Bill O'Reilly's stupidity drives half of the ladies of the View right off of the show.

I think the term "arrogant prick" applies in this situation.

Christine O'Donnell was prepped for her recent debate by two of the men who prepped Sarah Palin for hers. Really, is anybody surprised by this?

From the Plum Line:

By some reckonings, Christine O'Donnell had a bit of a rocky time at her Delaware Senate debate with Dem Chris Coons last night. She wouldn't say whether she believe in evolution, described Coons as a Marxist, and appeared to stumble over her answer on discretionary funding.

And yet, as Dana Milbank notes, in comparison to recent revelations about her and the national caricature that is the result, her performance was clearly an improvement.

If that's so, there are two people she has to thank for that, and they're both Sarah Palin advisers: Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb. They were the ones who took on the job of prepping O'Donnell for the debate, Goldfarb confirms.

Palin, in a conversation with O'Donnell, recommended the two men to her, and the O'Donnell campaign reached out to them to enlist their help, Goldfarb says. They spent the day with her yesterday in Wilmington getting her ready.

Somehow I think saying you were a witch is less damaging to your credibility than actually taking advice about politics from Sarah Palin.  Don't you think?

I wonder if these two geniuses were the same ones who told O'Donnell to refuse to say whether she believes evolution is a myth or not, and insist that Creationism should be taught in a science classroom along with evolution even though it is NOT a scientific theory.

Just in case you actually believe that O'Donnell has a point with her little "Bearded Marxist" jab at Coons, here is the original opinion piece from his school newspaper written in 1985.

Sarah Palin to audience in Canada: “When I do run again I will be more rogue.”

Palin has played coy with Americna audiences concerning her potential candidacy in 2012. 

However while giving a speech in Canada yesterday, Sister Sarah felt no need to hide the obvious.

First she took on a recent story in the National Examiner that she and Todd had reached a financial agreement to stay together for appearances sake:

She joked that when she told her husband that the story said he might be getting $20-million out of the settlement, he thought it sounded good.

“Write me the cheque,” she quoted him as saying.

(For the record, while I had never heard an exact dollar amount, I also heard from a number of  sources that Todd had reached a lucrative deal to play house with the Grizzled Mama at least until after the 2012 elections.)

Next Palin goes on to make perhaps one of the most hypocritical statements to ever fall out of her overly botoxed lips:

“One of my favourite signs at one of the Tea Party rallies said: ‘My kid is not my ATM.’ And that’s right. What we are seeing is generational theft. It’s completely unethical.”

Unbelievable!

However it was after the speech during the $500 a pop Q&A that Palin let the cat  wriggle completely out of the bag:

After her 30-minute speech, Ms. Palin agreed to take questions from audience members who paid up to $500 each to attend. Many of the queries from the floor allowed the former Republican vice-presidential candidate to tee off on the “lame stream media.” She seemed to agree with one person who suggested she allowed herself to be too programmed by Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s handlers during the pair’s bid for the White House.

“Thanks for the advice,” said Ms. Palin, at the event ostensibly to plug her book Going Rogue. “When I do run again I will be more rogue.”

So there you have it kids.  There does not seem to be any equivocation there, Palin is DEFINITELY going to run.

Former Fairbanks Mayor confirms Joe Miller's unethical behaviors.



Joe Miller receives congratulatory hug from Bernadette Wilson as Christian singer Adele Morgan looks on.

 From Alaska Dispatch:

Jim Whitaker, former mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, alleges that U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller used borough computers in 2008 in a failed attempt to become head of the Alaska Republican Party.

Whitaker's accusation came Wednesday, two days after Miller refused to answer questions from the Alaska media about whether he had ever used borough offices or equipment for partisan activity. The allegation was first reported by Alaska Dispatch on Sunday through an anonymous source.

At Monday's press conference, Miller vowed to stay silent on anything having to do with his background or private life until at least after the election. Miller's reluctance to talk about the allegations during his time at the borough upset Whitaker, prompting him to speak up.

"It did make me angry," said Whitaker, who was mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough from 2003 to 2009. "That event (politicking on borough time) happened on my watch, and I am obligated to tell the truth."

According to Whitaker, Miller -- a part-time attorney for the borough from June 2002 to September 2009 -- used other employees' computers to send "proxy votes to get himself elected as the chairman of the Republican Party."

Miller's campaign did not return a call or an e-mail Wednesday seeking a response to Whitaker's accusation.

