The latest rumor off the Potomac is that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, that lofty and inert vegetable, is interesting in the GOP Vice Presidential slot.
Well...it is a slow news week and Secretary Rice is clearly jonesing for some positive publicity after months out of the spotlight.
Either that or McCain's dumb-ass advisors actually think a black woman will trump all the democrats in the fall election...they are just credulous enough to believe this.
I on the other hand would relish even the most cursory cross examination of candidate Rice with respect to the endless bricks of money we've throw at Maliki the Mooch in Baghdad or even a brief discussion of the contents of her hope chest.
Ohhhh that was nasty...sometimes Humble Elias can't help himself.
Rice is a bad idea all around, lord knows what actual state she could deliver (I mean has anyone even seen her in California since 2004?) and her rep as Bush Family lackey will do naught but make enemies for McCain this fall.
In short, I hope she has a lock on it, nothing could provide more amusement.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
A Clean Veep for Barack...
It is probably premature to start sifting thru candidates for the Vice Presidency with Senator Obama, but I'm bored and willing to indulge sheer fantasy.
The Vice Presidency is a charmless inert position, one collects a salary for the mere potential of work much akin to certain obscure elected positions in Middlesex County before those offices were abolished.
And the office hasn't changed much since Thomas Jefferson had it and spent four years perfecting his solitaire game.
The main and eternal Vice Presidential qualification is to not be a buffoon and to have a clean record otherwise uncontaminated by the sort of vices that get Fox News all exercised.
The ability to deliver your home state is also nice and a penchant for clear concise english is welcome as well.
Because lets face it, if Senator Obama is the nominee he is gonna have to fetch Florida and Ohio all by himself, gaming the system by way of a VP nominee will avail him nothing in those two battleground states.
The big fight is the senator's to win or lose.
That having been said, it is about time we tried to do some business in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, a veep nominee with some props in those states might make the difference in a close race.
This is where Bill Richardson governor of New Mexico comes into play, also governor Bill Ritter of Colorado or McCain's home state governor, Janet Napolitano.
If they speak clear concise spanish, their value goes up even further...
If this is the scenario, Richardson with his long DC resume and excellent spanish seems like the most obvious candidate.
But that is just a thought....the other advantage to a governor is that the delicate balance of the US Senate is not disturbed by such a nomination, and one gets to keep your populist outside credentials for a while longer.
The Vice Presidency is a charmless inert position, one collects a salary for the mere potential of work much akin to certain obscure elected positions in Middlesex County before those offices were abolished.
And the office hasn't changed much since Thomas Jefferson had it and spent four years perfecting his solitaire game.
The main and eternal Vice Presidential qualification is to not be a buffoon and to have a clean record otherwise uncontaminated by the sort of vices that get Fox News all exercised.
The ability to deliver your home state is also nice and a penchant for clear concise english is welcome as well.
Because lets face it, if Senator Obama is the nominee he is gonna have to fetch Florida and Ohio all by himself, gaming the system by way of a VP nominee will avail him nothing in those two battleground states.
The big fight is the senator's to win or lose.
That having been said, it is about time we tried to do some business in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, a veep nominee with some props in those states might make the difference in a close race.
This is where Bill Richardson governor of New Mexico comes into play, also governor Bill Ritter of Colorado or McCain's home state governor, Janet Napolitano.
If they speak clear concise spanish, their value goes up even further...
If this is the scenario, Richardson with his long DC resume and excellent spanish seems like the most obvious candidate.
But that is just a thought....the other advantage to a governor is that the delicate balance of the US Senate is not disturbed by such a nomination, and one gets to keep your populist outside credentials for a while longer.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
As of Last Friday
John McCain said that he made a mistake in his initial opposition to making Martin luther King's birthday a holiday.
So can we say that He was Against MLK Day, before He was For It?
And if so, will Chris Matthews and Don Imus even notice?
So can we say that He was Against MLK Day, before He was For It?
And if so, will Chris Matthews and Don Imus even notice?
Friday, April 04, 2008
Twilight of the Fraud...
A month or so of dedicated toadying yields Mitt Romney exactly nothing by way of getting on McCain's Vice Presidential short list.
This particular passage from off the above link to the Boston GLobe, is particularly instructive:
But a group of social conservatives threatened to pull its support from McCain if he picks the former Massachusetts governor, citing Romney's former positions favoring abortion rights and gay rights.
The group has bought a full-page ad in tomorrow's local newspaper in Prescott, Ariz., where McCain will be campaigning that day. "For us, the bottom line is this," the ad states. "The unvarnished facts of Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts make him utterly unacceptable as a vice presidential running mate. . . . If governor Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party."
The group, calling itself the Government is Not God PAC, includes Paul Weyrich, Moral Majority founder, who endorsed Romney during the primaries.
I seem to recall not two weeks ago, Joan Vennochi was insisting in that humorless way of hers that Mitt Romney was a strong vice presidential possibility because he so appealing to the social conservative wing of the GOP?
All I can say is, HA!!!!
This looks like the end of the road for the former viceroy of Massachusetts, too phony too cold and too selfish for even the debauched reaches of the Republican Party.
