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John McCain Learns the Google
Just a few months ago, John McCain admitted that he didn’t know how to use a computer. Well, that was back in March, and CrazyDrumGuy has received an exclusive report that, not only does McCain now use a computer, just last week he tried Google for the very first time!
Well, better luck next time, Senator.
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Palin Cut Programs to Help Teenage Moms
Bristol Palin is fortunate to be the governor’s daughter, because Sarah Palin couldn’t care less about teenage mothers:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.
According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”
Compassionate conservatism: banning birth control and leaving teenage moms out in the cold.
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Update: Atrios agrees:
Just think about this one for a moment. Palin is rabidly anti-choice, wanting it to be illegal in all cases except when the mother’s life is threatened. This is a program which provides housing for teen mothers “in need of a place to live,” presumably due to the fact that their parents and sperm donors are somewhat less than supportive. Despite this, these young women choose (that word!) to have their babies. And the program which might give them, and their newborns, a place to live is something Palin cuts the funding for. Maybe they can go live with the bears.
Anyone But Sarah
That’s apparently the thinking over at the Republican convention. Wonkette, reporting from St. Paul, observes that RNC Co-Chair Jo Ann Davidson just urged the convention to elect “Sarah Pawlenty as Vice President.” Yet another reminder to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty that he was passed over for the veep nod.
Update: Video from DailyKos:
Also from Wonkette:
The McCain campaign is so insane over the Palin collapse that they’re lashing out at CNN for simply asking for a single example of Palin commanding the Alaska National Guard — they’re so furious, they pulled McCain off tonight’s Larry King show! (This actually means they just don’t want old Walnuts jabbering a bunch of contradictory bullshit on teevee tonight.)
All She Wanted for Christmas Was A Multibillion Dollar Gas Pipeline
Sarah Palin wants to make sure that God’s priorities are in order:
Just prior to discussing Iraq, Alaska’s governor asked the audience to pray for another matter — a $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state. “I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said.
The video is available to watch online or download (Real Media format). Comments above begin at the four-minute mark.
Leaving Politicians’ Children Alone: A History Lesson for Republicans
Every time I read about Republicans getting on their high-horse and demanding that Bristol Palin be left alone, I want to scream. I want to scream because, while they are absolutely right that politicians’ children should be off-limits to attacks, dragging someone’s child through the mud is exactly the kind of thing that Republicans do! Courtesy of the fine folks at Sadly, No!, let’s take a trip down memory lane:
- Rush Limbaugh
On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, “Did you know there’s a White House dog?” Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.
- Alicia Colon
Seems to me that [Chelsea]’s more of a pawn for her parent’s ambitions than a beloved child but maybe I’m wrong.
- Ed Klein
No one could have predicted that former Newsweek editor Ed Klein, of all people, would fan the flames of Clintonosis with a disgusting personal attack that purports to dissect Chelsea’s conception:
“I’m going back to my cottage to rape my wife,” Klein quotes Bill Clinton as saying during a Bermuda getaway in 1979.
In the morning, the Clintons’ room “looked like World War III. There are pillows and busted-up furniture all over the place,” an unnamed source tells Klein.
Klein source claims Bill later learned Hillary was pregnant reading about it in the ARKANSAS GAZETTE.
“The fact that his wife didn’t tell him that she was pregnant before she told a reporter doesn’t seem to phase him one bit, because he says, ‘Do you know what night that happened?”
“‘No,’ I say. ‘When?”
“‘It was Bermuda,’ he says, ‘And you were there!’”
If Drudge has this quote and context correct, it’s a mind-boggling anecdote to put into anyone’s biography — and a completely inexcusable and ridiculous claim. It’s difficult to think of a more personal, disgusting, and indefensible accusation to toss at someone than to claim he raped his wife. Adding that they conceived their only child out of an act of violence adds another dimension of shamelessness to Klein’s allegation.
- John Derbyshire
At this point I had better make a confession. It’s a bad one, I know it. It is low, contemptible and — yes! — mean-spirited. It may very well place me beyond the pale of civilized society. I don’t care. Truth will out, I will be heard. Brace yourself: I hate Chelsea Clinton.
- David Shuster
Filling in for Tucker Carlson yesterday, Shuster gave his opinion on Chelsea’s role in the presidential campaign, asking a guest, “Doesn’t it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?”
- And, of course, John McCain
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.
Of course, Republicans’ past treatment of Chelsea Clinton in no way justifies the smearing of anyone else’s child, but before the right-wing gets outraged over Bristol Palin, they ought to show Chelsea a healthy dose of contrition.
What Has Palin Reformed?
We keep hearing how Sarah Palin is such an incredible reformer, but, in all seriousness, what exactly has she reformed?
1.) She lied about canning the bridge to nowhere, and instead of canning it, used the money on other projects (but still built the road to the bridge). It saved the American taxpayers not one penny.
2.) She hired a lobbying firm to funnel earmarks to Alaska, sending millions to her former constituents at Wasilla.
3.) She ran a PAC for the indicted Ted Stevens.
4.) She is embroiled in an abuse of power scandal, in which it is alleged that she fired someone for not firing a trooper who used to be an inlaw, and then replaced that person with a high school buddy. She has recently lawyered up when it became clear she was lying.
5.) She was a member of a fringe secessionist political party who have what many would consider to be pretty bizarre views.
And, incidentally, we can add to number 4 that Palin is having the state of Alaska pay for a lawyer to stall the Troopergate investigation until after the election.
So, can somebody please tell me how this makes Gov. Palin a reformer? My friends, this is not change we can belive in.
Update: Oh yeah, nothing says “Maverick Reformer” like claiming executive privilege. My friends, that sounds like more of the same! Oh man, this just keeps getting easier.
McCain Hires Bush’s 2000 Hitman
In what can only be the ultimate expression of maverickyness, John McCain has hired a Republican strategist who spent much of the 2000 election cycle slandering McCain:
Former officials of Sen. John McCain’s 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.
Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush’s South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.
Eskew was brought on board the McCain campaign, it was announced Monday, to help prepare Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her role as McCain running mate. Eskew will help Palin prepare for her Wednesday night acceptance speech at the GOP convention and for her stump speech as she hits the road, brief her on policy matters, and help her handle the media scrutiny a lifetime in Alaska does not necessarily prepare one for.
Apparently the whole illegitimate black child thing was just a big misunderstanding. In any event, McCain certainly isn’t trying to hide the fact that his “respectful campaign” is quickly becoming a farce.
Hookers and Blow
“As the people of New Orleans were fleeing, many top GOP officials and lobbyists were dancing and drinking.”
The Republican party at its finest.
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