I would like personally to thank the demi-God Obama for undertaking the hard task of exposing political corruption in Washington, DC, one nominee at a time.
And to answer Drew M’s question, Mrs. Edwards promises John’s book will tell all.
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February 3, 2009
Opinion: Obama and the Augean Stables [Dan Collins]
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Comment by B Moe on 2/3 @ 1:02 pm #
You’d think after the chaos last year surrounding former Senator John Edwards’ personal life, his wife, Elizabeth, would not be looking for more publicity…
I had to double check and make sure that really was Fox News and not the Onion.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:05 pm #
Well I am sure the book release will be timed to take the most advantage of her eventual death from cancer.
Comment by Log Cabin on 2/3 @ 1:08 pm #
What’s the over/under on the number of house seats the GOP will pick up in 2010? Bwa ha ha!
More popcorn please! These ‘distractions’ are mighty entertaining!
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:09 pm #
That brownish river on the other side is the stimulus bill, Log Cabin.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:10 pm #
oh. John also promised that he didn’t ball some strumpet and make a baby while his one and only buttercup was struggling against a fearsome disease. Whatever. These people are trashy.
Comment by Log Cabin on 2/3 @ 1:15 pm #
Too true, Dan. I try to see the humor in this royal disaster of an administration. Too bad we will all have to kick in to pay the check.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 1:15 pm #
The Chicago-Little Rock Axis of Corruption, exposed, one cheat at a time.
“Ethics? We don’t need no steenkin’ ETHICS!”
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:16 pm #
I think those are entertainment dollars well spent, LC.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:16 pm #
Obama must be throwing a lot of weight on his lat pulls. The Obama Messiah is ripped like a Roman stone cutter.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:17 pm #
Have you ever tried to divert a river with a club, thor? Demi-God!
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:19 pm #
Is that harder than the Sunday NYT’s crossword?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:21 pm #
That’s harder than the acrostics.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 1:22 pm #
Any thoughts on Iran’s space launch and NK announcing it will test a missile capable of striking the West Coast?
Thank Gaia that The World loves us again because of The One Lightworker, otherwise I’d have said those might be very troubling signs.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:23 pm #
I think that if you install missile shields, you’re just asking for it, Techie. You?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 1:25 pm #
Balloon fence time!
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:28 pm #
You no your good when you can catch those diagonal acrostics in Georges Perec’s Les Revenentes.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:29 pm #
That’s all one on one stuff though. Useful distractions for Baracky in the big scheme of things. Where Baracky really hopes to screw over America is with multilateral UN-type stuff what Harry’s Senate will rubberstamp I think.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:30 pm #
no your = know you’re
bad grammar day
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 1:31 pm #
We’re under the umbrella of vigorous diplomacy and soft power.
I’m sure Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the EU feel better all ready.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:32 pm #
You forgot the Ukraine and Georgia Techie.
Comment by Mr. Bingley on 2/3 @ 1:33 pm #
I mean, really, Dan, who could have possibly predicted that a person with no leadership experience what so ever would have problems as a manager and an executive once he was elected to the highest-stress job in the world?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:34 pm #
Maybe that Schiff guy, Bing.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 1:34 pm #
Oh the list goes on. I’m sure India feels swell to. Not to mention South Korea and Japan.
But thank Gaia again that we don’t have any way to potentially knock weapons out of the sky. That would be provocative.
Comment by thor on 2/3 @ 1:36 pm #
Comment by Mr. Bingley on 2/3 @ 1:33 pm #
I mean, really, Dan, who could have possibly predicted that a person with no leadership experience what so ever would have problems as a manager and an executive once he was elected to the highest-stress job in the world?
I dunno, George Bush, maybe?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:37 pm #
Welcome to the 21st Century, where being able to block a punch is a sign of aggression. Too bad St. Pierre didn’t have that mentallity then I wouldn’t have lost 15 bucks on Saturday.
