At this point, my problem with her is that she always seems to be Sarah Palin playing Tina Fey who played Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. And now to complicate matters, she may start playing Julianne Moore who plays Sarah Palin in Game Change. If that happens, Katie Couric will have her hands full asking all three of them which newspapers they read, don't you think?
But we'll know for sure when she arrives in Tampa that she freakin' well is serious when she tells the media that, of course, she can clearly see the White House from her perch in Florida.
As she tells it like it never was, there will be other dopes in the crowd who will nod in approval.
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WILLARD ROMNEY said this week end that he "can't take a stand" on U.S. troop withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan because he doesn't have enough information!. But he did opine that things don't seem to be going very well in the decade-long conflict and that President Obama must share the blame for his "lack of leadership".
He said what?/?/?
Among Obama's failures is lack of experience in running a business, Romney said, insisting that even though the economy is improving Obama made it worse. Finally, he says he's quite wealthy and won't apologize for it. And he tells us that Obama is a "lightweight?
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Finally the week-end brought McRick Santorum bad news from Puerto Rico, where he was clobbered by the voters in the wake of of his decree on English-spoken statehood. Did I hear them say, "No mas!" ?
His latest fervent crusade is against what he calls a "pandemic" of pornography. Like Romney, he blames Obama for an absence of leadership, accuses the president of being soft on porn by his "refusal to enforce obscenity laws."
We recall a day when Mayor Ralph Perk staged an anti-porn conference in Cleveland and went on endlessly about men who bed down with inflated rubber dolls. My hunch is that some still do, and will continue to so long after Santorum moves on to his very own monastery.
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If obscenity laws were strictly enforced, Santorum wouldn't be allowed near a public podium. And obscene or not, I doubt he'll ever be allowed near a podium in PR. (Those PRs are so lucky).
Mitt says he hasn't "enough information" about the Afghan war to render a judgment about ending it, while at the same time blaming the incumbent president for "lack of leadership." Isn't that trying to have it both ways. If he confesses his ignorance about the war, how can he logically pass judgment on the situation there? One thing he is sure of, however, is his support for the Draconian budget unveiled this week by House Republican Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (Wisconsin). He calls it a "bold and exciting effort." Here's what it does: stacks the deck in favor of higher-income taxpayers; cuts programs such as Food Stamps, Medicaid, Pell grants (college tuition aid) for the poor; calls for changes in Medicare that would increase the eligibility age to 67 and then later gradually supplant the entire program by making it more expensive than private medical coverage ("privatization by stealth"); increases defense spending at the expense of non-defense programs to the extent that most federal departments and agencies would be reduced to ashes over time, and fobs off to state governments the cost of health care for the poor and hungry (that is, if those lower jurisdictions choose to support such programs). Oh, not to mention that he wants to slash federal spending by a net $3.3 trillion over time to help reduce the national debt without raising new revenue while keeping in place the ruinous Bush-era tax cuts (set to expire at the end of this year). The Ryan-Romney package would, the congressman insists, maintain the current [inadequate] revenue ratio by closing loopholes in the federal tax code. What loopholes? Well, stay tuned. Neither Ryan nor Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, will say. But various tax experts say it would require the repeal of such popular deductions as home mortgage interest, and the exemption for income purposes of health insurance premiums. Also, his tax plan calls for lower corporate income tax rates (to 25 pct. from 35) and no tax bite at all for repatriated corporate profits from earnings abroad. In short, what all this amounts to is Act II of Ryan Redux, virtually the same fantastical plan that went down in flames in the Senate last session. Adding insult to injury the plan also reneges on the deal struck between the White House and Congress last summer in the debt-ceilng brawl -- a deal that was enacted into law to set spending levels for defense and other discretionary programs this year. House Republicans want to cut discretionary spending (for such things as education, law enforcement, environmental protection, highway safety, etc.) by an additional $19 billion more than was agreed to then.
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