Look into my eyes…

A tax-raising dumb blonde with a well-photographed coochee.

It’s the oddest ad I’ve seen this year. Apparently, it’s designed to suggest he’s a clueless celebrity adored by the tasteless, but it comes across as an old man trying his hand at this new-fangled YouTubery stuff, much like the conservative effort to create its own Daily Show.

And even the tried-and-true GOP standard of calling every Dem a tax-raiser is bound to fall flat with Obama now zeroing in on the economy, with taxcuts and rebates for middle America.

Despite McCain’s effort to use the national ad approach to smear Obama with, the local media will be reporting Obama’s words at local gatherings, undercutting McCain’s lame effort to frame his opponent.

McCain’s approach has become almost entirely reactive instead of proactive. And in a bad economy, grousing is not a winning game. Despite Obama’s celebrity, he’s offering meat and potatoes. McCain is offering parsley from a fast food chain.

Somewhere in Georgia a woman at her computer is wondering how she could be so betrayed by one of the sisterhood of large tits.

She sighs and decides that Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has clearly lost her fucking mind. Recognizing that many were already convinced of Speaker Pelosi’s madness, the well-endowed woman experiences a moment of shame for all the hits her blog gets from people who don’t care what Nancy’s politics are - they simply want to see pictures of Ms. Pelosi’s breasts.

Wondering what Madame Speaker could possibly be thinking, the part-time political blogger tries to find a new way to spin this story and gives up. If Nancy Pelosi can’t see that that Bush Administration has committed impeachable offenses, then what is the point of screaming into the wind?

Deciding that holding out a candle of hope that Madame Speaker will see the truth and act on it is a waste of precious blogging time, the blogger sighs again and opens up a new Photoshop file.

At least she can give the people what they want…………

While there some benefit to hearing MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough mouth off in the morning, kinda like a quick bout of mental calisthenics that gets your blood moving — this guy shoves my brain into fight/flight mode better than a jolt of double espresso ever could.

But it’s got to be just plain bad karma to start your day pissed off. GOS diarist Muzikal203 captures today’s episode of bullshit and blather.

And right now, Joe Scarborough is on Morning Blow Joe raging about Obama’s ego because he dares to say he has good chances, and that if he is elected the world will look at him as a symbol of the “old” America to come back. Perhaps they want Obama to just not be confident, and not be who he is. Obama is comfortable in his skin and doesn’t really pander (which I love), but now he’s “uppity.” Johnathan Capehart literally just said he’s “bumping up against that uppity line” on TV. I suppose Capehart will get away with it because he’s black too. And now they are pulling the Michelle “proud” quote back up.

Uppity? Really guys?

Did we really have to go there? Dickheads.

Joe was miffed that Obama had the arrogance and hubris (adjectives I’ve never heard him use against anyone in the Bush Administration) to suggest he’s become a “symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” That statement was similar to how he described Berlin to Der Spiegel, a “symbol of the Victory of Hope.”

Mind you, this was actually a quote from one of the participants to the meeting, and not a direct quote of Obama himself (since now I see where Joe got his info, Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal of course). But since Joe saw an opportunity to take the quote of the paraphrase of the quote of who knows what Obama actually said, and put it in the worst possible light to match his ready-made narrative, Scarborough dished up the “uppity” meme for all to consume. Here’s what actually appeared in the WSJ. Pay particular attention to where the quotation marks begin and end, and who actually said what to whom about whom.

Sen. Barack Obama paid an upbeat visit to House Democrats, his first meeting with the full group of lawmakers whose fortunes are tightly tied to his this fall. “This is your moment,” he told them.

The Democratic presidential candidate told the group that the positive response he received in Germany and the rest of Europe was “not about him,” said House Democratic Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina. Rather, Obama said he was a “symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” Lawmakers gave that remark a standing ovation.

Did Obama actually say “He” had become a symbol? Was he talking about the campaign? The trip abroad? Do we really know? Does it really matter one damn bit? Isn’t it clear anyway you splice it, Joe Scarborough’s agenda it to put these n#$%@rs in their place?

What gets me is that he gets people like Johnathan Capehart and Harold Ford to play along, giving this fucking racist cover, acting like the fact that we’re talking about a black politician has nothing to do with the conversation. They’re just “analyzing” a politician and holding him to the same standards they would anyone else running for high public office.

Uppity.

Nuff said.

Move on.

They were talking about Michelle Obama and her “Proud” quote when I turned off the idiot box and left the room, deciding to do something productive with my morning. I didn’t see them put up Michelle’s quote like Muzikal203 did, but it looks like that’s where s/he stopped too and couldn’t take any more. Shocking that they had that quote ready to go, cued up at all times on the “Joe” show whenever necessary to remind viewers just how hateful and unpatriotic the Obamas can be.

Anyone been watching Regis and Whatsherface lately? Cuz as much as I kinda like Mika Brezinski, she’s no better than Alan Colmes getting rolled over every night by Hannity when she sits there in Joe Scar’s shadow, fuming but getting paid too much not to put up with the garbage. I think I’m pretty much done with MSNBC for anything but Olbermann’s Countdown.

Easy Headline

Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens indicted by federal grand jury

Bwhahahaaaah!

Hang on a sec’ while I catch my breath.

Heh heh hee. How about: Senator falls off Bridge to Nowhere?

No seriously, I gotta get this outta my system.

::snort::

Speculation is that they’re nailing him for the perjury/lying to investigators rather than the monumental corruption we all know he’s guilty of.

As President Pro Tempore of the Senate, he was fourth in line for the Presidency behind Boehner until January of last year. Likewise, until they lost their majority, he was the GOP chair of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee, and the master of pork. He’s the longest serving current Senator, been there since ‘68.