Comment by Log Cabin on 2/3 @ 1:37 pm #
Feet, the senate better go pedal to the metal on that UN crap, cuz I think the balance of power will be a little different in 2 years. This super majority looks to have a shorter shelf life than most dairy products. It is already smelling sour.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:38 pm #
Bush got out of the gate much better than Baracky is doing. Baracky is fucking up all over the place. It’s a circus.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:40 pm #
Do not worry though happy by the time this is filtered through the rose colored glasses worn by the MSM everyone in the country will think his transition has been the best EVAH!!! Who cares if Iran gets nukes and while we scrap our missile shield, look at the presidents pecs and watch his kids pick out their new dog!!!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:41 pm #
oh. I would agree LC but don’t underestimate how vested Baracky’s media is in his dirty socialist success. And Harry and Nancy and Rahm haven’t even begun to rig the game yet and vigorously expand the dependent aggrieved non-taxpaying loser class. We are in so much trouble you really can’t quantify it.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:41 pm #
I wonder if a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv can be labeled a “distraction”?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 1:42 pm #
See, it’s oddly reminiscent of early 2000, when lots of people forgot that Clinton wasn’t president anymore.
I’m not sure how that happens, really. It’s not as if the media ignored the change.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:43 pm #
Yes. I think Mr. Pink has it right. We’re not in oh I guess you better learn tasty low-cost meals to feed your family trouble, we’re in omg what the hell happened to our little country trouble.
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 1:45 pm #
zOMG did you hear, Michael Phelps might have sampled the Wacky Tobaccy!!11!!! FILM AT 11. Afterward, the nation holds its breath as the Obamas select a new dog. A panel of experts weighs in on the process.
(in other news, Iran and NK took another major step in destabilizing world affairs, despite the massive coverage of the Obama Inauguration two weeks ago indicating that both “hope” and “change” had arrived)
The vaunted Fourth Estate.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 1:47 pm #
hf, why does Obama hate teh pimps?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:47 pm #
Competition, Dan.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 1:53 pm #
I console myself by thinking of how this would be portrayed if McCain had won but then had a massive heart attack. If that had happened and Palin had appointed 4 tax cheats, gave herself around 20 exemptions to her own ethics rules, and appointed as her Secretary of State someone whose husband recieved huge donations from Middle Eastern countries with ties to terrorism, her replacement Governor in Alaska is on video tape discussing selling a Senate seat appointment with her Chief of Staff, if all that had happened this would all be shaking out the same way. I mean in no way would that be reported as reflecting on her intelligence, character, or integrity. No freakin way. They would all be f@cking “distractions” from Palin’s Herculean task of helping our economy I am telling you.
Comment by nikkolai on 2/3 @ 1:54 pm #
Maybe Obama can send that little shit friend of his (Ayers) over to talk to Iran. They seem similar in their likes/dislikes.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/3 @ 1:55 pm #
But hey, Pink, he doesn’t sweat. He’s cool like that.
Comment by JHoward on 2/3 @ 1:56 pm #
Except for the vetting bar. That bar we kinda set not the highest that any administration in the country has ever set.
Comment by DarthRove on 2/3 @ 2:01 pm #
Can we get Hans Brix to write an angry letter?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:01 pm #
Oh, show me the way to the next vetting bar!
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 2:03 pm #
So, what? We’re supposed to give kudos for “setting the bar” and then ignore when they fall woefully short of any previous bar in recent memory?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 2:04 pm #
“The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set.â€Â
Baracky’s own woman got paid off with a doubled salary when he got elected Senator. These are not people who set the bar very high. These are people who believe America has no right to be any less corrupt than any other country. Anything else would be exceptionalism. And we can’t have that.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:06 pm #
Realpolitik! It’s what’s for dinner.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:06 pm #
The idealism of my realism is the realism of my idealism. Dig?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 2:07 pm #
Well, The One Lightworker has replaced “Hail to the Chief” with piano renditions of “Desert Rose” by Sting.
Maybe that’ll give him some cred with the Mullahs.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:08 pm #
Just so’s it’s not Midnight at the Oasis.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/3 @ 2:08 pm #
The vetting bar has a passing resemblance to happy hour, I think.
Comment by nikkolai on 2/3 @ 2:08 pm #
The bar was set “Chicago-high”.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 2/3 @ 2:09 pm #
I hope THE ONE is better at picking out puppies than he is selecting cabinet members. If not, I foresee dog crap on the Oval Office carpet, and bite marks on the staff.
Come to think of it, I foresee the same thing even if they don’t get a dog at all.
