Clearly The Ace Is More Important Than Fred Thompson

If you don't have the Ace of Spades you are only playing with 51 cards, but if you don't have Fred Thompson you've still got...  OK, that is not developing as well as I had hoped.

My late entry notwithstanding, the "Dumbest Thing Yet" contest seems to be settled.

Comments

[Thomas Collins]

The poster seems tasteful to me. I don't have an issue with it.

Perhaps if the Obama Machine hadn't made such a big deal about the Presidential Dog I would say leave the Obama children out of it. But it seems to me that Barry and Michelle have put their children into the public spotlight.

I also think it would be appropriate for those supporting tuition vouchers to have a poster to the effect that those supporting vouchers simply want all children to have a chance for the type of education the Prez's children are receiving.

[centralcal]

I was only barely able to tolerate John McCain. As for his pathetic spawn, I have to say I am completely unable to tolerate her.

[Thomas Collins]

Well, I shook hands with George Voinovich at a Hungarian Men's Club almost 30 years ago, so I am REAL IMPORTANT! :-)))

Has Ms. McCain graduated from junior high school yet?

[Jane]

As for his pathetic spawn, I have to say I am completely unable to tolerate her.

She really is an embarrassment to herself. She is naive, uninformed and combative. Someone should give her a clue.

[Sue]

I don't care that she has an opinion, what bothers me about her is that her opinion, in her opinion, should be given greater weight than republicans that have been lifelong republicans and didn't just join the party as a birthday gift to daddy. She isn't a conservative. She is barely a moderate. More likely than not, she would have supported Obama had her father not won the nomination.

[Thomas Collins]

Whoops! Placed my Obama children poster comment on the wrong internet tube!

Sorry I couldn't call in a scoop to you, Jane. Riehl is still holding out on us. I wonder what comes after the "important final review" stage! See LUN.

[Jane]

TC - thanks so much for looking out for me.

[bgates]

if you don't have Fred Thompson you've still got... OK, that is not developing as well as I had hoped.

That's a good summary of my thinking about Jan 22, 2008 to the present day.

[Thomas Collins]

Glad to do it, Jane. One of these days I hope to get a good scoop for you to announce on the air.

So, is Dick going to use his influence with Neal to get Neal to meet with you, Jane?

[Thomas Collins]

Riehl had better watch out. Drudge or someone else might scoop his scoop if he waits too long.

[bad]

I agree, Sue. But I'm hopeful that the young idiots who were drawn to Obama's incredible lack of substance will be inspired by Megan for the same reason and vote Rpublican next time around.

[Thomas Collins]

That's a great point, bad. Some folks vote on substance, some on fluff. If Ms. McCain can get votes by outfluffing Obama (no easy task), all to the good.

[bad]

Thanks TC.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

If Ms. McCain can get votes by outfluffing Obama (no easy task), all to the good.

Meghan McCain fluffing Obama is another image I could have gone all day without.

[Stephanie]

Meghan is a fluffer... Does she sing? Maybe she should apply for this job...

LUN

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Hah, Stephanie, I beat you to that off-color allusion....

[Stephanie]

Charlie Need some eye bleach and mental floss...

I cornered the market when O was elected. Definite green shoot territory...

[Stephanie]

Heh..Great Minds yada yada... or at least dirty ones.

[RichatUF]

FWIW Teh Meghan!™ is a Columbia grad, something she shares with Teh One!™. Of course she would think that every wisp of gas leaking from her head would be worth recording. AS. TEH. MOST. BRILLIANT. EVER.

She's Meghan McCain, don't you know who the f*ck she is? She tweets and is the Ivy League credentialed daughter of a long serving senator.

[Pofarmer]

But I'm hopeful that the young idiots who were drawn to Obama's incredible lack of substance will be inspired by Megan for the same reason and vote Rpublican next time around.

That has to be one of the saddest statments about the level of American politics I've read in a very long time.

[Parking Lot]

OT, LUN, must see

Jackie Mason discourses on PDS

[Stephanie]

Drudge headline from the presser...

OBAMA 'UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems'... Developing...

with a pic of Obama (looking like Kevin Bacon in Animal House) and the caption underneath that says

You won't have to wait in any lines...

If someone could post that here.. Priceless.

