swopa!

Swopa!

Michael Steele is the final proof that stupidity and evil can coexist quite nicely.

SWOPA!

that’s more a terrifying indictment of the state of our nation than something to brag about

See, that’s what happens when you can’t just create your own reality, you get all caught up in the facts.

I thought that was Boehner?

SWOPA!
The Democrats are the only people who could lose to somebody as incompetent as Michael Steele. That’s just sad.

Boehner is the penultimate proof that stupidity and evil (and orange skin) can coexist.

Perhaps we need a different category for BoehnHead. Say stupid, evil, and toxic.

Steele writes that his branch of the GOP “welcomed” insurgent candidates like Sen.-elect Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen.-elect Pat Toomey (R-PA)…

I have twenty bucks that says Steele doesn’t mention any of the Teabaggers that lost.

And Day-Glo. Don’t forget the Day-Glo.

That kind of goes with the toxic. I mean, I haven’t seen that color of orange since I was a kid randomly mixing chemicals from my chemistry set.

If they still made it, I’d swear Boehner had gotten constipated by an overdose of Tang.

I liked your post I read earlier about the Democrats lost to a party that was way more unpopular than they were, and then wondered if that was a great feat or the height of incompetence? Or something along those lines, can’t remember exactly.

Made me laugh though.

Just read it again, the height of accomplishment or the depth of failure.

WELL SAID!

What I said was that it was either the height of achievement or the depth of failure but the distinction between them is lost.

Thanks. :)

I think perhaps it is the height of achievement at plumbing the depths of failure.

We have a winner!

The agony of victory, the thrill of defeat.

As I said, the distinction isn’t just moot, it’s lost.

Personally, I think if a party screws the country up so badly that not only do they get punished heavily by voters in two straight elections, things stay so bad that the other party gets punished the next time around

The Democrats are responsible for their own losses. The Republicans didn’t cause the Democrats to lose the election because of what they did two or more years ago. The Democrats royally screwed up when they had once in a generation majorities and that’s why they lost.

Indeed. Wholly swallowed in the wormhole.

Fortunately(?) for the GOP, they have a number of options for jettisoning Mr. Steele.

They could go old-school:

“You’re Black dude, get the fuck outa our party.”

Or they could instead pay the ‘Livin’ Large tack:

“First Class flights? Towncar? Paid speeches? Those were reserved for Katon Dawson.”

They might even try the internal corruption angle:

“Listen Michael, buying x and y and z on an RNC expense account when we’re broke is hard to justify, considering that we needed Karl Rove to pull our chestnuts out of this thing.”

Come to think of it, these are all pretty much the same reason.

Think I will toddle off early. It was a busy day today. Had a long talk with my first Ph.D. student about his dissertation, which he should defend early next semester and added my fourth. I am starting to get a reputation as the boy who cannot say no.

Night DrD.

g’nite dr dick

I am taking the minority view here. Michael Steele did a great job, or if not great at least not as bad as the D’s leadership. Leadership is not exactly the correct word, rather puppets of the offshore overlords.

Actually, Steele did open an X-tra Large can of whup-ass on Tim Kaine. Most of us armchair campaign managers dream of having a campaign such as this, with the satanic witches, and the R candidates under criminal investigation. But Tim Kaine, no, he lost because he is a loser. He will continue to be a pathetic loser.

Uh given the economy, jobs and homes and Obama’s string of success pissing off the Left, Gays, etc one must wonder how many more seats the GOP could have one with sane candidates and actual ideas.
If the GOP had gone Reagan this election and kept the racial stuff to a minimum the Dems would have lost the senate.

Compare and contrast. The GOP mandarins ignored Michael Steele, and he didn’t hurt GOP candidates in the midterms. On the other hand, the Democratic mandarins installed Tim Kaine, and both he and his bosses badly hurt Democratic candidates.

Actually, Steele did open an X-tra Large can of whup-ass on Tim Kaine.

