Wonkette
- Iran ran more missile tests and Condoleezza Rice wasn’t happy and oh God George Bush is going to bomb the living crap out these people. [Washington Post]
- Barack Obama has traversed this great nation and picked up all sorts of useless geographic trivia to share with reporters. [New York Times]
- Obama has managed, brilliantly, to disappoint the left with his “move to the center” while still irritating the right with his “unreconstructed liberalism.” [Washington Post]
- John McCain is the modern William McKinley, while Barack Obama is the modern William Jennings Bryan OH SNIPPETY SNAP, TRIPLE ZING. [Wall Street Journal]
- John McCain left his national press entourage on the plane outside Pittsburgh while he talked with local reporters, and all the national press people got mad. [Los Angeles Times]
- Ted Kennedy returned to the Senate yesterday! His vote helped pass a bit of stalled legislation that will prevent a big drop in payments to doctors under Medicare. [The Hill]
DAILY BRIEFING
McCain is not McKinley.
1) McCain does not care for or understand the Gold Standard (Paultards!)
2) McKinley used something called numbers and math in his economics plan unlike Walnuts and his “elves and pixie dust” economic plan.
3) Most importantly, this is not 1896. I know the WSJ wanted to place John back into his teen years, but this is bullshit.
The Democrats are just spoiling to feast on the corpse of their own candidate, after which they will perch on Barry’s bones, holding their bloated tummies with both hands and belching out whiny accusations deriding the result of the election as the work of NASCAR dads and rednecks.
Fuck it, I’m moving to Columbus, Ohio.
Freakin’ Hopey signed the Telco immunity. He’s a douche-a-crat too.
NotNotLickingToads:“Fuck it, I’m moving to Columbus, Ohio.”
When ya do, couldja do me a solid and punch Rusty in the nuts for me?
Thanks.
Canuckledragger: That would be GRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
ManchuCandidate: They aren’t elves, they are Voodoo Doctors. That’s Voooodooooo Economics we be talking about.
Dang it…Hopey just can’t be pigeonholed by the GOP so now they can’t make any of those clever bumperstickers. Gosh darn it.
Just another meme for the GOP being pushed for them by teh media. “What does he stand for?!!!! He MUST stand for something or he cannot be trusted!”
Well, after 8 years of someone who STOOD for a lot of things and “BELIEVED” and still managed to drive us to the cliff…downhill no less, I will take someone who actually applies critical thought and NOT ideology to the real problems we face.
I don’t see Obama as the prosecutor of the Scopes Monkey trial
AfghanVet: Apparently Hopey applied reasoning and critical analysis to the FISA thing, and a lot of Democrats (who most likely applied their critical analysis to newspaper articles and blogs critically analyzing Obama’s decision) want to cut off his truck nutz for it.
I’m starting to understand why the Republicans have such an easy time rallying together…’cause we kinda suck at the “party” thing.
Obama is no William Jennings Bryan, primarily because he will never be anyone’s Secretary of State after losing three bids for the Presidency–not Woodrow Wilson’s, not Bob Barr’s, not Hillary’s.
firstly, he will win. secondly, America already had a Black one of those and he quit when the going got tough, leaving foreign relations to his severe and incompetent sista’.
besides, Howard Wolfson told me that Hillary is the nominee with populist appeal who desires to “bust trusts”.
the better analog would be an elected official from Illinois who served only one term in office before the Democratic party nominated him to best a war “hero” in the Presidential race.
but I’m biased since every Nebraskan wants to do the incomparable, silver-loving William Jennings Bryan.
Bush and da neo-condied fundies in US and Israel will provoke the Iran scenario to the brink so that Bush can leave office saying, ’see, all this big mlitary spending was worth it to save the world,’ and at the same time he will snap his fingers for some kind of magic solution to make peace. Then the history books will say he de-nuked 2 out of 3.
Rock, Flag, and Eagle!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841v0CfdpmA
NotNotLickingToads: Well, we are also afraid of being “soft” on terra, so we capitulate to the the terraist in the White house so we can feel…hard on terra? WTF? Oh, hell I’m so pissed I’m going the full monty: What.Teh.Fuck?
