I tried to watch all of it last night, but only got about halfway through. I plead nine-and-a-half-months pregnant exhaustion first, but mainly Bo lost me when he blamed Bush in the first few minutes of his speech – like I totally predicted he would. I hung on, though, trying desperately to give him another chance to not be completely full of monkey crap. Then, my stepdaughter called to tell me about how much of a weird hippie her Anthropology professor is this semester, how she had to sit through a speech the other day on how Bush was evil and Obama is Messiah-like (yeah, apparently, this crap is STILL going on), and how her Philosophy professor called her a “smartass” when he asked her if a chair would still be a chair if the back and seat were taken off of it. She replied that it would be a torture device, and I kind of thought that was a highly appropriate answer. I guess when you have to think illogically, though, it was a smartass thing to say. Who knew?
What 80K in college tuition will get you these days, folks. But that’s a whole other entry.
So, yeah. I didn’t watch the whole thing. I should get a bit of a free pass, as Pelosi is enough to give me a seizure at this point, what with all the monkey-cymbal-clapping she does. And Biden is obviously brain-dead, just sitting back there nodding like a really, really overbred Golden Retriever. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who didn’t appreciate the (YAWN) Bush-bashing. AGAIN. Which we can now lovingly refer to as BIOB. Sort of like BYOB, but without any fun buzz whatsoever.
Behold McCain slamming our dear Messiah President for this never ending display of BIOB:
Ah yes. SOTU = new, fun acronym. And, that’s about all I got out of last night. Other than some heartburn.
I’m sensing that someone is just a wee bit sensitive here. I mean, the lady asked a simple question. A simple answer would’ve probably sufficed.
“Birthers, baggers, and blowhards.” The name-calling thing is a knee-jerk, predictable liberal response at this point, but it seems like someone with his level of education could come up with a response a little better than that. Such a disappointment. And I have to say, if my kid was currently attending George Washington University, I think I’d be reconsidering the amount I was spending on tuition there. Way to raise the bar of higher education there, bud.
A strange entry title, I know. But there’s a slight connection here. Just bear with me.
Thomas Sowell has a book out called “Intellectuals and Society,” and I really want to read it. However, with two jobs, a blog, a husband, four dogs, two stepkids, and an infant daughter on the way any day, I tend to quickly run out of hours in the day, so I like to make sure that any books I put my time into are REAAAAALLY worth reading. So, I could take HowTheWorldWorks word for it (a major thumbs up from him, as you can see here), but I thought I’d ask our clever and competent readers if you have read the book. And if yes, what’s your take on it? I’d like to hear your thoughts…
With all the talk about intellectualism and its lack of Practicality and Actual Common Sense (at least that’s what I’m hearing here), I thought it was apropos that my Dad forwarded me an email this morning about how the Democrat party is the party of lawyers. Which I truly believe that they are. The email, while sent this morning, was from a piece that American Thinker did in 2008 called “The Lawyer’s Party.” In my little bio here at COTR, I spew my belief that I think there is an overabundance of lawyers in this country. I don’t think I’m wrong about that, as we’ve become a fingerpointing, “what about me! I’m a victim!” kind of society during my lifetime. Don’t get me wrong, you readers who are attorneys. I’m sure some of you are really wonderful people and do really wonderful things. And I DO believe that there’s a need for lawyers in this country, so before you get your panties in a wad and tell me that I hate lawyers and threaten to sue me and stuff – I don’t. I believe there’s a time and a place for the law and legalese, but I think that our government is oversaturated with lawyers as opposed to other professions. There’s not enough “real people” representation, in my opinion. And, that underlying victimization culture we see nowadays? Lawyers eat this crap UP – while billing out at around $300/hour, I might add. (But yeah…the hot-shot capitalist pigs making bank on Wall Street are the demons. Riiiight.) The only difference of opinion I have with this article is that I believe the Democrat party is the Party of Lawyers and Celebridiots – I don’t feel as though Democrats represent “real” people like me. You know, people who work in industry and business. People who actually contribute to the economy. People who don’t consider themselves intellectually superior, but rather worker bees in the cogs of the wheel that is real America. People who basically live paycheck to paycheck and budget strictly to make sure that things like power bills and groceries and gas and taxes and college educations and diapers can be paid for. You know, trivial crap like that. So at least you know where I stand here. You’re welcome.
