Newt: What happened to the Tea Party?

This is what it adds up to: Newt Gingrich is the Republican front-runner. 


Here is the beginning of Dan Eggen's column in the Washington Post today:
After he left Congress, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made tens of millions of dollars from corporate clients, who paid his health-care think tank up to $200,000 a year for “access to top transformational leadership across industry and government.” Gingrich also bragged about his success in pushing conservative policies and legislation in Washington during his political exile.

Yet the former House speaker insists that he has never been a lobbyist.

What happened to the Tea Party?

GOP Politics: Positively Wall Street Meets Night of the Living Dead

Outrageousness will get you votes if you are a Republican; honesty will kill you. It is a Bizarro world with little redeeming value when Mitt Romney, professional liar with many years of experience at it must fight to compete with the likes of Newt Gingrich, who dumb people find brilliant. I just see him buying a gold rope like a blustery rapper -- I take him seriously like I took the artistry of Vanilla Ice seriously. The brother just wants power and money. Michelle Bachmann is a crazy hag, ranting about whatever pops out of her mouth as her eyes get bigger and bigger and the veins in her forehead near her horns grow ready to burst. Herman Cain has played the race card, gender card, and player card -- he is all out of Aces. Ron Paul is straight, and Jon Huntsman does not have the stomach for the slime. Rick Santorum would be better off as a member of the Taliban; he loves social restrictions, hates freedom unless it's his own, and wants men to have bigger weapons. What the F is Tim Pawlenty doing in this photo?

Craziest of all is that all of the losers are in line for massive paydays, lobbying jobs, and speaking engagements as rich white people will pay them handsomely to inspire them to make their anger tangible.

Worst are the "reasonable" pundits like the New York Times David Brooks, who in every case are consciously incompetent, knowing full well that the Republicans they defend on a daily basis have screwed everyone in the country who is not rich. It's a low down dirty shame.

The New Church Picnic

Representative Steve King comparing the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement said:

"The differences we have are that I don't know of any member of the Tea Party that's been arrested," he said. "They are a peaceful group of people that could just as well be the folks at my church picnic.

Mitt Romney

If, as Mitt Romney say, Corporations are people, too," then I am going to try to leave my wife for Victoria's Secret.

How Groupon Affirms Me

It's free for the vendor. It's discounted. It offers 35% off. They offer huge discounts off the "best stuff my city has to offer." Lucky me! I don't need to fight for quality taxpayer funded education -- just give me a scissors printer.

I now have the privilege to receive a daily discount from Groupon or LivingSocial or some other company that has my best interest and happiness in mind. As Sally Field said, "They like me. they really like me!

By my calculations, if I save 37% on the bottle of Reunite Lambrusco a fine Ernest and Julio Gallo's  California Chardonnay, I will not only save money, but get the joy of walking up to a non-unionized member of our nearly minimum wage service sector and show her how we successful middle-class strivers do it! Not only do I save on this heavily discounted item which I didn't really want and still churns a modest profit for store and bottler, but I also feel dignified.

All I can say is, "What a great country!"

Relatives In Oz, Deluded, Powerful, and On Drugs

His House Is a Very Very Very Fine House

Talking today to someone like the nice fellow who owns this house, I learned that America’s budget problems have been caused by the working men and women who belong to unions like those Wisconsin people. Prior to our discussion, I had always thought that unions protected the middle class, insured that they received things like a fair wage, health benefits, a shot at a 40 hour work week, and a bit of a paid vacation. Boy was I wrong!

Now I know that the economic disaster that occurred at the beginning of the Islamic foreign -born President Obama term end of the Bush administration’s term was actually caused by the benefits paid to union members. 

I thought for a minute that the real problem might be: two unfinanced wars or the greedy Wall Street hedge fund motherfuckers managers or all the unwed black mothers driving Cadillacs around town or Terri Schiavo or Bill Ayres pallin' around with terrorists  or those pimps from Acorn or Chandra Levy or Tiller the Baby Killer or Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or NPR’s firing of Juan Williams or all the saggy pants on gold teethed black teenagers or MSNBC or Rahm Emanuel or Hollywood’s Elite Liberals or Al Gore’s discovery of the internet or Michael Moore’s hateful distaste for democracy or tax breaks for everybody including the billionaires who create the engine which creates American jobs even though no jobs have been created or Sista Soulja or Jesse Jackson or the dude from Louisiana with the cash in his freezer or the Clintons who murdered that Foster guy over Whitewater, but I learned that I was mistaken.

