This is just so damned awesome I am posting it in a thread of its own.
I could really watch this all night.
*** Update ***
Heh- Monty Python was there first:
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This is just so damned awesome I am posting it in a thread of its own.
I could really watch this all night.
*** Update ***
Heh- Monty Python was there first:
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In a speech in the heart of Ohio, a major battleground state in the fall election, Mr. McCain set forth a sweeping, extraordinarily positive vision of what the world will look like 2013, when he says he will have been in the White House for four years.
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,’’ Mr. McCain said at the Columbus Convention Center. “The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.’’
McCain isn’t even President yet and he is dumping it off on another administration in 2013. That is all kinds of awesome.
These people will say anything.
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Karl Rove- The GOP Must Stand For Something:
Why is it tough sledding for Republicans? Public revulsion at GOP scandals was a large factor in the party’s 2006 congressional defeat. Some brand damage remains, as does the downward pull of the president’s approval ratings. But the principal elements are the Iraq war and a struggling economy.
That is just it, Uncle Karl- the GOP does in fact stand for things. It stands for the Iraq war, it stands for $126 dollar a barrel oil, it stands for $4 a gallon gasoline, it stands for bloated budgets and huge deficits and diddling pages and secret detention and opposition to stem cell research and hostility to homosexuality and torture and domestic surveillance and permanent war and the Bankruptcy Bill and Terri Schiavo and the Prescription Drug Plan and the failed response to Katrina and blocking SCHIP and the breakdown of the military and and Global Warming denial and Guantanamo Bay and torture and the AG scandal and, most of all, it stands for partisan name-calling while the country is flushed down the drain.
See- you all stand for lots of things.
Have fun in November (but don’t worry- you almost have the party whittled down to the “true” conservatives).
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President Bush – Asshole (redundant, I know):
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
What a fucking jerk. Nobody has ever sugested negotiating with terrorists – NOBODY. What Barack Obama has suggested, and what was made clear by the Obama campaign this morning, is that:
“Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy — to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”
We should have a January 20, 2009 countdown ticker at this blog, and I think we should have a national celebration when this criminal leaves office. I mean a truly national celebration, with fireworks, street parties, city proclamations, etc that would be televised all over the world. I want President Bush’s last day in office to be the most huniliating experience of his life – one where the American people show him how absolutely jubliant they are that he is no longer the leader of this country. We could call it “National Thank Fucking God Day” or something like that.
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This is precious:
Rep. Tom Davis stomped on the concrete floor of the Capitol basement when asked by reporters about Republican fortunes at the moment.
“This is the floor,” he said, by way of explanation. “We’re below the floor.”
Inside the meeting, Davis had just presented his colleagues with what he said was a 20-page memo outlining his prescription for a way out of this mess. He did not offer details to the press, yet did not spare the party and the president scathing criticism in his public comments.
“The president swallows the microphone every time he opens his mouth,” Davis said.
He believes Bush’s staunch opposition to the Democratic housing bill and the SCHIP bill, for example, is hurting rank and file. Look at yesterday’s vote on the SPRO, where Republicans defied the president in droves. Lo and behold, the White House says today that it will not veto the bill.
No one could have predicted that loudly opposing insurance for children while investigating a 12 year old’s countertops would be bad politically.
I hope the Republicans keep listening to the Malkin/Red State wing of the GOP and call for more purity- that will really show them! We just haven’t been conservative enough! We haven’t stayed true to our conservative roots! I think Dick Cheney should be McCain’s VP! Or George Allen!
I really should not be enjoying this so much, but I simply can not wait until the entire GOP congressional contingent consists of a few idiots from Alabama and James Inhofe.
*** Update ***
Unintentional comedy at Red State:
That doesn’t explain why McCain is running 15 points ahead of a generic Republican, and in fact has a decent chance to win the election.
McCain has benefited mightily from RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU WINGNUTS FOR SEVEN YEARS. Do I need to link to all the times you called him a traitor for the gang of 14, or a terrorist sympathizer for opposing torture, or treasonous for diverging on your beliefs about global warming?
Having Ann Coulter scream she would vote for Clinton over McCain and similar sentiments from you “true conservatives” as you fellated Multiple Choice Mitt and defended the failure George Bush was the best thing to ever happen to John McCain’s general election chances. The reason the Republican brand is toxic is because they listened to you “true conservatives.” Have fun with that.
PS- I hear “true conservatives” all oppose the GI BILL. I think you should all rally around opposition to that! Show them you really, really mean it! Let the whole nation see how “principled” you really are! It will be awesome, I promise!
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Actually, I am, because I know this is not normal. Still, shit like this never surprises me – not here.
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ’08” scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
Lovely. I live here in Georgia because I know the majority is not like this – even conservatives. Still, it makes me wince and feel embarrassed for the entire state.
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The Republicans are embracing change:
But the respite might be temporary given the uncertainty surrounding Representative Vito Fossella, the New York Republican whose drunken-driving arrest led to disclosures of an out-of-wedlock child with a woman in suburban Virginia. The weekend saw mixed reports on whether Mr. Fossella, who is married, was going to try to hold his seat.
Hoping to get things moving in a positive direction, House Republicans will on Wednesday begin rolling out their own policy agenda, trying to showcase their differences with Democrats on issues such as health care, the economy, energy and national security.
In a memo to be sent to Republican members today, the leadership hints at a new slogan building on the change message that has already been shown to have political resonance with a public unhappy with the nation’s direction.
It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push for change from the years of the Bush administration with their own pledge to deliver, drum roll please, “the change you deserve.” The first element of the party agenda developed over the past few months by the leadership and select party members will focus on family issues.
“Through our “Change You Deserve” message and through our “American Families Agenda,” House Republicans will continue our efforts to speak directly to an American public looking for leaders who will offer real solutions for the challenges they confront every day,” said the memo prepared for lawmakers.
Alternate working slogans:
Change You Deserve- “One Man, One Family.”
American Families Agenda- “We like American families so much, some of us have several of them.”
This election is going to be a target rich environment for blogging.
*** Update ***
This is all kinds of awesome:
What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that “the change you deserve” is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, a drug that many of you might have started taking as a result of all the…you know — terrorism. (Hat tip to Bluestem for catching this gem.)
It is really going to suck in November watching the Democrats figure out how to lose this election.