Unless y'all have been hiding under a rock for the past couple of years, you already know that the midterm election is a week from tomorrow. Now, I'm into politics probably as much as anyone here, but I am ready for this election to be O...V...E...R. I'm tired of all the punditry, the negativity, the predictions, the sniping, etc.
However, I will do my civic duty & try my best to put this country's direction in "D" as opposed to "R" because the alternative is just too *&^%$#@! to think about for any decent amount of time before going ape $hit. Here are a couple of quick examples of how Congress will be even worse if 1 or both houses of Congress get taken over by...
The Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works leadership will go from Senator Barbara Boxer to Senator James Inhofe. The House Budget Committee leadership will go from Rep. John Spratt to Rep. Paul "Demolish Medicare & Social Security" Ryan. EEEeeeWWWWwwww!
I'm going to note just a couple of birthdays today - one of which a lot of locals probably think should be a national or at least Indiana state holiday. Hall of Fame college basketball coach and boil on the butt of humanity hall of fame member Bob Knight is 70 today. How he hasn't had a stroke or someone slapped him beyond silly is a miracle of biblical proportions! Here's how most people remember Coach Knight's career.
And, in a way way WAY more fun birthday, "Bart Simpson" is 53 today!
Let's Countdown, and the GOBP can eat my shorts! :D
#5 "The Money Trail" AKA "The Money Bomb" - The forces aligned with the Kochtopus are readying themselves for a big ‘ol ad blitz this week before the citizens of this nation cast their vote for their candidate of choice. Meanwhile, back on Hypocrisy Street, the 2 GOBP Congress critters who benefited from the most campaign contributions from companies that received TARP money (Small Price to Pay Goldilocks & Eric Cantor) are decrying...wait for it...TARP! Doesn’t Rep. Cantor have a spouse who works for or did work for one of the companies that got TARP coin? And, there’s "my candidate" for the Senate seat being vacated by...well...you know what. If y’all are good, I’ll keep it in its cage. ;D And, there’s Dan Coats (insert retching noise here).
Good sparkin’ grief...these "people" like their weapons – carpet bombing, snipers, etc. They’ve got the missile envy or something! Performance – enhanced PACs are forbidden by law to openly tout their efforts toward a specific candidate, but they sure as $hit can coordinate with other performance – enhanced PACs. Look at that chart concerning spending by outside groups. The groups that don’t disclose have given $50 million toward Dem candidates & causes. What’s the GOBP gotten? $121 million. By my admittedly weak math skills, that’s more than double, yes? When you total both the outside groups who DO disclose and doesn’t, the money adds up to $71 million that is pro – Dem and $166 million that is pro – GOBP. I fused my last couple of brain cells with my last attempt at math, so y’all can figure out this one by yourselves. ;D
Bob Schiefer actually asked TurdBlossom why he was against undisclosed money before he was for it?! INSERT STANDING "O" HERE! Does he read this diary? Remember, I begged for some actual sort – of journalist to ask TurdBlossom about this?! Huh...TurdBlossom sounded a bit like when Rummy said you fight with the forces you have not the forces you want. Ezra Klein’s in da’ house to talk double – secret campaign coin. I can answer Ezra’s question about why politicians want to continue this fund – raising game they play during every election cycle. They are willing to "sacrifice" during the years when the coin doesn’t go their way because they know a time when they’ll be swimming in money will be on the horizon. HA! And, Keith kind of sort of agreed with me!! I am so smart!!!
Yep, thanks to Citizens United, an already craptacular way of fund raising for your Congress critter seat or Oval Office has turned the corner from craptacular to $hitacular! Ezra thinks Congress critters will tire of their constituents thinking they’re amoral hacks just looking for the highest bidder {insert annoying buzzer here}? WRONG! They won’t tire of it if the system means more money for them; I say that about politicians ON BOTH SIDES of the aisle. Yippee for E.J. Dionne! :D He, like Tim Kaine, used the "w" word to describe all the secret coin infesting this campaign season. WHAT?! Did I hear E.J. say there’s more of these nasty campaign ads during football games than there are for beer and...er...uh... "performance enhancers"? Is he serious?! HA! Candidates aren’t supposed to be bought & sold? SINCE WHEN?! Not in MY damn lifetime... We’re gonna get another hour – long "special comment" about tea bagging on Wednesday? Did I hear THAT correctly?! Well, if I did, and Keith, if you or your peeps read this diary, NO TEA BAGGING VISUAL AIDS!
