Newt’s in, but GOP newcomer Tim Pawlenty takes tea. The former MN gov was the only top-tier White House hopeful to speak to the tea party convention last weekend, and he backed it up with this slick web video praising their cause (reminding me of Obama’s early well-edited ads calling for hope and change).
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Woo hoo--
newt who?
and will faux news still keep him on payroll?
Even you Liberals will agree with the common sense approach in this article
http://tinyurl.com/Go-Full-Out-or-Do-Not-Go
“Gingrich is still under contract with Fox News as a political commentator. A Fox spokesperson didn’t immediately return a request for comment on his future employment status now that he’s forming an official committee.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50430.html
if he does run, an enterprising journalist should request a copy of his faux contract to ascertain if there is any hanky panky (as in creative way of hiding campaign contributions by faux).
where there’s panky, newtie’s hanky ain’t far behind.
Ha the genius of Fox not even trying to pretend to have standards is how they can blow off such petty complaints. Others pretend while shattering standards just as much. Me thinks Fox more honest than competitors in this regard
Craig,
Please provide examples for your claim…Hannity and Co were pooping in their hands and demanded that both Matthews and Shultz leave the air IMMEDIATELY though there was just talk of them running for Senate.
You’re wrong about Fox’s genious. They do have standards, they model themselves after the classic heels of pro wrestling fame. They do what they want because they know they are competing with groups who obey the rules and that leaves them more room to operate as freely as they choose.
Funny rumor. nude gingrich scared loopy lou dobbs out of the race by telling him, my guys are going to call your guys ‘Lou’s Tools’. It ‘s a delightful appelation when said in haste. In this case, haste makes waste.
I am impressed by faux news’ courageous refusal to retract or apologize for lying about the LAPD spending $$$ 1 B!LL!ON
on jet packs for their cops.
For such courage and devotion to deceit in the effort to dicredit our nation’s police, our republican Congress should vote roger ailes, rupert murdoch, and alaweed ibn talil ibn saud medals of republican honor.
Sorry to say’but the republicans don’t have a potential candidate that can beat an incumbent president with a billion dollars
Best they can do is take the senate and force pres Obama to run to the center
TheRealTruth I refer you to NBC News entire prime time lineup on MSNBC. A self-described “objective” news org running nonstop partisan programming on its cable outlet? Please!
Now 2016 “that’s a different story
Pres nikki Haley ” vice pres Marco Rubio
Or Alen west
Yea all minorities ” all rising stars in the republican party
With the full backing of the tea party
Lindsey Lohan signed a book deal for $3.3 Million dollars, to really finally “skank-it-up “. Maybe Charlie Sheen can ghost write it.
Maybe a desert road picture ? Lindsey Lohan , Mohmar Gaddafi , & Charlie Sheen “The Rode to ” SkanksVille “.
” Pickin’ With Buddy ” for Drew Pennington
http://the-shin-bone-star.blogspot.com/2011/03/pickin-with-buddy-for-drew-pennington.html
Last time Newtie ran --he said he would raise (some number) in a few weeks…in a few weeks he was out of the race.
Newtie first in…first out
“Best they can do is take the senate and force pres Obama to run to the center ” Posted by: mqw | March 1, 2011 6:09 PM
I agree. I’d like Obama to move farther left, also. That would indeed be the best thing that the Senate could do.
Gas is almost 4 bucks a gal for reg here and I think it is really starting to freak people out.
Maybe we can have a gas tax holiday until the middle est calms down.. ~~~~~~
Ms Cracker,
Fifo Newt. I like that image. I can just hear his laugh track supporters :
” FIFO Newt ! FIFO Newt ! FIFE, FIFE, FIFE ! ”
It’d be good if nudie and willard could eviscerate each other first, leaving the money trail open for the bachmanniac, lou ‘stools’ dobbs, the palinator, Potholes Aplenty, or sharron ‘exalted kleagle’ angle.
The only good red eft is a dead one.
It would be better to ‘earmark’ all Fed fuel taxes to subsidize alternative energy source development and distribution than to have a tax holiday.
