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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cathy McMorris Rodgers Gives Stepford SOTU Response

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers R-Washington seems like a nice lady, but her response to the President's State of the Union Speech was a big snore. The main problem was she gave more of a stump speech for herself and ABOUT herself and family than a response to the Presdident. Whoops! She needed more response in her response, and that's probably the nicest thing anyone can say about it. However, if she ever wants to be President of the Spokane Elementary PTA, this speech would probably get her the job.














Obama gives an hour plus long, solid, concise, and detailed speech rooted in the reality of governing and this is the Repubs 12 minute response? OK. 
~ Rupert D. on YouTube

Like most Americans I woke up this morning asking myself "Does Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers really have the most wonderful husband and family in the whole wide world?" I've written to Politifact and Fact Checker to look into this burning issue for America.
~ Nicholas L. on YouTube

Cathy John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt McMorris Rodgers. . . . Wasn’t she a treat? Did you like it as she simpered and unfortunate-necklined her way into your heart, where the real State of the Union lives? Us too! We are sold on her vision for America, even though the speech didn’t really explain what that was. “Anything but the black guy” may be a rallying cry, but does not actually count as a plan to run a country, much to the GOP’s chagrin.
So, what is America’s new Super Sweetheart SuperMom like? Besides being remarkably fecund while in office, having 3 babbies in 6 years, all during her Congressional terms, she is otherwise pretty much your garden variety little snipe of a Republican, but with lady parts, which makes her extra well-suited for reaching out to ladies, because their uteri can all quiver in harmony or bow down before a really busy uterus like Cathy’s or something like that.
~ Wonkette








I am just going to out and out say it. Cathy McMorris Rodgers was TERRIBLE. It was just about impossible to take her seriously during the entire address. It was almost entirely due to her delivery. We all knew what she would be discussing. It was going to be a by-the-numbers Republican refutation of everything that the President stands for, and that is exactly what we got
~ Justin Baragona on Politicus USA

She spoke about her kids and growing up in Kettle Falls, and reiterated the standard Republican criticisms of the Afforable Care Act. She mentioned Sgt. Jacob Hess of Spokane, a marine who died last month in Afghanistan. While speaking about health care, she also said she’d received a letter from “Bette in Spokane” about her insurance premium going up $700.
In total, she mentioned Spokane twice — and the Internet blew up with people confused about why she was talking about Spokane so much.
~ Inlander Blog











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Tea Party Traumatized by President's Logical State of the Union Speech - Updated

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President Obama gave a brilliant and historic State of the Union Speech to both Houses of Congress and the American People last night. Afterward, right wing heads exploded, some of them right there on TV.

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers Gives Stepford Wife Response to SOTU

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"It is time to do away with policies that belong in a Mad Men episode."



Update: Rachel Maddow did a whole segment mocking this tweet
by Randy Weber R-Texas
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Louie Gohmert R-Texas posts pic that resembles
Nosferatu the Vampire in the Haunted Castle




Tim Huelskamp R-Kansas was in a class by himself:









Heartfelt Standing Ovation for Hero Cory Remsburg
Equals "Politicizing" for Huelskamp
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Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Called Huelskamp Out on his Tweets
Making His Head Asplode

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Maddow: Sgt. Remsford was grievously wounded - President Obama said "Like the military he loved, like the country he served, Sgt. Cory Remsford never gives up and he does not quit."
That was punctuated with a standing ovation that went on for more than a minute and 40 seconds. It was absolutely the emotional high point of the address tonight. There was not a single person in the room that was not standing up. At which point Congressman Heulskamp tweeted: "Obama politicizes the Military to end his speech. Totally expected, Mr. President."

Joining us now is Tim Huelskamp of Kansas... Mr. Huelskamp, I have to ask you if that was tongue-in-cheek. Do you really believe that was politicizing the Military?

