Since Google apparently knows my home state, I just now saw a Google ad (not a vid, just a clickthrough) on YouTube against incumbent US Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri):
:facepalm: So, no spending on Mo? Yeah, that’ll help.
What part of Missouri are you from that you don’t call Missouri, “Mo”? Oh, no, the ad writer’s probably somewhere else.
Maybe they thought it would read as spending* by *Mo. Yeah, sure, as if.
Guess what doesn’t sell that well (outside a subsistence-level agrarian economy) in a depression: Telling people you aren’t spending money on them or their services, so they just can’t make any money.
A little followup on an earlier stupidity. You may recall that Congressman Thaddeous McCotter (R) ran a fleeting campaign for President. Then somehow his re-election campaign to Congress went off the rails and failed to get enough signatures to get on the ballot. The he decided to run a write-in campaign to keep his seat. Then he decided to drop out of the race, possibly because of a criminal investigation related to fraudulent signatures on the ballots he did turn in.
Now he has outright resigned his seat, not even waiting for the end of his term. His resignation statement is rather endearing and stirring, though the same kind of nonsense one would expect from, say, Newt Gingrich.
She was repeatedly physically abused as a child by a relative who doused her with gasoline and set her on fire leaving her visibly scarred with tremendously low self-esteem and an alcohol problem. Unmarried, three children, of whom only the youngest will be in the father’s custody while she serves her sentence, the other two to be cared for by her pastor.
And then this:
The court feels it’s important she understand that God is just testing her faith. What a creative and clever ruling!
Look I think the guys a jackass, but as those things go, that’s a pretty good resignation letter. Newt’s would have been very specific (and probably inaccurate) about exactly who created the “calumnies, indignities and deceits” which were causing him to quit.
The previous session of the legislature, under which the rules that the current crop of clowns was elected could have been changed, had a Democratic majority. I think the next election will involve some changes to the multi-member districts part.
Sounds like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann isn’t going to be Ellison’s BFF anytime soon; she’s decided to consort with Satan instead and channel Joseph McCarthy.
Kudos to Congressman Ellison, who has to put up with 'ol Crazy Eyes.