With All Due Respect… Republicans Need To Shut Up

24 Comments

Seriously, they need to shut up!  And I’m saying this for their own good.

Step One: Someone needs to put a stop to Michael Steele’s foot in mouth tour.  Let’s review Steele’s greatest hits…

“We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles,” Steele told the Washington Times. “But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

“Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad,” said Steele.

“Let’s put it in the context here,” said Steele. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment.”  “Yes, it’s incendiary,” Steele added. “Yes, it’s ugly.”

Followed by…

“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” said Steele. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.”

And then there’s the question if he’s serious, or just joshing, about cutting off Republicans who voted for the stimulus.  Now, today, he claims part of his job is ticking people off.   And while Steele is a liberal blogger’s dream, the adage less is more has never been so appropriate.

Step Two: Republicans in the House and Senate need to shut up…

A Nation of Morons

21 Comments
Rhode Island's Kmareka.com reports that one man is tired of kosher salt. Retired barber Joe Godlewski says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.…

Customer Service

70 Comments
Nate Silver writes: Anyone who's ever had to deal with Dell customer service knows that, indeed, there IS a company more desperately terrible than Comcast in this department. Conservatives would…

QOD

38 Comments
Quick, without looking anything up on the internet, answer this question: Who is your state Senator, state Representative, and County Councilman? And if you live in a city or a…

O’Donnell to Run for President.

11 Comments

And Mike Matthews just fainted with dreams of being the First First Gentleman. But no, not our favorite local wingnut Christine O’Donnell.

Ed O’Donnell. Who? Precisely.

WDEL is currently running a story about a little known perennial candidate named Ed O’Donnell, who just “announced” that he is running for the Patriot Party’s (what?) nomination for President in 2012. Why the early start?

O’Donnell says one reason he’s starting his Presidential run now is that he wants to be ready in case the US government collapses like the Roman and British Empires and the former Soviet Union.

But, if the country collapses, will we have an election to get ready for in 2012? Just a minor detail I think Mr. O’Donnell overlooks. I digress. I have no idea who O’Donnell is. I have no idea what the Patriot Party is, and that is not unusual since there are hundreds of small crazy fringe third parties. So I googled O’Donnell. I found information on Rosie O’Donnell, which was quite unfortunate, but not much on an alleged presidential candidate named Ed O’Donnell, which I found quite odd, since, after all, WDEL has O’Donnell’s announcement as a top news story.

But then I found this interview with the Dartmouth University Press in 2004, when the prestigious candidate O’Donnell ran for the fifth time. You must read it in its entirety, because it is comedy gold. Perhaps that is where WDEL is going with its story, for I must confess I have only read the story and not listened to it on the radio.

Go below the fold for some excerpts. After reading it, I am convinced Ed O’Donnell is Liz Allen:

Local Elections.

26 Comments
All politics is local. Yet, your average Delawarean probably cannot name their state Representative or Senator. They definitely cannot name their County Councilman. Sure, they can name their President, their…