I learned that it wasn’t the fault of guys like the one in this house, but the working men and women who belong to unions. They should not be allowed to ruin our country by collective bargaining. The guy who lives in this house told me that we can’t afford to pay these guys so much. 

Anyway -- one look at this guy's monstrous beautiful house and I knew he was better than me and that he would never lie. 

Twelve Reasons To Go Back to Bed: Today's Paper

1. Attackers Wearing Army Uniforms Make Deadly Assault on Bank in Afghanistan SECTION A - PAGE 6
   By ALISSA J. RUBIN
   
2. Russian Trial to Bare a Face of Nationalism SECTION A - PAGE 6
   By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
   
3. Iran Releases Two Germans Who Reported on Stoning Case SECTION A - PAGE 8
   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
   
4. Madagascar Bars Entry to President Ousted in ’09 SECTION A - PAGE 8
   By BARRY BEARAK
   
5. Uganda President Takes Big Lead in Re-Election Bid SECTION A - PAGE 9
   By JOSH KRON
   
6. Somali Pirates Hijack Yacht With Americans Aboard SECTION A - PAGE 10
   By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
   
7. Ivory Coast Forces Fire on Protesters SECTION A - PAGE 10
   By REUTERS
   
8. As G20 Leaders Set Deal, Geithner Criticizes China SECTION A - PAGE 10
   By LIZ ALDERMAN
   
9. At Church’s Urging, Cuba Frees 7 More Dissidents SECTION A - PAGE 11
   By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
   
10. Oil Flows, but High Prices Jangle Nerves SECTION A - PAGE 12
    By STEVEN ERLANGER
    
11. News Analysis: Unrest Encircles Saudis, Stoking Sense of Unease SECTION A - PAGE 13
    By ROBERT F. WORTH
    
12. Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere SECTION A - PAGE 14
    By ANTHONY SHADID

Let’s Make One Thing Clear (Channel)

I liked the outfit that looked as if pizza dough fell on top of Lady Gaga’s head. I appreciated the flotilla of vicious strummers madly head-bobbing behind Bob Dylan. I felt Jagger channeling his inner old brother. Yet most of the music on the Grammy Awards Sunday night was unfamiliar to me. Maybe I need to listen to more Top 40 Radio.

There is more talk about rancor on the radio than music on the radio.

Clear Channel  Communications and Infinity Broadcasting dominate the domestic dial, spending millions for the right to play the same songs over and over and over and over, so we can honor a couple of people over and over and over and over at televised award programs.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 created this mess, ultimately insuring that you will hear popular music with anesthetizing uniformity, or all Bieber all the time. It might be good, but more likely just predictable. Major labels, major promoters, and major stations control it all, resulting in efficiency on the order – and quality of McDonald’s.

It’s all so perfect, but depressing in the way that nostalgia always works – we miss the way things were downtown as we shop at Target and park safely. On the other hand, since the lack of variety on the radio is so evident, the internet has become a boundless reservoir for music new and old, domestic and international.

Congress would like to defund NPR. Before you agree to support this, try listening to something here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/.

Great Ideas in Capitalism Volume 1- Abandoning Dignity for the Bottom Line

During the Superbowl which was watched by everyone in the world 111 million people, I had the privilege to get offended by Groupon's expressing love toward making fun of Tibetan refugees, which they certainly claim they did not intend to do. How lucky I am to be able to live in a country in which I can enjoy seeing every sophomoric brilliant moneymaking idea come to fruition. 

Multimillionaire dumb ass Chief Executive Andrew Mason posted this: " It's the last thing we wanted."

This makes me wonder what they were thinking when they mocked the plight of the followers of HH Dalai Lama. Perhaps they could have focused on making fun of Martin Luther King getting locked up. Or Mother Teresa feeding the poor. Or Nelson Mandela being unable to get TV reception during the 27 years of imprisonment. 

I thought about getting one of these discounts for Valentine’s Day -- I love you honey, and my gift expresses how much minus 43%. As a result, count me in as one who may skip the opportunity for a 27% discount at my local Big Lots to get 7 screwdrivers for the price of 3. 

Once again, Multimillionaire dumb ass Chief Executive Andrew Mason posted this: " It's the last thing we wanted." I don't take him at his word.

Didn't Your Mothers Tell You to Share?

