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Were they racing each other to get on the surf board to float across? Was the dog chasing the cat and it was just a lucky accident? I love this gif.
Daily Archives: August 8, 2012
More so than ever before
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Your classy Republican Party
“There was a disappointment tonight. I was very embarrassed. I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly — he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, ‘Sir, here’s a place.’ And he said, ‘That’s a handicapped space.’ I said, ‘Oh I’m so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded.’” — Allegheny County, PA GOP chair Jim Roddey, at a Republican election night party, to a crowd who “hollered and clapped” at his “joke.”
I wonder if Sarah Palin would consider Roddey’s usage of the label “mentally retarded” as “ironic,” such as when Rush Limbaugh uses it. Or if intentionally insulting an Obama supporter by calling him “mentally retarded” would be considered a “slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable…” such as when a Democrat uses the term?
You never can tell how such insults / jokes (and potential calls for apologies) will go when it’s straight up GOP on GOP crime and incorrectness. There wouldn’t even be a moment’s consideration if a Republican used this term all the time if it wasn’t for Li’l Triggers mom — and maybe that’s the one, single good thing about her. But if I had to guess, I’d say it will be overlooked and ignored — after all, he is a very important Pennsylvania GOP chair and she’s a former half-term governor and one-season only reality tv star.
God, what a nest of snakes.
Who gets trapped in Drudge Bait?
The endless scheming of the Romney campaign attempting to move the conversation away from Mitt’s tax returns.
POLITICO: “CIA director David Petraeus is knocking down suggestions that he might agree to serve as the vice presidential runningmate for likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. “Director Petraeus feels very privileged to be able to continue to serve our country in his current position and, as he has stated clearly numerous times before, he will not seek elected office,” CIA spokesman Preston Golson said Tuesday. The flutter of interest in a possible pick of the retired Army general as VP was triggered by a post on the Drudge Report, a conservative website known to have close ties to members of the Romney high command.”
The New Tax Calculator: President Obama’s Plan vs. Mitt Romney’s
It’s no exaggeration that President Obama calls Romney’s tax plan Romney Hood, because it’s like Robin Hood in reverse — stealing from the middle class to give to the rich. Watch:
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Go to this link to compare your own income.
Republicans are the E. coli club
“…If you could depend on the government for one thing it was that you had to be able to trust the water that our kids drank and the food that they ate. But this is the E. coli club. They do not want to spend money to do that.” — Nancy Pelosi, addressing the Republicans’ small government ideology.
Pres. Obama: Romney’s tax proposals amount to ‘Robin Hood in reverse — it’s Romney Hood’
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Vanity Fair: President Obama’s new nickname for Romney will not eclipse the genius of Pleasantville extra Tim Pawlenty, but it’s pretty good. CNN reports: “Adding a new attack line on Monday to his stump speech, the president railed against rival Mitt Romney’s tax proposals, saying they amount to ‘Robin Hood in reverse. . . It’s Romney Hood,’ the president added to loud applause from 500 supporters in a Stamford, Connecticut ballroom.” “Romney Hood” sounds like the world’s whitest gated community.
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LOL Willard Romney
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If only there were some way for Mitt Romney to end the controversy over his tax returns!
“The whole controversy would end very quickly if he would just release his income tax returns just like everybody else [who] runs for president.” — Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
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Is it ‘possible’ that Mitt Romney paid zero income tax?
From a TPM reader: “…It’s entirely possible Romney paid zero income taxes, and possibly nominal capital gains taxes (i.e. less than 15 percent). In fact, since he wasn’t being paid income but presumably was liquidating his stake in Bain Capital, in the perspective of the IRS, he wasn’t earning any income — just selling assets (Bain management company back to his other partners).”
Meanwhile, Slippery Mitt told Fox “News” that Harry Reid has “lost a lot of credibility” because he won’t reveal his source.
Yes. Everyone is worried that Reid is losing credibility because he’s running for president… oh, wait.
Isn’t it ironic that John McCain isn’t calling Harry Reid a liar?
