* So there’s talk about Rick Perry getting in the presidential race soon. I think he’d be a lock if he did. He’s a governor of a state that’s actually doing pretty well in this economy, he’s conservative and not just conservativey like Romney, and he’s not as boring as Tim Pawlenty. If you want a good candidate, you really do need a good governor. It was weird in 2008 when we had to legislators running against each other; being a legislator high-paying job where you just vote yes or no on stuff — you could literally teach a dog to do it. It shows no actual ability to do anything, and if you’re one for too long you probably forget how to do anything useful. And our current president is someone who never in his life showed any actual ability to do anything other than talk, and still hasn’t after a few years as president.
* So all of Gingrich’s staff just suddenly left. You think Gingrich understands that it’s all over yet, or is he like the black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail sitting there with no arms and no legs vowing to crush everyone. I’m guessing the later, because after Gingrich’s fatal misstep in attacking Paul Ryan’s plan, he’s seemed to enter this bizarro world where he’s not the DC insider and everyone else is. It’s like he’s going after Ron Paul’s crazy vote. Dude, that is not the niche you want to compete for.
* Alec Baldwin defended Anthony Weiner as a “modern, high-functioning man.” That makes it sound like Weiner is mentally handicapped and just learned to dress himself — which may be a pretty good description of left-wing politicians in general. Yet, people like Baldwin try to make a virtue of how these people are weirdos instead of saying the obvious, “Maybe we should stop giving these freaks money and power.” I never got how that’s not a bipartisan stance. I guess we just need to stop defending right-wing politicians as well. If a left-winger attacks a conservative politician, just say, “Yep, he’s awful. Everyone in DC is awful. SO LET’S STOP GIVING THEM MONEY AND POWER!”
* The Washington Post and the New York Times are going to crowdsource going through all the released Sarah Palin e-mails, asking people for free to scour them for something to make into a hit piece. That’s pretty smart, as there has to be a huge overlap between people deranged about Palin and people with way too much time on their hands. You ever get the feeling, though, that if the press devoted a fraction of their energy on digging up dirt on Palin to investigating Obama, he’d be in jail right now?
* You might want to sit down for this news: New study says that sitting can be just as deadly long term as smoking. Aren’t you getting tired of these studies where everything is killing us unless we spend our whole days running around in a field eating leafy greens? Who wants to live like that? I just want to live long enough to get to retirement because I’ve been really working on my surprised face for when I’m told I won’t be getting Social Security. Everyone is going to laugh so much.
I don’t think laughing kills you.
* Dems are getting pretty panicked about the the possibility of a double-dip recession, because no matter how much they hype how likable Obama is, the guy who trashed the economy is not going to get reelected. I mean, what exactly is Obama going to run on? “You elected him to be the first black president, and… well… he’s still that.” Since we kind of wasted our “first black president” milestone, it will be nice to leave open the “first black president reelected” milestone open to someone worth teaching future children about.
“You think Gingrich understands that it’s all over yet”
No, Newt’s strategy in recent years is to do more of whatever it is that liberals are doing that Republican voters hate. So, I’d expect to see Newt’s awesome win-over-the-voters comeback strategy kick in at any moment. He’ll be sending Twitters of his weiner to college girls. Don’t worry, Newt’s got it all figured out.
Obama is the freindly economy killer. He’s like that nice couple next door, only with economy killing powers.
Gingrich is the DC universe Bizarro candidate. Note how there is very little differance between the political DC and the comic book DC.
“Since we kind of wasted our “first black president” milestone, it will be nice to leave open the “first black president reelected” milestone open to someone worth teaching future children about.
Indeed.
Herman CAIN!
Life is a terminal condition, there may be a lot of ways to go but we will go. I say pick your poison
Rick Perry? I didn’t vote for him for governor because of the trans-Texas corridor shennanigans, as well as the illegal alien coddling. He’d be better than Obama, but worse than Bush in my view. I liked Bush on foreign policy, but his domestic policies were and are part of the problem. I don’t know how Perry would do on foreign policy, but he wouldn’t be as good at domestic. So I guess the real question is, do I want my poison fast acting, or do I want enough time for a touching death scene soliloquy?
He should have gone with that: “I’m sorry. I was just so proud. I just had to tell someone that I was finally wearing big-boy underwear.” That totally could have worked.
Until I see otherwise, Rick Perry is George Bush with better hair.
Wasn’t Rick Perry like a cheerleader or something? I don’t know about you but I don’t want for POTUS some dude who use to wear a skirt and do hand stands at Football games! I want the guy who was passing the ball or the guy in the band (me) who was hitting on all the chicks during the game! I have a feeling that any dude that was a cheerleader has mailed pictures of his junk to someone!
Quarterbacks are pansies. I only vote for linebackers.
ussjc, staring at a girl through binoculars does not count as courting her.
Son of Bob – Gingrich is going to start sending twitpics of his Newt? Why? Did his current wife get cancer or something?
You know, I’ve listened to Newt a lot over the years. I appreciated him during the “Contract With America” years when Yellow Stain was president. It’s not that I don’t mostly agree with Newt and stuff, but…
I just can’t get over that couch he sat on with the Botox Queen.
Plus, I really don’t want to hear from hypocritical, know-it-all, pontificating, old guys any more. Maybe it’s because I’m getting old. Ok, older. Ok, along in years. Ok, a little gray around the edges. Sllightly chronologically challenged…. shoot.
You know, every time you call Pawlenty boring I just picture him coming at you like a locomotive and tackling you while yelling, “How’s THAT for boring!!!!!!!!!!!????????????”
Right now, I’d be ALL over a Perry/Pawlenty ticket.
