Or, “how a state school snowbilly presumes to take Congress to task — as if she has the requisite education and pedigree to dare do so! — for the culture of self-servitude and corruption that is driving Americans of all political stripes to question just how we came to have a permanently entrenched political ruling class in what is supposed to be a representative republic.” Sarah Palin, WSJ:
Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Throw Them All Out,” reveals this permanent political class in all its arrogant glory. (Full disclosure: Mr. Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign-policy adviser.)
Mr. Schweizer answers the questions so many of us have asked. I addressed this in a speech in Iowa last Labor Day weekend. How do politicians who arrive in Washington, D.C. as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires? How do they miraculously accumulate wealth at a rate faster than the rest of us? How do politicians’ stock portfolios outperform even the best hedge-fund managers’? I answered the question in that speech: Politicians derive power from the authority of their office and their access to our tax dollars, and they use that power to enrich and shield themselves.
The money-making opportunities for politicians are myriad, and Mr. Schweizer details the most lucrative methods: accepting sweetheart gifts of IPO stock from companies seeking to influence legislation, practicing insider trading with nonpublic government information, earmarking projects that benefit personal real estate holdings, and even subtly extorting campaign donations through the threat of legislation unfavorable to an industry. The list goes on and on, and it’s sickening.
Astonishingly, none of this is technically illegal, at least not for Congress. Members of Congress exempt themselves from the laws they apply to the rest of us. That includes laws that protect whistleblowers (nothing prevents members of Congress from retaliating against staffers who shine light on corruption) and Freedom of Information Act requests (it’s easier to get classified documents from the CIA than from a congressional office).
The corruption isn’t confined to one political party or just a few bad apples. It’s an endemic problem encompassing leadership on both sides of the aisle. It’s an entire system of public servants feathering their own nests.
[…]
The moment you threaten to strip politicians of their legal graft, they’ll moan that they can’t govern effectively without it. Perhaps they’ll gravitate toward reform, but often their idea of reform is to limit the right of “We the people” to exercise our freedom of speech in the political process.
I’ve learned from local, state and national political experience that the only solution to entrenched corruption is sudden and relentless reform. Sudden because our permanent political class is adept at changing the subject to divert the public’s attention—and we can no longer afford to be indifferent to this system of graft when our country is going bankrupt. Reform must be relentless because fighting corruption is like a game of whack-a-mole. You knock it down in one area only to see it pop up in another.
What are the solutions? We need reform that provides real transparency. Congress should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act like everyone else. We need more detailed financial disclosure reports, and members should submit reports much more often than once a year. All stock transactions above $5,000 should be disclosed within five days.
We need equality under the law. From now on, laws that apply to the private sector must apply to Congress, including whistleblower, conflict-of-interest and insider-trading laws. Trading on nonpublic government information should be illegal both for those who pass on the information and those who trade on it. (This should close the loophole of the blind trusts that aren’t really blind because they’re managed by family members or friends.)
No more sweetheart land deals with campaign contributors. No gifts of IPO shares. No trading of stocks related to committee assignments. No earmarks where the congressman receives a direct benefit. No accepting campaign contributions while Congress is in session. No lobbyists as family members, and no transitioning into a lobbying career after leaving office. No more revolving door, ever.
This call for real reform must transcend political parties. The grass-roots movements of the right and the left should embrace this. The tea party’s mission has always been opposition to waste and crony capitalism, and the Occupy protesters must realize that Washington politicians have been “Occupying Wall Street” long before anyone pitched a tent in Zuccotti Park.
Boy. I sure am glad we were able to successfully smear this silly bint out of an opportunity at higher office.
Otherwise, how would we have cleared the way for Mitt as our status quo standard bearer going forward?
GO TEAM!
(thanks to TerryH)
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update: Bill Quick reacts:
I look at the political landscape, and all I feel is depression. The basic analysis has to be that, despite cosmetic differences, the left and the right at all levels of politics and governance in the United States are, first and foremost, members of a ruling class, and regard maintaining their perks, privileges, powers, and status in that ruling class as being of primary importance to them. The only thing members can always agree on is defending themselves and each other from assaults on the ruling class.
This is a recipe for tyranny, corruption, and fiscal collapse, all of which we see in full play in these dangerous and degraded times. Given this bacchanalia of oppression and malfeasance is our current politican landscape, depression is a sensible, nay, required response. And my gut feeling is that the situation is not fixable within normal parameters.
Still, what cannot go on, won’t. At some point, the center will no longer hold. That’s when all hell lets out for breakfast, and snowbilly bints will enter the ruling class redoubts through the rubble of their front doors.
God, we can only hope.
Volunteer legislators, term limited, with the lobby outlawed and all laws subject to sunset. For starters.
Naw. From the wizened perspective of 2011, that’s much too harsh.
