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campaign hook-ups

Endless Campaign Means Endless Campaign Staffer Sex!

Today's Wall Street Journal broadsheet features a delightful feature about the endless Democratic primary's steamy silver-lining: hot cross-campaign-pollinating sexy times. Rowr! As the Journal notes, "The most heated presidential primary in recent history has drawn a record number of new voters, galvanized young Americans and forced the nation to confront deep-rooted race and gender issues. It also got Brendan Gilfillan a girlfriend." Brendan Gilfillan, you sluuuuuut! More »

marijuana and the child slave trade

Tom Harkin Was Right About Child Slavery & Drugs!

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin recently explained that medical marijuana cannot be legalized, because parents would sell their children to South Asian Neo-Pirates in order to get that dreaded "high fix." But now some guy is selling a baby for $1,000 on Craigslist so he can buy more "methamphetamine." Tom Harkin was right, and medical marijuana is to blame, along with libertarian hippies at Reason magazine who condone this sort of behavior so long as they get a high fix. [Local 6]

disease vectors

Campaign Staff Also Sick & Tired Of Presidential Campaign

"There is the abandoned $1,000-a-month temporary apartment in Des Moines, littered with dirty T-shirts and a deflated air mattress." Eliot Spitzer's love nest? A place to have men fuck you in front of your wife after dinner at T.G.I.F.? Not according to the liberal New York Times. More »

patriotic heroes

100-Year-Old Iowa Man Loves Hooters, Hates George W. Bush

Meet John Persinger and tell him Happy Birthday, because he just turned 100 years old, at the Hooters. What is his longevity secret? "Good living, I guess. A lot of good food. Steaks, fried potatoes. I sip a little Royal Crown now and then." Ha ha, don't worry, he is not drinking down-market carbonated corn syrup. The Des Moines Register informs us that he really meant "Crown Royal." But what really helps him through life, other than booze and Hooters girls and chicken wings and his famous "fried mush," is his deep hatred of George W. Bush. More »

dancing muslim terrorists

Congressman Warns Of Obama's Secret Terrorist Seduction

Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King is a known douchebag, and demographic trends suggest he is a racist too. What racist thing did racist Steve King say today? Just that the Muslim terrorists "will be dancing in the streets" if Obama is elected president, "and that has a chilling effect on how difficult it will be to ever win this global war on terror." Yes, King Congressman, but will he get us universal health care?? More »

marijuana and the child slave trade

Senator Tom Harkin: Marijuana Makes People Sell Their Children

It's 2008, and that teenager drug marijuana is still raping our children. But why does that have to be illegal? According to The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), some person wrote to Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin "asking him to justify why medicinal cannabis is still illegal" after the American College of Physicians recommended it shouldn't be. It merited a hilarious reply from Harkin, which noted many of pot's notorious doom scenarios: "the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix." Harkin knows the routine: smoke up, eat gyro, play Legend of Zelda, sell children to pirates for more pot, repeat. The full, horrifying letter, after the jump. More »

dirty politics

Clinton's Campaign Leaves Trail Of Filth In Abandoned Offices

Hillary Clinton’s staffers have been soiling carpets and leaving mountains of rotting garbage in rented temporary campaign offices — and then not paying the bill when they skip town to move on to the next primary state. More »

satan

Mitt Locks Crucial Iowa Strumpet Endorsement



The best song/video combination since “Thriller” appears on the Iowa Federation of College Republicans’ blog, home of Wonkette Vice Person of the Year 2007 nominee Ben “Beef Jerky and Toiletries” Johnson. Unlike Ben, however, the MittGirls are endorsing heterosexuality in their lovely performance of “Mitt’s our Man.” YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A BOY TO LIKE THIS. I know this, because I am a boy. [Iowa Federation of College Republicans]

altered states

Sledgehammer Of Reality Can't Crush Ron Paul's Presidency

Has Ron Paul’s Internet Brigade been interesting and hilarious? Of course! Has all his silly talk about “freedom” and the “U.S. Constitution” maybe made a few kids interested in those arcane and unprofitable fantasies? Sure! But will the loyalist Paulians ever, uh, acknowledge their guy’s a fringe candidate running an anti-war campaign within America’s Defense Industry Party and he’s not ever going to be president of anything, not even the Internet? Sort of, but not really. Let’s investigate. More »

cocky little speechwriters

Obama's Little Boy Speechwriter Has Name of Famous Actor

Most people remember Jon Favreau from the oft-quoted casino film Swingers. As it happens, Jon Favreau is also famous for being another human — a 26-year-old major speechwriter for Barry Obama. And he loves playing the race card, but only subtly, see. As he told the New York Times’ Ashley Parker, “There were many months during the campaign when they said he’d never win. And of course there was the day that would never come, when an African American would be winning the first primary in a white state.” But can Barry win in the 30 or 40 other states that have a black majority? [NYT]

joke and dagger dept.