Case in point – with a majority in Congress – Democrats will never bend to Tort Reform. If you have to wonder why, then you just don’t get it.
The last Republican lawyer President in this country was Gerald Ford (1976). And the article sums it up quite nicely when it says, “The Democratic Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth…The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And so we have seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.”
Parsing language to favor their side. Hmmm….that sounds kinda familiar.
The article goes on to say, “America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked…We cannot expect the Lawyers’ Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America.”
And this article, I must remind you, was written in March of 2008.
Intellectualism versus common sense, people. It’s the reason that people are getting antsy these days. It’s the reason people are fed the hell up with government. REAL people want real change. Not rhetorical change in the form of legalese and flowery semantics. Not intellectualism, frankly. Much like Mock’s last entry states, we don’t need committees to discuss, debate, and discuss some more on HOW to stop out-of-control spending. We don’t need to freakin’ TALK about it at all, in my opinion. We need to just STOP SPENDING SO DAMN MUCH. And start taking responsibility for ourselves. And quit feeling entitled to what other people have.
I hope we see a trend in electing more “real” people – and not as many of these self-proclaimed intellectuals. People like me and you. Because only then will we truly see reform and that “hope and change” the intellectuals would like to believe they can implement – when in actuality, it’s the REAL people like you and me that are the only ones capable of truly doing it.
Oh, and I’ll look forward to seeing if any of you guys have read Sowell’s book. It’s a rainy Sunday here in the cornfield, and I could use a trip online to Amazon.com…
When you have a large piece of poo, in order to make the poo more appealing, you should clearly cut the piece of poo into smaller, more tolerable (and therefore, more appealing) pieces of poo.
Yeah. That should work, genius.
And, is this guy drunk? Just curious, because he sounds an awful lot like Peter Griffin after a long night at the Drunken Clam. Wow.
Now Democrats are threatening (yes, threatening is an appropriate word there) to ram healthcare down our throats EVEN if Scott Brown wins the election. How, you might ask? Well, there’s this thing called “reconciliation,” and with it, the Democraps would only need “51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities.”
Isn’t that just lovely?
Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that the Dems have been planning this all along (well, THAT’S comforting). And that passing this legislation is “really important.” You know, so they can just say they’ve actually accomplished something – even if it is singlehandedly destroying the healthcare system in this country. But, this is a dude who also thinks Martha Coakley’s going to win. Which means he probably also believes in global warming, surly puppies to fight terrorism, and unicorns. But I digress.
Just to make sure we’re all clear here: Democrats want to pass this thing, whether you – the people of the United States of America (which is a democracy, the last time I checked) – like it or not. Regardless of the fact that MORE THAN HALF OF US THINK IT SUCKS AND DON’T WANT IT.
So, you might to assume the position for that hope and change, because they plan on shoving it right up your assular area.
It’s been a hell of a year. A year of fawning over this administration that has started turning to buyer’s remorse.
Change, I’ve definitely seen. Hope? Not so much.
In light of this growing disillusionment with the current administration, the American Thinker did a piece on the notion of the “misery index,” as a number of once-in-awe-of-the-Messiah entities are now starting to place blame where it actually belongs (as opposed to getting whiplash by looking back and pointing fingers to avoid actually doing the things that were promised in the last campaign). This “misery index” is something Democrats should be just a wee bit afraid of in the coming year, as well as years to come.
The Misery Index is the sum of a nation’s unemployment, interest rates, and inflation figures. Given the Fed’s printing presses are running red hot and the Democrats show a propensity to profligacy, inflation looks to rise in the year ahead. Commodity prices are heading steadily higher, fueled by too much cash, and too much deficit spending. The Democrats have put policies in place that crimp the development of our vast mineral and energy reserves,. These trends are like the pig in the python – eventually the rise in these input prices will be reflected in higher prices for all consumers. A further source of anxiety should be the ever-weakening dollar that makes import prices higher in dollar terms.
The misery index now stands at 12.8%, the highest since 1991 and 3 points above its average since then.
What’s always been interesting to me is the fact that people are increasingly stupid in this country. I’m not trying to be mean, but when a human being can’t look at history and see that certain things don’t work (and maybe we shouldn’t do them again), it makes me scratch my head and wonder who’s breeding unnecessarily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, right?
