"Sarah Palin cast her vote in Wasilla, Alaska. It was a very cold day in
Wasilla. I wonder if that $150,000 wardrobe included designer seal skin
long johns."
- Jerry Perisho
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Hackers and Spending Sprees
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581
NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end
department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While
publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what
they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that
Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and
hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying
for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as
Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable
sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor,
who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers
to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign
found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide
estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported
$150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband
Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide
characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman
Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out
when the Republican Party audits its books. ...
McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept
him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they
were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at
his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve
Schmidt vetoed the request. ...
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That Was Close!
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crdpo/2008/crdpo081102.gif
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Is it true that when Sarah Palin called to congratulate Barack Obama, she
asked him to forward drape measurements for the White House in case she
needs them in four years?
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Would you like to know the bullet we dodged, from the first hundred days
of a McCain/Palin administration? We have the technology....
[cue Dizzy Wavy Lines and Harp Music]
January 21, 2009: Sarah Palin begins spending an estimated $25.4 million
redecorating Dick Cheney's bunker.
January 27: John McCain, in a pique, forces the merger of the New York
Times with the Anchorage Daily News, sending all of the Times reporters to
Alaska.
February 4: John McCain, on learning that he cannot fire Securities and
Exchange Commissioner Christopher Cox, creates the office of Lord High
Executioner, naming Dick Cheney to the post, and declares that all federal
employees, including Cox, report to him.
March 4: The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 1800 points when John
McCain says that the economy is "fundamentally peachy."
March 11: Sarah Palin's 50th day without being seen by the public.
March 12: John McCain, "killing three birds with one stone," bombs the
shared border of Iran, Afghanistan and Russia.
April 1: Wasilla, Alaska receives $312 Million in federal aid to deal
with an infestation of Haematobosca alcis.
April 2: The New Anchorage Daily Times reports that Haematobosca alcis,
or the moose fly, causes no harm to humans.
April 3: All reporters for the New Anchorage Daily Times are sent to
Vladivostok to cover the anticipated first-ever permafrost melt.
Also, reporting of the Dow Jones Industrial is suspended, pending a review
of the market to identify 30 companies that expect to remain in business
through a McCain Administration.
April 6: Sarah Palin is rumored to be leaving the offical
Vice-Presidential quarters (the Cheney Bunker). The rumors prove false;
Tina Fey was visiting.
April 7: With the addition of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, the list
of world leaders with which John McCain will not meet reaches fifty. In
response, Russia invades Alaska.
April 15: From the Cheney Bunker, Sarah Palin files for an extension on
filing her 2008 federal tax return. No reason is given.
April 19: The New York Stock Exchange is purchased by a joint venture of
the sovereign wealth funds of China, Dubai and Belgium.
April 22: Hackers break into Sarah Palin's official government email
account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and learn that she has been in Wasilla,
Alaska since February 3rd, charging the government $1.2 million per diem
for her expenses there.
April 26: John McCain, announcing that he is "tired beyond words,"
resigns from the Presidency, effective whenever Sarah Palin can be
reached.
April 29: Sarah Palin is located on a helicopter wolf shoot and
administered the oath of office. She immediately nominates Dick Cheney as
her Vice-President, who, as Lord High Executioner, has been running the
government from his bunker all along.
Also, reports from Vladivostok, Russia indicate that Nome, Alaska has been
annexed by Russia, in a "settlement of the borders" between the US and
Russia.
(via mspicata, DailyKos.com)
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"I'm just glad it's over. And I'm not the only one. On Monday the Statue
of Liberty was holding her nose."
- Joe Hickman
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Sorry John....
America's women hadn't waited 232 years for SARAH PALIN!!!
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Advice For 2012
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/wpnan/2008/wpnan081105.gif
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Q: What's the difference between 'Sarah Palin' and 'Para-Sailing'?
A: One is a dangerous choice than can leave you crippled; the other is
just a sport.
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"Over the weekend a radio comedian tricked Sarah Palin to take his call
because he posed as the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. The comedian
was very believable as the French President, he started the conversation
by saying, if Palin gets elected, he wanted to surrender directly to her."
- Alex Kaseberg
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Doggonit. And also, too, goodbye. You betcha.
http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/byepalin2.jpg
Hey, Sarah Palin.... can you see REALITY from Alaska?
