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Suspected Terrorists at Gitmo
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
My reaction to this.
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This Blog has the Flu
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
And will be miserable until further notice. Comic up tomorrow.
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Hottest Political Pundit Countdown #4: Joe Watkins
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I know, I know. I can hear the protests from miles away. Yes, he's a conservative. Yes, he says crazy shit. But this isn't a list of the five political pundits that I most often agree with, or the five that I'd most like to hang out with. Nope, this is the Hottest Political Pundit Countdown, and Joe Watkins is hot.
It's the twinkle in the eye that does it. He says something blatantly untrue, and then he blasts this smile and his eyes whisper, "yes, I'm lying. What are you going to do about it?" Where other conservatives come off sounding like assholes, Joe is the bad boy that you can't help but like.
His bio page for his radio show (yes, he's one of those conservatives) says:Catch rising star Joe Watkins Saturday mornings from 9 to Noon on The Big Talker 1210. You've seen him analyze the world on The Fox News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC. Now hear Joe's enlightening and entertaining perspective on The Big Talker 1210. With over thirty years of experience in politics, finance, and strategy consulting, Joe Watkins is well prepared to tackle the tough world, national, and local issues that face us everyday. And as pastor of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, the oldest African-American Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, Joe has a unique take on life and social issues too.
Joe Watkins is Joe is a key non-lawyer member of the government relations practice at Buchanan Ingersoll, a major national law firm. Before entering the financial services industry, he ran his own strategic advisory consulting firm in Philadelphia. He opened the firm in 1991 after serving as associate director in the Office of Public Liaison at the White House under President George H. W. Bush. Joe was introduced to politics in 1981 when he joined the staff of newly elected U.S. Senator Dan Quayle as the Assistant State Director. In 1984, he was tapped to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 10th congressional district but was defeated in the general election by the incumbent. He returned to Pennsylvania and served as an assistant to the President of the University of Pennsylvania until his enlistment in the 1988 Bush Campaign and his subsequent transition to the Bush White House.
Yikes. But alas, none of this matters, because when he's talking I just want to hear more. Just check out his smile at around the 2:30 mark:
See also: Hottest Political Pundit Countdown #5
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
A photo from my trip to Boston, at the St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday. I thought this elf was hilarious, and she kindly let me snap a photo. Today's comic will be up around sixish, and #4 in the Hottest Political Pundit Countdown will be up after that.
In Boston until Sunday Night
Friday, March 13, 2009
Will try to post between now and then, but it looks like I won't have internet at the hotel. Sad face. Until we meet again.
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Hottest Political Pundit Countdown #5: Ari Melber
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Is it his boyish smile, or his dreamboat eyes that are most appealing? I don't know, and I definitely don't care. Whenever Ari's on my tv, I just know I like what I see.
From arimelber.com:
Ari Melber is the Net movement correspondent for The Nationmagazine, the oldest political weekly in America, a writer for The Nation’s blog and a columnist for Politico.
During the 2008 general election, Melber traveled with the Obama Campaign on special assignment for The Washington Independent. He previously served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate and as a national staff member of the 2004 John Kerry Presidential Campaign. He is also a contributing editor at the Personal Democracy Forum, a nonpartisan website covering technology’s impact on democracy.
::snip::
Melber is a member of the National Security Network and has contributed to its policy blog, DemocracyArsenal.org. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
He's always polite, yet forceful. Articulate, yet succinct. Unapologetically liberal, he is an expert at what he does and he looks good doing it.
And there's nothing the conservatives can do to match him. Check him out in action:
Now if only the stations would book him more often.
Note: Hottest Political Pundit Countdown #4 will be posted on Monday. Make sure to stop by.
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Louisiana Senator David Vitter's Airline Freakout
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Oh David Vitter, only in Louisiana could you not be considered an embarrassment.
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Democrats and Guns
Yesterday, a guy at Drexel University told me:
Oh I'm definitely a democrat, I'm just not registered in Pennsylvania. I'm registered in another state so I can keep my gun.
