The Trump Presidency and Administration

If this doesn't scare you, nothing can.

The Right Wing on the United States

Naming no names

But Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell and Rand Paul certainly come to mind, at least, for starters.

"Quitter" Sarah Palin wants it both ways

Okay, so former Alaska Governor and permanent quitter Sarah Palin goes a speakin' up in Iowa--precursor to Presidential run?--and, as I suggested above, wants it both ways. On the one hand, she says "we"--I assume she means Republicans or maybe she just means the "Right Wing" and/or "Conservatives"--need to unite. From NPR this morning: "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was coy about her future political plans, but she did have a message for fellow Republicans at Friday's annual Ronald Reagan Dinner in Iowa: It's time to unite." And that's all well and good and to be expected since, divided, they'll go nowhere. That and the fact that she's taking heat lately for doing the opposite--for dividing the party. And check this out, this where it gets good. After she says they need to unite, she says the following: "Maybe we need instant replay for political speeches. That might make it easier to see, in Sarah Palin's much anticipated Iowa speech Friday evening, the former Republican vice presidential nominee playfully telling Karl Rove where to go, if you catch my drift, without actually saying it. The moment in question came during the part of the speech where Palin was saying how she would dole out assignments if she were the running the Republican Party, like a football coach runs a team, in the weeks leading up to the November election. She would tell Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a major player in Tea Party movement as she is, "You're awesome. We need you down south." She'd tell Mitt Romney to go campaigning in the West, George W. Bush to raise money and Rush Limbaugh to 'go deep, go anywhere, everywhere, people are listening.' When she got to Rove, at about the 27:54 point in the C-Span recording she said: And Karl, Karl, go to (she pauses ever so slightly and her demeanor stiffens subtly) here. You can come to Iowa. And Karl Rove and the other leaders who will see the light and realize that these are just the normal hard-working patriotic Americans who are saying no, enough is enough. We want to turn this around and we want to get back to those time-tested truths that are right for America." So on the one hand, she says get together. Then she turns 'round and tells at least one guy--and likely his followers--they can either go away or do it her way. I can just imagine how Karl Rove will take to that, can't you? Man, I love these Right Wing, Conservative, Tea Party and Libertarian tear-downs. Links to original posts: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129953821 http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/09/18/129953754/sarah-palin-tells-karl-rove-where-to-go

Update on the Sarah Palin/Vanity Fair Article

Just what it says--from The Huffington Post, just now: The author of the blistering Vanity Fair profile on Sarah Palin says he wanted to write a positive piece, but was shocked by what he learned as he researched his story. "The worst stuff isn't even in there," Michael Joseph Gross said on "Morning Joe" Thursday. "I couldn't believe these stories either when I first heard them, and I started this story with a prejudice in her favor. I have a lot in common with this woman. I'm a small-town person, I'm a Christian, I think that a lot of her criticisms of the media actually have something to them. And I think she got a bum ride, but everybody close to her tells the same story." In the profile, Gross paints Palin as an abusive, retaliatory figure with an extreme ability to lie. "This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about," he said. "She lies about everything." Link to original story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/vanity-fairs-sarah-palin-_n_703412.html

Think you know Sarah Palin?

Until this morning, I just wrote off Sarah Palin as someone too uninformed and emotionally unstable and, ultimately, inconsequential, to take seriously or to bother myself with. As I said--until this morning. I just got finished reading a Vanity Fair piece on her. Holy cow. Besides making millions of more dollars than I thought she was, she also has far more followers than I realized. If even half of this article is true, folks, we have every reason to be scared. She is nuttier than I knew. A portion of the article: Sarah Palin’s connection with her audience is complete. People who admire her believe she is just like them, and this conviction seems to satisfy their curiosity about the objective facts of her life. Those whose curiosity has not been satisfied have their work cut out for them. Palin has been a national figure for barely two years—John McCain selected her as his running mate in August 2008. Her on-the-record statements about herself amount to a litany of untruths and half-truths. With few exceptions—mostly Palin antagonists in journalism and politics whose beefs with her have long been out in the open—virtually no one who knows Palin well is willing to talk about her on the record, whether because they are loyal and want to protect her (a small and shrinking number), or because they expect her prominence to grow and intend to keep their options open, or because they fear she will exact revenge, as she has been known to do. It is an astonishing phenomenon. Colleagues and acquaintances by the hundreds went on the record to reveal what they knew, for good or ill, about prospective national candidates as diverse as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. When it comes to Palin, people button their lips and slink away. I'm telling you, this is an excellent and important read. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to find out about this woman. She is one scary individual. And she has more power and money than I knew right now. Until she's gone and no longer a factor in American society and politics, I might make the suggestion you occasionally, at least, follow one or more of the following blogs on her: The Immoral Minority: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/; Shannon Moore: Just a girl from Homer http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/; Palingates: http://palingates.blogspot.com/. I found them in the Vanity Fair article. I will say, too, that frequently, because of the way Ms. Palin is and what she thinks and believes, it can make for some darned amusing reading. Link: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=all

