Showing posts with label Romney. Show all posts
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Friday, December 23, 2011
More Political Good, Bad and Ugly
More Political Good, Bad and Ugly
Good: Your husband has decided to get more involved in politics.
Bad: He's running for president as a conservative Republican.
Ugly: He's Rick Santorum.
Good: Your wife is a nationally-known political figure.
Bad: She's Michele Bachmann.
Ugly: After thirty-three years of marriage, she still doesn’t know you’re gay.
Good: Your husband landed an important job in a presidential campaign.
Bad: He's an advance man in Iowa to the hard-core Christian Right.
Ugly: He's working for Newt Gingrich.
Good: Your wife has a new job that pays well.
Bad: Working for Mitt Romney.
Ugly: It has something to do with inserting a crank in his back in the mornings.
Good: Your daughter just got a new job.
Bad: She's working for Ron Paul.
Ugly: Editing his newsletter.
Good: Your son's new book is about to be published.
Bad: It's a biography of Rick Perry.
Ugly: He's started talking like him.
Good: Your wife just got a good-paying job.
Bad: With the Herman Cain campaign.
Ugly: He invited her to his hotel room for a private conference.
Good: Your son just got a new job.
Bad: He's working for FreedomWorks.
Ugly: He admits he’s doing ‘coke’ but not the drug.
Good: Your daughter just landed a job working for PolitiFact.
Bad: She’s been instructed to make sure her ‘facts’ are ‘fair and balanced’ between Republicans and Democrats, even if the facts show that the Republicans lie far more often than the Dems.
Ugly: She has to come up with misleading headlines that don’t match the facts in the story.
Good: Your son was just employed as a top staffer to an important politician.
Bad: It’s House Speaker John Boehner.
Ugly: He’s tasked with making liquor store runs and applying tanning lotion.
Good: Your daughter has decided to devote herself to working with the OWS Movement.
Bad: She’s working undercover for a right-wing website owned by James O’Keefe.
Ugly: Jimmy has invited her to his parents’ house for the weekend.
Good: Your son has just received a full four-year scholarship to attend college.
Bad: The college is Penn State.
Ugly: His tuition is being paid by the Jerry Sandusky Boys’ Foundation.
Good: Your son was just hired to work for a national celebrity.
Bad: It’s Rush Limbaugh.
Ugly: His job is to oil Rush every morning and then screw his clothes on.
Good: The ideas of Thomas Jefferson are being discussed on TV.
Bad: By Gretchen Carlson on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
Ugly: Carlson insists the liberal Deist Jefferson would be a conservative Christian if he were alive today and join her in condemning those who say ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas.’
Good: You're not feeling well and your friend says he will find you a good doctor.
Bad: You're flat broke and have no job or health insurance.
Ugly: Your friend is Paul Ryan.
© 2011 RS Janes. www.fishink.us
Good: Your husband has decided to get more involved in politics.
Bad: He's running for president as a conservative Republican.
Ugly: He's Rick Santorum.
Good: Your wife is a nationally-known political figure.
Bad: She's Michele Bachmann.
Ugly: After thirty-three years of marriage, she still doesn’t know you’re gay.
Good: Your husband landed an important job in a presidential campaign.
Bad: He's an advance man in Iowa to the hard-core Christian Right.
Ugly: He's working for Newt Gingrich.
Good: Your wife has a new job that pays well.
Bad: Working for Mitt Romney.
Ugly: It has something to do with inserting a crank in his back in the mornings.
Good: Your daughter just got a new job.
Bad: She's working for Ron Paul.
Ugly: Editing his newsletter.
Good: Your son's new book is about to be published.
Bad: It's a biography of Rick Perry.
Ugly: He's started talking like him.
Good: Your wife just got a good-paying job.
Bad: With the Herman Cain campaign.
Ugly: He invited her to his hotel room for a private conference.
Good: Your son just got a new job.
Bad: He's working for FreedomWorks.
Ugly: He admits he’s doing ‘coke’ but not the drug.
Good: Your daughter just landed a job working for PolitiFact.
Bad: She’s been instructed to make sure her ‘facts’ are ‘fair and balanced’ between Republicans and Democrats, even if the facts show that the Republicans lie far more often than the Dems.
Ugly: She has to come up with misleading headlines that don’t match the facts in the story.
Good: Your son was just employed as a top staffer to an important politician.
Bad: It’s House Speaker John Boehner.
