Thank you, David Shuster. People need to know about this, and it was refreshing to get the whole story:
Filling in for Keith Olbermann on Tuesday’s “Countdown,” Shuster defended the Secret Service’s purchase of new $1.1 million buses. He reported that the buses — which are armored and equipped with classified technology — would save taxpayers’ money and eventually pay for itself, in lieu of having to lease and retrofitting buses every four years.
Let’s see, George W. Perry announced his run for the presidency only last night, and poof! Just like that, insta-bus!
For someone who wasn’t sure if he would run or not, Bush-Perry sure managed to get his shiny new toy decorated and tour-ready in a hurry.
Maybe he prayed it into insta-existence.
By the by, for a nice, concise, eye-opening, hard look at just who James Richard Perry is, please read Mr. Perry Goes to Washington, Parts One and Deux. They’re quick easy reads that inform. (H/t: @ShellyWymer)
[This] video of Perry getting pulled over for speeding in 2000 … Seeing him tell that State Trooper lady to “let us get on down the road” is the finest gubernatorial equivalent to “I’m a grown-ass man and I do what I want” rants that a DPS dash-cam can provide. I think he was more annoyed by the fact that she didn’t recognize him than anything else.
Entire letter here
First Margaret Thatcher flat out rebuffs Former Half Gov RingBells McBusTour, and now a Congress member has questions about her “family vacation” and whether she enjoyed the Statute of Liberty and Paul Revere’s teenage “hang outs” on the government’s dime.
Yeah, right, she’ll run for president, that would end well. Via OregonLive:
Suggesting that Sarah Palin’s recent tour of historic sites was anything but a low-cost family get-away, Rep. Earl Blumenauer on Tuesday asked the National Park Service if it extended extra services to a private citizen.
He also demanded that Palin should reimburse the government any additional cost caused by her high-profile visits to Gettysburg, Independence Hall, Fort McHenry and other iconic sites on a swing along the Northeast last week.
A Park Service spokesman said that Palin “assured us it was a family trip.”
He went on to ask:
“What exactly was this bus tour supposed to be? If it was a political campaign event, then it is inappropriate for any federal resources to be used. If it was just a family vacation, then she shouldn’t be entitled to any special treatment beyond what the average American family would receive.”
Maybe Palin considered it to be an extension of that crazy ride of Paul Revere’s she claims to know so much about. Clearly, she and her entourage were simply firin’ warning shots and ringin’ bells to alert all Republicans along her route to hang onto their guns before President Obama started snatchin’ them away! She was performing a public service, nothing more. She’s an American hero.
One if by sham, two if by spree.
H/t: @Dusty_17
Raw Video: Sarah Palin In Philly: MyFoxPHILLY.com
How dare those reporters intrude on the privacy of a fake candidate?
Hey, the Palins just wanted a nice, quiet vacation! I mean, come on, what close-knit clan doesn’t go on their outings in a huge tour bus emblazoned with enormous U.S. Constitution and Liberty Bell graphics, enticing the press to hunt them down like a pack of dogs?
And it’s not as if Former Half-Gov Exploita McLovesPress is vying for attention these days, right? Clearly, she was simply including her daughter in an exciting, wholesome, fun-for-the-whole-family activity: Body guarding!
What part of Family Values don’t you guys get? Besides, who says the mother is the one who is supposed to shield the daughter, anyway? Palin’s just bein’ mavericky, there, also, too.
We all know it was that damn “lamestream media’s” fault! What’s a prop well-trained child to do? Or was Sarah just… oblivious?
H/t: @KatieAnnieOakly, @Dusty_17
See that screen grab up there, the one of the CNN website? I put up a shot of the entire piece to show you how they devoted ample space to a story with a catchy title. But that title was based on only one statement from one woman who made one overture to Sarah Palin.
And to CNN’s knowledge, she was never answered.
Yet CNN decided to call the post “Palin pressed on Medicare during bus tour stop“… because someone said nine words to Sarah Palin, and it was unclear if she even got a response.
The rest of the article goes on to describe everything about the day except what was emphasized in the title.
I clicked over to the CNN piece thinking there was a real story there. Instead what I got was one more report catering to the I Need More Attention Than Anyone In the Whole Wide World So Let’s See How Much Money We Can Spend On Bus Fuel, BumpIts, Helmets, and Make-Up Tour.
A middle-aged woman who said she worked in the health care industry approached Palin while she was signing autographs and posing for pictures with tourists at Mount Vernon, the second stop on Palin’s closely watched “One Nation” bus tour.
“I work in health care,” the woman announced. “Please protect our Medicare.”
Reporters covering Palin’s Mount Vernon visit were positioned too far away to hear the remark, but a CNN microphone picked up the audio.
It was not clear if Palin responded. She was swarmed by starstruck tourists and drawn in multiple directions, so it is possible she did not hear the comment.
In a previous post, I had said that Sam the Fake Plumber was campaigning for J Sid McCain. That was wrong.
He likes anti-tax rallies, not McCain. Why, he won’t tolerate so much as a penny going toward the evil taxes that pay for things Americans need and use:
PHOENIX – Joe the Plumber [...] led a rally against Proposition 100, the proposed 1-cent sales tax. [...]
“They like to blame somebody else for their shortcomings. They like to say well, we have to raise taxes because we misspent our money here… we can’t do it anymore,” says Joe the Plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher.
Here’s the correction:
Joe the Plumber says he no longer endorses McCain.
What will J Sid ever do without the strong following Sam the Faker has? Oh that’s right. He doesn’t have one.
Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber from the 2008 presidential campaign, used part of his speech to criticize the federal government and urge the estimated 150 attendees to get behind “good” candidates in the fall elections. Earlier, he told reporters that he was not being paid for his Arizona appearance and that he was attending the Ax the Tax rally to help educate people about issues.
“I’m here to try to generate excitement and get people involved,” Wurzelbacher said.
Same the Faker is there to educate, generate, and involve. How exactly can someone with very little brain, following, or charisma do that again? Anyone?
There is one thing he can do, however… and that is, hop a bus:
He also is participating in the Tea Party Express, a bus tour that kicks off today in Searchlight, Nev., home of Senate Majority Leader , D-Nev. En route to its destination in Washington, D.C., the express will stop Sunday in Phoenix at the state Capitol.
Why, that’s today! Why, that’s the very event that MSNBC salivated over for hours this morning! Why, Sam the Faker has found a niche! Er, another niche. He’s extremely niche-riche.
However there is one niche he’s no fan of at all. Not Joe the Not Plumber back in February:
“I think his [Obama's] ideology is un-American, but he’s one of the more honest politicians. At least he told us what he wanted to do.” And Wurzelbacher also had common-sense views on the crazies who dispute Obama’s nationality and compare him to Hitler. “The birthers, the truthers — if people are trying to bunch them [with tea partiers], that would kill us. That just pushes away Democrats and independents who might come out for our cause otherwise.”
Nah, what’s going to “kill” you are the extreme Tea Baggeritude, lack of focus on real issues, infighting, competition with the GOP, racism, irrationality, hostility, mob mentality, costumes, crazy hats, and the sheer group eccentricity.
Come to think of it, Orly Taitz and the birther gang pretty much fit right in.
H/t: VNDNBRG
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