That’s like the Pittsburgh Steelers opening an X-tra large can of whup-ass on Joe’s Bar and Grill’s flag football squad.

One sane candidate: Mike Castle, RI, purged by Dick Armey and Tim Phillips’ troopers.
Come to think of it, I can’t think of any others.

I just discovered my mother has a bag with Polaroid film that expired in 1972. If the pigments haven’t dessicated by now, it might produce some interesting flesh tones.

LOL. Maybe a picture of the B-man taken with this film might lose his unnatural orange.

There was some awful tanning lotion that produced colors like the one his skin glows with.

I’m going to bed. Maybe I’ll wake up in a different and more sane universe. Oya koinu.

How much money did the GOP lose fighting primary challenges from Tea Baggers money that could have gone to other GOP races?
How many Tea Baggers beat GOPers who could have won Satan Girl in Delaware, Nevada Harry Reid the weakest senate majority leader ever only won because his tea bag opposition was to extreme to right wing to get elected.

g’nite margaret

Crap sane Tea Baggers are something to worry about.

Delaware… That’s right.

Any odds Steele will still be GOP chairman next year?

My mother kept egg whites in the freezer for 30 years and then baked some cookies with it. . .yikes. I’ll take 1972 film in a can.

Gentry Collins’ resignation is the setup for Steele’s ouster.

Any bets that after such a strong showing the GOP will feel it doesn’t need minority votes? Hints from Sarah’s new book suggest the GOP will go with accusing us of being racist then after we have been accused they think their own racist remarks will just be a he said, she said accusation.

Goddamn. This is the most stupid thing I’ve heard today.

holy crap

Who ever is the New GOP Chairman can influence just who wins the GOP Presidential Nomination Jeb, Mitt, Newt all know this and will want theirs guys to win.
Sarah might even wake up and realize just how important this pick is.

“I am taking the minority view here. Michael Steele did a great job, or if not great at least not as bad as the D’s leadership.”

He did a less bad job.

“Actually, Steele did open an X-tra Large can of whup-ass on Tim Kaine. Most of us armchair campaign managers dream of having a campaign such as this, with the satanic witches, and the R candidates under criminal investigation. But Tim Kaine, no, he lost because he is a loser. He will continue to be a pathetic loser.”

Again this points to the Democrats screwing up, not Steele doing anything good. Adult Democrats could have greatly stemmed their losses given the immaturity of their competition, just as Republicans could have completely decimated Democrats if they didn’t candidates like Lunatic Spice running for office. Steele has just screwed up the Republican party a lot less than Obama has screwed up the Democratic party. It was Obama who took $30 million out of the Democratic coffers to be spent for 2012…this is all about catering to Obama’s ego and Rahm’s desire for vengeance in going after Dean.

My mother kept egg whites in the freezer for 30 years and then baked some cookies with it. . . . . yikes.

And you think it’s any different from the shit that the food industry is serving up to us?

I expect lots of delayed flights this thanksgiving if the airport security is going to be that strict.

anybody ever do on-line dating? it’s getting pushed on me.and i just don’t know. i met my ex the old fashioned way and maybe i should stick to that.

i’ve never tried it bfl

good game = bulls-mavs

Yeah. Being CWB. Chairman While Black.

A conservative senator and his assistant are seated at a table in a fine restaurant. The senator is enjoying a sumptuous meal while his assistant fiddles with paperwork.

Assistant: “So, um, Senator. There are quite a few polls here all saying the same thing. What do you think of that Obama fellow?”

Senator: “I never thought much of him, myself. He’s Trilateral. One of ours, so to speak. (He chuckles, then pauses a moment.) That black thing. It seems to resonate with the voters, you say.”

Assistant: “Indeed, Sir. It would appear so. He has quite a following in the um… let’s see… the Socialist Communist Leftist Fascist Little Brown People demographic.”

Senator: “Hmmph. The little people. Damned nuisance, the whole lot of them. Hell of a lot of them about the place, these days. Say! I just had a brilliant idea! Get Michael Steele on the phone!”

