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I sure love the fact the Karl Rove puts on his Clueless Arrogance Hat before he leaves the house each morning and ventures forth into the world. It makes him easier to pick out of the crowd. Every time he opens his yap, another indication he is clueless pops out. This last one is a doozy.
As part of the rightwing campaign to diminish and smear a Supreme Court candidate they can do nothing to stop, Karl is out there slapping uncomplimentary tags on Judge Sotomayor which merely shows the misogynism of his train of thought. More to the point, it demonstrates what a political hack Rove is and how he is blinded by his own hypocrisy. There is an old expression about when you are in a hole to stop digging but in Karl’s case I think he is trying to either find gold or dig his way to China where the rest of the mono-thought autocrats live. He strikes out on both accounts. He’s just digging a big hole.
The latest gem came from a debate he participated in with James Carville. (I find this to be ironic in and of itself simply because Rove wouldn’t let his boy Chimpy do these sorts of things before an unscreened crowd while he was president for fear of showing all of us how stupid the boy is but that’s another post at another time.) It’s getting out there in front of a crowd where your true colors show and whether you really have the chops you say you do and, in Karl’s case, it shows he does not. For a guy to be so allegedly well read, he puts his foot in his mouth more than anyone I know except Billo The Clown or Glenn Beck.
The moderator of the debate between James Carville and Rove, Charlie Rose, tried to hold Karl to account on a number of occasions but all he got for his troubles were evasions and sidesteps from Rove. The one quite unintentional but accurate statement came as Rose was trying to illicit comments about Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court. Karl conceded that she had traveled an interesting road to the Supreme Court where upon Rose interjected that she was smart as well. Karl said, “Not necessarily.”
Rose was taken aback and gave a summary of Sotomayor’s accomplishments including what she did at Yale Law School to which Karl came up with this classic statement:
“I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.”
Oh, sweet Jesus. Karl either is confirming everything we thought about the Chimpster or he is throwing him under the bus to discredit Sotomayor. Trying to compare George Bush’s acceptance to the Ivy League based on his daddy’s legacy and his accomplishment of passing with a “C” average with Sotomayor’s journey to Princeton thanks to a merit based scholarship where she graduated summa cum laude in 1976 (she was also awarded the Pyne Prize on top of that which is the highest academic award given to Princeton undergraduates) and to Yale Law School where she was an editor for the Yale Law Journal is nothing short of absurd. But Karl will try to do that simply because he is a true partisan hack.
If Sotomayor is not that smart, based on Karl’s standard of attending an Ivy League school, then George Bush is bordering on retarded. Of course, we could extend this out further and say something profound about a guy who never made it through one college to a diploma much less two. Who would that be?
Karl Rove. How smart does that make him? Not very.
link: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/27/rove-ivy-league-smart/
First, he comes out and bashes the Stimulus because it would make Texas treat it’s working class a little more humanely. Then, the brings up talk of seceding from the union because things aren’t going the way he wants them to and he cannot give marching orders to Washington the way he did when his former boss Chimpy McFlightpants was in office. Nevermind that talk of secession still has real strong ties to the discredited Confederacy and their desire to build a society on the enslavement of black people. They couch it in talk of States Rights nowdays but no one is fooled except those who choose to believe that the South seceded after Lincoln became President because they didn’t like the jib of his sail. They knew their days for owning slaves were numbered. I wonder sometimes how old Honest Abe would feel about his Republican Party being the home of some of the most audacious liars ever imagined, some of the most hateful racists, and people who preach secession when they cannot win in the battlefield of ideas?
That tune changed pretty damn quickly as soon as word of a new swine flu rearing its ugly head in Mexico. A bunch of people took ill and some even died. Now, there cases springing up in Texas and Mr Perry is all too comfortable asking the hated Feds for doses of medicine they have in store for situations just like this. If Texas were an independent nation, we’d have to be digging into our own pockets to pay for that medicine and too fucking bad if you are poor, have no health insurance, or are a Union sympathizer. Seems like that suggestion about seceding from the Union was a bit premature. Let’s get one more handout from the federal government before we introduce articles of secession into the Texas Legislature.
Rick Perry is trying to hold on to his job with this nonsense and half the republicans in Texas actually think leaving the United States is a good thing and they are in favor of it. Are you serious? Yep. I sure am. My hope in this regard is simple: Perry rallies the racists and good-old-boys to his side in the primary fight and the Democratic candidate comes along and kicks his sorry ass out of Austin on a high speed train.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is talking up a gubernatorial race against him which is fine by me. If she runs and loses the primary, she’ll be damaged goods for 2012 and we may be able to return some sanity to Texas politics with these two idiots hitting the bricks. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: first things first. Let’s nip this racist idiot talk about leaving the Union in the bud. It’s the most unAmerican thing I’ve heard of in decades. It ranks right up there with book censorship, race baiting cops, and torturing people in our custody. Dumping Perry for this kind of a comment should be seen as the same kind of payback as George Allen suffered in Virginia for his “macaca” comment a few years ago and the failure of governor Clement to shake Ann Richard’s hand after a joint appearance It made them look like shallow bigots, which, of course, they were and the image stuck. It would be nice to stick this one to Rick Perry.