Well with any luck IF McCain gets in, he can nominate Romney as Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is exactly as high as Mitt's Dad George Romney went in national politics.
Otherwise President Obama can reach out in a bid for bipartisanship and send Romney to our embassy in ohhh say I dunno....Pakistan.
This particular passage from off the above link to the Boston GLobe, is particularly instructive:
But a group of social conservatives threatened to pull its support from McCain if he picks the former Massachusetts governor, citing Romney's former positions favoring abortion rights and gay rights.
The group has bought a full-page ad in tomorrow's local newspaper in Prescott, Ariz., where McCain will be campaigning that day. "For us, the bottom line is this," the ad states. "The unvarnished facts of Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts make him utterly unacceptable as a vice presidential running mate. . . . If governor Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party."
The group, calling itself the Government is Not God PAC, includes Paul Weyrich, Moral Majority founder, who endorsed Romney during the primaries.
I seem to recall not two weeks ago, Joan Vennochi was insisting in that humorless way of hers that Mitt Romney was a strong vice presidential possibility because he so appealing to the social conservative wing of the GOP?
All I can say is, HA!!!!
This looks like the end of the road for the former viceroy of Massachusetts, too phony too cold and too selfish for even the debauched reaches of the Republican Party.
Well with any luck IF McCain gets in, he can nominate Romney as Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is exactly as high as Mitt's Dad George Romney went in national politics.
Otherwise President Obama can reach out in a bid for bipartisanship and send Romney to our embassy in ohhh say I dunno....Pakistan.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
The Veep Post is delayed once again, whilst a Fatwah is Imposed...
The Washington Post proclaimed this past week that the Blue Mass Group is the best political blog in Massachusetts.
The Blue Mass Group!!! I used to help those rug rats with Long Division!!!!
Just because those guys built up a huge on-line presence, drafted volunteers, drove the debate, brought new voices into the process and helped the democrats in Massachusetts in 2006...doesn't mean they are hot shit or anything!
What about Humble Elias!??? Hell I'm th' grand olde man of the local liberal bloggers, I got in back when Colin Powell still had integrity!
What about Glorious Adorable ME!!!????
When am I gonna get some luv????
Well, the Washington Post can just kiss my phat Irish arse! They haven't done a lick of good for the nation since Woodward and Bernstein! These days The Post is naught but sort of toadyish publication given to a cartoonishly solemn respect for every fraudulent hack in DC and their patently absurd ideas.
Anyhow...congrats to BMG...they earned it.
But the Washington Post, they are on thin ice with Humble Elias.
The Blue Mass Group!!! I used to help those rug rats with Long Division!!!!
Just because those guys built up a huge on-line presence, drafted volunteers, drove the debate, brought new voices into the process and helped the democrats in Massachusetts in 2006...doesn't mean they are hot shit or anything!
What about Humble Elias!??? Hell I'm th' grand olde man of the local liberal bloggers, I got in back when Colin Powell still had integrity!
What about Glorious Adorable ME!!!????
When am I gonna get some luv????
Well, the Washington Post can just kiss my phat Irish arse! They haven't done a lick of good for the nation since Woodward and Bernstein! These days The Post is naught but sort of toadyish publication given to a cartoonishly solemn respect for every fraudulent hack in DC and their patently absurd ideas.
Anyhow...congrats to BMG...they earned it.
But the Washington Post, they are on thin ice with Humble Elias.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Gonna put the Veep discussion on hold in order to remind the laity
that Jeff Jacoby is a screechy bitchy little war-whooper.
Alone seemingly among the American punditariat, Jeff breathed a howl of sheer relief when McCain promised to keep up in Iraq for the next one hundred years.
Such is the way of the chickenhawk.
Well...by my rough calculations his eldest progeny the much discussed young Kaleb ought to be of "draft age" in about twelve years, 2020 on the calendar, which means we will be in the the seventeenth year of McCain's proposed one hundred year occupation of Iraq.
Will the lad join the army and give teeth to his father's truculence?
Will Jeff ever find a war he can't get behind with beating tambourine and a voice, throbbing with false patriotic bluster?
The world wonders....
Alone seemingly among the American punditariat, Jeff breathed a howl of sheer relief when McCain promised to keep up in Iraq for the next one hundred years.
Such is the way of the chickenhawk.
Well...by my rough calculations his eldest progeny the much discussed young Kaleb ought to be of "draft age" in about twelve years, 2020 on the calendar, which means we will be in the the seventeenth year of McCain's proposed one hundred year occupation of Iraq.
Will the lad join the army and give teeth to his father's truculence?
Will Jeff ever find a war he can't get behind with beating tambourine and a voice, throbbing with false patriotic bluster?
The world wonders....
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
The first "Gotcha" Commercial
irony of ironies it was at the expense of Richard M. Nixon....
Tomorrow, barring unforeseen circumstances we start conjuring with Vice Presidential Nominees for Barack Obama.
Should be fun in a senseless, heedless, antic sort of a way.
Tomorrow, barring unforeseen circumstances we start conjuring with Vice Presidential Nominees for Barack Obama.
Should be fun in a senseless, heedless, antic sort of a way.
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