Pelosi on Scalise: It’s more important that his GOP won’t pass VRA or immigration bills. pic.twitter.com/Z24MxwQLQR
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2014
I agree with Republicans. Robert Byrd, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright should definitely not be the GOP House Majority Whip.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 30, 2014
The time between Scalise’s EURO appearance and this story (May 2002/Dec 2014) comparable to time between Ayers fundraiser and Obama’s WH bid
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2014
Scalise just won his whip job & doesnt face reelection until 2016. Boehner, on the other hand, has his election to the speakership in a week
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 30, 2014
Ex-KKK leader David Duke: Lay off Steve Scalise or I’ll start naming other pols I met with http://t.co/Ub7sjOkwq1
— David Ferguson (@TRexstasy) December 30, 2014
This would be a good time for Dems to goad the GOP into passing a Voting Rights Act fix.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 30, 2014
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Good for Representative Pelosi (as Dave Weigel notes). Congress could even title it the “Scalise Voting Rights Act Amendment”…
Apart from schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Gin & Tonic
Another responsible gun owner.
Bob In Portland
The “Help America Vote Act” has worked so well.
Couldn't Stand the Weather
These guys are just ridiculous.
A new movie could be made (without Carrey and Daniels), call it Stupider and Stupidest.
And, it’d be hilarious if Duke went through with that threat and named more names.
Schlemazel
OH DEAR!! PLEASE MR. DUKE, PLEASE, NO! PLEASE DO NOT NAME ALL THE OTHER POLS THAT HAVE KISSED YOUR SHINY WHITE ASS FOR VOTES.
That would just be terrible.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
CONGRATULATIONS!
oh hey that’s a coincidence
jl
I am reflecting deeply on the 49ers owner’s press conference re coach Harbaugh departure yesterday.
I don’t understand why the room did not burst out in riotous laughter at some of the self-serving BS York dished out yesterday. I guess we will have 2 Bay Area football teams are pathetic losers for a while, though 49ers may take a few years to be really horrible. But, it is only football, so won’t be too bad. But probably be reminded too frequently that the 49ers owner is a schmuck.
Hilarious how he said that they can find a good new coach because they will set out on the hiring process ‘with that goal in mind’. Sure that is all it takes, you moron. Why did your team stink for over ten years, then?
Effing hilarious and disgusting press conference by 49er Bigshot.
I guess there will be a few more of those around the league, Interesting to see how many owners can compete with York for asinine football team owner performance of the year.
I would go on, but no time to write a damn Russian length novel about what a scmuck performance York turned in yesterday.
OK, I am done reflecting on it. Tired out from laughing about it.
TFinSF
Nothing to see here. The sign read “EURO,” not “WE HATE BLACKS”. Who doesn’t like Euros? Just a misunderstanding is all.
jl
@TFinSF: Scalise surely thought he was speaking at a conference on international monetary economics. That’s the ticket! What a doofus.
kindness
If only Weigal was close. You see, in order for his statement to be accurate that would require that Republicans have any shame what so ever. I say they do not and they go out of their way to prove it every Fox News appearance and every Sunday Talk show.
Mike in NC
@jl: I well remember when several European countries were suffering even worse than the US during the Great (Bush) Recession, with higher unemployment, austerity budgets, etc.
Many wingnuts pointed to economic problems in Greece and Spain and gloated about how the Euro was going to crash and have to be abolished, and thus in the process bankrupt the entire continent. Must have been a meme over at FOX News at the time.
Shalimar
@jl: He just coincidentally gave a speech about how the government steals money from real people and HUD gives it away to blacks. Could have happened to anyone.
SiubhanDuinne
Mr. Charles P. Pierce is usually too savvy to fall for hoax “news” stories, but fall he apparently did:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Joni_Ernst_Takes_The_Pledge
In all fairness, it is a very plausible story. I had no idea it was a fake until I started to read the comments and then checked out the source.
Anne Laurie
@kindness: Wouldn’t require “shame” on the GOPer’s part, just a sense of self-protection. #NotAllRepublicans!!! That’s why the Democrats need to keep this story churning — the Wingnut Wurlitzer wants to bury Scalise’s ‘little mistake’ as old news, move along, nothing to see here during this (traditionally) slow news cycle.
jl
@Shalimar: Well, every school child knows HUD fronting for the lazy blacks is THE BIG problem with the Eurozone. Just ask Krugman. He’s an expert.