Huelskamp: We actually invited our own veteran. One that's served bravely as well, some tremendous heroes out there. And we received word from the Administration when we put a press release out that perhaps we were politicizing that fact. Very brave man. Lots of brave heroes. Very interesting - the President very clearly ran against the military and continues to highlight them when it helps him politically. But at the end of the day, more of the same in the speech, Rachel--

Maddow: How did the President run against the military?

Huelskamp: Well, it's pretty clear! He wanted to bring the troops home, he wants to close Gitmo, he wants to do all kinds of things. But at the end of the day, the focus of the speech should have been 'how are things working out?'

Maddow: Is bringing the troops home your definition of being against the military?”

Huelskamp: No - what the President talked about when he first ran obviously is very different. There's this NSA issue. Whether and how much the President should have in terms of authority. He ran against Bush on all these things, Rachel, it's very clear. And all of a sudden he's all for Presidential power now. He's all for the NSA now. He's all for the military now, during his speech. But at the end of the day, his policies are failing and that's why we have 24 million Americans still looking for a full time job.

Maddow: Congressman Huelskamp, I still don't understand how he ran against the military. I still don't understand if you mean he was politicizing the military by praising that Sergeant.
. . . 3 minutes later you tweeted "Was there a diplomat in Benghazi that gave his life for his country, Mr. President?"

Huelskamp: Yeah.

Maddow: Are you denying that an American diplomat died in Benghazi?

Huelskamp: (laughs) Yes, Do you know what happened in Benghazi? The President refuses to come clean. Your Hillary Clinton refuses to come clean. They won't tell us what happened. And a diplomat died, we believe, the initial evidence still is, that the President or someone in the White House failed to provide support to defend that diplomat and our Marines on the ground. That's ir - irreprehensible (sic) and I have no answer for that and that's what we're talking about. We need answers.

Maddow: Are you questioning whether Ambassador Stevens gave his life for his country? What are you--?

Huelskamp: You know this President and Hillary Clinton are hiding the truth on Benghazi. We’re looking for them to come forward, let those folks testify who were on the ground. That's a Congressional responsibility.
It’s also the responsibility of Hillary Clinton. Just a few months ago she said what difference does it make? Two days ago she says it was the biggest regret in her life, the failure in Benghazi. We're lookin' for some answers there. 'Cause that should not happen again.

The Republicans have passed bills - we put stuff in the budget that would help protect our embassies and diplomats.

Maddow: Did you just vote for the spending bill that would cut security funding for American diplomatic facilities abroad? There was a significant cut . . .

Huelskamp: No, I did not vote for that bill.

Maddow: Did you vote for the cut to diplomatic security facilities before Benghazi?

Huelskamp: No, we had passed significant security measures as requested by the Administration. But don't forget - Hillary Clinton did not request security enhancements. And we do believe this Administration let our troops down there.

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Huelskamp: This administration promised to be the most transparent in history, Rachel. And if you would stop being a cheerleader and be a journalist, you’d recognize that we’re not getting those answers.

Maddow: Did you just call me a cheerleader?

Huelskamp: (laughs) I don’t know, maybe you have that history.

Maddow: No, wait wait, - Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Huelskamp: You're being a cheerleader for the Administration.

Maddow: So I'm a cheerleader?

Huelskamp: You can't be a journalist when you're not willing to look at the facts. If it was [George W.] Bush, you would be jumping and screaming.

Maddow: You’re amazing!

Huelskamp: If it's Hillary Clinton, you don't want the answers. Rachel, face the facts. We don't know the answers there.

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Maddow: When you tweeted that Obama was "Hail to the King" and "Obama to Unleash the Imperial Presidency" are you making the case that this President is acting in an unlawful manner by proposing the things he proposed in his State of the Union Address?

Huelskamp: The President acted in numerous unlawful manners. Particularly in his willingness to suspend parts of Obamacare. He went out and said big businesses don't have to use Obamacare --

Maddow: Sir, I’m just trying to focus on the case that you’re making which is that his speech--

Huelskamp: A speech makes no law! The President makes good speeches…

Maddow (quoting Huelskamp’s tweet): … “reads like dictates from a King hashtag LawLess”; What did he say in the speech that was lawless tonight?