A Tebow post followed by a Palin post?? The happyrage meter will be pegged red for the whole weekend.
Damn, I’m fairly up on government, but I didn’t know those cock suckers insulated themselves like that. Well said, Mrs. Palin. Well, well said.
Don’t worry, the Media will be savaging Mittens too just as soon as he is the nominee.
Well said by Mrs. Palin.
OTOH, you can tell the Clinton Crew is out and the Chicago Boys are in, simply by the stunning nonchalance with which they do their thing. The Clintons mostly hid the nasty parts away, or at least tried. This bunch doesn’t seem to give a damn, the true hallmark of the Chicago Way.
I wouldn’t give the Clinton Crew that much credit, mojo. They’re the ones (at least, it was Gore) who introduced the world to the phrase “no controlling legal authority”.
It’s sickening isn’t it? They destroy the candidates that are good for the people and prop up the candidates that will keep the ruling class safe.
And the media participates in this. It boggles the mind.
The best solution is the simplest one: term limits.
Limit the House to two two-year terms, and the Senate to a single six-year term.
On top of that, add in a provision that candidates for any national office may not have held elected office or a government job for a period of time equal to the term length prior to the election. Put simply, if someone wanted to run for the House in 2012, they may not have held elected office or a government job since 2010; for the Senate, since 2006.
Forcing candidates to spend time in the “real world” would do them – and us – a world of good.
I don’t know which is worse: a government run by rank amateur everymans, or a government run by skilled professional grifters.
I’m thinking that whatever criminals lack it’s not experience in the real world.
Ask New Hampshire and about nine other states who pay only a stipend to their part timers.
The hiding the Clintons did was from the general public and only possible because the internet had not taken off for most people yet. If you were online and looked they had nothing hidden. It just never made it to the MSM in a major way.
One thing Obama learned from the Clinton terms is to do everything you can the first two years no matter what the cost as that will be your main chance.
Term limits only transfers more power and control to the unelected reshuffled staffers and permanent bureaucrats. We already have a part-time Congress as far as work days go we just pay them full-time for it.
Better to make it impossible for them to exempt themselves from rules we have to follow and bring as much light to the dark crevices of their dealing as possible. The best solution is to dial back the size of the Federal behemoth.
There are only a few things really better done at the Federal level. Concentrate them on those and watch, watch, watch the buggers.
[…] For two election cycles now it has been Rubin’s role to attack the GOP nominating field’s most conservative candidates in order to clear the field for a nomination of the least conservative candidates — which is perfectly in keeping with the wishes of the GOP establishment (the reasons for which I’ll let you all consider). […]
Unfortunately true, but I don’t know of a better way of removing the permanent incumbents from office.
One idea I have been kicking around lately is eliminating the elected Senate entirely and replacing it with the 50 Governors acting as the Senate body. And as JHo noted above, all legislation and regulation should sunset after a period of years.
Oh, and, Run Sarah Run!!!!
I’d rather just repeal the 17th Amendment and return the Senate to selection by the legislature of the States. If a State wants to do popular election, fine. If a State wants to do a lottery drawing, fine. The HoR is the people’s house, and the Senate is supposed to be the State’s representatives in Congress.
“The best solution is the simplest one: term limits.”
I disagree. That just means the good ones go with the bad, and the voter loses the choice.
Palin covered what needs be done: Laws that apply to the private sector must apply to Congress. Congress should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act like everyone else. More detailed financial disclosure reports, and members should submit reports much more often than once a year. No more sweetheart land deals with campaign contributors. No gifts of IPO shares. No trading of stocks related to committee assignments. No earmarks where the congressman receives a direct benefit. No accepting campaign contributions while Congress is in session. No lobbyists as family members, and no transitioning into a lobbying career after leaving office.
This.
OT to an extent.
Interactive debt graph.
Darth, I doubt either idea is likely to happen. The beauty of replacing the the senators with the governors is threefold. One, the Governors would be directly focused on their states interests, two, they would be otherwise occupied most of the time and three, 100 less politicians screwing with us.
There’s a divide-by-zero error there.
You may recall Dennis Miller recently jumped off the Cain Train, as he thought that video made it to easy for the opposition to “dust off the Palin playbook.”
That video is not what makes it easy for the opposition; what makes it easy for the opposition is “our side” being a bunch of fucking pussies. We allow the progs to
rapesavage the people who represent our ideals with the dismissal thatthey weren’t marriage material anywaythey aren’t electable.And I haven’t even read the Rubin piece yet today.
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Yikes!
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The stories collectively known as “The Reluctant King” had a workable suggestion.
This is a fantastic piece by Palin. The specific reform suggestions strike me as smart and passable as well.
I would also like to add my thanks to the pragmatic Republicans who helped ensure that this snowbilly would not pursue the presidency. We really dodged a bullet!