Case in point:
The Misery Index “was used by Jimmy Carter to help him defeat Gerald Ford and then was used by Reagan against Carter a few years later.”
See that whole history-repeating-itself thing?
It’s going to be an interesting election year, and even more interesting in 2012. Because, as the article so eloquently stated, people are starting to ask themselves if they’re better off now than they were 2 or 4 years ago.
So, for all of you out there who are basking in the glow of an endless supply of jobs, lower taxes, bonuses, lavish vacations, and not getting screwed by your government, feel free to speak up (this excludes you, Hollywood celebrities in la-la land). But I think it’s a good question to ask ourselves after a year of this administration in office.
Are YOU better off? Just something to chew on for a Friday.
Hats off to Gateway Pundit for this quick glimpse into liberals turning on each other like rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth coyotes:
Hillary Clinton is depicted — and quoted — as foul-mouthed and consumed with anger over what she saw as the media’s kid-gloved treatment of Mr Obama. She was convinced that he had cheated at the start of their marathon primary contest by bringing in outsiders to vote in the Iowa caucuses, and when it was over she was supremely reluctant to work for him, the authors claim.
Just so we’re all clear on what’s offensive and what’s not to liberals, I’ve now learned this week that if you indeed ARE a liberal/Democrat, you’re allowed to call our fearless leader a cheater AND a light-skinned Negro.
If you’re a Republican/conservative, however, you are not allowed to do any of these such things. Or disagree with his policies. Or think he’s completely unqualified to run a company, let alone a country. Or call him a liar. I mean, just ask Joe Wilson, for crying out loud.
Glad I could get that cleared up. They should really come out with a rule book for this stuff, as I’m starting to get a bit confused. My tiny little Stockholm-Syndromed brain is starting to hurt from all the double standards…
You know those Rasmussen polls that we reference here a lot? You know, the ones that are unbiased, data-driven polls showing how someone like The President of the United States is doing in the eyes of the American people?
They don’t like the data, for one, but they also don’t like the way “the firm frames questions in its automated polls, which are the staple of its work.” It’s kind of like that Birkenstock-wearing, no-armpit-shaving, man-hating liberal professor at my southern undergraduate university that used to tell me that SATs were biased toward white males. You know, based on those English questions and math problems. Enlightening.
Rasmussen is defending himself by saying that “his numbers are trending Republican simply because he is screening for only those voters most likely to head to the polls — a pool of respondents, he argues, that just so happens to bend more conservative this election cycle.” Polling all adults — a method used by Gallup, another polling firm that conducts a daily tracking poll of Obama — Rasmussen acknowledged, is “always going to yield a better result for Democrats.”
Rasmussen is quick to point out the accuracy of his surveys — noting how close his firm was to predicting the final outcome in this fall’s New Jersey governor’s race. (Rasmussen’s final survey in the race showed Republican Chris Christie edging out Gov. Jon Corzine 46 percent to 43 percent. Christie beat Corzine 48 percent to 45 percent on Election Day.) And he argues that he was among the first pollsters to show Obama narrowing the gap with Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
But if you don’t like the message, well, you know the old saying…
I suppose 2010 and 2012 will show the reality. When a nice chunk of these Democrats who have IGNORED their constituents are booted out of office, I wonder who they’ll blame then?
Oh that’s right! I forgot for a second. They’ll blame BUSH, of course…
This article made me want to punch someone in the face this morning. Specifically, the Democratic members of Congress and the judge who’s decided that ACORN really didn’t do anything wrong in the past year. Nah. But those filmmakers may have broken the law by actually exposing them.
Seriously – what freakin’ planet am I living on?
The first paragraph in this article read as follows:
The House Judiciary Committe led by Rep. John Conyers, whose wife was convicted on bribery charges this year, found that ACORN hasn’t violated any federal regulations in the past five years.
And that pretty much set the stage early on for my whole wanting-to-punch-someone-in-the-face thing.
A Congressional Research Service report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee says ACORN hasn’t violated any federal regulations the past five years.
The report, released by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’s (D-Mich.) staff Tuesday evening, also reports that the undercover filmmakers that allegedly caught employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now breaking the law may have violated state law in their filming operation.
