No word on whether C Street will send Tom Coburn along to provide his invaluable chaperoning, counseling and OB-GYN services:
Gov. Mark Sanford said he is leaving the state Thursday with his wife and sons for a two-week European vacation.
Sanford said the trip long has been scheduled and was meant as a last family getaway with his family’s four sons while they all still are living at home.
. . .
This will be Sanford’s fourth out-of-state trip since vanishing for five days to Argentina in mid-June. Upon his return, Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair. Since that time, Sanford has been in his office 14 of 24 work days.
. . .
However, Sanford argued he never is truly away from the job on evenings and weekends.
Yeah, well, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying about my job, but that doesn’t mean I get extra vacation or comp time for those lost hours of sleep, you self-aggrandizing dickhead. May the residents of South Carolina make your life a living hell for the remainder of your time in office. . . assuming you spend more than three days in the state ever again.
Anyway, it sounds like a fabulous (by which I mean painfully awkward and potentially traumatizing) time for the kids as they tour the Continent as part of their uptight, overly religious parents’ couples therapy/second honeymoon. How do you say "recipe for disaster" in Dutch?
I do hope they stop in Italy. I think Sanford and Silvio Berlusconi would get along famously, since they both like to "cross the line" with women who aren’t their wives. Maybe Berlusconi can get the college-bound kid a hooker — y’know, as a graduation present. Ciao, amore!
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Oh to be a fly on the wall of their suite.
With a camera.
“Are mommy and daddy trying to kill each other?”
That’s the way family values Republican dads always did it in the old days. Just don’t tell your mother about your rite of passage, son. It’ll break her heart.
Those Italian women! Makes me long for Argentina. – C Street Sanford
I hope the Sanfords’ European vacation is just like the Griswolds’.
Aw man, what happened to the freaking berets??
Gosh, I really wish I got paid for all the work I do at home outside of office hours, but then I am not a high powered Republican politician who gets paid for breathing.
Meanwhile, his soulmate remains sad and alone in Buenos Aires.
Nah, that would be too nice for these rat turds.
that would be too French, wiseass.
Shepard Smith talked about this vay-cay on FOX News tonight, just before the Obama presser. They put up a photo, clearly a Christmas pic or official family snapshot, of the Sanfords, but they fuzzed out the boys’ faces.
Like the boys have something to be ashamed of. Stupid FOX.
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, You know I’ll never leave you.
hopefully they don’t lose their camera
I lost any sympathy I may have had for his wife. She must be more stupid than a bag of hammers. What person with any self respect would stay with him not only after what he did, but then to go on national teevee and totally humiliate her. STUPID!
How do you say “recipe for disaster in Dutch?” recept voor een ramp
So getcha some een ramp and let’s go!
Maybe she’s a hopin’ and a prayin’ and a wishin’ for a threesome.
Hey now, I have been told that my ass is dumb and fat.
Hi, AquaKitteh!
Evenin’ Pups.
I’m catching the re-run of yesterday’s Daily Show. Very dang funny. JS just eviscerated the Dems for negotiating with themselves on the cap’n’trade bill.
FunnyWheelieDiva
Just one more geek note; in Dutch “ramp” would sound like “romp” in English. And it’s exactly Sanford’s “romp” which got him into such trouble.
The synergy of disaster in in damn multiple languages! Beauty!
Actually, the only word of Dutch you need to deal with Mark Sanford is klootzak.
I hear they are real fond of ramps down there in South Carolina.
Break out the banjos and gitfiddles.
Ja!
Syzygy!
Oh, good, I was hoping someone would make the vegetable pun!
FWDiva
Is sanford bringing his phone? Telling his staffers where he’s staying?
Ja meen he was gettin syzygy widdit?
Prolly shoulda placed Mark in front of a smaller phallic symbol. With luck, when they get to Vienna they’ll tour the sausage factory.
If you went camping with Mark Sanford and woke up in the morning and your ass was wet, would you tell the RNC?
Don’t want to give him too much of an inferiority complex. Vienna sausages ought to be alright, but bratwurst might be devastating.
Vienna Sausage? Lotta little pricks packed in a small can? Now say, that’s a total republican photo op.
True. None of these appear caucasian enough to be Republican.
Mark are you trying to beat Bush’s record of vacation days? To be fair to Bush he was Commander and Chief during 2 wars and a bank meltdown. I hope everyone in your state working 2 jobs to get by remembers this.
To be fair, there is probably a lot of German sausage in Argentina.
when you believe that God has given you the Power, then you deserve as much time as you like.
