Posts Tagged ‘Joe the Plumber’
Politics Wednesday!
Politics Wednesday!
* Ben Smith at Politco dreams the dream: Franken ’16?
* More good news: God’s told Joe the Plumber not to run for office.
* But bad news: Glenn Beck guest Michael Scheuer says America’s only hope is a massive terrorist attack. Don’t miss Beck nodding sagely towards the end. Adam Serwer says it well:
But understand, this is not unpatriotic. You can wish all manner of horrors on this country, but as long as these horrors might serve a specific political agenda, you’re not being unpatriotic. Unpatriotic is a public health-care plan. Unpatriotic is a judge modifying sub-prime mortgage loans to keep a roof over someone’s head. Unpatriotic is phosphate-free detergent. Patriotic is wishing for a terrorist attack on the United States.
Patriotism is dead, long live patriotism.
* TPM and Washington Monthly tackle the EPA SUPPRESSION!!!!! “scandal” that’s been making the rounds; turns out a hobbyist working on non-climate matters for the agency decided a memo no one asked him to write prepared in his spare time should be published alongside recommendations produced by actual experts in the field. Fox News, naturally, agrees. Inhofe (R-Jupiter) has gone further, demanding Monday a criminal investigation.
* Also in climate news: Thomas Friedman says Waxman-Markey is very, very bad and we should support it. For what it’s worth Kevin Drum agrees.
Joe the Plumber Goes to Israel
Sometimes I get the impression the right-wing doesn’t take the world very seriously.
Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook.
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
I’m sure there’s something about this is not totally ridiculous.
He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel’s ”’Average Joes’ share their story.”
Aha, of course! Now it all makes sense.
This Cannot Be True
Breaking radio silence on the incredible news of the Sarah Palin prank call.
A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Impossibly, it’s true. Here’s the audio.
How could the McCain campaign have ever allowed this to happen? Is anyone minding the store over there?
Waiting for the Informercial
Waiting for the Obama infomercial, a few links.
* To the right, your picture of the day.
* Lieberman to lose committee chairmanship? Yes, please.
* A recording contract for Joe the Plumber? Good lord, no.
* And MoDo writes her greatest column ever.
Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — “O, most bloody sight!” — cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini, et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare amant Baracum Obamam causa oratorii, pillorant ut demagogi veri, Africanum-Americanum senatorem Terrae Lincolni, ad Republicanas rallias…
