Archive for September 27th, 2010
The absurdity of Rahm Emanuel becoming Mayor of Chicago
The media’s reporting that Rahm Emanuel will be leaving the White House by Friday of this week — and the way they put it, Emanuel’s just going to move all his stuff right into Mayor Daley’s office, no election required, as the media’s declared him to be Chicago’s next Mayor.
We just don’t see this happening, as we’ve talked about consistently on this site for some time.
People hate Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, because Rahm Emanuel is a foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, vindictive, jackass.
Many people think Mayor Daley is a jackass, but we actually really like the guy. He’s corrupt. He’s more political machine than man. But, he’s polite in person, kind to everyone we’ve ever known who’s dealt with him, and honestly loves the city of Chicago more than himself. We truly believe that. He’s a good man who is the product of a childhood spent growing up in the machine, and the machine is all his father ever taught him…but his mother, our former Chicago First Lady Sis Daley, must have been a strong influence on him too, because that woman loved this city and fought for it to have world-class amenities for its citizens (like the Chicago Cultural Center, which she helped save from the wrecking ball when idiots wanted to tear the building down to build a parking lot).
Rahm Emanuel has no good in him.
He is not a good man, and he cares about nothing but himself.
He’s also delusional, since he told people for years he’d be Speaker of the House…if he wanted it.
Yah, right.
Emanuel’s made too many enemies to be Mayor of Chicago. After 21 years of the current Mayor Daley…and if you count the 21 years the first Mayor Daley was in office…that’s over 42 years of the same family controlling this town. Having Rahm Emanuel waltz in and claim the throne just doesn’t sit well with people…particularly because of how abrasive and nasty Emanuel is.
He wants out of the White House, and this running for Mayor bit is a great excuse for him to bolt ship, but we really and truly don’t see him even winning the Democrat nomination for Mayor.
It sure is going to be fun for us to do everything we can to stop him. You can count on that.
We’ll keep you posted on everything we hear on the ground with this…but we really can’t see a path to victory for this man, even considering the fact Republicans won’t bother to run a candidate for Mayor, and it will just be the Democrat nominee versus a collection of random no-name crazy people.
Never a dull moment in Chicago.
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars is a glimpse at what the 2013 Inaugural Ball will look like
We really hope Mark Ballas stays in touch with Bristol Palin after the Dancing with the Stars competition is over, because watching her performance tonight all we could think of was “We are going to see this young lady dancing these moves at her mother’s Inaugural Ball in January 2013″.
And we hope Mark, or an equally talented young dancer, is Bristol’s partner out there in the middle of a parquet floor somewhere in Washington, looking so beautiful, and making her mom just as proud as she shows the crowd some of her “Dancing with the Stars” moves.
Just look at how proud Governor Palin and young Piper are at the end of this clip.
Quick: name one — just one — of Mitt Romney’s sons, “The Five Brothers”.
Tell us something about Tim Pawlenty besides “he’s so boring”.
Do you even know what Mitch Daniels looks like?
Yah, thought so.
How do you think Bristol Palin did on Dancing with the Stars?
How many times have you watched the clip above?
While watching it, were you clapping along, cheering, and feeling a sudden burst of optimism for the fate of our country, seeing the Palin family on TV?
Have you cast your votes for Bristol yet with all the email addresses you own?
If not, best get on that.
Mittens Romney is probably crying into his soggy sandwich somewhere: Archie Comics anoints Governor Palin the 2012 GOP nominee
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This is really fascinating, and we’re not sure how the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is going to stop Governor Palin’s presidential campaign.
In our opinion, there is only one scenario where she’s not the 2012 nominee: if she decides, for whatever reason, that she doesn’t want to be president.
Archie Comics is running a series where there’s a student election in Riverdale, and that makes the kids think of the next presidential election, where Obama and Governor Palin are going to duke it out.
These covers are so good that we want them as posters up on the walls here at Buzzquarters.
The Archie people are Leftists, which is clear in the article about this series when they claim that both Obama and the Governor “want what’s best for America”.
We know Governor Palin would do anything for this country, that’s how much she loves it, and wants what’s best for it.
Obama, on the other hand, wants what’s best for Obama, has never had a burning love for this country, and growing up overseas in a Muslim country actually learned to hate America and carried that hatred through his adult life, where he spent 20 years sitting in the pews of Jeremiah Wright’s hate-church listening to G** Damn America echoing through the air. We’ve yet to see this man, our current president, show any outward love and admiration for the exceptionalism of this country.
So, we beg to differ with the Archie people on that.
