In case you were getting caught up on “Californication” or watching the doggie parade at the Westminster Canine Carnival instead of our President and his State of the Union speech, Now This News put together a nice 170-second version of the nearly hour-long speech.
Here it is:
http://www.nowthisnews.com/news/state-of-the-union-in-170-seconds/
I love this graphic. It comes from the NY Times. The one above makes no sense… so..
Here’s the link —> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/12/us/politics/obamas-state-of-the-union-themes.html?smid=tw-thecaucus
I also love this live fact-check of President Obama’s State Of The Union and the responses…
Good stuff…
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/02/12/1582431/sotu-blog/?mobile=nc#lbu-1360726926
I read with a bit of astonishment, until I slapped myself back to reality, that the GOP decided to NOT appoint a single woman or minority to chair any major House committee in the next Congress.
Yep, all old, white-dudes. Well, most are old. All are white.
Now, you would think the GOP, still licking its Presidential Election wounds as it relates to it’s inability to connect with women AND minorities, would not pour idiot salt back into that wound. But, then again, it’s the GOP. Not saying all the GOP is old white guys who are incredibly disconnected from the reality of female/minority voice in our fine country, but….hmmm…there are quite a few.
House republicans will have 20 women while House dems check-in with 61. So, an argument could be made the pool from which to select was smaller. Sure. But, why is the pool smaller? Perhaps the overall direction and modus operandi of the GOP? You can also make a valid point that these appointments are made based on seniority as well and very few women in the GOP have top-tier seniority. Ok. But, why are there no top-tier senior women? Perhaps the overall direction and modus operandi of the GOP? I smell a theme here.
And who are the new appointees who will make up the 2013 All-White Dude GOP Team?
Well, speaking of top-tier seniority, there’s Lamar Smith of Texas. The US House of Rep Republican has been there a quarter-of-a-century, yep, since 1987. The Christian Scientist will lead Science, Space and Technology committee.
Speaking of science. There seems to be a lot of science in medicine. However, Smith’s Christian Scientist beliefs defines sickness and disease as the result of fear, ignorance and sin. In fact, they believe sickness and disease should be healed through prayer or introspection. Now, what’s insanely dangerous about this is that when you combine that with their belief that the use of medicine is incompatible with Christian Science healing methods, you had outbreaks of preventable disease and a number of deaths. What’s scary is Smith’s Christian Science ‘religion’ rejection of science as ‘illusory’. If Smith and his faith believe science is illusory, why is he leading our country’s Science, Space and Technology committee?
Oh, did I mention Christian Science was founded by a woman, Mary Baker Eddy?
Here is all you need to know about Karl “I’m Melting” Rove.
He floated the John McCain “rumor” that McCain fathered a daughter with an African American prostitute. He orchestrated another campaign, accusing Georgia Senator Max Cleland, a Vietnam veteran AND amputee, of being soft on terrorism.
The ads were reprehensible. Karl Rove would do just about anything to get his candidate elected.
My wife often talks about karma. She’s Indian. It’s bound to come up. Karl Rove’s karma has come due. Massive failure in the 2008 campaign. And now Rove’s colossal failure of his $1 billion-dollar effort to elect Mitt Romney et al, culminating in “The Karl Rove Meltdown Seen Live! ‘Round The World”.
If you had wasted $1-billion dollars, not to mention $127-million dollars on more than 82,000 Mitt Romney television spots (according to ad-tracker company Kantar Media’s CMAG) and you were watching it all implode while you’re live on television, you’d have a meltdown, too.
Remember, Rove created the model for so-called outside money groups to raise and spend money –more than $1-billion on these elections. By the way, his two political outfits, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (really? THAT’S the name you picked? Grassroots?) and American Crossroads, saw almost no return for their money.
Rove’s old-school, bare-knuckle, despicable way of campaigning is now irrelevant. His irrelevance (and most of the old, white-guy pundits on tv) firmly cemented in these last two presidential campaigns by a new-age and new technology that has clearly passed by Karl Rove.
Data mining and social media have replaced fear and loathing on the political landscape. I actually think Hunter S. Thompson would drink to that or at least pop an amyl. Fear and loathing and Karl Rove, clearly not mutually exclusive, replaced in one fell-swoop on national television while millions watched Karl’s political self-immolation.
KARMA. Sometimes it burns.
This is an excellent article by @RyanLizza in The New Yorker on GOP VP Candidate Paul Ryan and excellent discourse w @PiersMorgan on @CNN tonight.