Obviously Miller knew that this information was coming out and has decided to run away and hide from the media in the hopes that Alaska voters will not hear about it until AFTER the election. It is up to the bloggers and independent media sources to make sure that this information, and the other information soon to surface, DOES make it onto the radar screens of the Alaska voters.

Miller benefits from having these stories receive minimal coverage.  His hope is that the Alaska media that did such a poor job of vetting Sarah Palin has not learned their lesson and will give him the same free pass that they gave her.

So if you are a voter in Alaska (or even just know one),  please make sure that this story, and the others to come, about Joe Miller and his unethical behaviors get as wide of a distribution as possible.  Alaska is not perfect, but we can do far better than having this unethical Sarah Palin drone representing us in Washington.

Christine O'Donnell's ignorance on national display during Delaware debate.

In this video O'Donnell seems to believe that America was battling the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and failed to "finish the job."  Oh the stupid, it burns!



Later O'Donnell is asked about a recent Supreme Court case she disagrees with and does her best Sarah Palin impression in response.



At least in Delaware it looks like the voters know that their teabagging candidate is unfit for the job since Coons is well ahead in the polls.  I can only hope that the Alaska voters will make that same determination before November 2nd.

Rolling Stone magazine makes "The Case for Obama."

Rolling Stone:

Less than halfway through his first term, Obama has compiled a remarkable track record. As president, he has rewritten America's social contract to make health care accessible for all citizens. He has brought 100,000 troops home from war and forged a once-unthinkable consensus around the endgame for the Bush administration's $3 trillion blunder in Iraq. He has secured sweeping financial reforms that elevate the rights of consumers over Wall Street bankers and give regulators powerful new tools to prevent another collapse. And most important of all, he has achieved all of this while moving boldly to ward off another Great Depression and put the country back on a halting path to recovery.

Along the way, Obama delivered record tax cuts to the middle class and slashed nearly $200 billion in corporate welfare — reinvesting that money to make college more accessible and Medicare more solvent. He single-handedly prevented the collapse of the Big Three automakers — saving more than 1 million jobs — and brought Big Tobacco, at last, under the yoke of federal regulation. Even in the face of congressional intransigence on climate change, he has fought to constrain carbon pollution by executive fiat and to invest $200 billion in clean energy — an initiative bigger than John F. Kennedy's moonshot and one that's on track to double America's capacity to generate renewable energy by the end of Obama's first term.

On the social front, he has improved pay parity for women and hate-crime protections for gays and lesbians. He has brought a measure of sanity to the drug war, reducing the sentencing disparity for crack cocaine while granting states wide latitude to experiment with marijuana laws. And he has installed two young, female justices on the Supreme Court, creating what Brinkley calls "an Obama imprint on the court for generations."

What's even more impressive about Obama's accomplishments, historians say, is the fractious political coalition he had to marshal to victory. "He didn't have the majority that LBJ had," says Goodwin. Indeed, Johnson could count on 68 Democratic senators to pass Medicare, Medicaid and the Voting Rights Act. For his part, Franklin Roosevelt had the backing of 69 Senate Democrats when he passed Social Security in 1935. At its zenith, Obama's governing coalition in the Senate comprised 57 Democrats, a socialist, a Republican turncoat — and Joe Lieberman.

The Republican party, the Teabaggers, and the billionaires that back them, are all gunning for our President. And every time a progressive bitches that change is not happening fast enough, or a Democratic politician says "Barack who?", they gain a little bit more ground.

Am I completely satisfied?  Hell no!  But so what!  I am NEVER completely satisfied!

If I was completely satisfied this blog would not exist.

But I recognize when we are moving forward, and I certainly know that there is probably not another politician in the country who could have made the kind of progress that President Obama has made in such a short period of time.  Go ahead, imagine who ELSE could even have come close to what this man has accomplished.

I am not a child.  I do not believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or a President who can snap his fingers and make all of the country's ills disappear overnight.  I wanted Obama to make progress, and he is doing that.

So if you voted for Obama and now sit at home bitching because things are not happening fast enough for you, well then fuck you!  And if you are planning to skip these mid-term elections because you are no longer inspired, then fuck you twice!

We once had a President, maybe you have heard of him, who said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what YOU can do for your country."  Well my friends what YOU can do for your country is to show the Republicans that the progressives are not a bunch of pussies who always snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.  And that we will NOT abandon the man who has fought every day of his Presidency to do the things that we elected him to do,

Has he done everything EXACTLY the way we had hoped? No.

