A lot of blogs are posting this CBS news video of an angry teabagger yelling into the door of Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office today (before it’s shut in his face):
I’m pretty certain that this is our ol’ pal Tito the Builder. I’m not a voice specialist, but the man in the video sounds just like Tito, who is also a Colombian immigrant. In addition, the man from today’s video is wearing a wedding band that looks just the one Tito can be seen wearing in this video. I’m not 100% sure since Tito always wore sunglasses and I can’t find any evidence of him boasting about being arrested four times in his former country, but I’d put down a pretty sizable sum on a bet if anyone wants to take me up on it…
UPDATE: It’s gotta be Tito. Gerry Connolly represents VA’s 11th district and he has an office (listed at the bottom of this page) in Woodbridge, the home of Deborn Construction, Inc., the company Tito owns.
Fulfilling his bloggy mission, Zandar points out the stupid in this wingnut-prØn poll, which finds that, according to Americans, the US has lost international standing during the Obama administration:
What a ridiculous poll. If you want to know how the US is perceived internationally by non-Americans, why are you asking Americans?
Good question, Zandar. As it turns out, Gallup released a poll last month that actually did gauge non-American perceptions of American leadership and presents data from 2006-2009:
Casual observers may believe Obama beat McCain because of things like effective organization, disgust with failed Republican policies, a VP candidate who wasn’t a booger-eating moron, etc. But the GOP poobahs know better: The party that transformed an addled, daddy-dependent, AWOL, prep-school cheerleader into Commander Codpiece understands the power of image.
Before McCain had even delivered his concession speech in 2008, the people who really run the GOP (hint: the money people, not the tea party yahoos, dittoheads, Paultards, etc.) identified the cause of the loss and were busily engaged in developing a new strategy.
Cuz McCain so sux. He ruined *Joe’s* life by catapulting him to a position where he could strut around acting like a celebrity and pretending that he has anything worthwhile to say.
Can’t someone find the hook and jerk this boob off the stage? I mean it seems like his 15 minutes is long over.
According to AP, freshly-minted US Senator from Massachusetts Scott Brown is prepared to “go rogue” in ways that may not delight Conservative supporters who hyped his campaign image as the “anti-Obama,” and viewed his election as a door-slamming rejection of the Democratic Senate agenda.
Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won’t always be able to count on his vote. The man who staged an upset in last week’s Massachusetts Senate special election, in part by pledging to be the 41st GOP vote against President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he staked his claim in early conversations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl.
“I already told them, you know, `I got here with the help of a close group of friends and very little help from anyone down there, so there’ll be issues when I’ll be with you and there are issues when I won’t be with you,’” Brown said Thursday during the half-hour interview. “So, I just need to look at each vote and then make a proper analysis and then decide.”
Brown’s studly 1982 nude pictorial in Cosmo inspired some of his female admirers to dub him “Hottie McAwesome.” But the thought that “McAwesome” could rhyme with “McCain” is a stick of political mind-candy that makes even us Radical Lefties a little bit horny.
Political observers can only wonder what Palin has promised the Saudis, what she has been promised by her RNC masters, what McCain has agreed not to reveal about Palin in exchange for her support, and what the fickle former governor’s coziness with Saudi sheiks portends for Israeli security and interests in the Middle East.
God, that was fun. Let me know if I left anything out.
It’s not just newspapers—“all of them” is Sarah Palin’s default answer when flummoxed by any simple question:
Even deluded nutbag Glenn Beck—Glenn Beck!!—saw through Palin’s “world peace” pageant-speak fall-back.
I’m considering a small campaign contribution to whatever lowlife teabagging mouth-breather crawls out of the woodwork to primary John McCain from the right.
It seems unfair to blame Palin—she can’t help being a booger-eating moron. But John “Country First” McCain, in possibly the most cynical political act in modern American history, deliberately thrust this drooling idiot onto the national stage. He should pay with his political career.
Even though I regularly read blogs written by horrible, petulant Hillary Clinton supporters that exist solely to tell the world HOW MUCH BARACK OBAMA SUCKS several times a day (or even hourly), I still think “Wow, that’s pretty harsh” when I read one of the relatively few anti-Clinton blog posts penned by an Obama supporter these days.
According to this CNN sidebar headline, the dude we libtards have been deriding as “Traitor Joe” finally stood up to his good buddy John McCain!
Oooooo, so what did Lieberman say about the ad in which McCain asserts, “President Obama is leading an extreme, left-wing crusade to bankrupt America. I stand in his way every day”? Was it:
“Stop lying about the president’s agenda, Snarly McSurgepants”?
Or maybe:
“Being primaried by a wingnut talk radio teabagger is no excuse to throw all your so-called principles out the window, Senator Palinabler.”
Alas, those who bother to click the CNN link will be disappointed. Here’s Lieberman’s “slam”:
“You know, every now and then, John McCain and I disagree. I don’t agree with that.”