You can pay abunch now, or you can pay 4 bunches next year.
http://blogs.cqrollcall.com/trailmix/2011/02/obama-caves-on-health-mandate.html#comment-330526
BW
So sorry for yours and your husbands troubles. I hope hope things get better soon. I do hope your husbands pain will lesson soon as well.
Craig,
That clip of old cutie Governor Timocracy ‘Potholes’ Aplenty certainly demonstrates his uncanny ability to get the laugh track machines up on it’s chair, shrieking for more.
Here in Minnesota, we know that Governor Aplenty was able to boost pothole production by 150 % over his predecessor Jessie ‘The Botch’ Venturine, all the while slashing money for public education, environmental remediation, and housing. What Governor Aplenty did for Minnesotans, he can do for the entire nation.
You’re gonna like how he looks, I gurantee it.
guarantee
http://www.taylormarsh.com/2011/03/01/obamas-sec-of-labor-crawls-out-from-hiding/
“Obama’s Sec. of Labor Crawls Out From Hiding”
“The fact that the Obama administration finally let Sec. Solis speak out is novel, but unimpressive. She’s been nowhere in this fight. She has had no voice, no presence, because the Obama administration is giving her no power.
Can’t appear too partisan, too strong on a union issue, because some voter somewhere in some state that Pres. Obama needs for ‘12 might not like it.
The Obama political era is represented by weakness at the top of the national party, with national Republicans in such calamitous disarray that they can’t find anyone strong and palatable to the broad center to take Obama on. That’s his good fortune.
As unions and state Democratic politicians stand up beside workers in Wisconsin, the national parties have never been weaker, with the celebrity presidency of Barack Obama relegated to a footnote, out of choice, in a historic union fight that could impact Democrats for a long time”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/rick-scott-scott-walker-most-isolated-gop-governor_n_829981.html
“Rick Scott Competes With Scott Walker For Most Isolated GOP Governor”
WASHINGTON — The theatrics of Wisconsin’s ongoing budget protests have left the impression that there is no more isolated governor in the country than Scott Walker.
But down in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott’s steadfast opposition to a national high-speed rail project has put him squarely on an island, with federal, state and even local officials all petitioning him to change course.
The latest chapter in the saga came on Tuesday, when leading Republican and Democratic state Senators formally sued the governor in Florida Supreme Court in an attempt to salvage the high-speed rail plans. Just hours later, the Court announced Scott had until noon on Wednesday to respond in kind. His office responded to the lawsuit (not the Court) with a statement from the governor declaring that his “position remains unchanged.”
Craig,
while you can claim that MSNBC evening is of a liberal bent, the morning and daytime lineup has a Republican bent to it
Also consider that these partisans that you deride have no problem criticizing President Obama and they are consistent in their criticisms whereas Fox would shill for Republicans under any circumstances.
Plus, MSNBC reports stories and any of the anchors you deride will make corrections should they make a factual error…when has Fox apologized for an error? Even after John Stewart catches them in their daily lies, they never correct the record.
Perhaps your resentment towards being typecast as an anti Palin whore has clouded your perspective some?
Just in case anyone runs into a similar problem, my sign in snafu was the new I.E. 9 download and I needed to clear the cache so that it now works …. sort of since we are discussing Microsoft and the Google wars.
Comcast no longer supports Google Chrome since it is open source. Therefore to get the speed of Chrome, I use that as default but if I want my email, and two puzzle sites I have to use I.E.
What fun and can’t we all just get along?
Nice try Real Truth, i don’t buy it.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/2011/03/01/mike-huckabees-venomous-charm/
‘Mike Huckabee’s Venomous Charm”
“There are no coincidences on right-wing radio.
When a potential Republican presidential candidate goes on right-wing radio and gets caught saying Pres. Barack Obama grew up “in Kenya” it isn’t by accident.”
What don’t you buy?
Provide one example of when Fox offered criticism of a Republican politician that wasn’t involved in a sex scandal? Hell, did they criticize anyone besides Mark Foley since he liked young boys?
