Forget Comedy Central, for some good-hearted fun, we want to watch C-Span. Doubt us? Well in a fun bit of entertaining drama on the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Al Franken (D, Mn), cut off Sen. Joe Lieberman (I, CT) during a speech, angering Lieberman's good friend Sen. John McCain (Who cares).
Here's what happened; Lieberman was giving a ten-minute speech on health care reform. Franken, who was presiding over the Senate, cut him off when his ten minutes were up. When Lieberman requested unanimous consent for an extra few minutes to finish his speech, Franken, in his capacity as a senator from Minnesota, objected. And, in his capacity as presiding officer, Franken honored the objection.
From the THIS WEEK broadcast of early Sunday, here's McCain, speaking about the video that has Gov. Palin essentially backing Obama's position and against McCain's. Senator McCain tries to backpeddle and say, "She (Palin) did just fine!" but at the end qualifies it and says that Governor Palin's informal views are not the same as (the McCain campaign's) formal position -- even though they're actual opposites.
The topic has to do with whether the United States should pursue Osama into Pakistan's tribal areas, something where McCain has said that we wouldn't necessarily do -- although those words come in different forms at different times... This time, in the piece that was recorded this morning, the senator couches his words, saying that the US wouldn't TELL anyone we were going to invade if we actually... well, you know invaded.
Here. See what you can make out of this.
Yeah, you can make of it what you can.
Trying to deny that what Gov. Palin says isn't part of your campaign is one thing.
Trying to deny what Senator McCain says about the McCain campaign is something completely different
Here is McCain debating McCain, on whether McCain is running for Pres. Bush's third term:
Now... which one of those two guys actually represents the McCain campaign?
By now you must have heard that John McCain has suspended his campaign to focus on the economy meltdown. He was supposed to have appeared last night on Letterman, but canceled at the last minute. Here is a nine-minute clip from Letterman where he whacks McCain around for a bit for his “bail-outâ€:
Now, it could just be me, but isn’t “fixing the economy†something that the President should be doing? Meanwhile, over at The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had this to say about Governor Pailin’s NY visit.
I have to say that I really enjoyed the part with Samantha Bee was talking about Palin at the UN. I loved her use of film clips in the story, it was Hilarious.
Oh yeah, and to return to Letterman for a moment, his top 10 last night was (oddly enough) about McCain:
The Top Ten Questions People are Asking The John McCain Campaign (Sep 24 2008)
#10 "I just contributed to your campaign – how do I get a refund?"
#9 "It’s Sarah Palin – does this mean I’m pars’dent?"
#8 "Can’t you solve this by selling some of your houses?"
#7 "This is Clay Aiken. Is McCain single?"
#6 "Do you still think the fundamentals of our economy are strong, Genius?"
#5 "Are you doing all of this just to get out of going on Letterman?"
#4 "What would Matlock do?"
#3 "Hillary here – my schedule is free Friday night."
#2 "Is this just an excuse to catch up on napping?"
#1 "This is President Bush — what’s all this trouble with the economy?"
And then, of course, there is this:
I got yer energy policy, right here!
I’m telling you that November 4th can’t come soon enough!
During an interview in Miami earlier this week with Spanish-language station Union Radio, a reporter asked McCain whether, if elected, he would receive [Spanish prime minister] Zapatero in the White House. McCain answered, "Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations, and priorities, but I can assure you that I will establish closer relationships with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to harm the United States."
Aw, just put another coat of lipstick on. Nobody will notice.
Update: A followup on this affair. Apparently, McCain really does hate the Spanish leadership. Oh, a note to McCain: It's the Prime Minister Zapatero, not President.
Ya know, if Sarah Palin made this mistake, we'd call her inept.
Which way does McCain lean on regulating large economic institutions?
It depends on which day of the week you ask, naturally.
AIG took advantage of loose regulations to ... well, I won't try to explain the mess, because I'm simply not qualified. Hell, you'd have fun watching me balance a checkbook. I do know it has a lot to do with the regulation of the buying and selling of loans whose risk is unacceptably high. If you ignore the prudent business acumen for the want of profit, it can turn into a ponzi scheme that collapses. This is why some regulation is called for.
But I'll let conservative pundit George Will explain this at the end of the ABC News story, put on last night:
(Sound is a bit harsh)
To be honest, I'd like to know how Obama and friends stand on regulation of the investment giants, too.
A funny thing happened to me on my way to posting this morning. Walt beat me to the post I was going to make. Yep, that’s right after some four-and-a-half-years of co-posting we have finally hit on the same topic post at the same time. Seriously, I was just going to make this post myself.
Anyway, Here’s the thing, If you don’t understand what the deal is with the above Hilton Post, it is comedic-inspired political blowback to McCain’s camp for attempting to slam Obama by (unfavorably) comparing the Senator to Paris and Brit-Brit. This, even considering that Paris’ parents donated several thousands of dollars to McCain’s campaign (and we thought that the current President was an intellectual lightweight).
Anyway, if you missed the initial (McCain) ad, here it is:
Just to put the proper spin on all of this silliness, we have Jon Stewart, from The Daily Show:
Now you see why we are having so much fun here at Cuppa-Central.
The Perfessor
P.S.: Oh yea, one last thing. I’m so voting for her!
