Works in Hollywood

Here's the email an assistant in Hollywood sent out:

From: Philip - [mailto:philip@xxxxxxxxstudios.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:09 PM
To: Melissa Myers Assistant
Subject: RE: SWP Mtg. Kristi Korzec w/ Kristin Newman and Matthew Carlson

Hey Ryan-

I'm sorry, b/c I'm covering for Lindsey's usual asst., could you tell me, who's Rosh Hashanah and why would he/she affect Kristi's meeting with KN and MC?

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Michelle

And now you who votes in the red states...

Totally

My bad.


How I didn't see this woman has President material is beyond me.

Eff Lou

I love the Cubs. I think Lou Piniella has done a great job. But this whole thing about putting in scrub players down the stretch and resting guys is nonsense.

To allow the Mets to come back because you decided to pitch your scrubs in 3 games is ridiculous. Only because Lou was forced to play Wood on Wednesday did the Cubs win. Last night he played the worst of the worst, allowed the Mets to come back, and gave them hope to make the playoffs. It's unfair to baseball.

The Cubs should be trying to win down the stretch. Not allowing weak teams a chance to make the playoffs.

Makes me sick to see it.

Holed Himself

At the risk of looking like an idiot John McCain, at least I think, cannot attend the debate tomorrow.

Now that he has taken this stance, and been viewed by the majority as politically posturing, he has to ride it out. Therefore, I'm guessing, there will be no debate; McCain is now forced to keep pushing this "our duty is to be in Washington" thing for a while. Until at least there's another debate.

McCain has maintained that until there's a consensus on the economic plan the candidates should be doing their jobs. It's nonsense. The guy just has no exit strategy for this except to ride it out, so he'll do that.

As I've stated earlier, there's no need for him to be in Washington for this at all. He's not on the Senate Finance Committee, and the fewer people in the Senate dealing with this, the better. I am not suggesting we don't want checks on this plan, but I think we'd all be better served to have a committee representing the parties, rather than the entire chamber bogging it down. Senators should have faith in their own members to make the right call on behalf of the rest of them, hence why they sit on said committee in the first place. Plus, Senator Joseph Biden is on the committee, and could represent Obama, etc, and Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona sits as well, so he is seemingly the more necessary member from McCain's state.

Yesterday around 8:30 AM Obama called McCain suggesting the two release a joint statement on the economic crisis. McCain did not take the call.

At 2:30 PM McCain called Obama back and they discussed the situation. McCain suggesting they postpone the campaign and Obama said they should release a joint statement.

2:45 PM McCain's team announces to the press they have a major statement to make: suspend the campaign.

Obama offered a hand in an effort to be bipartisan, and McCain did everything but take it.

The guy has no class.

The Great Schlep

Love it.

Such a Clown...

John McCain has declared that this crisis is so important, so very important, that he is going to suspend his campaign, head to Washington, and commit his energy to solving the problem. In addition, he wants to push the debates off, further, maybe with the hope of even limiting them. Who knows?

Well, I know. Or at least I have an idea.

First off, he would love to avoid debates at all costs. The shit flying out of his mouth these days is not helping him in any way, so debates could be a problem.

Second, he wants to seem like the "uniter", just like the last guy. AMERICA FIRST! John McCain is here now, and he's going to fix it. Aren't you that much more secure, knowing that John McCain, a man who married into business and spent his entire career in the public life is coming to the aid of Wall Street and Americans? You should. Why just this week he blurted out that Christopher Cox of the SEC should be fired (the Wall Street Journal thinks he's an idiot).

Put all of this aside for John McCain is going back to Washington to fix the problem!

THANK GOD!

Not only does John McCain want Cox fired, but in an act of bipartisanship, John McCain wants New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo to take over! The same Andrew Cuomo who has never spent a day in his life working in finance, or having dealt professionally with financial matters.

What Cuomo has done, which Republicans hate, is sue people! That's what he's really good at: brining lawsuits to the table, and that includes companies that have dealt with Fannie and Freddie in the past. The odd thing about all of this is the bailout package is being resisted by people who don't want judges to be able to change the mortgages for individuals and people who want lawsuits limited. Yet McCain wants Andrew Cuomo in charge!

