Obama and Wasserman Schultz, along with a good portion of the mainstream press, may want to keep silent on Hoffa Jr’s taxpayer funded assault on the American taxpayer, but that doesn’t mean Sister Sarah will:
To the same degree Americans are concerned about irresponsible, greedy corporate execs who got cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts, we should also be concerned about greedy union bosses who are willing to tank our economy just to protect their own power. As union history shows, power and greed corrupt. Just because you claim to represent union members doesn’t mean you are on the side of the angels. The greed of too many of these union bosses has all but destroyed the labor movement in this country, helped chase away our jobs, and is killing the American dream.
To see where this leads, look at what’s happening to the working class in our industrialized cities. These cities are going to hell in a hand basket thanks to corruption, crony capitalism, and the union bosses’ greed. The union bosses derive their power from your union dues and their promise to deliver your votes to whichever politician they’re in bed with. They get their power from you, and yet their actions ultimately hurt you. They’re chasing American industry offshore by making outrageous, economically illogical demands that they know will never work. And now that they’ve chased jobs out of union states, they’re trying to chase them out of right-to-work states like South Carolina, so eventually the jobs will leave America altogether. But these union bosses will still figure out a way to keep their gig, and so will their politically aligned corporate friends. As long as these big corporations have a good crony capitalist in the White House, they can rely on DC to bail them out until the whole system goes bankrupt, which, I am afraid, is not very far off. When big government, big business, and big union bosses collude together, they get government to maximize their own interests against those of the rest of the country.
So, now these union bosses are desperately trying to cast the grassroots Tea Party Movement as being “against the workingman.” How outrageously wrong this unapologetic Jim Hoffa is, for the people’s movement is the real movement for working class men and women. It’s rooted in real solidarity, and not special interests and corporate kickbacks. It represents the needed reform that will empower workers and job creators. We stand with the little guy against the corruption and influence peddling of those who collude to grease the wheels of government power.
This collusion is at the heart of Obama’s economic vision for America. In practice it is socialism for the very rich and the very poor, but a brutal form of capitalism for the rest of us. It is socialism for the very poor who are reduced to a degrading perpetual dependence on a near-bankrupt centralized government to provide their every need, while at the same time robbing them of that which brings fulfillment and success – the life-affirming pride that comes from taking responsibility for your own destiny and building a better life through self-initiative and work ethic. And Obama’s vision is socialism via crony capitalism for the very rich who continue to get bailouts, debt-ridden “stimulus” funds, and special favors that allow them to waive off or help draft the burdensome regulations that act as a boot on the neck to small business owners who don’t have the same friends in high places. And where does this collusion leave working class Americans and the small business owners who create 70% of the jobs in this country? Out in the cold. It’s you and your children who are left paying for the cronyism of Obama and our permanent political class in DC.
Ask yourself if the folks you heard demonize concerned, independent Americans yesterday really speak for the working class when they’re all too happy to burden your families with the bill to bail out the President’s friends on Wall Street.
We should not forget that for all his lofty rhetoric, President Obama is a Chicago politician. Graft, cronyism, and quid pro quo are the well-known methods of an infamous Chicago political machine, of which Barack Obama emerged. This corruption isn’t just the result of a few bad apples. It’s the nature of a skewed system that’s typical of one not allowing a level playing field. If one desires opportunity for all, then the only solution is sudden and relentless reform. I know of what I speak. I too served in public office in a state that had a corruption problem. The difference is that I fought the corrupt political machine. Barack Obama used the machine in his state to advance. He never challenged it. And he’s evidently brought the same Chicago “pay-to-play” practices to the White House.
[…]
[…] The grassroots, independent Tea Party Movement articulates a real alternative rooted in free men and free markets, not the cronyism of Barack Obama and the permanent political class in DC. Their cronyism is why we have no job growth, massive unsustainable debt, and a housing market in the tank. Too many politicians are simply addressing the economic symptoms instead of fighting the underlying disease. The path forward is through reform. […]
In the meantime, good union brothers and sisters, don’t let Hoffa tell you what to do. He doesn’t represent the real interests of working men and women. He’s not doing you any favors. He’s just living off your paychecks.
That the President and the leader of the DNC have both pointedly refused to distance themselves from Hoffa’s remarks is about as clear an indication of where they have positioned themselves, vis-a-vis organized labor leadership and the American people, as any explicit platform or speech ever could.
We are a country in the midst of a civil war. It’s just that some of us haven’t yet realized it.
Getting mugged by reality, however, tends to concentrate the mind. And I predict that moment is near.
Jon Stewart told me Sarah was dumb and had tits, so there’s no way she wrote this. She’s bad for hiring a spoooky spoooky ghostwriter, the dumb tit-having chillbilly.
we had ‘downstairs’ xmas-where u’d get socks and stuff and magic underpants..
then we had ‘upstairs’ xmas where u’d get the expensive stuff-ccm supertacks-but u had to chill and let them wake up but as u were trying on ur magic underpants u was thinking about what groovy presents await u
upstairs..
If Sarah did actually save Christmas her detractors would just say that means she’s a cartoon character. But then I guess that would put me square in her identity group.
The comeback from Media Matters and Eric Boehlert is “FOX News LIED!, Civility DIED! The Kind and Gentle and oh-so-sweet Mr. Hoffa (lost his daddy UNEXPECTEDLY, you know) (Jimmy owns BUNNIES!) really meant to say VOTE them out not TAKE them out but BreitbartFauxNewsBOOOOSH! edited the tape!”.