No, not 1868, but long enough.

He’s vote number 40 when the cloture votes come around. He’s Mr. Earmark. He’s a class-A Dickwad and when cleaning house, he’s at the top of the list of people that must, must, must be amputated from the halls of government. He’s a cancer.

He holds up legislation like most people hold up a fork — every day, all the time.

He’s done. Later dude. You arrogant old fart.

The Village is flabbergasted.

Heeheeheeheeheeeeeeee.

(Updatable)

Douchebags and Dickwads playing who’s got the bigger schlong on the floor of the United States Senate.

Republicans stuck together in blocking this bill not because they
oppose all of the programs, but because they have decided to block
everything small and large this week until they get votes on stalled
energy legislation.

The vote sent Reid into one of his trademark tirades on the Senate
floor, as he basically accused Republicans of voting against people
with strokes, people in wheelchairs and those suffering from Lou
Gehrig’s disease.

“You go home and explain to your folks [voters] about stroke
legislation,” Reid said. “You go home and tell people … in a
wheelchair you voted against moving forward on something that could get
them out of their wheelchair.”

“You’re going to have to go home and explain to the poor, the disabled and the elderly,” Reid continued.

McConnell held his ground, saying the Republicans were launching
blockade of everything not related to oil prices. The two sides are
actually negotiating on energy amendments, but there was no
breakthrough yet.

These assholes are playing games while the rest of us are getting flushed down the sewer. They know damn well that the oil barons aren’t even drilling where they’re allowed to right now. There are people that can be helped right now, today, if the Democrats are allowed to bring these measures to the floor — but not with this filibuster happy minority party.

No, not until they once again cater to the energy cartels so that ten years down the road they can buy their way out of ruining the the North Slope and the entire Gulf Coast while never once considering any real effort to reduce the $15.00/gallon cost of gas — and all the while never building a single refinery which is the real choke-hold on the oil spigot. And again we’ll be talking about alternate/renewable/clean energy sources someday, down the road.

This is blackmail mixed with disaster capitalism at it’s worst. While doing the bidding of their corporate masters, Congress yet again manages to hold the weakest among us hostage against all the rest who are firmly at the mercy of the Kleptocrats. And as we hear the chants of Drill! Drill! Drill! nobody will give a shit that we’re making thing Worse! Worse! Worse!

Again.

And when the Democrats capitulate, again, who wants to take the bet that none of their proposals see the light of day anyway. I guess the real reason this sticks in everyone’s craw is we watched the the Democrats allowed BushCo ram so much down our throats when they could have jammed things up like the GOP does every damn day.

Terry Schaivo

Military Commissions Act

War Funding, and Funding and Funding and Funding

Authorization to Use Military Force In Iraq

Justice Roberts

Justice Alito

Confirmation of Alberto Gonzales

FISA revamp with Telecom Immunity

Medicare givaway to Big Pharma

Impeachment and any kind of accountability, “Off The Table.”

Yeah, they stopped the GOP from destroying Social Security, ANBAR (so far) and confirming John Bolton to the UN. I’ll take it, but the legacy of Congressional Democrats in the minority makes their tenure as the majority party a bitter pill to swallow.

Honestly this takes the cake. It is simply useless polling information, and I’m dumber for having read them.

Gallup Daily: Obama 48%, McCain 40% — Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain has settled back slightly to a 48% to 40% margin among registered voters in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 25-27

Gains for McCain in latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll — Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among “likely” voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama

Dick “Toe-Sucker” Morris was on Hannity and His Ego to explain what’s going on and put it all in perspective. the problem isn’t the polls, methodology, representative sample, weight or day of the week. The problem is that Obama isn’t winning by 20 points — thus he’s losing. Naturally.

I have a confession to make. When I saw this headline at the top of Memeorandum, I had an absolutely horrible first reaction:

Robert Novak Hospitalized

Quite involuntarily I let out a reflexive, yet quiet little, “yay.”

I knew immediately that my reaction was just plain wrong. I wish no ill on the man personally, nor his family. I shook my head and read on.

Robert Novak was admitted yesterday to a Boston hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Again, your mind’s reaction to events is far swifter than your reason and compassion. Knowing what I know about the man, especially lately, you just get this mental picture of someone in the media spotlight like Novak. The tool of the Plamegate conspirators, the go to guy for fake-out rumors like McCain choosing a VP early who reports on politics like a gossip columnist, the Village Courtier who runs over bicyclists like any drunken celebutaunt — Brain Tumor? Figures.

My left-brain smacked my right-brain in the face, but not before my hind-brain said — “That explains everything.”

I don’t know if that makes me a bad person, and I honestly wish him well through what will undoubtedly be an arduous struggle.

It’s just that sometimes, the reptile inside of me thinks it’s clever.

[BTW, you don’t think this is just his way of trying to get out of a ticket, do you? Hey, That’ll be enough out of you lizard-breath, or I’ll put you back in your cage.]

In today’s Post 9-11 Patriot Act World, with surveillence security cameras on many street corners in many cities, I’m going to assume that the streets of Washington D.C are constantly being digitally videotaped, ya know, for security and stuff. That being the case, somebody somewhere has tape of a pedestrian splayed across the windshield of a black Corvette.I’m no expert on economic matters, but that’s gonna hurt the bottom line. I wonder how much that is worth?

Don’t worry your Reaganesque addled brain, my friend. Scooter Libby has alot of left over cash in his defense fund.And if that doesn’t work… well, there’s always the Presidential Pardon.

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