Accidents happen Mark’s wife is rich and in Russia you can buy anything.
The Bible only skips over King David’s epic vacations because the writer was in a hurry.
Suz I forgot to tell you you are getting the coolest room in the house this weekend… we know about your personal furnace!! Hope that soothes you heater fears….
If Mark claims to speech for the Lord or that the Lord has forgiven him then lets have Mark prove he is favored. Get Mark to gather wood make a pile douse the wood with water and wait for the Lord to light it.
If the Lord does not respond then Mark is not forgiven the punishment for claiming to speak for the Lord
http://www.amazingchange.org/s….._profb.htm
thanks nahant :)
Last tango in Paris?
I spell it S C H A D E N F R E U D E, Watertiger.
I’m here, so it’s no longer a pair’o’docs…
There you go again!
Regooplicans: The comedic gift that keeps on giving.
In 20 years, she’ll be playing soccer with those tits…
Now I’m reminded of the burning bush.
Nice, I like the way it ties in with Argentina.
Shit Iwas hoping you were goimng to say Douse the pile of wood in tar oil stand on top, light it up and if God had forgiven him God would not let Mark get BBQ’d!!
That would be a better example…. /s
Wait this vacation to Europe was it the wife’s idea is Mark well one those southern guys like Strom who marries the Proper girl but has some darker action on the side for those *ick* needs he can’t get fulfilled from his wife?
Is Mark’s wife telling us Mark only loses it with Darker women?
Oh and the Darkest in the morning so the early side of noon will still seem like midnight!
*gentle reminder*
let’s not go down the slippery slope of fantasy violence
Hey Bush never BURNED!! He just sputtered when asked any question he wasn’t fully rehearsed for!!
dood!
I’m tired of fantasy violence, Suz. I want some full-on, hard-core, real-live Regooplican violence. With Regooplican objects of said violence, of course…
Just a better example of God’s work…. when he wants to that is!
Drowning is the punishment if God does not light the fire. Still your right the English church claims that Joan of Arc was not a Saint because she burned. I think she was a saint but theirs no God. (I waver on this one).
Is the Sanford family going to England or France?
Exquisite. Pass the butter.
The tension inherent in traveling – internationally, no less – is high even when parents and children get along and nothing bigger than a routine assignment, the garden club or whether the kids’ school schedules will mesh with fall outings.
When the father and the marriage are in crisis, it’s a recipe for family and personal disaster. No amount of mom lingering over the girders of the Tour Eiffel or the Gov. salivating over the deep flowing Seine will distract from the issues this family needs to address.
Even the Family’s counselors should be that aware. I suspect they are more concerned with getting this shell of a man out of the country than with any healing his real family needs to attempt. Which is a nice analog for how the Family rates the welfare of Americans versus the ambitions of its members.
Often, it’s the different environment – the exotic locale – that stokes the passions. Once you get your prize home, things become domesticated fast. We fall into our daily grind.
Ahh. To really be like King David…C Street….C Street
Dam good question… They still practice the Inquisition in places ya know…. in the little towns I think…
Better that than what many people do when a marriage is in crisis… have a(nother) kid.
Bagram… Gitmo…
Biblical or sexual?
I’ll contribute the only appropriate music: Morrison and The Doors…
C’mon baby, Light My Fire!
or the Gov. salivating over the deep flowing
Seinecleavage will distract from the issues this family needs to address.There fixed it for ya earl..
Think about it the last place Marks wife wants to take him is anywhere where he will meet the kind of girl he met last time so no Spain or Portugal. No dance clubs for Mark to Minister to married women about going back to their husbands.
Just how does one expect to minister in a loud dance club in a foreign language? Don’t the bouncers throw people out if someone goes there Ministering and trying to stop the Sin?
I mean why else pay bar prices for drinks unless you want to sin?
That sounds like German, not Dutch, nicht Wahr?
It’s a question of latitude, not vision.
Ich spreche Deutsch, sondern keine Niederlander.
As for Dutch, I’m sure the Gov. would love to visit Amsterdam before it relocates its display windows away from near Dam Square to more comfortable, but less expensive real estate.
Last Tango In Paris featured one of the greatest bushes of all time. Sanford and his penchant for citing conveniently apt after perversion biblical verse brings both concepts to light.
Ok its more than a Southern guy hung up over dark girls its eating out as you put it I agree with you. But now I think his wife has made a very big mistake.
Ich auch. The “G’s” are much easier to pronounce auf Deutsch.
nope Aurthur Brown Fire
~!
