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Buff Bluff
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Eric Massa resigned today. The married congressman from NY is accused of sexually harassing a male staffer. Massa claims to be the victim of a dem conspiracy to run him out of town because he won’t vote for health care. But the congressman has no clothes. He says Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel yelled at him while they were both naked as jaybirds in the shower at the house gym. Emanuel’s fully clothed yelling recently upset liberals and the mental health community.
Channeling Barbara Boxer
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During the health care summit Obama twice pointed out, with a smile on his face, that he was the president. This seemed redundant since everyone in the room was already calling him “Mr. President”. He returned the favor by addressing them by their first names as if they were kids in his class - which they sort of were. Peggy Noonan and Dennis Prager picked up on this.
Helpful note to the president: don’t call Senator Boxer “Babs”.
Blue Dog
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Toyota
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Bayh Bayh
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President Don Rickles
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President Rickles insulted members of his audience during last night’s state of the union speech. He criticized the Supreme Court, while some justices sat directly in front of him, for its ruling in favor of free speech in the Citizens United v. FEC case. Here’s a link to the Washington Post with a video clip of the moment, including Alito’s response. Here’s Jack Tapper at ABC giving a historian’s perspective.
Talking Down
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Someone told me I forgot to put a teleprompter in my last Obama cartoon. I’m making up for it in this one by putting the teleprompter in and leaving the president out.
The prez really did use a teleprompter in a 6th grade classroom. But he was speaking to the press pool, not the kids. Still… Here’s a link to the Daily Show.
Coming to Terms
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The Populist in Chief once again struck just the right note by telling Diane Sawyer that he would rather do a good job and only serve one term than have the dim-witted electorate reward him with a second term for doing a mediocre job. Here’s a Wash Post story with video.
Out of Touch
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Boston Straggler
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Democrats are in a panic over the election to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. They even misspelled the name of the Bay State in a campaign ad. Obama (o for 2 on trips to Copenhagen) will go there to join the fray this weekend.
Martha Coakley has blown a 30 point lead to Republican Scott Brown. Brown is committed to vote against the senate health care bill if he wins. This enraged the raunchy senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, who called Brown a far right tea-bagger (go here for definition of tea-bagger). Barney Frank, not a far right tea-bagger, says if Brown wins and votes against health care the bill is dead.
Coakley doesn’t seem to have a lot going for her as a people person. While in Washington Monday for a fundraiser by lobbyists for the drug and insurance industry (I thought they were evil), she was approached by a reporter from the Weekly Standard. One of her thugs knocked the reporter down, helped him up, and then continued to block his way. (It’s the second film clip if you click here.)
Brown won me over when he smacked down David Gergen by telling him “it’s not the Kennedy’s seat, it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat”.
If you’re interested in more on Coakley here’s an enlightening WSJ column by Dorothy Rabinowitz highlighting her miserable performance in the Gerald Amirault case.