The patriarch of the Kennedy family entered the chamber, alongside Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (Ill.), to a rousing ovation from senators on both sides of the aisle, some of them tearing up.
Hopey raised him from the dead. Let’s see the Straight Talk Express top that.
Actually, I always though of McCain as McKinley’s body double.
>>John McCain is the modern William McKinley
He’ll get assassinated too? SOMEONE CALL THE SECRET SERVICE
NotNotLickingToads: If you’re moving to Columbus, may I suggest the Hawaiian pizza? Chicks there dig it, so I’ve heard.
The snippety snap triple zing just happens my go-to move in the bedroom.
freakishlystrong: That’s a great episode. Unfortunately, now you’ve given me an excuse to post the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y
While I think it’s really nice to keep history in mind, I’m still fixating on the idea that pre-emptive wars, emphasizing Homeland Security as a way for the to seize power and squash the legislature and fighting simultaneous wars on two fronts reminds me of another historical figure.
I’m also getting hints of Fall of the Roman empire, the sun setting on British Colonial power.
And I can’t find anything in the biographies of McKinley that talked about the ice caps melting, fundamental changes in climate, death of honeybees, or our enemies the Spanish developing nukes.
I guess I have a lot to learn about history.
Unlike McKinley, McCain comes with a pre-activated self-destruct McMechanism. No need to resort to McAnarchists.
Unlike McKinley, McCain comes with a pre-activated self destruct Mcmechanism, so no need for McAnarchists.
AxmxZ: FAIL.
In other news, Barry seems completely stuck on beauty. Everything is either “pretty,” “handsome,” or “beautiful” with him. If the whole world is giving him a hard-on, that’s a sign he needs to get laid pronto.
Rather than the new McKinley, will McCain be the new Charlie Guiteau and try to assassinate Obama when he doesn’t make him ambassador to France?
I would be most appreciative if Neil Patrick Harris could sing about it.
Bah, nobody votes for Hopey because he’s politically left of Marx (Groucho), but because he’s several orders of magnitude sexier than McCain. Admit it! It’s like comparing a hot K-class star with an old, bitter, class L red dwarf, who can’t get it up for hydrogen fusion anymore.
Uh. Whatevs.
TGY, Waiting for Barry to Kick John’s Astronomy
NebraskashireGentry: Ehhhh…he didn’t lose any votes he was going to get anyway. Look, the FISA Bill is probably flawed, but it is better than the vacuum it filled and the only egregious thing that made people vote against it was Telecom immunity…and that does indeed suck, but what would YOU do if the President and Darth Cheney came to you and TOLD you you were going to tap some phone lines?
The reality is that without it there would be NO control over surveillance AND with changes it would be vetoed or ignored via a signing statement anyway.
What America needs is an official domestic intel agency, like MI-5, that has oversight and transparency to deal with a REAL threat of insurgents operating within our borders. But no, we knee jerk our way to bad law instead.
In the end, he is still the only choice for those who want to restore America from Amerika and now the GOP cannot run ads saying he doesn’t support anti-terror efforts. It’s a win.
Outside of being a religious whack-job, I’m guessing America would be a far better place today had Bryan been elected president in 1896.
As it is painfully obvious that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds, it is safe to assume that our history was not the best of all possible histories.
superfecta: Awesome reference! I almost cried when it became obvious that NPH would be Oswald. Only Sondheim…
On the “Barry Does America” story, I reckon this is great politics. Speaking to mostly white audiences in Marlboro commercial type settings is laying the groundwork for a super soppy, picturesquely patriotic montage type political ad in the last week before the election.
But what’s with the extra arm and head growing out of his back? Ganesh Obama.
AfghanVet: “We have to change the law to legalize what the president is going to do regardless” isn’t exactly “filling a vacuum” as far as I’m concerned. And by enshrining the abuses of the Bush administration as law, it works in the opposite direction of “fixing” the country, “turning things around” or whatever the kids are calling it.
Time to figure out what third-party nutjob I’m going to be throwing away my vote on this year.
ManchuCandidate: Repubs have been saying every candidate since Bob Dole is William McKinley. Maybe it even goes back further than that…perhaps even TO WILLIAM MCKINLEY!!!
“McKinley/Roosevelt ‘96 - The New William McKinley”