Time for me to toddle off. I am going hiking in the morning and want to do it early before it gets hot. Supposed to be around 100 tomorrow (almost unheard of here – average July highs are 85). Take care all.
Ich sprechez klien Deutsch Mien Her!,
Republican areas of Spain where they still worship General Franco if Mark’s wife was planning an accident to solve her problems that could work.
Night Dr Dick… stay cool … maybe go fishing for some cut throat trout always a cool endeavor..
How do you say “recipe for disaster” in Dutch?
Amsterdam.
I like the proto-Kiss look Brown had going, but really… isn’t this more like it?
If it hasn’t been pointed out by another Francophone, it is “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” “Se coucher” means to go to bed as in to sleep. “Coucher” means to have sex. Here it is “coucher”.
When the sweet music of Eurofrench street musicians strikes a familiar chord, the lank-haired, rat-faced, rat-brained Sanford will swoon. He will grudge f*ck his wife with renewed vigor as he longs for his dark lovely Argentina.
I wonder when Sanford will give his assessment of Sotomayor as has Gay Charlie Christ.
Ratfood you are right whats more likely an accident no, a vacation to just get poor Mark out of the public eye maybe, but the Families Fundies I’m sure are saying romantic get away, get her knocked up and she can’t leave you.
Another baby and she will be to busy and tired to notice that you are gone. Plus you will have proof just in time for the election that you two are back together. No reporter can ask you an immoral question when you hold a baby.
Mark saying bad stuff about Sotomayor Please! can we get Mark to dis National Healthcare too? What about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Suddenly I wish Mark had accepted some NICE press interviews to explain his side and maybe talk about the issues some.
Mark can get the angry over adultery and the screwed in a Divorce vote both male and female on any issue provided he speaks against our position.
America does love gossip news they will pay attention.
MrCE says that you are correct!
Is the direct translation thus:
Will you go to bed with me?
coucher – to “couch”!
I have always loved the Doors!! Have their anthology that was released recently…
Closeted-gay Charlie Crist Turtle decided it was safe to stick his head out and slam Soto.
Jim Morrison was a real piece o’work, and I can’t say that I approve of much of his stage behavior. On the other hand, he had the good sense to surround himself with excellent musicians and was no mean poet himself.
I like ‘em too. I have all their stuff on vinyl, and most of it on CD.
Sob my most precious vinyl was stolen long ago…sob sob..
She looks like every Cuban GOP voters Grandma is he nuts? She supports Latino causes like I’m sure every Cuban GOPer trying to get out the vote for the GOP does.
Oh I’m sorry to interrupt please Charlie say more and can you say it with your arm around Mark as he puts his arm around your wife for the camera?
This kind of stuff only helps us.
According to this morning’s Albuquerque Journal the Regooplican-voting-to-confirm list consists of Snowe, Collins, Lugar, and Martinez. I’ll give an honorary membership to Arlen Spectre (R, I-wanna-get-reelected). I expect Hatch to announce before long.
It’s G-A-M-E O-V-E-R, and the knuckleheads would do well to admit it.
I haven’t played any of my vinyl in dog’s years.
Everytime the GOP has a scandal we got their words to throw back at them when they seek forgiveness.
The louder they get the better for us. What does the GOP get on tv for for saying No to everything Obam a does but do they have their own plan no!
We control the battlefield/ the debate because we are having one.
The best the GOP can do is personal attacks that are often not true. First Personal attacks rebound you can’t hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself.
Newt found this out when he tried to get Clinton but in the end Newt and his replacement lost their jobs not Bill.
Second in the age of the internet lies are pretty quick to track down.
Yes. He’s walking a tightrope. Charlie is in primary mode. He needs to appear to be at least as wingnutty as the dyed-in-the-wool wingnut Rubio.
Gay Crist infuriated radical-right R party goons by supporting Obama’s economic stimulus package, raising the spectre of a primary challenge from the super duper rightwing nutjob Rubio.
Crist and Rubio hope to occupy the big fat ass seat vacated by the certain-to-have-lost loser Mel Martinez, Republican Fascist from viejo Cuba.
Willie Brown (Mayor of SF, former Assembly Speaker) said this evening that responsible Republicans need to quit catering to their crazies and speak out about the insanity that’s going on.
I always thought that Willie was a pretty astute guy, but he doesn’t seem to have it figured out that the crazies are what’s left of the Republican Party.
Sure enuff. The 23 percent of Americans, willing to identify themselves as Rethuglicans after eight years of continual disaster, are crazy as shithouse rats or extremely rich and crazy as shithouse rats.