Has he accomplished more than ANY OTHER President during his first two years in office?  Yes.

Can he continue making that kind of progress if the Republicans take over the Congress? Probably not.

Is there anything we can do to help him to finally do EVERYTHING we wanted him to do? Yes.

We can VOTE!  Because if we do not give HIM what he desperately needs from us, we have no right to be disappointed when he does not give US what we wanted from him!

(Do yourself a favor and click the Rolling Stone link, it may help you to gain a little perspective on this administration.  And you never know, it just might remind you of why you were so anxious to cast your vote in 2008.)

Namaste my friends.

NPR employees forbidden from participating in Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity." Well that's just stupid, who could use a sanity break more than journalists?

From Huffington Post:

"NPR journalists may not participate in marches and rallies involving causes or issues that NPR covers, nor should they sign petitions or otherwise lend their name to such causes, or contribute money to them," Senior Vice President for News, Ellen Weiss, wrote in a memo Wednesday morning. "This restriction applies to the upcoming John [sic] Stewart and Stephen Colbert rallies."

"However, no matter where you work at NPR you should be very mindful that you represent the organization and its news coverage in the eyes of your friends, neighbors and others," Schiller continued. "So please think twice about the message you may be sending about our objectivity before you attend a rally or post a bumper sticker or yard sign. We are all NPR."

What the hell?

You know personally I find the National Public Radio a little dry and humorless at times.  I believe they would benefit greatly from letting their hair down and having some damn fun.

If you feel that this is patently unfair you can contact them here and tell them so.

Speaking just for myself, if an NPR employee decides to break the rules and come out for a couple of helpings of sanity any drinking they do afterward will be on me.  I will start a "sanity tab" at the bar and they can drink until they forget exactly WHO they work for, and possibly their name.

And I promise not to try anything naughty.  Unless you want me to of course, in which case you are in luck, because essentially EVERYTHING I do turns out to be naughty in one way or another.

Joe Miller damn near tramples Alaskans as he runs TO Fox's Greta Van Susteren and then just as quickly runs AWAY from local Alaska media. Just about sums him up doesn't it?

Did you see how aggressively Joe moved through the people that he wants to support him in order to get a little face time with Van Susteren?

Here is the eight minute interview that Miller GLADLY gave Greta Van Susteren, that was so important that he made the Alaska media stand outside in the hallway cooling their heels before bitching to them for less than six minutes about how unfair they had been to him.

It is fairly obvious that Joe Miller has never, and will never, care about issues in Alaska.  He is running a national campaign, along with the other Teabagger candidates, to try and stop President Obama and hopefully make an opening big enough for Sarah Palin to drag all of her baggage through so that she will be a viable candidate in 2012.  Sarah instructed Christine O'Donnell to "speak through Fox News" and clearly she has given the same instruction to her butt-boy Joe Miller.

Look out how quickly he made like a rabbit and dashed away from the Alaska media after he finished throwing his little tantrum. And don't think they did not notice.  You can even hear at least a couple of them call him a "pussy" as he runs away.

As for the reference to Mayor Dan Sullivan's alleged mistress Bernadette Wilson, she has now moved on and is currently working for Joe Miller.  In fact we saw her in his campaign office earlier in the day before we were told the "press conference" was moved to the Dena'ina Center.

Here she is standing very close to her new potential political sugar daddy. (At one point I saw her run her hand across his back, but I am sure there must simply have been a piece of lint that needed removing.)



Courtesy of Mudflats

(No wonder Mrs. Vaguely Bearded Guy always looks so unhappy.)

Speaking of not looking happy it did not appear that Danny-boy was terribly thrilled to have been kicked to the curb either.

Aww, the Alaska political landscape is simply littered with broken hearts and dashed dreams, don'tcha know.

Is Joe MIller too thin skinned to win?

In his recent faux press conference on Monday, Joe Miller complained bitterly about "vicious campaign" strategies and "journalistic impropriety," and essentially said that because of that kind of intense scrutiny he would no longer be talking to the press about his background.

So essentially Miller gave the middle finger to anybody who wanted to know exactly WHO he was, and why the voters of Alaska should trust him with such an important job.  Good move oh vaguely bearded one.

He also bitched that he and his wife Kathleen were the "most disclosed couple in Alaska politics, at least in recent history."  I am guessing he completely forgot about that lady from Wasilla and her husband who essentially handed him this candidacy on a silver platter. (Probably one paid for by SarahPAC.)

