Whacko Politics
Dead Fish Rahm
Ramirez’ response to Emanuel’s disgusting dead fish tantrum . . .
(Emanuel) Has been known to send out cheesecakes from Eli’s Bakery in Chicago to campaign donors and the many Democratic candidates he has recruited over the years. Once, when a pollster made him angry, Emanuel sent him a dead fish.
Government Motors Buys Volt World Series Ad
They might as well buy time on a NASCAR event. What a waste of taxpayer funds . . .
From Planet Gore:
Peanuts, Cracker Jacks . . . and Elitist Green Transportation?
By Henry Payne
Detroit – Underscoring the perils of government ownership, GM will launch the new electric plug-in Chevy Volt with an ad buy during this month’s World Series.
That is, in the middle of the American pasttime’s premier event, Government Motors will use taxpayer money to buy premium ad time to pitch a money-losing, taxpayer-subsidized, Washington-approved, green automobile to America’s upper-class green snobs.
Rather than applause for good ol’ American know-how that GM anticipates, the public might well see the Volt as a symbol of government excess, more a federal-spending flop rather than the rebirth of a “high-tech” GM.
The ad buy may also endanger the Chevy brand. While the spots will trumpet Chevrolet’s 100-year heritage and a place in American culture next to baseball, that place is occupied by middle-American Chevy buyers. The Volt is priced for the BMW class and its elite tastes.
Will such consumers want a Chevy?
I hereby resolve to go out and buy the biggest Ford Truck or SUV with a 5.8 liter V8.
Rahmbo Bailing Out
This Ramirez cartoon struck me as being rather funny . . .
Funnier yet, Emanuel may be ineligible to run for Chicago Mayor.
The Wicked Witch of the House
Not only are they merely dead, they’re really quite sincerely dead . . .
Hat tip: The Patriot Post and Investors Business Daily.
Mountain of Debt
I am quite certain that this is not exactly what President Ronald Reagan meant when he spoke about “The Shining City on a Hill.”
From President Reagan’s Farewell Speech to the Nation:
I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.
How do you think the Democrats and Obama see their “City?” My guess is they see it as depicted above.
Hat tip to The Patriot Post for the cartoon.