Wonkette
- John McCain apparently sees no problem with the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretap program, leaving him with yet another issue where he’s in total agreement with George Bush. [New York Times]
- Barack Obama held a rally in Virginia and didn’t cause major traffic problems. Is the candidate already losing his touch? [Washington Post]
- Airline fares will rise, and planes will be even more packed, as carriers struggle to stay afloat. [Wall Street Journal]
- Harry Reid’s looking out for Joe Lieberman, but many Democrats look forward to throwing Vinegar Joe under the bus after they win a supermajority in November. [The Hill, Washington Post]
- Latinos might have preferred Clinton to Obama, but now they prefer Obama to McCain. [Los Angeles Times]
- Hillary Clinton really did want to take a couple days to think things over after Barack Obama effectively “clinched” the nomination Tuesday, and it took some old friends in the House to tell her what her fellow Senators couldn’t. [Politico]
One can only imagine how many pints of Ben & Jerry’s Hillz has gone through by now. Do they make crow flavor?
re: carriers struggle to stay afloat
Someone should inform the airlines that seat cushions can be used as flotation devices.
Re: Obama in Virginia. There can be only one explanation: The Decembrists weren’t opening up for him. He probably had to settle for notorious feces-chuckers (literally and figuratively) The Dave Matthews Band instead.
Re: Latino preference. Hard to believe they’re gun-shy about the party that wants to put immigrants in boats and then sink the boats with torpedoes filled with explosives and other immigrants.
I hope “struggle” and “flotation” are not red flag words in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program.
Although “devices” probably is…
I think the time is right to try to re-launch the dirigible.
Humble Pi: By now, “Wonkette” may well be.
If throwing Joe off the bus doesn’t work, Obama can always use that maple pimp stick.
Oh Joe, did you think that the day of reckoning wouldn’t happen when the Demrats you fucked for the past two years would take some measure of revenge by kicking your ass all over the place?
The Party of Joe: 2006-2012 BIH
Thank the stars above for Charlie Rangel. I mean, really, how many whacks upside the head with the bat of reality did Hilz need before she decided to leave “with dignity”?
Can you feel the Joementum heading for the wheels of the bus? I can’t wait until the Dems Phil Leotardo that self satisfied schmuck.
Juan McCain only getting 29% of the hispaniclatinocano-rican vote?
So, we’re right back to before airline deregulation, when only the wealthy can fly on selected routes. The airline industry was never really profitable, considering the cost of aircraft and their operation on a large scale. Because we are addicted to cars and cheap air travel, we let our rail systems rot, unlike post-WWII Europe and Japan, who invested heavily in modernizing rail systems and are currently laughing their collective asses off at us.
Domestic Goddess:
To Lieberman: “Is Barack Obama gonna have to choke a bitch?”
Can I drive the bus that Vinegar Joe gets thrown under?
Delicious: Perhaps not, but I’m sure he’s muthafuckin’ tired of muthafuckin’ snakes in the muthafuckin’ Senate.
Godless Liberal *: But, “Oh, the humanity!”
“John McCain apparently sees no problem with the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretap program…”
Look, I have no problem with the new Alien and Sedition Acts either. But, I’m a hard working white American, so what’s to fear? The last time this was tried it worked out well, didn’t it?
steverino247: Blimps have Hindenburg, planes have 9/11.
Non snark re: gas. I read an article in the Metro a few days ago about how people in Philly are now taking SEPTA and riding bikes because the gas is too high. One of my sisters still drives to work (thinks she’s too cute to catch SEPTA), and I’ve been trying to tell her about getting more milage from her gas at least (like getting all that shit out of her trunk to stetch her gas) or I wish I COULD tell her to at least TRY to take SEPTA 2x a week to save money, gah!
Sorry, but there aint much more you can do to Joe’s face by pulverizing him under a bus than what mother nature’s already wrought.
The buses are lining up for Smilin’ Joe. You can hear their engines revving in the distance. Ah, remember when he was a Dem VP candidate? Al Gore will be the driver of the first bus.
Why don’t we just totally subsidize the airline industry? Don’t make them pay taxes, don’t make their employees pay taxes, and don’t make passengers pay sales tax. I fail to see how a healthy air travel system is anything but healthy for the economy. Besides, if we can’t frequently travel to our child labor sweatshops and call centers in Indo-China to ensure productivity the nation will go down the shitter anyhow.
— Lieberman recounted that he began the conversation by telling Obama “I’m proud of you. Now, pick up my dry cleaning, Mohammed.” —
Whore Diamond in the Rough: The same thing is going on here in Los Angeles. Basically, traffic is getting better, because nobody can afford to drive their cars from the suburbs into the far away parts of the city where they actually work.
I gaaa-run-teee you Obama would have had more people there had the event not been at Nissan Pavillion (access from the nightmare road that is Rte 66, no public transportation) at 6PM on a work day. There is zero way to get to that location at that time without sitting in unimaginable traffic hell for hours (well, zero way unless you own a helicopter). Surprising, given the well-oiled machine his campaign has been, that someone made this boneheaded scheduling move. Also, there was a Nats home game that was well-attended, so that might have cut in. Or, it might have been that the Hopey Magic is fading. But I doubt it.
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