Huelskamp: …Fourteen different points where the President said, ‘I don’t like the American people, who they elected…’ That’s what the President was saying! He said, ‘I don’t like Congress! I don’t like the American people that sent these people up here, and so he listed fourteen different dictates, executive orders…

Maddow: Dictates? Are executive orders lawless?

Huelskamp: An executive action without authority is lawlessness.

Maddow: Executive orders by presidents are lawless?

Huelskamp: If there is no authority! …

Maddow: ( laughter) We’ve squared the circle. If there’s no authority, it has no authority … Congressman Huelskamp, your tweet stream tonight and and your arguments here…

Huelskamp: Enjoy ‘em!

Maddow: …are from two totally different universes.

Huelskamp: The universe of reality, Rachel. The universe of outside this beltway. The President's speech fell flat out in the real world. Washington - they're still a-twitter. But recognize Americans want some answers, they want some solutions.





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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Stay Thirsty My Friend ~ Rubio Water Bottle Gate

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Rubio, who had mopped his brow a few times previously during the speech, was in the midst of maligning what he called "false choices" Mr. Obama laid out between big government and big business. But he interrupted his thought to grab a small water bottle apparently at his side, ducking down and nearly out of of the camera frame, before taking a sip and continuing with his remarks.
~ CBS News

"You know, when you talk a lot it happens. Unfortunately, when you're giving a speech you have a podium and the water's there. When you're standing up in front of a camera you don't have that option. It had been a long day at work, I had already taped an 18-minute speech in Spanish, so I'm just glad the water was nearby. I don't know what I would have done without it.
~ Marco Rubio on CBS This Morning





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Uh-Oh.
~ Wolf Blitzer of CNN when Rubio drank the water

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, being given the honor tonight of giving his party's response to the President's State of the Union Address. Honestly, Mr. Rubio's speech will be remembered in part by the odd punctuation of the big reach for the water glass in the middle of it. That's just an odd staging in what was otherwise set up visually as a nice speech. I will say, in tone, proclaiming himself frustrated, kind of an edgy speech, hard-edged, laced throughout with criticism of the President, much more a speech about the President than a speech about the country.
~ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC

I thought it was tinkertoys. I thought it was primitive. Something you'd hear on a high school debating team. . . . There was no originality to it. It was basic. Again, it was tinkertoys, a kids presentation of a philosophy reduced to maybe the ninth-grade level. I'm sorry that's what it was.
~ Chris Matthews on MSNBC

Did not like the water bottle. Just suck it up. Just go with it and work through it because ... he was giving a strong speech, but it was an establishment speech, which was a little bothersome to me.
~ Ex-RNC Chairman Michael Steele on MSNBC

I think Sen. Rubio has got some work to do before he's ready for prime time.
~ Crooks and Liars

1. He's an amateur.
2. Say goodbye to 2016.
3. That wasn't water :-)
~ JohnnyBravo on Crooks and Liars

When you lie, you're dry.
~ Charlie U. on Huffington Post

Marco.... Polo... Marco... Polo.... Marco... Poland Springs
The drink of water thing was funny but when he squeegeed his forehead
I really LOL.
~ PotholesInMyLawn on Huffington Post

It ain't the water per se thats amusing it was the 2 seconds of sheer panic in his eyes.
~ cornerofthemoon on Huffington Post

So, yes, Marco Rubio proved you can manage to swallow just fine, but choke all the same.
~ Jed Lewison on Daily Kos

I think it's called Product Placement in the PR biz
~ doorguy on Daily Kos

Creepy started with the sweating. All those hands to the face to whip away the sweat. What's the matter Marko? Could it be all the lying you're doing that's making you sweat? Then the desperate drink of water and the Leave It To Beaver smile at the end. Like a crook being interrogated under a hot lamp at the police station. Totally unbelievable.
I'd like to play poker with him sometime.
~ Helpless on Daily Kos

Excuse me, the lies are getting stuck in my throat
~ jazzmaniac on Daily Kos














































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