[Porchlight]

No he didn't say that about the Post Office. Did he?

[ben]

I don't agree with Michelle Malkin that Meghan McCain should shut-up and leave the GOP. Lightweights are welcome too.

[Pofarmer]

Jackie Mason was definitely worth the 4 minutes while I was eating lunch.

[bad]

That has to be one of the saddest statments about the level of American politics I've read in a very long time.

I had a 19 year old visitor prior to the election whio was voting for Obama because Obama listened to JayZee and could dunk on McCain.

Kids with that level of political intellect are ripe for the picking by MM.

If they're gonna vote, they need to vote for us.

[Thomas Collins]

From Stephanie's LUN:

As long as they have a good product and the government plan has to sustain itself through premiums and other non-tax revenue, private insurers should be able to compete with the government plan, Obama said.

"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

[glenda]

Jane, did Eunice K Shriver still live in MA? She is the one Kennedy that put her money where her mouth is (special olympics), though many think it was guilt over what Joe did to big 'sis. What's Dick think?

Why does anyone in the whole wide world waste one second on Ms. McCain? So, I'm with Sue on this.

TC-How's teaching and LA treating your son? I know he won't go hungry and will certainly enlighten some fortunate kids' minds.

[Stephanie]

Yep... can't wait for the You tube to hit. Sure to go viral...

After all, what is the one guaranteed govt "benefit" that every single living person has to deal with on a daily basis... the mail never arrives at a specific time, the rates are continually going up, the waits are interminable and it is always broke...

Good going there sport-o...

[Extraneus]

I heard it on Rush. The context was in explaining how non-threatening the public option would be, since it's not the post office that's kicking butt in the package-delivery competition. Slick poll-tested answer, I thought.

Joan Sixpack: "Hey, he's right. Why worry about a government option in competition with private insurance? Makes no sense!"

[Ignatz]

Why on earth would he want to give us another boondoggle like the USPS which is "always having problems"?
Only this new one will be on a vastly larger scale and the result of slow delivery may be death not a missed invitation to Aunt Martha's.

[Stephanie]

But it reinforced the notion that no one would want to go within a mile of signing up for it willingly...

[Stephanie]

If that was a poll tested answer, these folks have their heads further up their collective asses than it first appeared... Poll tested on Meggie Mac perhaps?

[Appalled]

The beauty of the internet is that, even when Meghan is old and grey, and all the tatoos have been painfully removed, she will always be able to go back to her computer, and see how utterly vapid she was when she was young. And so will all of the people who know her.

[Thomas Collins]

Glenda, his classes start next Monday. He will be teaching 6th and 7th grade English and History. Right now he is going to the school, getting oriented and preparing his lesson plans.

He seems to be doing fine. He is one of youngest or the youngest in this year's Louisiana Teaching Fellows crop. I think he is the only one in his group to do this directly after college graduation.

He shares a nice apartment with another person from the program. With Shreveport rents as low as they are, he will soon have a net worth that exceeds mine (if it doesn't already)!

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Can't Make It Up: Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Requiring Photo ID For Town Halls

[bad]

Appalled, I'm so grateful I was young prior to the internet's ability to record all of my youthful stupidity.

[Jane]

Glenda,

I think she lived in VA - but I have no idea why I think that.

She was the the compound which is why she was at Cape Cod Hospital.

What's Dick think?

He didn't even bring her up which surprised me. I'll try to remember to ask him next week. Eunice was the only pro-life Kennedy.

[Porchlight]

OT, but LOL:

Chicago Tribune: Obama baby boom goes bust

On Nov. 4, the hope and happiness seemed boundless for supporters of President-elect Barack Obama, leading some to speculate, with a wink and a nod, that in nine months there would be a virtual Obama baby boom -- a celebratory uptick in the national birthrate.

But now, 40 weeks later -- the average human gestation period -- MSNBC is reporting the prediction has largely been nothing more than, well, false hope. In reality, experts said, a generation is not borne from one night.

In Chicago, ground zero for Obama's election celebration, area hospitals confirm that they have not seen a noticeable surge in births.

I don't even know where to start with this one.

[Pofarmer]

As long as they have a good product and the government plan has to sustain itself through premiums and other non-tax revenue, private insurers should be able to compete with the government plan, Obama said.

