Happy Monday all! Can you believe it’s already open thread time? I know you’ve been waiting anxiously for one.
Now this is funny. An activist speaks at an anti-immigration tea party against European immigration to the United States. It’s quite amusing because he doesn’t reveal all until the end of his speech.
Being a know-nothing racist bully apparently pays very well (just ask Pat Buchanan):
CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned.
“They wanted him out,” according to a source.
Dobbs, who a source said had a year and a half to go on his $12 million contract, shocked viewers last Wednesday by announcing he was quitting.
How do I get paid $8M to be fired?
Homework! What’s Saint Sarah’s assignment?
Norquist, one of the most influential voices in the modern conservative movement, says he will be keeping a close eye on the activities of potential candidates over the next year and will be sure to tell Republican voters who’s a team player and who’s out for themselves.
“We’re going to put together a list of all the people thinking of running for president and … give assignments to each of the would-be presidential candidates. For instance, if the former governor of Arkansas [Mike Huckabee] would like to run and be thought of as a serious candidate he better win that Senate seat in Arkansas [held by Democrat Blanche Lincoln]. He can raise the money for it, he can help turn it around. If he’s not willing to do that for the party, why should we spend any time thinking about him?” Norquist said during an interview with Roll Call reporters and editors on Friday.
If former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani “wants to run [in 2012], then he should either run for governor himself [in 2010] or find somebody,” he added.