2012 Republican Presidential race so far

Former Alaska Governor (and permanent quitter) Sarah Palin. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Newt Gingrich. Rick Santorum. And that's just so far. If Democrats have things to be concerned about in the November election, so far it doesn't look like it's about who's in the White House. Links: http://www.draftpalinforpresident.com/ http://president-bobbyjindal.com/ http://www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=146398 http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/27/santorum-huddles-with-former-aides-to-talk-2012/?fbid=7bEnKXId1hq

Quote of the day--The Tea Party

"You have to understand the" Tea Party "mindset. They have this nostalgia for the America that they think was stolen from them, the used to be, that was better. It's really the 1950's, okay? That's what they think was 'Shangri-La' and you know what they never get is that it's kind of insulting to a lot of Americans to pine for this era because it wasn't that good for a lot of people. It was good for you if you were a white man. It wasn't that good if you were a Mexican. Or Black. Or Jewish. Or Disabled. Or Gay. Or a woman." --Bill Maher, from his latest HBO special "But I'm Not Wrong"

Ladies and gentlemen, RNC Chairman Michael Steele

"It ain't easy when you're running a Ponzi scheme of stupid." --Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chairman

Quote of the year?

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith.

What good is a bunch of kooks if you can't get some laughs out of them?

"What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down — but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally." —Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher

"Well, tomorrow in Nashville, Sarah Palin will speak at the Tea Party Convention. Tickets are $550 apiece. Where are they getting this tea, Starbucks?" —Jay Leno, The Tonight Show

"The Tea Party nation announced last week that Sarah Palin will headline what is being called the first national Tea Party convention in February. It is expected to be the nation's largest ever gathering of misspelled signs." —Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live

"At a Tea Party rally in Boston yesterday, Sarah Palin praised the crowd for winning that Senate race in Massachusetts. She said: 'Shoot, look at what you did in January. You shook up the United States Senate.' Unfortunately, no one heard the Senate thing, because after she said 'shoot,' 300 guns went off." —Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

"Federal taxes last year when down for 98 percent of people, but when asked about this, only 12 percent of the Teabaggers thought this was the case. 88 percent of them had it wrong. And a spokesman for the Teabaggers said, 'We don't want to just be taxed less. We want to be taxed less by a white guy." —Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher

Link to original post:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2010/05/19/tea-party-jokes.htm

Because we need to lighten up a bit

Fun quote of the day

"Last I checked, Sarah Palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues."

--President Barack Obama to ABC's George Stephanopolous on "Good Morning America" when asked about her criticism of him and his development of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia.




Good on ya', President.

Let's have a great weekend, y'all.

Link to original post: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002109-503544.html

Sarah Palin: Not an April Fool's Day joke

Of course you heard that Sarah Palin is getting her own TV show on the Fox Channel, right?

But get this: Did you also know that she was starting this little enterprise today? April 1?

Yeah.

April Fool's Day.

That's too rich.

You'd have thought they would have avoided that completely.

No one ever accused the people at Fox for being that smart.

Shrewd, yes.

Smart?

Oh, hell no.

Needing and wanting reforms--health care, banking and more

Bill Maher: telling it like it is



Note/warning: some adult (crude) language

Crazy spending imbalances

Look at the imbalances of what is being spent per capita in each State from the "Stimulus money" at the following link:

http://projects.propublica.org/recovery/

I’m sure it’s typical but Missouri is getting $903.00 per person while Alaskan citizens are getting $2711.86 each spent on them. That's galling enough, by itself, with that crazy inequity but keep in mind, this is where Ms. Palin abhors government--and government spending.

Yeah, I'll bet she does.

Then, on top of that bit of indignity, Washington, DC citizens are getting $5780.30 per person spent on them.

Would someone explain this to me?

Why is it that this is supposed to make sense?

That’s some crazy imbalances.

If you’re from a large Western state where, again, they “hate government” and there’s hardly anyone out there, load up ‘cuz they’re each getting lots more money spent on each of them. (e.g., Montana @ $1,619.97 each).

Damn gubmint.