"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

Words fail. The USPS is currently having it's operations subsidized, as is Amtrack, Medicare, and on, and on, and on.

That may actually be a very fitting comparison.

[verner]

I wonder what Megean mcCain's tatoo says? Daddy's Girl? Or maybe it's a unicorn.

[Stephanie]

And UPS and FedEx are specifically excluded, BY LAW, from directly competing with the USPS for daily delivery...

Stuck his foot in his mouth and tickled Chris Matthew's lips on his ass with that one..

[Porchlight]

I guess I see the point of the comment - the USPS hasn't put UPS and FedEx out of business despite the fact that it is gov't run/subsidized.

But isn't it apples and oranges? The USPS is the only entity that delivers daily mail to all Americans. We are all served by the USPS whether we like the service or not; UPS and FedEx are optional alternative package delivery services.

[clarice]

verner, it says "Kiss me, I'm stupid."

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Re: Baby boom bust

Anyone compile abortion statistics for the same period? Seems Obama supporters would be more apt to go that route.

[Stephanie]

Porch.. that's not the instant takeaway though... which one would most people rather deal with? Not USPS... so why would anyone want to be in the USPS equivalent public option that couldn't put FEDEX out of business?

Most people would welcome the USPS to disappear and for FEDEX to take over, not the other way around...

Likening anything to the USPS is an automatic EPIC FAIL...

[verner]

Clarice, I would guess either that, or a rose with "hot stuff"....something vapid like Meagan.

I caught about five minutes of Obama's townhall while I was at the airport.

Did he really just spend an hour on the "insurancecompaniesareenemiesofthesheeple garbage?

Um...hasn't his team told him that the vast majority of Americans are happy with their private insurance?

[Jane]

ouch!

[Pofarmer]

Ah hem, this one is nifty.

Stagnant unemployment, shrinking tax revenue and a struggling economy threaten to quadruple the size of last year's federal budget deficit, raising more questions about the timing of costly proposals to overhaul health care.

As the White House and Congressional Budget Office (CBO) prepare to release new deficit estimates this month, several economists say the news is likely to be as bad as or worse than forecasts.

Deficits of $1.8 trillion this year and $1.3 trillion in 2010, as predicted by the White House, would add to the federal debt. The current $11.7 trillion debt already equals about $38,500 for every U.S. resident. The recession, now in its postwar-record 21st month, has dealt a worse blow to the budget than the administration expected:

Can we go over a two TRILLION dollar Deficit?

YES WE CAN!!!!!!

Ironically, or, something, Obama's first year DEFICIT will be larger than Bush's largest BUDGET. So much for the problems he inherited.

[Pofarmer]

Let's see, we used to ship some packages via the postoffice if they weren't at all time sensitive, because they were cheaper. It went in the window at the post office, and it got there when it got there. You had to wait a minimum of 30 days or something to declare something missing. Send the same package via UPS, and you can go online and see exactly where it is via it's tracking number at any time you'd like, and it will be to the same location in generally about a third of the time. A 3 day shipment for UPS is generally over a week for the postal service. Yes, let's continue this discussion.

[Stephanie]

The newest meme springing up on the nets is the "our new Post Office Health Care Model..."

Yep.. Epic Fail.

And Axelrod is supposed to be some insanely awesome marketer... more smoke and mirrors. He just figured out a way to play rentamob with the internet...

[Porchlight]

I definitely agree it was a dumb remark. Just mention USPS and most people think of waiting in a long line at the post office with 5 of the 6 windows having signs that say "Next Window, Please."

[RichatUF]

Pofarmer-

Not quite. Bush's 06, 07, and 08 budgets all exceed 2 trillion. Obama is doing him the favor of having his first defict be larger than all of the Bush Administration's deficts combined. Let us not forget that the Bush Administration had to deal with:

the collapse of the tech and telecomn bubble
the 9/11 attacks
the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
the Florida Hurricane season (5 Cat 3+ hurricanes hit FL between 2004-05)
Katrina
the oil superspike
and the great real estate unwind and the wrecking of Fannie and Freddie begining in the summer of 2007

Obama has managed to go on a global apology tour and released a couple hundred Iranian terrorists from Iraqi jails to free one US journalist who had been working in Iran for a number of years prior to her capture.

[Sue]

Obama apparently winked at a some lady during the townhall event.

[bad]

He did? I heard winking is cheap and sleezy.

Oh wait, that was when Sarah Palin did it...

Is Ibama copying Sarah?

[Stephanie]

Obama apparently winked at a some lady during the townhall event.

Yep. He's stupid.. the lefties told me that only stupid people wink at audiences...

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I'm watching Cavuta talking about the new Chevy Volt that is supposed to get 230 mpg. The claim is that if you drive the average, back and forth to work, under 40 miles, you will use no gas or oil.

My question is: so no gas expense, but what about my electric bill, which is already over $250 a mo. just for necessities.

[PeterUK]

"Appalled, I'm so grateful I was young prior to the internet's ability to record all of my youthful stupidity."

Yes,I blame old age as well.

[Stephanie]

So Barry is offering a public option for medical insurance that will be the equivalent of the Post Office?

What could possibly go wrong?

Your surgeon delivers your kidney transplant to the guy who's supposed to have a knee replacement.

[PeterUK]

Pofarmer.
You need one of those refrigerated boxes with VITAL MEDICAL SUPPLIES on it.

[daddy]

Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod, Angelina's got a ">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1205715/Angelina-Jolie-shows-new-tattoos-frail-frame-Inglourious-Basterds-premiere-Brad-Pitt-Los-Angeles.html"> New Tattoo! Quick, someone twitter Meghan McCain so she can get the word out to the Hell's Angel's before Michelle Malkin.

[Extraneus]

Yes, and Sarah Palin was winking to school kids, if I remember right, not Rich Lowrey.

I think the USPS thing is a subliminal timebomb.

The true purpose of the public option is to slit the throats of the private insurers, to eliminate them. It's a threat, an existential threat to American freedom. It's very scary. But if you lump it in with the hapless USPS, in your mind, well how could it be a threat to anyone? Mailmen aren't scary. Hell, they can't even compete with FedEx.

The underlying psychology is to take away the fear of the public option. And it might work.

[Dave (in MA)]

Can someone briefly summarize for those of us without a scorecard what all this Riehl/Griffin stuff is all about? From what I can gather it's just digging up some dirt directly and tangentially related to some anti-Palin blogger and putting it out there to expose him as a scumbag, basically because he's a scumbag?

[matt]

why does Brad Pitt look like a Mexican gigolo?

[Rob Crawford]

Mailmen aren't scary.

Excepting that whole "going postal" thing.

[Sue]

Dave,

Not me. I have no idea the significance of the post I've waited all day to read. Grrrr....

[gmax]

Sara

Before or after Crap & Charade raising your electric bill 30% or more in the name of going green?

the Volt will use about $.03 a mile of electricity in most parts of the country ( probably less in the NW and in the Tennessee Valley where the TVA has plentiful cheap power from hydro plants ).

Another $.01 or so a mile for the gasoline use to keep the battery charged.

A 30 MPG gasoline car at 2.45 a gallon uses about 8 cents, but what you really need to know is how much more the Volt will cost you than a gasoline version, and are the batteries likely to perform anywhere near specs. My guess is a lot more and not really for both of those answers.

[narciso]

That wasn't a townhall that was a TV commercial, with no substance, attendance by special invitation. That was a freudian
slip on his part, there are never enough counters open, long lines, losing money and
they keep raising the rates, yes that's the public option, except he wants to get rid of UPS and Fed Ex in the bargain

[Stephanie]

Blogger (Griffin) in Alaska is the dope posting the Palin divorce rumors... Blogger claimed to be a pre school teacher's aide at a montessori in AK... Riehl got into a flame war and then got mad... Riehl exposed him and then discovered that he isn't who he says he is (just a concerned blogger)... Riehl hunts further and discovers that he isn't employed at school... school is a front for libs intricately involved in HC community organizing...so where's he getting his money to support his lifestyle (300K) home and divorce... supposition is he is a paid flunkie for the O-campaign.

If I were him, I would next look to the Coie law firm and see if the folks he uncovered can be tied to them..

[Pagar]

I guess I see the point of the comment - the USPS hasn't put UPS and FedEx out of business despite the fact that it is gov't run/subsidized.