Assistant: “Brilliant, Sir. Brilliant! They’ll never know what hit ‘em!”

Fast forward. Same senator and assistant, some time later. More lavish spread in more luxurious restaurant. The senator is again enjoying a sumptuous meal while his assistant fiddles with paperwork.

Assistant: “So, um, Senator. There are quite a few polls here all saying the same thing. What do you think of that Clinton woman?”

Senator: “I never thought much of her, myself. She’s Trilateral. One of ours, so to speak. (He chuckles, then pauses a moment.) That woman thing. It seems to resonate with the voters, you say.”

Assistant: “Indeed, Sir. It would appear so. She has quite a following in the um… let’s see… the Socialist Communist Leftist Fascist Pinko Feminazi demographic.”

Senator: “Hmmph. The little people. Damned nuisance, the whole lot of them. Hell of a lot of them about the place, these days. Say! I just had a brilliant idea! Get Meg Whitman on the phone!”

Assistant: “Brilliant, Sir. Brilliant! They’ll never know what hit ‘em!”

Who ever is the New GOP Chairman can influence just who wins the GOP Presidential Nomination…

I’m not so sure. From the way Crossroads (Rove & Gilespie) operated 2010, what makes any of us think the RNC is relevant?

Marco Rubio, Sara Martinez,Nicci Haley, Col West,Tim Scott. Hmmm not the same old white GOP. Something to think about.

Good point. My parents both did teh Frugal.

that’s OK. just wonderin’

and how you dune suze?

“Not as bad” should have been “not as abysmal”. But I am trying to be nice to Mr. Steele, because the word on the street is he will soon be unemployed. I try to have sympathy for people who need a job. I have heard the MERS people are looking for experienced Dee Cee influence peddlers.

brrrr 41 outside and its gonna get down into the 30′s tonight

crap, that was in reply to bfl…

Good point Rove vs Steele as far as who is relevant still Rove will want his guy in the job unless he plans on forming a third party with the Tea Baggers which I admit is possible.

Did they all win? I have not seen that many Dark GOPers since before Newt.

I wouldn’t do it but then I enjoy being a hermit (wouldn’t belong to a club that would have someone like me for a member). I knew a woman who actually moved 2000 miles to marry a guy she met online. She gave up a tenured university teaching position to be with him, he was a cook. She is, how do you say… insane. They got married in a barn (seriously). I didn’t attend but heard it was real nice, as formal barn occasions go.

Have you tried drinking liberally do they have a chapter near you?

I think Rove will do the same in the next one – operate independently of the RNC – unless Steele is chucked.

Once Steele is gone, it should be presumed that the replacement will be a ‘party-man’, like Katon Dawson or Saul Anuzis, and the two will become one.

A twist, however: they will collude on strategy, but Rove will still operate the groups that can’t be, for legal reasons, tied directly to the national party organization. That’s where the real money is – in the Citizens United front.

My parents came through the Great Depression, so packratting came naturally.

Slowly (because it might insult her) I’ve been tossing things that expired before Truman beat Dewey. One interesting find a few days ago was a gigantic bottle of cognac and another of vodka, the latter affixed with a pump on top, covered in dust.

Dad had an on- and off- site liquor license once when he and his law partner defended a bar owner on a manslaughter charge (great story) and, several legal problems later, wound up owning the bar in lieu of payment. That was an amazing, wonderful, crazy place – a popular bar with a stage in an all-black neighborhood run by two white lawyers, one from England.

I have lots of stories about that place. Whenever I’m with musicians old enough to remember the place, I’m startled at how many of them played there.

Dad and his partner were out of their minds to try to run it. It’d be like Cheney and Ailes running the Whiskey in L.A.

Anyway, there’s some ancient, but very interesting stuff tucked away in Mom’s closets. There’s also some ancient, but very scary stuff tucked away in Mom’s kitchen. It’s going to be raining and she’s got some energy. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m asked on another expedition into some part of her place she hasn’t explored in decades.