Oh child, Pennsylvanians love the guns. According to a 2002 Quinnipiac poll 36% of Pennsylvania dems own guns or live with gun owners. That number rises to 54% for union households. You'll fit right in.
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Congratulations! Octo-Mom is your New Neighbor!
Monday, March 9, 2009
And Octo-Mom Gets a House. Priceless.
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Ramesh Ponnuru: A Rational Conservative
I disagree with almost everything Ramesh Ponnuru believes in, but he is one conservative who has a genteel and agreeable way of discussing the issues and the differences. Compared to the rest of the bunch at the corner, he's practically an almost moderate. It's refreshing.
Take today's stem cell research announcements. Here's what he has to say:
The Poor Quality of Stem-Cell Polling [Ramesh Ponnuru]
It would be hard enough to get an accurate read of public opinion on policy questions involving stem cells if the only difficulty were that most people don't know much about the subject. But the fact that pollsters have almost invariably worded the questions badly has not made it any easier. Over at Polling Report, the latest numbers cited are from a Gallup poll taken in February. The question is whether the current "very limited funding" should be kept or expanded "to allow more stem-cell research." Your typical respondent is going to think that the question concerns whether to spend less or more money.
Next up is a Time poll. It stacks the deck in three ways. It highlights the potential benefits of the research in a misleading way—for example, it claims that stem cells could be used to "treat or cure" Alzheimer's disease, something actual researchers, even those supportive of the research, have long considered a fairy tale. It says that the human embryos used in the research have been "discarded from fertility clinics." And it doesn't mention that the research destroys the embryos.
And on and on its goes down the page. I'm sure I wouldn't be happy about the news contained in an accurate, well-worded poll, but I'd still like to see one.
He wants honest data, but isn't posturing about where the American people actually are. For the polling data on stem cells, visit Chris Cillizza's post "White House Cheat Sheet: the Politics of Stem Cell Research." By comparison, most other conservatives and elected republicans are lamenting the sanctity of life without acknowledging that most Americans disagree with them, pretending that this will lead to cloning without mentioning the forthcoming NIH guidelines, issuing predictable diatribes in the name of Catholicism, and my personal favorite, the pretending Obama's position doesn't represent the American consensus.
Obama's position is mainstream, so much so that he campaigned against John McCain by saying that McCain was against stem cell research. McCain countered by coming out for the same position that Obama is taking today. I appreciate a conservative who believes something strongly, but doesn't preach it and doesn't pretend that he or she is supported by a larger swath of the country than they are. There are many positions that I hold that are in the political minority, even as many of my ideas are supported by a majority of Americans. Knowing where my position isn't supported by a majority of the country is called having perspective. I applaud Ramesh's candor.
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Obama Brings Communism to America! (or, how conservatives have lost their goddamned minds)
I predict Glenn Beck will be the death of Fox News. There will be flames involved. This amount of crazy can't exist peacefully for long.
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Congratulations to the winners of last week's Giveaway!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Thanks to all those who entered last week's giveaway.
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Edward, William, and Stephen!
They have been notified, and the prizes will be in the mail in the morning.
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Victor Davis Hanson on Taxes: Dumb/Dumb
Saturday, March 7, 2009
I've written about teh dumb that is Victor Davis Hanson before, but today he manages to highlight his fundamental inability to understand basic tax policy:
Bad/bad [Victor Davis Hanson]
With Clinton we got high taxes (bad) but balanced budgets imposed by the spending caps in Congress (good). With Bush we got tax cuts (good) but deficits (bad). With Obama we get tax hikes (bad) and astronomical deficits (bad).
Two notes: We are not going back to the Clinton tax hikes, but something far scarier, with states raising taxes, the fed doing the same, and new proposals to lift the caps on FICA payroll taxes. And these vast increases won't go to pay for the deficit, but to fund new spending/borrowing plans that come on top of deficit spending.