And there was more:
The CRS report, however, will give the organization’s backers some comfort and conservatives some ammo. It details that the, the beleaguered community group has received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in the past several fiscal years — including one $16 million grant and an additional grant worth $7.8 million. An ACORN aide noted that much of the money was to ACORN Housing, which is legally a separate entity.
Your taxpayer dollars – once again, everyone – hard at work!
Hey you guys…did you know that “Any big agreement is progress. Even if we do not know all of the details.”
Did you know that?
Yeah. Bob Casey, the Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania said that. Because this healthcare bill is all about making HISTORY, folks. It has absolutely nothing to do with helping the American people. It has everything to do with politics, higher taxes, and higher premiums. It has everything to do with going against 61% of us that don’t freakin’ WANT it. How on God’s green earth is that democracy? How is that progress?
And that transparency thing they’re always bragging about? The only thing that’s transparent in all of this is how absolutely full of monkey crap they are in shoving this down the throats of the American people.
This video was actually kind of painful for me to watch. I mean, when all is said and done, Timmy McTurboTax is obviously completely unqualified to do the job he’s been tasked with, and I really think I can hear his voice crack a little when he’s getting reamed up and down by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX).
Here’s some of the spanking chatter:
It’s been a year since the President was elected,” the panel’s ranking Republican, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, said at a hearing this morning featuring Geithner. “It’s appropriate for the American people to assess how well the administration’s economic policies are working. They are not. They have failed.”
“Unemployment has skyrocketed far past the White House’s projections and promises. America continues to shed jobs: more than 2.8 million since the stimulus was enacted,” Brady said. “We’ve had a series of embarrassing investigations about all the wild stimulus claims, the latest fake jobs from fake Congressional districts… You are the point man on the economy,” Brady said to Geithner. “The buck, in effect, stops with you.”
Translation: You suck, dude. Time to step down already as you’re an inept failure.
Yes, I at first felt a bit sorry for little Timmy – that is, until he started backpedaling and blamed Bush (YAWN). At that point, he just reminded me of a 15-year old kid who just wrecked his Dad’s car and then blamed it on some other 15-year old kid who wasn’t even in the damn car when he ran it into a ditch.
Wow, Mr. President. You sure do know how to pick them. I’m almost getting tired of saying this, but BRAVO once again.
Yeah. He’s pretty much solidifying that fact in this video – well, in his own little B.S. rhetoric-professor-of-comparative-literature kind of way, that is.
Which, in Bo semantics (based on his history of being such a straight shooter so far), means that he’s pretty much for it.
Just as a personal sidenote, I have been a contractor/consultant for 14 years of my career so far. During that time, I probably went without health insurance for 3 or 4 of those years. Why, you ask? Because it was MY CHOICE. Because I don’t live in a Communist nation. Because I’m an AMERICAN. You know.
This is HIS calculation of who “will die as a result of lacking health insurance — in each district represented by a GOP member of Congress who opposes health care reform. His approach: Name the district, then name of the Republican, then enumerate the number of people who will die without health insurance based on a Harvard analysis — suggesting that the members were responsible for the body count.”
Fuzzy math is awesome. So is pointing a finger at Republicans and blaming them for the death of countless people that you have pulled directly out of your assular area. Stellar. Really.
I saw some comments about this video which were kind of, well, amusing. One in particular said something about how he should read off the number of abortions that took place in Democrat districts. He’d be standing there a hell of a lot longer than an hour, for sure. And, in McBotox’s health bill, we all get to pay for those. Yay!
Hey Florida – I hope you’re proud of this complete and total wackjob of an embarrassment.
It “increases incentives for people to use health savings accounts, caps non-economic jury awards in medical malpractice cases at $250,000, provides various incentives to states with the aim of driving down premium costs and allows health insurance to be sold across state lines.
“As Leader Boehner has made clear, our proposal will focus on the No. 1 concern of the American people—reducing health care costs, and we do it at a price tag our nation can afford,” said spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier.
“Our proposal will help struggling middle-class families and small businesses by increasing access to affordable, high-quality health care,” Ferrier said.
It also includes a ban on any “federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother.”
Of course, in true Dem fashion, they responded to the Republican bill with this profound and poignant comment:
It’s “insubstantial.”
and…
“Ours is vastly superior and we think the American public will think that,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md said.
A “superior” 10-year plan that costs $1.2 trillion. A bill that is already 1,990 pages long and STILL doesn’t have the proper language in it about federally-funded abortions and whether or not illegal immigrants are going to be covered by honest, taxpaying American citizens.
