You’re all a bunch of phonies.
Discuss.
Sofa King
The grifter speaks:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) called Monday evening for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s firing over remarks he allegedly made about the intellectually disabled.
Palin, the mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome, called on President Barack Obama to end Emanuel’s tenure as chief of staff for having allegedly called participants in a strategy session “f—ing retarded.”
Yes. People should be fired for private comments that have no impact on policy in a closed strategy meeting.
Morning Call Your Reps Thread
Everything has gone quiet lately…too quiet. Either party leaders have some kind of eleven dimensional chess plan in motion, as John Chait thinks, or the issue honestly has moved to a back burner. I might feel more encouraged if the President would whip support for a specific plan of action (like, again, he did for Ben Bernanke) rather than these vague words of encouragement that we heard at the SOTU and after. On the other hand, if he truly is waiting for Godot Snowe then we are all hosed.
Pestering your elected officials can’t hurt. Even if we don’t win it will feel better than yelling at the TV.
The switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Guide for newbies here.
Early Morning Open Thread: Whither the Weather?
From a period many years before the groundhog took over forecasting duties…
“If Candlemas is bright and clear,
There’ll be two winters in the year;
If Candlemas brings snow and rain,
Old winter shall not come again.”
Required legal boilerplate: Not a scienterrific methodology. So, what’s the weather like in your neighborhood this morning?
Early Morning Open Thread: Whither the Weather?Post + Comments (88)
Another Open Thread
Not too interested in anything atm, so I am going back to the chair and the ice pump to let my mind rot in front of the tv. Despite all the bitching I am doing, I feel super lucky. Can you imagine what an injury like this would be like without insurance? Or in the 1800’s?
And all the little things that make this recovery so much easier. The baby wipes, the pain meds, the ice therapy, etc. Hell, I’m even paying a maid service to come in and clean the kitchen and bathroom because I can not sweep or mop. So fortunate I have the means to do this.
It’s All In the Game
The Wasilla wingnut is still playing the long con:
Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, “Going Rogue,” in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports describe as “books for fundraising donor fulfillment.” The payments went to Harper Collins, her publisher, and in some instances to HSP Direct, a Virginia-based direct mail fundraising firm that serves a number of well-known conservative politicians and pundits.
I guess this is her version of trickle down.
Open Thread
Felt pretty good when I woke up this morning, and then I went to rehab with a cute little perky therapist whose name I forget, but I think it might have been Dr. Mengele. I’m on to their ruse, though. Distract me with attractive and harmless looking females and hope I won’t notice THAT THEY ARE TORTURING ME.
Now my shoulder is throbbing and I think I need a good cry.