See, it's a false dichotomy to label these things as good or bad, because they are all related. Clinton's tax hikes led to balanced budgets. That was the reason they were passed, for fiscal responsibility. So they can't be labeled as bad when they caused something good. So if you have to label it, it would be good/good.
For Bush, the tax cuts caused the deficits, so they can't be labeled as good. The tax cuts caused the deficits, so it's bad/bad.
For Obama, he has to increase taxes to begin to rectify the already bad budget situation. But he also inherits a terrible economy that needs stimulus, which will lead to larger deficits in the short term. However, rolling back the Bush tax cuts in 2011, will help to fix this for future years. None of Obama's tax hikes go into effect until 2011 because of the recession, so that creates a larger short-term deficit. Further, the country is facing major problems with our health care system, dependance on middle east oil, etc. So short-term increases in spending are investments that lead to long term savings. So the tax hikes are responsible, and the deficits are necessary evils. Good/necessary.
And oversimplified analogy: If candy makes you fat, and arugula makes you skinny, that means candy is bad. Tax cuts are conservative candy. Tasty in the short term, disastrous in the long term. Why don't conservatives get this?
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Pennsylvania Senate Watch: Rick Santorum to Endorse Pat Toomey?!?
I'm a Pennsylvanian with an irrational interest in the 2010 Pennsylvania senate race. The race seems to be heating up this week, with Arlen Specter so spectacularly unpopular among Pennsylvania Republicans, ultra-douche Pat Toomey is back in the hunt. And when conservatives start cooking in Pennsylvania, who has to come running behind? Why Mr. Man on Dog himself, Rick Santorum. To which I say, pretty pretty pretty please!
Yesterday "conservative bombthrower" GrassrootsPA reported that:Who will Rick Santorum back this time? GrassrootsPA has learned that key Santorum allies are said to be having a conference call this afternoon regarding a possible Toomey Specter primary. The topic at hand is said to be what position, if any, the former US Senator should take.
After the meeting, the Pittsburgh Tribune follow up:At this time his spokesperson Virginia Davis said Santorum would not be making any public comments on the call.
One can only conclude that a 'no comment' certainly is not an out-of-the-gate vocal support for Santorum's former senate colleague.
In the 2004 primary race between Specter and Toomey Santorum, along with President Bush, did the obligatory campaign motions for the Specter — many conservatives blamed Santorum and Bush, saying their support was enough of a push to give Specter the 7,000 votes he garnered over Toomey.
Not supporting Specter would be as big a blow as an outright Santorum endorsement of Toomey.
If Specter votes yes for card-check, that would definitely be enough for Santorum to leap from not supporting Specter to a full court press for Toomey.
Those who doubt a Santorum endorsement is important are letting personality get in the way of reality. What does this mean for Toomey? Money and infrastructure from Santorum people. That is enough to put Toomey over the top of Specter.
All and all a good news day for Toomey.
If Toomey were to go into the primary with a structural advantage, this would be awesome. Specter's already facing an uphill battle to win this primary, and Pat Toomey will get killed in the general provided the democrat is strong. Obama won Pennsylvania by 11%, and Senator Bob Casey won in 2006 by 17%. Only a moderate like Specter has a chance in hell in the general, and Pennsylvania conservatives appear to be going off their rocker if they don't recognize this.
Plus, every day that Rick Santorum is in the news is a good day for democrats.
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National Review Platinum Mastercard?
Friday, March 6, 2009
I really don't even know where to begin. William F. Buckley's magazine advertising for a credit card backed by Bank of America? In this economy? With the current state of Bank of America? With an apr of 8.99% to 18.99%? That jumps to 27.99% if you're late? With the tacky "stimulate your economy" line, from the people who alternatively called the stimulus the porkulus and the generational theft act?
So much for trying to encourage fiscal responsibility, eh?
