Aug
13
Political Party: 8/13-8/19
1) Sounds like this kid’s a real dreamer:
2) Colbert Super PAC is encouraging Iowans to write in “Rick Parry,” that’s Parry with an “A” for American, with an “A” for IowA:
3) Uncle Jesse is still gettin’ some… Bob Saget?
4) The Etrade baby reacts to the turbulent week on Wall Street:
5) The Onion reports on the GOP’s electoral strategy for 2012:
“New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making His Life Even More Miserable”
WASHINGTON—Calling a GOP victory in the 2012 presidential election antithetical to the party platform, top Republicans revealed a new long-term political strategy Tuesday: reelecting Barack Obama and making his life even more of a living hell than it already is.
“For three years, the Republican Party has coalesced around the single goal of making President Obama’s every waking moment sheer and utter torture,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters. “But we can’t continue to do that if he’s not in office.”
“If we are going to make the president a haggard shell of a human being by the time he leaves the White House, we need four more years of never compromising, four more years of miring every piece of legislation in unnecessary procedural muck, four more years of pretending we want to work with the president and then walking away from the table at the last second,” McConnell added. “Four more years! Four more years! Obama 2012!”
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