I think she’s writing this stuff herself, and at most has an editor who goes through and fixes minor mistakes. The writing is, frankly, amateurish, which fits with what I would expect of someone who doesn’t write much.
On my probability scale, I give it about a 65% chance she’s writing it.
hoffa disagrees with media matters
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No, Jimmy. You declared an Authorization to Use Thuggish Force.
Not the same thing at all.
“On my probability scale, I give it about a 65% chance she’s writing it.”
Now that’s PROFESSIONAL writing!
the cocktail party declares
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“Let’s take these son of a bitches out”
all i want for christmas is my
two front teeth
Whatever, SVT.
[…] run run rudolph sarah save christmas save save christmas! That both the President and the leader of the DNC have both pointedly refused to distance themselves from Hoffa’s remarks is about as clear an indication of where they have positioned themselves, vis-a-vis organized labor leadership and the American people, as any explicit platform or speech ever could. […]
Add a “cum-slut” or two,and a “whoring celebrity-whore, what likes to whore” and Paul Gigot reads just like happyfeet.
i used to put rocks in my snowballs
for the tragectory and snowball fights were really cool
and i bet sarah puts rocks in her snowballs
cuz she got swagger
Glad Gigot was able to take time off from stoking the furnace of the Huntsman Bullet Train to comment on Palin.
For her part, Palin seems to have been busy dressing down Obama and Hoffa Jr.
Compare and contrast.
The evidence that Sarah is thin-skinned about the media? She won’t let them on her bus!
if sarah palin did juggling stuff
she could drop balls willy-nilly
and u’d be staring at her tits
you betcha
she got my vote
cats hate christmas u put up a tree w/ baubles and stuff and them kittys just cant get along! they resist they much!and they got silver things in their poo..
i forget the word but cats and xmas trees-wtf?what is that silver stuff?
do not think of bjork
tinsel! whoo hoo!
Ha, I had literally forgotten about Paul Gigot… Oh, and “Huntsman Bullet Train” – gold.
Climb aboard the Huntsman jackwagon! Good seats still remain!
Is Gigot aware that the election is over a year away? Someone should tell him.
The other thing is, had Palin done what Gigot suggests she should have, today he’d be saying she could have been a contender if only she hadn’t left office after a single term under a cloud of suspicion and a taint of scandal, dogged the way she was by never ending ethics complaints and investigations. Unfortunate really, what with all the promise she once showed.
And, honest broker that he is, I’m sure Gigot would hasten to add how completely unprecedented was the illegitimate lawfare campaign to destroy her reputation and drive her from public life!
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The election is a year away, Pablo. The Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary are not.
Yeah, Jeff, but the dressing down was so amateurish.
Power and greed corrupt. We should be just as concerned about greedy and irresponsible union bosses willing to tank our economy to protect their power as we are about greedy and irresponsible corporate execs getting cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts. As union history shows, just claiming to represent union members doesn’t mean that you are on the side of the angels. The greed of too many of these union bosses has all but destroyed the labor movement in this country, helped to chase our jobs overseas, and even now threatens to kill the American dream.
It wouldn’t hurt Palin to embrace the blue pencil.
Warming up for the long run to come.
“It wouldn’t hurt Palin to embrace the blue pencil.”
oh probably but sometimes you got strike while the news cycle is hot
Shooting fish in a barrel, this is for Sister Sarah. I guess coming from a gal that could drop a Moose downwind at about 300 yds, then proceed to gut it and debone the backstrap, it is a contest of unevens.
I’d like to see fat fuck Hoffa attempt to take out Sarah. Really would.
Yes. But you want to strike soundly.
Wasserman Scultz has been doing a decent job of hiding something with the aid of the media.
Click the link and see if you can guess what it is:
http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/05/is-new-dnc-chief-deb-wasserman-schultz-lying-or-just-dumb/debbie-wasserman-schulz/
For some reason, Alec, that picture puts me in mind of that scene early in The Godfather where Sonny’s wife is measuring … er, something … with her hands.
And Mitt Romney is one who is still in the dark.
Handed a question on a platter in S.C. yesterday, a question meant to provide an opening to an answer to clarify the usurpation by the Supreme Court of the Constitutionally intended limit on the powers of that Court, Romney chose to avoid the obvious and only solution, because it would spark a “crisis” in the structure of separation of powers, he said (fuck, Mitt, that’s the point, you dullard). Oh no, says Mitt, let’s hope we put more self-restrained members (dicks?) on the Court. We don’t want the political branches retrieving the powers belonging to the people from the
tyrantsgreat NINE bench sitters, he says. That would be upsetting!What was interesting? Mitt was the lone outlier.
Ernst, I’ve seen the error of my ways on the Palin piece, and you are wrong. It was epic, of the highest caliber, and certainly not deserving in the slightest of the editor’s pencil.
when i think of trains i think of artemus gordon and
the train was probably not a train cuz hollywood lies
umm/ then i think of ross martin and that columbo episode
about art and stuff where pete falk had gloves and then i think about
perry masons secratery[ barbara hale][and then i think about mannix
and then i land on protien wisdom!ha- u read this! bjork!
What do you think of the fate of Marc Savard Mike? Me, I think it’s kind of shitty, for everybody.
Yes, but she’s either announced and she’s in them, or she’s not. That “support the GOP nominee” thing is a ways off and we’ll know her intentions well before that.