Why do workers who retired from the police, the fire department, and the government with sweet iron-clad benefits that they earned by putting it on the line day after day hate workers who retired from the police, the fire department, and the government with sweet iron-clad benefits that they earned by putting it on the line day after day?

Beginning of the End

Poor Fergie! After singing screaming her way through "Where Is the Love," all anyone could think was where is the voice.

The Black Eyed Peas are now Will I. Am's herky jerky show, and if the future sounds like halftime of the Super Bowl, bring back Beethoven. Maybe he can do something with those Sponge Bob lookalikes.

The two other dudes, looking like they got run over by a space ship, should have pointed to God for the blessings they have received in order to be able to have enough money to afford those haircuts and sequins.

And Fergie ... you still looked lovely in your little girl clothing, but it's time to stop screaming.

Let Them Eat Pita

The French Revolution is now beginning it season of reruns in Egypt. It will soon be playing on a network if it is not censored in a country far from you. (near you if you are in the 20% who cannot find Egypt on a map)

While Armegeddon Diva Glenn Beck (there’s a hen in the FOX house) huffs and puffs until all his lemmings think the house will blow down (brought to you by Kleenex), Anderson Cooper was giving one up for the team, getting his black t-shirted self whipped for democracy on CNN. Christiane Amanpour used her elitist, multi-lingual, dignified self (and her husky voice which made the old guard think of Lauren Bacall) to go where no man had gone before -- before the lunatics protecting Hosni Mubarak, up the stairs, and into an interview with him.

The Tea Party Muslim Brotherhood has obviously had enough, and once again, all the well-meaning career employees for the intelligence agencies (why do we call them that when they are just well-connected, former military or Ivy League white guys just waiting to rip open some tortilla chips for the Super Bowl -- picture younger John McCain’s rabidly rooting on Green Bay -- they all want the Packers to restore the order -- with salsa on the fingertips) got caught with their boxers down.

What’s it mean? Young and little Arabic people are tired of the crumbs and are not going to starve and get ripped off without throwing a bunch of rocks a battle. For the west, it means more arguing, fear, and business for cable TV. Unless the dictatorial Islamic world takes a cue from it’s allies in the Capitalistic democratic world and solves the problem by flooding the Arabic street with help (Coke, Snickers, Little Debbie, KFC, Taco Bell, Al-Einstein’s Pita, Pita Hut, all-in-one remote controls, and 24 hour free, unlimited texting plans), nothing will change until we sell the rest of the world our version of the American Dream -- the right to a crippling obesity and brain numbing onslaught of information that allows the masses to use their hands to do all tasks while sitting idly by on Pottery Barn couches as banks, brokers and politicians fleece them offer them a chance to make money and get Netflix.

Oh -- for you it means more expensive gasoline. (Tony Haywood from BP is forever off the hook)

Hosni's Thursday

A Day in the Life of Hosni Mubarak:

Rudely awakened by cracking whips and gunfire at 5:00 am

Read the Egyptian Times

Orders a Grand Slam Breakfast from Denny’s closest franchise

Listens to Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYtBSqkbmw

Stops by the bank to buy traveler’s checks for $1 billion – signing takes three hours and donkey cart ride back takes another hour.

Watches Egyptian version of Everybody Hates Hosni

Smokes a Camel

Turns on Internet to order extra camels from Amazon

Goes to Gun Show near Giza

Reads to Kill a Mockingbird; loves the part when Bob Ewell gets away with it

Dinner

Calls Kim Jong-Il to talk about Phoenix vs. Memphis NBA game

Pores over real estate sections in Geneva and Riyadh papers

Brags to grandkids about the Pyramid Arena in Memphis and Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas

Opens Internet again to watch Elvis sing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tByhkaVcyE

Listens to Moody Blues “Go Now”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLgdcGEqgcw

Packs 97 suitcases after hearing about how the Marcos family packed 300 before fleeing to Hawaii: Michelle Malkin denies this and blames it on Obama

 

Tries on clothing for tomorrow

Goes to bed with one eye open

What's Being Written

It's been all Egypt all the time lately.

In second place are the dumb ass Republicans trying to pull the health care carpet out from under the people. Here is a movement against it:

Repeal your Own Health Care
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/gop_healthcare_hypocrites/?rc=fb_share1

In the New York Times fashion pages today, hats are the topic.

Post of the day: From CHOW through GOOD about Korean/American Americanized Chinese food in San Francisco:



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