The Republican Stimulus Package
The AP FOIAed Mark Sanford’s calendars and discovered him traipsing about on some undisclosed trips using supporters’ planes. Make sure you read through to the second page, though, where the AP discloses that the Republican Governor’s Association paid for one of Sanford’s nookie runs.
Sanford arranged to meet with his mistress in one of the 2008 RGA trips that he did not disclose. He had been traveling to Ireland for RGA in November, and arranged a meeting with the woman when he returned, according to records he released after the affair became public.
So let’s see. The RGA paid for Mark Sanford’s nookie runs. The NRSC doubled the salary of John Ensign’s mistress and put her son on the payroll. The RNC paid to keep Palin in Prada (which may not have helped her sex life but it sure made for some starbursts in Rich Lowry’s living room).
And yet the NRCC is the Republican entity with the ethics and accounting problems?
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I think this is just your gut hatred for acronyms that contain the word Republican.
Did I miss any? Because in my fury I may have forgotten one or two.
So OT, but if anyone follows the Red Sox,
Jerry Remy is back. Drop dead funny basta*d.
Just hearing his voice is one of life’s great pleasures.
Hey, he’s bigger than cancer:)
True, but the Evil Empire is exploding with their own Bronx stimulus package?
Penny sucks…
Does the acronym VGR stand for Very Good Repuglican? Does the 50 represent a promised performance rate? Huh!
Sounds like it’s time to start selling loofahs.
I hear they make good falafels, too. Or was that enchiladas?
On the CIA report front.
Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists.
Link.
What does it take to get these people investigated, if not actually prosecuted?
(I would not, if I were one of them, take any trips out of the continental US. For the rest of their lives. And I’d go for cremation and scattering at sea, also. Historically speaking, dead people have been dug up and tried.)
Isikoff is reporting Monday’s report will include mock executions, guns and power drills to the head. Rachel Maddow show.
Ms e, as a published author, you should have some experience in the machinations & manipulations involved in managing post-publication vagaries & vicissitudes. Would you expect his publisher to urge extending the book tour to Appalachia & Buenos Aires?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..?ref=fpblg
Want a laugh? Read the PR blurb that was prepared for Sanford’s book before the book deal was cancelled in humiliation. Especially the second page. Priceless.
Sanford’s the Pathfinder!
O/T — One for the “You’re Breaking My Heart” file.
Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall
By DAVID LEONHARDT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Published: August 20, 2009
“The rich have been getting richer for so long that the trend has come to seem almost permanent.
. . .
“But economists say — and data is beginning to show — that a significant change may in fact be under way. The rich, as a group, are no longer getting richer. Over the last two years, they have become poorer. And many may not return to their old levels of wealth and income anytime soon.”
More.
My heart bleeds for them. Not.