“I’d rather just repeal the 17th Amendment and return the Senate to selection by the legislature of the States. If a State wants to do popular election, fine. If a State wants to do a lottery drawing, fine.”
How about “The one who didn’t run away fast enough”?
@28
Crawford, I think it best to stay as far away from head lopping as possible. Before you know it you have a mob and there is no telling whose head they will be calling for next.
nothing prevents members of Congress from retaliating against staffers who shine light on corruption
Whoa. I figured they valued The Loyalty Of The Closed Mouth over just about anything, but I didn’t know it was codified, too.
The best solution is to dial back the size of the Federal behemoth.
“Dial back” is a bit too tame for my taste. How about “tear out root and branch”? The only way to get rid of the ants is to sweep up the sugar.
Don’t worry, the Media will be savaging Mittens too just as soon as he is the nominee.
They’re keeping some really foul powder dry, and a lot of it will involve his Mormonism. Coulter is right that one of their worst(best) lines of attack is that
It won’t matter that Joseph Smith never taught this (Brigham Young did), or that he ordained several black men to the priesthood and taught even before the Civil War that the lowly state of the black man owed to his circumstance and not to his nature, or that the “curse of Cain” meme was common in 1800s America (which is where BY got it), or that all us Mormons were taught that “in the last days” the Africans would get the priesthood, so when the announcement came in 1978, I was totally jazzed because I thought, at 14, that The Second Coming was right around the corner, or that a lot of folk doctrines emerged to explain the practice of not ordaining Africans but that none were official or that few other churches in America treated Africans as fully equal.
None of it will matter. The wicked traditions of our American fathers (slavery and Jim Crow) will continue to curse us well into the future because of the wicked practices of some of the living, who prey on the decency of the rest of us to make us dance, dance, dance to their fell tune.
“Joseph Smith? said blacks had the curse of Cain on them”
i don’t see the hermanator as a curse.
I feel bad for her she coulda been president if people hadn’t been so mean.
ng told me there was a good place nearby for exotic beans and i tried the beans and they were exotic which is surprising given how ng is usually such a stupid cunting shithole of a whore what would lay down and let jesus fuck her between the tits if that’s what the rapture callled for that you wouldn’t especially rush to trust her on exotic beans.
how is that a nice thing to say?
i like lentils but sometimes they make me angry because they aren’t as flavorful without first having some indian jizz curry all over them and some of them dont like indians jizzing curry on them and that presents a conundrum because I like flavorful ones.
i don’t see the hermanator as a curse.
Good point, but anachronism has a tendency to bite one in the anatomy.
anyhoo Mr. jeff the point is that for someone who’s cashed in on public office like few others it’s silly to listen to sweet sarah sunshine lecture us about ethics
the government/media revolving door is every bit as pernicious as insider stock tradings I think
and most of the the right used to agree with that
hey did I tell you about the israeli lentil chockit bar I found?
it’s sorta like a nestle crunch bar but not as crunchy and with lentils instead of rice and though it looks like a bar you actually get individually colorfully-wrapped sticks
perfect for sharing!
point is that for someone who’s cashed in on public office like few others it’s silly to listen to sweet sarah sunshine lecture us about ethics
Dude. She broke up the game of footsie between the Alaska GOP and Big Oil. Imposed strict ethics regs on the AK congress. She did LOTS to bust up the Good Old Boys Club there. That’s why they hate her.
the government/media revolving door is every bit as pernicious as insider stock tradings I think
Talking about her reality show? Really? That’s equivalent to cashing in on IPOs?
With the media, you still have to get ratings. With IPOs and sweetheart deals, you just have to have your hand on a power lever.
first of all, and not to be dismissive, but who gives a flippy flip about the game of footsie between the Alaska GOP and Big Oil – small potatoes if ever there were
as long as they drill the oil I’m not really all that concerned with how the tasty oil sausage is made up there in eskimoland
but also I suspect she dented corruption in that state not a whit
this is the Alaska GOP what is still sending the eminently corrupt Don Young to DC as well as gifting us with deviant slut Lisa Murkowski
but good for her I guess
secondly no I wasn’t talking about the reality thingy so much as her Fox News perch
thirdly of all I ask you this: what did the idea about the “government/media revolving door” mean when it had meaning?
Thirdly? I didn’t know that was on the our list.
Generally that revolving door is an issue because of the symbiotic relationship between the regulated and the regulated. You know, regulatory capture.
If she was sitting on some Fox News regulatory committee, carved out some exemptions for them, and then went to work for them, then, yeah, that’s a problem. But, that’s not the case here.
She didn’t cash in on public office by bilking tax payers and getting sweetheart deals. Someone so staunch should be able to tell the difference.
Typo, I didn’t know that was on our list.
Also, regulator and regulated.
