Comments on: More Cracked http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: QrazyQat http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-46240 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:59:32 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-46240 In Canada, after the amazing meltdown of the federal Tories (due to the one two Mulrooney/Cambell knockout) they tried to get back in the game by attracting the youth. Their vehicle? Ancient failure Joe Clark (managed 6 months as PM once). The equivalent would be... well, hiring Ron Stewart to entertain your teenagers. Putting Trent Lott in is a similar gift, and I can only say, than you very much, GOP. In Canada, after the amazing meltdown of the federal Tories (due to the one two Mulrooney/Cambell knockout) they tried to get back in the game by attracting the youth. Their vehicle? Ancient failure Joe Clark (managed 6 months as PM once). The equivalent would be… well, hiring Ron Stewart to entertain your teenagers. Putting Trent Lott in is a similar gift, and I can only say, than you very much, GOP.

]]> by: MNPundit http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-46163 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:27:57 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-46163 Capital Hill Blue is a site I take with a few grains of salt. Not that I doubt that McConnell is a thug but I find this portrait in the Washington Monthly to be a very good primer. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.roth.html BTW, am I the only one who is stunned at the emergence of Cliff Schecter? He just appeared out of no where at HuffPo. Capital Hill Blue is a site I take with a few grains of salt. Not that I doubt that McConnell is a thug but I find this portrait in the Washington Monthly to be a very good primer.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.roth.html

BTW, am I the only one who is stunned at the emergence of Cliff Schecter? He just appeared out of no where at HuffPo.

]]> by: A (NZ) Bearish Take on the New Republican Leadership at Blog P.I. http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45973 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:31:50 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45973 [...] The Senate Republicans chose their leadership today, and while no one was much surprised or upset by Mitch McConnell’s ascension to Minority Leader, the return of Trent Lott to the whip position — which he held a decade ago, before becoming leader and then becoming the first major public figure to be brought low by the blogosphere — is not pleasing anyone. The leftosphere excepted, of course. [...] […] The Senate Republicans chose their leadership today, and while no one was much surprised or upset by Mitch McConnell’s ascension to Minority Leader, the return of Trent Lott to the whip position — which he held a decade ago, before becoming leader and then becoming the first major public figure to be brought low by the blogosphere — is not pleasing anyone. The leftosphere excepted, of course. […]

]]> by: lafrance http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45968 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:10:10 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45968 When i came across your comment on a dead Nixon doing better than W I laughed because I was thinking the same thing. When i came across your comment on a dead Nixon doing better than W I laughed because I was thinking the same thing.

]]> by: Donna http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45911 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:54:47 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45911 This will have to be considered heresay, because I have not been able to find the particular Mitch McConnell story which I read in print [local newspaper or magazine] long before I had a computer. The story was that McConnell kept getting elected in Kentucky even though everything he did in Washington undercut the working classes who nevertheless continued to vote for him . In the summers before his re-election bids, the strategy was the following: those in his business class base would host big picnics for their employees and employees' families and offer free entertainment and free food and beverages for all. Sometime during that picnic, an award [which awards were 'made up' with nice sounding names] would be given to McConnell. I suppose most of those employees never had a clue about how they were manipulated to feel good about the 'award winning' McConnell, rather than ever look at his voting behavior which shafted their working class interests. The story stuck in my mind because his behavior was so......blankety-blank .......fill in the blank [can't think of the word that fits here]. This will have to be considered heresay, because I have not been able to find the particular Mitch McConnell story which I read in print [local newspaper or magazine] long before I had a computer.

The story was that McConnell kept getting elected in Kentucky even though everything he did in Washington undercut the working classes who nevertheless continued to vote for him
. In the summers before his re-election bids, the strategy was the following: those in his business class base would host big picnics for their employees and employees’ families and offer free entertainment and free food and beverages for all. Sometime during that picnic, an award [which awards were ‘made up’ with nice sounding names] would be given to McConnell.
I suppose most of those employees never had a clue about how they were manipulated to feel good about the ‘award winning’ McConnell, rather than ever look at his voting behavior which shafted their working class interests. The story stuck in my mind because his behavior was so……blankety-blank …….fill in the blank [can’t think of the word that fits here].

]]> by: moonbat http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45856 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:19:43 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45856 This reminds of the time the Rs tried to impeach Clinton. At the time, I was tempted to write/phone Gingrich and the other wingnuts leading the charge, to egg them on in their witch hunt, to keep on digging their own political grave. Republican stupidity truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Praise Jesus indeed! This reminds of the time the Rs tried to impeach Clinton. At the time, I was tempted to write/phone Gingrich and the other wingnuts leading the charge, to egg them on in their witch hunt, to keep on digging their own political grave.

Republican stupidity truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Praise Jesus indeed!

]]> by: Steve M. http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45842 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:45:59 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/11/15/more-cracked/#comment-45842 <i> Senator Mitch McConnell, lovingly described in Capitol Hill Blue as “a thug and shakedown artist,” will be Senate Majority Leader.</i> MINORITY! Senator Mitch McConnell, lovingly described in Capitol Hill Blue as “a thug and shakedown artist,” will be Senate Majority Leader.

MINORITY!

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