All Posts Tagged With: "dirty Republicans"
Passing the Torch
Check out this picture from 1980 of a young Rod Blagojevich posing with Richard Nixon, who is giving Blagojevich his autograph. And a bit of history from the TOC Blog:
If Blagojevich did set about modeling himself after Nixon, he’s most of the way there. Like his jowly political hero, Blago’s not going down without a fight. Tricky Dick didn’t resign until after the House Judiciary Committee had approved the articles of impeachment and Nixon was certain he would lose the House vote and the subsequent Senate trial.
(Thanks to Kiyoshi for sending this to me)
Tucker Bounds gets owned
Every time the McCain campaign has issued a statement that seemed over the top, ill-conceived, or asinine, I’ve noticed the messenger tends to be Tucker Bounds. I hadn’t noticed him on cable news, probably because I mostly watch MSNBC. This is the first clip of him I’ve seen, and he’s a weaselly shit.
U of I alum Bob Novak’s attempted hit and run
The Prince of Darkness tried to take out a jaywalker today, and then started to speed off like he didn’t notice. From the witness description, it would be hard not to notice:
The bicyclist was David Bono, a partner at Harkins Cunningham, who was on his usual bike commute to work at 1700 K St. N.W. when he witnessed the accident. As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said “a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed into the windshield.” Bono said that the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a “Walk” signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and that Novak then made a right into the service lane of K Street. “This car is speeding away. What’s going through my mind is, you just can’t hit a pedestrian and drive away,” Bono said.
In a 2001 interview, Bob Novak commented on his loathing of jaywalkers: “He was crossing on the red light. I really hate jaywalkers. I despise them. Since I don’t run the country, all I can do is yell at ‘em. The other option is to run ‘em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that.”
McCain the G.O.P.’s B.O.P.
“Cracka it’s the big western runnin’ pimp
Presario Coming straight up out the Ari-zo
Makes a Mil up off a sorry hoe
Then sit back and peep my scenario
Oops, my bad, that’s my scenario
No I can’t f**k a scary hoe
Now every time, every place, everywhere we go
Hoe’s start pointing and say ‘There he go!’”
- Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’ (adapted slightly to better fit Senator McCain)
It looks like McCain is the G.O.P.’s B.O.P. And by that I mean, Big Ole Pimp. The sexier rumor is that he gave this lobbyist favors in exchange for her *ahem* giving him favors. Here’s what the “straight talker” has to say.
Bush’s Dumbest Legal Arguments of 2007
Governor Ryan’s Conviction Affirmed
While checking in at my favorite legal blog, Above the Law, I saw breaking news that a divided Seventh Circuit panel affirmed the conviction of Former Governor George Ryan. For more on this story, check the AtL thread here. Also, the Sun Times put together an archive of stories Gov. Ryan’s trial here.
Governor Ryan looks like hell.
Interestingly, former Governor Jim Thompson was one of Governor Ryan’s laywers in this case, and Thompson’s firm Winston and Strawn represented Governor Ryan free of charge. This might cause some debate in the legal world of whether or not Winston should be able to claim this work was “pro bono.”