Day: October 4, 2010

Verbatim: Schwarzenegger Praises Tony Curtis’ Endowment in Eulogy

Jon Ponder

He had a picture of himself at age 80 standing at the swimming pool, naked. Who has the guts to have a naked photo taken at age 80? Normally, men have a fig leaf to cover their private parts, but Tony’s private parts were so big he had two dogs covering them!

– California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking at the funeral services in Las Vegas for actor Tony Curtis, who died recently at the age of 85.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

The Republicans have lost their standard, they’ve lost their principle. Really that’s why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me …. They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government regulation.

Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R), at a private meeting with Tea Party rival Scott Ashjian in which she blasts the Republican party as “corrupt.”

KY Sen: Democrat Jack Conway Trounced Tea Bagger Rand Paul in Debate on GOP-Fox Channel

Jon Ponder

You probably won’t be hearing about the Kentucky U.S. Senate debate on the GOP-Fox channel on Sunday. Fox certainly is not promoting it — for example, as of now, Monday morning at 6:15, there’s no link to the debate anywhere on the homepage of the Republican channel’s website. (By contrast, there is a link to a story about the California governor’s debate, but nothing about the Kentucky Senate debate that was held on their own network.)

Obviously, if their guy, the infamous tea bagger Rand Paul, had won the debate, it would be front and center on the Fox website. Conversely then, the absence of a link is a tacit admission of the obvious: The Democrat, Attorney General Jack Conway wiped the floor with Dr. Paul.

Conway displayed a command both of the facts and his positions, as well as an energy level that signaled that he had come there to win. Rand Paul came off as a laid-back sad stack — seriously, was he stoned? — who apparently believed that because he was playing on Fox, his home turf, all he had to do was phone it in — and, not to worry, if Conway walloped him, Fox would simply make the story disappear.

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Hey Tea Party: Deficit Would Be ZERO Now If Bush, GOP Hadn’t Put Two Wars on Credit Cards, Crashed the Economy

Jon Ponder

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What U.S. deficit would be today if George Bush, with blind obedience from his rubberstamp Republicans in the House and and Senate (including Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Mitch McConnnell and others who are still there today), had not drained the Treasury by waging two wars using unfunded supplementals while simultaneously giving tax cuts to his millionaire “base” — and then crashed the economy by defanging financial regulations, defunding financial regulators and mismanaging the country’s finances through fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness.