Dinner Reservations

Oh look!
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A new thread on a highly trafficked blog!
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I can hardly believe it!

Getting to think that folks in the GOP don;t care much for Palin's antics. And that she doesn't much care for the GOP leadership...

http://www.political-buzz.com/

incomparable charisma and just-folks appeal
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It never pays to alienate the all important 'moron' constituency.

They created the Palin monster, they can now live with it.

KT:
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Yes!
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I missed the hard-hitting, question-raising, thought-provoking, no-nonsense K Tumulty, political reporter extraordinaire of Things of Consequence.
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Can the person who linked to a non-story about a non-conflict involving non-important, non-elected people (I refer to President Gingrich, of course) at Drudgico (that already made the rounds of daytime cable twice) let me know when she gets back?
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Thanks!

not wanting to upstage disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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I haven't taken the "Gingrich 2012" rumors very seriously (what year are we in now? 2010 or something?) ... but if he does run, would that not constitute definitive proof that the GOP has jumped the shark?

"I can see the gala from my hotel room!"

Being a disgraced former fill in the blank doesn't mean much in the GOP. Is it to early for Larry Craig to make a come back?

But on a much less important issue (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7778310)
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"Boumediene said it was in his interest to lie to the interrogators, who would reward the detainees if they admitted guilt.
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Now that's what I call keeping America safe! Heckuva job.

I was going to hand out some guff about a post on seating charts (because read Art Pepper's link), but it is pretty entertaining to know that they dare not let the white trash ice queen upstage the fat adulterous man-baby.

"As Gingrich rears his head and comes into the air space of Republican party..."

Cliff: Actually I was just picking up from the end of the previous MS thread.
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KT: Is this post payback for all the grief we've been giving you about single-payer? I promise never to bring it up again! Just make it stop!

Isn't there some secessionist fundraiser she can attend instead? I'm sure she could raise millions in confederate dollars.

But GOP sources say that Sessions right now is working the phones to try to get Palin to attend, after all.
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Just a question . . .
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Why would any "self-respecting" individual (yeah, I know) want to be jerked around like this? Can't she see that she really doesn't have much of a future with this bunch and, even then, only as a convenient fundraising tool?
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Bonus question: why would she want to have one?

KT-This is interesting. Since Palin has been pulling out of mulitiple GOP events claiming she is way too busy running her states' government only to show up at other events that she apparently is not too busy to attend at the same time as the one she pulled out of. Now the GOP has to decide if they are going to back Newt or are Palin's forces going to get their way then way over play their hand.

Art Pepper: It's still a worthwhile link.
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In all seriousness, can we get a post on some topic of consequence?

The Hill, in what seemed like an answer to the Politico piece, reported.
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Does anyone remember when the news cycle was a full 24 hours with Saturdays off?

I am routing for either Gingrich or Palin (or both) to take the leadership role of the GOP! Hilarity and insanity will surely ensue.

Hmm..."Sessions"..."Sessions"...
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Isn't he the guy who has something to do with confirming Supreme Court nominees?
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Does he, like, vote on things, too? Does he have political opinions about stuff like stimulus spending, or health care reform, or torture, or energy policy, or manufacturing or trade policy?

Sessions was ranked by National Journal as the fifth-most conservative United States Senator in their March, 2007 conservative/liberal rankings.[5]

That guy?

On September 25, 2005, he spoke at a rally attended by 400 people in Washington, D.C. in favor of the war in Iraq. It was held in opposition to an anti-war protest held the day before that was attended by 100,000 people. Sessions spoke of the anti-war protesters, saying "The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world. I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first."[7]

That guy?

On October 5, 2005, he was one of nine Senators that voted against a Senate amendment to a House bill that prohibited cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of individuals in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government.[8]

That guy?

Sessions was one of 37 Senators to vote against funding for embryonic stem cell research.[9]

That guy?

Sessions had unsuccessfully prosecuted three civil rights workers (including Albert Turner, a former aide to Martin Luther King, Jr), on a case of election fraud for the 1984 election. Sessions spent hours interrogating black voters in predominantly black counties, finding 14 allegedly tampered ballots out of approximately 1.7 million ballots cast. The three civil rights workers were acquitted after four hours of jury deliberation.[4]

That guy?

Sessions supports former Vice President Dick Cheney's proposal to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from any ban on the use of torture.[14]

That guy?

Sessions has advocated the extension of FISA legislation to legalize the Bush Administration's wiretapping techniques. He compared worries about government overreach to "two dramatic errors some years ago in a situation just like this, on emotion driven by our civil libertarian friends," specifically the lack of sharing of information between the FBI and the CIA as well as prohibitions on obtaining intelligence from "dangerous" sources.

That guy?

Sessions has been one of the most vocal critics of the reauthorization of PEPFAR in 2008. On July 14, when the bill went to debate, Sessions prepared an amendment that would allow the so-called "Helms Amendment" banning HIV-positive patients from entering the United States to be maintained, a ban that the bill would repeal.

That f*cking guy?
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Hmm...
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Oh wait! You were talking about Pete Sessions?
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Sorry, never mind...go right back to the crucial subject at hand.
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Somebody got invited and then dis-invited and then maybe re-invited to speak at a dinner somewhere?
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Fascinating.
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Go on, then...

Gosh, if only they could get their political act together they could "orchestrate a comeback" and implement all of their nifty policy solutions. I just can't decide whether Newt Gingrich or Sarah Palin should lead us.

Todd might be the only person who cares whether Sarah comes or not. I'm really, really sorry, but that's the first thing that popped into my head.

Thank you, sacred, for that image. Now I need to purge my brain.

"Now I need to purge my brain."
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Funny, that's what my wife calls them. (Sorry, sacredh started it).

joyomama: Somebody has to stay home and watch the kids. Oh my goodness! Don't tell me you were thinking...that you even considered...that you thought.....thud.