Louisiana Sen. David Vitter(R), upset withHarry Reidsaying Hurricane Katrina was “nothing in comparison” to Hurricane Sandy and the devastation caused to the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area, lashed out on the social network calling the Senate majority leader an “idiot.”
Yes, that’s exactly how to respond when you disagree with someone. Reason and logic? Pfft! Common decency? Fugetaboutit. What a fine, genteel individual David Vitter is. A real role model. Stay classy, Vit.
Connecticut GOP Senate hopeful Linda McMahon is infuriating the Twitterverse, among others. She will not take the above ad down, and now is thinking of airing it on TV. As you can see, she is exploiting the memory of John F. Kennedy to make their fallacious “Bush tax cuts rule!” points.
Edward Kennedy Jr., the late president’s nephew, sent a letter to McMahon this week asking the GOP candidate to pull the ad, arguing that it “falsely implies” that JFK would have supported tax cuts for the same reason she does. “Using President Kennedy’s image in your ad gives your tax position false legitimacy,” writes Kennedy, who lives in Connecticut and is supporting McMahon’s Democratic opponent, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
Kennedy argues that the economic climate in ’63 was “vastly different” from where the country stands today — and that, in turn, means that JFK’s push for tax cuts was “very different” from the GOP’s. He accuses McMahon of trying to “capitalize” on his uncle’s legacy.
But in a letter Thursday, McMahon refuses to stand down on the ad. In the letter, which the McMahon campaign distributed among political reporters, the GOP nominee argues that JFK would have, like her, supported an extension of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. “No school of economic thought advocates raising taxes in the environment in which we currently find ourselves,” McMahon writes. “Therefore, I respectfully disagree that your uncle would support raising taxes in this economy.”
How remarkable that Republican Linda McMahon is more knowledgeable about what JFK would have supported than his own nephew is. Who knew she was so in touch with the deceased?
Washington (CNN) – Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, was one of several members of Congress who reported receiving obscene and threatening letters after voting for the health care reform bill passed by Democrats on Sunday.
But her spokeswoman told CNN that inside one letter received Thursday was a condom, removed from its original packaging.
McCollum’s spokeswoman Maria Reppas said Thursday that the congresswoman’s district office in St. Paul received the condom in an envelope dated March 23, along with an anonymous typed letter reading: “Betty McCollum you’ve been dry f***** by the liberal party.”
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Her office also reported receiving part of a shredded American flag doused in gasoline and a typed letter addressed to McCollum, Rep. Keith Ellison, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Al Franken – all Democrats from Minnesota.
“Each of you receives part of a shredded American flag,” the letter read. “It represents Obama and your liberal filth. Open the bag, it’s covered in the stench you’ve brought to our government … Because of you, we are now a country of dirt, shame, corruption and slime.”
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