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Rightwing Brits Manufacture Outrage at Obama Gifts, Churchill Statue
Thursday, March 5, 2009
I wish this was just all a joke. First it was the outrage that Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill that Bush borrowed, so that he could put up a bust of Lincoln. I know what you're thinking: no he didn't! Well now he's done something even more outrageous, he's given a tacky gift. And it means the US doesn't care about Great Britain. And it might be Michelle's fault. I knew the British press was obsessed with the ceremonial bullshit, but they take insecurity to a whole new level.
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In the words of one British tabloid blogger:So Gordon goes to all that trouble of getting an historic pen holder carved from the oak timbers of a Victorian anti-slavery ship. Carefully chosen and months in the preparation, the pen was finally handed over in Washington when the men met this week.
And what does Obama give him in return? A DVD collection of 25 classic American films.
:snip:
Number 10 are cagey about the gift. But Obama's prezzie reminds me of a husband who has forgotten his wedding anniversary and decides to buy some cheap flowers from a late-night petrol station.
As if this wouldn't be embarrassing enough, apparently Michelle was in on the affront. Of course.
From the Times Online (owned by Rupert Murdoch):It was all going so well. The dresses, the brains, the Vogue cover shoot – everything so far about Michelle Obama has left us wide-mouthed in admiration. It seemed there was no end to her fabulousness. Then Mr and Mrs Brown came to stay.
Like all good guests, Sarah Brown arrived bearing gifts for the children, Malia and Sasha. And they were really nice presents. A bit of thought had clearly gone into choosing them: Top Shop dresses (with matching necklaces) and a selection of books by British authors. Lovely.
Mrs Brown may have two boys but she certainly knows the way to a little girl’s heart. These were gifts chosen in the true spirit of present-giving: to please the recipient, not the giver.
In return Mrs Obama gave the Brown children, Fraser and John, two toy models of Marine One, the Presidential helicopter. Fair enough on the helicopter part, always a popular choice with small boys; but Marine One? It’s not as though anyone needs reminding that Barack Obama is President or that he has his own helicopter. Short of giving the boys Action Man models of her own husband smiting the evil forces of neoconservatism, Mrs Obama’s gesture could not have been more solipsistic or more inherently dismissive of Mrs Brown.
So the First Lady's choice of gifts were both tacky AND self-egrandizing. Meant to remind two small British children who's in charge. And of course, it gets worse:The White House released one picture of the two women and it does not appear to have been selected with any kind of special relationship in mind. There is a menacing bunch of pink peonies in the foreground and the angle is most unflattering to Mrs Brown, who has the air of a woman very much in need of a stiff drink.
Whether deliberate or not, the whole thing feels like a snub.
Only one photo! Good lord, how garish!
And of course, all of this means that Obama doesn't respect the "special relationship" between the US and Great Britain:Nevertheless, you'd have thought the President's most important ally in Afghanistan deserved better than this [gift]. I'm not about to endorse James Delingpole's theory that Michelle Obama was behind it all, but it does look as if the special relationship with Britain is one area of FDR's policy that his devoted disciple will not be following.
Because as America's greatest ally in Afghanistan, Gordon Smith should expect a nicer party favor? And of course, leave it to a US conservative to tug the guilt strings on a military issue. Shocking.
Oh, and the best part? The craziest theory out there by far may all be because Michelle hates Great Britain because she's black:Was 'Lady Macbeth' behind Barack Obama's snub of Gordon Brown?
On US radio's Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama's double insult - first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. "Tough one. Really tough one," I said, torn - as most of surely are - between delight at seeing Brown roundly humiliated, and dismay at having the special relationship so peremptorily, cruelly and bafflingly ruptured.
::snip::
We may just LURVE Michelle's fashion sense. But Michelle doesn't reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade. Never mind that a white, Tory Englishman - William Wilberforce - brought the slave trade to an end. Judging by her record, Michelle does not make room for such subtle nuance.
Consider her notorious statement that: "For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country." Consider her (till-recently suppressed) Princeton thesis, "Princeton Educated Blacks And The Black Community."