However the point Miller seemed to be making is that what was happening to him was outside of the boundaries of what OTHER politicians have had to endure, and that it was just not goddamn fair.

At which point I have to respond with a "REALLY!"

So is Miller saying that what is happening to him is more invasive and upsetting to his family than, say being accused of having an affair like Nikki Haley?  Or having pictures surface of you wearing a Nazi soldier's uniform amid allegations that you played dress-up with your friends and acted out the exploits of an SS Panzer division?

I mean come on Miller! How is this not worse than somebody finding out your wife received unemployment benefits, or you got farm subsidies?

How much worse does Miller think it is for Carl Paladino who the press discovered sent racist and bestiality videos and pictures through his e-mail?  Or having to make a political commercial that assures your future constituents that you are not a witch, like Christine O'Donnell had to do recently?

But hey let's not just pick on the Teabaggers and Republicans, what about the Democrat running for Congress in Virginia who had pictures leaked of her sucking a dildo shaped fake nose worn by her husband?

Does Miller really believe he has anything THAT embarrassing and potentially damaging to his reputation coming out anytime soon? It is also worth noting that a number of the Teabagger candidates listed above have decided to avoid any press that is NOT Fox News. However Krystal Ball (What a great name for a Congressperson!), pictured above, has come right out and talked to her local press about these pictures.



So tell me, if this Democratic dildo sucker can face the press and say, "Yep that's me, so what?", then why is Joe Miller running and hiding in an attempt to avoid the local Alaska media?

The idea that a candidate, especially one attached to a new undefined movement in this country, like the Teabaggers, would expect NOT to receive an intense amount of scrutiny is absolutely ridiculous.  Of  COURSE the media is going to look into your past!  Of COURSE they are going to dig up embarrassing facts that you hoped would not be exposed!  Of COURSE they are going to want to ask you questions about what they find!  What kind of an idiot would not already be prepared for that?

So here is my advice to Joe Miller.  Sack up, or get the hell out!

This is Alaska you panty waist!  There are women living in Girdwood with a thicker growth of beard than you have! The late Ted Stevens used to take on the entire goddamn Senate all by himself before breakfast to bring home Federal dollars for his constituents! And you want the same job that he had?

If you are unwilling to talk to our local press and tell the Alaskan voters just who the hell you are, than the Alaska voters should be unwilling to trust you to represent them in Washington.  It is just that simple.

In a matchup between Teabagger queen Sarah Palin and President Obama in 2012, the Grizzled Mama would get her ass handed to her!

From the Bloomberg National Poll:

If the 2012 election for U.S. President were held today and the candidates were [Sarah Palin for the
Republicans] and [Barack Obama for the Democrats], for whom would you vote—[Sarah Palin] or
[Barack Obama], or would you likely not vote? (Alternate which candidate is read first every other
interview.)

51 Barack Obama
35 Sarah Palin
10 Will likely not vote
4 Not sure

Personally I think that by the time we get to 2012, and Obama's policies have really kicked in and more of Sarah's skeletons have fallen out of her closet, the disparity between these numbers will grow even more to favor President Obama.

Right now people are upset and looking for change, but only 35 percent are letting their emotions dumb them down enough to consider Palin a change this country can withstand.

I believe the irascible Helen Thomas said it best in a recent interview:

"That would be a tragedy, a national tragedy," Thomas said of the possibility of a Palin presidency. She called the former GOP vice-presidential nominee "very conservative, reactionary, unbelievable."

By the way SarahPAC's financial report for this last quarter just came out and Palin managed to rake in an astonishing 1.2 million. So you know there are STILL a number of very ignorant people out there who are convinced, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Palin would be able to do the job as President of the United States.

The financial disclosure, filed Tuesday by her SarahPAC, shows the 2008 vice presidential candidate and potential 2012 presidential contender spent a total of about $1 million during that time. Much of it — more than $255,000 — went to consultants in areas including coalitions, media, international affairs and finance.

I really wish the IRS would take a close look at this PAC.  I am certain that there is some very serious money laundering going on here. Palin is the queen of the grifters, and she undoubtedly uses this PAC much like the Mafia uses off shore bank accounts.

Of course if, and when, Palin announces her candidacy I don't think she can count on continuing these kind of shenanigans without SOMEBODY blowing the lid off.