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The U.S. Senate could end up looking like an American version of the House of Lords – and Republicans have begun to take notice.
“Democrats seem to lack a common man who can just win a good, old-fashioned election,” said Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.), the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. “They’ve got seat-warmers, seat-sellers and the making of pillows for the seats of royalty. No wonder the public wonders what’s going on in Washington.”
The current President of the United States is George Bush Junior, the end.
No wait, not the end! One more thing: Caroline Kennedy does, in fact, suck, for this Senate thing.
Nepotism Nation: Dems embrace dynasty politics [Politico]
…@Jim Newell: You left out the fact that the Republicans are now trying to position his freakishly tall brother(Jeb) as the heir apparent for 2012!
I don’t think you can say this enough but here it is– I friggin hate Republicans
There’s a Black Rod joke in here somewhere, damned if I can find it though.
Oh. Yes. Ermine thongs and meat perfume for everybody.
Truck Nutz are SO “House of Commons” anyway.
“but Kennedy’s relative inexperience has some other New York Democrats feeling wary.”
RELATIVE inexperience? A baby born yesterday at 7:51 p.m. has more experience than Kennedy.
Yes, common men like John McCain and Mitt Romney and successful winners like Rudy and Huck and the Snowbilly - Republicans are so blessed. All the Dems can muster is a biracial man with a funny name raised by a single parent, which is so elitist, it just makes me sick.
Every day is opposite day for Republicans! I wonder if all that cognitive dissonance actually makes their heads hurt, or if they’re just too dumb to even notice.
Dear Politico: Choke on Tom Reynolds’ cock.
Sincerely yours, America.
They’ve got seat-warmers, seat-sellers and the making of pillows for the seats of royalty.
This makes absolutely no sense, other than to let us know this guy is definitely a Republican/ass fetishist.
Yeah, that Obama and his Hawaiian royal wealth is a dick.
i’m not quite sure why, but i’m starting to think that campbell brown would make an excellent senator.
Senators are making pillows now? I guess in lieu of making legislation, they’ve turned to crafting.
Liddy Dole; Sununu Jr, Bush Jr, Tom Kean Jr., Mittens, Walnuts, . . . The only reason that the Republicans have had poor luck lately with their efforts to establish dynasties is because the second generation (which is necessary for dynastic succession) Sucks and can’t win elections. (OK, some like Lisa Murkowski can win elections, but they still suck).
I’ve known Caroline Kennedy nearly all my life.
I’ve never met anyone MORE ready to be a Senator.
BTW, shouldn’t Tom Reynolds be worrying about the House? Maybe if he focused on his job, the GOP might just avoid being thrown into a wood chipper in 2010.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: …yeah, definitely a BOTTOM!
Piss Boy! Piss Boy! Wait for the shake!
King Obama does have a nice ring to it. We could call him K.O. in the loving way that peasants do.
Seriously, who the fuck is “Tom Reynolds”? Rep from some bumble fuck upstate district. Oh. Hey, Tom, come to NYC, there is a bag of dicks with your name on it.
Let’s not forget senator Lisa Murkowski who was appointed Senator of Alaska by her father, the then Governor of Alaska.
Any “experience” that the current lot of national repugs have is all channelled into greedery and apocalypsery.
If Reynolds is so unhappy with the state of the senate, Barry should simply expel the powers of the Senate, thereby increasing his power as an executive, like Bush did.
Has someone pointed out to the Republicans that they just their behinds whipped in the last two Congressional elections?
actor212: Peter Lawford is that you?
House of Lords? So, they’re mostly asleep? I think we knew that already.
Politico failed to realise, of course, that the real House of Lords no longer has any hereditary peers, they’re all lifetime peers. In Britain, that’s called “progress”.
All things considered, I’d still give it to Nita Lowey, who was primed in 2000 but kicked down a flight of stairs by whatever passes for a brain trust in NY Democratic circles for Hillary Clinton. I realize her grandfather wasn’t a corrupt rum-runner who liked poaching his sons’ girlfriends, but nevertheless…
Yeah, well, Oregon’s trying to pick out a new flag and all of them have beavers, beavers, beavers. Wide open beavers!
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon
Today, we are all elitists.
shortsshortsshorts: well, her political experience IS entirely derived FROM her relatives…
OT : The Smoking Gun has the 2008 best meg shuts of the year.
These are my favorites :
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1217081mugyear13.html
The man on the left is clearly an enthusiastic Palin supporter, the guy on the right, probably Ron Paul.
actor212: Were you the baby she was kissing in the photo the other day?
Well, CK absolutely has more class than that little spit-lickin’ SnowBillyKid, you know the one, umm, the pre-teen non-pregnant one.
Is there an editor at Politico that ever says to a reporter: Your story idea is a bit of a stretch?
We’ve had a monarchy since His Royal Highness R. Reagan.
And now King George the Younger is thankfully almost out of office.
We are going the way of the Roundhead now and the rallying cry will be “Throw the shoe, damnit.”
facehead: The guy that attacked Ashley Todd apparently got alot better by the time he attacked #6
Reynolds’ Wikipedia page is a litany of failure and scandal. He got Cheney to press the NY legislature to safely remap his district; he was head of the Republican party when their treasurer embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from them (and he never audited the books while he led them); and he insists he complained about Mark Foley although nobody seems to remember it. Also, he served in the New York Air National Guard during Vietnam — which I’m sure involved a lot of heavy-duty sitting by the pool.
