Can you believe this? The Courier-Journal thanked someone for a story featured on their front page yesterday that said someone broke a week ago! Holy crap. The C-J giving credit where credit is due. Really, can you believe it? [Stephenie Steitzer]
Ronnie Ellis has a great break-down of Jim Bunning’s fundraising last quarter. Most of Bunning’s money came from Political Action Committees. And those dollars raised in Kentucky came from people like Jim Host and Hunter Bates. [Ronnie Ellis]
Thanks to Joe for this fancy bit. What was that about white supremacists not being a part of teabagging parties? Yeah. Republicans don’t like to admit their party is a safe harbor for racist thinking and white supremacy. But when can we expect to hear prominent Republican leaders repudiating their followers who came out to this event? [Cincinnati Beacon]
Are the developers and investors of CentrePointe still committed to the project? There’s no proof that this is the case. [Barefoot & Progressive]
Apparently, I’ve gone completely nuts because I don’t support bigoted rednecks. And Joe Sonka and I are “cowards” who can’t back anything up. Guess pointing out Jim Pence’s hypocrisy (money talks) rubbed somebody the wrong way? But if you wanna see a fancy video of me? Check out Jim Pence’s little website. Don’t forget he’s a first-rate hypocrite who refuses to release a beautiful video of Daniel Mongiardo embarrassing himself. [Too Funny ]
Local offices are opened to help prevent youth suicide. So put your money where your mouth is, people. [C-J]
Will Attorney General Jack Conway investigate the mess in the Transportation Cabinet? [Mark Hebert]
Martic Cothran has got to be a closet case. What’s the old saying? One’s level of homophobia is equal to their closet homosexuality? Again, Greg Stumbo won the race for Speaker by something like two votes– and you still wonder why EVERYONE thought he’d lose? And, really, pretending that these teabagging parties are because people are against higher taxes? Really? After the past eight years? Misguided outrage and old-fashioned hate mongering do not a tax protest make. This man still has a you-know-what for us or is just obsessed. [Martin Cockring]
Pat Crowley, the world’s greatest journalist, is shilling for Daniel Mongiardo these days by publicizing everything he does and every fundraiser he might hold. [Enquirer]
How sad is it that Mitch McConnell is hosting a fundraiser for John Thune in Kentucky– but not Jim Bunning? [Politico]
6 responses so far ↓
1 E // Apr 17, 2009 at 10:41 am
I know this is not going to be received well…but lets be fair and not shrill. There were, no doubt, some racists…and some inappropriate portrayals of our President at the Tea Parties (not TeaBagging parties).
I find it ironic how the roles have changed. Just a few years ago very similar imagery was used in portraying GW, by the left…and the right was in a tizzy…pointing out how inappropriate this was.
Now the right is using similar imagery to portray Obama (and yes it is still inappropriate)…and it is of course the left that is in a tizzy to point out how distasteful this is.
I would be embarrassed if I were either a repub or a dem…thankfully I am neither.
Here’s a little waltz down memory lane, take it all in…and grow up.
http://www.semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html#20mar2004demos
2 E // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I find it particularly ironic that some of the GW/Hitler imagery is from “Nazi safe haven” Argentina. Maybe they passed by the house Joseph Mengele lived in on their way to the protest!
3 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Well, E, the difference is that Bush engaged in highly criminal, unconstitutional acts, and Obama has yet to do so (and I sure hope he doesn’t). Now, that doesn’t make Bush a Nazi, but the comparison sure is a lot more fair.
As for Martic/Martin at vere loqui, he appears to be celebrating that Republicans are being anchored to the old tired no-longer-working-politically rant of “lower taxes”, when it’s GOP policies that have led to the government racking up so much debt that future generations will have much higher taxes. In reality, the GOP is the “higher taxes later through today’s excessive borrowing” party. This has been the GOP’s economic approach since Reagan, and there’s no way they can hide from the abysmal results.
4 Just me // Apr 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hey, Jake. Ya look mighty fine ‘on camera’! BTW, did I miss something in that clip? Did you do something embarrassing?
5 jake // Apr 17, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Unfortunately, nope. I was just laughing at Jerry Abramson, who had just tripped over his own feet to get away from people as I waited for the press conference to begin. And then Joe Sonka asked my why I hate Jerry so much and I was attempting to explain. So. Nothing exciting.
6 E // Apr 17, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Steve…we agree.
As I am no stranger to commenting on this site, everyone who knows me, knows that I am utterly disgusted with the repub’s behavior over the last decade. For the very reasons you mentioned. The fact is, that rampant deficit spending inevitably begets tax increases. The repubs were in complete denial of this reality.
The dems, and particularly the Obama administration are engaged in a similar denial of this reality…as they have rationalized that somehow, soaking a few rich folks will compensate for the trillions in deficit spending (never mind that there aren’t as many of those rich folks as there were a couple of years ago, and that the ones left aren’t nearly as rich as they were a few years ago).
Name calling, ridiculing, and stereotyping…from both camps, is little more than an attempt at obfuscation, denial and deflection of guilt , for inept governance…of which both are guilty.
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