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Sarah's Greatest Hits [5 minutes of the best of the worst]

Three things:

1. Katie Couric, you're my hero. Not only did you ask great questions, you asked great FOLLOW-UP questions and were dogged in your pursuit of answers. You are one powerful journalist lady.

2. Sarah Palin: you're an embarrassment to our nation. After tomorrow, I hope you're on the first plane back to Alaska. You are an insult to smart, capable women everywhere.

3. Go Joe Biden! Take 'er down! Expose that Walking, Talking Run-On Sentence for the affront to this political process that she is.

h/t: Talking Points Memo

Boehner, Blunt, & the Mythical Knights of the Twisted Knicker Voting Tableau

Republican House Leaders John Boehner and Roy Blunt claimed that Nancy Pelosi's speech caused about twelve Republicans to change their votes about the bailout---but not because what Pelosi said was convincing or persuasive; oh no, the alleged people allegedly changed their votes because the speech pissed them off.

So who are these austere and august members of Congress who let their knickers get so twisted by a speech that they pissily changed their vote?

Well, it wasn't Republican Arizona Representative John Shaddegg. He disassociated himself from the twisted knicker voting bloc in an MSNBC interview (YouTube link).

It wasn't any Republicans interviewed this morning on NPR, or as best as I can tell any Republicans at all. Believe me, I've been digging, checking, and asking since yesterday afternoon.

So, in short, it doesn't appear any Republicans recast their vote based on twisted knickers, which actually relieves me greatly.

I should hope nobody behaved this unbecomingly, or I should hope they'd be sufficiently ashamed of themselves to lie and say it wasn't them, or sufficiently afraid they'll get sent home immediately, as they should be for being way too big of an asshat to actually represent any citizens of this great nation.

In the end though, I think, as Shaddegg said in the interview, that Boehner and Blunt just made it all up.

To save face.

Pretty ironic since I think it leaves them with egg all over their faces.

Claiming that one's---or anyone's---knickers got so twisted by a partisan speech that it caused them to recast their vote from a logical, well-measured, thought-through vote to a pissy objection twisted knickers vote causes me to question whether they have sufficient fortitude to do their jobs.

Cut it out folks. Some of us have our entire livelihoods at stake here, or are already in a vulnerable catastrophe state. As I've said before, get to work, quit posturing, and shut up about partisan, all of you. But this little stunt really takes the cake.

Palin For President Banners: Bullshit First

If Sarah Palin could be president (and you know that lying-ass, cronyism-loving, shady mofo is just waiting for Old Man McCain to check out), her banners might go a little something like this:

Although, I think she should somehow work the "A vote for Palin is a vote for Abdul" slogan into her campaign.

Because let's face it, half his country is voting for The Paula Abdul of Governors for Vice President. Except that "global brand" Paula Abdul—because she's on a hit TV show which raises millions of dollars for charity where she gets to talk to an English guy once in a while—is probably more qualified. I mean, if half the country can overlook the fact that Palin's an intellectual lightweight who doesn't know shit about foreign policy the economy tax codes military strategy diplomacy anything with a penchant for hiring her high-school buddies and getting that goateed, p-whipped douche to help muscle out her enemies and that she's a habitual liar, surely they can overlook Paula's little pharmaceutical habit. They already did that once anyway.

Anyway, like the banner? There are more. Pick one of your own from Mickeleh. Spotted on Karoli's blog.

Go read it about Sarah Palin:"For Hire: Small Town Girl, Self-Taught, Good With Secrets"

This is the best post about Sarah Palin I have read thus far and I'm not just saying that because my brilliant BFF wrote it.  Here's a bite:

Sarah Palin is a stone cold bitch. And I'm not joking around about the pit bull thing, either.

Yeah, women are reacting emotionally to her instead of parsing her politics. That's because we recognize her. We're freaked out because we know how malicious she is, and how successful her tactics are.