Ugly: He’s tasked with making liquor store runs and applying tanning lotion.
Good: Your daughter has decided to devote herself to working with the OWS Movement.
Bad: She’s working undercover for a right-wing website owned by James O’Keefe.
Ugly: Jimmy has invited her to his parents’ house for the weekend.
Good: Your son has just received a full four-year scholarship to attend college.
Bad: The college is Penn State.
Ugly: His tuition is being paid by the Jerry Sandusky Boys’ Foundation.
Good: Your son was just hired to work for a national celebrity.
Bad: It’s Rush Limbaugh.
Ugly: His job is to oil Rush every morning and then screw his clothes on.
Good: The ideas of Thomas Jefferson are being discussed on TV.
Bad: By Gretchen Carlson on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
Ugly: Carlson insists the liberal Deist Jefferson would be a conservative Christian if he were alive today and join her in condemning those who say ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas.’
Good: You're not feeling well and your friend says he will find you a good doctor.
Bad: You're flat broke and have no job or health insurance.
Ugly: Your friend is Paul Ryan.
© 2011 RS Janes. www.fishink.us
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
The GOP Debate or, the Injustice League of America Has a Press Conference
Left click on image to enlarge.Random Notes on the Sept. 7, 2011 Republican Debate
(Candidates listed in order of polling popularity)
First off, the questioning was pathetic. Here they are huffing and puffing that big government spending is the biggest problem with the economy, then they start babbling about building a two-thousand-mile electronic fence across our border with Mexico and hiring thousands of new officers to police it. The ‘journalists’ on the debate panel never asked how they planned to pay for all of this, especially since some, like Rick Perry, want a ‘balanced budget’ amendment in the Constitution. Okay, Rick, how do you spend the tens of billions to ‘secure’ our border (it will do no such thing, of course), and still balance the budget? Also a few of the GOP Fabricasters greased up that old Republican chant that the government doesn’t create jobs. Aside from the one these candidates are running for, or the one they already occupy, this is obvious bull pucky and I wish one of the ‘reporters’ on the panel — NBC’s Brian Williams fancies himself one I hear — would have asked them what in hell they think all of those American civilians building M-1 Abrams tanks, smart bombs, cruise missiles, predator drones, F/A-18 attack jets, and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers are doing? They all, ultimately, get their paychecks from the government, i.e.: the taxpayers. That said, here’s a brief rundown of how the Clod Squad did:
— Rick Perry: For a supposed ‘Master Debater’ he didn’t live up to his reputation. Hint to Rick: Never give your opponent an opening with a snarky line about his record as governor when you have bigger skeletons hanging in your own closet. Not that this matters to the moon howlers in the Perry camp, though — they’ll refuse to hear it, just as they filter out anything that doesn’t fit their goofy worldview.
— Mitt Romney: Better than expected. His quick, sharp comeback to Perry’s snipe about falling job rates in Massachusetts under Romney’s reign was his best moment, but it’s not going to do him any good with the loony Teabaggers; Romney will merely lose ground less quickly now, barring a sex scandal or major foul-up by Perry.
— Michele Bachmann: Fading into insignificance before our very eyes. Her ad lib about kids needing a job should warrant some kind of investigation into what she did with all of those foster children she likes to brag about raising. What — was she running some kind of Dickensian sweatshop on Daddy’s farm for a little extra cash? “Goddamn it, hurry up and finish those sweaters and then you can have some cold gruel; Kathy Lee’s people are picking them up this afternoon!” I’m just sayin’ I wouldn’t put it past her.
— Ron Paul: Sure, he’s got some good ideas — ending our dumb wars, stopping illegal spying on Americans, and legalizing drugs for adults — but it comes wrapped in a lot of raging anti-government Ayn Randian stupid. I know papa Ron wouldn’t see it this way, but government work is preventing his country-club drunk son from practicing his ‘love’ on his patients, so that’s one thing the gov’t is good for, as well as keeping the elder Paul off the streets and well-fed.
— Newt Blingrich: Did I type ‘Blingrich’? Guess so — that’s my new name for this Tiffany fake who keeps reappearing every presidential election cycle like a bout of stomach flu. His funniest line last night was his insistence that kids should learn American history — that’s priceless coming from the Newt-wit who keeps revising it to fit his ideology and bank account. ‘Blingy’ should be gone by Halloween — there’s not much money flowing into his coffers these days and his campaign staff now consists of two guys he met selling DVD players out of the trunk of a car I’m told. I meant the two guys were selling the DVD players, not Newt, but I can readily understand any confusion.