#4 "The Plan" - Mitchie McConnell has finally fessed up & said that if the GOBP get control of Congress in this election next week, their goal will be to make President Obama a one – termer. OK, did the President or Pete Rouse or David Axelrod or SOMEONE read this? Will THIS admission be enough to dispense with the "bipartisanship" with a group that never has and never will negotiate & govern in good faith?! Here’s the money shot – so to speak:
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one – term President.
Also, the GOBP will have an eye out for anything or any issue that could help the 2012 GOBP POTUS candidate. Here’s Eugene Robinson! And, who will that GOBP nominee be? OK, y’all know I LURVE Eugene Robinson; he "gave" me Senator McCentury, ya’ know! :D But, he’s giving the GOBP entirely too much credit when he said he thought the "smart" GOBP (an extinct species as far as I can see) will realize this continuing "just say no" strateegery wouldn’t help them win back the White House in 2012. Any smart GOBPers that are left are petrified of the tea baggers & the possibility of them getting primaried by said tea baggers. So, if ensuring the country goes to hell in a hand basket will help them keep their phony – baloney jobs, they will ensure the country goes to hell in a hand basket will help them keep their phony – baloney jobs. Another government shut – down may or may not be on the table.
** A building was blown up real good in Athens today to make room for a park. There’s a bison in a swimming pool in Georgia! Bisons were my high school mascot! Wow, OK, I’ve been up close & personal with bison. Me thinks it would’ve been more better to tranquilize the varmint BEFORE playing cowboy with it! But, that’s just me. There’s Russian morons playing with fire crackers in a bath tub. **
#3 "Wilileaks" - The previous administration knew how $hitacular things were in Iraq and lied about it. WHAT? GWB & his peeps were less – than forthcoming about the war in Iraq?! Well, my world view is shot to hell! NOW, y’all are going to tell me that Bristol Palin didn’t get pregnant by another immaculate conception. Please don’t do that; I won’t be able to function.
These documents came from American soldiers? Wow... And, that whole surge success thing WAS due to timing. Oye’... The Pentagon also KNEW that Blackwater was killing Iraqi civilians. Today, there are STILL more contractors in Afghanistan than there are coalition forces. Jeremy Scahill is in Kabul to talk "blown world views." President Karzi wants the contractors gone; our government wants them to stay. The previous State Department was worried about hurting Blackwater’s morale?! Why??!! I’m sure there’s plenty of baby animals or something like that that could’ve been shot or tortured by Erik Prince’s peeps if civilians were off the table. Rummy & his peeps also gave support to Shiite death squads that ethnically cleansed the Sunnis out of Baghdad. Surge forces went to a place the Pentagon KNEW was going to be a relative cake walk. OK, I’m sorry; I can’t hear anymore of this.
AUGH!!! OK, Keith gets infinity kudos for the sophisticated Aristocrats reference! LOVE IT! And, as far as that joke he mentioned, just use teh Google, and you’ll find it; those with sensitive natures, you’ve been warned!
WPITW – An inmate in Wisconsin tried to forge court documents to get money from another prisoner; said inmate misspelled the judge’s name. The Governor of Idaho surprised a library with a presser over the weekend. Bob Dudley, the new Tony Hayward, blames the media for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
#1 "The Sophisticate" AKA "Haute Karl" - There’s another employee civil war going on over at FAUX News! In this corner, we have TurdBlossom against the "good" reverend Huckabee. Boss Limbaugh agrees with Huckabee?! Wow, politics absolutely DOES make the strangest bed fellows. Mr. Huckabee’s coming to the defense of Christine (no relation to Lawrence) O’Donnell. HE’S A WITCH!
O...K... Governor Huckabee doesn’t want tea baggers at the kiddies’ table? Well, I don’t either; that’ll traumatize the kiddies! UT – Austin is the Yale of the Harvard of TX?! HA! Oh boy, that whirring y’all hear is Emily Dickinson spinning in her grave at the TurdBlossom comparison. Michael Shermer is here to talk TurdBlossom being tossed under the limo – or something.