For your enjoyment, Democrats are beginning to eat their young. In my opinion for good reason. Never mind the largest major of rule in both Houses of Congress in recent memory, they seemed to fall all over themselves for candy assed excuses to not get a damn thing done. Already forcing Obama to pull one out of the Clinton playbook and steal from the Republicans [which in latin means "no, I'll just complain"].
2. What do you call a dead baby with no arms and no legs wearing a sombrero? I don’t know, but whatever you call it, it’s got about 1,000% more fight in it than these jackass Democrats.
Colbert delves into the psyche that is Glenn Beck. “It is like looking in to a frickin mirror after you have done a ton of coke of it”. Yeah that sums it up. [credit for this one goes to cyberspatialniche]
GOP is infamous for its lock-step discipline, on message drones and unbelievable togetherness when it comes to all things elections. But I have had a hard time believing that Palin is a total hit.
Besides, cracks are beginning to show in the story. The earmark issue is not a reformers story and the trooper-gate seems to grow and get weirder. Here’s a roundup [I don't dig the family stuff though, out of bounds]. It is going to be a long and fun election.
T. Boone Pickens claims this ad is too hot for TV [NBC actually]. Apparently NBC has refused to play it, wonder what their story is. Anyway, Pickens describes it:
In the ad Boone talks about how the Iranians are moving quickly to vehicles powered by natural gas so they can free up their $120 a barrel oil to sell to us. Boone says: “Get this one. Iran is changing its cars to run on natural gas and we’re not doing a thing here…â€
Before anyone pushes the victim thing, I agree she was wronged. But when you agree to partake on the adventure of public service, post-Clinton, there is an explicit agreement that you vet yourself before the media gets a hold of it. And if you take money and work like you are a front runner but have sabotaged those chances by covering anything up, illegal or what not, you have committed fraud. She, as his partner, was complicit despite the cancer, despite the adultered wife.
Warren Buffet made the charge and even mentioned a class action lawsuit. I wonder if this kind of action would be any good at all. Would it force them to own up at the beginning? In Edward’s case, his candidacy was a long shot with Hillary in, and then Obama. He could have seen it, prepped for the future by coming out with his story, controlling the narrative and possibly achieving honesty points and maybe sympathy for what turned a tragic family situation worse. He would have played well if upfront against the Clinton legacy of semantic denial.
Instead he takes away good policys with his silence, remove a voice for party unit and strength and adds ammo to the Republican claims of a morally polluted party [even tough they are having a worse time with that at the moment]. Plus, he gladly took donations despite having a ticking bomb in his pocket. This amounts to fraud, whether or not it is actionable, it would be nice to see some accountability in more than just shame to politicians that continue to work the system.
I included Buffet’s talk of the affair
[Full disclosure - I donated money to Edward's campaign and would possibly join any suit]
We’ll start with a cute one from Vanity Fair with G.W. as the Joker.[via boing boing] Then we’ll finish up with the trailer to Oliver Stone’s new movie, W., that comes out October 17th. It says it all, no comment necessary. [via perez hilton]
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Bookmarks for August 11th
These are my links for August 11th