It’s all so hilarious. I mean, they’ve got their multi-million dollar union retreat hideaways where they go and plot and plane. fighting for the working man. LOL. They’re merely fighting for their union dues.
“Deep thinking” must be self-ironizing.
“What was interesting? Mitt was the lone outlier.”
jen the rube luvs that mittens response
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Quite a number of them aren’t going, they went, decades ago (Philly, Camden, Trenton, Newark, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh . . . the list goes on), providing an object lesson for those which remained, an object lesson which was promptly ignored and is still being ignored. Lots of people don’t like learning, is the meta-lesson.
the althouse kept digging anyways
Wickard is the law of the land, and there’s years of precedent now attached to it. Deal with it. And if we’re told that we have the “right” to abort, but don’t have the right not to buy a product we don’t want, well, then, them’s the breaks.
That’s being a grown-up.
Or, to put it another way, being a grown up is never having to tell someone else they got it fucking wrong, and we’re going to fix it.
Kick. The. Can. Mitt.
Everything the Supreme Court says is law, not to be questioned. Why else would they be called “Supreme?”
the scars of a failed guv remind us she’ll choke I can’t help thinking Sarah could’ve had it all
mark savard is a sad story-
xmas story!- we had stockings and in my stocking was orange mittens?
so i got em on and i am confused- they are mittens [orange]
like- so hunters don’t shoot ya..
and they got a slot where u can put ur finger out [trigger finger!]
i don’t know this shit- i’m ignorant..
so- we play hockey and go on a trip
to nova scotia and the ‘place’
or whatever was the rink.. but it was a curling rink!
so [i/m cute-or i was]
we was watching curling stuff and horny stuff happened and i had an orange mitt
and i fingered her!
prof george’s questions were the interesting part of that debate yesterday. the newt had an interesting response
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the island of misfit toys want to way in
we have the best dentists!
The best dentists are yet to come. They’ll know how to induce new chiclets to grow themselves.
flo- she don’t know
the boy she loves is a romeo
2012 mayan dentists have wicked hot assitants
spit!
That’s attractive.
morrie said to me
“stop spending tuesday with me
he’s funny-that morry
i’m gonna open a restaraunt and name a sandwich after him
The Daily Caller front page headline on this story is Palin “Bitch” Slaps Hoffa. It’s got a ring, but why the scare quotes? If you are going to go with the gangster vernacular, I say go for it: we know Hoffa is the “bitch” in the prison/hooker sense of the term. And would be in real life too if not for the Chicago Team.
it could be read: palin bitch – slaps hoffa
palin would do the monty python big fish slap
you wore out a brand new trunk
packing and un-packing your junk
can i sit on ur lap?
With one of those big halibut you have to kill with a shotgun.
i want touchdowns!
many touchdowns for christmas
if u not touchdown me i hate hate u
red fat freak guy..perv
i ..u are smelly
u probably are the mayor of smelltown
fart in ur general direction
that dude from stratsford probably got a good come back
i’m at my wits end
Great stuff.
I do wish good union people wouldn’t say brother and sister though. It’s creepy.
(Yeah, I know for this is persuasive writing and such terms are useful. Just a pet peeve of mine. Reminds me of a “federal family”, to be honest.)
Yeah, I know this is persuasive writing, that should be.
(Fellow amateur that I am, btw, I didn’t think cranky’s comment was out of line in the least. Anymore than it would be insulting to anyone to say that I think Jeff or Lethem writes more better than ninety-nine out of one hundred politicians.)
I heart parentheses.
tea party zombies must die
I know (I believe) where you’re going, bridesmaid etc., but even that doesn’t seem to work. It was a reception [where it is common to have some celebrity entertaining], and it was in another, closed off area of a public restaurant, so no crashing and especially not of a wedding. Plus this is New Hampshire where during this time, politicians are all over doing meet and greet. Finally, are we to take it that one particular person is to never set foot in any public area for fear of being noticed and talked too?
Pshaw.
the althouse almost designed that post to get palin traffic. she’s been studying allahpundit.
Seems to answer the question.
If she read the article she linked, why then still go ahead and ask it? Seems fairly obvious to me. Nr has it.
kinda amusing to see that the snowhoochie causes such folks to make up shit to get traffic. because the grizzly lady gets you traffic for some unknown reason.
so why do people think Palin is dicking around this why doesn’t she shit or get off the pot?
It does nothing to mitigate her reputation for indulging in senseless drama I’ll tell you that.
i’ll never forget cary grant trying to hide kate hepburns bum i think bringing up baby
then i seen the philadelphia story and that lil girl was obnoxious
then i seen the front page and i love america
i am in touch with my emotions- i cry at the end
of it’s a wonderful life
and wizard of oz..? is that america?
h/t RSM
“It does nothing to mitigate her reputation for indulging in senseless drama I’ll tell you that.”
oh boo hoo for the obots and the cock
tailofsatan partydear sarah santa..umm.. i want stuff that does not hurt people stuff
i want to hug a planet! with u! super sarah dishwasher!
run to the store u super sarah run bot
buy me smokes-old golds, king size-not the big ones and colt 45 malt liqour
and a breakfast sandwich…
run sarah run..
don’t forget napkins
It should matter to us whether or not a reputation is earned or accrued through false repetition.
Would I like her to declare her intentions? Absolutely. I’m not a big fan of this game that politicians play. Has nothing to do with this bit of nonsense though. Did she make any conscious choice to create senseless drama here? Absolutely not. No, that would be Althouse in this instance.
just put on that pink floydy song where the go “run..run..run..”
and i don’t have any acid but i just licked the carpet
I talked to some independent voters over the holiday and they don’t get why anyone pays attention to Sarah Palin. They don’t understand why she’s a thing.
