It’s probably too much to hope for, but doesn’t this sound like a great opportunity for some “Occupy”-style action?
… Mitt Romney plans to spend this weekend strategizing and fraternizing with his biggest bundlers at a posh resort in Park City, Utah.
The presumptive Republican nominee and his senior advisers and aides are hosting two days of policy sessions and campaign strategy discussions at the Deer Valley resort for more than 100 top fundraisers and their spouses. Those who raised more than $100,000 are expected to attend.
More than a dozen Republican heavy-hitters are scheduled to join the private retreat as special guests. According to a fundraiser who is attending, they include some GOP stars thought to be in contention to be Romney’s vice presidential running mate: Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. John Thune (S.D.).
George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove, who helps run American Crossroads, the well-funded GOP super PAC, is planning to speak at the retreat… Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, also is scheduled to attend, according to the fundraiser.
Other expected guests include former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and James A. Baker III, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, strategist Mary Matalin, and commentators Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes.
I guess my invite must’ve gotten lost in the mail. (Yours, too, I’d imagine.)
As DDay noted yesterday, “It sounds like a fine affair, if your idea of a good time is listening to former secretaries of state James Baker and Condoleezza Rice, Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Sen. John McCain, Rep. Paul Ryan, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and a parade of mostly older white men opine on national and world affairs.”
But since snarky speculation is what Late Night FDL is all about, I’d like to hear your thoughts on what exactly these self-important, over-the-hill establishment types will do for fun on this festive summer weekend… at least, that is, once they get tired of musing over cocktails whether the economy will be sour enough in November for Romney to win.
Whatever you come up with, I hope you spend a more personally and/or socially constructive weekend than these jokers.
(Note: The video above has nothing to do with this topic… instead, it deals with another Romney-related subject of conversation today. Watch it and wonder how anyone could be so ridiculous to suggest that Romney isn’t comfortable around black people!)



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I suspect that they will get their jollies by pulling the wings off flies and torturing the hired help, all the while complaining about how hard it is to get good help who will work for less than a living wage.
Hey, Dr. D. How’s Montana tonight?
As far as entertainment goes, do you suppose they’ll have a key party?
Now that is one star-studded guest list. Possibly the biggest gathering of the forces of evil since the Legion of Doom.
Hey, BTC! Montana is grand today, though it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow. My student Amee is off to Atlanta on Sunday to begin her postdoc. She says they are talking about sending her to Uganda for 3 weeks for her first assignment.
Are you sure you didn’t mean star-studly guest list?
No, that would be the Koch brothers biannual wank fest.
Re the video above – Mitt would look more comfortable in a cage full of tigers. Bless his heart.
Three weeks in Uganda? Oh well, I guess it’s better than six weeks in Uganda. Make sure she takes her antimalarials…
I think it’s a great exaggeration to use the word “studly” in connection with this concatenation of the undead.
Was that the one little Scotty Walker wasn’t invited to attend?
That’s true. I wouldn’t want to use any of that warped lumber in my construction. But if it’s all in the mind… I’m sure their self-image is at least as distant from reality as Snow White’s stepmother’s.
Ewwwwwwww.
Sorry.
Poor Scotty! And after all he’s done for the Kochs.
I am sure they will take care of the necessary meds and shots, it is the CDC after all. She is going to look at HIV surveillance within the prison system there. Not sure what exactly that entails, but this is good for her career.
You do not invite the hired help to social and business events.
Oh, no doubt. A couple of years at CDC and she’s going to be ready for one of the big-time PH schools.
Is it a three doc night?
I can’t keep up. See ya.
Waving bye bye.
You know that, and I know that, but did Walker know that? I bet he thought he was their number one go-to guy. What a rude awakening to learn that he’s just another pawn.
The last numbers I saw on ELISA testing in Africa were seriously scary. The false positive rate (due to malarial infections, apparently) is astronomically high. I don’t know what sort of dX testing they can use, but it’s got to be insanely expensive.
How do you monitor when tests are both unreliable and expensive?
‘night demi. Sorry about grossing you out.
