Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Island), the son of the late Ted Kennedy went a tad nuts while speaking in support of a resolution sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan within 30 days. Kennedy accused the media of ignoring the war and obsessing over the “tickle fight” scandal that forced Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., to quit. He also sounded a lot like Chris Farley…
As others have pointed out, there hasn’t been anything close to a press blackout on Afghanistan recently, and sorry, but the Massa thing was provocative and legitimate news. Listen to Massa recap it in the clip below:
A left wing movement calling itself the “Coffee Party” has been formed to respond to the right wing movement against Obamas expansion of government policies calling itself the Tea Party. Washington Post did a profile on them and they have a website, but… it’s all kinda murky as to what exactly is going on with it.
The first thing I thought of when I heard of this though was, how come no one is calling these people evil brainddead bigots like the Tea Partiers are constantly labeled? A rally over Barack Obama’s policies called the “Coffee Party” and no one has cried racism? How soon ye forget…
We want the political process broken down into three steps:
1) open and respectful dialogue
2) thoughtful and informed deliberation
3) competent and decisive execution.
The process is so broken, we can’t get past step 1 right now. We demand cooperation, productivity and accountability in government in the same way we would demand it of an employee we might hire for a job.
We want local chapters to have the autonomy to figure out their own legislative and electoral priorities. At the national level, we’ll make recommendations for direct action on legislation. But they will only be suggestions. We value and celebrate diverse opinions just as we value and celebrate diverse backgrounds. All that is required to be part of this movement is a sincere commitment to participating in, and protecting the democratic process.
Okay… so they have a problem with there being a lack of open and respectful dialog in Congress and they want to organize against it..somehow. Alright.. I guess. although it’s a really weird thing to rally over. whatever. these “can’t we all just be nice?” types like to look across the pond as examples of Government things we should emulate when it comes to larger government and more control from the state, but never nuclear power, social issues that lean to the right or civility in politics.
MEP and UKIP leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday delivered another major tirade against EU President Herman van Rompuy and, along the way, severely insulted Belgium and Greece during a plenary debate in the European Parliament. Farage said Van Rompuy had the “charisma of a damp rag” and the appearance of a “low-grade bank clerk.”
President Obama made a speech in front of a class that was encouraged for teachers to show their own classes.
The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props.
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The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.
The Washington Post wrote the first half and the Democrat, House Majority Leader said the second part after the dashes… in 1991. responding to President Bush giving a speech aimed at students. right before they had a hearing to investigate the matter.
Bush’s speech contained such controversial material as talking about importance of studying math and science and answered other questions, ranging from “How difficult is it to be our president?” to whether he would like his dog – Millie – to be the first dog in space.
As for Obama’s speech: Like Bush’s in 91, it had some nice common sense stuff in it that kids should hear. unlike Bush’s, it contained needlessly controversial self praising stuff about how hard OBAMA, not the country or bipartisan government, is working to save the world.
But wait… Obama actually did exactly what the Dems groundlessly freaked out over Bush doing? but that.. would make them… hypocrite political hacks….
While its true that liberal doctrine claims that persons A accomplishments must come at person B’s expense, I’ve always known that was bullshit bumper sticker pandering pap, so its not that that’s the cause for a “wtf man”. The reason praising yourself to young students is “needlessly controversial” as i stated, is not because it negates someone elses work as liberal theory would assume, but rather its just 1) bad taste and 2) bad politics.
Obama changed his speech from being the political commercial that republicans flipped their toupee’s over at first (The original Department of Education directive asked children to write letters with promises on “how they could help President Obama.” and changed it to how kids “could achieve their long-term and short-term goals”) yet still left in the self stroking stuff about how “he” alone is working for them. why hand your opposition a victory like that when the rest of your 2nd draft speech is so praise-worthy by honest members of said opposition? 10% of school funding comes from “Obama”. why not show some love to the mayors, governors and state politicians? when the guy who does 10% of the work takes all the credit, he’s usually called an a-hole. unless he’s the Obammessiah.
A few weeks ago, a group no one has ever heard of, called Color of Change, started a boycott against Fox News opinion show host Glenn Beck because Beck stated an opinion they found unacceptable: Beck said he thinks Barack Obama is essentially racist (oh no he di-int!).
Color of Change, under the headline Stop the race baiting, immediately organized Beck-haters to call or contact advertisers to notify they will be boycotting their product as long as they continue to run their ads on Beck’s show.
Problem: Van Jones, the leader of Color of Change is the Dictator of Race Batia. He has first place trophies on his shelves for the annual Race Bating County Fair. If he were on the supreme court he would be Race Bater Ginsburg.
The picture to the right from the Hannity show makes it look like Van Jones is wearing a Hannity pin on his jacket. so. like. i thought that was funny.
