Day 326

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

Newsweek, 2000

False advertising

Actually, no he isn’t.  But the media likes to pretend it’s so.

Still embarassing Minnesota

Day 327

Can you smell money?!?!?!?!

Jack Abramoff

K. Now I’m pissed.

Posted by Sean, from Hiding in the Backwaters

Chris Buttars, Utah State Senator from West Jordan, is an ass. I have to believe that even wingnuts who support him as a champion of moral causes privately think, “What an ass.” Generally I just try and ignore him. Otherwise, I’d be angry all the time, but this just tears it.

Buttars just lost his seat as the chairman of the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee. It’s about damn time he was sanctioned. Of course, you don’t get sanctioned for being a homophobic and racist bigot. Sorry, I meant Champion of Moral Causes. However, you can get sanctioned for unethical behavior, which is only a matter of time when you’ve got an ego as big as Buttars’. Buttars wrote a letter to a judge, on Senate letterhead, scolding him for ruling against a personal friend (and large campaign contributor) of Buttars’ in a land dispute said friend is engaged in with Mapleton city. And here is what Buttars said in that letter that just burns my shorts.

“I had hoped that we had appointed a judge that would err on the side of individual rights, not a liberal activist judge who would champion government.” (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/26/08)

ARE YOU [expletive deleted] KIDDING ME???!!! This is the [expletive deleted] who introduced a bill to put the kabosh on a recently created domestic partner registry in Salt Lake City. Passed unanimously by the city council, it would allow local businesses to offer domestic partner benefits if they so desire (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/23/2008). What a hypocritical [expletive deleted]. He’s only a champion of individual rights if you’re rich, white, straight and a campaign contributor. Otherwise, the state (ie. Buttars) gets to decide what constitutes individual rights.

All you have to do is read the news from the last few weeks and any rational, thinking individual would be able to tell the man is clueless, probably a raging narcissist, and has no business in the Senate. He plans to seek re-election, because he knows his critics are unjustified. I think the odds he will get re-elected are actually pretty good, but if by some stroke of luck he should lose, you know it won’t be because he’s an [expletive deleted]. It will be because his critics sabotaged and slandered him.

Ed note:

Criticizing Buttars is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, but he really, really needs to go.

Reality bites, and it’s costing you more

Inflation soars:

Battered by bad economic news, consumer confidence plunged while wholesale food, energy and medicine costs soared, pushing inflation up at the fastest pace in a quarter century.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that wholesale inflation jumped by 1 percent in January, more than double the increase that analysts had been expecting.

But hey, the economy is very solid.  Just ask Dubya.

Day 329

In all due respect, I’m not so sure it’s credible to quote leading news organizations about - well, never mind.

Debate, 2004

A crock of buttars

Great read at Snide Remarks

Single Payer for Minnesota?

Interesting bit from Minnesota Monitor:

The Minnesota Health Plan would move health insurance out of the private sector and create a system where one payer — Minnesota — would cover everyone in the state based on their ability to pay. The bill, authored by Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, is an example of a single-payer health care system and it has the support of a majority of physicians in Minnesota, according to the latest survey.

I’m proud of Senator Marty - he’s my senator.  The governor will never sign it, but it’s encouraging that at least the discussion is starting to come forward.

Day 330

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating…I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

CBS News, 2000

Day 333

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And, having said that, all options are on the table.

Israeli interview, Feb 2005

Who’s the candidate of choice?

Why hasn’t Ron Paul dropped out yet?  What’s he going to do with the money he’s obviously not spending elsewhere?  Perhaps a third party run?

Deeky at Shakesville has a different thought:

Paul’s apparent strategy is to keep pulling in single digits (7% in Washington this week) in the primaries until both Huckabee and McCain fall ill and/or get caught snorting coke off an altar boy’s ass. Paul has more money than his competitors, having built a loony pyramid scheme of wild-eyed contributors funneling cash and doubloons into his campaign (that’s Libertarianism in action, I guess), and seems pretty confident he can jump right in as the Republican’s default candidate should the current default candidate drop out.

Day 334

I understand small business growth, I was one.

New York Daily News, Feb 2000

Another bimbo eruption

And of course, it’s on the right side of the aisle.  In, for that matter, high places.

This is a story that will probably “have legs.” It is about ethics, it is about adultery (an issue the religious right claims to take seriously), and let’s not forget that John McCain left his first wife, after she was seriously injured, so he could be with his second wife, 17 years his junior. Interesting that it broke the same week the McCain campaign chose to thrust Mrs. McCain into the spotlight to attack Michelle Obama.

What a nimrod

And without intentional irony, Bush opens his mouth.  Read and see it in full.