The chorus of Cheerleaders For Failure grows louder and louder as the days go by. One after another, republican leaders are falling into line behind the unelected, polarizing new leader of the GOP, Rush Tub-A-Lard Limbaugh. In what is truly an amazing transformation, republicans are kowtowing to this mouthpiece, this quasi-entertainer, and abandoning rightfully elected leaders in the process. They, in turn, are joining the lemmings in following Rush off the cliff in his Cheerleading For Failure campaign. Imagine if the tables were turned and Democrats would have declared that they wanted Ronnie Ray-gun to fail after he became president… can you hear the howls of “traitor” or “unAmerican” or “communists” from the rightwingers? Thankfully, Democrats have more sense than to demonize these morally deficient republicans even more than they are doing to themselves. They are the funeral directors, pall bearers, and deceased all rolled into one.
Rahm Emanuel hit the nail on the head when he said that Rush is the leader of the party now and they all run to him with apologies when they “accidentally” speak out of turn or actually tell the truth about something Rush said. What’s even more stunning is the willingness for this rump of NeoCon radicals to blatantly put party and political partisanship ahead of the country and recovering from the disaster that their policies put us all in. The one bright note in all of this is that the American people finally get it; they see the politicization of policy that NeoCons and Bushbots have been perpetrating for years now. President Obama’s support is even higher now than it was when he took office. Take that.
Let’s see who has fallen into line in perfect lockstep with the Tub-A-Lard since we left you a couple of days ago. Rick Santorum has joined the chorus. Nothing like a rousted Senator who can’t carry his own water to become Rush’s waterboy just to get his name back into the spotlight. Conversely, the new chair of the RNC automatically has the spotlight but that hasn’t seemed to help him any. Michael Steele has joined up as well even though he keeps flip-flopping around alternating between telling the truth and then apologizing for doing so. If it wasn’t clear that Rush Tub-A-Lard is the new head of the GOP then why does Steele keep apologizing to him for bashing him in public? Good question.
Jonah Goldberg, the know nothing radical rightwing blogger has served up his Toadiness to the Tub-A-Lard. He hates the direction that America has chosen in the last election so he wants failure to come as quickly as possible. He must have some kind of audience but I never heard of him until Keith Olbermann lambasted him for something incredibly stupid he advocated in last year’s election and was named a Worst Person in the World for his trouble. All I really know about him is that he is an idiot, a typical republican. Speaking of idiots, we cannot forget Michelle Malkin, every hardliners favorite non-white radical. She fears that the crony capitalism, lax regulation, fiscal irresponsibility, and moral shortcomings will all disappear under President Obama and leave nothing for her radical classmates to cling to. Another Cheerleader For Failure is born.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) — the Chairman of the House republican Caucus — was outed yesterday on CNN. He tried to squirm out of admitting that he was another Cheerleader For Failure but the interviewer put it to him and made him confess. They won’t come out and admit that it would be bad for the country if Obama failed in trying to rescue us from this republican created disaster just like they won’t admit that advocating tax cuts are a backhanded way to smother entitlement programs and deny infrastructure money to states. When the leader of the republican caucus becomes a Cheerleader then it is pretty clear that the whole party is in Tub-A-Lard’s camp and only moderate republicans are seeing the forest as well as the trees.
What ails America is the NeoCon philosophy that allowed unregulated markets to flourish (where greedy motherfuckers can come up with financial schemes to rip people off with no consequences), starting but never finishing two wars, insuring bad investment deals that had no business being made in the first place, and then curtailing credit even after taxpayer money was made available to help with credit lines are just the thing to drive the country’s economic health all to hell and gone. Republicans do not care about the people who are suffering, losing their jobs, homes, and health care, because if they did they would have proposed some legislation to do something about it instead of trying to tell us that the “market” will right itself if we are patient. The only thing that I will be patient about is slowly watching the GOP fall under the sway of a guy who is nothing more than an entertainer, a comedian, while they all pretend it’s all OK. The transition by republicans from following a president who was a joke to following a pompous buffoon who is a joke is almost complete and quite satisfying.
Links: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/03/pence-hopes-failure/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/28/malkin-obama-fail/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/03/jonah-goldberg-obama-fail/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/28/santorum-cpac-obama/
Black & White and Cardinal Red All Over 