Ann Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night included an anecdote about the hard times she and Mitt faced when they were young — a story intended to assure middle class voters that, despite the fact that the Romneys are multimillionaires, they’re really just regular folks like you and me:
In his speech to the Republican Convention last night, House Speaker John Boehner, who also serves as the convention chairman, deployed a boozy analogy in which Republicans are bar flies and the president is a drunk, presumably, who says something that the bar fly hive mind collectively finds offensive:
When the GOP nominates Paul Ryan as its vice-presidential candidate on Wednesday night, they will be putting a man who proposed steep reductions to disaster relief funds in his most recent budget—restrictions so radical that GOP appropriators in the House disobey them. Ryan proposed that Congress adhere to the debt-ceiling limitations, and not spend over them when appropriating disaster relief, but instead make cuts elsewhere to pay for them. This is the same “morally reprehensible” approach to disaster relief funding taken by House Republican leaders last summer: even as Hurricane Irene bored down on the eastern seaboard, Congressional Republicans threatened to withhold disaster relief funds if offsetting cuts were not made elsewhere in the federal budget. Holding federal disaster relief hostage to political food-fights was a truly unprecedented move.
To hear Trump talk, he’s the only one
Who’s ever stood trial for crimes he’s done.
But instead of courtroom drama,
We get Trump in his pajamas,
That’s how he earned his new nickname: Don Snoreleone.