Or it could be because Obama chilled with Tony Blair before Gordon Brown. The shame!Since November, the silent and fierce competition between European leaders to be the first to grip and grin with the President at the White House has kept insiders from London to Berlin and Paris to Rome amused, but this was a punchline nobody had anticipated. A bitter joke indeed for Gordon Brown, who spent 10 tormented years in Blair's shadow waiting for his turn at Britain's top job, only to succeed his rival just as the boom times were about to come to a shuddering halt: this was way more galling than watching President Sarkozy swagger into the Oval Office ahead of a British delegation would have been.
And snowbound Britain may be running out of gritting salt, but today there's no shortage of salt being rubbed into Brown's wounds. Most British newspapers lead with the story (sample headline from The Times: AND THE WINNER IS...BLAIR GETS FIRST AUDIENCE WITH OBAMA) while Blair's longtime critics admit to more than a twinge of nostalgia after watching him in action.
Andrew Sullivan argues that all of this is merely the insecurities of a few petty, insecure Brits and a manifestation of a larger British problem that is not related to Obama directly. I'm not British, and he is. So I don't know why this meme is surfacing. But the idea that Obama has to be sensitive to Great Britain at a time when we have so much else to deal with is insulting and frustrating. From Politico:The British press had interpreted the return of the Churchill bust, which sat in the Oval Office for nearly seven years before being returned, as a signal that Obama did not value his relationship with Brown and Britain as highly as President Bush valued his ties to Brown’s predecessor, Tony Blair. Obama aides said the notion was ridiculous, but they have since bent over backwards to demonstrate Obama’s friendliness and appreciation for Brown.
Bush spent eight years prostrating himself at the feet of the UK, and all it did was tarnish Tony Blair's reputation. All our president wants is to have Lincoln on display in his office and give some gifts.
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British Bloggers upset about Obama's Hosting Gifts
Ah , the desperation of a manufactured controversy. I'm going to write up a longer blogpost about this later, but this is ridiculous. This is outrageous. And this is outright offensive.
And I feel pretty much the same way as I did yesterday. He's got actual things to worry about.
Update: Long post about this manufactured controversy is here.
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Does Jonah Goldberg Hope Obama Will Fail?
In a word:
Yes.
Goldberg posted this lovely sentiment earlier today:
Bobbing Sighted [Jonah Goldberg]
The market went up today. Huzzah. Several liberal readers say "there's your bobbing for you!" in response to yesterday's post.
Yes, but is this bobbing or is this the natural bouncing of a stone as it careens down a hillside?
Fingers crossed.
When read alone, that post seems like Goldberg might be keeping his fingers crossed that the market going up might mean that it's steadying. But that hope goes out the window, when he posts this later:
If The Budget Bill Fails [Jonah Goldberg]
How will the Obama administration explain a stock market rally in response?
You got to wonder if he's enjoying American's losing billions in personal wealth, because as long as it makes Obama look bad it seems to be okay with him. The budget won't fail, but I'd bet money that the GOP is already printing out the press releases to blame Obama if on the off-chance that the market goes down when it does pass, The republicans are out of power, and their ideas got us into this mess. There's no alternative. It's Obama's budget, or no budget. But Jonah Goldberg is cheering for failure, and is set to tout the response of a sickly market as evidence of whether or not the president is doing a good job. I think of it like this:
The economy was going off the road and into a ditch. Bush leapt out of the driver's seat during the free fall. Obama had to hop in. The car is still going to crash, and the car crash is not Obama's fault. But he's drastically trying to lessen the impact while screaming at his passengers to put their seatbelts on.
And the republicans are standing on the side of the road hoping for the car to catch on fire.
Assholes.
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John McCain's Earmark Tirade
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
When John McCain lectures about earmarks, all I hear is "blah blah Bear DNA blah blah." The omnibus spending bill is comprised of only 2% earmarks, of which 40% go to republicans. Forgive me if I care about like, ninety-seven other issues first. John McCain's righteous indignation would be better directed republican Senator Thad Cochran, the largest earmark benefactor, rather than a president who has a whole lot of more important shit to deal with.
