Wonkette
- Alaskans are furious because Sarah Palin mocked their beloved “Bridge to Nowhere.” [Reuters]
- Tropical Storms Hanna and Ike will ruin the last days of the Republican convention, as a weakened Tropical Storm Gustav tries to go all the way to St. Paul. [National Hurricane Center, NOLA.com]
- About 250 protesters were arrested Monday — including AP photographer Matt Rourke and Democracy Now host Amy Goodman — after “anarchists” wrecked a peaceful anti-war march of 10,000 people in St. Paul. [Times of London]
- Joe Lieberman and Fred Thompson will speak at tonight’s RNC session, because Gustav didn’t kill everybody so it’s back to the GOP program. [CNN]
- Pro-democracy protests in Bangkok leave one dead, dozens hurt as cops crush revolt. [BBC News]
Will they be mad if we mock the McCain/Palin Campaign to Nowhere?
I wonder who wrote Fred Thompson’s script, now that he’s no longer Dick-Wolf-ified. A psychic channeling Jesse Helms, maybe?
Oh, Jeebus, I just realized how perfect it was for a Republican senator to go from working for a bunch of dick wolves to working for just one Dick Wolf (on Law and Order).
Will Fred Thompson mock Obama’s celebrity?
I wonder what the next interesting revelation about Palin will be? Her wee trooper issue. The major newspapers in her home state agree that she’s unqualified. Unwed pregnant daughter. I’m betting it something about her husband next.
Fred Thompson & Joe Lieberman?? Jesus, I’d rather be in the eye of Gustav than listen to those two asshats.
Wow… my Wonkette has turned into a raspberry sorbet.
Faced with the choice of drowning in a river of human waste thanks to a terrible storm, or listening to Lieberman and Thompson speak, I think I would drive to the Gulf coast and wait.
Screw Fred Thompson — I want Jill Hennessy! For VP!
Will Joe Lieberman talk about a 17-year-old’s right to choose?
More people watched Obama’s speech than watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. McCain won’t even get as many viewers as women’s shot put.
Serolf Divad: That’s Raspberry Beret, Sir! We are in Minneapolis, after all.
Serolf Divad:I thought I’d logged into D-listed or TMZ.
I’m willing to bet that she had a 10000′ runway and state-of-the-art hangar built for that Governor’s jet that she had auctioned off.
Ken Layne:
Is “sorbet” too elitist for the bitters? Maybe I should instead have referred to it as a raspberry Sno-Kone.
Serolf Divad:
No, elitist would have been if you referred to it as a raspberry coulis.
I was amused by the GOP’s statement that the decision to scale back the RNC because of Gustav validated McCorpse’s ability to make the “big decisions” necessary for a Commander in Chief. HUH?
Servo: A less experienced candidate would not have had the judgment and good taste to make that call. The DNC went on as scheduled, after all.
Servo:
Every day John McCain makes decisions that validate his status as future Commander in Chief… like whether to tell his nurse now that his colostomy bag is overflowing, or whether to wait ’till Matlock goes to commercial.
Servo:
It left the RNC convention with three things: 1. images of delegates aimlessly wandering around the floor of the convention hall, 2. lotsa speculation about Palin scandals and rumors, and 3. Overly earnest, somewhat disingenuous, and highly staged shows of concern for the victims of the current hurricane.
Serolf Divad:
So bad.
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.”
Wow, that’s over $4K in pork per resident of Wasilla. Is that a record?
The new Republican cry “well, 80 million people and Obama doesn’t even get a bump!” No, but Palin’s daughter sure did. And for this, I thank her.
Yeah, about that bridge thing. I think she has adequately explained that she was against it before she was for it, and realized she was right all along, and is now convinced she had the proper position on the issue all along, but she can see how the issue could be viewed from either perspective, and now is totally on board with the current thinking is on this issue, and her position on this should be seen as clear from the start, if not viewed from the perspective of the biased left-wing media…or some such bullshit. Doesn’t matter, the zeros over at the convention are buying it. Let’s move on.
Those damn vegan anarchists — ruining democracy for the rest of us. I just hope they remembered not to wear the same boots as the arresting officers — people might make an unfair judgment about them colluding or something.
You see the quote from Mr. Butts?
Also, why arent they fucksticks being crushed in the polls? Oh, Barack, if you werent such a Black Jesus….
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Alaskans over the years, it’s you don’t mock their ill-conceived, pork barrel, transit projects. Not if you want to walk away breathing.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Oh, Man! I read Bangkok as Bangor, as in the great state of Maine and was thinking, “Wow, an second American Revolution is starting!” But I was wrong, just another typical day in Southeast Asia.
From Sydney Blumenthal’s column on Huff Post:
“Almost certainly, Bush had to cancel his planned speech while Gustav loomed. But the sources say he didn’t like the idea and felt pushed. Bush is described by sources as “furious” at McCain for being deprived of his last appearance before his party, which nominated him twice, as a sitting president. He believes he is being treated disrespectfully.”
See, Bush isn’t nearly as stupid as we all think he is.
Admittedly, it was a mistake to support the “Bridge to Nowhere” in Ketchikan. However, Sarah regained some major political points with the “Tunnel To The White House”… located between Bristol Palin’s legs.