You don’t buy it? fine, OFFER PROOF. You sound a lot like Meghan Kelly telling bold face lies and spinning them as truth because she says so. Don’t think you can get away with making a blanket statement based on your bias and resentment of a bad professional experience. You sound like a typical republican politician who says one thing then does another.
SHAME
Face it Real you like the bias of one channel and dislike the other. But both are biased. No need to cherry pick examples either way.
I mean commercial nets are free to cater to an ideological niche for profit. But they shouldn’t get away with pretending to be journalists.
I prefer Doyle and Keith to orally ‘n’ beg. I don’t remember the former 2 ever saying a good thing about a puguglican. Does this mean that the former 2 are not journalists ?
I cannot remember a time when o’rally or beg ever said a good thing about a Dem. Does this mean that orally and beg are not journalists ? I think that the set ‘journalists’ is defined by someting other than party preference.
In my book, Doyle is the journalist, and the other 3 are polemicists. Of the 3 polemicists, orally and beg have been repeatedly shown to be dishonest. Of the 2, beg has been forced to apologize repeatedly for his anti-bigotted lies, which he then proceeds to repeat.
orally’s punishment is that his wife prefers a small plastic tube contining a tiny electric motor to him. I wonder what beg’s punishment is.
Xrepub, polemicist is the perfect word. It used to be that journalists hosted and polemicists were the guests. Now its the exact opposite. Sums up my current aversion to doing most cable news.
Maybe glum bug’s punishment will be that willard failure to do as well as last time, thus demonstrating that glum bug is of no utility up here on earth.
glum bug ! Come on down !
Good for you, Craig. I hope you get rich anyway.
G’night
One last quibble. The he said she said format, made popular by Robin McNeill was meant to present differing opinions on various timnely topics and issues. It has morphed into they lie, a format presenting various fanatical ravings regarding earthly matters.
G’night.
Thanks xrepub. Not interested in rich. Prefer psychic income.
I guess when you confront ones strongly held beliefs with actual facts and reality it’s gets a bit uncomfortable
Dear MWQ -
I’m the only white fucking shaman you will ever meet. Hell, I’m one of the few white fucking shamans this hemisphere ever made. I don’t own a truck, dip stick. I sold my van 5 years ago to buy this God Damn MAC, so I could chew your ass.
MQW -
My Apple egg died, I blogged from the library, ask Renee.
Like I said, I sold my van so I could kick your ass.
Well I have a hard time deciphering what y’all talking about half the time
Could you just speak in plain English ” jibberish is not my second language
Yo -
The internet forgets nothing, and I have a foot print.
The up side for America , I will never collect one nickel of my SS money. Not #1 fucking penny.
MQW -
How did you help the country, I have a list.
Your just commenter on a keyboard dog.
I really don’t care for Koch Heads anymore. But I know this, like our friend VD, ……………. Hell comes to breakfast , and the Koch -- Heads don’t get a ” Get-Out-of-Climate-Change-Free” card.
All the other key strokes mean nothing.
The price of life on your river is going up sport.
MQW -
I’ll get fucking Sturg to translate, the boy has classical training,& all of his fingers.
MQW -
I’ll get fucking 9/11 to translate, the boy has classical training,& all of his fingers.
And boy do I miss. him.
MQW -
Mike Huckee-Bee said today , that our President grew-up in Kenya.
How can I deal with you folks , about really important matters, when most of you believe this ?
MQW -
You heard it here first sport, Craig Crawford, “home of bright political thinking”.
All you wing nuts cough it up , I want ” 10 Great Job Ideas “, and I want them now.
The barren wastes of ideas will now trickle in.
The BBFF
Cbob ” the price of everything is going up ‘ in case you haven’t noticed
Partly due to the democrats failed policies of borrowing ” spending ” printing money “devaluing the dollar ”
And partly due to us not taking advantage of our own natural resources
The BBFF is older than every Koch-Head here, long before any of you squirrels dragged up your nuts. Here, with young Mr. Crawford watching, I told Fritz, he was using the Butt Based Fact File.
