Day: May 28, 2010
Mud In Our Eyes
The BP boys are trying to fill
The oil leak using a “top kill.”
They’re managing our expectations,
Though we wouldn’t need these machinations,
If there had been, in the first place, no spill.
Tell Chuck DeVore Barbara Boxer Is Real, ‘Jack Bauer’ Is Not
Chuck DeVore, the conservative Republican trying to unseat Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer in the midterms, has one of the stupidest campaign commercials ever.
For one thing, he’s cornier than the tea baggers, and while I’m sure he means it to be a joke, he seems to treat “Jack Bauer,” Keifer Sutherland’s character on the TV show “24” as if he were a real person.
Plus, it has video of him mowing his lawn and audio of him getting shot at by Syrians in Israel, and as much other self-serving, gratuitous crapola that can be dumped into a 3.5-minute video.
“Top BP Official” Gets a Clue
This is not a parody from The Onion or Andy Borowitz, sadly, it’s an actual news bulletin from CNN.
KY Sen: Rand Paul Favorables at 53% – Vote: Paul 44%, Conway 41%
In the wake of the Kentucky primary May 18, a few Republican talking heads mentioned they’d seen a private poll that had GOP/tea bagger candidate Rand Paul with a 20 point advantage over his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway.
Only 3 percent of African-American Kentuckians plan to vote for Rand Paul.
If that was true — a scour of the Google produced zilch — Paul’s lead has evaporated in the wake of his statements opposing anti-discrimination provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and his subsequent voicing of support for BP, the oil company responsible for the massive oil-spill disaster that killed 11 workers in the Gulf of Mexico and that is poised to destroy the economy in the region.