So this is how far down the list Politico had to go in order to scrape up a quote from a Republican. I hope these twits have a perfectly miserable eight years.
But Tommy Reynolds (see below) hides that he is the love child of a certain well known US Vice President.
http://watchdog.net/data/crawl/house/photos/R000569.jpg
shanemcgowan: Clearly we have a serial maniac on our hands, and he’s getting better.
Just look at what he did to this guy:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1217081mugyear17.html
Is anybody else having a hard time getting their snark up while being stared at by campbell brown? Is there medication for this?
I am from the part of NYS that spawned reynolds, and SayItWithWookies
has it right. he is mean, rotten, sleazy, and the folks back
home are not excited to have him back.
oh, yeah, and that part of NYS–the part that the MSM has forgotten–
not so in love with the Caroline idea, either. she is in my home
town today, “listening” to politicians tell her that she should be,
really could be, senator, bah.
most pundits have forgotten that this is a 2nd Kennedy launch
for the Senate, following Uncle Bobby in his race. It was his
first elective office, too, but he’d spent several years as
our attorney general.
right now, I am happy to live in MD, where we know that our
governors are likely to go to jail…
Better to be a seat seller than a seat SMELLER, amirite??
Don’t worry. I’m sure the Kristols, Kagans, and Goldbergs will understand.
dougbob: You didn’t get the memo? Bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed is the new snark!
Well, maybe the Democrats will install a feudal aristocracy. But that would still beat the heck out of the futile aristocracy that the Republicans have installed.
Panderfinder: Syracuse? I feel your pain. I spent 3 years there. Last summer I had to attend something in Skaneateles (sp?) the ‘quaint’ and ‘historic’ area near by. (If you count something 100 years old as historic). The best part was watching local news. Apparently some pig escaped and was missing. (Not the kind of news good enough for Campbell)
Campbell Brown is what happens when you give last names as first names. This trend is going to continue for another few decades, just watch and see.
Wait, the democrats can’t win a “good old-fashioned election?” Really? I mean really?
Panderfinder: I don’t know who Reynolds is - some loser it seems but -do you mean in Maryland our governors are unlikely to go to jail? O’Malley is clean(and I like him but I don’t like his support of slots) although Ehrlich was scummy-his police wiretaps on environmental groups and anti-war activists is a perfect Rove/Cheney move. Schaefer was probably just nutty and got nuttier as he got older.
bago: Win! Nepotism is the new aristocracy.
SayItWithWookies: The pattern of draft-dodging among the Republican establishment, combined with the party’s overall homoerotic obsession with masculinity and aggression…makes…my…head…explode….ARGH!
Internally valid: “Good old-fashioned” means “won by Republicans.”
Which isn’t really the case, because, oh, you know, this whole thing doesn’t actually involve an election.
Internally valid: I think that Reynolds is pining for the “good old days” when only white males got to vote. The GOP would possibly do better in that scenario.
Reynolds attended Kent State in the school year before the May 1970 massacre. Coincidence?
Borat: no, Buffalo, much more fun that Syracuse,
where I *fee* as if I spent three years there for
various non-school reasons.
finallyhappy: no, in MD our governors are
quite likely to end up behind bars. until all this
spitzer and blago silliness, MD was firmly esconced
as the minor league version of the fine state of
loseriana.
ehrlich and his sidekick michael “the puppy” steele were
just ghastly, but they beat a KENNEDY and unknown running
mate who ran the worst campaign of all time.
but we still have ex-governor, and ex-con to boot, marvin
mandel around, appointed to the University System of MD
board of regents by ex-governor bobby haircut and “confused”
about ethics and lobbying rules in Annapolis last year and this.
blago-maddow 2012! straight to the penitentiary!!!
No, the Senate doesn’t act like a House of Lords. The latter is known for not doing anything, while the former goes out of their way to fuck things up.
WIDTAP: Nah. He has better hair.
Serolf Divad: Have faith, Trig! There’s hope yet.
shortsshortsshorts: Don’t be too hasty in saying C.Kennedy has less experience than a baby. I mean, she’s seen the Capitol Building! (Now, granted, she doesn’t see it every day from her HOUSE, but she has seen it - that’s SOME experience!)
Charles Mahtesian, who is credited with writing this journalistical article piece for Politico, is the ignorant douchenozzle di tutti ignorant douchenozzles.
And every English teacher he’s ever had should waterboard and taser his ass, forever, for this sentence:
“All told, it’s entirely possible that the Senate will be comprised of nearly a dozen congressional offspring by the end of Obama’s first term as president.”
Also, aren’t real actual experienced qualified journalists being fired right now, by the busload, by every newspaper in America? Can’t Politico spring for the roll of plastic sheeting and sack of day-old bagels that it’d take to hire a couple?
shortsshortsshorts: No, no, ALL Caroline’s experience is in being a relative.
House of Lords? Wasn’t that an eighties porn title?
“And Obama’s own seat could go to the son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.”
Did…did I miss something? Are Obama and Jesse Jackson Jr. related? Oh they’re both kinda blackish so they must be related right?
Internally valid: I’m trying to figure out what an old-fashioned election is. Paper ballots? Actual cash kickbacks? White males only?