Hey, remember in 2000 and 2004 when the GOP Presidential candidate won fewer popular votes than his Democratic rivals, but through chicanery and Supreme Court chit-calling syphoned electoral college votes and became the President anyway?
Well, now the GOP has once again decided the best way to win political office in the future is to earn fewer votes. On the heels of the decisive victory in NY-23’s special election – in which GOP conservatives like Erick Redstate and Rush Limbaugh were thrilled to defeat a Republican who failed their personal litmus test, by electing a Democrat – some within the Republican braintrust are militating to roll that same program out nationally. In time for 2010 and beyond.
Here’s the skinny on the secret plot in which the GOP steals the Jonas Brothers’ purity ring shtick:
While y’all are too fat to fuck – overdosing on L-Tryptophan and cranberry sauce (The Walrus was Paul) – the Friday night news dump has an interesting piece of info re: the next Presidential election cycle.
Brilliant news from upper New York state, where the losingest loser in the short history of loserish Tea Party patriotism has declared himself perhaps not such a loser after all, pending the counting of actual, you know, votes.
Newt Gingrich manned up and echoed your humble scribe recently. Pointing out something so hideously obvious that only Republicans don’t get it, Newt threatened to take the party hostage in 2012. By running for the White House. Because there’s a “
My favorite Special Olympian of the rightwingosphere has struck again. Frightening foreigner Chuck Krauthammer – the strangest of the current crop of Strangeloves – waxes indignant all over his most recent 
Media coverage of the Balloon Boy incident follows in a long-standing tradition of bringing intensely personal, potentially deeply moving stories to a wide audience. In 1949, during TV’s earliest days, a little girl named Kathy Fiscus fell into a well. TV networks broadcast live-by-remote from the scene for 27 hours. The world watched with breath held and prayers recited, until heartbroken rescuers recovered her lifeless body.
(Well, it’s Wednesday, so it must be time for another mental bowel moveme…. um… gem of “deep thought” from resident guru Sparky Satori.)
(Well, it’s Wednesday, so – like clockwork – Sparky Satori must be grumpy about… something.)
While it is certainly too early to prognosticate the results of the 2010 elections more than a year before they happen, it is equally certain that the GOP’s current state of affairs doesn’t bode well for a breakthrough any time in the immediate future. 
Wow, another night of Emmy glory for a stylized retro TV series that feels like an endless movie, reveling in existential angst and meticulous attention to cultural and jet-set scenery details. Why, it is almost as though USAmerica has some taste, and the cojones to celebrate it.
(Shorts would like it known that merely allowing questions to be posed here doesn’t make him a “Truther.” Sparky feels that questions must be posed until answered, and although he is not a “Truther,” doesn’t give a flying fuck what conclusions are drawn about him as a result.)
Too many thoughts in too few days. So much that merits an observation or two, so hard to distill into few mere words.
All politics is based on self-interest. It is so self-evidently axiomatic that it shouldn’t need to be pointed out, least of all to the President of the United States. And yet the President, most of all, needs to bear this in mind, because he seems to have forgotten this most central tenet of politics.
Your humble scribe cannot abide David Frum. It’s not just his time as speech-writer for George W. Bush, or his coining of “Axis of…..” (he didn’t come up with “evil,” that’s somebody else’s handiwork, though his insufferable wife will likely still lie and insist otherwise.) It is the entire corpus of the man’s output. To the extent that he can claim to have done so, he has risen up the political food chain less on the merit of his work, which is tepidly middling at best, than on the potency of his family name. He is a grasper and opportunist who has social-climbed his way up the ladder due to factors wholly divorced from his own ability.