First: Jones called President Bush a racist…
Stop the race baiting? In a Sept. 1, 2005 Huffington Post op-ed, “Bush’s Role in the Drowning of New Orleans,” Jones wrote:
Don’t say that a hurricane destroyed New Orleans. Hurricanes don’t drown cities.It was a “perfect storm” of a different kind that put that great city underwater: Bush-era neglect of our national infrastructure, combined with runaway global warming and a deep contempt for poor African-Americans. [emphasis added]
Hmmm. Should someone be getting outraged over a person accusing the President of being a racist, if..um.. they called the President a fkking racist?
Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones also thinks white people are poisoning black communities. Hmm. that’s a pretty inflammatorily race baiting accusation. Plenty evidence to call this hypocrite boycott against Beck a fraud and and a scam, but as the late Billy Mays would say: But wait! there’s more!
Goodness… So the guy Beck has been calling out then orders a boycott against Beck for saying one thing that was less offensive than any of the things he himself has said. and he works in the Obama administration. Awesome.
Oh ya, and he thinks President Bush was behind the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Maybe he changed his mind though? Cuz last night he issued a statement apologizing and said the petition he signed suggesting that President Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen” perhaps to justify war in Afghanistan or Iraq, “does not reflect my views now or ever.” Except, it seems that “or ever” should have had an asterisk after it to clarify that in *this* case “ever” means “except in 2002 when he endorsed the same claim”.
An administration source told Jake Tapper of ABC News that Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones did not carefully review the language in the 9/11 conspiracy petition before agreeing to add his name in 2004 – but oops – this morninginformation surfaced that shows Jones was on the organizing committee of a 2002 march making the same 9/11 conspiracy claims.
Van Jones pictured with the 3 most powerful men in the world
Okay, so Van Jones is a raging hypocrite and a master-race-bater who is almost as intolerant of white people as he is of criticism. Big deal. What liberal isn’t, right? (yuk yuk). Charles Krauthammer nails it in the video below where he rightly notes that calling Republicans assholes and the fact that he had admitted to being an actual Communist [and black nationalist] may be lame and all but pretty small potatoes, but goes on to say that being a 9/11 conspiracy wingnut IS in fact a big ass fkking deal showing signs of psychotic paranoia and must disqualify you from working in the federal fricken government.
As for that “stop the race baiting” boycott? Fail.
A few advertisers simply diverted their commercials on Fox News to other programs on the channel rather than Beck’s. Some boycott. Color of Change allegedly lied about advertisers dropping out, and Beck’s ratings have never been higher. His show airs at 5 freakin PM eastern (2pm Pacific) and is getting at least 2.5 million and often going over 3 million viewers. To put in context how massive 3 million viewers is on a daytime cable news channel, consider this perspective: The CBS Evening News averages about 4 million viewers a night. The Daily Show and Colbert Report each get around 1.5 million viewers a night, in primetime.
Far from Beck even inching in the direction of losing his job, to make things even more hilariously embarrassing: many are predicting that Jones will be the victim of “backfire scheme of the year” and have to resign before Monday.
Pretending that these claims have any credibility for a moment: It would be awesome for one reason…
Not because she might finally appear on The O’Reilly Factor and face some genuinely tough questions instead of the bullshit “tough” questions like “what do you think about the Bush doctrine, which was never a stated doctrine, isn’t written anywhere, isn’t agreed upon by a plurality, and isn’t a Bush-specific policy at all?” and definitely not because we would be treated to more insufferable “you’re a great American” bullshit “interviewing” by Sean Hannity. No no children. The one thing that shows potential for awesome with a Palin-Fox News partnership is this: Geraldine Ferraro is a Fox News analyst.
Gera-Ferra who? Geraldine Ferraro is a liberal political analyst for FNC and also the only other women to be on a national presidential voting ticket when she ran as vice president against then VP George H.W. Bush in 1984 (Reagan/Bush vs Mondale Ferraro).
If Palin actually moved to the lower 48 to appear in-studio on Fox News shows as an analyst, it would be irresistible to pair her with Ferraro and make some really interesting tv.
2 female vice presidential nominees – the ONLY two – one Democrat, one Republican, both chosen by their parties nominee at the time as a gimmick to rally interest and support for an uphill election, both unsuccessful — here, now, giving their opposing takes on the current political climate.
Would you tune in to watch?
And really, the whole rumor isn’t far fetched at all. You can’t effectively do anything from way up in BFE-Alaska so the move makes perfect sense since Rhode Island is pretty Alaskan-like in a lot of ways, and we know the Gov is a big fan of her home state. The other claim that she will never run for politics again is true. I’m confirming it now, so everyone can just STFU about all the speculating. She’s done. deal with it.
It was back a few months when Kennedy suggested a Portugese water dog for the Obama’s new pet when I realized my attitude on the “swimmer” jokes were starting to shift. Then I found out that Kennedy has one of the dogs himself and its named Splash and my WTF couldn’t be held back. Notsomuch because if you kill a girl by drowning that you then should never be able to have water-related things in your life and maintain decency, but because the hateful lefty fringe hippies would make exactly that rule if Kennedy was a Republican. That kind of double standard is just annoying.