A true act of bipartisanship.

Oooops! But there's one problem. The SEC Commissioner cannot be fired. The President doesn't have the authority to do that. But what does Old Man John McCain know? He shoots from the hip. That's right. He's being all mavericky when he blurts shit out that doesn't make any sense. But it does sound mavericky. That Maverick.

Here we are again, in an act of bipartisanship. An act of giving himself back to the nation. McCain calls for putting the issues aside so we can solve this together!

No thanks, guy. No thanks.

It's more important to me that you campaign, and we figure out which man is going to lead our country through these problems and toward a more promised land. Your hand in government, right now, is really not needed. One more voice in the fog is not necessary.

I listened to the Senate hearings yesterday, and I watched as people like Senator Libby Dole talked about all the things she tried to do to avoid this. And I watched as Senator after Senator said "help Main Street, not Wall Street", 50 times. We don't need another Senator coming to roost. We need a solid solution, fast. We need the Democratic and Republican leadership to let the finance committee hold hearings, and have faith they'll do the right thing. Having one more Senator jump in to grandstand is not necessary. Especially when that Senator is trying to avoid having to debate the nation's issues, and when that Senator has consistently said the wrong thing ever since this crisis began.

I'm sorry, but the last thing Washington needs today is another senator weighing in, especially when we've already heard what he has to say.

Get on the trail, old man, debate, old man, and let the nation decide if you're the right guy for the job.

Because we all know the answer to that, Mr. Default McCain.

Baby Steps

Palin, really saying something here:

KATIE COURIC: If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression?

PALIN: Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on. Not necessarily this as it's been proposed has to pass or we're gonna find ourselves in another Great Depression. But there has got to be action taken, bipartisan effort -- Congress not pointing fingers at this point at-- at one another but-- finding the solution to this -- taking action, and being serious about the reforms on Wall Street that are needed.

My confidence in her has soared.

Digress...

Thinking back to when Bush ran, there were just hordes of people lying for her, pumping him up, telling us how the "regular guy" was a good thing. Now it's so much easier. For now we have this lying crickety candidate with his inexperienced and untested running mate, both with few defenders. It has almost become too easy.

There is still time to take the lies to another level. I have faith they can do it.

More Wondering

Here's a great read about where the Republicans have put the country. I was especially surprised by Rep. Tom Davis's comments:

"It's a tough sell to most of our members," Davis said. "It's a terrible plan, but I haven't heard anything better."

Republicans and Democrats both say Bush has lost credibility on Capitol Hill, particularly in cases where he argues there will be dire consequences if Congress doesn't act.

"They sold the war, they sold the stimulus package and some other things. It's the 'wolf at the door' " argument, Davis said.

I mean this President has officially lost EVERYONE (except those 30%, aka, the believers, who always nod their heads in agreement/approval).

Basically, you have an enormous problem here, and whether or not you believe Bush has done a good, or a bad job with regards to everything else, most people think the latter. Because he has so royally bungled every other aspect of this government people no longer have faith in the government, and therefore no longer have faith in his administration to do the right thing.

Had all of these financial problems come about during a Kerry administration this plan, if similarly enacted, would have been received more positively by the populace and the press. We would not have an aversion to thinking it won't work, like we do because it's Bush's plan.

This is just one more reason why this guy has been a total nightmare: lack of faith in his abilities and his choices.

I could go on all day...and probably will.

Just a Thought

Do you thin John McCain is going to talk about privatizing Social Security this week?


I think not.

But you never know. He is, after all, such a Maverick.

There Goes that Old Guy Again

There's a new ad by McCain claiming Obama has ties to big executives, like the one who was in charge of Fannie Mae. You can watch it right here. But before you do, before you waste a minute of your life getting all worked up about some guy supposedly advising the Obama campaign (he actually didn't), John McCain really wants you to read THIS STORY FIRST:

One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.

The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.

Mr. Davis’s firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae, the other big mortgage lender whose deteriorating finances helped precipitate the cascading problems on Wall Street, the people said.

