Wonkette
- Today is Day 1 of the Coleman-Franken battle royale. The real winners are the people of Minnesota, and also probably Al Franken. [The Corner]
- Most New Yorkers blame Caroline Kennedy for Caroline Kennedy’s decision to ruin democracy and publicly disgracing the esteemed office of Chuck Schumer’s intern by failing to get a Senate appointment. [CNN Political Ticker]
- Former (!) President George W. Bush won’t be allowed to take all of his diplomacy bonus prizes back to Texas. Such winnings include: the weird cowboy shit given to him by Australia’s PM, a (hardcover) book of sonnets from Putin, and a promise necklace from King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud. [Washington Post]
- Good to know: Bill Kristol was downsized from the Times because he was a terrible writer who made up facts for his weekly sloppy fictions, not because he is a conservative or Sarah Palin’s friend. [Daily Beast]
- RNC Chairperson Marc Ambinder has selected your new Republican Last Great Hope for 2012: it’s pretend human “Dirk Kempthorne,” which is an anagram for “Kathryn Jean Lopez”. [Marc Ambinder]
Can we feed Caroline Kennedy to a pack of starving hyenas, in public, now?
reflexive disloyalty
I read this as ‘dislexive refloyalty’.
Dirk who?
BTW, I thought an anagram for Kathryn Jean Lopez was “Old Country Buffet” plus “Krispe Kreme.”
A senior writer at Time magazine recounted to me a similar experience with Kristol following his stint in 2006-07. “His conservative ideas were cutting edge and influential,” I was told. “But his sloppy writing and failure to fact check what he wrote made us queasy.”
Okay, you want cutting-edge conservatism and fact-based writing. Now pick one.
The real reason Kristol got dumped is that they’re making room for America’s Conservative Shiksa, Peggy Nooners.
“Dirk Kempthorne”
Bow wow chica wow wow.
Prez Shithead was also given a gold-plated AK-47 taken from Saddam’s personal collection. I’m betting that baby made it back to the ranch somehow.
“Dirk Kempthorne”…hmmm, wasn’t that a character from one of the Kilgore Trout novels…some double cleft-chin moran, or should’ve been, anyway, I’m pretty sure at least that Secretary of the Interior under Bush meant moving furniture from room to room for Mrs. Glassy…
Kristol made defunct by the NYT for poor writing? Oh noes!!!
Sounds like John Howard cashed in his Marlboro Miles to buy Gee Dub some prezints.
Dirk Kempthorne is the Republicans’ great white hope? Okay, it’s official: George W. Bush totally broke the Republican party forever. It’s over.
It took them a year to realize Bill Kristol was an ignorant and talentless bastard?
From Wikipedia: — In 2009, CNN correspondent Campbell Brown criticized Kempthorne for using “$235,000 of your money to renovate his office bathroom at the Department of Interior.” According to Brown, the costs included a shower, a refrigerator, and a freezer hidden behind lavish wood paneling, as well as “DK” monogrammed towels. —
Dirk is the Dennis Kosloski of Republican presidential candidates.
Boise will be Boise.
S.Luggo: How the fuck do you spend $235K on a bathroom? Seriously, I don’t get that. It’s like Thain’s $1.2M office. Do you encrust the doorknob with jewels?
And on an unrelated note, I’d like to register my displeasure at having to look at Coulter’s mug while on my Wonkette. I come here to get away from the likes of her.
Larry McAwful: “In Idaho, he took the sleepy and rundown city of Boise and rebuilt it.”
Not exactly a Herculean task.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boisetrees.jpg
S.Luggo: No one should vote Republican until the majority of the federal upholstery goes shabby. Then we should give them a term or two and vote ‘em out again when the new curtains are up, new granite and marble countertops are installed, and new gold plumbing is working. They serve their purpose, the GOP.
The key line in that Daily Beast article: Kristol’s proximity to key Washington players ranging from Bush and Cheney to John McCain (whom he supported in 2000) was considered a distinct plus. His leading advocacy of the Iraq War also added to his appeal. Kristol was viewed as a mover and shaker whose ideas had ready impact on the political firmament in Washington.
