When his wife unveiled the USDA’s new nutritional plate yesterday, there definitely wasn’t a space for chili dogs.
But that didn’t stop Barack Obama wolfing down two in Toledo today – with fries and an extra bowl of chili on the side.
Oh, who am I kidding? The President’s entire life goal has been to gain enough socioeconomic status so that he would never have to voluntarily patronize a Tastee Freez. What, this? HAH! That’s Obama hard at work there, neighbor; and the next seventeen months are going to be the first time this guy’s ever had to do anything like work since… before he went to college, actually.
Let’s use that video I did in 2009, simply because it amuses me to do so. Not least because there’s an awful lot of Democrats in it who inexplicably aren’t in Congress anymore…
Yeah, like I had a choice except to redo this, on barely two weeks’ worth rotation. Aside from everything else, I count maybe nine people in that video who are at least at risk of not being in Congress next year.
Wow. I did this one a year ago? I still get people complaining about it, too. Some people just don’t like being reminded that they’re the Establishment these days.
A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.
The official spoke to The Associated Press only on the condition that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak ahead of the official announcement.
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Patrick Kennedy has been in and out of treatment for substance abuse since crashing his car outside the U.S Capitol in 2006.
Interesting that the Kennedy name is no longer sufficient to protect its holders from premature leaks like this. Also interesting that this is happening; then again, his numbers were abysmal. They were so abysmal that GOP challenger John Loughlin might even be disappointed about this, although… no, I doubt it.
More here: apparently, Kennedy felt the need to take his life in a ‘different direction.’ I would be cruel about my suggestions of where that different direction might end up going – but I just noticed something about this video I did a while back:
The Democrats are starting to run out of sitting Congressmen featured in it who’ll still be sitting Congressmen, starting next January.
I would whale upon this Matt Bai column, except that at the end it’d just boil down to two thoughts:
Only a graduate of Tufts and Columbia Universities could even seriously entertain the notion that a graduate of Columbia and Harvard Universities would ever be accurately described as being a ‘populist’;
And only a progressive journalist would think that being compared to Woodrow Wilson was complimentary.
The heck of it is, how can you tell an agent provocateur assigned to the task of driving a political party into the wall from a sincere party man doing it all on his own? Better aim?
Upon taking office President Obama had to further enrage the Republican base, so he quickly and publicly rescinded some of the effective policies of George W. Bush by executive order. And then the fun began.
He campaigned as a Democrat who would work with Republicans, but named ultra-partisan Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff. In a move that could have been considered parody, he named Timothy Geithner to be his Secretary of the Treasury. A man who would be in charge of collecting all of our taxes while not paying his own. The media later questioned why Geithner wasn’t properly vetted.
He was.
Barack Obama later named former Senator Tom Daschle to be his head of Health and Human Services. It was later revealed Daschle had tax problems of his own. The media later questioned why Daschle wasn’t properly vetted.
He was.
Barack Obama named environmental activist Van Jones to be one of his many czars. When video and audio surfaced of Jones making questionable statements (including calling Republicans “assh[*]es”), the media later questioned why Jones wasn’t properly vetted.
President Obama acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that his administration would miss a self-imposed deadline to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by mid-January, admitting the difficulties of following through on one of his first pledges as president.
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On Guantánamo, Mr. Obama said that he now hoped to shut down the detention facility sometime next year, but he did not set a new deadline.
Translation: Gitmo isn’t closing in 2010, either – which means that it probably isn’t closing, period. Which is something that I’ve known was going to be happening for months. But then, I’m not the Fortunate Son.
Moe Lane
PS: Next time? Run for and serve as Governor of something, Mr. President. It helps cut down on rookie mistakes like this.
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