I couldn’t help them
I hesitate to get into the fray bh, but there are many other issues often elided in any simplistic discussion of the timing of an announcement of a run for office, and this may especially the case with a run for the presidency: legal issues, staffing issues, planning issues and on and on. I only note, Pawlenty, whatever we may think of him as a politician or proposed leader, is gone from the race before it has even begun in earnest. So was he wise to have jumped in as early as he did? Seems to me the drama with Palin, if there is any at all, is dreamed up in the lame skulls of people who know next to nothing about it.
“I couldn’t help them”
glad you didn’t try
She read the article. She wants you to “think deeper.”
dear sarah
my sister is sick and coughs alot, could u make her stop?
my brother is 6’4 and he gives me a 99 point lead, game to 100-\and i only got left handed lay-ups but my bro- bro just laughs and spikes the ball
off my fore-head and… could u please sarah give me a jump shot?..thanks i have 4 more problems but if u take care of these i’d be happyfeet [jump shot!}
I hear what you’re saying there, sdferr, but I’m not talking about the actual decision making. It is always smart to take your time with important decisions.
I’m talking about this Hamlet game that politicians and talking heads play with one another. Will they or won’t they? Let’s parse these various statements and see what it all means. And the politicians actively encourage it because it keeps their names in the headlines. Just as Palin is doing now. Make a decision, take your time, then let us know. The pantomime is what annoys, not what is actually happening with the protagonist backstage.
Palin drama is cause she’s a self-evidently unpresidential twat prancing around like she thinks she’s the second coming of George Washington and it’s weird
And now she wants to be a populist twat and move into Huckabee’s niche.
Ick. But she has a twisted need for people to think of her as special – not like the others.
Well sugartits don’t you worry about that. Run you dumb cunt. Just do it.
“think deeper” means reading the text malevolently
You’re creating senseless drama with #84, ‘feets.
this is how real people talk about her in the real world as far as I can tell – the blogs pretend she’s something way way more special than she is
but in real life she’ll have her ass handed to her quicker than you can say moose farts
dear sarah could u dig up fat elvis and breath some life in him and star in a movie and stuff and do a twisty dance?
cuz i would totally vote for you!
“And now she wants to be a populist twat and move into Huckabee’s niche.”
oh yea she’s the snowhoochie with a big gov’t heart. that don’t work with her facebook post today.
Think deeper?
I’m still working on “imagine greater.”
“the blogs pretend she’s something way way more special than she is”
nah the grizzly womyn just day by day keeps stating her classical lib bona fides. don’t worry the mittens has a 89.054 step plan on day 1 dontcha know
i want to live in happyfeets real world!
how do i gets there? i’ve followed followed followed
the yellow brick road…nothing
i think i need flying monkeys..
or some cocaine
Happyfeet drama is cause he’s a self-evidently unintellectual cartoon character prancing around like he thinks he’s the second coming of pdbuttons and it’s weird
I guess I’m not clear what the pantomime is then, at least in the potential case where no decision has actually been made. If bystander people want (those are their desires) to assume they know what they do not know then I suppose they can pretend they are seeing meanings they supply communicated in gestures. If, on the other hand, a pol says, I haven’t decided but will decide by some date certain, seems to me people may as well do themselves a service and wait to find out, even on the yes no 50 – 50 odds. ‘Course, admittedly, waiting to find out is an easy thing to do if one isn’t invested one way or the other.
A view from one person.
bystander people speak of Palin as a reality tv Us/InStyle/OK!Mag celbritart – not as a serious politician
except on the blogs … it’s getting to be a really really stark dichotomy – and there’s no other “politician” you can compare her to. Cause she really isn’t widely perceived as a for reals one anymore.
hanging out watching the competition has it’s advantages. the snowhoochie probably will gain some insight into the field watching yesterdays debate and tomorrows. besides if the mbm is demanding something you should do the opposite.
‘feets has a case of the Palinticipation (without doing any at all ‘deeper thinking’). Here, let me twist the knife a bit…you know that even if she isn’t the top-slot nominee, she will be the top VP consideration? because she is the Queen of Hearts.
You would know happyfeet. How people think of Palin isn’t my bailiwick.
don’t make this about me Mr. McGehee I implore you… I am giving voice to Teh People what are not often consulted in these online discussions about sweet sarah sunshine
“Run you dumb cunt. Just do it.”
I concluded some time back Palin was not going to run for president. I came to the conclusion by forming an opinion on her character(which is the opposite of HF’s apparent opinion).
She may take a VP slot again(depending on the candidate, again, character), but I think she sees herself as a TEA party person with a knack for upsetting the MSM. And she loves hunting bullshit stories.
I do know Mr. sdferr I shyly ask at least one person a week what they think of Perry and Palin and Romney… I don’t usually ask about Obama cause you can usually infer
You may know happyfeet. Then again, you may not.
The pantomime is Palin in Iowa, sdferr. Taking the bus tours. Doing the things candidates do. (And, really, only candidates do these things. This isn’t how your average citizen spends their summer. You didn’t, I didn’t. No one else here did.)
So, declare. Or, don’t and say that you’re barn-storming like a one woman tea party made of dynamite and awesome. That’s cool with me, too.
