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Antibiotics are doing major number on my appetite, but hope yours is good. Here are a few condiments:
* A Mississippi legislator has introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” It appears he got the idea from Stephen Colbert.
* Mark Schmitt pens very informative review of a new book on moderate Republicans.
* Ben Adler reports that first morning of CPAC was a Rubio-Fest.
* FBI releases background investigation report on the late Steve Jobs, which it prepared in 1991 when he was up for appointment to the President’s Export Council.
* NY Times publishes yet another profile of Santorum Super PAC benefactor Foster Friess.
* George Will gives Mitt Romney a good thrashing over his defense rhetoric.
* Michael Sean Winters uses phrase “punch in the nose” about twenty times in angry piece about administration’s alleged insults to Catholics. Guess “slap in the face” wasn’t visceral enough.
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g on February 09, 2012 12:58 PM:
Michael Sean Winters uses phrase “punch in the nose” about twenty times in angry piece about administration’s alleged insults to Catholics. Guess “slap in the face” wasn’t visceral enough.
Well, since that devout Catholic Newt Gingrich recently said he wanted to "knock out" the President, in addition to "bloody his nose", I guess turnabout is fair play.
OKDem on February 09, 2012 1:18 PM:
About that there Gulf of Mex-ee-co bill. Now Amerka is one of the ferren I-talian words too. I waz told by a skool marm that the guys name what called the good ol USofA after means Henry.
Sos I says we'uns change the name to Gulf o Harry real quick like.
SadOldVet on February 09, 2012 1:31 PM:
A Mississippi legislator has introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
Don't knock it Ed! This is as close to a Jobs Bill that we will get from the repuknican congress! Think of all the jobs it will create using their crayons to change all those signs. Probably do wonders for improving the 10% approval of congress!
exlibra on February 09, 2012 1:38 PM:
* A Mississippi legislator has introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” -- Ed Kilgore.
In view of the American exceptionalism/chauvinism, such a proposal was inevitable and I have been waiting for it for years. I grew up with "Canal la Manche", only to be confounded, years and years later, with something called "The English Channel", which I could not find on any (Polish) map...
Craptcha says "pedired Gesenius". Red feet used to denote "accessible" women. This legislator is a genius at that? Then I'm not at all surprised at his proposal
Werewolf on February 09, 2012 1:40 PM:
Mr. Holland's Opus (renaming the Gulf of Mexico) is apparently snark. Unfortunately, the Gentleman from Mississippi seems to have run afoul of Poe's Law.
Arlington BigFish on February 09, 2012 1:46 PM:
Oh, Ed. Are you aware that the Political Animal logo that shows up whenever I link one of your pithy posts to another site (like Facebook)still has Steve Benen's name on it? For Pete's sake, let's give credit where credit is due. I'm still chuckling over 'decreasing honkitude.'
Sgt. Gym Bunny on February 09, 2012 1:46 PM:
Has anyone actually read the Schedule of Events for the CPAC? Wowser. The titles of the panels are a highly entertaining demonstration of the silliness coming from the right. Like these gems:
Obama's Agents Are Reading Your Emails: Privacy Concerns of the Digital Age
Political Correctness & The Wussification of America - Brad Stine, Conservative Comedian (I understand that this is supposed to be a littleconservative humor... You judge)
In the Name of "Tolerance": Countering Sexual Identity Politics in Schools & Wait No More more of that sissified librul wussification...
Path to Punditry Workshop: How to turn your opinions into a career
Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots– Conservative Book Nook
Taking Back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
If these folks aren't going to be a rabid bunch raising heck when this is over, I'll be shocked.
Texas Aggie on February 09, 2012 1:48 PM:
This Winters person is a real work of insanity, isn't he? He is what happens when you cross a Taliban with a fundie.
idlemind on February 09, 2012 1:53 PM:
For some reason the links (I assume) to these items aren't showing. More technical glitches?
mudwall jackson on February 09, 2012 1:53 PM:
"Mark Schmitt pens very informative review of a new book on moderate Republicans."
must be an extremely short book.
"A Mississippi legislator has introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America.' ”
oh my and what are we to do with new mexico? not to mention mexico, new york and mexico, maine, mexico, south carolina, mexico, pennsylvania, mexico, ohio and a few other spots?
and there is this, by alabama:
Vamos we go...
I vote we go to the Gulf of Mexico
You and me by the sea
Palm trees call me, oh that's the place I want to be
Down where the southern breezes blow
On the Gulf of Mexico
Down where the southern breezes blow
On the Gulf of Mexico
On the Gulf of Mexico
That's the place I want to be
Down where the southern breezes blow
On the Gulf of Mexico
... Traitors I say! Traitors every one!
idlemind on February 09, 2012 1:54 PM:
And now they are. Never mind.
j on February 09, 2012 2:03 PM:
Just when I was thinking Santorum was not as crazy as the other repubs, he now says Obama is starting a religious war
and will behead christians !!!!!!
Gulag where are you, I miss you!
chopin on February 09, 2012 2:23 PM:
mudwall jackson says "must be an extremely short book". Over 500 pages according to Amazon. I just added my name to the queue at my library to obtain and read this book. I have been torn over why I retain my life-long membership in the party of stupid. It sure isn't due to party loyalty as I have tended to split my votes in the past. But I can't even remember when I last voted GOP any more. Time to enlist in the unaffiliated brigade. That way I can get barages of unsolicited phone calls from everyone. Fuck.
g on February 09, 2012 2:24 PM:
Path to Punditry Workshop: How to turn your opinions into a career
Bet the house'll be packed for that one.
T2 on February 09, 2012 2:26 PM:
judging from a few Cable TV News shows, Chris Wallace on MSNBC being one, it would appear that the Media really, really wants Contraceptiongate to be a big Fail for Obama. Too bad its not. When they start a question with "This looks like a big problem for Obama's re-election" and get "this should help him in the election" for a reply....kinda makes you think the Media is trying real hard to create a chink that the GOP can exploit. Unfortunately, the President has a large majority of Americans/women on his side here.
scott_m on February 09, 2012 2:32 PM:
Comments on the TPM article say that the Mississippi State Rep. who authored the bill is a Democrat who is using it to mock anti-immigrant legislation.
hornblower on February 09, 2012 2:37 PM:
With the Super Bowl over and a break in the primaries the media are looking for a new story and have latched onto the contraceptives. Most Catholics could care less what the bishops say. The news media still treats the Catholic Church like it's the fifties and Cardinal Spellman is running the show. When the newly appointed cardinal lectures about sex from the pulpit, as he did some weeks ago, without a sense of irony you know how out of touch they are.
sparrow on February 09, 2012 2:41 PM:
I wasn't aware that we had naming rights on the Gulf. Rather than stepping into something that may stir some controversy with neighboring countries and mapmakers all over the world, I would suggest that he stay within the geographic confines of the US in his efforts to change names. I would fully support, however, any effort on his part to rename Mississippi as part of Dumfu*ckistan, a wide spread region of the South.
DAY on February 09, 2012 2:46 PM:
I can see a full time job, returning America to America:
Here in PA alone we have Lebanon, Vera Cruz, Lancaster, York, Bethlehem, and the aforementioned Mexico.
CJ on February 09, 2012 2:59 PM:
Antibiotics are doing major number on my appetite, but hope yours is good.
Ed,
If, by chance, you've taken antibiotics on an empty stomach, then that's the cause of your stomach issues. Take with food.
schtick on February 09, 2012 4:42 PM:
If our oil companies are going to destroy the Gulf, we might as well own it.
SadOldVet; when did the approval rating of congress go up to 10%?