(Candidates listed in order of polling popularity)
First off, the questioning was pathetic. Here they are huffing and puffing that big government spending is the biggest problem with the economy, then they start babbling about building a two-thousand-mile electronic fence across our border with Mexico and hiring thousands of new officers to police it. The ‘journalists’ on the debate panel never asked how they planned to pay for all of this, especially since some, like Rick Perry, want a ‘balanced budget’ amendment in the Constitution. Okay, Rick, how do you spend the tens of billions to ‘secure’ our border (it will do no such thing, of course), and still balance the budget? Also a few of the GOP Fabricasters greased up that old Republican chant that the government doesn’t create jobs. Aside from the one these candidates are running for, or the one they already occupy, this is obvious bull pucky and I wish one of the ‘reporters’ on the panel — NBC’s Brian Williams fancies himself one I hear — would have asked them what in hell they think all of those American civilians building M-1 Abrams tanks, smart bombs, cruise missiles, predator drones, F/A-18 attack jets, and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers are doing? They all, ultimately, get their paychecks from the government, i.e.: the taxpayers. That said, here’s a brief rundown of how the Clod Squad did:
— Rick Perry: For a supposed ‘Master Debater’ he didn’t live up to his reputation. Hint to Rick: Never give your opponent an opening with a snarky line about his record as governor when you have bigger skeletons hanging in your own closet. Not that this matters to the moon howlers in the Perry camp, though — they’ll refuse to hear it, just as they filter out anything that doesn’t fit their goofy worldview.
— Mitt Romney: Better than expected. His quick, sharp comeback to Perry’s snipe about falling job rates in Massachusetts under Romney’s reign was his best moment, but it’s not going to do him any good with the loony Teabaggers; Romney will merely lose ground less quickly now, barring a sex scandal or major foul-up by Perry.
— Michele Bachmann: Fading into insignificance before our very eyes. Her ad lib about kids needing a job should warrant some kind of investigation into what she did with all of those foster children she likes to brag about raising. What — was she running some kind of Dickensian sweatshop on Daddy’s farm for a little extra cash? “Goddamn it, hurry up and finish those sweaters and then you can have some cold gruel; Kathy Lee’s people are picking them up this afternoon!” I’m just sayin’ I wouldn’t put it past her.
— Ron Paul: Sure, he’s got some good ideas — ending our dumb wars, stopping illegal spying on Americans, and legalizing drugs for adults — but it comes wrapped in a lot of raging anti-government Ayn Randian stupid. I know papa Ron wouldn’t see it this way, but government work is preventing his country-club drunk son from practicing his ‘love’ on his patients, so that’s one thing the gov’t is good for, as well as keeping the elder Paul off the streets and well-fed.
— Newt Blingrich: Did I type ‘Blingrich’? Guess so — that’s my new name for this Tiffany fake who keeps reappearing every presidential election cycle like a bout of stomach flu. His funniest line last night was his insistence that kids should learn American history — that’s priceless coming from the Newt-wit who keeps revising it to fit his ideology and bank account. ‘Blingy’ should be gone by Halloween — there’s not much money flowing into his coffers these days and his campaign staff now consists of two guys he met selling DVD players out of the trunk of a car I’m told. I meant the two guys were selling the DVD players, not Newt, but I can readily understand any confusion.
— Rick Santorum: The Google candidate. To paraphrase John Cage: he’s got nothing to say and he’s saying it, to a constituency that doesn’t exist. Unfortunately for the ‘other Rick’ in the race, he took Harry Truman’s advice to heart when he was a senator from PA — if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, and St. Santorum did. Poor dog. Somebody call the ASPCA!
— Herman Cain: Like his pizza, he’s loaded with oily processed gunk and entirely tasteless. He’s a ‘Godfather’ only to the miserable underpaid wretches who have the misfortune to work in his restaurants, but in no other way resembles one. If he had more sense, he’d realize the GOP of 2012 is never going to nominate a black man as president and he’s just filling out the role of Token Shill to sucker in some minority voters. Who knows — maybe he’s getting some under-the-table corpo cash to run; it would be the only sane reason to bother. Cain will also be out by the winter.