Brain lesion.
chop chop
There are only about 600,000 people in Alaska. Each and every person who lives there, infant to oldster gets a giant kick-back every year from the state. There is something that makes the world go *tilt* that citzens of a state should get monies for just parking themselves in the state.
Before anyone launches into “oil is a resource and its revenues belong to the people!”, I’ll add that I likewise like in a oil, natural gas and windfarm state and don’t get a nickel out of it. Nor should I. I don’t work for Kerr-McGee or Phillips Petrolium or Kaiser, either.
Mr. bh I think what happens is that already-blurry lines between the media and government get blurreder when people cycle to and fro, and I think the perniciousness is that the journalist whore class becomes incestuously palsy with the governing class
Mr. Jeff she got a sweetheart deal to beat the band I think. She’s validated the idea of political office as but a stepping stone to wealth and fame.
And that is a great sadness.
“She’s validated the idea of political office as but a stepping stone to wealth and fame.”
just ask billy + hillary clinton, georgestephapolisisis, algore, rahm emanual….
yes it is endemic
But this would be a poor example of that then, wouldn’t it? No one thinks that the media likes Palin and no one thinks that Palin is a giant fan of either the media or the governing class. This produces some contrast, reduces the blur.
With someone like a Huckabee or just about any Dem on MSNBC I’d cede the point. But Palin would be a counterexample.
But, how was this done? The normal way that actually represents the bulk of our current structural problem? As in Pelosi or Chris Dodd? Where they take over everything, pick winners, and then are rewarded by those winners for clearing out the competition?
Or, has her wealth and fame post-politics come from people wanting to hear what she has to say as they freely choose her amongst many other different competing voices?
I think here you’re blurring some boundaries.
How is she a counterexample? She feathered her own nest by trading in her elected office for a perch at Fox News. And we have no way whatsoever of knowing when those conversations began. And worse, Palin openly used her perch to position herself for a run for the presidency. Remember how you felt when she trashed Perry as a crony capitalist?
These arrangements, they are inherently unkosher, unlike my tasty lentil chockit bar.
She’s a counterexample based on the criteria you put forth.
But, how was this done? The normal way that actually represents the bulk of our current structural problem?
No not the normal way Sarah Palin actually allowed herself to be bought out of her elected office in the middle of her term.
That is very very very unusual to say the least, and not a little troubling.
“Palin openly used her perch to position herself for a run for the presidency.”
she could cook up a tasty perch no?
yum!
“No not the normal way Sarah Palin actually allowed herself to be bought out of her elected office in the middle of her term”
yea those ethics challenges had nothing to do with it. cauliflower now!
Okay, longer answer.
She didn’t trade her government job for a job at Fox News. She quit her gov job because of relentless lawfare. We don’t have any way of knowing when those convos began? That is remarkably weak. I also don’t have any way of knowing when you quit beating your turtle. Which leads us to the next point. No, I wasn’t a giant fan when she was using Perry as an example of crony capitalism partially because she was piggybacking off of Bachmann’s remarkably weak and at times absurd attack.
I will admit to being frustrated with her tossing out such strong charges without then joining the field. But, that’s not really the case anymore now? She’s out.
You have absolutely no evidence of this. None.
How can you even pretend to be annoyed at the shit thrown at Daniels or Perry? You’re down in the mud with the hacks when you say these things.
“yum!”
just donated $25 to santorum!
Yes she is out. But Fox News would never have let her stay in her sinecure if she hadn’t telegraphed her outness to them early in the game.
She sucked up a lot of oxygen I think by maintaining the self-serving pretense that she might run, and her Fox News gig greatly facilitated that. And I think her interminable non-candidacy encouraged her fanbois to develop enmities to other candidates who may have served us well.
God knows the ones we ended up with are a little underwhelming.
And that is a great sadness.
bh, if she’s out, why is her PAC still asking for donations? I know she’s out for this cycle, but does she have something else up her sleeve?
Honestly, to me, her fans are worse than Ron Paul’s or Ann Coulter’s ever were/are. You can’t suggest that maybe she should hire a voice coach without them freaking out and hurling the insults six ways to Sunday. It’s just all kinds of wrong. It’s a kind of zealotry.
You have absolutely no evidence of this. None.
Sarah is the only person I know what bailed on her elected office to cash in on sweet sweet Fox News monies. What she did is not normal. Had she not had the lure of sweet sweet Fox News monies might she not have buckled down and fulfilled her term?
I think it’s a very valid question.
“It’s a kind of zealotry.”
us small gov’t peeps are like that. #occupydc
“What she did is not normal. ”
yea the moosehunter should have taken out lysa murcowski and did some insider trading
I think there is something to the idea that her delay in signalling her decision helped solidify some negative opinions about her potential opponents beforehand. I would have liked a decision earlier on the same grounds. But, that’s all past now.