In other words, the Times loves an idiot as long as he’s close enough to power.
“Appearing once again on The Daily Show, Bill Kristol, Jon Stewart’s favorite whipping boy (‘Bill Kristol, aren’t you ever right?’), on Thursday night defended the McCain-Palin ticket, at one point informing the show’s host that he was getting his news from suspect sources. ‘You’re reading The New York Times too much,’ he declared. ‘Bill, you WORK for The New York Times!’ Stewart pointed out.”
Easily my favorite interview moment on The Daily Show. Hands fucking down.
“Good to know: Bill Kristol was downsized from the Times because he was a terrible writer who made up facts for his weekly sloppy fictions, not because he is a conservative or Sarah Palin’s friend.”
Wait, there’s a difference?!?!
CorkPopper: http://www.totoneorest.com/
Lemming Caution: Wow. That bathroom is waaay nicer than any home I have ever lived in. I don’t know if I could enjoy taking a crap there, though, because my liberal Sunday School upbringing would be reminding me every time I went in there that probably a hundred Africans could be immunized, fed, and educated for the cost of the tub.
We have not seen the last of Billy Boy’s prose in the nation’s Serious Media: “Despite the pink slip, all the news for Kristol is not so grim. The Washington Post has just announced that it will publish Kristol on a monthly basis.” LINK. I haz a sad.
I was reading the LAST KRISTOL article and ran across this gem:
Obama appealed to the authority of “our forebears,” “our founding documents,” even — political correctness alert! — “our founding fathers.”
What does that mean? Was he being politically incorrect and sarcastic? Or politically correct and giving us notice. What’s presumably possibly unPC about founding fathers?
I am only pulling this particularly sentence out for further explanation, because the rest was completely unreadable.
CorkPopper: You haven’t lived until you wiped your ass with Chinchilla.
He’ll be published by WaPo now? WaPo, wtf is wrong with you? Do you strive to be the shitty, redneck cousin of the NYT — the one who fucks the NYT’s obese ex-wives?
S.Luggo: Rachel Maddow reported that his aides sent a correction in to MSNBC: the towels weren’t monogrammed.
So relax, dear taxpayers.
Vewol Mevemont: In your scenerio, the NYTimes is Sean Avery…but who is Elisha Cuthbert…Kristol or WaPo?
hockeymom: Kristol… But that’s just wrong. If Elisha Cuthbert was dead, and if Dion Phaneuf was fusking her bloated corpse, then you’d have a good analogy.
But yes, Calgary is a city full of rednecks, so at least that part fits.
As a people of Minnesota, allow me interject the real winners of the Franken-Coleman cage match:
Lizard People.
If you’re not a Lizard People, well, I don’t know what the hell you are or what your problem is.
As someone who has lived in Idaho all her life and lived in Boise when he was mayor, I can tell you there are many skeletons in that closet. He bounced serveral checks to local businesses, including his poor hairdresser. He would get a hair cut, write a check for $100 over to get cash and on three occasions the checks bounced! When she was asked why she didn’t report it she said she was afraid he could hurt her business.
There have also been persistent rumors within political circles (the same ones that knew about Larry Craig’s orientation for years) that Kempthorne has at least two children by another woman. His wife, Patricia, declined to move to Washington when he became secretary.
So, please, let the Repubs nominate Kempthorne!
Maureen Dowd writes today that Patterson was crazy for just stone appointin’ lil’ Kristin. Of course, MoDo has never been north of 92nd street and kisses C. Kennedy’s ass with the fervor of a lamprey eel. Talk about being in the tank. So Patterson’s going down over this crucial error, eh? What does Lou Dobbs’ and Wolf Blitzer’s network have to say?
“(CNN) — More than three times as many New Yorkers in a new poll blame Caroline Kennedy and her team for the messy process surrounding the search for Hillary Clinton’s Senate replacement than fault the state’s governor, David Paterson — although, on balance, his final selection meets with their approval.”
QED.
You chuckleheads know the Times got bailed out by Carlos Slim, Caroline was shtooping Pinch and you know? Ass sex.