Cartoon Violence Explains It All

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Hey whoah there what happened with the electing and the caucusing and WHOAH looks like Obama and Huckabee are our new FRONT RUNNERS and everyone else is pretty much screwed old news done over with but then wait hold on hold up those crazy New Hampshirians or whatever they’re called CHANGED EVERYTHING and now Hillary and Walnuts are back in the saddle they’re underdogs who came from behind even though a year ago they were in the lead and OH MY GOD WHO CAN UNDERSTAND IT???? More »

health care 101

Hey Glenn Beck, How Was Your Butt Surgery?

Dear CNN Headline News dingus Glenn Beck — thanks for letting us know all about your ASS SURGERY on esteemed website CNN.com today under the common guise of “Put the ‘care’ back in health care.” I know this doesn’t sound appealing. But it’s solid. More »

daily briefing

All Kinds of Assertions, All Kinds of Mistakes

  • A dramatic, inside account about how Hillary lost Iowa. Hint: the black man. [Washington Post]
  • What if the polls weren’t wrong and Hillary used her witch magic? [Washington Post]
  • It took him long enough, but Tony Blair finally got a job. [New York Times]
  • The guy who broke the law in in ordering the torture tapes destroyed wants immunity from the law before he’ll talk about what he did. [CNN]
  • Fred Thompson doesn’t need help to shoot himself in the foot, but he’s trying anyway. [Politico]
  • Can Romney win his home state? We’re guessing no! [Los Angeles Times]

kind of blue

BREAKING ... DRUDGE WORRIED FOR HILLARY!

Have you ever seen a sadder Drudge Report Siren? Hillary can’t leave Matt, not after he’s been telling the world how she’s so smart and tough and the whole President Clinton Jr. thing is inevitable! Hang in there, Matt! Hillary might still be your Queen.

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH

profiles in leadership

Bush Stayed Up For Iowa, Doesn't Lose Sleep Over Other Things

A White House spokesman told reporters that GWB “stayed up past his usual bed time I think” to see who won Iowa, and also that he thinks that the primaries are great tests of character. It’s not about the day-to-day, Bush has reportedly said in private, probably out loud to no one in particular, but it’s how you do over the long term that counts. There are a great many other revealing character tests in politics, like how one can serve as the president for 8 years and yet leave office without a single valuable policy initiative accomplished or a single competent appointment made but still think one’s opinion is valuable, for example. [CNN]

you can come home again

Biden, Dodd Grudgingly Return to Constituent Service

Did you hear how there’s this really tight Democratic majority in the Senate that isn’t really enough to allow them to do very much? Gosh, it seems, then, like losing 4 Democratic Senators (and 1 “maverick” Republican) to the Presidential campaign might be problematic, especially if two of those 4 chair Committees! But now that Biden and Dodd are slinking back to D.C., they might actually get some of the work done that we’re all paying them to do! Dodd’s going to get back to maybe doing something about that ongoing mortgage crisis thingie, while Biden is going to weigh in on Pakistan and then get around to re-authorizing international AIDS eradication programs. So, don’t cry any longer, Dodd daughters [CQ Politics, The Examiner]

living the dream

Mittens' Virtue to Triumph Field's Pandering


Mitt Romney isn’t afraid, because that’s not something legends do. Legends persevere against the insurmountable odds of “household names” like John McCain, Frederick Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani; even against the eternal frontrunner Michael Huckabee, whose discipline and national organization has always pitted him as The Inevitable. Maybe those guys have the money and the adoration of all Republicans. But only Mitt Romney has the unwavering policy stances, the convictions, the message of hope to heal America. The Decade of Huckabee is finally coming to a close.

liberal circle jerk

A Children's Treasury of Overblown Huffington Posts About Obama's Victory

Apparently the Huffington Post bloggers saw a totally different Barack Obama speech last night — you know, one that wasn’t just some rich good-looking lawyer repeating the empty word “hope” like Rudy saying “9/11.” Here’s a sampling of the inspirational, pompous nonsense that is our substitute for actual insight in this goddamned country: More »