More random kibbles and bits
Arthur Levesque
yesterday he was joining an already crowded field of candidates in the
race for governor in 2002.
Ed Thompson, mayor of the small central Wisconsin city of Tomah,
said he would run as a Libertarian[1] on a platform of smaller taxes and
smaller government, the Associated Press reports.
"I'm no big-time Charlie. I'm just a common hard-working man," he
said in his announcement on the steps of the state Capitol in Madison.
He said his decision to run was inspired by the success of Jesse
Ventura, the former professional wrestler elected governor of Minnesota
in 1998. Mr. Thompson has worked as a professional poker player, prison
cook, snow plow driver and boxer.
Mr. Thompson, who favors legalizing video gambling and legalizing
marijuana, said he has raised more than $80,000 in campaign contributions
so far.
Mr. Thompson left the Capitol in a 1982 Pace Arrow recreational
vehicle nicknamed the "War Wagon" and planned to fly to six other cities
in a rented jet to announce his candidacy.
He joins several candidates in the race, including incumbent Gov.
Scott McCallum, a Republican, and Attorney General Jim Doyle and state
Sen. Gary George, both Democrats.
Mr. McCallum, who was lieutenant governor for nearly 14 years,
ascended to the post earlier this year when Tommy G. Thompson resigned to
become the health and human services secretary.
Ed Thompson said he was a Republican until four years ago when a
club he owns was raided for supposedly operating illegal video-gambling
machines.
Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., chairman of the House Republican
Conference, had some fun yesterday with the news that Senate Majority
Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and House Minority Leader Richard A.
Gephardt of Missouri plan to spend today and tomorrow in Mexico.
"For weeks, the House has been patiently waiting for the Senate
leadership to catch up and pass some bills. Today, I open the paper and
find out the top two Democrats are packing their bags for Mexico. Ay
caramba," Mr. Watts said in a press release.
"The Senate's got a whole lot of work to do. This is not the time
for the Democrat leadership to be skipping town when a pile of
appropriations bills, an economic-growth package, judicial nominees, an
energy plan and a host of other issues sit idly in the hopper."
The Senate is so backed up that Mr. Daschle has suggested Congress
may have to remain in session through December, Mr. Watts noted.
"The Speaker has said we'll stick around and work every day to pass
an airport-security package and other critical matters of importance to
the American people. The Senate needs to get serious and match our
offer," Mr. Watts said.
"Hey, Democrat leaders, no siesta for you," he added.
"Speaking of Daschle," writes Al Kamen in The Washington Post, "all
Senate Republicans have signed a letter to him and to Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) demanding action on the
nominations of John G. Roberts Jr. and Miguel A. Estrada to the U.S.
Court of Appeals here. The two nominees have been pending in the Senate
without a hearing since May 9.
"Let's see, weren't Democrats complaining last year about GOP
inaction on Clinton judges?"
There's some confusion over the cost of vaccinating every American
against deadly smallpox, with the Senate calling on Health and Human
Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson to provide more precise estimates of
such a tremendous undertaking.
One thing is for certain, it won't be cheap.
The Bush administration's bioterrorism budget request, submitted to
Congress last month, included $509 million for the production of 250
million doses of smallpox vaccine. But new studies suggest the cost
could run as high as $2 billion.
House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (Tex.) was enraged to find
that Democrats have taken to mocking GOP conservatives such as himself,
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (Miss.) and Majority Whip Tom DeLay
(Tex.) as the "Republican Taliban."
"I don't think it's a damn bit funny," Armey told reporters Tuesday,
referring to a one-paragraph item in U.S. News & World Report's
"Washington Whispers." The item cited "a prominent Democrat" using the
phrase.
"I don't think it's cute and it is certainly not responsible... for
them to speak in these terms," Armey said, or for the press "to report
it." (But then how would he have known what the Democrats were calling
him?)
"And one of the things that probably bothers me more than anything
else," he said, "is the Democrats pull this kind of stunt --
ill-mannered, rude, inconsiderate, irresponsible malarkey, because they
get away with it. And I, for one, am deeply offended by the Democrats
and deeply disappointed in the press corps."
"You know and I know," he told reporters, "that had I had that
audacity, my hand would have been called on it by every network in
America, featuring: 'Dick Armey lashed out today in the most
unreasonable terms.' "
Armey is, as usual, absolutely right. And he knows whereof he
speaks.
Back in October 1993, The Washington Post, citing the Plano
Star-Courier, ran a small item saying: "In a speech last week, Rep.
Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) said: 'Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I
realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She
hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.' "
The item ran as a brief in perhaps a half-dozen other papers outside
Texas and didn't make it on the network news. Armey quickly pulled back,
saying he was only "spoofing" a Clinton speech. "I think overstatement
and satire can be funny, but I crossed the line this time," he said. The
Democrats were not amused.
"Attacking the first lady as a communist is absolutely despicable,"
said then-Rep. Vic Fazio (Calif.), head of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee at the time.
"The Cold War is over, and the Republicans have run out of enemies,
so they have turned to pathetic red-baiting and old smear tactics. Dick
Armey is mired in the tired politics of decades ago," Fazio railed.
The Democrats try to stay current in their smears. In the Clinton
administration, aides used to say Armey and his pals were part of a
Republican Hezbollah.
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[1] I'd love to see a few of them win once in a while. Why should the
Greens on the left have all the fun?
Lori
> The Senate is so backed up that Mr. Daschle has suggested Congress
>may have to remain in session through December, Mr. Watts noted.
AFT-S: We're so backed up, Congress may have to remain in session through
December.
> House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (Tex.) was enraged to find
>that Democrats have taken to mocking GOP conservatives such as himself,
>Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (Miss.) and Majority Whip Tom DeLay
>(Tex.) as the "Republican Taliban."
> "I don't think it's a damn bit funny," Armey told reporters Tuesday,
>referring to a one-paragraph item in U.S. News & World Report's
>"Washington Whispers." The item cited "a prominent Democrat" using the
>phrase.
AFT-S: I don't think it's a damn bit funny.
> "And one of the things that probably bothers me more than anything
>else," he said, "is the Democrats pull this kind of stunt --
>ill-mannered, rude, inconsiderate, irresponsible malarkey, because they
>get away with it. And I, for one, am deeply offended by the Democrats
>and deeply disappointed in the press corps."
AFT-S: We pull ill-mannered, rude, inconsiderate, irresponsible malarkey,
because we get away with it.
> The item ran as a brief in perhaps a half-dozen other papers outside
>Texas and didn't make it on the network news. Armey quickly pulled back,
>saying he was only "spoofing" a Clinton speech. "I think overstatement
>and satire can be funny, but I crossed the line this time," he said. The
>Democrats were not amused.
AFT-S: Where overstatement and satire can be funny, but we crossed the line
this time.
> The Democrats try to stay current in their smears. In the Clinton
>administration, aides used to say Armey and his pals were part of a
>Republican Hezbollah.
AFT-S: We try to stay current in our smears. [1]
[1] This prolly relates somehow to Tyler's ob/gyn question too...
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Lori
"It could very well be that angels are watching you when
you poop, honey, but I'd hope they would turn away at
that point." - Tyler's "Religion for Kiddies 101"
Arthur Levesque
Tara Kostezky
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> meist...@boog.org (Arthur Levesque) wrote:
<snip funnee stuff>
One hopes that Cap has duly taken note here.
TK
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"...it's hard to top a show where sociopathic parrots cross paths
with dogs who cut themselves obsessively, well-armed drug-dealing cats,
and gangs of Palestinian wallabies plotting to bomb the Syndey
operahouse" - James D. Thompson, on "Harry's Practice"
WWS
Lori wrote:
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> AFT-S: We pull ill-mannered, rude, inconsiderate, irresponsible malarkey,
> because we get away with it.
>
I gotta say, this one is my favorite by far!
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Captain Infinity
>"Lori" <80s_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>> meist...@boog.org (Arthur Levesque) wrote:
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><snip funnee stuff>
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>One hopes that Cap has duly taken note here.
Nope, sorry. Lori's post is not on World's server, and I routinely skip
"news items" posts like Arthur's. So your snip was counterproductive.
Bummer.
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Captain Infinity
Lori
I wrote:
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Lori
Lori
>In <9t8cn4$tsjp$3...@ID-25254.news.dfncis.de> Tara Kostezky wrote:
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>>"Lori" <80s_...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>>news:3bf55446...@news.cis.dfn.de...
>>> meist...@boog.org (Arthur Levesque) wrote:
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>><snip funnee stuff>
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>>One hopes that Cap has duly taken note here.
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>Nope, sorry. Lori's post is not on World's server
Why the fuck not?? First they ignore Lisa, now me.
I reposted it, btw.
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Lori
Arthur Levesque
"AFT-S: This prolly relates somehow to Tyler's ob/gyn"
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