Why wait for John McCain’s defeat? It’s never too early to start sucking up to those finicky Iowa caucus-goers. So reasons Louisiana Governor Bobby “The Exorcist” Jindal. Jindal is headed up to Iowa about three weeks after the general election… Continue Reading
Would-be theocrat Sarah Palin has now managed to seriously piss me off, despite a lot of forbearance and tolerance on my part. Since being elected Governor, she’s spent $13,000 of Alaska’s taxpayer dollars traveling to religious events. What, there are… Continue Reading
If you’re rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket, you don’t need me to tell you that you want a game-changer to enter the game. You need some good news, and you need it not much later than two weeks before the… Continue Reading
Something I read in this post made me wonder – could that really be true? Prof. Kalt writes: Republicans tend to put non-lawyers on their tickets: going back to 1984, seven of their nine candidates were not lawyers; only Dole… Continue Reading
…And I don’t expect her to be a lawyer. But the legal intertubes are still buzzing about Palin trying to B.S. her way through a Katie Couric question about Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade with which she… Continue Reading
I didn’t watch the Joe and Sarah show tonight. Instead, I went out to dinner with lawyers in my firm and my wife tonight instead. I heard about three minutes on NPR and Palin didn’t sound like a fool —… Continue Reading
Some might ask why be concerned about Sarah Palin anymore. Tina Fey has lampooned her to within an inch of her political credibility on SNL (and props to Amy Poehler for being such a good foil for that): And the… Continue Reading
Palinism (PAY-lin-is-um) — n. A response to a question that exposes the speaker’s lack of knowledge through the confabulated, improper, and preprogrammed use of seemingly-related catchphrases. Example: KATIE COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping… Continue Reading
This phrase may soon change its meaning. “Lipstick on a pig” was a colloquialism to mean “spin” or unsuccessfully trying to put a good face on a very bad situation. It is turning into verbal shorthand for “insincere but politically… Continue Reading
Carly Fiornia, formerly the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, seems to think that Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin on SNL was “sexist” because it was superficial and “dismissive of the substance” that Gov. Palin actually brings to the table. Well, that’s… Continue Reading