Yet, let’s not call Palin supporters names or consider the larger group to have the characteristics of only a few.
I liked Palin for the job. It didn’t queer me on other candidates and I don’t recall ever giving people supporting non-Palins shit.
nr, you can’t say that only people who support Mrs. Palin are for small government. Telling people who don’t think she is the greatest to go to Hell isn’t very conducive to helping get Obama the fuck out of office.
if you mean she should have run for Senate I agree
but she seems positively allergic to accountability anymore
once burned twice shy i suppose
Mr. bh I used the word fanboi to point to a very real phenomenon
By continuing to ignore the aggressive lawfare being waged against her, you’re continuing to find a dark, devious mystery where others find a rather obvious explanation.
I invite your withering scorns
I’m going to go to my garage to smoke a cigarette, drink a tripel, and see if I can’t find the battery charger for my rotary tool.
Here is a not new song that I’ve started listening to again.
So I’ll just speculate that the deal preceded the leaving, call it trading one for the other and pretend like I found a new fact.
the aggressive lawfare wasn’t nothing but a thang Mr. bh – and sarah bibbles was extraordinarily well-positioned to ride that out with the assistance of a defense fund – people have this idea that she was disallowed a defense fund – but no, after her first one didn’t pass muster she came right out with a new one what conformed to whatever bizarre Alaskan defense fund requirements there may be
And in doing so forged the hammer with which they smashed her Governorship. Because she wanted to work for Fox News, obviously.
“Telling people who don’t think she is the greatest to go to Hell isn’t very conducive to helping get Obama the fuck out of office.”
yes the perry, romney mitch daniels, chrischristie peeps are sweethearts.
Oh, I know where I was going with that: all of this, as happy helpfully added, “fanboi”-ism is contributing to the Balkinization of the party. It’s driving a wedge between people who should be working toward a common goal and not against each other. We have too many factions already: The Paulists, The Palinites, The Romneybots, The Cainiacs, et al. We need to learn to hurl our slings and arrows at the Dems, not each other.
You can bet your stars that they, regards of their secret feelings, will stand four-square behind Obama and each and every POS candidate the nominate in the future.
A PAC is not a presidential warchest, and Sarah’s has donated to quite a few candidates. I expect we’ll see more of that.
What happened to her in office is not normal and we’ve been through this a billionty times, so stop acting like a fucking nitwit who’s never heard it all before.
“after her first one didn’t pass muster she came right out with a new one what conformed to whatever bizarre Alaskan defense fund requirements there may be”
raising bucks for your legal defense fund sure sounds like governing. perch and hollandaise perhaps.
“We need to learn to hurl our slings and arrows at the Dems, not each other.”
well i ain’t doing the romney, and the newt does some good bs, give me to others or give me taco bell.
Mr. newrouter all you need these days is a “website” and maybe a few “google adwords” combined with a legion of zealous fanbois and bam your defense fund pretty much takes care of itself
That piece is dated 6/25/10. Palin resigned on 7/3/2009. For someone so knowledgeable of all things cumslut snowhoochie, you sure don’t seem to have a clue.
Sarah Palin Defense Fund Was Created Illegally, According To Ethics Probe
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“bam your defense fund pretty much takes care of itself”
you’ll test that when i report you to the la health dept for bad food choices. i send the lady with the big biceps to enforce it.
So, Pablo, is a PAC a sort of a slush fund to be used as seen fit by the recipient or are the donations directed? Say I sent $500 to SarahPAC or whatever it’s called, is the PAC then free to give it away to other candidates for other offices or is it kind of an escrow account?
That piece is dated 6/25/10.
the point is that she had no need to worry about her legal bills – there was never a question that she could have *a* defense fund – she just botched the first try so she had to wait and resolve that – what the dating of that article shows is that she was in the same legal position whether she fulfilled her term or not – her plan was always to knock out the legal bills with defense fund money
You could say that, but keep in mind that they’re usually not so directly identified with an individual. Other times…
“you sure don’t seem to have a clue.”
And you should know that Pablo.
I counsel you to not waste your breath. Perhaps read #36 again, and realize your time is better spent teaching your dog to cook dinner.
Also, Palin never had a fanboi like nishi had in happyfeet. And leigh is anxious to be happyfeets fanboi.
Back away from the circle jerk.
Yes there was. The complaint that generated that answer a year after she left office was that she couldn’t raise defense funds while in office. Which left her personally holding the bag.
You know what? I’m not doing this for the billion and first time.
You know, Lee, that sort of talk isn’t helpful.
Gotcha, Lee. Hey, what’s the opposite of a fanboi?
but wasn’t it ruled that she *could* have a fund while in office? – I thought the problem was something about the wording on the web page they put up – but either way – what’s the big deal in waiting til the end of your term to start your defense fund?
