SOTU Responses: Little Munsters

Two observations:

1) The Ryan Roadmap will come back to bite the GOP on the ass. Better to just mumble something about the dog eating their homework than to tacitly endorse a plan that is electoral suicide.

2) The tea party will have to un-friend Bachmann, change its cell phone number and eventually move to a different city to get rid of her.

UPDATE: Who broke the Palin? Tumbleweeds on Twitter. Facebook forsaken. Is she done, folks?

ANOTHER UPDATE: You know what’s really quite remarkable? Obama said the following:

Our troops come from every corner of this country -– they’re black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.

And it was considered largely unremarkable.

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And it was considered largely unremarkable.

But the cool kids at DKos are really mad because he did not mention atheists.

Comment by Anya on 01/26/11 at 10:23 AM

Palin got burned by her Tuscon response, so it’s likely she’s hunkering down till the hair grows back.

She’s also out on the rubber chicken circuit this week, and I understand she’s scheduled to show up on Greta before the end of the week.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/26/11 at 10:39 AM

Who broke the Palin?

After her last two forays into Presidentialism turned sour, perhaps “If you can’t say something nice” came into play.

Or perhaps she was spooked by the burning coals of ambition that used to be Michele Bachmann’s eyes.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 01/26/11 at 10:42 AM

But is anyone paying attention, Strange? Damn it, we need her in the game for another year, culminating in a GOP moneybags curb-kicking and a Mobility Scooter Uprising at the 2012 RNC. If she quits on us now, it would be so…predictable.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 01/26/11 at 10:44 AM

Yeah, I figure someone on Palin’s staff finally broke into her office and screamed at her to shut up and stop making herself look like an ass.

I’m a little amazed she hasn’t already come out of the crypt to hiss at Bachmann.

Comment by Scott on 01/26/11 at 10:46 AM

Palin needs to get back in the game - even Christine the Teenage Witch is showing her up

Comment by Tom65 on 01/26/11 at 10:55 AM

...burning coals of ambition that used to be Michele Bachmann’s eyes.

It really has been quite a spectacle. I think Bachmann saw her opening after Palin’s Tucson response debacle, and now she’s making her move. It’s a good thing (for us) that there’s such depth on the GOP’s crazy bench.

Still, Bachmann is a cheap Palin knock-off. I don’t see her exclusion from the ticket inspiring dissent like Palin’s would.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 01/26/11 at 11:07 AM

During Ryan’s address, “Eddie Munster” became a trending topic on Twitter, but kudos to Betty for making the important Lily-Shelly connection that others missed.

Comment by Allan on 01/26/11 at 11:35 AM

Still, Bachmann is a cheap Palin knock-off.

Say what you like about Palin, at least her skill set extends to staring right down the barrel of the correct TV camera at any one time.

Comment by YAFB on 01/26/11 at 11:47 AM

I wonder what McCain would say about her makeup?

Comment by Tom65 on 01/26/11 at 12:23 PM

Yeah, I figure someone on Palin’s staff finally broke into her office and screamed at her to shut up and stop making herself look like an ass.

Hmmm, has a headless body washed up on an Anchorage beach recently?

Comment by trollhattan on 01/26/11 at 03:33 PM

@Anya:

I don’t think one needs to be a “cool kid at DKos,” or anyplace else, to be annoyed that in a rhetorical flourish of inclusiveness and appreciation of diversity, something like 15% of the US population was deemed unworthy of mention.

Leastaways, I’ve never been called one of the cool kids.

I myself am not hugely bent out of shape in this case, since it appears that Obama was trying to make a point about an accomplishment of his administration on another front, and one thing you don’t do when trying to emphasize the good part of something some of your audience still has a problem with is hit them with another thing that will piss them off. I’m okay with a one step at a time approach, even though I think it’s ludicrous that we should have to be taking “steps” on either of these things, in the 21st century, in what I am frequently assured is the greatest country evar.

But let’s just say this, since it seems you could stand to hear it again: if someone does not profess belief in some variation, within very narrow bounds, of some imaginary creature, he or she has no hope of getting elected to national office in this country. This is a problem, and one of the ways it can be addressed is by important, popular figures not forgetting to include us dirty smelly heathens when rattling off a list of the familiar brand names.

Comment by bjkeefe on 01/27/11 at 03:08 AM

@Anya:

I should add that I am aware that Obama has, in fact, included atheists in other speeches, his Inaugural Address among others. I appreciated that, and I’m sure other atheists did, too.

Those earlier mentions do, however, make it even harder to hear the omission in another instance. Humans are like that. So I think you might ease up on the belittling in this department, whatever other problems you have with the Kos Kids aside.

Comment by bjkeefe on 01/27/11 at 03:20 AM

@bjkeefe - while I get your point (as an atheist myself) I think Anya’s point had more to do with the fact that most of the commenters at DKos (at least the last few times I’ve been over there, and it’s getting fewer and farther between) simply cannot give Obama credit for anything positive no matter what he says or does. I simply did not read it as a diss on atheists, rather a snark on the Nobama attitude prevailing over there.

Comment by marindenver on 01/27/11 at 03:31 AM

@marindenver: Okay. Apologies, Anya, if I misunderstood your intent.

I don’t have any sense of what the mood is like at Kos. I never visit except by following the occasional link to a specific post. It would not surprise me to hear that there are a lot of firebaggers there, though.