— Finally, Jon Huntsman: This benighted sap believed the Beltway Media strumpets and their blather about a ‘moderate Republican’ (whatever that is) beating Obama in 2012 and thought he was just the man to do it. (Perhaps he was in China too long to fully appreciate what’s been happening in this country and the GOP.) Short and not sweet: he has no money, little support, and the only Republicans left -- angry bigoted Teabaggers and mean-spirited theocratic Christopublicans -- abhor him for his occasional flashes of decency. The demented party base wants someone who will recite comforting right-wing fairy tales like Perry and Bachmann, not a grown-up who will make them face reality. This is not the year for facing facts in the Republican Party — that’ll come after November 6, 2012 when the GOP is buried in a landslide, electronic voting machines permitting.
© 2011 RS Janes.
http://www.fishink.us/
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Ann Coulter: Amazon Woman of the Loons Edition
The 'Heart and Soul' of the Fading Neoconservative GOP, She Just Announced the Bush Choice for the Party's Next Presidential Nominee
"I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!"
-- Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention, March 2, 2007, as quoted by Jamison Foser at Media Matters.
"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot' -- so I'm kind of at an impasse."
-- Ann Coulter in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2, 2007. From Salon.com.
March 5, 2007 -- While the mainstream media have been grudgingly covering Coulter's using the offensive word 'faggot' in connection with John Edwards, and leading Republican presidential candidates Giuliani, McCain and Romney have belatedly denounced her 'witty' speech-closer at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday, other notable news connected to her appearance at the event missed their attention.
First off, as CPAC attendee Andrew Sullivan has said: "When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young." Not only that, but she is the voice of the Bush family -- the ugly, dark side of elitist authoritarianism, rancorous homophobia, country club racism and vengeful bile that runs deep beneath the genteel political surface of the Bush clan.
Followers of Ann's fetid public career know that she never criticizes any Bush, at least not with the vituperation she reserves for Dems, liberals, Muslims, and Republicans who don't toe the neocon line. She has consistently been the shrill hateful voice of the far right, which has gained her what Glenn Greenwald calls "rock star-adoration by the party faithful." He also noted that "She is the face of what the hard-core Republican Party has become, particularly during the Bush presidency. That is why she holds the position she holds in that movement." Greenwald added:
"The more Ann Coulter says these things, the more popular she becomes in this movement. What this is about is that she reflects exactly what sort of political movement this is. She reflects its true impulses and core beliefs."
But she also represents the core beliefs of the Bush family and the Money Men of the GOP, which is why she's backing ersatz 'moderate' Mitt Romney:
"What do I think of Governor Romney's candidacy for presidency? I think he's probably our best candidate." [...] "And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy -- I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily."
-- Ann Coulter, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, as quoted by Media Matters.
(Sure she does. She also likes people who hoodwink conservatives, as she's been doing for years.)
In Florida, Bush operatives have lately been pumping state party insiders for Mitt and even though Jeb himself has aristocratically stayed out of the fray, it's obvious he's behind Romney's coronation. Coulter, still popular among the dwindling seethers of the neocon GOP, got her Bush-stamped marching orders and delivered her endorsement speech to CPAC -- watch now as the former Massachusetts Governor's numbers start moving up. The Bushes could never back that 'nasty little man' McCain who has said so many terrible things about President Junior, and Giuliani's much too liberal to be nominated by the party faithful, so the nominee's victory sash is awarded to plucked-from-near-obscurity Romney, a monkey who will gladly dance to the Bush corporatist tune.
Another incident involving the woman who thinks a 'little local facism' is a good thing was the unceremonious removal of Dan Borchers from the CPAC convention hall by Ann's goon squad, as reported at the Lydia Cornell website. Four burly men shoved and wrestled Borchers out of the place, cutting his hand while they tried to rip the convention credentials from around his neck, with a camera tagging along to record the gory details. (At what neo-American Bundt conclave will that video be shown?) When Borchers asked the thugs why they were doing this to him, they replied, "You are not permitted to be here."
Borchers is a conservative Christian military veteran and lifelong Republican, reportedly a humble and mild-mannered man who has written articles critical of Coulter's penchant for plagiarism and believes the bilious hate-speech typified by the amoral Coulter is ruining the Republican Party. His apparent crime against Ann that night was asking another conservative author what he knew regarding Coulter's connection to the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, the case that first brought her to national attention.
Coulter's been fairly quiet since the November 2006 election, and her audience is shrinking along with Bush's popularity as the nation rejects the failed neocon ideology. She can still draw a crowd, but the crowds are smaller and less enthusiastic. Like Britney Spears, she is now reduced to staging increasingly outrageous publicity stunts to spark up her dying career and sell her remaindered books.