I think leigh’s note about the unhelpfulness of Mr. Bascom’s observations is spot-on
Oops, linkydoodle.
Sorry leigh, didn’t you latch on to happyfeets little coinage? Thought you liked it spread around.
Maybe lift your skirts next time, lest they get spattered.
Thant’s a really ugly thing to say, Lee. Run along and find someone else to pester.
that’s just more unhelpfulness Mr. lee… it simply does not meaningfully advance the discussion
“I think leigh’s note about the unhelpfulness of Mr. Bascom’s observations is spot-on”
And I think happyfeets observations about the unhelpfulness of Mrs. Palin are a giant, smelly, steaming pile of bullshit that keeps showing up on the lawn.
All one can do, it seems, is grimace and fling the shit back out.
beat them back halibut
“Thant’s a really ugly thing to say, Lee. Run along and find someone else to pester”
What’s ugly is flinging shit and expecting not to get any on your petty coat. You run along little girl, work on self improvement, and someday you will be fit to shine Palins shoes like a fanboi. Maybe.
who uses that much cocktail sauce anyway? Nobody.
I haven’t done any “shit-flinging” on this thread. You can go back and reread it outloud if that helps you any. My major concern is getting Obama out of office, not in shining anyone’s shoes.
HA! 35-38 were epic. First time I’ve smiled all week I think.
How many years is this now? Oy.
One more time.
Mr. serr8d I’m sorry you had such a morose week I hope this weekend is one in which the smiles they are without number for you
“You can go back and reread it outloud if that helps you any.”
“Honestly, to me, her fans are worse than Ron Paul’s or Ann Coulter’s ever were/are”
Nope, even out loud it reeks.
Yes! I found the charger. And a decent buzz.
That wasn’t aimed at you so much, Lee. That was aimed at me. And, guess what? He has a point.
We notice peoples’ transgressions in an inverse proportion to our agreement with them. Such it always has been and such it always will be. I’m as guilty as anyone.
“That wasn’t aimed at you so much, Lee. That was aimed at me. “
Then I need to try harder.
HAPPYFEET IS CHAZ!
That outta do it…
the gd moosehunter was in it for SALMON. evil like benneton or the daily show.
That video is titled “Chaz Bono Called Misogynist by Warren Beatty’s Transgendered Son”.
What? Wut? Huh?
Chaz Bono is the transgendered daughter cum son of pop icon Cher and her then-husband Sonny Bono, silly. He was on Dancing with the Stars just like our friend Bristol.
He’s famous!
yo leave sardines alone
“just like our friend Bristol.”
can you dance mr/ms hf? a tango at least with flair?
i can dance if I want to
I’d prefer all pop culture references revolve around Kim K. because I know who she is and I don’t mind occasionally shooting the shit about hot Armos or big asses.
Pretty sure this has been her secret all along.
Kimmy K blechh I’ve hated her ever since I bought her effing vanilla cupcake mix and you open it up and there’s some floury stuff in a bag and a piece of paper with a recipe for frosting on it
I felt so used
But she’s a hot Armo with a big ass (maybe too big, discuss!) and I know who she is.
No one ever promised this would lead to acceptable baked goods.
nope
but very soon I will have my new cupcakery right in my zone!
Miss Duchess is gonna coddle me in her wondermous cupcakey bosom and it’s going to be the start of something special
It’s funny you mention that. Another windsprint store just opened in my back yard. brb
that’s it you work up an appetite for Miss Duchess
“if she hadn’t telegraphed her outness to them early in the game.”
She telegraphed it to all of us if you were paying attention. I tried to tell you but you were too busy creating a strawman army stocked with a lifetime supply of red herring. It’d be nice if you spent a fraction of that energy on the defeating the enemy.
oh here Safety Dance – Men Without Hats Official Video
I’m a “fanboi”? “Palinite”? “Cainiac”?
Nah, I’m Otaku on Freedom with a not so minor obsession in the minutia of the history of the progressive left with the reason being, like Patton said of Rommel, “I read your book.”
I love Patton. He was the Sun Tzu of his time.
“He’s famous!”
The famous are the most likely to get their misogyny on anonymously Chaz.
There’s been a hundred commenters here that have spent countless hours here refuting your baseless assertions here Chaz. Only to have you pretend to not have noticed, and go on making the same weak assertions here.
Having a fanboi pretending Palins supporters are the ones obsessed when they defend her against your endless, baseless, assertions is a cute little twist, I’ll grant you, but I’m still done. You wanna assault Palins character around me, you better be prepared to defend your own, anonymous boy.
Er, Chaz…
for the most part I didn’t ever think she was running Mr. Danger… i suppose at moments I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt that she was seriously considering it… but she was just funning
Mr. Bascom surely you realize that the majority of Americans and even a majority of Team R didn’t want Sarah to run
they polled again and again – her negatives were daunting every time
Sarah listened to the people, and for that i supposed she should be applauded.
