Day: July 1, 2013
GOP Warns Pro Sports Leagues Not to Promote Obamacare
6
Number of professional sports leagues to whom Senate Republican leaders have sent letters warning them not to provide the Obama administration any assistance in promoting Obamacare,” TPM reports. “The letters, dated June 27, warn the chiefs of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Professional Golf Association and NASCAR that partnering with the administration to publicize the benefits of the health care law would damage their reputations.”
Rick Perry, Inappropriate Yet Again
Disagreements over policy are important and they’re healthy, but when he crosses the line into the personal, then he damages himself and he damages the Republican Party.
— Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (R), quoted by the Texas Tribune, saying that Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) controversial remarks about state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) were inappropriate.
Back on Stage
Poor Edward Snowden just wanted to be an agent of change,
Now he’s stuck inside of Moscow with the Wikileaks again.
But if you want to fault Snowden,
The very worst thing he’s done
Was dredge up onto the world stage the irrelevant Julian Assange.
Charlie Crist: Man of Deeds, Not Words — and Vice Versa
I really want people to judge me by my deeds, not my words.
— Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (D), quoted by the Florida Times-Union, alluding to his previous life as a Republican.
Snowden Now Seeking Asylum from Any Country Anywhere
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Number of countries former NSA contractor and serial leaker Edward Snowden has applied to for political asylum after Ecuador reneged on its offer and Russia will let him stay only if he stops leaking U.S. secrets, according to the L.A. Times and Associated Press.
Peggy Noonan Auditions for the Role of “The New Phyllis Schlafly” on Live TV
If you missed former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan’s over-the-top performance on ABC’s This Week, Wonkette can catch you up, in superb Wonkette style. The site has the video of Noonan, known for her soaring grandiloquence, gagging verbosity and tortured, drawn-out articulation, condescending over the filibuster by Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis.
Wonkette also points out the ridiculousness of Noonan, who is 62, dismissing Davis, who is 50, as the victim of youthful enthusiasm.
On the one hand, she’s very impressed with “the story of this young woman, she’s so spirited. You know, she has such energy and she seems to have such commitment.” You know, the young woman who is 50 years old and has been in the Texas Senate for four years, after a decade of serving on the Fort Worth City Council, the sweet li’l thing. Sure, her youthful passion is admirable, but these kids, what do they know? Especially those 50-year-old teen moms who have learned nothing from their experience?
Is Noonan queuing up to replace Phyllis Schlafly if and when the old bird finally kicks it? If so, congratulations young lady, you got the part!