Comment by nikkolai on 2/3 @ 2:09 pm #
This stuff is getting hard for even cultists like thor and actus to defend.
Comment by Mr. Bingley on 2/3 @ 2:11 pm #
I’m just a-feared of how high the bar gets placed up our collective colon.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:11 pm #
We must be like the people who came to this goshforsaken wilderness and struggled with might and main and their blood and the sweat of their brows and the awful mosquitoes and miasms in uncomfortable footwear to use those rustic whatchamacallems for like digging and plowing and stuff . . . for us!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 2:12 pm #
Shannen Doughertys?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 2:13 pm #
But, remember above all else, Sarah Palin was vastly unqualified to be Vice President.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 2:13 pm #
*Dohertys* I mean
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:13 pm #
That’s it, hf.
Comment by mojo on 2/3 @ 2:14 pm #
“John’s book will tell all”
What, did somebody start giving a shit?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 2:14 pm #
Personally, I’m just glad it wasn’t “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/3 @ 2:14 pm #
Oh yes, Techie, and she smelled too. Thor said so… and said so … and said so … and said so … and …
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/3 @ 2:15 pm #
I think John’s book is going to be “I’m sorry and will never do it again” 200 times per page over 300 pages.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/3 @ 2:17 pm #
“Comment by happyfeet on 2/3 @ 1:38 pm #
Bush got out of the gate much better than Baracky is doing. Baracky is fucking up all over the place. It’s a circus.”
And President Bush faced the reactionary Democrat obstructionism at the beginning of his first term.
Comment by libocrat on 2/3 @ 2:18 pm #
Can we send inspectors into Iran to check on things??
Anyone?
Beuhler?
Comment by Techie on 2/3 @ 2:24 pm #
Still waiting on paralphie to drop by and deliver some sort of poll number that makes everything magically better.
Comment by BJTexs on 2/3 @ 2:29 pm #
alphie is out trying to catch TEH BUNNIES!!!
Comment by ushie on 2/3 @ 2:41 pm #
It’s all ok, you guys! My co-irker had her radio on to the news and the announcer said that Barack is really pleased that he has more time to spend with his daughters now, so don’t worry! All is well!
Comment by Joe on 2/3 @ 2:44 pm #
There is an awful lot of brown “goodness” flowing from those stables–let’s be green and compost it!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 2/3 @ 2:46 pm #
Kinda OT but I found this very funny. I hope noone linked to it on here before because that would make me feel really stupid. Some one on here probably already did.
http://rightisbest.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-said-in-post-last-week-that-i-felt.html
Comment by Turboguy! on 2/3 @ 3:32 pm #
Hey Dan, if P.Bo didn’t get them out in the open, who would???
I mean, there’s literally millions in unpaid taxes right there they could be stimulating something-or-other with.
If you or I played that game and got $150,000 behind. I do think we’d be spending some quality time in Nasty Nate’s Playpen.
Comment by Carin on 2/3 @ 4:45 pm #
Not to make this about me, but that picture kinda looks like my house before we shut the water off.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 2/3 @ 5:14 pm #
I am now going to attempt a reversal of the cause/effect relationship previously possible only to root vegetables:
Obama chose those guys because they had problems with their taxes.
TA DAAAAAAHHHHH!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/3 @ 5:54 pm #
Hercules should have thanked his gods that there was no EPA when he went on his labors. Killing the Hydar? Endangered species. Clearing the Augean Stables? Clean Water Act.
Demi-god or no, he would have been up to his eyebrows in forms and hearings.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/3 @ 6:00 pm #
#62: N. O’Brain:
And Bush had all of the transition problems due to the court cases. He didn’t get any assist there until the USSC finally came out with a decision.
And when he did?
‘He’s putting arsenic in our water!’
‘China is testing him hard over that Ares aircraft incident!’
Never had a honeymoon period of any type or length. And he never complained.
Comment by thor on 2/4 @ 5:40 am #
Why would Bush need to complain when he had millions of retarded pussies complaining for him.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/4 @ 8:07 am #
Now Obama? Two weeks into the job and his press secretary is whining about Fox News while President Obama gets into a snit about Rush Limbuagh.
Really thin-skinned and touchy this President Obama. I think he isn’t going to like the rest of his term that much.