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So it seems that Barack Obama isn’t the only Democratic presidential candidate who is the object of death fantasies posing as "jokes" on the part of Republicans: Hillary Clinton is too, and this time it’s from a member of Congress:
Right now, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert is up. He repeated a joke I first heard him tell at the Pierce County Republicans’ Lincoln Day breakfast earlier this year. It involves an airplane that’s going to crash, one fewer parachute than passengers and, ultimately, Hillary Clinton dying.
Goldy gives you the outline of the joke, which we’ve all heard at one time or another, usually at interminable class reunions and family soirees.
Reichert, you’ll recall, actually bragged that he’d had a bus driver (a single mom) for a local school district fired for flipping off President Bush from the driver’s seat of her bus (she’d been blocked by Bush’s interminable motorcade with a bus full of kids). And it was all about "civility" back then.
When Congressman Reichert goes before nonpartisan audiences he likes to bemoan the loss of civility and lack of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. Apparently he does not really mean it, because when he gets before his fellow Republicans he takes a very different tone — this is just the latest unfortunate example of that.
Yeah, but we already know that Reichert is just another phony "moderate Republican" anyway. Always fun to watch the mask slipping.
And of course, this is just another reason to go help out Reichert’s opponent, Darcy Burner. Her Blue America page is here.
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OK- I confess- I’ve told that joke many times with Bush in the starrring role.
As frat-humor crass as that Hillary parachute undeniably joke is, her RFK murder allusion has an additional potential liability, e.g., how people will feel if someone indeed takes a shot at Obama, whether they get him or not?
(and, btw, I take him at his word that he takes her at her word that she didn’t mean anything insinuative, that she was in fact just tired)
I guess there is no line the Republicans won’t cross. To joke about people dying is not funny – especially given the fact that we have over 4000 families whose children have died. Sick.
This is why Al Giordano’s asked his people not to repeat A-word talk, even if it’s to criticize it.
From the member of congress link above. You got some stupid ones there in Washington Dave.
The jokes write themselves.
humanity at its finest
((((Quaker girl))))
Words fail me.
11. “We’ll have more time to spend with our
familieslayers.”(bows) Konniciwa, Wobbs
You’ve missed the flame wars on the previous threads. Consider yourself lucky.
Speaking of *sshats, from Frank Rich today:
Maybe George just ought to surrender to Federal Marshals now.
Awright, typo disease creeping in: “lawyers.”
Ugh. No ‘edit’.
Gotta go see my Ma anyway. Lter.
Have a great day with her!
Bom dia SD
*sigh* I saw them but did not read through them. Too much negative energy. All this snipping at each other in the party when we have a true target in McCain.
How are you today?
Ding. You also win the understatement of the day award.
I be fine. Warm and muggy. Summer in FL. Tigers have all reverted to pre-weaned stage. Eat and sleep. At least until about 10pm. Then it’s party time.
Gonna climb off this machine shortly and go fill my head with more stuff from books. Maybe watch a Tariq Ali clip or two.
8. Republicans are improving our communication skills – we’re stopping speaking in terms like
(insert $10 words here)competency, morality, budget surplus, and “weapons of mass destruction”.sounds like you all have some good ideas (book and then nap). enjoy yourselves *g*
The video of Reichert parsing his House votes, depending on whether it’s an odd year or an election year, is just precious. Talking about how his GOP party leadership covers for him, to let him appear to be something other than the rubber-stamp tool he is — it’s priceless.
And what’s with the big brave privileged men having working women fired for insults to their Dear Leaders? First Reichert with the bus driver, then Huckabee with the waitress.
Oh, wait, Reichert just bragged about getting the bus driver fired — he didn’t even really do it.
GOPs — bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?
Too muggy for me to nap. Probably do my weekly trip to the food locker. Seriously thinking about watching Peter Pan later this evening. Nobody did animation like the old animators at Disney in Anaheim.
2:01 PM. Called immediately for Clinton. CNN’s exit polling shows an overwhelming 70-30 victory margin. For a variety of reasons, I suspect that exit polling in Puerto Rico might be less reliable than it is elsewhere, but this is definitely going to be a very large margin for Clinton.
Pablano
I’m hearing turnout was very low.
Yes- apparently there was little enthusiasm for this election.
I imagine if I couldn’t vote in November why in hell would I bother today.
Plus the result is by now pretty much a forgone conclusion.
That- AND the impression that the fight is really over and Obama has won.
Apparently the people in Puerto Rico are about evenly divided for and against statehood. Agin are the reds- for are the blues.
Hillary appealed to the blues thinking that they would predominate in the turnout and guessed right.
Off to the food locker down the road then hit the books. As an aside, I heard the other day that indy booksellers are the only ones that showed any growth in 2007. The chains are flat. That’s really good news.
New Jane upstairs Puerto Rico open thread
Would like to think that the reasons are about the indies carrying a broader line of books while the chains stick to “top fifties” but that’s probably not the reason.
that and Alice in Wonderland are my favorites *g*
So, I must have missed the memo. Is it just me, or is everyone missing the icons on these pages?
If Hillary is a “liberal,” I’m a proctologist.