Believe me, we've tangled with her so many times:

• the ringleader in the locker room who engages the shy girl with bad skin and "weird" clothes, just to make her gang laugh
  
• the student in the seminar who skips all the classes, but convinces the professor -- male or female, doesn't matter -- to let her submit an "extra credit" project ("borrowed" from her roommate) so she can pass without ever doing the work
• the Executive Director who comes into the office and within six months replaces all of the women executives on her team with identical white men
• the mom on the playground who coldly regards another woman's crying child without offering comfort, but practically challenges you to a fist fight when your kid cuts in line for the slide
• the "friend" who always has time to put down another woman behind her back, but is always "too busy" to support or celebrate anyone else
• the false-feminist who claims that women who can't get ahead are at fault for not trying hard enough
• the first one to tell you what is wrong, the last one to ask how she can help, and always, always the one who gets her way -- or else.

We're livid because we've all been elbowed out of the way by a Sarah Palin who believes that the rules only apply to other people, aka the "suckers" between her and the prize.  We know that she sees everyone as competition, and that anyone is fair game.

You must go read it.

Open Letter to Barack Obama

Dear Senator Obama,

For 19+ months you've tried to run a positive campaign. You've focused on change. You've inspired millions with your message of hope. You've focused on the issues. Now, all of a sudden, with the introduction of Sarah Palin as Republican Vice Presidential candidate, the game has changed.

The Republicans cannot go head-to-head with you on the issues because they know if they try they'll lose. THey have been. They're trying to co-opt your message of change and it's back-firing. They're offering more of the same and they know it. So suddenly it's not about issues anymore, it's about personalities: The grizzled POW and the pert PTA mom.

Here's what I want you to do:

I want you to fight. back.  I am giving you permission to get. angry. I want to hear you say, "Enough is enough!" every time you speak. I want you to take on their cynical, half-truth-ridden, insulting-to-all-American-citizens campaign and wrestle it to the ground.

Note to Meghan McCain, We ALL Know War

Meghan McCain, appearing on the Today Show, made one of the most egotistical and ignorant statements I've ever heard.  It was stunning in its thoughtlessness and dismissive of the sacrifice of millions of people with loved ones serving in the Middle East.

 

When asked what she thinks when Barack Obama and others say her father doesn't "get it" she said,

I think my father gets it more than anyone.  I mean, my family — I have two brothers serving in the military. One is about to redeploy to Iraq.   My father is obviously a famous war hero. No one knows what war is like other than my family, period.

(Emphasis mine.) She then went on to point out that Sarah Palin's son, Track, is deploying to Iraq on September 11th. 

Community Organizer

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h/t: Sweetney

Open Letter to Michelle Malkin

Dear Michelle Malkin,

Gosh, it's been a while since we last talked.

Just wondering when you are going to get around to referring to Bristol Palin as Levi Johnston's Baby Mama. And while you're revving up for that, you can might also want to look into calling Secessionist Sarah Todd Palin's Baby Mama since she may very well have been knocked up before they "eloped" due to "finances." Think of it as a twofer since I know people like you care so deeply about what goes on in other women's uteri.

Or do you prefer to reserve the Baby Mama label for married, educated, poised, intelligent African American women?

Are you an equal opportunity slanderer or just a plain old racist? Check with your husband and get back to us, mkay?

Stefania

LiveBlogging RNC08: Rage Against the McCain

Fun with linguisitcs: Elite

The GOP is doing it again, raising up the word "elite" as alleged evidence that this country is divided into two camps: people who think they are too good for everyone else and the Repubicants.

Let's review.

As linguist Geoff Nunberg postulates in the piece linked above, Obama is "elite"—even though he was born to a teen mother, had an absentee father, was on food stamps, and had a scholarship to attend middle school and high school—because he actually "paid attention" at Harvard.

John McCain, son of an Admiral, raised among a privileged Washington DC set, graduate of West Point: not elite.

The media, for vetting a Vice Presidential candidate that her running mate apparently didn't have the time nor the inclination to do thoroughly: elite.

Cindy McCain, with her $300,000 ensemble that she wore on Day 1 of the RNC: not elite.

John McCain's eight houses: not elite

Cindy McCain's net worth of about $100 million, which provides private jets and a luxurious lifestyle: not elite.

You're elite if you are a black man (or half-black man) who went an Ivy League school.

You aren't elite if, while earing 6 carats worth of diamonds and/or flying in a private jet you use the following words: Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR, Jesus, my friends, field dressing, hunting (but only if you drop the final /g/.) Get it?

 

America, don't be so stupid.