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Republican Laughs
In his CPAC speech this week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that conservatives are more "interesting" and "fun" than liberals. Here's his proof: "who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?"
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Clearly, if I had to take Rush out to dinner or you and Krugman out to dinner, I'd pick you and Krugman. And for the most frugal of reasons!
February 27, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I could drink Robert and Paul under the tabl which would be fun, but Rush?
I don't think so.
February 27, 2009 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will have the shrimp and a good bottle of your red wine, but fix me up with a double scotch on the rocks, jw red is ok, and some bread sticks.
Then let me have the two pound steak medium rare. Fried potatoes.
Now for the main course.....
February 27, 2009 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
What could possibly follow shrimp and steak?
Oh.
Cheesecake?
February 27, 2009 10:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good grief!
No wonder the GOP is so messed up.
February 27, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
On my blog last week I asked the rhetorical question, "What would you rather do than have to follow Barack Obama to the speaker's podium? My own response was "nearly anything" But one of the comments was "I'd rather kiss Rush Limbaugh for 10 minutes". I shall next have to ask "what would you rather do than go to a CPAC meeting and listen to a speech by Mitch McConnell?"
For one thing, I know for sure I would rather listen to Robert Reich on the Banks of the Charles River. I did that once in 2004 , and I've been a fan ever since.
February 27, 2009 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
amike asks;
I would rather jab myself in the eye 27 times with a sharpened pencil.
March 1, 2009 8:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know, it sounds cool to go out to dinner with Profs. Reich and Krugman, but I wouldn't understand a word they said, as I haven't had even one college course in economics. I am enjoying "Supercapitalism", however. My ex-wife gave it to me for Christmas.
But try to imagine dinner with Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor. Now there's a couple of happenin' dudes.
February 27, 2009 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You'd be good company for Reich and Krugman.
Neither one of them understands economics.
February 27, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
As opposed to...Ellen?
February 27, 2009 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bingo! Touche!
February 28, 2009 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
But can they drink?
February 27, 2009 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chicken, you are awesome!
February 27, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
What?
February 27, 2009 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes she is. But I could drink her, Rush, Paul AND Robert under the table.
February 27, 2009 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
and maybe HAS
February 27, 2009 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, in a time of economic despair, Ellen, you continue to contribute noyhing except witty remarks. You are like the Republicans that Krugman says rely on the Bevis and Butthead approach to our problems.
February 28, 2009 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Should say "nothing."
February 28, 2009 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about the Chair of Steele, though?
Happy days.
March 1, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have said many times that old Mitch looks like one of those mean old bankers in '30's films.
Yeah and there is rush on the radio crying:
I don't understand why women do not like me.
It is like in the Ned Divine movie about the lottery ticket and the single mother who refuses to marry the pig farmer because he is covered in pig manure and stinks.
Although any of those repubs could drive a guy like me to drink quite a lot.
February 27, 2009 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stephen Colbert said he looked like a turtle and i busted out laughing because it's true!!
February 28, 2009 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaha You know old Mitch was married to the Secretary of Labor under w?
February 28, 2009 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd prefer to go to dinner with the Cassandra-like prophet of doom who warend us this was coming, and offers us no comfort except to admonish us to end the profligate ways that got us into this mess.
Wait, what do you mean Peter Schiff isn't an option?
February 27, 2009 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chicken, you are awesome!
February 27, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
What?
=D
February 27, 2009 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looked at too closely, it'll give you nightmares:
You have a skinny lemon-sucker who thinks a good time is to be had by hanging out with an obnoxious overweight loudmouth who, in his turn, thinks torture is a locker room prank.
Laurel and Hardy; only really demented.
On the other side of the room, you have someone's uptight dad who apparently wants to bling up the Republican Party (which will conflict, sooner or later, with that whole denouncing the thugishness of the hip-hop stereotype thing); and fantasist and exorcist rubbing elbows with a moose huntress.
And these aren't the caricatures.
February 27, 2009 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, Mitch McConnell may be right. It would be very interesting and enjoyable to share a beer with either Reich or Krugman. However, just think of the possibilities of joining Rush on a trip to the Dominican Republic with a jar of Viagra. Obviously, Rush is the serious party animal.
February 27, 2009 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
He is a republican party animal. Looks more like a rhino than an elephant though
February 27, 2009 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
And some Oxycontin, aka 'Hillbilly Heroine'?
I am tempted to say it would be like 'Fear and Loathing in the Dominican' but Hunter S. Thompson he'll never be and Dr. Gonzo might come back, like the Ghost of Drug Soaked Road Trips Past, and haunt me if I try to make the analogy. ;-P
February 27, 2009 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would hope so!
=D
February 27, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hehehe...And who knows maybe for no other reason than not being able to correctly spell heroin. :-O
February 27, 2009 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think that is necessarily a BAD thing.
=D
BTW, You rawk
February 27, 2009 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks but I still can't squawk the squawk like you. ;-)
February 27, 2009 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Come play
http://www.lingr.com/room/TPM-aholics
February 27, 2009 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I appreciate the offer but I am heading off-line for the night. Back is acting up can't take anymore sitting in front of this machine tonight.
Hopefully the offer will stand for the next time... 8-)
February 27, 2009 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yez
=D
February 27, 2009 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
marvyt,
I was always curious as to what Rush, in his private jet and armed with much Viagra, was looking for in the Dominican Republic. Is there something there that he couldn't find here in the good ole US of A.
March 1, 2009 8:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
It might be fun to hang out with Rush, if only for the opportunity to stick a pin in him and let the gas out. Do you think he'd fly all over the place like a punctured balloon? Plenty of entertainment value there, at least for a few moments.
February 28, 2009 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't want to smell that gas.
March 1, 2009 4:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, would you rather go to dinner with Leonardo DaVinci and Isaac Newton or Denny Dimwit and Alfred E Newman?
March 1, 2009 8:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Rush for sure, just to be there when the waiter says "And finaly monsieur, a wafer thin mint."
March 1, 2009 9:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
hahaha! my favorite sketch!! i'm starting to realize I see the world through the prism of Python. (worrying thought...)
March 1, 2009 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Long before there was "Change you can believe in." there was "And now for something completely different."
Nietzsche's eternal recurrence perhaps?
March 1, 2009 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Plagiarism, I say!! LOL!
March 1, 2009 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
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