This week,
White America came one step closer to being
completely overrun by
dangerous-
looking children from
Central America, eager to steal our
McJobs.
It's like some kind of sick joke that we're all the butt of.
Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled House moved one step closer to impeaching President Obama for crimes surreal and imagined.
At this point, both of these outcomes seem all but certain... the only real question remaining is which will occur first.
If I were a betting man, I'd be putting my money on the latter.
As noted actor/tax protester Wesley Snipes so eloquently put it in the classic film Passenger 57, "Always bet on black."
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: Secretary of State John Kerry; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Others TBD.
Face The Nation: Secretary of State John Kerry; Former NTSB Investigator Mark Rosenker; Rep. Peter King (R-NY); Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Martin Indyk; Roundtable: Peter Baker (New York Times), David Ignatius (Washington Post) and Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal).
This Week: Secretary of State John Kerry; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); Roundtable: Martha Raddatz (ABC News), Richard Haass (Council on Foreign Relations), Julia Ioffe (New Republic) and Carol Lee (Wall Street Journal).
Fox News Sunday: Secretary of State John Kerry; Sen.Ted Cruz (R-TX); Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ); Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Julie Pace (Associated Press), Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and Former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN).
State of the Union: Secretary of State John Kerry; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); Roundtable: Peter Beinart (The Atlantic), Michael Crowley (TIME), Steve Inskeep (NPR) and L.Z. Granderson (CNN).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on The Giving Pledge, a campaign to encourage the wealthiest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes (preview); a report on the little known story of a young, American banker's 1975 return to Vietnam to save his stranded Vietnamese colleagues and their families (preview); and a report on the Metropolitan Opera's mission: to make opera as popular—and populist—as it once was (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart was not impressed by Sarah Palin's call or President Obama's impeachment.
The Daily Show
Monday: Sue Turton (Al Jazeera)
Tuesday: Director Richard Linklater
Wednesday: Actor/Activist George Takei
Thursday: Fareed Zakaria (CNN)
And Stephen Colbert examined the evidence of racial motives behind John Boehner's lawsuit against President Obama.
The Colbert Report
Monday: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Tuesday: TBA
Wednesday: Filmmakers Mary Mazzio & Oscar Vasquez
Thursday: CEO of SpaceX & Tesla Motors Elon Musk
Elsewhere...
Former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) continued his "legitimate rape" non-apology tour, and made a martyr of himself.
Failed Senate candidate Todd Akin (R-MO) has recently
re-emerged in the public sphere to defend his claim in 2012 that women who were victims of "legitimate rape" could not get pregnant. In a phone interview with St. Louis Dispatch, the former congressman compared himself sympathetically to Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI), who spearheaded an infamous Communist witch hunt in the 1950s. Akin argued that McCarthy was another victim "assassinated by the media."
"I use McCarthy as an example of someone who was assassinated by the media, so he had no credibility," Akin told the Dispatch, drawing parallels to his own experience with what he believes were "intentional and dishonest" misreadings of his statement.
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down," Akin said in 2012 in response to a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape or incest.
But, wait... there's more!
Akin also sought to blame The Clenis for his lawful words being misconstrued. Or something.
In the bizarre 7-minute exchange with host Chuck Todd, Akin invented an entirely new rationale for those comments, suggested that President Bill Clinton is guilty of rape, and clung to the discredited science that underpinned his assertions.
"Legitimate rape is a law enforcement term and its abbreviation for legitimate case of rape," he began, insisting that he used the term "because of the fact that it's an abbreviation” for "legitimate case of rape."
"The thing that strikes me as odd is this is something that was intentionally misunderstood and twisted for political purposes," he explained, "because it doesn't make any sense to say a conservative is saying that rape is legitimate."
And, in other news...
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), who knows firsthand how the female body works, offered some advice to her male colleagues.
"Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level," Ellmers said. "Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that." […]
As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.
"We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life – that's the way to go," Ellmers said.
Girl you know it's true.
- Trix