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Mitt Romney’s Awkwardly Beige Life: the 24/7 reality show begins
Huffington Post: “There comes a time for every presidential candidate at which his or her freedom of movement is severely restricted, once what is known as a “protective press pool” becomes part of their campaign. For Mitt Romney, that day came Monday. From now on, through Election Day on Nov. 6, a small group of reporters will travel with Romney wherever he goes. When he is not going anywhere, the reporters will gather in the morning wherever he is, and wait.”
Can you imagine having the job of reporting each detail, 24/7, of Romney’s Awkwardly Beige Life? This is where Mitt’s acting skills (or, if you like, programming) and his campaign’s staging, props, and writing staffs will be put to the test. Can they pull this off — can they make him appear humanoid?
@CharlesDharapak: SUPERMARKET: Mitt Romney pushes shopping cart at Hunter’s Shop and Save in Wolfeboro, NH via @AP t.co/c4Fh6kAC
Cont: Romney left the hardware store — where he bought “hardware stuff” — and went to the grocery store and then a Rite Aid, according to a subsequent report from the Post’s Phil Rucker:
Gov. Romney left Bradley’s Hardware at 8:54 a.m. with a beige bucket of goods. Asked what he bought, Romney told your pooler, “Hardware stuff.” Then, he said, “Going to the grocery store now,” and climbed into his Suburban.
At 8:57 a.m., Romney arrived at Hunters Shop ‘n Save, a nearby grocery store. Before entering the store, he stopped to get two ears of “native sweet corn” from an outside display. They were on sale for two for $1.00.
When your pool asked if he was cooking tonight, Romney said, “Absolutely.” At that, Romney grabbed a shopping cart and went inside the store. Your pool remained outside in the parking lot.
At 9:09 a.m., Romney exited the store with a shopping cart full of groceries. He loaded up the trunk of the Suburban himself, without help of agents. He had 12-packs of Caffeine Free Diet Coke and Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi, as well as a 24-pack of Poland Spring bottled water. He also had two plastic bags of groceries. Your pooler spotted Greek yogurt.
When your pool asked whether he was cooking tonight, Romney said, “I’ll make my own dinner. That’s not exactly cooking.”
Romney said, “I’ve got some folks coming over today.” When one reporter asked if they were Rob Portman or Tim Pawlenty, Romney laughed, “Ha, ha, ha, ha,” but did not answer.
Why, he’s just like us: buyin’ “hardware stuff,” shoppin’ for all of 12 minutes in the grocery store, pushin’ that shopping cart, loadin’ that trunk, havin’ folks over…
Fox “News” is poisonous (or, what’s wrong with America today)
THIS » Fox News Doesn’t Think Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Is Patriotic Enough
RESPONSE » ”What’s especially crazy about all this is that after Gabby Douglas won the gold medal in the women’s gymnastics all-around, she stood waving up at the crowd clad in a red, white, and blue jacket with USA written on the back. Later during the medal ceremony she wore a gray jacket with an American flag patch on the shoulder, stood atop the podium, and listened to “The Star-Spangled Banner” as an American flag was hoisted up above her. Even if that weren’t all true David Webb’s commentary would be nonsense, but the fact that it is all true adds to the comic ambivalence about factual accuracy that characterizes so much of what people say on Fox News. What other enterprise would turn Olympic gold for America into an opportunity to make Americans anxious and upset about allegedly waning patriotism? It’s a poisonous approach to news.” – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic
ANOTHER » “Really? Gabby Douglas, the 16-year old African-American gold-medalist who beat out competitors from other countries isn’t a flagrant example of American exceptionalism because she and her team wore hot pink instead of draping themselves in a flag? What about the fact that she hadn’t seen her father in two years because he was serving his country in Afghanistan? He showed up to cheer her on literally waving an American flag. Is that patriotic enough for FOX News and the Tea Party?” — stfusexists
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(Below: annaetc – Gabrielle Douglas captures gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around competition. She becomes the first African-American woman to win this title and the first American woman to capture gold in both individual and team events in the same Olympics.)
We’re halfway there
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