Did I mention the word data? Why yes, I did. You see, that kooky thing called ‘data’ is something that conservatives happen to love. So as a conservative chick myself, you can only imagine my delight when I saw some actual numbers that coincide with what we’ve been talking about here on COTR over the last day and a half. That whole liberal vs. conservative argument thing.
In a recent poll taken by the Pew Research Center, they took “a Pew Political IQ test conducted over the phone with 1,002 adults from Oct. 1-4. They were asked 12 questions, and answered an average of 5.3 questions correctly.”
What interested me the most about this poll is the section titled “Partisan Knowledge Gap.” Often portrayed as toothless, redneck, racist, slackjawed, homophobe, nutjob, crazy, whitebread, right-wing extremists with no brains in their heads, but really, really big gun racks in their big ol’ rusted-out pickup trucks, it was interesting to see that Republicans actually know more about politics than Democrats.
Huh. Who would’ve thunk it? Our tiny little acorn-sized brains may have gotten lucky here, but the numbers are interesting, nonetheless, so here they are for sh*ts and giggles:
Under a section called “Partisan Knowledge Gap,” we find Republicans were more knowledgeable by a double-digit factor on four issues. Although the Glenn Beck question is naturally easier for Republicans, the other three issues are basic political knowledge— what “cap-and-trade” means, who’s in control of the House, and who the new Supreme Court Justice is (a question that should perhaps be easier for Democrats). Republicans also led Democrats on identifying the unemployment rate, Fed chairman, Dow level, Max Baucus’ position. Republicans correctly answered an Iran/Israel question and an Afghanistan question more often than Dems. Republicans and Democrats were even on identifying the “public option” as a health-care plan.
But all you Janeane Garofalos out there – take heart. You led the poll on one question, I think, and because I know you will, regardless, you can just keep on pretending that conservatives are just as dumb as a box of rocks. Subsequently, we’ll pass on the emotional arguments that have little to nothing to back it up and keep digging for the real data that actually matters when all is said and done.
Camille Paglia rocks. In fact, Camille was on the possible name list for my unborn daughter – because of Camille Paglia. My husband didn’t particularly like the name compared to some others, so it has since been knocked off the list. However, I still giggle a bit to think that I – a female conservative blogger – would’ve named my daughter after a female liberal feminist Democrat. And been proud to do so, no less.
Paglia is insanely brilliant and tells it like it is – and this has always warranted my respect, regardless of her political affiliation. American Thinker did a recent piece on her, highlighting her growing buyer’s remorse for the Obama administration (also highlighting her disdain for Clinton and that “yuppie George Stephanopoulos”). There was one passage in particular (from her September 9th column in Salon.com) that I felt compelled to share, as it really hit home…
Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year’s tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators? [...] It was on talk radio, which I have resumed monitoring around the clock because of the healthcare fiasco, that I heard the passionate voices of callers coming directly from the town hall meetings.
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform in the healthcare bills). Weirdly, given their worship of highly individualistic, secularized self-actualization, such professionals are as a whole amazingly credulous these days about big-government solutions to every social problem. They see no danger in expanding government authority and intrusive, wasteful bureaucracy. This is, I submit, a stunning turn away from the anti-authority and anti-establishment principles of authentic 1960s leftism.
How has “liberty” become the inspirational code word of conservatives rather than liberals? [...] I always thought that the Democratic Party is the freedom party — but I must be living in the nostalgic past. [...]
[A]ffluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it’s invisible.
That passage alone speaks volumes for itself. It’s what we tend to point out on a regular basis here at COTR (just maybe not so eloquently). It’s interesting how a party who says they’re for the “little guy” really doesn’t give two craps about that little guy at all. There’s a big disconnect these days between the two kinds of liberals left in this country – the “far left ideologues who believe that government is the answer to all our problems” and the “smaller and shrinking group is made up of open minded liberals who are not afraid to speak out when they see corruption and incompetence in today’s leaders.”
The latter is dying out quickly, it seems.