Well, she would say she was busy.

A shadow party that is more powerful has more cash than the real party will quickly become the real party. I do not think the other GOP candidates for President will like Rove running the shadow GOP groups.
Sarah already hates Karl this should be a get some popcorn and watch moment.

I know a couple who were married at the second cattle crossing from Pitt, Washington.

If the RNC can outraise the independent expenditure groups (Crossroads), you are probably right. That is a tall order.
But whoever they put up, that lure of virtually unlimited and unsourced cash will be hard to turn away from, even for Palin.

But it won’t be Palin. I think Rove hates her guts, and Rove is still the man.

i think rove blames the quittah for mccain’s loss… and the fact that she is building her own power base to rivall his…

Try this on for size.

It’s not a competition, just sayin.

I think that’s right, but ironically, what the GOP got with Obama is a conservative President, without the crazy.

Actually, they kinda won.

He’s gotta be really irked by her mental capacity. Also.

He’d have to let her into the club, and she’s just not their sort of babe. This aristocracy of ours has its values, you know.

Still, one can dream, can’t one?

Michael Buffett: She’s part grizzly bear! She’s the part-time ex-governor of Alaska! She’s a [voice of GWB] “human-animal hybrid.” Everyone, put your hands together for the woman voted most likely to be elected to the chair of the RNC – you know you love her – it’s the Alaska Disastah herself,
SAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHH
PAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

Succinct, true and sad.

I agree it won’t be Sarah but Sarah hates his guts and Karl feuding publicly with a woman like Sarah will not help the GOP look professional.
To win the GOP nomination Sarah has to fight other GOPers she has to beat Karl’s pick who ever that ends up being since she knows she will never be Karl’s pick.
She knows that if she pushes publicly she either gets her way or gets publicly Dissed by Karl or his people.
Her card to play is hurt woman and the fear her supporters the energized Tea Baggers, Fundies, Racists etc all stay home election day.

Sarah is really just a female version of GWB. The dumb man can be in the club, not the dumb woman.

Sarah saved McCain by rallying hate without Sarah McCain had nothing. But with Rove’s math predicting elections I can see how Rove could think that.

and the fact that she is building her own power base to rivall his…

She or rather someone is using Sarah to build a base rivaling Rove’s. Who are her money men? Who is organizing Sarah’s book deals, TV show, Speeches with Glen etc?

Rove wins this one, even if he has to destroy her. I expect he would rather fancy that.

Think what he could have done to her had he had notice just days before she was picked by McCain. The investigations in Alaska would have finished her, and McCain would have had to go with Lieberman. And the GOP would still be looking at… President Obama.

I don’t think Palin has the horses to go one-on-one with Rove. I mean, who is she going to trot out to compete with him – Bill Kristol? Randy Scheunemann?

The Dumb man does have a Harvard, Yale knows all the right people pass to higher society.
Sarah however reeks of crazy drunk woman yelling in the street in her bathrobe with the word salad going on.
Bush screams inbred poodle, Sarah mangy alley cat there is no practical difference between them except for class.
But Will Sarah fighting for the GOP nomination bring up class difference!
If she does that as a GOPer then the GOP civil war goes nuclear :)

Rove now has to embrace the mediocrity that he brought with GWB. Sarah is canny, like Bush. People love her. It is sick.

Wait, don’t be all accusing the cat. Half-baked Alaska in a bathrobe spewing word salad, I give you that. Your point about class is correct, though W does give his breeding a bad name, if breeding is what that is called.

The same GOP money men backing the Tea Party the Koch Brothers? But yes even they are no match for Rove or unlikely to hire anyone as good as Rove.
Still can any GOPer make half the news Sarah can? Ask the average voter who Newt, Mitt or Jeb isask them who Sarah Palin is.
Rove needs to start finding some better candidates.

Still can any GOPer make half the news Sarah can?