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Victor Davis Hanson Hearts Rush Limbaugh
From The Corner:
Yet the reason why a Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush was elected twice — and not George Bush primus — was precisely because they could resonate with the middle classes in both a cultural and social sense, an ability that transcends money but has everything to do with attitude. What scares many is not the sometimes slobby but authentic image of a blunt-talking Rush Limbaugh, but the polo-shirted pre-packaged personas of an Obama, John Edwards, or John Kerry.
Hmm...how to even begin? Ah yes. Putting aside the idea of "Obama's pre-packaged image," what does Ms. Hanson mean by the term many?
Why she means many republicans! Many republicans like feel this way about Rush Limbaugh. But not many people. Sixty percent of republicans and twenty-five percent of independants have a favorable opinion of Rush. Hmm...that seems like the republicans minority that lost the last election and continues to be tone deaf about how to move forward.
Now, who is someone who is liked by many people? Why, in spite of his "pre-packaged image," it seems like people like Obama. Can you imagine that?
In the survey, 68 percent have a favorable opinion of the president, including 47 percent whose opinion is "very positive" — both all-time highs for Obama in the poll. Moreover, 67 percent say they feel more hopeful about his leadership and 60 percent approve of his job in the White House.
So Rush is liked by 60% of republicans, and Obama is liked by 68% of Americans. That's interesting.
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New Comic will be Up Tomorrow
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sorry for not having a comic up today. Internet was skitzing out, and I couldn't get connected for more than three minutes without it dropping the connection.
Irony or ironies, now my internet is up and running, but I have to go to sleep.
Side note: if you haven't signed up for this week's giveaway yet, do it. The response has been tremendous--over fifty entries so far. But with three sets of prizes, your odds are still way better than Vegas.
Michele Bachmann Rap Video
Monday, March 2, 2009
You knew it was coming. And now it's here. As if Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann hadn't damaged her image enough, some fine folks have turned them into a fabulous rap:
(h/t Dump Bachmann)
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Susan Collins Strange Voice, part II
Last month, I wrote a post about Senator Susan Collins' strange voice. I posited that it didn't sound like the product of an accent, but that it also didn't seem like a speech impediment. I might have also implied that she sounded like she spoke like a fembot.
I would have left this mystery alone, were it not for the several hundred hits from people googling "senator collins speech impediment," "susan collins voice," and the like. So I did a little more research (all right, I called her senate office) and got an answer.
The official word:
Senator Collins is from a northern part of Maine, and she speaks with an accent typical of the region.
Mystery solved.
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Senator Claire McCaskill and Why Twitter is Awesome
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Senator Claire McCaskill has managed to align two of my favorite things:
1) University of Kansas Men's Basketball
2) Geeking out about politics
You see, today the Kansas Jayhawks had a date with destiny. The KU-Mizzou game was held in Allen Fieldhouse, and the winner would be on their way to the Big XII title. All was wonderful.
And to make it even better, I saw this posted on twitter:
clairecmc (aka Senator McCaskill):
They may have the just selected Sec of HHS but I still want Kansas to lose today to Mo. Bad.A little nervous because we play at their house.
That's right Claire. Beware the Phog!
How adorable is this? Senator McCaskill thought that Mizzou had a fighting chance today. Which of course they didn't. And after we won 90-65, she came crawling back into reality (again via twitter):
I'm depressed about my Tigers. And new HHS Sec nominee called to rub it in! Gotta go make dinner.
Ah, two of the most powerful democratic women in the country, representing red states, talking on the phone about basketball. And how much do I love my former governor calling to gloat.
All right, geek out completed.
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Mike Murphy's Awesome Republican Analogy
Mike Murphy on Meet the Press just now:
Republicans are as irerelevant as we've ever been in this town. We're like eunuchs at the Playboy mansion. We're invited to the party, and we have very detailed opinions about things. But we're not participating.
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