In case you missed it: the Alan Grayson comedy hour, ‘Wild Alaskan dingbat’ edition
Alan Grayson: funny always wins
Alan Grayson is a lot of things, including brash, in-your-face, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. RawStory presents his comedy stylings at Sarah Palin’s expense, which could have been a late night monologue. It all started when Palin knocked him during an Orlando appearance (I wonder how much she got paid…) saying she “got to meet quite a few candidates who are lining up in a contested primary who want to take out Alan Grayson” and adding: “what can you say about Alan Grayson? Piper is with me tonight, so I won’t say anything about Alan Grayson that can’t be said around children.” Badum-bum! Any of you folks from out of town? Grayson’s reply was much funnier: Read more
‘Socialist’ Canadian healthcare good enough for sneaky Sarah
How “aboot” that. Sarah Palin hates “socialist,” government-run healthcare like those Canadians have there too also, so much that she and her family used to sneak across the border to use it, according to the Calgary Herald:
“My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada,” Palin said a speech Saturday night… Read more
Morning clicks: nobody likes Liz, frackin’ A
Has Liz Cheney finally gone too far, with her “Al-Qaida Seven” gambit? Signs point to yes. Meanwhile, why isn’t her partner in crime, neocon chickenhawk Bill Kristol getting more heat?
Meanwhile, it’s official: Eric Massa is a frackin’ idiot. And a whiner. He won’t be missed… (btw, “frak” means exactly what you think it does.) UPDATE: E.M. also knows what it’s like to argue with a naked man in the shower …
It’s not that American Taliban in custody, it’s the other one …
Put Chris Dodd down as a “yes” on the public option, bringing the Senate total to 37.
If you’re unemployed, Tom Delay thinks you’re right where you want to be …
Sarah Palin has come up with the best palm-prompter defense ever …
And before you get too comfy with Tennesee hospitality, read this.
Remainders: the right wing nut house
From ThinkProgress: surprise, surprise, the man who shot two police officers in front of the Pentagon was a right wing, anti-government extremist, whom the right will attempt to pass off as a left wing, 9/11 “truther.” John Patrick Bedell is the second white, non-Muslim, counting anti-IRS suicide pilot Joseph Stack, to commit a terrorist attack inside the United States in the last couple of months without being labeled a terrorist by the right.
Meanwhile, apparently authorities were warned by Bedell’s parents that he might be dangerous, and had bought a gun; echoes of the Abdulmullatab case, although without Dick Cheney looking for someone to waterboard.
Fox News isn’t waiting around for 2012 to urge Bobby Jindal, Bob McDonnell, Scott Brown, Marco Rubio to run for president.
Newsflash: Sarah Palin and her people are seriously, seriously tacky. And now, she’ll get the chance to be tacky in her own reality show! I vote we put it on BET… Meanwhile, the gifting victims are crying foul, and defending Sarah Hollywood from those evil, evil blogs. (Cue the Jay Leno-added, amplified applause track…)
Will Craig Crawford (whom I’ve always suspected was a Republican, or at the least, a conservative…) find “higher ground” on Fox News?
Congressman Byrd would like to welcome you to the “nether regions of Glennbeckistan…” Maybe Liz Cheney could move there with the ghost of Joe McCarthy?
And let’s throw in one Democratic story, just for fun: New York conservaDem Congressman Eric Massa is quitting, after admitting he made someone feel “uncomfortable,” in a married with children but still possibly gay kind of way … (but not as uncomfortable as this!)
Jeb Bush’s other NewsMax comments
Jeb Bush doesn't seem to think Sarah Palin's so smaht...
While all the chatter has been about his Charlie Crist comments, it seems Jebbie (who these days is devoting much of his energy to advocating k-12 education) took on the Queen of the Tea Party movement in that there NewsMax interview as well… Per TPMDC:
Though he had some nice things to say about her “charisma,” it was clear that Bush thinks Palin doesn’t have the intellectual heft to occupy the oval office. He said that Palin’s success depends on her willingness to add a “depth of understanding of the complexity of life we’re living in today” to her rhetoric.
“That’s up to her,” he said. “I mean, I don’t know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity.”
And he should know. His incurious brother did the job for eight years and look how that turned out. The whole interview after the jump. Read more
Palin to tea parties: pick a side
Sarah Palin makes her pitch to bring the tea parties to heel. Not surprising after she took $100,000 to sell GOP boilerplate and talk up Ronald Reagan at the tea party convention, but probably not what the purportedly “independent” movement wants to hear.
Say it ain’t so, Joe
Joe and Sarah Six Pack no longer on the same team.
Another one of John McCain’s bad choices in 2008 comes back to haunt him… (ht to Ben Smith) And Joe did something else that, besides turning the Palin traveling circus against him, is sure to make him the bete noire of the tea party faithful: Read more
71% say Palin unqualified to be president
More innards of the ABC/WaPo poll, and not good news for the Alaska Prompter:
Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling. Read more
Matthews v. Palin, round 2: ‘nothing going on mentally’
Chris Matthews renewed his Sarah Palin fusilade last night, saying she “has nothing going on mentally” and calling her “dangerous.” Watch, as Mark Halperin is equally tough on her, though he hasn’t gotten the same amount of ink for it:
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Matthews’ case against Palin is that because she knows so little about so much, she is an “empty vessel, ready to be filled with aneoconservative ideology she doesn’t even understand,” a la Dan Quayle or George W. Bush (the latter of whom proved that you don’t have to be bright to become president.) That’s not such a far fetched case, including according to Ron Paul, who says the neocons have already infiltrated the tea party movement, of which Palin is the undeclared but clear leader. (She’s also the leading figure, besides Rush Limbaugh, in the Republican Party, something the party may not like, but it’s reality.) More on Sarah’s 2012 prospects (shudder…) here.
Remainders: talk to the (Gibbs) hand, tea party fail
During the daily press briefing, Robert Gibbs test drives the Alaska prompter.
Rasmussen might want to revisit their polling methodology, since Rasmussen polls are supposed to find that tea party candidates rule, not that they come in dead last in a generic Congressional poll (or that Democrats come in first, god forbid!) Could all the conventional wisdom about a tea party/GOP blowout in November be just so much media hot air? Rasmussen: the GOP will accept your apology whenever you’re ready.
The Gallup midterm poll, meanwhile, has the major parties tied. They leave out the folks with three pointed hats with Earl Grey hanging from them. Other news in that poll is that Independents have jumped from 14 percent to 22 percent undecided, though for now they’re still leaning GOP. And for Democrats, the poll reveals the prime directive: increase base voter enthusiasm.
Meanwhile, Greg Sargent says House liberals plan to make their last stand for the public option at the president’s health summit. (And yes, the Republicans will show up, their silly list of demands notwithstanding.)
Sargent also reports on an Obama-Boehner face-off behind closed doors.
From TPMDC, Harry Reid tries getting tough on Republicans regarding the jobs bill.
Newsflash to Ellen! Simon is mean… Simon also feuded with Neil Patrick Harris. Hey, is this a gay thing or what?
And one more poll: who does the public think is trying harder to be bi-partisan; President Obama or Republicans? Answer: Read more
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