I maybe don’t know but still I fancy that I do
dear sarah
i want a dog that talks
i want a blue cat
i want to skate like bobby orr
i want to drive a really fast ice cream truck
that’s about it..
oh- a jump shot
“So, declare”
when is the tricky detail no? the hill buzz thinks 9/17 constitution day.
“Doing the things that candidates do” just strikes me as potentially too narrow or conventional a view of the possibilities of politics I guess. Most of us, it’s true, don’t bother to explore the nearly infinite ways in which we can seize our powers as members of our own sovereign status as US citizens, but it occurs to me that it is just possible something else is going on here that doesn’t have to be spelled out in speech just because it is going on, but gets spelled out only in the unfolding of political action in the public space (to take an Arendtian view of the matter).
we just need her to run for so we can test our hypotheses
chop chop lady
Oh, and New Hampshire as well. She’s encouraging speculation and it’s quite easy to separate this activity from pondering the pros and cons of a run.
Either she’s running without declaring or she’s taking flack from the press to protect the other candidates. Either is fine with me. Problem is, people who could support her or another candidate are fighting with one another across the internet. This is problematic. As we see with those trying to keep her out of the race and those trying to knock off her opponents to clear the field.
“So, declare. Or, don’t and say that you’re barn-storming like a one woman tea party made of dynamite and awesome”
She is free too. I imagine Palin laughing at people making demands on her.
“we just need her to run for so we can test our hypotheses”
or caribou steaks is the zeitgeist
The problem I have with her parading around the country without announcing is that every moment away from Alaska decreases the odds of her being eaten by a bear.
dear missus palin in tough town usa
i just read [reed? ]a romance novel and father pappy is acting crazy like tea party crazy and i think he wants to snip my clit
so-can [may] i run for pezdent in ur usa country?thank you much very
There are nearly infinite ways to do this. To essentially campaign in Iowa and then New Hampshire reduces that set from nearly infinite to the greatly smaller [things presidential candidates do].
(I’m making the strong form of an argument here that I really only mean in the weak form. I’d be more than happy if she decided to run in the next month. I’d also be more than happy if she rather selflessly functioned as a world class flak-catcher during these early days. But, she’s doing one of those things.)
“This is problematic.”
to whom? not me because my back up is romney’s 91.023 things to do one day 1.
well that last polar bear floated out to sea on the last iceberg yesterday. so there’s that.
This potential voter doesn’t make demands, Lee. They ask a question of someone who might want to represent them.
Should I not ask this question?
The voting universe isn’t entirely composed of those who hate her. I’m here, too. I’d like to know if she’s running. I might want to vote for her. Is that so crazy?
Sarah Palin uses up a lot of the annoyed eye-rolling energy people could be directing at Romney.
Yes, I guess it’s a problem, though one I would lay at the feet of those who choose to busy themselves fighting, rather than at the feet of Palin’s own actions. But again, this is easy for me to do, since I don’t really have any investment one way or the other, outside merely observing which can hardly be an investment at all.
Does she advance good political ideas for America or does she advance bad political ideas, or a mix of both? These, more than personality questions or questions of candidacy are where I’ll focus. And how better, in some sense, to advance critical political ideas, whether she should be a candidate or not, than to take advantage of the media and public attention on the early primary states?
sarah is one great dresser
i like them lil waist-coats
leather..black..red
who cares- we’re done
[i don’t like her high screech voice]\2-maybe 3 chick voices
sally kellerman/kathleen turner/laura ingram
just saying
Does she advance good political ideas for America or does she advance bad political ideas, or a mix of both?
today she discovered that unions suck ass
previous discoveries are include oil is a good thing to drill for and we’re spending too much money
nr, you and I have different ideas about internal cohesion.
“Should I not ask this question?”
She’s been asked plenty.
I don’t get why people think she owes it to the world to reveal her plans.
“today she discovered that unions suck ass”
nah she was in madison wi in april taking on the baracky and his goons.
Hmmmph. New York and California…neither state has any say at all in this election, as both are permanently LeftLibProgg-controlled holes of hell.
or i need grammar check. or cohesion in my idiocy.
I’m from texas I just happen to live in California
for the nonce
hf, who among the current “top tier” candidates is introducing people to Codevilla’s thesis on the current state of American politics, other than Palin? No-one that I can see. But is Codevilla’s thesis the sort of idea that ought to be presented to American voters wholesale? Seems to me it is. So that’s good, I think. But no one among the rest of the bunch could bring this thesis forward with any credibility, could they? I don’t see it anyhow.
romney update: 97.287 new ideas day 1 eliminating any dept. not one of them.
Let’s get something straight.
I wouldn’t work for her. She would work for me.
Imagine saying this about another job candidate in the real world. Why should this future employee owe it to me as her future employer to tell me whether or not she’s interested in the job?
This is all backwards.
she remains the same lady who earnestly and ardently endorsed Meghan’s coward daddy and recently went to bat for one Orrin Hatch
Yep, she sure isn’t perfect.
“I wouldn’t work for her. She would work for me.”
that’s a given. more like: do you want more duct tape and caulking or do you want the plumbing ripped out and installed correctly?
“she remains the same lady who earnestly and ardently endorsed Meghan’s coward daddy and recently went to bat for one Orrin Hatch”
i miss mike castle in the senate too!
I just find the tension between her actions and her exploitation of Mr. Codevilla’s thesis difficult to reconcile in a way that speaks to her being a person of integrity
as opposed to an opportunist
Her definition of ‘the job’, bh, might not include the Presidency. At this junct-ure.
