There was a young couple named Kelly
Who are stuck fast, belly to belly
Because in their haste
They used library paste
Instead of petroleum jelly.
Does that help?
It was Grover Norquist at a CPAC speech:
“All we have to do is replace Obama. … We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. … Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
Incidentally, news of Boehner and other Republicans offering the olive branch and saying they’ll consider a compromise with Democrats on a budget has reportedly made Norquist spittin’ mad. There were some good news articles with some very sharply worded quotes from him, but I can’t find them now.
He’s spinning back today. Here’s one example:
Karl Rove: Obama ‘succeeded by suppressing the vote’
Obama is really smart. He did what all the Republican legislators, secretaries of state, and election commisioners couldn’t do.
What makes you think that that money didn’t go to pay people? People had to design and produce the buttons, bumper stickers, yard signs and commercials, deliver material and telemarket. Rent had to be paid for office space. Most of that money did go to people.
This doesn’t surprise me. The main republican tactic these past few years have been to do something completely immoral and terrible, then pretend like it was the democrats doing it the entire time.
Played by the guy who played Dr. Zola in the Captain America movie.
Sort of makes you wonder if that ‘experimental patch’ that was sent out to the 39 counties at the very last minute (no independent testing or validation)… didn’t quite work out the way that Karl expected. (see the Vote Flipping thread for more details)
For those who don’t want to click through, he claims that Obama “suppressed the vote” by saying mean things about Romney and thereby making people not want to vote for him.
Which is a truly revolutionary election strategy; I’m not sure why no one ever thought of it before.
Which votes? More blacks, hispanic and young voters voted than in 2008 (per a non-FoxNews source that I can’t remember right now… probably Maddow)
From the article:
As opposed to Rove’s fine artistic creations that glorified all that is American and applauded Obama’s leadership in getting us out of the last ditch that Rove left us in?
I think each side spent about a billion dollars. That’s two billion dollars… with a ‘B’ billion. I commented on how the unemployment rate dropped at least in part because of the spending and someone on this board with a printing operation said they’d made more off the campaigns than in the last three years combined. I like to think of it as an arrogance tax that we the people have extracted from the 1%ers.
I know what you mean. I was waiting for Rove to spout out with something like:
“Ohio can’t be called for Obama! I was assured that the new software in the voting machines would be flipping votes anytime now! We were ripped off by that damn company!”
Program was written in BASIC. Should have been a clue.
“Inconceivable!”
That’s weird, because if you look at what Boehner said, that’s really not what he’s saying at all. He’s said they’ll look into compromising on increasing revenue based on growth-oriented tax cuts. They’re still sticking to “tax-cuts-increase-revenues” for now.
“But we never have this problem with Idaho.”
I could be conflating Boehner’s comments with some of the other comments made by congressional Republicans, I can’t find the article now. Norquist was definitely put off at some Republican calls for compromise, though.
That’s because in Idaho, the potatoes get a vote too… and we all know that they are about as “white bread” as produce gets.
The other states were planting too many red potatoes. It’s that darn demographic change again!
Thank You! 
Mr. “would you vote for John McCain if you knew he fathered a black baby” is accusing someone else of saying mean things?