Colbert Challenges GOP Chair to Rap Debate
Colbert helps put the GOP’s current obsession with hip hop culture into perspective. Michelle Bachmann added, “You be da man!“
U2 Talks About Their New Album
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Where was Palin? Russian Bombers Invade Canada
Sarah Palin has failed her first foreign policy test post-election. Two Russian bombers were intercepted near Canadian air space (after presumably flying near Alaska), no thanks to Palin. It took NORAD, of all people, to actually handle the international crisis that came just one day before President Obama’s visit to Canada. From CNN:
“As has been done on previous occasions, (Canadian pilots) sent very clear signals that are understood, that (the) aircraft was to turn around, turn tail and head back to its own air space, which it did,” MacKay said.
I wonder if Palin knows any “clear signals” to send to Russian bombers the next time they come within 120 miles of her state. Or, maybe she just couldn’t see them. Or, maybe she saw them and decided to let them fly by and cause problems for President Obama. I’d ask her, but I don’t want to hear the “I can see Russia” whine one more time.
Watermelon Mayor Quits
Watermelon Pic Forces Mayor's Resignation
The Huffington Post reports the Mayor of Little Cottonwood Trees, aka, Los Alamitos, CA had to quit after sending out an e-mail with the above picture showing watermelon on the White House lawn. The e-mail said: “No Easter egg hunt this year!” Dean Grose claims he didn’t know about the stereotype of black people and watermelons which makes one wonder why he thought it was a funny e-mail. He just decided to forward it on to everyone else because he didn’t get the joke and hoped someone else would explain it to him?
You can send the mayor any e-mail you think is funny by going HERE.
Daily Show: FOX on the Biden “gaffe”
Daily Show: Fox News’ “if you see something, say something” policy pays off with another Joe Biden gaffe.
Kenneth the Page Responds to Jindal
From Huff Po:
As we’ve mentioned, Bobby Jindal is Kenneth the page: They’re both Southern, both weirdly religious, and both have the tendency to look like they’re dressing up in their fathers’ suits.
Well, Jack McBrayer (who plays Kenneth the page on “30 Rock”) has responded to these accusations comparisons on Jimmy Fallon’s test show for “Late Night” and thanks to our fabulous blogger Jon Friedman, we have it first.
It’s sad, it’s raw, it’s important for you to see.
As an aside, Jindal must be the GOP front-runner for 2012. Just look how many posts I’ve done about him the past few days! I’ve even added a new category for him.
Daily Show: Bobby Jindal’s Republican Response
Daily Show: Bobby Jindal responds to Barack Obama’s speech by addressing Americans like children.
Daily Show: Optimist Prime
Daily Show: Barack Obama may be too optimistic about his goals for the future of America.
Jindal Spews About Volcanoes, Quiet on Mississippi River Projects
In his response to President Obama’s address to Congress last night, Bobby Jindal managed to irritate some folks living near Mount St. Helens by signaling out what he thought was wasteful spending: monitoring volcanoes. From his remarks:
[Congress'] legislation is larded with wasteful spending … [like] $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.
Obviously, the speech writer couldn’t resist the colorful flourish that the image of a volcano spewing s*** into the air would give to Jindal’s response. He got to use a clever line “monitoring the eruption of spending” and probably didn’t think anything more of it. The Mayor of Vancouver, Washington did give it some thought and was not pleased:
“Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?” Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. “We have one that’s very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently.”
It does seem like an odd thing to single out monitoring of a natural disaster given the whole Katrina thing. Jindal comes across as fairly uncaring and tone deaf in his remarks. And there is the other little matter of the $500 million dolled out in the stimulus to strengthen the levees along the Mississippi river. I didn’t hear Jindal question that half a billion dollars (a bit more than volcano monitoring). Given the history of the levee system in Louisiana, I would take the money and shut-up, too. Too bad he can’t have the same sympathy for his neighbors in the Northwest.
Brooks: Jindal Response Insane Nihilism
David Brooks speaks for all thinking Republicans (yes, there are some of us)(stop laughing) and tears down Jindal and the GOP for their response to the President’s speech last night.
Via Huff Po:
LEHRER: How well did he do?
BROOKS: Not so well. You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I opposed the stimulus package – I thought it was poorly drafted – but to come up at this moment in history with a stale, “government is the problem…we can’t trust the government”…it’s just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic, now. They may not like the way the Congress passed the stimulus bill. The idea that government is going to have no role in this…in a moment where only the Federal government is big enough to do stuff…to just ignore all that and say government’s the problem…corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending – it’s just a form of nihilism. It’s just not where the country is, it’s not where the future of the country is. There’s an intra-Republican debate: some people say the Republican party lost its way because it got too moderate, some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and he’s making that case. I think it’s insane. I think it’s a disaster for the party. I just think it’s unfortunate right now.