I for one enjoy her feints within feints. Keeps her enemies on guard and annoyed, especially the Republican ones.
Now I’m’a gonna go watch Season of the Witch.
And just smile… )
Hmmmph. New York and California…neither state has any say at all in this election, as both are permanently LeftLibProgg-controlled holes of hell.
True. Not sure what the point is though. Should you not express a preference for a particular brand of toothpaste because so many people in Tennessee don’t take to the stuff?
hi! sarah over here! hi..
hi- my name is mike and i’m a reporter for faggy glee musical high school..and all
the dapper kids want to really know is
if u and michelle bockman had a crazzy jello fight…
what charity would u auction off the..liquid?
after the lights go…down?
You’ll have to spell out the tensions you see happyfeet, cause as far as actual governing actions went, I don’t see what you evidently see.
“to reconcile in a way that speaks to her being a person of integrity”
like algore jock strap supporter rick perry?
“Why should this future employee owe it to me as her future employer to tell me whether or not she’s interested in the job?”
If you want to hire someone, you give them a date the job offer is good for.
I don’t see the president job’s due date as expired yet.
A quality person may have several offers to consider. As an employer, you are better off enticing the candidate, not pressuring them to decide.
the quitting her governorship for to be a cable tv star was a big one
That’s not true, so, try again.
It was really terrible, serr8d.
Oh, sorry, spoiler alert.
rick perry has a ten year record Mr. newrouter you can take it or leave it
I think he’s obnoxiously social con to a degree where I have to question his intelligence, but his record is one I can live with seeing extrapolated to the national level
Plus, Mr. Perry has a dong.
speaking of Mr. Perry’s dong he also did us the favor of sparing Texas and America from having to endure four years of the feckless Kay Bailey Hutchison as governor
You know who else has gone to bat for Hatch? Mark Levin.
Seems to think Hatch knows that it’s time to move to the right — that that’s what his constituency wants out of him.
“rick perry has a ten year record Mr. newrouter you can take it or leave it”
perry hates sage brush and houses no?
— and no offense to anyone here, but I’m pretty sold on Levin’s staunchness — just as I’m sold on Palin’s willingness to take on entrenched old boy networks and beat them into submission, enacting meaningful reform.
yes Levin is tolerably staunch
Okay, I understand what you’re saying there.
I don’t have that ability. She doesn’t know I exist. I can’t exert any pressure.
Of course, I’m being pressured. At a state level people are getting their arms twisted. I’m holding out for someone who won’t even say they want the job. That won’t last forever.
“yes Levin is tolerably staunch”
that bolton been teasing where’s the OUTRAGE about teasing or grey mustaches?
“At a state level people are getting their arms twisted. ”
by whom or who i forget?
I’ll vote for Perry. My whole life I’ll never vote for Romney.
If Palin got the nomination I would vote for her, but I find the whole idea preposterous and fanciful.
if the baracky is a scoamf why the need to rush with a newer version. who benefits.
By all the others, nr.
I’m in a hurry I want to get the ball rolling on kicking bumblefuck’s useless dirty socialist ass out of our little white house and putting someone in there what will start fixing stuff and what won’t be weird
I trust Mr. Perry to do that cause of he’s been a tolerably good little governor for ten years and Texas still don’t have a goddamn income tax, and there were a couple moments in there where that looked touch and go.
“My whole life I’ll never vote for Romney.”
but mr. romney has 98.96577 new ideas on day 1. he’s here, he’s a “technocratic official for the administrative state”, get used to it!
14 months.
that’s less time than it takes to make a little baby elephant
I would vote for her, but I find the whole idea preposterous and fanciful.
But then one must wonder why your protestations are riddled with dopey psychoanalysis, juvenile hyperbole and speculatory thoughtvomit. At least I just say I’m thoroughly unimpressed by her and leave it open for my mind to be changed by her, and her alone.
no one must not wonder you can just ask
and I will tell you it’s cause of that’s just how I roll
Hey, let’s take the son of a bitches out for some hopeandchange sweet icedtea and give ’em iced habanero soup instead, then stand back and laugh as their mouths turn to blast furnaces and they gasp for water.
be quiet mr mittens is updating his 98.678 ideas on greta
the rovester is on deck i’m sure
jonah got along in the belly of the whale
daniel in the lions den
and that banjo picker in deliverance he seemed happy
‘m voting..twice ross perot!
it’s just so wrong that it ever got o this point – we need to start from the point of view that these obama motherfuckers are weird and aberrant and I just don’t think Sarah can pull that off as well as some others
*to* this point I mean
oh noes the bolton says no on greta!!11!! grecian formula stocks are down
third parties are gayer than putin on a pogo stick
“I just don’t think Sarah can pull that off as well as some others”
huntsman 2012
“putin on a pogo stick” with a helmet
I’ll vote for Perry. I’m impressed that he flew home to oversee the emergency operations in Texas. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the fires don’t head toward either of my brothers houses. Bambi is still deverting funds to the blue states and hasn’t said a peep about Texas.
chads,chips,cud..
these all sound like something ryan oneal would name his kids
tatum,tater,tot,
fuck it-i’m writing in palin..
[of course-she got some freaky name kids]
trig,track,tire,tombstone,tele-tub,touchdown jesus,and the retarted kid
Texas is in a world of hurt I’m going back in November and I already started cutting california spendings so I can spend spend spend when I’m there – probably do all my christmas shopping and such… maybe buy a neato while I’m there cause I’m pretty sure I need one
retarded[sp]
OT: potentially very good news for parched-assed Texas:
Fingers crossed.