You’ll notice on Hardballs and Fux News that it is always presented that registered or self-identified Republicans are a much larger constituency than the numbers truly indicate.
The literal translation is “Do you want to have sex with me?”
True are not independent voters about as big as the GOP or bigger and thats if they include the ones who voted straight ticket Dem but are still independent.
Arguably, the most shameful piece of this is the Regooplican politicians who are somewhat more oriented to reality-as-we-know-it but pander to the base anyway.
The price of keeping some jobs is just too high.
Haven’t got that info. Nate Silver has it. Educated guessing indicates that the bulk of formerly registered Rethugs re-registered as Independents while a lesser, but significant number re-upped as Demorats.
In closed-primary states, Independents can’t vote for primary candidates. Seems to me, people ought to know which lousy party best represents their worldview. But what do I know?
The GOP thinks they go after Bill we go after Newt they go after Sotomayor. Its fair Bill never committed no crimes however the GOP does seem to think they can get away with doing the exact things that they complain about with no cost.
First in Mark Foley’s case it was a crime, in David Vitter’s case crime but not that bad Sotomayor why the imaginary outrage like it was a crime?
The 20%ers forgive the GOP everything even when they lie about innocents like it was a crime because the BASE needs to be angry/fed.
This kind of behavior turns off moderates
Uh I don’t think so……/s
Yes it does. Of course, this phenomenon does not indicate that moderates are paying sufficient attention to anything beyond Michael Jackson’s left nut.
Is that true for national races? Never mind that so the only way a GOPer can win local office in a closed party state is to win the base or hope that in an off year less turnout election enough moderate GOPers will refile their election status as GOP to turn the tide?
The System will select for Crazy then Primary Season will be a lot of late nights pizza eating over the latest GOPer making National News impressing the base and driving down GOP turnout nationally.
Wouldn’t a GOPer be more likely to say something like want a ride in my Limo? I mean without power and money guys like Mark, Newt and Rush have to rely on their personalty, or looks.
(Brain Beech Stat)
Hairdresser Jose Eber, fielding questions from his hair show audience, announced that a woman who had posited a question to him in French had asked if she could go to bed with him.
Aghast, the women vehemently denied that she had made such a proposition.
Jose replied, “Yes, you did. And I have news for all of you. None of you here will go to bed with me tonight. I brought my own meat with me from Califoria.”
It’s true in ohio. I know a few people changed from R to D to vote in the primary for whoever they thought would make us lose. Hahahahah
Yes. As a registered FL Dem, I voted the Democratic primary ballot. I voted for Edwards.
Repubs had their own primary ballot with Romnut, McKooKoo, Huckleberry, etc.
Funny. FL and Ohio – two closed-primary states – are the two states where Dubya stole the 2000 and 2004 elections.
This could be big if they forgot to change back how many races did we lose that were close? BWHAHAHA!
Ok that is woth digging into more why? I’m going upstairs.
So I guess we won’t have any compassion for Mrs. Sanford because she’s “overly religious.” What the fuck?
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Huh, in RC you just open the windows after 7pm and that fog running in over Crystal Springs Reservoir and the Coast Ridge will kewl a nuke blast.
Man I sure miss them fogs, ’specially when it’s 100F here daze on end, or upper 90’s.
Truth be told, it’s the mildest spring and summer so far since ‘88 when we moved here from San Mateo.
Did I mention how much I miss Crystal Springs Reservoir, The Fog, and all that? Did I?
You take good care of them Pups, Nahant, and next year, if ya host, I hope to be there. *G*
What’s Mrs. Sanford’s religion got to do with anything? She can be a Muslim for all I care. It’s her business if she wants to stay with that asshole. King David of C Street declared that the Argentina is his soul mate. Need he say more?
Stop propping yourselves up as paragons of moral virtue. Sanctimonious hypocrisy is a bitch when it bites you in the ass.
From Texas Betsy at RP comments on a thread. I’m posting the linky she did, she gets kudos. What IS it with these people? . Another Good Man, Gone.
And the boyfriend, how stupid is he? He coulda sold the cd of pix to a major news outlet for what, $100K or more? And instead the phool decides to BLACKMAIL A STATE SENATOR for a lousy $10K?
I’m not sure who’s more teh stoopid here, the State Senator, the chippie idjit, or the boyfriend!!!! *G*
How do you say “recipe for disaster” in Dutch?
recept voor een ramp
I’m beginning to believe that congress critters and especially Rs feel entitled to have affairs and all the family family rubbish is only part of cover and diversion.
We need a Hugh’s List for this.
Jubilation T. Sanford in Paris??? The lights just went out in the city.