I don't want Newt to simply quit the race - I want him to quit being all the things that add up to Newt Gingrich.

#5 | Posted by glasshouse at 2012-02-12 05:50 PM | Reply | Flag: Butt-hurt Tea Bagger

"What a phoney, lying, and hypocritical windbag this Tea Party suck-up is."

Dear Chris:

The Drudge Retort is for news.

Tea Party hypocrisy is not news.

Thank you.

P.S.: France's language proficiency test is administered by its police. Talk about putting some teeth into an immigration law....

I don't like Santorum worth a good Goddamn, or Vandervoort either, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with a country proclaiming a national language. The French did it long ago. In fact, to become a French citizen, an immigrant has to pass a test for language proficiency and a decent working knowledge of France's history and political system, as well as swearing allegiance to French values. The saying is that an immigrant must become "more French than the French."

There is nothing wrong with creating a common experience for a nation's citizens, a way for them all to communicate and share with each other. Our current politically correct system of permitting - even encouraging - immigrants to seal themselves off from our larger culture by making it unnecessary for them to speak or understand English is damaging this country, with sub-group after sub-group walled off into ghettos of the mind.

Rocky the Faaaabulous Squirrel.

Adammm:

There's a little more to it than that. People who don't make very much can't buy very much, decreasing their contributions to both the economy and the tax base.

The more people who make a poor minimum wage, the less growth in our economy, and the fewer jobs created.

It gets really complicated, and there's a lot that can be argued both ways, but the more money people make and the more they buy, the more jobs are created, basically. This is what we had for a number of decades, until Corporate America kicked the props out by doing stuff like offshoring jobs, forcing workers to move from decent-paying factory work to ill-paid "service" jobs.

"How Did You Ever Guess My Wiener's Nickname?"

When did it get changed from "Shorty?"

I'm also not a fan of Houston's over-ornamented vocal style. She was far from the worst offender, and a lot of very talented people (including Streisand) succumb to the temptation to show off instead of sticking to the actual song. But Houston could drive me up the wall with her runs up into her upper range; I've been known to refer to her as "The Human Steamwhistle."

"I'm saying she died from being unloved."

I would never say I wrote the book on how to be loved, but I can say that any such tome should include the sentence "Look somewhere for love besides Bobby Brown."

rcade:

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of the phrase "Obama voter" being a veiled racial slur around here.

"When Barbra Streisand became famous it was a different world. In some ways a better one."

Danni:

I'm guessing you're too young to have been around when Streisand shot to the top of the entertainment field like a skyrocket. She was absolutely everywhere - every radio station with a format accommodating singers, television specials crafted especially around her, and then movies. She was a huge style icon back then, relentlessly photographed by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in a parade of Diors, St. Laurents, Givenchys, Adolfos and Scaasis. Her '70s movie career was one hit after another.

She didn't smoke, do drugs or drink more than her fair share. She dated, and probably got horizontal with a number of guys, but her track record on marriage is one divorce, one long-term second marriage. She has donated her time and voice (both singing and editorial) to political campaigns she believes in. She funds educational efforts. She is quietly and directly charitable - while filming Prince of Tides she heard of a local resident being evicted from a squalid rental house and bought the woman a brand-new mobile home, installed in a decent place. She is in the process of retiring gracefully, with a lot of good old-fashioned, hard-earned American cash saved up and stashed safely in the bank.

She chose this. She had every incentive to become a train wreck, especially in the '70s when she had her pick of movie projects and money rolling in like a damn tsunami. She felt it was more important to be somebody than to entertain herself with cheap thrills.

There are things in this world people cannot choose, but behaving with a little class is not one of them. I've seen people with nothing manage it, and people with everything fail miserably at it.

Matsop:

Fame and fortune are blessings that should be repaid with respect. Anyone amassing a $100 million fortune and dual A-list careers in the recording and motion-picture fields ought to be able to find something better to do with their free time besides doing drugs and rowing with a domineering asshole of a worthless husband, ending up near-penniless in the process.

It is possible to go through the fame mill and stay sane and decent and respected and doing some good for other people. Barbra Streisand is proof.

Oops.

Must close italic.

"how many cats do you care for?"

You want a clean litterbox, turn yourself in to the Humane Society shelter instead of bugging me.

This has been waiting to happen for a long time.

Here she was in Hollywood only night before last; why people around her partied on instead of taking her to a hospital is beyond me:

"Mary--you are a troll."

Better a troll than a hater who specializes in vitriol regurgitated from FOX News with only the barest, most pathetic attempt at sugar-coating, Muffy.

"It'll be a great day when he becomes unemployed as POTUS in January 2013."

And an even greater one when you take your strange combination of simpering and hatred elsewhere, Muffy.

"At least my team are all legal honest Patriotic *real* Americans."

Get your ass over here and clean all this snot and Diet Coke off my monitor NOW.

"Classic deflection."

Except when your team brings it up, right?

"give me an example of the last time some liberal speaker or something like that was attacked or even heckled."

Again, Gabrielle Giffords. Obama was heckled in New Hampshire last November. And in West Hollywood last September. And more besides.

Sorry to refute you, but I hear the Park 'n Shop near you has a special on Thunderbird, so I'm sure you'll regain your equilibrium soon.

Somebody put this guy in prison, please.

Afkababble:

Let's review the history of attacks on political figures over the past fifty years:

John F. Kennedy - Democrat
Robert Kennedy - Democrat
George Wallace - Independent
Gerald Ford - Republican
Ronald Reagan - Republican
Gabrielle Giffords - Democrat

Looks to me like this kind of thing is fairly equally spread across the board.

"This may come to civil disobedience"

I see.

Catholic jihad.

Got it.

"And how do you want the "potential Romney victims" to expose the pain of the hate Romney represents?"

You buy a piece of fucking oaktag and a Magic Marker and make a protest sign, which you make good and Goddamn sure to hold up in front of any cameras present.

Any more questions?