Mark Sanford appeared so unhinged during his now-legendary June press conference in which he admitted to an affair with an Argentine woman that the federal government temporarily yanked his security clearance.
In a certified letter to Sanford dated July 1, Katherine Janosek, chief of the Homeland Security Personnel Security Division, wrote that the “Office of Security has suspended your access to classified information.”
Local Republican blog Hoosier Access was able to get RNC Chairman Michael Steele to sit down with a group of bloggers and they taped the conversation. The old gaffe-o-matic (or as I like to call him, the Republican Joe Biden!) answers a question from a gay person of color in this clip about the GOP’s diversity outreach.
One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state’s taxpayers are being forced to spend money defending her government against ethics complaints that would otherwise fund teachers, cops, and road repair.
But in response to our questions, a spokesperson for the Alaska governor’s office just gave us new information that casts serious doubt on this assertion. The revelation makes the resignation episode even stranger, and raises fresh questions about the real reasons for her abrupt departure.
During her resignation speech last week, Palin presented herself as a heroic defender of the taxpayer. She said that money being spent on government lawyers to defend against these “frivolous ethics violations” could be “going to things that are very important, like troopers and roads and teachers and fish research.” Palin repeated exactly the same point this week. Source Article
Thanks for the memory
The hell you put us through
Deserves a big fuck you
From Bush v Gore
To endless war
It really was a coup
So fuck you, George Bush
Thanks for the memory
You failed and so much more
Approvals through the floor
You are the first at being worse
Than all who’ve come before
How inept you are
Yes it was Hell while it lasted
To see our country so detested
And how is it you’re not arrested
It was not fun
So much harm done
And tanks in my memory
They rumble through my dreams
Like Abu Bhraib screams
The countless lies
As good men die
America got reamed
How awful it was
Think you’re the ministry
Get on your knees and pray
Make Terrie Schiavo stay
The word of God
You Christian fraud
Isn’t yours to say
How ghoulish it was
Goodbye let’s make it forever
With our place in history reserved
With such failure it’s really deserved
Just make my day
Go far away
Sank the economy
Deregulation sprees
Send factories overseas
Export the jobs of working slobs
Drive them to their knees
How bankrupt you are
Emptied the treasury
Cut taxes for the rich
Financial bait n’ switch
A costly war
As Bailouts soar
You really found your niche
You fucked us George Bush
I was an average worker
Then my job, house and wife went away
But my credit card debt’s here to stay
No bankruptcy
To set me free
Homeland security
The Towers that fell down
New Orleans left to drown
Read My Pet Goat
Watched bodies float
You really are a clown
How clueless you are
How’s this for victory
From shock and awe TV
To leashed depavity
The dead are hid
No contracts bid
Bin Laden still runs free
You punk ass George Bush
Your Preemptive war was folly
World sympathy soured to fury
The World Court should next be your jury
So many died
You satisfied?
Right-wing philosophy
The garbage that they spew
To benefit the few
Eradicate
This cult of hate
We’re giving you the shoe
All toether once more
U.S. Bushectomy
It’s time for us to cut
This boil from our butt
His public life
Under the knife
Bye George there goes one nut
So fuck you FUCK YOU
GEORGE BUSH
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 17, 2008; Page A04
The campaign of Sen. John McCain wanted to be clear yesterday: The Arizona Republican did not help create the BlackBerry.
That message came after McCain’s top economic adviser said that the senator had, in fact, helped bring about the handheld device, comments that the campaign later called a “boneheaded joke.”
At a briefing for reporters yesterday morning, Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his BlackBerry in an attempt to prove that his boss, the former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has economic know-how.
“He did this,” Holtz-Eakin informed them. “Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years — comes right through the Commerce Committee — so you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create, and that’s what he did.” Source Article
Behold, Caribou Barbie from the fine folks at College OTR.
Comes with everything you see here: Dead caribou, M-16, snowmobile, sexy librarian glasses. She even talks with such phrases as: “I’m a pit bull with lipstick!” “My family is off-limits” and “What is it that the VP actually does?”
After weeks of concern that the Republican vice presidential nominee might alienate Evangelicals (like Joe Lieberman) or offend social conservatives (like Mitt Romney) or be seen as inexperienced (like Bobby Jindal) or simply be too boring and generic (like Tim Pawlenty), John McCain finally made his choice. Source Article
John McCain is trying to lure Hillary’s pissed off supporters into his camp with some new ads playing on their feelings of disenfranchisement. One new ad features a former Clinton supporter who claims she’s voting Republican for the first time, and telling like-minded Democrats, “it’s okay” to vote McCain. Another ad claims Hillary should be on the ticket, but Obama refused because she was too mean to him.
Greetings friends in Christ. I wanted to share with you an inspirational story of a conservative American patriot who refused to take his social security check because his wife is a multi millionaire (who hasn’t had to work a day in her life).
Yes, friends, I’m talking of course about Senator John McCain. He has spent his entire career trying to undo the new deal, and has consistently voted against any sort of governmental help. I mean – I think it goes without saying that he would refuse to collect social security. He’s complained for years about welfare mothers collecting benefits when “those bitches should just go get a damned job and close their legs”. Were he to have collected it, well, that would definitely be a scandal and probably the end of his chances for the Presidency.
WHAT? You’re telling me that he actually took $23K+ per year for the last six years? He actually cashed the checks – didn’t give them back to social security or donate them to disabled veterans? So not only are he and his wife suckling off the teat of Cindy’s family money, buying house after house, living the high life as if they had actually earned their position in society, but they don’t have the decency to turn down a government program that they obviously don’t need. WHAT – you’re telling me that his excuse is “the system’s broken – if I don’t take it someone else will”? Source Article
