Political Quick Hits for February 11, 2010
The Republicans are dropping like flies!!!!!! The 18th Republican Congressman calls it quits. You know, if the GOP was so confident of their coming majority in Congress after the midterms, then why are they quitting now. Like Palin, is quitting just in their nature?
Indeed, if things are so bad for Democrats everywhere, then why is a unabashed social liberal like Tom Perriello tied or ahead of his decidedly socially conservative opposition in his socially conservative district in Southern Virginia in recent polls?
Remember during President Obama’s televised QNA with the House Republican caucus, and several GOP members made a point to criticize the lack of transparency in the healthcare negotiations? Well, the President accepted responsibility for that and then called their bluff, inviting the GOP to a healthcare summit where the negotiations would be televised. And now the GOP is balking at that. Probably because they fear the same result as what happened at their meeting with Obama. So much for transparency, eh Republicans?
Sarah Palin is now considered by 70% of all Americans to be unqualified or unfit for the Presidency. So I guess the celebrity pundit teabaggin route was not a good idea after all. I think she will run for President, because she is so vain and narcissistic, and because it is the only way to keep the media and her followers interested in her. And the scary thing for the country is the diehard quarter of the population who find her qualified for the Presidency are enough to give her the GOP nomination.
Joe Biden stays classy too. This reveals what I think is a coordinated strategy on the part of the White House and it’s smart. Sarah Palin would like nothing better then have the White House get down and dirty with her, and on substantive issues they will, but on a personal level, they won’t.
And some mockery of the right wing from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert:
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Happy 20th anniversary of your long-delayed freedom, Mr. Mandela.
So here’s another Republican backing off HCR transparency: Mike Enzi: All This Transparency I Called For Will Turn The Health Care Summit Into A ‘Media Show’!
AP source: (Patrick) Kennedy won’t run for re-election in RI
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/11/10 | Andrew Miga – ap
WASHINGTON – A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress. … The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century.
Retiring at 42
And my family in Cranston are no doubt dancing for joy!
DeMint challenger drops Senate bid
CNN ^ | 2/11/10 | staff
The leading Democratic challenger to Sen. Jim DeMint has decided to end his short-lived campaign to unseat the conservative South Carolina Republican, citing the need to spend more time with his family.
The Democrat, Rock Hill trial attorney Chad McGowan, had struggled to gain traction and raise money since announcing his candidacy in October. McGowan pledged to return all of his campaign donations and said he “will be fighting from the sidelines” to defeat DeMint in November.
McGowan was endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee when he entered the race last year.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that now is the wrong time for me to mount a successful campaign for the United States Senate,” McGowan said in a statement Wednesday. “The demands of a young family place a premium on every minute.”
looks like you guys win the country. Let’s change the flag to the confrauderacy stars and bars, reinstitute slavery, kick out all the jews and brown people and have some REAL american freedom!!!!
No, a.price, as a Republican I reject the Democrat-led abomination that was the Confederate States of America, and the various forms of slavery, segregation, and racial discrimination foisted upon the United States of America by the Democrats during that party’s nearly two centuries of existence.
Oh, by the way — we’ve edited one of Pelosi’s letters for her. Seems like it might be a good time for her to send it, because its contents are at least as valid today as when she originally wrote it.
ha ha biden gives credit for iraq success to obama ha ha
“I like” = “I’d do”