Speaking of double standards: Kennedy is demonstrating his non-principalled political hackery douchiness, that bothers me notsomuch because it exists – cuz duh, politics – but because he is not called out and ridiculed by the mainstream watchdogs (paging John Stewart).
Seriously though, check this out: Kennedy wants his home state Legislature to take back a law it passed 2004 – at his urging – that stripped away the governor’s longstanding power to temporarily fill a Senate vacancy. He urged the change in law because the other Massechesettes senator was John Kerry and he was running for president at the time, which meant that if he won, he would obviously leave the senate and the governor would appoint his replacement. The problem with that was that Republican Mitt Romney was governor; and Kennedy didn’t want him to appoint a republican, so naturally he lobbied state Democrats to change the law so that Romney couldn’t name Kerry’s successor.
They followed his advice with gusto. When the final vote took place, the Boston Globe reported, “hooting and hollering broke out on the usually staid House floor,’’ and House Speaker Thomas Finneran acknowledged candidly: “It’s a political deal. It’s very raw politics.’’
It still is. Now that Massachusetts has a Democratic governor, Kennedy is lobbying to restore the gubernatorial power to name an interim appointee. That would guarantee Democrats in Washington two reliable Senate votes from Massachusetts, even if Kennedy isn’t there to cast one of them.
Ridiculous. Kennedy needs to GO. Not from the earth, (he has brain cancer and should live and be well for many more years – just not in the United States government), but from the frigging senate. He’s useless. He does nothing positive. He’s just a political bullying hack and should be consistant for once and LEAVE.
If Kennedy is sincere – if his chief concern is that Massachusetts not be left for months without the services of a full-time senator – then he should do the right thing right now: He should resign.
For well over a year, Massachusetts has not had the “two voices . . . and two votes in the Senate’’ that Kennedy says its voters are entitled to. Sickness has kept him away from Capitol Hill for most of the last 15 months. He has missed all but a handful of the 270 roll-calls taken in the Senate so far this year. Through no fault of his own, he is unable to carry out the job he was reelected to in 2006. As a matter of integrity, he should bow out and allow his constituents to choose a replacement.
There’s a reason Mayor Quimby, the lying, cheating, philandering, corrupt, career politician from the Simpsons has a Boston accent – he is a Kennedy parody. And we don’t need any Mayor freakin Quimbys in our real life government.
Ted Kennedy sucks and should go away from public “service” and enjoy retirement in the private sector while he struggles with his unfortunate disease.
UPDATE: While I was writing this blog, Ted Kennedy succumbed to the deterioration his brain cancer was taking and died at the age of 77.
Some people are just not willing to give the Obama administration any benefit of the doubt at all and former ABC reporter turned Whitehouse media relations employee Linda Douglas is gonna set all ya alls straight, or something.
Unfortunately for poor Linda, her position has been a bit of a clusterfuck disaster.
Just because Obama said he “would like to see” a single payer Healthcare plan, doesn’t mean that was REALLY what he “would like to see”. Gawd u guyz. lol.
Glenn Beck calls Douglas a Disinformation Czar and introduced on two occasions his own disinformation Disinformation Czar, also known as Stu, the producer of his radio show…
7th anniversary already. Bush 7, terrorists 0? or did they just get bored with us and decide to give the whole jihadist war on the Great Satan a rest for 7 to 10?
McCain and Obama at ground zero today, shook hands, then dropped roses in the memorial pool at the still unreconstructed site (no excuse for that) of the former World Trade Center in Manhattan. Demonstrators (mostly truthers) were out making a scene or course.
The two candidates met with firemen, police and others involved in the terrifying aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in which Al-Qaeda-hijacked airliners hit and demolished the Twin Towers.
The most striking thing about this video is clear I think: not the unity or spectacle of the contrasting opponents side by side or any of that garbage. It’s their walks. They both have silly walks… McCain waddles. Obama sways his arms and shoulders like a 1920’s cartoon. Ya, McCain is old and was tortured for a bunch of years which might excuse his a little, but what’s Obama’s explanation for that ridiculous swagger? I think this makes the election clear at this point. America needs to decide whether they want a president who waddles or limply swaggers.
The truce extended later to a televised forum where the two half-jokingly offered each other the job of cabinet secretary for civic service in their respective administrations.
McCain praised Obama’s “outstanding” early career as a community activist in Chicago — reversing belittling comments made previously by his running mate Sarah Palin — while Obama called his rival’s lifetime of service “inspirational.”
Exit: I wasn’t an Instapundit reader at the time, but its interesting to see the event unfold in Reynolds unique blogging format. Archive of Instapundit.com from 9/11/01 here.
The picture to the right from the Hannity show makes it look like Van Jones is wearing a Hannity pin on his jacket. so. like. i thought that was funny.
No no children. The one thing that shows potential for awesome with a Palin-Fox News partnership is this: Geraldine Ferraro is a Fox News analyst.