Oh and about Wiener, I have to say: if you were that little of a man (in any sense), would you take a photo emphasizing it and send it out? It had to be asked.
Since the Democrats have decided that Wiener did nothing wrong then I say let’s go all the way! Every male member of congress must now whip out their wiener and take a picture of it and publish it to Twitter. It must be photographed next to a ruler so that we can judge as the American people who has the Junk to lead this nation!
NYT and WP outsourcing reasearch? I think we should jump on that. We can make up bogus emails between Palin and Weiner where he confesses he’s really a woman in a man’s body. Or a email from BHO begging for not to kill him with her large bore elephant rifle. maybe McCain’s appology for dragging the ticket down.
Well, Romney is so conservativey that he’s decided to follow Gingrich and jump the shark. Said Romney the other day, “My hair gets in the way of understanding sciencey stuff, but I can say with certitude that the earth is warming and that man is causing it.” Only time will tell if Romney’s hair can save him from promising to appoint Al Gore as chairman of the EPA.
So what I’m saying is, if the choice comes down to the Romnical and Obama, we’ll have the choice between someone who supports socialized healthcare and someone else who supports socialized healthcare, with the difference between them that one supports the theory of man caused global warming, while the other supports the theory of man caused global warming.
The debates will be stupendous.
Romney – My good friend President Obama may go first…
Obama – No no, my good friend Governor Romney may go first…
Romney – Are you sure, President Obama? We are such good friends and agree on so many issues there really isn’t much to debate about!
Obama – I agree Mitt…may I call you Mitt?
Romney -Of course you may, Barack! That’s what we call each other every week on the golf course!
Obama – Yes, and you are a very good golfer might I add!
Romney – Thanks, but not as good as you!
Obama – Thanks Mitt, but you know I was thinking that this Global Warming is causing the golf courses that we play today to suffer greatly!
Romney – I agree with my good friend Barack!
Obama – And I was also thinking, what if someone were hit with a drive of mine and had no Health Insurance?
Romney – Well they would never be hit with one of your drives..ha…ha…but probably one of mine…ha…ha…and that’s why it is important that the government provide health insurance!
Obama – Yes and I also notices that when I filled up the golf cart we put Ethanol in there and I was most pleased, how about you Mitt?
Romney – Me too, Barack!
Obama IS a president worth teaching our kids about. We should tell our kids, “HE is an example of why you should never vote for somebody because of his skin color.” He’s not only the first black president, he’s the first affirmative action president. He’s a very good example of why affirmative action is a bad idea. I want Alan West to be our first REAL black president, not the affirmative action hack we’ve got now!
“New study says that sitting can be just as deadly long term as smoking.”
Does this mean that smoking is safer than sitting?
Frank J., you missed part of the story about the hazards of sitting down versus smoking. The author reports that “second hand sitting” has also been shown to act as a carcinogen. Bloomberg has responded to this study by ordering the NYC board of health to remove all chairs from restaurants and bars within the city.
@USSJC: I misremembered that Mitts and Barry are both in love with Ethyl.
Hmmm, Rick Perry, didn’t he push for instate tuition for illegals, and hand outs for illegals, and social security for illegals, and a super highway for illegals?
Hmmm newt gingrich, didn’t he sit on a sofa and make out with the world’s dumbest, ugliest woman and cause global warming or something?
Hmmm, a new study by academia types to justify their existence on why something is harmful for you, so we need to study more so we don’t have to get real jobs, cause we just can’t handle the pressure, and we are smart and not able to handle pressure, so we don’t want real jobs, we want jobs that prove how smart we are, and so everything is bad and the government needs more of your freedom and money so we can study the bad stuff instead of getting real jobs that have pressure, which we can’t handle.
@Jimmy: Alte Knacke . . .
@22. Crabby: Indeed. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
@16. ussjimmycarter: That exchange is too realistic, too possible, and too disgusting! !@#$!@ #%!@#$
@Frank: “I just want to live long enough to get to retirement because I’ve been really working on my surprised face for when I’m told I won’t be getting Social Security.”
I really don’t think you’ll have to wait that long.
@calcpa & Burma,
There’s an easy explanation for that study that says sitting is harmful. The people studied were probably watching MSNBC, CNN, The View, Oprah, or a combination of all four while they were sitting. Thus, it makes sense.
@ Son of Bob
And they were happy to go.
I had a very sedentary grandmother who smoked her whole life and lived to 97. Crackerjack card player – and could she ever cook. Of course, she also probably had an inverted chromosome 17.
Bicycling is roughly equivalent to sitting down. I demand the Government ban this dangerous pastime!
I am bracing myself for the terrible disappointment that is in store for all of us. Granted Representative Anthony has made us expect entirely too much. But I am afraid that the Times and the Post going thru all of Sarah Palin’s EMails will not produce a single Jpeg of her tits.
Oh, Burt, no. Now I need to expunge even a suggestion of that image. Remember what Reagan said about imagination.
storm1911 says: “Gingrich is the DC universe Bizarro candidate.”
Makes sense.
“Me am running for President.”
*leaves for Greek island cruise
I’m surely a goner, being up to a pack of chairs a day.
Second Hand sitting is going to kill me! i’m developing heart and lung problems because of congress sitting on their asses all day sending wiener pics to women!
Frank, you missed the big news! They failed to find the Higgs boson particle again! Oh no…we are doomed!
I don’t think laughing kills you.
Depends on who you laugh at, now doesn’t it?
The ones running around the field eating green leaves, I call them “prey”.
So the aging West Coast hippie, Tommy Chong is walking around with his aging hippie friends and they are all smoking their medical marajuana and telling each other, Don’t sit down mannnn, or you’ll Die!!!! man, Bummer mannnn.