November 2010
Reagan's Budget Director : Dems and GOP are both liars when it comes to taxes. →
cbsnews.com
“If these people were all put in a room on penalty of death to come up with how much they could cut, they couldn’t come up with $50 billion, when the problem is $1.3 trillion,” fumes Stockman. “So to stand before the public and rub raw this anti-tax sentiment, the Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, they should be ashamed of themselves,” he tells Stahl.
Stockman says the Democrats have also embraced this religion to a degree, with President Obama recently advocating a permanent tax cut for the middle class. “We have now got both parties essentially telling a big lie with a capital ‘B’ and a capital ‘L’ to the public,” says Stockman. “And that is that we can have all this government, 24 percent of GDP, this huge entitlement program, all of the bailouts and yet, we don’t have to tax ourselves and pay our bills,” Stockman tells Stahl. “That’s delusional.”
October 2010
Public Policy Polling: Paul headed for easy victory →
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com
Kentucky is obviously a conservative state. Conway’s ability to win was always going to depend on getting a lot of folks who supported John McCain in 2008 to vote Democratic for the Senate this time around. The most amazing finding on this final poll is that Rand Paul is actually picking up more Obama voters (15%) than Conway is McCain voters (9%). That’s the formula for a landslide.
“What the Tea Party ostensibly wants most — less government spending and smaller federal deficits — is not remotely happening on the country club G.O.P.’s watch. The elites have no serious plans to cut anything except taxes and regulation of their favored industries. The party’s principal 2010 campaign document, its “Pledge to America,” doesn’t vow to cut even earmarks — which barely amount to a rounding error in the federal budget anyway. Boehner has also proposed a return to pre-crash 2008 levels in “nonsecurity” discretionary spending — another mere bagatelle ($105 billion) next to the current $1.3 trillion deficit. And that won’t be happening either, once the actual cuts in departments like Education, Transportation and Interior are specified to their constituencies. Perhaps the campaign’s most telling exchange took place on Fox News two weeks ago, when the Tea Party-embracing Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, was asked seven times by Chris Wallace to name “one single entitlement expenditure you’re willing to cut” in order “to extend all the Bush tax cuts, which would add 4 trillion to the deficit.” She never did. At least Angle and Paul have been honest about what they’d slash if in power — respectively Social Security and defense, where the big government spending actually resides.”
—The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea Party - NYTimes.com
“I don’t have any criticism of the members of the Tea Party. A lot of those same people, 30 years ago, were the ones who put me in the White House. This Tea Party doesn’t realize that they are financed by oligarchs, in the oil industry primarily - the Koch brothers and others. They’ve been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the political system… after what I call a stupid Supreme Court ruling last January.”
—Jimmy Carter
thetart replied to your quote: The Kentucky stomper has been charged with…
If standing on someone’s head in Kentucky is only a misdemeanor, I’m packing my bags and Rand Paul had better sleep with one eye open.
Groovie Goolies Monster Mash Music Video
Monster Mash — Bobby “Boris” Pickett
“You’d be amazed how many times I take a picture with a very pregnant woman and she immediately gives birth like that. We got another Democrat, I wish we could register that baby before it’s too late.”
—Bill Clinton after an Ohio campaign event was interrupted by Rep. John Boccieri’s pregnant wife, Stacey, going into labor. (via virtualephemera)
“I don’t know how people can do that. There ain’t no way. I don’t care if my mama (god rest her soul) was running as a Republican. I wouldn’t vote for her ass.”
—my mama, on split ticket voting
Listen
Michael Jackson — Thriller
The last polls in the Conway-Paul race are out and it doesn’t look good. I’ve tried to stay positive but I’m not sure I have it in me anymore. So I’m going to spend my weekend with my head in the sand blissing out on Halloween rather than face the music. I can’t bare the thought of Tuesday night at this point.
“It took several days, but Céline Dion and her husband René Angélil have finally named their twin sons. The name “Eddy” comes from Eddy Marnay, who produced the singer’s first five records. “He was like a father to her,” says Dion’s rep. “Eddy is a major influence in both Céline and René’s lives.” Nelson is named after Nelson Mandela, whom Dion met two years ago while kicking off her world tour in South Africa. “René said that in just the few minutes they were able to spend with him, they were impressed by the human being he is,” says the rep.”
—Céline Dion Names Her Twins Eddy and Nelson
“Christine O’Donnell has said plenty about other people’s sexuality, how we should all have the one she believes is correct and express that correct sexuality only at the correct times and in the correct ways. And she’s no stranger to general weirdness as a campaign tactic, see above. So it’s kind of galling to find yourself taking O’Donnell’s side now that Gawker has published a mash-and-tell on the Delaware Senate candidate. The item is by a Philadelphia guy who says he hooked up with Tea Party Republican Christine O’Donnell three years ago. It’s anonymous, and pointedly gross, and includes details about waxing and a ladybug costume — all of which you can find for yourself. “Whatever @Gawker’s up to, they’ve raised my feminist ire in defense of Christine Freaking O’Donnell,” @CNell_NZ tweets. “Thanks for hurting my soul, guys.”