Tenar Darell
@kindness: Well, Chuckles Todd basically admitted that no one but comedians are willing to hold them to account. So, I guess that’s never going to happen. (You ever get the feeling that doom and gloom is just built into our lives now? I know I do).
FormerSwingVoter
NY Man thrown to ground by police for daring to dance behind them while on camera. Because freedom.
KG
@Tenar Darell: same as it ever was
Howard Beale IV
Fun Fact: More people in the United States have been killed on American soil by toddlers than terrorists.
jl
@FormerSwingVoter: So, that will go over well with the NYC public. Charge as much as usual for less work, and act like deranged dispshits towards the general populace.
beth
@FormerSwingVoter: Coming up behind police officers and startling them a few days after two cops were ambushed was a fucking stupid thing to do. The cops should have been the grown-ups and not harassed/assaulted him but I’m not sure I wouldn’t have slapped him silly.
Baud
@Howard Beale IV:
That’s why abortion rights are so important. We fight them in there so we don’t have to fight them out here.
Southern Beale
Interesting: the blogger who got the Steve Scalise scoop is the same guy Andrew Breitbart got into his “putz” argument with an hour before he died:
Ironic, to say the least.
Howard Beale IV
@Baud:
Oooookayyyyy…….
Baud
@Howard Beale IV:
So no War on Toddlers?
kindness
@Baud: We have always been at War on Toddlers.
Mike in NC
@Southern Beale: “had verve and panache” sounds so much classier than “was a scumbag and an asshole”.
Baud
@kindness:
Are we winning?
Howard Beale IV
@Baud:
Let me put it to you this way: I wish this would have been Wayne LaPierre’s wife and toddler.
Turgidson
@jl:
The McCaskeys usually have the marketed cornered on being douchey owners, but you really can’t blame them for firing their coach and GM after leading an on-paper 10-6 team to a 5-11 record that was actually worse than it looks because a few of those losses were so pathetic they should have counted double.
Firing a 3-times-in-4-years conference championship participant, whose team was still 8-8 despite tons of injuries and his uncertain status hanging over the team all season, because he’s a grating personality or whatever the reason was, is unusually douchey though.
Bystander
Do we have a copy of the speech Scalise’s delivered to EURO? I haven’t seen a transcript or a description of his speech anywhere.
PurpleGirl
@jl:
…they can find a good new coach because they will set out on the hiring process ‘with that goal in mind’.
You mean other teams plan to hire a bad coach.
PsiFighter37
@Bystander: “I am not a crook!”
I’m sure Scalise is hoping / praying that all copies were thrown out and burned. He probably said some shit in their that is resignation-worthy.
Howard Beale IV
Holy Shit-Suh can play on Sunday against the Cowboys!
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
I cannot bear to think how this will damage that child.
jl
@Turgidson: Maybe York had a good reason to fire Harbaugh. I’ve read decent criticism of the ex-coach, and I don’t have all the info that went into the decision. But that didn’t mean that York had to talk like a conceited self-righteous hypocritical incoherent incompetent delusional schmuck in front of the general public yesterday.
Edit: Oh wait, York is a major league sportsball owner. So maybe that meant that he did have to make an ass of himself. They might have a code of conduct, for all I know.
Edit: I forgot ‘classless’. The more that guy talks about the need for class, the more I think the need starts with him.
Howard Beale IV
@Turgidson: Re-signing such a lame-ass quarterback was definitely a signal that the head coach was on the bubble.
Hal
Scalise is born and raised in LA but had no idea what group he was speaking to? Riiiiggght. I realize David Duke isn’t quite as famous as he was in the 90s, but any Louisianan must know who that man is and what he stands for.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: The kid’s two. He/she will have no memory.
greennotGreen
Even without a memory of the event, eventually the child will be told. It’s hard to think there won’t be any repercussions. Even though this tragedy is totally the mother’s fault.
someofparts
“Scalise Voting Rights Act Amendment”… roflmao – bless you for my morning laugh.
Here’s one to go with it – Vote Bush/Clinton 2016 – because nothing ever changes!