Category: Politics

John McCain is a lucky so-and-so.

I mean, John McCain picked the absolutely best election cycle to have one of his fundraisers busted for cooking meth:

A huge drug bust in Phoenix, Arizona, put one of Sen. John McCain’s former consultants behind bars.

Emily Pitha and her boyfriend were arrested after authorities discovered methamphetamines, LSD, heroin, cocaine and a large amount of cash inside their home.

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Quote of the Day, Well, When You Put It THAT Way edition.

Seriously, was this a case where nobody actually said a version of the next sentence aloud until quite recently? “Actor Will Ferrell has backed out of a movie that would have made light of President Ronald Reagan‘s battle with Alzheimer’s after the premise received condemnation.”  …Seriously, what did Ferrell think was going to happen? The American people largely have decided that Reagan was awesome and Alzheimer’s sucks; whose bright idea was it to use the latter to make jokes about the former?

Note that I’m not even angry – Will Ferrell has no chance at permanently changing people’s minds about, well, anyone or anything –  just disapproving and bemused. It seemed a… poor career choice for the man. I mean, Anchorman can buy only a finite amount of goodwill…

The OTHER Tweet of the Day, Stupid Venezuelan Socialists edition.

I don’t often say this, but: damn, but I wish I had written that.

I mean, that’s just a beautiful line. It’s almost perfect. I’d sit for a few minutes and just beam at the screen if I ever wrote anything like that.

Tweet of the Day, Carly Fiorina Has An Excellent Backhand edition.

And, really: what the heck is Donald Trump gonna be able to say in response?

Apparently, Andrea Tantaros has been fired.

I’ll be honest: all I know about her is that she’s a Trump supporter on Fox who starts fights with people on Twitter. Oh, and that the other day Neal Dewing did a dramatic reading of excerpts from her latest book that had half my timeline in stitches. And that apparently she’s blaming National Review Online for her fall from Fox:

I don’t think that I could ever get anybody fired. I mean, I’m not even sure that I’d know where to begin. Besides, what would I do if the person I was delivering the ‘fire this person’ ultimatum says ‘no’?

Senator Mike Lee is a bad person to make your enemy.

I’ve met him and interviewed him a couple of times, so I can say this from experience: Senator Mike Lee is a good guy. He’s also likely to be in the Senate for as long as he cares to be, and he plans to do things while he’s there. Listening to Senator Lee get good and steamed in this Mark Levin interview should make a careful man thoughtful. Because this issue ain’t going away any time soon, election or no election.

This legal brief defending the right to use the Klingon language…

…is everything that you dreamed it would be. EVERYTHING. I’m perhaps prejudiced by my upbringing and inclinations, but: I don’t think Paramount has a great case, here. I don’t know that they don’t have a case at all, because I’m not a lawyer – but I don’t know what they expect to get out of it, either.

Via Popehat.

Moe Lane

PS: No, I’m not going to make any puns in Klingon. I don’t speak it.

Tweet of the Day, @tedcruz Represents On Dirty, Filthy Communism edition.

Damn straight they did.

DAMN straight they did.