Then there’s the other news on that map.
my sister and what will be her new god-help-us husband might drive out in December so I can do some meaningful shopping and they can just bring whatever I get back… so if they do and if I can I’m a get a case of this which is a nothing fancy but perfectly fine cab they make in texas and you can usually find at HEB or at least you used to could
*sigh* Tis the season for such activity. I’m glad we didn’t get walloped with any tornadoes this summer. The big oak in the yard got struck by lightening two years in a row, so maybe we’ll catch a break.
mr. rsm on palin trolling
Link
the good news is that the new god-help-us husband is responding well to his new mood-stabilizers
Okay, Asia was acting crazy so I had to spend a bit of time there. I’m not fisking this, just breaking it down into chunks my mind can digest.
1) Does she advance good political ideas for America or does she advance bad political ideas, or a mix of both?
Mix of both, of course, but extremely weighted towards the good. Out of all of them, I’m probably most closely aligned with Palin and her independent, post-VP thoughts.
2) These, more than personality questions or questions of candidacy are where I’ll focus.
Is trustworthiness a personality issue? If it is, that’s the other half of my Palin support. I feel as though anyone can beat Obama (which is a question of candidacy, I suppose) and so I’m now considering whether or not these people would implement the policies they’re promoting on the campaign trail.
3) And how better, in some sense, to advance critical political ideas, whether she should be a candidate or not, than to take advantage of the media and public attention on the early primary states?
This is where I still balk. That media and public attention does nothing to promote these ideas. I don’t like the circus. Never have.
The resulting discourse is horseshit.
Is he from Arkansas, ‘feets? He may be related to my loony SIL.
whenever i think
of texas i think of eric dickerson when i lived in san diego
and the san diego super chargers got him and he was awesome but he went
thru a nasty divorce and he flattened or cut all of her
tires so i think-texas-flat tires
Wait, what’s a neato?
Mr. bh it’s the new robot vacuum – I almost got one last month but fry’s only had refurbs and then my friend P got one – and it’s very very awesome – it’s at about $400 right now
but anyway it’s the (long-awaited) market response to the roomba what picks up the ball where they dropped it
Absolutely it is, at least when it comes to declared candidacies. So in consequence we’d all be better off paying attention on those grounds.
As to your answer to three, I can’t disagree about the media, by and large anyhow, whereas I think of public attention in a more amorphous way, permitting the possible promotion of the ideas — in potentia, so to speak. I don’t disagree about the circus appearance of so much of our political discourse though. It is abhorrent, without question. Our problem then, is to figure out how to change that.
no young, old, idiot rethuglicans are hewing the party line. the tea party wants a fundamental transformation of the progressive demonrat/rethuglican rule.
I need one of those. Probably three because of the stairs.
neato is a french painter who picked his nose alot
We could adopt newrouter’s style!
Don’t worry, we have it on the very bestest authority and reported in that font of all that is wise, fair, and knowledgeable that “Sarah Palin’s window is closed“
We shall see Mr. and Mrs. non-aligned “permanent political class” folks.
leigh he started out in michigan shooting deer to feed his family which mostly disappeared – the wife died the kids went into the system – and then he went to florida where he met my sister and now he plays guitar and smokes weed in my old bedroom except for now it has parquet instead of carpet but anyway next year for christmas I’m getting both little brudder and my sister neatos – mostly cause my sister is an animal rescue person and she has an insane amount of dogs, so I figure it will be a thoughtful gift, and so, being a thoughtful gift, I need to give it to my little soon-to-be-union-teacher-whore brudder too
then the son of the guy resurfaced in afghanistan and got blowed up with some cbs correspondent who almost lost a leg or whatever so I sent him a crazy-expensive care package to his stateside hospital somewheres in north texas with lots of cool snacks and four cartons of his brand of smokes and some tasty jack – cause of he had sacrificed so much for america and all – and he never said thank you and then he moved in with my sister and stoled some silver and they had to get the police to remove him and then the VA found him a place to live in this unshaded dump across town but he doesn’t have a car … I’m not sure I’m ever gonna know how his story ends up but I’ll ask his dad over Christmas
That looks neato. And hey, people laughed at me all those many moons ago when I bought Mr. Foreman’s Lean Mean Grilling Machine off of the Teevee, and then months later the New York Times itself said it was awesome and I became cool. This can happen to you too.
-he used to pick his bum bum
and pass out a bunch
he used to sign his paintings with a forehead stick cuz his hands were busy
he married 2 super-models
he was neato
Some people just never learn any manners, ‘feets. I mean, smokes are crazy expensive in CA and you shipped them to him. He could at least say “thanks.”
Neato is found in the smiles of children and the sparkle of dew-drops in the morning sun. Neato lives in the crash of the surf, the glorious purple-orange sunset, and in every wagging puppy-dog tail. Neato is all around us, yet we cannot touch it, for it also dwells deep within our hearts.
It can also be found in pdb’s avatar’s tits, in surprisingly large quantities.
“We could adopt newrouter’s style!”
that way be the cliff
neato has no dna and it’s like a liscence to kill
but neato is no bond he wants a relationship\and neato often
takes midnight walks and he got
frank sinartra on his neato headphones and when the chairman sings
“regrets-i’ve had a few..”
neato crys…
right? but mostly I took it as a lesson in how I’m just a naive person and there’s absolutely no sign of that changing so it’s very important that I steer clear of people what might would take advantage of a pikachu
thank you mr. buttons that one I might print out and tape to Mr. neato when he gets here
“that I steer clear of people what might would take advantage of a pikachu”
that’s evil right there.
