Open Thread 10/02
Phillies win as Cole Hamels pitches 8 shutout innings and the Cubdom lets out a collective shriek.
This mess has afforded conservative Republicans an opportunity to ask the public to throw out the Democratic majority and start over with a chastened and hopefully wiser Republican Party in the majority. But that will take leadership, a commodity that seems in short supply, like bulls on Wall Street.
Does he think we are that stupid?
David Limbaugh has some advice for McCain:
Mr. McCain must attack Mr. Obama’s class-warfare assertion that every economic problem we face, including, preposterously, the financial crisis, is a result of the Bush tax cuts. If Mr. McCain’s going to be a supply-sider, he must begin talking like one. He must also steer far away from the silly populist line that the free market is somehow to blame for the crisis. Leave such blasphemy to the Obama Democrats.
And, finally, Maureen Dowd from the evil New York Times has been banned from John McCain’s plains.
Add Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer-winning columnist for the NY Times, to the list of media types who have fallen out bitterly with John McCain. The McCain campaign has barred her from flying in the McCain and Palin press planes, even though major media outlets routinely pay thousands to the campaigns every day for travel and expenses (and also begs the question, why didn’t her media colleagues Man Up and get her aboard anyway?)
Dave Letterman’s Top Ten Things Overheard at Sarah Palin’s Debate Camp
10. “Let’s practice your bewildered silence”
09. “Can you try saying ‘Yes’ instead of ‘You betcha’?”
08. “Hey, I can see Mexico from here!”
07. “Maybe we’ll get lucky and there won’t be any questions about Iraq, taxes, or health care”
06. “We’re screwed!”
05. “Can I just use that lipstick-pit bull thing again?”
04. “We have to wrap it up for the day — McCain eats dinner at 4:30”
03. “Can we get Congress to bail us out of this debate?”
02. “John Edwards wants to know if you’d like some private tutoring in his van”
01. “Any way we can just get Tina Fey to do it?”
And, finally, Keith on McTesty.
Screw Dowd. She is Celia Cohen on a grand scale. It is not as if the world needs more columns about how columnist are not covering the issues.
My secret hope is that Tina Fey debates Biden instead of Palin.
Also, I don’t care if Dowd got kicked off the plane. Who said he has to accept everyone on his plane? Although, if he’s taken money for her expenses he should return it.