Will someone please stage an intervention with Mittens before he dumps tens of millions more devalued dollars into a doomed quest for the 2012 GOP nomination? The Five Sons of Mitt are the most obvious candidates for the task. The Romneys are loaded, but they are multiplying like bunnies and will eventually need every cent to keep the MiniMitts in MittMansions and Guatemalan gardeners.
Mitt’s definitely running, though, else why would he churn out hilarious shit like this?
The first rule of turnarounds is to focus time, energy and resources on what matters most. The president simply cannot treat this crisis like another of his many problems. The oil disaster could hurt millions of families, slam the regional economy, kill untold numbers of non-human lives and irreparably damage the planet. Among other things, he must not hold more rock concerts at the White House — I understand James Carville’s venting: His hero fiddled as oil churned.
That last sentence is a rather obvious lie—nobody really understands anything crazed-fetus-look-a-like Carville says, least of all Mitt, who is also too dumb to realize that Obama is hardly Carville’s hero. But no more rock concerts—great point.
Campaign manager Shiree Verdone is moving to a 2010 “Republican Victory” fundraising operation. Mike Hellon, a former Arizona Republican Party chairman who had a part-time role as deputy campaign manager, will join her there.
Neither Verdone nor Hellon was fired, said Brian Rogers, McCain’s campaign spokesman, who confirmed the staff changes Friday in a statement to The Arizona Republic.
Joe Lieberman thinks it would be a good idea for anyone suspected of being involved with a terrorist group to be stripped of their citizenship. The Department of State would be prosecutor, judge and jury in this decision. And he’s holding a presser tomorrow morning to introduce the proposed legislation. Constitution be damned! There’s terrorists lurking amongst us and we must do what it takes to avoid reading them their Miranda rights! Because, yes, that seems to be what this is all about.
Greg originally reported that Sen. Charles Schumer was leaning towards supporting this McCarthy inspired *legislation* but now reports that he was misinformed. So at least there’s that.
Let’s hope this will just go down as another grandstanding idiotic idea that does nothing but provide Lieberdouche with some prime time sound bites. It’s just hard to see how proposing to strip us of freedoms is somehow intended to protect our freedoms. But then it’s hard to see how some people walk and chew gum at the same time.
Attempted bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad should NOT have been read his Miranda rights! I mean he will just totally clam up and lawyer up and refuse to speak and now we’ll never, ever know . . . . and, um, what’s that? Oh, he did get read his Miranda rights and he sang like a canary. Never mind, then.
I just heard McCain explaining to Sean Hannity that it was a mistake to grant suspected half-assed Times Square bomber-wannabee Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights as a US citizen, because Shahzad initially admitted involvement in the unbelievably half-assed non-bombing and because America has really effective, not-technically-torture interrogation methods that could have squeezed out the names of his accomplices and contacts without, you know, permanently crippling his arms or breaking his teeth or any of that VC-type bona fide torture stuff. Apparently, heThe Crimson Executioner Crash McMaverick also publicly warned against granting Miranda earlier today, for which The Atlantichas already called “Putz!” on him for being a tyrannical “Of the People, By the People, At My Convenience” dickhead.
Joe Lieberman, predictably, was also caught trying to manufacture a loophole in the Bill of Rights large enough to insert red-hot pincers and a serrated eye-gouger, public opinion permitting:
ThinkProgress has been all over this, so I’m guilty of recycling some fairly well-worn outrage. All I can add is my Blog-Pool For When Sarah Palin Will Twitter Her Call for “Common-Sense” Application of Due Process (Make your prediction in Comments!), and my totally cool pop-culture metaphor for Constitution-Optional Conservativism, which reveals itself in all its cheesy, soft-porn splendor below the fold.
With all that’s going wrong in America and around the world today, it’s important to remember how much better off we’d be with President John McCain, Vice President Sarah Palin, Secretary of State Joe Lieberman, Attorney General Lindsey Graham, Director of Homeland Security Randy Scheunemann, and Chief of Staff Joe the Plumber in charge. We really screwed up.
Betty Cracker recently made the comment, after having read Game Change, that McCain should be punching himself in the face. Palin’s recent speech to an evangelical organization called Women of Joy last Friday brings new meaning to that thought.
First off she comes right out and says that there is no place for separation of church and state in our government citing the Founding Fathers as her resource for this:
I beg you, Women of Joy, to bring light and be involved, loving America and praying for her. Really, it is our solemn duty. Praying for true spiritual awakening to overcome deterioration. That is where God wants us to be. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.
Wait, what? Doesn’t the First Amendment to the Constitution read something like this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And weren’t those same Founding Fathers responsible for the Bill of Rights because there was some concern that the original Constitution was a little loosey-goosey in some of those areas? So wouldn’t it be logical to assume that, despite their personal religious beliefs the, ahem, Founding Fathers DID believe that the operations of government should be kept separate from the operations of religious institutions?
No region of the country brings the crazy to US politics like my own Dixieland. Once upon a time, when you heard some pol say something facepalm-worthy, chances were it was delivered in a drawl. But I’ve gotta admit, we may have lost that distinction, perhaps forever.
Twin Tundra Twinkies
Well, Palin and Bachmann: These two toss the crazy like a pair of glue-sniffing wombats in a Jack T. Chick tract factory dumpster.
Have you heard of the Online Tax Revolt? It’s a lame-ass wingnut protest that happens to be a perfect metaphor for our age: Chairborne conservatives too lazy to get off their sedentary asses even for a local teabag fest can instead choose avatars for a “virtual” anti-tax march on Washington.
Here’s how it works: You select an avatar and walk it across a map to DC. You can choose to join a team if you like. The teams have names like “Thayrone’s Fair Tax Wolverines.” (I did not make that up.)
Here are some of the avatars you can select to represent yourself:
These avatars were unfortunately not included:
But then it gets weird—the site has a Leaders page featuring personalized avatars for a select group of conservative luminaries.
John McCain just can’t make up his mind. Is he a maverick or isn’t he? As reported by Gawker McCain gave an interview to Newsweek in which he proclaimed “I never considered myself a maverick”.
Say whut? OK, so many of us never really thought you were actually a maverick (I won’t go into what we did think) but you certainly thought so, hell, you said it every chance you got!
But it seems that McCain the Mavericky Maverick is not what John perceives the Arizona voters want this time around. Apparently they want hard-line conservatives who toe the party line and attract smart people like Sarah Palin (yay!) to their campaign rallies. And so, in what may be the maverickiest maverick move of all (drum roll) McCain proclaims himself as never having been a maverick at all!
For those of you who want to fondly remember the now dead-to-McCain old Maverick persona, TPM has put together a little farewell.
Appearing at a John McCain campaign rally in Arizona today, Sarah trumpets that “We’re not the Party of No. We’re the Party of HELL NO!” Which, I think, kind of describes the Half Governor’s direction as much as the Republican Party’s. There’s a short video clip of her speaking at the link which you can listen to if you can stomach it. I couldn’t.
And WTF was up with that middle-age-biker-babe-with-an-updo look that she’s sporting?
