"Good" Monday evening, FOKRs! Unless y'all have been under a rock waiting for the rapture or salving your wounds due to lack of said rapture, you know that Not - My - Man Mitch officially told the drooling GOBP 2012 POTUS peeps & pundits that he wasn't going to be their man, either. Hm...knock on his wooden head 1 day ;D...announcement that he's just saying "no" to run for POTUS soon after...COINCIDENCE?!
I personally think he was dyin' to run, but the wife & daughters put the kibosh on it. Regardless of previous marriage "issues" (pale in comparison to Newtie Gingrich's!), Mrs. Not - My - Man Mitch has never exactly been a huge public IN First Lady; I don't imagine she welcomed the prospect of the proverbial digging through the garbage or her life nor her daughters' lives. So, let the wailing & gnashing of GOBP & "belt way" pundits resume! ;D
On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, LA. And, when it is said they were "shot," they were SHOT - BAD! - not for the faint of heart. And, on this date in 2003, another nail in our current financial & economic coffin was nailed in when Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.
Let's get SPARKy! If Hubby & I go out for a birthday dinner at the end of this week, and one of these mothers ends up on my plate, I will have yet another reason to yell at clouds. Honestly, how many horny teen - aged boys are going to have this coin for a little safe sex?! Finally, how many of you are NOT crying a river for this guy?
On with The Rachel Maddow Show!
"EMPOWER Grandma" - The NY - 26 special election is tomorrow?! Yikes & gadzooks!! Although, hell, even if the Dem wins, too much can happen between now & 2012 election to make much of a difference 1 way or the other. A couple polls over the weekend had the Dem winning by a larger %age than the margin of error? Yikes & gadzooks again!! And, the GOBP are blaming the tea bagger candidate dude; this must be a NY Congressional district thing. So, what's in the water in upstate NY? ;D The main focus of concern in this election seems to be the fate of Medicare or how the winner of that special election would deal with the fate of Medicare. Rachel then went over the whole sordid GOBP history of trying to put the kibosh on both Medicare & Social Security.
GOBP in the Senate don't want to touch this killing Medicare $hit with a 20' cattle prod, but that's all they are being asked about in the media & probably from their constituents in their home states. Mitchie McConnell begun the "empowering Grandma" memo. Can HE be the first one to try it after getting his sorry wrinkled a$$ outta the Senate, giving up HIS benefits, and seeing how well that $hit works for him?!
Phil Fairbanks is back to talk about tomorrow's hum - dinger of a special election in his fair district.
{Michael Steele again? Oh well, can't say I'm surprised considering his new "employment, plus he probably needs a break from crying in his beer after Not - My - Man Mitch's decision.}
"Class of 2012" - Rachel, I'm all for having constructive civilized debate, but Michael Steele doesn't deserve the "excitement" you sent his way during the break. Just sayin'... Did y'all see Rep. Mike Pence in that first picture of not - runnings? Well, lucky for me, he just might be my next Governator {insert retching noise here}!
The "establishment" GOBP are holding out for a hero that ain't in the game yet.
"Class of 2012 Part Deux" - Rachel's happy about MSNBC hiring Michael Steele. Where's my barf bag?!
HEY! I KNOW WHY HE AGREED TO WORK THERE!! He needs more coin for leather lesbian bondage bars!!! I am SO SMART. ;D Of course, Mr. Steele has to say he wasn't surprised to see Not - My - Man Mitch decide to not be the GOBP man; Mr. Steele would look like an ultra MAROON if he said otherwise.
Mr. Steele also claims he doesn't need a GOBP front - runner at this stage. Ya' know, I can sort of get behind that idea based on Rachel's earlier segment about what previous POTUS polls at this point said who the front runner in each party was going to be.
[Mother Nature is wrecking havoc on a whole lot of people again; Rachel gave some information & links to how to help people in need.]
"This Amendment Does Not Represent What I Fought For" - And, the bat$hit beat goes on in MN. Did y'all see TDS segment about San Francisco no longer being the most "gay" city? It was FUNNY!! I'll have to try to dig up the clip. :D Some GOBP MN state legislators are actually FIGHTING changing their constitution to bar marriage equality??!! OK, that rapture hit some places in MN - TOTALLY! Wow, the 1 state rep - A GOBP REP! - talked about a gay soldier who was killed in Afghanistan who was gay; this rep is a vet, too. Wow, now THAT'S something. Lori Wilfahrt is the mother of the soldier that was talked about on the floor of the MN state legislature. Jeff Wilfahrt is that soldier's father. This issue will be on MN's ballot next year. Well, let's hope for HUGE Dem turnout with President Obama's re - election in the balance, too. Mr. & Mrs. Wilfahrt thinks things will get ugly with outside money & forces trying to change MN's state constitution.