Nope.

they’re starting one. an Obama Apologists MeetUp. I opened my mouth and was very unpopular. “You’re not voting for Kendrick Meek? What good will that do?”

I am not accusing the cat I’m just pointing out dogs and cats hate each other and Sarah is catty but Rove’s a dog person. Rove should be either backing Sarah and getting her to stay on message like Rove had Bush do the first campaign.
Or Rove should be looking for better candidates. I still can’t believe the GOP was running candidates so weak that Satan Girl and other tea baggers could beat them in the primary but then lose in the general election with real unemployment around 20%.

that’s funny. 2,000 miles? my boss is marrying someone she met on-line (no comment) and i’m told he was after a long, long line of losers. not worth it at this point. Publix gets really crowded on Thursdays when the new BOGOs come out. Must be some eligibles there. Have to start going to that.

We had a linotype in our garage. My dad was such a packrat…

Outside of a FDL barbecue do you think you any other place might be better for you to meet someone you can talk to?
Obama supporters are not that far from the issues we support…my brother and his wife are some.

did you mean nooculer?

I got a FB friend request from someone who says “I am an Obamanista.”
I’m mulling it over…don’t know the person, and they may be very nice and /or have changed their opinion.
What do you think?

Yep my bad :)

i’m going back to the DL next month. what annoyed me most about the group was some guy who in all my life i’ve never seen a person talk and talk and talk and not even come up for air like that. but yeah, we’re together on a good deal of things.

what’s an FDL bar-b-q? do they really have those?

say yes. you can always un-friend them. and if she’s old, cute and divorced you can always have her friend me.

Yeah ask Suz, the California pups get together I drove down once when I lived in Seattle. I know the Texas Pups get together where are you at?

lol, it’s a married man. I’ll have him friend you too, bud.

So some guy talks a bunch if you found him annoying chances are the women found him annoying so that means one less guy in the competition. The important question is were any of the women cool to talk too was the setting conductive to meeting and talking to these women we hope you have something in common with.
Obamabots and FDLers have not branched that far apart from the evolutionary scale yet have we? We both still want the wars over, jobs, homes, Green power etc?

i agree with you on all counts. and yeah. i guess a coiple were potentially cool. only went once. plan on going in a couple of weeks.

I hope you find someone cool

I wonder if being a regular at FDL impress political girls?

Steele fully embraced the tea party movement back in Dec. 2009, while many in the rest of the establishment were still trying to keep their chosen nominees from falling to tea party-backed candidates in Republican primaries.

So the lamestream party has him to ‘thank’ for the TPers taking over, and he’s bragging on it? Smooth move…

Why is no one talking about that clown Tim Kaine. We just went through the most invisible election in my lifetime. Money was poured only in conservadem elections. No money or effort was put into Penn or Ohio. Kaine’s biggest accomplishment was a new logo. He lost everything in the State that he ran.

Michael Steele is a token plain and simple. He is the only black man in the Republican Party!

Steele’s doing this out of sheer self-preservation.

See, he’s in deep, deep trouble with the GOP, for the one bit of truth-telling he did earlier this year: He actually admitted that the Southern Strategy, far from having been only a Richard Nixon project, has been part and parcel of Republican strategy for over forty years.

Fucking token.

It was HCR bill with Individual Mandates. Public followed closely since Public Option was said before and after till the conference committe vote and saw including myself how Washington does Bait and Switch.

People of Massachussetts spoke loud, well and clear, Democrats ignored it, assumed they got a different message and now the nation has spoken.

Preserving Liberty of Free Choice is not just American Value it is a Universal Human Value. That is why Far Right and Far Left Regimes fail sooner or later as it stifles individual liberty.

Current members of the Party founded by Pres. Thomas Jefferson, who placed humanity right, left and center of his policies and who in my opinion is the greatest President of our country till now, totally forgot that and Republicans were smart enough to understand this concept and voted against it en masse. Now the nation has spoken. If Democrats still want to take a different message, then they can expect a total rout in 2012.