They say that Paglia is in a small handful of the last remaining “open-minded liberals” and that she’s been outnumbered by the radicals who think that the government knows all. I mean, let’s face it, folks – liberalism no longer stands for liberty. Quite the opposite, really. It’s the conservatives who think that government should get the hell out of the way and let people actually RETAIN their liberties and freedoms. We don’t want government in our healthcare. We don’t want them making our financial decisions for us. We don’t want them telling us when to turn our lights off and what color to paint our rooftops. We are smarter than the federal government. Period. And when they claim to be smarter than us, we find it downright hysterically laughable.
We are the rebellious ones now. The “extremists.” The dissenters. Go figure.
So, Camille – here’s to the endangered species of the “open-minded” liberal. I have to say, though…at the rate things are going in this country – with this administration in office – I see extinction drawing nearer and nearer. And when that day comes, maybe Ms. Paglia will take a leap to our side of the fence.
When I really want more information on the political climate, I turn to people like Ludacris and Joe Clair and Quincy Jones. You know. Because they’re experts, just like all other overpaid and ego-tripping celebrities in Hollywood.
At the Reagan Center last night, Clair (he’s a comedian, if you didn’t know) referred to Rush Limbaugh as that “fat dude on the radio” and then called the Reagan Center a sacred building in which Republicans hold “Republican church.” I wasn’t aware that we had such a thing called Republican church. I suppose that’s where we all get Stockholm Syndrome. I feel so much more enlightened now.
And then he went on to say:
“Could y’all imagine Sarah Palin was the Vice President? And John McCain. Aren’t you happy Barack won? I’m just happy Barack won for that reason. Let alone he’s black. But I’m just happy he won for that reason.”
Yeah, because electing Barack FOR the color of his skin isn’t racist at all (snort). And, Joe Biden is doing such a bang-up job of being Vice President so far, Mr. Clair. Sheer brilliance personified, really.
And then Quincy Jones exclaimed that Obama has “changed the world.”
To which I shook my head. I don’t know about you guys, but my world isn’t much different these days – except for that whole waiting list I’m on for H1N1 (thanks, Federal government!) and me anxiously anticipating ridiculously higher taxes due to Democrats spending my money like drunk sailors. Other than that? Not much change over here.
Must be nice to live in ignorant, Hollywood-celebrity-land.
Here’s a video of Steve Shannon and Ken Cuccinelli. Shannon is the Democrat candidate for Virginia Attorney General, and Cuccinelli is the Republican candidate. Watch Shannon squirm and deflect when asked what the Virginia Attorney General’s Office actually does. Keep in mind, clever and competent readers, that he’s RUNNING FOR THIS OFFICE. Yet he can’t answer a simple question such as this.
And when asked again at the end of the video by the videographer, his staffers get a little irritated – presumably because this videographer just doesn’t understand the rules here. If the videographer had received the memo, he would’ve been privy to the fact that the BEST way to handle things about which you have no earthly idea is to evade, spew a bunch of pointless and empty rhetoric out of your yapper, and hope that your smooth-talking legal tongue will just get you by and make everyone all warm and fuzzy in light of your complete incompetence.
Why did he do this? Well, apparently, he got all irritated when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) raised some hell about the fact that Towns didn’t launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s “reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.”
So, like any mature Democrat, he put his fingers in his ears, jumped up and down, and screamed “LA LA LA LA LA LA.” Alrighty then.
Towns has cancelled meetings for voting on this particular issue, and basically, he’s been using the whole head-in-the-sand tactic of pretending it’ll all just go away if he avoids and deflects long enough.
A GOP committee staffer made a “video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun…and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage.” Here’s that video:
Oh, and after this videotape was made, Democrats CHANGED THE LOCKS. Yep. Changed the freakin locks because Republicans “don’t know how to behave.” We’re being treated like toddlers now, everyone. Isn’t that lovely?
To which Republicans responded: “It’s not surprising that they would choose to retaliate given the embarrassment we caused by catching them in a lie on tape. If only they would use their creative energy to do some actual oversight rather than resorting to immature tactics, but I guess we’re getting some insight into what lengths they’ll go to avoid addressing the Countrywide VIP issue.”
Ooooooh. Burn.
Then there was some more back and forth and backstabbing and underhanded high-school tactics played out by the Democrats. The most interesting part of all of this, though, is the fact that Towns has a mortgage through Countrywide, so one can only imagine why he doesn’t want the probe.
Your tax dollars at work, everyone. And say it with me, folks: Stay classy, Dems.