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Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, Sarah, 'cause we're kicking your
silly winking folksy apocalypsticked ass back to Alaska. For good. Also.
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Palin Returns To Alaska To Chants Of '2012'
http://tinyurl.com/5ezfa5
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has returned to her home
state of Alaska, where she was greeted by dozens of supporters encouraging
her to run for president in four years.
The crowd chanted "2012! 2012!" as Palin disembarked her airplane at the
Anchorage airport. Asked by reporters if she might run for president,
Palin said, "We'll see what happens then." ...
["Dozens of supporters"? Pretty much says it all right there, doesn't it?]
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Maybe President-elect Obama can tap Sarah Palin as the Ambassador to
Russia.... she won't even have to leave her house!
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Symbols
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crjde/2008/crjde081106.gif
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Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin became the perfect symbol for everything
that was wrong with and ingenuine about modern Republicanism....
Joe griped endlessly about taxes even as it turned out he was ducking
them, and groused that Obama's "socialism" would mean there was no
incentive to work hard and succeed in earning more than $250,000 a year,
even as he shopped around for an agent and a Nashville recording contract
(And excuse me -- what?! A recording contract? Based on what, Mr. Hard
Work?)
Meanwhile, there was Sarah griping about pork and wasteful spending even
as she tried to rip off the Feds for the Bridge to Nowhere, rip off the
state for her per diem, and rip off the campaign for her clothes (and her
husband's, and her family's).
(via Kagro X, DailyKos.com)
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And Now, The Finger Pointing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc
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Barack Hussein Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United
States, proving yet again the truth of Abraham Lincoln's oft-quoted
admonition: "You can fool most of the people some of the time and some of
the people most of the time, but you can't fool people who sometimes
aren't fooled and other times..." Oh, sorry, that was Sarah Palin.
- Bob Mills
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This wasn't just an election, it was a national IQ test that we had
already failed twice....
Luckily, better than 50% passed it this time!
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Now, I Need You!
http://tinyurl.com/5asdnk
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"On election night, President-elect Barack Obama addressed a crowd in
Chicago that numbered approximately 125,000. Meanwhile, Peace and Freedom
Party candidate Ralph Nader made his concession speech to a parking lot
attendant at a cock-fighting event outside Reno."
- Jerry Perisho
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him
"father."
- Will Rogers
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"Barack Obama, a community organizer, organized hundreds of communities to
help him raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, millions of
Republicans are encouraging their kids and grandkids to become community
organizers."
- Joe Hickman
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You Must Be So Proud....
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20081105/cx_db_uc/db20081105
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GOP Ineptitude and some advice for Dems
by Molly Ivins
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/ivins.advice/index.html
. . I realize for many Democrats it has been so long since we won, we
have completely forgotten the etiquette. And I realize I'm taking a chance
here -- there's nothing more dangerous than overconfidence -- but you have
to practice for victory as well as defeat.
First rule: No gloating. Actually, there is gloating aloud, but only in
the exclusive presence of other Democrats. Gloating in the face of
Republicans is rude and unsportsmanlike, and just gives them one more
thing to complain about.
Also, remember there is a possibility there may be some Republicans on the
civil service staff -- I have seen this when the R's win -- and it is
really not good manners to watch them wailing around with their eyes
brimming with tears.
Second, I'm sure we will all be full of grand theories if Republicans lose
and we win. Dems will be ready to be helpful, offer advice and sort of try
to perk the R's up. I do not recommend this. It somehow never feels right
to me when R's are dumping truckloads of good advice on the D's that they
are, actually, sincere about it.
Third, celebratory jigs, reels and renditions of "Danny Boy" are best
limited to Irish bars.
Fourth, try to refrain from insulting Republicans en masse. A good start
would be, "You know, it was mostly the ones under indictment that hurt
you."
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Republican rhetoric is always more effective when they don't actually have
to apply their theories to real world application....
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If 2004 was a "mandate", this was a complete @$$ kicking.
- clammyc (DailyKos.com)
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"Republicans are looking at the bright side after their big losses last
night. The Democrats didn't get 60 Senate seats, Obama did not get 400
electoral votes, and now that he's vice president, no one will ever have
to listen to Joe Biden ever again."