:)
The international experience, she is working with their Global Health Programs, will also be a real asset.
Nighters!
Hello late night. I’m no doctor but I’m here.
Do you suppose Scotty is really Zaphod Beeblebrox in disguise?
We’ve got more than a paradox here… one more and we’d be above critical mass or something. Hiya, Margaret.
What did he do with the extra head then?
Good point. I don’t know if Scotty would know what to do with one brain.
He stuck it where the sun don’t shine.
He’s in disguise… or he left it with Hamma Kavula, depending on which version of Hitchhiker’s Guide you favor.
We’ll be glad to award you a worthless honorary doctorate. Remember, getting a job in academia is a lot like rolling loaded dice: no chance.
All excellent theories but I’ve got one too: His extra head accidentally broke off and stayed stuck up David Koch’s ass.
Wow! And my teachers said I’d never amount to anything… “Dr. Peggy”. I kinda like that.
Heck, Margaret is smarter than at least three of the people on my office floor, and they all have doctorates of one sort or another.
Ouch!
Hell, she is at least twice as smart as the entire b-school faculty combined.
Thinking of l’affaire UVa are you?
Aww… you’re both very sweet.
Yep. Bet that’s what David Koch said too!
I’m not sure that’s as complimentary as you meant it to be.
Actually, I was thinking about our b-school, but that is another good example.
I’m glad you think so. I won’t disillusion you by describing the
brickscolleagues I had in mind.Have to admit that is a pretty low bar.
Oooh! Academic gossip! I feel all included. ;)
Did you hear the one about the B-school faculty that left State U en masse to work for U of
PhoniesPhoenix?They raised the academic levels at both schools!
Only one question with that lineup: Where is Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter when you need him….
Fortunately, we only have one of those in my department, but there is at least on other one that she is probably smarter than.
OMG! Can you believe they made that movie?!? Wes Craven, eat your heart out.
LOL! So true. I cannot think of any more useless and ultimately destructive program anywhere.
We have mixed housing — so I’m not necessarily thinking of anyone in my department. But I’m not necessarily not thinking of anyone in my department, either.
ROTFLMAO!
Uh? Are we talking B-school or UoPh?
I guess we could be talking both…
Yes.
The UoPh School of Business? You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…
I wish there wasn’t nearly so much truth in that barb as is there.
My DiL took a UoPh stats class when she thought she wanted to retool for nursing school. (That is my field, btw.) Her “prof” (the scare quotes are necessary. Very necessary.) was teaching stuff that is wrong. Blatantly wrong, disgustingly wrong.
I had to tell her, “Look, it’s wrong, okay? And after you’ve taken the exam, please forget it. But you need to play the game.”
What, did they move the Bush redux White House staff in there in its entirety? Is Darth Cheney the Dean?
Well it’s time for me to lay my tired old body down. Goodnight Doctors and everybody else.
Yikes! It’s seems very fly-by-night, yep.
They offered Cheney the position, but his heart wasn’t in it.
Night!
Nope but somebody else’ heart was! If ever there was a waste of a donated organ…
Oyasumi nasai.
Yeah, I think they just should have made him keep his old heart, stake or no stake.
Good night, Peggy Sue.
Hey, there is now a surgical team that will attest that Darth has a heart. Pretty miraculous all told. I just hope the person he bumped from the UNOS list got a heart too.
Time for me to toddle off as well. Take care all.
Well, I think I’m going to go check out the inside of my eyelids. Good night, folks.
Where In The World Is The biggest Stud Of Them All – Marco Polo Rubio!?
McCain is in charge of protecting the lawn and sprinkler heads.
JEB! is in charge of re-IGNITE!-ing the Bush Brand. (Obama’s done most of the work for him. Charter Schools and Private Prisons are Fucking Awesome!)
Darn it I missed the venerable Docs… Wanted to show them this interesting tale of UVa…The Trade Schools of Virginia?
And, I’d posit that the U of Chicago Econ School is the vilest bunch of ‘em all…! ;-)
I’m a doctor!!!!!
I’m not venerable, though.
*heh* Venerable enough, BfL…! ;-)