Year: 2009
Who Wore the Klan Robe to the White House Halloween Party?
We love this official White House photo, taken by Pete Souza, of the president and first lady giving out Halloween candy. But we have one question.
What’s up with the Klan costume?
Seriously, we’re sure there’s a reasonable explanation and this is, despite the white robe and white pointy hat, not really a Klan outfit. So. Does anyone have that reasonable explanation handy? If so, please elucidate ye.
Update: No, we don’t think it’s Joe Biden.
Poll Shows Crist Going Down in Tea Bag Flames
How disgusted are Floridians with Gov. Charlie Crist? So disgusted they’d be willing to have Jeb Bush back in Tallahassee. A new poll shows 46 percent of the registered voters asked wish that Jeb were still in the governor’s mansion, while 41 percent would rather keep Charlie, even though he hardly ever spends any actual time in said manse. Among Republicans, who will be selecting either Crist or former state House Speaker Marco Rubio as their U.S. Senate candidate soon, it’s way worse news for Crist. A landslide 71 percent prefer a hypothetical Jeb as governor to Crist, with only 22 percent backing Charlie.
The grimmer detail to emerge from this poll, which was commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, and Tampa’s Bay News 9, is that Jeb Bush could have a future in the White House.
“This is absolutely a proxy war between two Republican clans,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman from Pensacola, told the St. Petersburg Times. “And it’s not just about Florida, but about what Florida politician gets to the front of the line to run for president. It’s a zero sum game. Any advantage Charlie Crist gets hurts Jeb Bush, and any advantage Jeb Bush gets hurts Charlie Crist.”
George Will on ABC’s This Week predicted Rubio would be the winner of the Senate primary, based on the recent upheaval in New York’s U.S. Rep. District 23 race. Republican Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign after those backing third-party Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman ran ads that described Scozzafava as “Obama’s choice” and hit pretty much every FOX News note.
Dede Scozzafava is one liberal ACORN that’s fallen right from Barack Obama’s liberal tree. A tax-raising liberal who supports gay marriage and abortion for any reason at all — ACORN’s choice, NOT our choice.
The message, in case anyone could miss it, is that if Republicans want to appeal to fearful, angry, racist tea bag types, they better purge themselves of any shred of rationality or moderation. Translation for Charlie Crist: This whole Senate thing ain’t gonna happen.
Poll: Most Blame Bush for Economy
In a recent Fox News poll, when asked which president is “more responsible for the current state of the economy,” only 18 percent said President Obama while 58 percent said former President George W. Bush; 9 percent blame both of them. Republicans are the only subgroup of voters who blame Obama, and only by a six-point margin of 35 percent to 29 percent.
Halloween Repost: Beck Vampire Remix
To truly enjoy the vampire remix of the Glenn Beck freakout on July 15, you have to sit through the original broadcast. It’s painful but it makes the remix so much funnier.
First, the real deal:
This guy needs health care, all right. He needs MENTAL health care.
And now, the remix:
Schwarzenegger Drops Coded F-Bomb on Calif. Legislators
His spokesman claims it was just a weird coincidence, but it’s hard to ignore the not-so-subliminal message.
