Million-year-old New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg is in the hospital again, this time after he collapsed because of a bleeding ulcer. So, when he either retires or dies, another “safe seat” will be won by Scott Brown, because didn’t New Jersey just decide to go Republican again? Yes, that’s what New Jersey did, when they elected popular Republican “Snooki” as governor last year. [NY Daily News]
ALL DEMOCRATS OUT OF SENATE BY 2012
February 16, 2010
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Is Snooky that little Ewok on that one show? She’s probably smarter than Scott Brown.
I’m sure Repubs will run ‘The Situation’ FTW.
Well, Snooki’s apparently been naked on the Huffington Post, so she’s got the same qualifications as Brown.
I’ve probably said it before, but it the ancient one dies, I just hope the rumors of Jon Bon Jovi’s desire to run for Senate (yes, as a Dem) turn out to be true.
He did it all, for The Snookie, The Snookie
really, ..older than the hills … McCain
Bonjovi\Mellencamp 2010
Okay, this is bad news. But on the plus side: somebody tried to punch Mitt Romney in his smug, over-tanned face!
[re=513768]JMP[/re]: Or The Boss. Wonder what skeletons he’s got in the Route 9 closet?
It would be rather ironic that the fate of health care reform could very possibly turn on the state of several Democratic Senators health care.
Great — every pubic hair model in New Jersey suddenly developed conservative political leanings and is now on the phone asking if there’s a way to reverse a Brazilian.
[re=513782]V572625694[/re]: A lot of skeletons. He had a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack; he went out for a ride and then he never came back.
Senators like us, baby we were born to ride Lark scooters.
[re=513786]Hooray For Anything[/re]: It’s almost like a slower Grisham novel, all of this waiting around for enough Senators to die to affect the future of domestic policy. Grisham probably would have had the Senators killed, violently. I don’t know which is more grating, honestly.
Man, they’re dropping like flies.
[re=513794]JMP[/re]: C’mon, fess up. You two set that one up in advance.
[re=513792]SayItWithWookies[/re]: “every pubic hair model in NJ” what is that, like 17 percent of the population?
The only reason NJ elected a Repub is because Jon Corzine thought his reelection campaign could coast by on achievements like crashing his tax-payer funded SUV into a guardrail on the GSP. He barely even tried to run a campaign. And the lesson there is never underestimate the power of a Repub promising to lower property taxes in a state that has the highest in the nation.
[re=513812]FlownOver[/re]: I’m as innocent as Oliver North. Like Bruce’s music a lot (particularly since watching a few concerts on Palladia) but have no idea what song that’s borrowed from.
[re=513814]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: Even better, 63% of that 17 have “Ed Hardy” shaved in stylized script into their pelvic stubble.
Jersey flips between the parties every couple of years not because of any ideological swing, but because they keep electing politicians from Jersey and inevitably grow tired of the ensuing corruption and/or sewage smell.
That should be, “elected popular Republican “Moby Dick” as governor last year.”
If we nominate Springsteen, you just know the damn GOP will immediately nominate John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band.
[re=513812]FlownOver[/re]: No, I just saw the opening and took it. Just like any guy that meets Snooki.
[re=513792]SayItWithWookies[/re]: There is a way but the smooth Jersyite models find the answer confusing. “Why would I need a Merkin if I’m already a ‘merkin?”
[re=513778]Suds McKenzie[/re]: or if both bon jovi and mellencamp end up in the senate, can you imagine it? when the new rules of the senate force the 59 seat dems to filibuster the 41 seat gop, it would be like farm aid or something. Cloture…..in a blaze of glory….
That sound you hear is the roar of Harold Ford’s helicopter hovering over New Jersey.
Also “Snooki” is actually from Long Island, but being that this is NJ we are talking about I’m sure her running is simply a matter paying off the appropriately corrupt officials
I didn’t know we had so many old Dems in the senate. And let’s not mention the old Dem set of Supremes. Obama has got to replace the whole Dem set of Supremes and hope one of the Repubs die — in like three years. My favorite would be Clarence Thomas, because I hate Bush for doing that cynical finger flip at blacks by replacing Marshall with Thomas. But maybe my prayer will be answered.
