Month: February 2013
Koch Has Words for Cuomo from Beyond the Grave
Even though social relationships when we meet in public are good, underneath, he knows that I know what I’m thinking–‘you prick.’
— Former New York City mayor Ed Koch, in a fascinating interview with the New York Times that was not to be made public until his death, had final words for his 1977 mayoral opponent Mario Cuomo.
Percentage of Secessionist Texans on the Rise
20%
Of Texans — including 35% of Republicans — would support their state seceding from the Union in the wake of President Obama’s re-election, up from 14% in September 2011, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds.
If Jindal is the GOP’s Idea Guy, Then Woe Unto the Grand Old Party
Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said, needs to get their head examined. And the reason I say that is, we’ve lost two presidential elections in a row, we need to be winning the debate of ideas, then we’ll win elections.
— Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, interviewed on Fox and Friends.
Super Bowl Flashback: It Really Was Halftime in America
As the country gathers tonight to watch the big game — and the million dollar ads — let’s not forget this little gritty little ditty from only one year ago.
The ad was widely misinterpreted as Clint Eastwood endorsing the Obama administration’s decision to bail out Chrysler (and GM), despite many Republicans, including eventual presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying we should let the biggest manufacturing sector in America, and about one million jobs, liquidate.
Eastwood denied that he supported Obama and backed up that assertion last summer, when he gave arguably the strangest performance of his career at the Republican National Convention. Eastwood rambled through an improvised exchange with a chair that he pretended was the president, and which he fantasized was arguing with him and threatening him.
Maybe Eastwood should have embraced the ad’s original interpretation because it turns out it really was halftime in America, and the majority of voters were better players than Eastwood or Romney.
One-Name Wonder
So Geraldo, whose real name is Gerry
Wants to run for U.S. Senate from New Jersey.
Though his moustache alone
Might play well in Bayonne,
Does he really think people from Jersey are that crazy?
Alabama, 10th Top ‘Taker’ State, Is Most Conservative, According to New Poll
A new poll from Gallup found that more Alabamians think of themselves as “conservative” than residents of any other state. This puts the state in the running for first in hypocrisy, since it is also the tenth biggest recipient of federal spending among the states, versus its tax receipts. (The District of Columbia was the top recipient, but it is not a state.)
Yes, this tea party/neo-Confederate hotbed is also the 10th largest “taker” state. Here’s an overview of the socialist largess that jack-booted bureaucrats from the federal government shove down Alabama’s throat:
