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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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3 comments February 21st, 2009
Call or e-mail your friends, my fellow Applesaucers, and tell them about this Double-Bubble post. They’ll thank you for it.
Our FIRST VICTIM tonight is Phil “Nation of Whiners” Gramm.
And in the SECOND SLOT is Rick “Mr. Derivatives” Santelli.
To make the most of this delicious twofer, be sure to check out all the links in these pieces. They’ll help you savor the flavor.
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(WARNING: SEVERAL STRONG VULGARISMS HEREIN)
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Remember Alan Keyes?
He’s the guy who ran a quixotic (to put it politely) race here in Illinois against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat back in 2004.
Keyes, who had gained some national notice when he ran for president in 1996 and 2000, was recruited for the Illinois contest by Rockford State Sen. Dave Syverson, among others, when the winner of the GOP primary had to drop out in a sex scandal.
Keyes didn’t even live in Illinois, but the Republican poohbahs seemed to figure that their own articulate black guy could fare well against Obama, so they got him to move here from Maryland.
The result was a disaster. Keyes pompously declared that his candidacy was “God’s will,” and opined that Jesus Christ wouldn’t vote for Obama. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter as “a selfish hedonist” and denounced all homosexuals, including his own daughter.
Keyes quickly became a statewide joke and ended up with only 27 percent of the vote.
Since then, Keyes has popped up every once in a while to make a fool of himself, but never more so than he did this week in a RAVING INTERVIEW at an anti-abortion fundraiser in Nebraska.
Keyes said President Obama is “a radical communist” and a “usurper occupying the office without constitutional warrant.” He warned that with Obama in power, the United States will fall into “civil war” and “is going to cease to exist.”
Whoa! Somebody throw a net over this guy.
UPDATE: Applesauce commenter hokumboy passes along a video of Keyes’ intemperate remarks, which I neglected to do:
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Jamison Foser SERVES UP a nice little collection of conservative pundit George Will’s misstatements and ethical lapses.
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Terence Samuel SAYS Roland Burris is so narcissistic that he probably sees his refusal to resign as “an act of courage.”
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Eleanor Clift WARNS that continued Republican obstructionism “could consign the GOP to minority status for a generation.”
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There’s a kind of broken-record character to the bogus claim by so many conservatives that the minority community is much to blame for the economic crisis.
Steve Benen EXPLAINS.
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Three weeks ago, I told you HERE that it was politically shrewd of President Obama and his team to openly bait radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh.
The conventional political wisdom at the time was that Obama had blundered by publicly citing Limbaugh as a leading antagonist. But I thought it was brilliant. Anytime you can cast such an unlikable figure as a principal adversary and the face of conservative Republicanism, you’ve made political gains that can pay dividends for months to come.
And now prominent blogger Nate Silver, too, has discerned the administration’s strategy. His EPIPHANY came when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs (above) went out of his way yesterday to taunt CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who had famously ranted the day before against Obama’s plan to ease the mortgage crisis.
Said Silver:
Cable news and Rush Limbaugh are an Obama administration foil. Today, the White House continued to signal that the dumb things that get said by administration critics on right-wing radio and cable news networks will be used by the White House as fodder for “look how irrational our critics are.”
Well, at least two of us have figured it out. But intemperate Obama critics like Limbaugh and Santelli may never recognize when they’re getting gamed by a White House gang that’s much smarter than them.
Santelli’s probably thrilled to get such attention. He may rue the day.
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