[re=513778]Suds McKenzie[/re]: Some blog I read last night was hoping Mellencamp would run for Bayh’s seat in Indiana. The thinking is that he’d make a great candidate because- and here’s something I bet you didn’t know- he was born in a small town. Apparently, people seem to go for politicians from a small town.
Since New Jersey kicks governors out of office just for being gay, there’s no way Bon Jovi would run. Guy’s been married to the same chick for 20+ years while his bandmate is nailing every tight body in Hollywood? Mrs. Bon Jovi is obviously a beard.
[re=513792]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Wow, I didn’t know there was such a profession. New Jersey sounds like a land of wonders!
[re=513850]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: That sound you hear is my wife kicking the living shit out of me for saying that about her dear, heterosexual, family man
Mr Jon Bon Jovi.
[re=513850]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: It’s true. I have a friend who had an encounter with him. (And while I realize this is a “I had a friend who…” stories, this one’s legit)
[re=513850]Chernobyl Soup[/re]:
I thought Mrs. Bon Jovi was Valerie Bertinelli.
[re=513837]Ruhe[/re]: Damn me for missing that joke — and it’s just been waiting to be played, too.
[re=513858]Rod Jetton’s Username Is Too Damn Long for the Reply thingy to show up[/re]: Details — we want details. To, um, corroborate the story. Yeah.
[re=513838]Crank Tango[/re]: With opening act … Al Franken!
[re=513860]Tommmcatt[/re]: No, Valerie was married to Eddie Van Halen. No more.
[re=513838]Crank Tango[/re]: And they’ve already got John Hall of Orleans in the House, who could come join them. It would certainly be better than the old Ashcroft-Hatch Singing Senators group. Of course, they all play the young people music to your average geriatric Senator.
[re=513809]Joshua Norton[/re]: Yeah, my thought exactly.
I guess all that praying those Religious Right nutwads are doing for the death of Dems is paying off in spades. Maybe we should reconsider Pat Robertson theories on Haiti?
[re=513847]June Cleaver 2.0[/re]: Thurgood Marshall for Clarence Thomas. What an obscene gesture. And since we’re discussing pubic hair this afternoon, this is an appropriate time to bring up Justice Pubic Hair Thomas.
And if the Bon Jovi/Mellencamp caucus needs a bass player, there’s Krist Novoselic formerly of Nirvana, ready to rep for the Great State of Washington.
He’s liberal, he’s populist and he writes a liberal populist political column for some gay newsweekly in Seattle.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/12/the_political_and_pliable_line.php
DNC surprised that 92 year old West Virginia Confederate Robert Byrd and 86 year old NJ Delorean look-alike Lautenberg ready to drop. “We thought they’d live to be at least 200,” said DNC head of something Chris Van Hollen.
Senate/Congress = Charnel Houses on the Potomac. We might as well start a pool for who will be in the news in a dead/dying/quitting sort-of-way tomorrow. Obviously a Democrat, likely in a Republican pick-up kind of place. Hmmmm. I’m gonna go with an outside-the-box relatively young pick. Let’s say: Tester.
Bruce dyes his hair and has had cosmetic surgery? I’m disappointed, is how lame I am.
[re=513782]V572625694[/re]: Bruce would never run for public office. They don’t call him The Boss because he likes compromise. BTW, the answer is Hungry Heart, not one of my favorites, but a definite crowd-pleaser.
[re=513834]Gorillionaire[/re]: A joke only a Jukesgrrl could love.
[re=513975]kth[/re]: Bruce hardly has any hair left to dye.
[re=513857]Chernobyl Soup[/re]: My theory about JBJ: He cheats on his wife, but Bruce taught him years ago always to wear a condom and buy the girlfriend a big house afterward to shut her up. That’s why property values are so high in Monmouth County.
So is that a before and after shot of Springsteen for Grecian Fomula for Men?
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