano a mujer?
Benedict Arnold Schwartzenager
Link to the TBogg takedown?
Marc
I was wondering who would the other mano be?
Major Major Major Major
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Brachiator
I never got a chance to watch this week’s Wolf Hall. So that, and and occasional peek at the Clippers game is the night’s lineup.
The news article suggests that the Iowa Straw Poll is a waste of time, so I guess it’s understandable that the GOP klown Kar would not be making a stop there, thus creating an opportunity for other carny shows to take its place.
And little Bobby Jindal as a speaker? He’s like the M. Night Shyamalan of politics.
KG
@Brachiator:
that’s not fair, Shyamalan had one good flick and one decent flick, Jindal hasn’t been nearly that good…
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
Hand to woman?
The translation error of mano, “hand,” for “man” comes up with some frequency.
SatanicPanic
@KG: more like the Uwe Boll
fuckwit
I see a pattern here. Those are all corporate-whore candidates, vetted and approved by the 1%. That’s who Corporate America wants to lick its balls for it.
Noticeably absent: Huckabee, Santorum, etc. Looks like RedState at least isn’t so keen on the religious freaks.
Iowa Old Lady
The Straw Poll is a fundraiser. Participants pay to bring people in to vote for them. They provide busses and food. Anyone can go. Mr IOL was offered the chance to be bussed in on Pawlenty’s behalf last time, and he’s a registered Democrat. He was tempted for the entertainment value, but decided spending the whole day on that was too much.
KG
@Brachiator: hand to woman probably gets you arrested, and seeing Erickson in the drunk tank might be fun, in a I’m-a-terrible-human-being kind of way.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
I’m still only a novice in Spanish.
Germy Shoemangler
Rapper J. Cole’s new music video ‘Wet Dreamz’ tells a tale of young love through adorable puppies
Howard Beale IV
Wow-who would’ve thunk it-half of the clown car is ratfvcking their own election.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid: I’m sure you’re ahead of most folks in attempting to master foreign languages, especially me. My Spanish used to be pretty good, but is fading. Even in Los Angeles, I don’t practice it much, for fear of sounding like a complete idiot. I have been playing with foreign language apps. This new thing about a Skype translator looks interesting.
http://gizmodo.com/skype-translator-hands-on-close-but-no-babel-fish-1671457117/1703958570/+darrenorf
trollhattan
If I believed Jebbie! were just heading there to placate the mouth-breathers and “prove” to his corporatist paymasters that “See, I can even go talk to them” that would be one thing. A little like Rand Paul going to Howard University to show he’s down and all that But I suspect Jebbie! is going there because he prefers to.
Just great. Is he actually the Sarah! of the Bush family?
trollhattan
I give you Pegasus, the great Dane puppy.
SFAW
He’d only do that if’n his wife lets him borrow her shotgun.
Fair Economist
Why is RedState timing their event to clash with a major event like the Iowa Straw Poll? There’s got to be some interesting behind-the-scenes politics involved. Wish I knew what they were.
Gimlet
Who could have predicted?
“He will lose his eyesight if he doesn’t get care. He will go blind,” said Dr. Malcolm Edwards, the Lancaster, S.C., ophthalmologist who examined Lang.
Lang is a self-employed handyman who works with banks and the federal government on maintaining foreclosed properties. He has done well enough that his wife, Mary, hasn’t had to work. They live in a 3,300-square-foot home in the Legacy Park subdivision valued at more than $300,000.
But he has never bought insurance. Instead, he says, he prided himself on paying his own medical bills.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/health-care/health-care-challenge-blog/article20696283.html
JustRuss
The fact that that phrase is used to describe Jeb Frickin Bush makes me sad on so many levels. Honestly, given the choice I’d take Mittens for pres over Jebbie.
trollhattan
@JustRuss:
Willard’s inaugural: Worst. Kegger. Ever.
NotMax
North Korea is a Red state.
NotMax
@trollhattan
Actually, root beer out of a keg is pretty good.
WereBear
@Gimlet: Had its own thread this afternoon.
tones
@Brachiator
Yep, Hand to hand [combat]: mano a mano las manos are hands.
Mike in NC
In a recent interview with USA Today, 86 year old billionaire prick T. Boone Pickens declared JEB! will be elected in 2016, so you can just quit blogging right now.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
A new analysis of voter registration data shows that under the McCrory administration, North Carolina may be systematically failing to provide state residents with the opportunity to register to vote when they apply for public assistance — such as food stamps or welfare — in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU!
Hal
Today’s “Who asked her anyway? Who cares?” award goes to:
tybee
@Hal:
coulter makes sewage look appetizing
Anne Laurie
@fuckwit:
Infinite Erickson is studyin’ for his preacher license now. Those other Bible-bangers are the competition.
low-tech cyclist
Scott Walker’s giving Erick’s shindig the patina of legitimacy by attending. (No word yet on whether he’ll also be at the Iowa straw poll.) Without him, the attendees so far look like a list of people who know they’re screwed in Iowa, but with him and Jebbie, Erick’s got the two heavyweights.
If Rubio also attends Erick’s gathering, while the religious wingnuts like Huckabee and Santorum only go to Iowa that weekend, it’ll be an interesting split indeed.