In other pop culture bits, Governor Palin has been turning up as President Palin on TV shows that skip a few years into the future. The TV show Supernatural did an episode that’s five years in the future, and Governor Palin won the 2012 election in that future.
These pop culture predictors aren’t always spot-on, of course, because in many alternate history novels Hillary Clinton became the 44th President, with one time travel series set on the USS Hillary Clinton aircraft carrier (a George H.W. Bush-class fusion-powered ship nicknamed “The Mighty Hill” with a ship’s motto of “It Takes A Carrier”) and shows as far back as Sliders in 1994 predicting a president Hillary in the White House. Which would have happened, if the DNC had not wanted Obama to be the nominee in 2008, setting us all on a different course.
Can the RNC take the nomination from Governor Palin and give it to Mittens Romney?
That’s their plan — and we tell you that this is what the Romney Guys are working towards every single day, trying to do to Governor Palin what the DNC and media did to Hillary Clinton in 2008. Because “it’s Romney’s turn” and “he’s wanted to be president since the 1970s”. Those are, seriously, the most compelling reasons any of these people can offer for a Romney campaign. ”It’s his turn”. Meanwhile, the Cocktail Party GOP elite are refusing to hit Democrats hard with Obamacare this fall because they do not want to damage Mittens Romney’s chances in 2012, since Romneycare originated all of this.
The more the publics sees Governor Palin as the 2012 nominee, the harder it’s going to be for the GOP to take this from her, especially since conservatives in this country saw what Democrats did to Hillary Clinton. Whether these people liked Hillary or not, they know she was shanked by the DNC…and even her harshest critics say Democrats “did her wrong”.
That’s something else the Romney Guys are going to have to overcome. They might be working hard for him on the ground trying to do whatever they can to steer the nomination towards him, but the Cocktail Party is in a precarious position with this stuff. That anger people have for the DNC can easily transfer to the Cocktail Party if people coast to coast see these guys trying to elevate “it’s his turn” Mittens over Governor Palin…and the will of the people.
BREAKING: Rick Lazio drops out of New York Governor's race — for once, an establishment candidate does the right thing
FOX is reporting that Rick Lazio is dropping out of the New York Governor’s race…which should help Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino.
This is a shocker, because so many Cocktail Party establishment favorites, like Lazio, decide to embark on fools’ errands and stay in the race just to siphon votes away from the conservative or Tea Party-backed candidates (see Charlie Crist, LeNa JaBrowski, and others).
Keep monitoring the New York political pages today…let’s see how quickly Lazio’s backers get behind Paladino.
When he beats Andrew Cuomo, it’s going to be quite an earthquake in the Empire State.
Crazy people pushing third party candidates might actually hurt Democrats for once
For decades now, the DNC has used third party candidates to hurt Republicans.
They’re doing it again this year, by pushing Charlie Crist in Florida (Independent candidate), LeNa JaBrowski in Akaska (write-in candidacy), and Rick Lazio in New York’s Governor’s race (he’s the Conservative Party candidate, and he’s currently siphoning 9% of the vote away from Carl Paladino, in what is a winnable race for Republicans).
Because this is what third party candidacies do — and anyone who ever votes third party needs to understand how foolish this is: they throw the race to Democrats, and are designed to do that.
But, there’s great news today in the form of crazy people coast to coast who think Obama is not radical enough, and is not sufficiently beholden to the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming…so they are declaring their intention to run a Green Party primary challenge to Obama in 2012.
This will be an insane person, such as Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Ralph Nader, or some other nut.
Obama will have no trouble winning the primary…and he will be the Democrats’ nominee, but there seems to be a good chance that a great many of his cultists will be angry with him enough to not vote when the general election rolls around.
This should be highly encouraged…because the more alienated these lunatics feel, the easier it will be to defeat Obama’s re-election plans.
Go, Greens, go!
Mourning in America
Tell us in this thread what you are going to do to get these videos in front of every American you can think of.
Pay special attention to the Grandmas out there…and the Momma Grizzlies…but most particularly the Grandmas.
When all of us were growing up, whenever there was a crisis, when people were hurt and confused and didn’t know what to do, our grandmothers were the ones who stood up, took charge, and led the way. Their day-to-day identities may have been cookie ladies, baking banana bread and gossiping at the church bazaar, but when anyone was in trouble, the strongest and loudest voices came from the gray-haired women who’d held the families together since the Eisenhower administration.
Our Grandmas are all gone now, folks.
But, every day we can feel what they would be doing if they were still alive, and saw what Obama and Democrats have done to this country. Remember: we all came from lifelong Democrat households, but we know in our hearts our own grandmothers — women who had commemorative plates of Jack and Jackie Kennedy on their walls — would be going up and down their streets every day, working the neighbors up, to roil them all against the Democrats this November.