I sold my van to write that crap on the world wide web sport.
You reach around and pull that crap out of your ass.
I’ll beat you like a baby monkey ……….
The good old days
Nash , Mad Mustard, & I , …….. Beat Fritz like a baby kitten with a sock of dimes.
It was funny fucking stuff.
All the buffalo are gone, trust me I looked.
I’m going to write about those big ass wolves, that left the North Fork of the Barazos River. I came 3 lives later.
The second Chapman to get a drivers permit.
Ir really is a blink of an eye folks.
We need God Damn Gandhi.
Bad.
He’s supposed to come back, right ?
Or is that Harry Potter ?
I learned #1 thing from ” Young Crawford “, ……….. How to say a lot with very few words.
You’re losing when you open your second paragraph.
It’s easy to read kids.
I see global warming has officially become climate change ”
Kind of a catch all phrase ” if it rains ” climate change ” if if doesn’t
Climate change ” if we have hurricanes ” or we don’t ” if it snows ” if it doesn’t climate change” pretty much covers everything that happens or doesn’t happen
Lard Ass is the only guy that gets by the 2 paragraph rule.
MQW -
Thank for coughing up that A.M. fur ball.
MQW -
Last week , 4 Amish kids drowned. That storm front was moving 60 mph.
On Feb. 24 & 25 the NCDC got 520 new precipitation records. Some up to 3.5 inches, from storms moving 60 mph.
You didn’t grow up with this every 4 days every spring.
Hell is coming to breakfast.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records.php
MQW -
Look at this one, the last full night in Feb :
VERNON [LAMAR COUNTY], AL
33.74 -88.13 COOP 018517
70.0°F (2011 Record)
56.0°F(old record) 2009
51 (years in the record)
That’s at night in Feb.
14 degrees, at night 2 days ago near the Gulf of Mexico, smashing a 2 year old record.
Top of the page :
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records.php?ts=daily&elem=himn&month=2&day=28&year=2011&sts=US&submitted=Get+Records#recs
That means it can rain on you and Jack like gentiles have never seen.
We’re up next in this water world batters box.
The sun has moved, ….. now comes the rain. Somewhere in America it is about to rain 2 or 3 feet, in 36 hrs. Before May this will happen.
Ask Patsi for a baseline for what 1 ft does to your life. That happened last May.
A link I missed , 3 men dying in the Southern Ocean this week. 4 saved (?)
The winds were 186 kph when the boat went down.
New Zealand news, I read a lot of it.
1kph = 0.6 mph
Do your own math.
Men lived through a sinking of a sailboat in 115 mph winds in the Southern Ocean this week.
Hell is coming to breakfast, in deed.
Speaking of hell ………….
Saudi stocks slump nearly 7%
Egyptian Exchange again delays reopening
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/saudi-stocks-slump-egyptian-exchange-stays-closed-2011-03-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Come now, we all see a popping balloon by now, don’t we ?
Saudi stocks slump nearly 7%
You’re right Cbob there will be floods ” there will be droughts
But I’m not sure how crippling the economic engine of the country ” energy”
Is supposed to help
The biggest flood was the 1927 flood ” Was that global warming that cause it ?
Actually I agree that we have to transition to alternate forms of energy where it is practical and economically feasible ” But if we can’t transition to anything if we don’t use the resources we have
Those laid off oil rig workers can’t go across town and get a job at the windmill or solar panel plant ‘ cause there ain’t any
“Beat Fritz like a baby kitten with a sock of dimes.”
– C’Bob
It’s hard to remember now… it could have been a baby kitten named Socks that did him in.
it all begins with a sharp pencil
New Thread above…
Cbob ” the price of everything is going up ‘ in case you haven’t noticed
Partly due to the democrats failed policies of borrowing ” spending ” printing money “devaluing the dollar ”
And partly due to us not taking advantage of our own natural resources mqw
more of the Republican big lie techique