“She telegraphed it to all of us if you were paying attention”
Yep Danger, I said six months ago she wasn’t going to run this time.
Misogyny makes Chaz pathetic.
this year I read Vince Neil’s book and also Ann Coulter’s book
I’m a try and fit one more non-fiction in between now and end of year
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“they polled again and again –
herany Republicans negatives were daunting every time”Get a clue, ya poor ignorant fool.
I probably have the earliest “she’s not running” statement on record here.
The year was 1952…
No, really, I was early.
I straight up told people she wasn’t running. I was met with a chorus of “STFU!” “You don’t know that!” “Hater!” As well as a number of charming four letter words I won’t repeat here, and, lo, it came to pass that I was right. What thanks did I get? More abuse.
It’s lonely trying to keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
I also told nishi that comp imm reform would never ever happen early in Obama’s term.
And I called the last three times the Fed wouldn’t go QE3.
Bow before Zod, people of pw.
You don’t have to be a liberal to recognize that any time you take oil or coal or shale out of the ground, it’s going to have an adverse impact on the immediate environment
has he ever seen the desolate sod of Oklahoma I wonder or the forlorn mosquito-infested tundra of alaska
Drilling is a kindness in these places.
Will Dr. Pepper still be available come the Zombie Apocalypse Oh Zod? Or should we be stocking it in?
So, you are the Oracle. Kewl.
meanwhile protests rage in cairo
Kinda makes you wanna have lamb for dinner.
“You don’t have to be a liberal to recognize that any time you take oil or coal or shale out of the ground, it’s going to have an adverse impact on the immediate environment”
Bullshit. The word of the day: Reclamation. They strip the topsoil, get the good shit out of the ground, and put the topsoil back prettier than it was before. Maybe even leave a lake in place of the hole in the ground, for the the little critters to enjoy.
We will call it Nurse Salt but the flavor will remain the same, sdferr.
“I straight up told people she wasn’t running. I was met with a chorus of “STFU!” “You don’t know that!””
The same thing happened to me!
Only it was Chaz, er, happyfeet that mostly did the chorus.
i think the flashdance lady speaks ace. i like how she takes on the edu bureaucrats
it’s going to have a change
n adverse impacton the immediate environment”Mr. lee I don’t recall thinking Palin was running… at least not most of *this* year
I remember thinking she was stringing people along something awful, and I think I may have expressed that a time or two.
I probably have the earliest “she’s not running” statement on record here.
bh,
I think we should have geoffb (pw historian and nidan google master) confirm that;)
I remember thinking she was stringing people along something awful,
rick santorum to the rescue with spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
bh,
I think we should have geoffb (pw historian and nidan google master) confirm that;)
I was talking to ‘feets and I said something like “I teach people how to gamble for a living” if that helps.
Top section should have been blockquoted, probably.
my only prediction was if she ran she would not fare well to where she would lose and that would be that, as they say
Okay, 1-16-10. My earliest prediction:
Most folks’ first words are like momma or dadda or cat or dog. Mine were “she ain’t running”
y’all were both right
“my only prediction was if she ran she would not fare well to where she would lose”
You came off as afraid she would win.
Coulda just been all the “stupid, vapid, whore, snowbilly, cumslut, hootchie cunt” talk pouring out of your piehole that made think that though…
That is true, btw. I remember JD saying she wouldn’t run for as long as I remember it being a topic.
Then I went and bagged an elephant.
How did you find that so fast bh?
Advanced google search on pw and remembering that I said “gamble” “for a living”, Lee.
I never feared she would win for reals I think this is an extremely important election and Team R has to has to has to prevail. Even if wretched poncey Wall Street Romney is the nominee, which, I’m afraid it’s time to start getting used to that idea. Cause of Team R has fucked up this presidential cycle something shameful.
I guess the trick to it is to think of 2012 the same way the obamawhores started off thinking of 2008. That this is foremost a repudiation election.
I decided today that Gingrich is every bit as loathsome a whore as Wall Street Romney, and probably of even worse character. Plus his whore wife has no business ever being First Lady. At least Wall Street’s wife has a modicum of class.
But whatever I’m pretty sure I’ll vote for whatever piece of shit Team R hands me.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
I weep for what might have been.
More precisely, this: http://www.google.ca/search?q=bh+happyfeet+I+teach+people+how+to+gamble+for+a+living+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fproteinwisdom.com&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images
First result on the search.
Bow before Zod, people of pw.
“I weep for what might have been.”
rockford dirty money
I got an Adios, Mofo shirt wile I was in Austin where the first O is the obamawhore logo. I could tell the granola hoochie what sold it to me wasn’t happy but she was still gracious and chatty.