—The Maddow Blog - Boys vs. girls? Yuck.
“The way that happens is, I post my photo of what I’m wearing today or an obscure quote I came across on a Wikipedia page I post this neat thing that I discovered or created and The New Yorker reblogs it… now that same thing, that little interesting thing and my little witty comment attached to it, are now in front of an audience of millions of eyeballs rather than just my tiny little blog or my little Twitter stream, with all the attribution pointed back to me. So now all of a sudden I’m the most popular guy in the world, thanks to The New Yorker. And, by the way, in addition to all this new attention that they drove to me, it also puts a little stamp on the post that says, ‘Reblogged by The New Yorker,’ with their little logo attached to it. That’s, like, a really powerful, vindicating positive force in our network.” The end result, he said, is that users who have been given this vindication are “enamored” of the brand that did the vindicating.”
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GASP.
Excuse me, I get self esteem from EVERY reblog. Even the little guys, thank you very much.
“That doesn’t make any sense. Who wants to live in a world where dogs eat each other? Doggy dog world is a beautiful world filled with little poppies!”
—Gloria, Modern Family (via jenny-jenny-bo-benny)
“I think that one of the things that I’ve always tried to promote is civility in politics. I think we can disagree vigorously without being disagreeable. And what we saw on the video was an example of people’s passions just getting out of hand in ways that are disturbing. In fairness, I don’t expect every candidate to be responsible for every single supporter’s actions, but I do think that all of us have an obligation to set a tone where we say the other side is — may be wrong but it’s not evil, because when you start going down that path of demonizing folks, then these kinds of incidents are more likely to occur. And my expectation in the remainder of this campaign is that all candidates out there are a little more careful about making sure that they’re framing the debate around issues and sending a clear message to their supporters that our democracy works when we disagree, we debate, we argue, it gets contentious, but that there are certain lines we don’t cross.”
—President Obama comments on the Curbstomper
“Let me make sure I understand this. The ad’s contention is that seniors are going to be forced out of Medicare and into a ‘government-run health care’ program?”
—Steve Inskeep, on Morning Edition, discussing a campaign ad from Indiana GOP Senate candidate Dan Coats against Democrat Brad Ellsworth. Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com, ranted Coats’ ad “pants on fire.” (via savingpaper)
“Nine. There’ve been nine men there for a long time, right? So why not nine women?”
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when asked how many women on the Supreme Court would be enough
Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Tish File for Divorce →
people.com
This is the most devastating news I’ve heard all day. Oh god, whatever will happen to Miley? And the little one is half way to the prostitution house anyway! Oh man…
“President Bush, she said, “makes the coffee every morning like he used to before the eight years we had a butler make the coffee.” He has become a fan of the iPad, she said, and one game in particular. “Scrabble is the one that George now seems to be playing constantly,” she said. “Like, I’m trying to get his attention; ‘I’m still here.’”
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Laura Bush, on her husband’s post-presidency
So scrabble accepts made up words now?
“I’ve got to tell you, I went to the Supreme Court recently… I sat in on an argument, and I looked up at the bench on which I sat for 25 years, and what did I see? I saw on the far right, a woman. On the far left side, a woman. And here in the middle, a woman. And it was dazzling.”
—Sandra Day O’Connor
“In Maci news, she is planning to move from Tennessee to L.A. with her son Bentley after the holidays. A source says she’s 99% confirmed to do a spinoff — and allegedly the show would be Maci teaming up with Bristol Palin in a Teen Mom Meets The Hills series.”
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You guys. No. I mean, seriously? Is this real?? No. No. I don’t even WATCH Teen Mom. I am offended by this. No. Seriously. No.
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Oh hell no.
“One royal expert interviewed in this week’s PEOPLE cover story says Prince William will likely propose to his girlfriend of eight years in February 2011. “There won’t be an announcement before Christmas because William has got to ask the Queen first,” says longtime royal watcher Ingrid Seward. “And they will get married soon after.” The fiercely private couple, both 28 – who almost always show up and leave events separately – sparked a new round of engagement rumors after appearing together at a friend’s Oct. 23 nuptials in Northleach, Gloucestershire. Shocking everyone, they strolled out of the stone church in full view of waiting photographers. Might that have been a hint that their own wedding is next? “There’s a sense this is the beginning, we may as well get used to seeing Kate in the royal arena,” says Ken Wharfe, the former bodyguard for William’s mother, the late Princess Diana. “As if this were a rehearsal.”
—Prince William and Kate Middleton: Ready to Wed
On yesterday
I spent much of yesterday really confused. I had no idea what had happened. To the people who have been affected I just want to say from the outside looking in that you are all really lucky to have such a tremendous support system. I’m so very sorry for your loss.
“Memo to the ex president, turmoil in East Timor is no longer an excuse not to pick up your socks”
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Laura Bush to President Bush (via notthatkindagay)
I can’t help but like her.
