It was a gorgeous weekend down here in LSD. Too many tourons, but hey, they help our local small businesses. If they could only just leave their money and not drive on the roads, it would be perfect. Now on to more serious matters.
Today’s award is a bipartisan award and it was too easy. Newt Gingrich and Harry Reid. Yeah, a notorious adulterer and the current Senate majority leader both decided to open their yaps about the “Ground Zero Mosque.”
Here’s a link from the Washington Post which shows exactly where the cultural center is going to be – www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/08/16/GR2010081603346.html.
So, first up, we have Newt, calling the planners behind the cultural center “radical Islamists” and comparing them to Nazis. Of course he did this on FAUX News. Maybe Glen Urquhart wrote his talking points for him.
Then Harry Reid decided to swallow his balls and had his spokesman issue the following statement: “The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else.”
He added: “If the Republicans are being sincere, they would help us pass this long overdue bill to help the first responders whose health and livelihoods have been devastated because of their bravery on 9/11, rather than continuing to block this much-needed legislation.”
So, obviously Reid, who has totally taken control of the race in Nevada and has painted his opponent as Nevada’s version of Christine O’Donnell (without the money problems) decided he need to run to the right on something. And then he ties the cultural center in with a first responders bill? I call FAIL!
Newt just needs to go away. Seriously, his time and come and gone, and he should go chase another man’s wife, which he’s pretty good at. And Senator Reid, when you find your balls again, hold on to them. Being a eunuch disqualifies you from continuing as the majority leader.
I always thought we were at war with Al-Qeada and the Talliban, not Islam.