They said they did not recall Mr. Davis’s doing much substantive work for the company in return for the money, other than speak to a political action committee of high-ranking employees in October 2006 on the approaching midterm Congressional elections. They said Mr. Davis’s firm, Davis & Manafort, had been kept on the payroll because of Mr. Davis’s close ties to Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who by 2006 was widely expected to run again for the White House.

One has to wonder if John McCain just doesn't know what he's talking about, or just really likes lying. I'm going to go with both.

Stay tuned for more on the next episode of Old Man McCain!

George Will

The most well known, and possibly respected, of all conservative columnists, George F. Will.

Because She's So Good!

I'm wrong again.

Sarah Palin is such a strong candidate we are not even allowed to film her!

Plans by John McCain's presidential campaign to showcase running mate Sarah Palin's meetings with world leaders at the United Nations today got off to a rocky start.

Reporters' access to Palin, who has yet to hold a news conference, has been limited by the campaign. But the protective blanket around the Alaska governor drew even tighter during a visit to New York to meet with foreign leaders and policy experts.

The campaign told print and wire service reporters that they would not have a representative in the pool of reporters accompanying Palin to her meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, a foreign policy advisor to McCain.

The pool of reporters, which was to include a television crew, was supposed to be in the room for a few moments -- just to capture the opening of Palin's meetings. But when the campaign announced that even the pool television producer -- who is charged with capturing editorial content for the five networks -- would not be permitted in the room, the networks threatened to pull their cameras from Palin's events today.

Eventually, the campaign relented and allowed a CNN producer into the room for the meetings. But there were no wire service reporters or print reporters present for the first meeting, with Karzai.

Confidence is high. I repeat, confidence is high.

Republicans should be embarrassed, but surely they are not.

She's pretty much no different than everything else they've tried to the last few years. First they wanted to push Iraq/Afghanistan war bill through Congress at lightning speed so you couldn't really get a grasp on what was going on. Then Palin busts out at the convention, and in order to keep the country guessing about her, they don't let you see, or hear from her. They are trying to build her as you read this. She is their only hope. Dying for another HUGE performance. It's as if they're getting ready to promote a blockbuster film. Embarrassing.

Now we have the financial crisis, and again, they're trying to just push it across the Congress as quickly as possible. People aren't having it. No, the Wall Street insider who was working on Wall St. while much of these practices were taking place should be given carte blanche to fix it the way he sees fit.

Major issues, huge problems, things that could decide the futre of the country, and are, these people try to dress up and push across without Americans truly knowing what it is they're getting. Iraq. Palin. Federal bailout.

Shameful.

Polls

Last week's ultra liberal NYTIMES/CBS Poll (CANNOT BE TRUSTED!) shows Obama to be in a pretty good place, historically speaking. I believe he's going to win, regardless of these polls because I have to think the country is not this dumb.

While in Omaha I heard a group of people talking, and all but one were voting for Obama. Two of the people agreed that even though they usually vote Republican, McCain is just too old and not ready for the job.

You don't even know how hard it was for me not to say something to the table next to me. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.



I just received an email from GOPUSA asking to help "Sarah Palin" get to the White House. Is it not a huge admittance of how weak McCain is that they have to push the not-qualified Palin ahead of their Presidential candidate? Does that not say everything?

That Guy

McCain, you remember, is and always was for more regulation. At least this week he's the more regulation guy.

The guy has been in the Senate since forever, and I think it's been so long he has forgotten he actually has a track record. That's the problem with REALLY old age.

For, against, for, against, for, against.

Better go get those John Kerry flip flops out!

Great Stuff

I'm Voting Republican.

Love It

The President's plan is so bad, so short-sighted, and so ridiculous, that he loses not just the left, but the right too.


I know, I know, a sign that he's doing the right thing by upsetting both sides. Riiiiiight.


Or, a sign that he's still a moron, with a track record to back that up.

Oh DMX...

It's hilarious to hear a guy who speaks the way he does, saying the things he says about others.


Comedy:

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really paying much attention.

I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”

Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’ bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.

The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.

But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak!
Can’t be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.

Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.
Good for him, good for him.