Grandmas are going to save this country. Grandmas are going to prevent Obama from getting a second term. Grandmas are going to put Governor Palin into the White House.
Because Grandmas don’t take crap from anyone, and they’ve lived long enough to know how to fight, especially when the future of their grandchildren is at stake.
Your assignment: give us your ideas for how to get Grandmas nationwide to see these videos…and stir them up in their own families to get those they love to vote against the Democrats this fall.
WEEK TWO: Bristol Palin Dancing with the Stars Watch Thread
UPDATE: ABC lets you vote like a Democrat (up to 11 times per email address), so please go to ABC.com and vote as many times as possible for Bristol and Mark:
Here’s the link: http://cdn.abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/vote/begin?v6
Mark Ballas and Bristol Palin in Wasilla, Alaska
Mark Ballas and Governor Palin, taken with Mark's personal iPhone it looks like...and it appears the Governor, holding her own camera phone, got a shot of them together herself afterwards.
We really like Bristol Palin — she reminds us a lot of the girls we all went to Catholic high school with…and watching her on Dancing with the Stars makes us think of a lot of those girls, when they learned all sorts of dance numbers for pep rallies, the Homecoming Follies, or the Spring Arts Festival.
They weren’t professional dancers. They never had any lessons. But they had a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul…and the heart they showed in those performances came shining through whenever they took the stage. We remember cheering and cheering for these sweethearts, and we’re going to do the same for Bristol too.
Tonight at 8EST/7CST Bristol’s dancing again, and has another chance to wear a beautiful costume, have some fun, and represent Alaska and the Palin family on the national stage.
We hope you support her.
It’s unusual for us to watch television, but we’re going over to our friend Zara’s house tonight to catch Bristol’s performance…before coming home to vote for her like crazy afterwards.
Please use this thread to talk about Bristol’s chances tonight, as well as her trip back to Alaska with her Dancing partner Mark Ballas…as featured in People Magazine this week. When the show airs tonight, we’ll try our best to live-blog it for those who can’t see the performance…and we’ll put up the voting numbers for our Bristol so that we can all vote to keep her in the competition.
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UPDATE: Looks like Bristol and Mark will be dancing ‘The Quick Step” to one of our favorite songs, “Can’t Hurry Love”. Here’s the rest of the lineup:
– Rick Fox and Cheryl Burke — “Tush” (jive)
– Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas — “Suddenly I See” (quickstep)
– Brandy and Maks Chmerkovskiy — “Magic” (jive)
– Michael Bolton and Chelsie Hightower — “Hound Dog” (quickstep)
– Audrina Patridge and Tony Dovalani — “Love Machine” (quickstep)
– Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough — “Shake It” (jive)
– Margaret Cho and Louis Van Amstel — “Dreaming” (jive)
– Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer– “I Want You To” (quickstep)
– Kurt Warner and Anna Trebunskaya — “Danger Zone” (jive)
– Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas — “You Can’t Hurry Love” (quickstep)
– The Situation and Karina Smirnoff — “We No Speak Americano” (quickstep)
Here’s our favorite version of the song (from the end credits of Runaway Bride):
And no saying nasty things about the Dixie Chicks in comments…because the song is great, even if the girls who sing it aren’t.
Then there’s this fun Moonlighting video:
Which gives us an excuse to run our most favorite thing that Cybill Shepherd ever did with her life:
Did you know Sidetracks in Boystown refuses to play Twisted Sister on 80s Retro night? It’s a damn shame, because “We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore” is pretty much the anthem of our times. They are really weird about music there. Love the place. Hang out there a lot. But co-owner Chuck Hyde has mental issues with a lot of songs…so DJs aren’t allowed to play anything that reminds him of bad memories from his past. Evidently, the guy’s had a rough life, because the “banned songs” list at Sidetracks is longer than at any club we’ve ever known.
“Coming to America” actually makes the man cry, we’ve heard, because it reminds him of riding on a ferry on 9.10.01 since that Neil Diamond song played on a loudspeaker that day when he took a trip to the Statue of Liberty. Now, when it plays, he crumples into a ball on the ground, in tears, and wets himself. So, that song, too, is banned. It’s like Mittens Romney not allowing any spicy sandwiches in the same room with him, lest he have an uh-oh.
Weird.
But, super-funny if you have the Best of Neil Diamond on your iPhone and are equipped with speakers loud enough for Chuck to hear it in public somewhere. Not that we’ve tried this or anything. Yet.