From comments at the RSM linky…
There’s a stink of truth to that, except for his use of that term, the never-innate quality ‘wisdom’. I recall attempting to school the young nishi-brat-child that, despite her having been fortunate enough to have intelligence that puts her in the upper-ethereal percentiles of the intelligence Bell curve, her wisdom, ‘measured’ on an entirely separate non-euclidean scale, hadn’t caught up. And she’s (still) not old enough to have the wisdom it takes to realize that always-startling truth.
“Either she’s running without declaring or she’s taking flack from the press to protect the other candidates.”
bh,
What is overlooked is that in her current role she is free to play offense with no fear of reprisal. Obama has to take everything she throws at him cus he’s done if he tries to spar with her. She’s on a mission and she knows which way is down range so I say…
Keep Firing Sister!!!
I’ve seen better. But for a Tuesday night rained-in flick, I could’ve done worse.
We dropped from nearly 100 degrees last Friday to a high of 66 Monday. Talk about flipping a switch, it’s freakin’ fall already.
And on all of our enemies, which are, politically speaking of course, legion.
neato is a sumerian joke
neato is the ice cream flavor that dares not speak it’s name[ cone or dish?]
oh-behave!
neato egged nero on
neato tells tales of his kamakazie pilot days
if i was a matchmaker
i’d introduce neato and bjork
“Michael J. Fox has no neato in him.
And neato is in Joan Rivers, but it’s trying to get out, man, it’s trying to get out.”
neato laughs at refrigerator magnets..
neato loves canadian rock music
neato pees sitting down
neato is a prankster
neato takes his jury duty serious
those are just family pictures of his brother “Mag”.
I’ve thought about this a bit and you might be right. Nationally.
At a state level? There are a slate of candidates that I want supported. Wait too long and Tommy Thompson is your next member of the gang of whatever.
Palin could bigfoot the hell out of that nonsense. So… run, Sarah, save Christmas.
I hate commas.
(Still love parentheses. Oh yeah!)
neato looks at refrigerator and sees a schedule
neato has no ‘ to do list’
neato takes naps
neato has the best pillow!
neato has lil wooden tees in golf
on his second shot cuz neato likes ball in air
neato don’t putt-u win
neato likes paula creamer
neato is tired
Sarah Palin is driving the conversation more and more toward classical liberalism/Constitutionally limited government.
Every time it looks like a candidate has moved to stake out a position that is close to that of Sarah Palin, Palin moves the goalposts.
While I would prefer Palin run for president, Palin is definitely having an effect on the conversation of the candidates.
what’s different is a bride jumping out of self centerist mode to want a pic with a caribou killer. peta unhappy
neato laughs at refrigerator magnets..
neato loves canadian rock music
neato pees sitting down
neato is a prankster
neato takes his jury duty serious
What would be a neato prank? De-alphabetizing someone’s spice rack?
Criminy cripes, these stooges just can’t quit shooting themselves. They want to pretend to “strengthen our middle class” by assuming that middle class can’t tell hogwash when they see it.
You’re a creative son of a bitch, pd.
@220 thinking bizarrely
sanfrannan lost her vibrator or the gay guys took it
hey hot dog king
by replying to neato u’ve been pranked..carry on
neato love hot dogs
neato only uses odd numbers on microwave
when neato meets dogs he gets all
submissive and turns his belly up and dogs love neato
cuz they just do
does rick perry show up at the reagan site tomorrow?
ms. sarah doing some cleaning: bachmann,cain,santorum
coulter “fat idiot” via allahrino what fun finding the clowns
Link
neato don’t care about tomorrow
neato thinks the smart beatle was ringo
neato wrote yesterday for paul cute dude
neato wrote intro to gimme shelter
neato has a wierd relationship with bo diddly
cuz he’s dead
graveyard dead
coulter “fat idiot” via allahrino what fun finding the clowns
I don’t have any idea what you wrote, but the cited passage makes a lot of sense. Palintologists have shown themselves to be a big welcome center in Hollywood shy of being a wacky cult.
Historical perspective.
with a helmet
Stroking his CLIO.
Neato is Elvis?
Jesus Christ! I picked a helluva night to come down with a headcold.
Here’s my metaphorical take (not that it matters anymore):
The GOP candidates are like the bride: they want all attention in the room on them.
Simply by being present, Sarah Palin diverts that attention, sucks all the oxygen out of the room, as they say.
She diminishes them, and serious, deep thinkers life Althouse resent it, because it’s upsetting to see the game played differently than the political establishment would have it played.
Thank you Ernst and I pray you are better or get better soon.
You’re welcome.
And it’s amazing what half a bottle of Ny-Quil and an 7 pm bedtime will do for you!
She’s friends with Bill Maher and backs Chris Christie.
Seems she’s got her own bit of baggage to deal with.
Don’t want to have to deal with the “establishment/RINO/sellout/’Beltway cocktail party’ nonsense”? Stop acting like one.
Yep. Getting facetime on cable news shows is the upside to all the “hate mail,” and Coulter has certainly put up with hate mail aplenty over the years — but she can’t very well earn a dollar without getting asked onto the cable news shows.
Seems she’s [Coulter] got her own bit of baggage to deal with.
Nobody’s perfect.
Beware the Bill Maher’s dick touchers.
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