- Jake Novak
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Democrats could end up with a net gain of 20 seats in the House, they
picked up 3 Senate seats (35 seats on the block: [D] won 17, [R] won 14, &
4 still undecided), plus Democrats won 7 of 11 governor's races.... but:
"Americans have again rejected the Democrat-lite strategy of higher
spending and bigger government, and it's time for Republicans to chart a
new, more principled course. Democrats didn't run on their true liberal
agenda ... They ran against President Bush and congressional Republicans
whose image was tarnished by scandals and broken promises."
- Sen. Jim DeMint [R-SC]
"The American people want and deserve accountability from Washington
Democrats, and Republicans will stand on principle to ensure they get it."
- Rep. John Boehner [R-OH], House Minority Leader
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I guess you can't really blame them for incoherence.... they are so
shell-shocked at this point, they don't know whether to scratch their
watch or wind their butt.
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Where The GOP Went Wrong
http://tinyurl.com/5znx9c
. . [W]hile Republicans may have gained some momentary advantages by
engaging in the culture wars (and might do so again from time to time), in
the longer sweep they have paid a steep price by identifying themselves as
wanting to turn back the clock on what many Americans, especially younger
ones, accept as progress that comes with changing times. ...
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Any Advice?
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/crmth/2008/crmth081105.gif
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"All the networks debuted gadgets that helped them with the broadcast of
the election. FOX news included botox injections in the make up room
because most of its reporters were aging by the minute when the results
started coming in."
- Pedro Bartes
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"Voters did not reject conservatism. They rejected Big Government
Republicanism in all its forms, including the Bush administration and the
Republican leadership in Congress."
- Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
"Obama was taller and better looking."
- FOX News
Isn't it amazing how the party and philosophy that's ostensibly about
"personal responsibility" will whine and cry and then find someone else to
blame for its own, easily forseen electoral fuckups?
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That's PRESIDENT (-elect) BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA to you, FAUX NEWS!
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"America remains a center-right nation —- a fact that a President Obama
would forget at his peril."
- http://www.newsweek.com/id/164656
Yeah, a country with a history of slavery and racism that just elected an
African-American man president.... the ultimate proof America is more in
tune politically with Alabama than Connecticut!
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"This is an exciting election result for the English; for the first time
in eight years we'll have a president who can speak it."
- Alex Kaseberg
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RATIFIED!
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/tt/2008/tt081106.gif
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Morning In America
http://tinyurl.com/5b7w57
. . [S]omething changed on Tuesday when Americans -- white, black,
Latino, Asian -- entrusted a black man with the power and responsibility
of the presidency. I always meant it when I said the Pledge of Allegiance
in school. I always meant it when I sang the national anthem at ball games
and shot off fireworks on the Fourth of July. But now there's more meaning
in my expressions of patriotism, because there's more meaning in the
stirring ideals that the pledge and the anthem and the fireworks
represent. ...
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YES, WE DID!!!
https://pol.moveon.org/shepstickers/?id=-1462341-xOOw8kx&rc=
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"Barack Obama won Tuesday giving the Democrats control of Congress and the
White House. World reaction poured in. Australia's prime minister offered
political asylum, safe passage and new identities to Sean Hannity, Rush
Limbaugh and Sarah Palin."
- Argus Hamilton
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Ratings Winner
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/tmssa/2008/tmssa081102.gif
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"Who are the real winners in this election? Don't ask me. Ask Joe the
Plumber's agent."
- Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report"
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Republican Party, Average Working Joe Bid One Another Adieu Until 2012
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/republican_party_average
As the 2008 presidential campaign came to a close Tuesday, the Republican
Party and the average American hard working Joe bid each other a fond
farewell at a small rally in Pennsylvania, vowing to meet once again, as
scheduled, at the dawn of the next election season.
"The Republican Party wishes to thank the Joe for his cooperation and
faithful support, and we look forward to acknowledging his needs again in
2012," said GOP representative Luke Hayes, moments before getting in a car
and heading back to Washington. "Until then, old friend, we'd just like to
say happy trails to you and best of luck."
Representatives for the average working Joe reported that the time spent
together had likewise been a pleasure, even though he did not actually get
around to voting this year.
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"Joe the plumber was pulled over for speeding in Toledo, Ohio, but didn't
receive a ticket. The cop was sympathetic with the plumber, especially
when Joe said he was hurrying up before his 15 minutes were over."
- Pedro Bartes
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Joe The.... Hypocrite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7x0YyLDono
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BREAKING NEWS from PNN.news.com
-- Joe the Plumber is snaking out a shower drain in Holland, Ohio; he had
no comment.
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