IMO, the ONLY reason USPS exists today is;

And UPS and FedEx are specifically excluded, BY LAW, from directly competing with the USPS for daily delivery...

We already have the examples in Govt ran medical. I wonder what percentage of their customers would choose the long waits at the VA if given a fair choice?

[bad]

The townhall was an ego massage for the presidebt to buck him up so he won't go postal.

Oh wait....

[Stephanie]

Bad... living up to the moniker one comment at a time!

Snark on!

/do we have a snark on hand sign? If so I'm raising it in your honor!

[bad]

Thanks Stephanie. I was reading PUK's mind...

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Here is the YouTube about the post office.

[Dave (in MA)]

OT: Question for one of our sponsors...
Before we spring for $158 for the Michelle doll, could we see the back view? Is that the only outfit or does it include the array of hideous garments with transparent belts?

Also, WTF?

[clarice]

D-a-v-e...............

[PeterUK]

The kid has only been there for seven months and he is comparing himself with Lincoln.
Dave's Link above

[bad]

Geez Dave, I thought I was clicking on a link about candy....not an emetic.

[Dave (in MA)]

Also OT: Kudos to our sponsor for not listing the aforementioned item among the 2 dozen offerings in the "Patriotic" department.

[Stephanie]

I'll risk a thwacking...

Dave, management has assured that they have attempted to show the doll from all angles, but attempts at a posterior view result in most computers posting a warning that "displaying objects on screen may be exceed bandwidth"

[narciso]

This is a very strange story that Dan
unveiled, as usual nothing is what it seems
like, except for the detail that there was nothing to any allegation against Sarah, and they seem to profiting from the spectacle they helped bring about, in the LUN

[Stephanie]

as usual nothing is what it seems

Is that gonna be the epithet for 2008-2012?

Can we at least get the Rod Serling/Twilight Zone music as background and a ride up and down in the Hollywood Hotel??

[Dave (in MA)]

The kid has only been there for seven months and he is comparing himself with Lincoln.

I should think that the comparison to Cadillac would be more apt.

[PeterUK]

Obama is more Trabant than Cadillac.

[Dave (in MA)]

Yes, but Cadillac was his prototype right down to the slogans and speeches.

[verner]

OMG daddy, Angelina looks like she's on Heroin again.

Those poor kids.

[Jane]

For some reason Rush is going to be on Fox News giving commentary about the Town meetings, if you are interested.

[Pofarmer]

A 30 MPG gasoline car at 2.45 a gallon uses about 8 cents, but what you really need to know is how much more the Volt will cost you than a gasoline version, and are the batteries likely to perform anywhere near specs. My guess is a lot more and not really for both of those answers.

They said on the radio today that the Volt is going to cost $42,000.

GM sells one of their little econoboxes now, for, well, under $18,000, but, let's just say $18,000. So, the Volt costs you an extra $24,000. That $24,000, will buy you nearly 10,000 gallons of gas. That 10,000 gallons of gas, in a car that gets 30 mpg, will take you 300,000 miles. That's not even including that the actual cost per mileage by your figures, is around 5 cents, instead of the full cost of 8 cents. So, yes, if you drive it half a million miles or so, and don't have any huge expense related to the batteries, it MIGHT pay off.

I can't understand why people don't buy these things. It's almost like they can do math or something.

[verner]

Thanks Po. And what they refrain from saying is that you're going to have to burn smelly ole coal to make the electricity to charge that Volt. But Hey, the UAW pension fund will be happy!

By the way, I've got a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD--and I'm driving it til the wheels fall off, which should be in about 10 years. And at that point, I figure I'll be able to sell it to somebody for 100K since they won't be making decent cars anymore, and most of the good old SUV models etc will be sacrificed for the environment, thanks to the cash for clunkers program.

[Stephanie]

There was a provision somewhere in cap n trade that all cars older than a certain date (forgot what it was) couldn't be reregistered under another person's name without a govt permit... The intent is to force it to the salvage yard. The classic and muscle car enthusiasts must be apoplectic about now.

[daddy]

Verner,

I'm a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD---129-K and counting! I sorta' suspected there was always a lot of horsepower under your hood.