A Blast From the Past: Tom Daschle, the disgraced “Limousine Liberal,” in a vintage campaign ad.
Just because.
Hat tip: Deceiver reader Fortunate Son
Update: Robert Gibbs tries the ol’ Jedi mind trick:
Despite the tax problems faced by high-level nominees, and the exceptions made to the no-lobbyists pledge, President Barack Obama’s spokesman is defending the administration’s ethical standards.
Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday, “The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set.”
Which must be why all these Obama appointees keep limboing right under it.
We all know what a naughty boy the smut-sultan is, but this is ridiculous!
“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis was arrested Monday afternoon after failing to appear for a hearing earlier in the day in a federal tax-evasion case.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero issued the warrant, which directed authorities to take Francis into custody and present him in court, according to Tom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
Officials with the U.S. Marshals Service said Francis was taken into custody when he reported to Otero’s courtroom Monday afternoon, about five hours after he was supposed to appear there.
Last year, a grand jury in Reno accused Francis of two counts of tax evasion. He has pleaded not guilty.
Wait a second. Can’t he just withdraw his nomination to serve in the Obama administration? It’ll be embarrassing, but hey, these things happen. Forgive and forget, right? We can’t afford to be partisan and divisive at this crucial time in our nation’s history, can we?
Oh, wait. Wrong scofflaw.
Ashton Kutcher has caught up on sleep enough to issue more news-making Tweets — this time to defend eight-time Olympic gold winner Michael Phelps, who was just caught on camera smoking marijuana.
Ashton types:
I don’t smoke and haven’t in quite some time. But I’m not immune to a lapse in good judgement from time to time. 9:04 AM yesterday from TwitterFon
@jeanvpratt there’s no such in as private in the days of citizen journalism. The real douche is the idiot that put out the pic 8:54 AM yesterday from TwitterFon in reply to jeanvpratt
He’s a good kid. Btw he could be a real douche but he’s not. Maybe the media can quit dragging his d*ck in the dirt. 8:48 AM yesterday from TwitterFon
I’m not saying it was a smart move. But he doesn’t need to be publicly outer for it. Who ever put the pic out is an ass! 8:43 AM yesterday from TwitterFon
I bet phelps can smoke a whole bowl in one breath. Swimmers lungs. 8:39 AM yesterday from TwitterFon
I wish the media would kill this Phelps story. God forbid he hit a bong. Go ask your 20 year old kid what they did last weekend. 8:36 AM yesterday from TwitterFon
I wouldn’t bet the house that it’s been “quite some time” since Ashton hit the reefer, but what kills me is Ashton Freaking Kutcher saying “Who ever put the pic out is an ass!” The guy who pioneered Punk’D? Saying that celebrities deserve privacy rights and shouldn’t be mocked in the media? Tenuous at best.
Who knew politics could be this much fun?
Yesterday, sources told CNN that Republican U.S. Senator Judd Gregg had agreed to become Democrat President Barack Obama’s new Secretary of Commerce. Which is kinda funny, considering this news flash:
President Obama’s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995.
Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department’s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee.
Unless he’s planning to totally destroy the Department of Commerce from the inside, this is about as hypocritical as Rush Limbaugh running for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. ‘Cause, you know, now he wants to improve it.
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