What's she going to do next to attract headlines? Maybe she'll shave her head and go into rehab for using the 'N' word to describe Barack Obama.
Will Fox News chuckle about her 'outrageous' behavior then, I wonder -- and will NBC welcome her on The Today Show to trade quips with Matt Lauer?
"I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!"
-- Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention, March 2, 2007, as quoted by Jamison Foser at Media Matters.
"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot' -- so I'm kind of at an impasse."
-- Ann Coulter in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2, 2007. From Salon.com.
March 5, 2007 -- While the mainstream media have been grudgingly covering Coulter's using the offensive word 'faggot' in connection with John Edwards, and leading Republican presidential candidates Giuliani, McCain and Romney have belatedly denounced her 'witty' speech-closer at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday, other notable news connected to her appearance at the event missed their attention.
First off, as CPAC attendee Andrew Sullivan has said: "When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young." Not only that, but she is the voice of the Bush family -- the ugly, dark side of elitist authoritarianism, rancorous homophobia, country club racism and vengeful bile that runs deep beneath the genteel political surface of the Bush clan.
Followers of Ann's fetid public career know that she never criticizes any Bush, at least not with the vituperation she reserves for Dems, liberals, Muslims, and Republicans who don't toe the neocon line. She has consistently been the shrill hateful voice of the far right, which has gained her what Glenn Greenwald calls "rock star-adoration by the party faithful." He also noted that "She is the face of what the hard-core Republican Party has become, particularly during the Bush presidency. That is why she holds the position she holds in that movement." Greenwald added:
"The more Ann Coulter says these things, the more popular she becomes in this movement. What this is about is that she reflects exactly what sort of political movement this is. She reflects its true impulses and core beliefs."
But she also represents the core beliefs of the Bush family and the Money Men of the GOP, which is why she's backing ersatz 'moderate' Mitt Romney:
"What do I think of Governor Romney's candidacy for presidency? I think he's probably our best candidate." [...] "And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy -- I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily."
-- Ann Coulter, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, as quoted by Media Matters.
(Sure she does. She also likes people who hoodwink conservatives, as she's been doing for years.)
In Florida, Bush operatives have lately been pumping state party insiders for Mitt and even though Jeb himself has aristocratically stayed out of the fray, it's obvious he's behind Romney's coronation. Coulter, still popular among the dwindling seethers of the neocon GOP, got her Bush-stamped marching orders and delivered her endorsement speech to CPAC -- watch now as the former Massachusetts Governor's numbers start moving up. The Bushes could never back that 'nasty little man' McCain who has said so many terrible things about President Junior, and Giuliani's much too liberal to be nominated by the party faithful, so the nominee's victory sash is awarded to plucked-from-near-obscurity Romney, a monkey who will gladly dance to the Bush corporatist tune.
Another incident involving the woman who thinks a 'little local facism' is a good thing was the unceremonious removal of Dan Borchers from the CPAC convention hall by Ann's goon squad, as reported at the Lydia Cornell website. Four burly men shoved and wrestled Borchers out of the place, cutting his hand while they tried to rip the convention credentials from around his neck, with a camera tagging along to record the gory details. (At what neo-American Bundt conclave will that video be shown?) When Borchers asked the thugs why they were doing this to him, they replied, "You are not permitted to be here."
Borchers is a conservative Christian military veteran and lifelong Republican, reportedly a humble and mild-mannered man who has written articles critical of Coulter's penchant for plagiarism and believes the bilious hate-speech typified by the amoral Coulter is ruining the Republican Party. His apparent crime against Ann that night was asking another conservative author what he knew regarding Coulter's connection to the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, the case that first brought her to national attention.
Coulter's been fairly quiet since the November 2006 election, and her audience is shrinking along with Bush's popularity as the nation rejects the failed neocon ideology. She can still draw a crowd, but the crowds are smaller and less enthusiastic. Like Britney Spears, she is now reduced to staging increasingly outrageous publicity stunts to spark up her dying career and sell her remaindered books.
What's she going to do next to attract headlines? Maybe she'll shave her head and go into rehab for using the 'N' word to describe Barack Obama.
Will Fox News chuckle about her 'outrageous' behavior then, I wonder -- and will NBC welcome her on The Today Show to trade quips with Matt Lauer?
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