Texas is just a lot like that here in LA for sure I would have gotten some attitude.
it looks like this one
it’s spanish for goodbye, mother fucker
*motherfucker* I mean
Ah, well bh, when I said it(quite possibly before you even, alas, my search skills are weak), I wasn’t speaking of it in gambling terms.
Mine was a firm statement of conviction. ;-)
Occupational hazard, Lee. It’s always probabilities and gambling in my mind. ;-)
I’ll have a hard time voting for a RINO again. I’m not sure if I can do it or not.
I heard a rumor that Devin Nunes might run for Feinsteins seat though. If true, I would enthusiastically cast that vote.
Now that I’m using emoticons, here is Joe Flacco after he wins a game, |:)
(h/t to someone I don’t remember)
that’s why you have to start psyching yourself up for it now Mr. lee
I will have to google this Mr. Nunes
oh. he seems entirely suitable I think.
I think it may be too early to say team R fucked up this election cycle though. You know, since nobody has got to vote yet.
it’s a Bold Prediction
Oh yeah, I wanted to mention something but couldn’t remember what it was… I made a bunch of predictions that Obamacare wouldn’t pass.
I felt really good about that one.
that’s cause that Cosmo guy won Kennedy’s seat then they ass-raped it through with reconciliation, which might be how we get rid of it
Wall Street Romney hasn’t said yet how he plans to repeal his signature healthcare bill.
Stupid ass-rapings.
it sucks I tell you
“Wall Street Romney hasn’t said yet how he plans to repeal his signature healthcare bill.”
That’s why I think he’s the least electable candidate, including Palin, who isn’t even running.
The libs don’t trust Romney about Obamacare, and conservatives even less so.
Nobody wants the guy, except the pragmatic wish-washy types.
it’s just that once you juxtapose Wall Street Romney with president gigglefart I think WSR’s got a solid chance
Wall Street Romney’s biggest problem will be his out-of-touch Wall Streetness I think
but I still think he can win, cause for the first time in my lifetime, America is ashamed of herself
Wall Street Romney’s biggest *strength* will be his unrelenting stupefying weirdly overdone phony normalness
it’s what peeps is craving… normalcy
If nominated, by election day Romney will be a bigger freak than an Idaho beauty queen what bore her daughters retarded baby.
Letterman will make jokes, and SNL, Stewart, and Shep Smith will have everyone thinking the guy has 6 wives hid out in the four corners region and is a bigger racist than a Texas rock.
Count on it.
bh, I think you win on earliest. The next one I found was Joe on 9/13/10. But there are many ways to express that thought and life is too short.
Anyone wanting a trip down memory lane to the days right before the election of 2008 try this Obama trolled thread.
Also came across this from a Karl post back in the 2008 primaries.
Romney ran to the Obama side of McCain it seems now looking back at the GM bailout.
If I’m currently in the lead (at around 21 months ago, Zod fans), I think this is a very good time to stop playing.
oh. I forgot about the mormon thing. NPR has shown itself a lot willing to be particularly nasty about that.
Wall Street Romney will say absolutely fucking anything to be president I think Mr. geoff.
All we really know about him is he invented Obamacare and he sleeps just fine.
Because the really important thing here is to discuss who was the first to predict that Governor Palin wouldn’t run? Or whether she made any money on that reality show or from her commenting gig on Fox? (PS. NOT taxpayer funded.) God, but you are a
patheticstaunch bunch. No wonder you end up withpatheticstaunch candidates like Romney or Huntsman.open your heart i’ll make you love me it’s not that hard if you just turn the key
Go fuck yourself.
Howsabout that, Mr. Indiscriminate Shit Talker I Don’t Know From Adam?
We got all finished up with the important stuff hours ago betti, we’re just sittin’, drinkin’ and shooting the shit now.
Look fellas, more shit to shoot!
Oh, bh blew it away already.
Do you always have to be first buster!?
plus Huntsman can’t win no way… not with those freaky mustachioed daughters
I know you can’t blame someone for their genetics but yeesh that just give me the willies
Unfortunately, it can be a curse with the ladies, Lee.
(Seriously though, the first hundred or so comments on the topic weren’t enough for this pinch-faced joy-sucker? Could have chimed in then if they wanted. Guess I just missed those terribly insightful comments from betti.)
here this is wicked fucking cool
OK topical just before bedtime.
Night all.
Later, fellas.
I’m going to go reflect on my poor commenting habits for awhile and then go to sleep.
that’s really kinda weird they don’t print Mr. Paul’s actual number
Here ‘feets.
hmmm… thanks… Herman looks to be in really really good shape
I warned y’all about 200 or so comments back…
What bh said, BeetiBoop. Go fuck yourself.
Heh. Still getting a kick out of 35 – 38.
This thirty-five thru thirty-eight?
It’s been occupying your Wall Street for positively years.