Which would have been totally appropriate if the issue were McCain’s opinion of “Avatar” or the Cardinals’ chances in the playoffs. But when your pal falsely accuses the president (who saved your sorry ass, by the way) of treason, that sort of lame-ass response just cements your reputation as McCain’s toadying butt gerbil.
Jeebus. Even if the Mayans are right, 2012 can’t get here soon enough. At least we’ll be rid of Lieberman one way or another.
Palin had a reflexive tendency to refer to Biden as “O’Biden,” [McCain campaign strategist Steve] Schmidt revealed. He says other people on the campaign staff came up with a solution. “It was multiple people—and I wasn’t one of them—who all said at the same time, ‘Just say, ‘Can I call you Joe?’’ which she did.”
p.s. How much do you think it’s killing Palin not to lash out at Schmidt on Facebook yet? I’m sure it’s driving her batshit insane to wait until after the 60 Minutes broadcast on Sunday to go for his throat, which she most certainly will.
And you thought the ‘tweens & teens might be a dull decade in comparison to the tragicomic aughties! But like an animatronic groundhog issuing forth from his Punxsutawney-based battery charger, the quasi-lifelike android known as Mitt Romney emitted a short burst of static and prepared to hit the campaign trail on a No Apologies book tour, which portends endless mirth and entertainment.
The tour started out with an apology of sorts—an effort to quash unflattering comparisons with Governor Moosemunch’s magnum opus and the attendant hullabaloo:
“Inevitably there are going to be comparisons with the Sarah Palin book,’’ said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman. “We’re not going to match her crowd size or sales. These are two different people with different ways of expressing themselves.’’
No doubt. Palin might be a vicious, pea-brained, whining wingnut with a Queen Esther complex, but even most of her enemies assume she’s a human being, and to her supporters, she’s a human being who has transformed into a religious icon—a Moose-Slaying Madonna whose Word is the ultimate Shield of Faith against unbelieving heathen hordes. Romney’s effort is unlikely to send thrills up the legs of anyone aside from Hugh Hewitt. (And the less said about those particular appendages, the better. Some of us are still dealing with hangovers.)
Still, the title of Romney’s upcoming book is calculated to provoke, as foreshadowed in an interview Romney did on the Hannity show this past summer, in which Romney attempted to emulate human wingnut resentment toward Obama’s “Hey, I’m not George W. Bush!” tour of Europe and the Middle East, which was marked by stunning, soul-shattering admissions that America is not perfect:
HANNITY: All right. Let’s talk about this apology tour. You were at the Heritage Foundation and basically blasted the president for this ongoing apology tour. Is this what we’re going to get now in the next four days?
ROMNEY: I sure hope not. I hope he listened to my comments and those that you’re making and that other people have made. Actually the Britain’s paper, The Guardian, said that this American president has been more critical of his own country while on foreign soil than any American president in history.
That’s not a distinction you want at any time. But particularly now with the North Koreans pursuing their weapons of mass destruction, with Iran, belligerently pursuing their nuclear ambition. With all that’s happening in the world, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and Somalia and across the world, you want an American president who is confident and determined in our protection of freedom, and in the fact that America is a great nation and that we have sacrificed more than any other nation to help other people reclaim freedom, and given all of that, these constant apologies, I think, are quite troublesome.
“Quite troublesome” is the Romnoid version of “godless commie pinko foreign Muslim supremacist goat-fucker.” It will be fascinating to see what other epithets Romney .2012 employs to try to co-opt the teabaggers, particularly since he’ll be forced to spin his Massachusetts health care reform effort as something wholly apart from the Democrats’ reform bill and without a shred of socialism and government takeover in sight despite numerous similarities.
Surely by now you’ve seen the Franken on Lieberman smack-down video that has all us liberal types shrieking in ecstasy like tweeners with surprise backstage passes to a Jonas Brothers concert. I had a similar reaction to it myself, which was manifested in a sudden urge to have scads and scads of Franken’s sardonic, bespectacled babies.
But you know, that’s kind of sad, really, and indicative of how desperately we progressive types need a little validation. Because it’s not like Franken stormed across the floor of the senate, wrapped the handle of his gavel around Lieberman’s tongue and ripped the mendacious organ up from its sulfurous root. No, Franken politely, almost apologetically and with an aw-shucks kind of gesture told Lieberman his mewling had gone on for the allotted 10 minutes and declined to hear him drone on past the limit.
Comb-over, yes. Comity, no.
But if our reaction to that pretty unremarkable exchange was a tad excessive, noted rage-o-holic John McCain’s was even more silly. He rose up in a barely controlled fury to denounce the exchange as a break of “decorum” and “comity” the likes of which he claims not to have seen in all his born days (which include the Paleozoic era).
A senator with an even more conspicuous comb-over quickly corrected the record, pointing out that yet another senator had been issued a similar STFU that very afternoon. But McCain was not mollified. There will be blood, my friends. Blood and comb-overs. Mark my words.
