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Newtie as the Good Cop has to be one of the funniest gags I've seen in years...
Newtie and Karl's comedy routine
by digby
I don't know if you've noticed but the Republicans have a couple of problems facing Hillary Clinton in 2016. They have to go after her for being a dithering old broad, of course, but it's a dicey prospect. As much as their base hate her and want to attack her on the most base level, they also have to be careful about going too far with the sexism. And since their own voters tend to be on the elderly side, they can't get too insulting about her age and health. It's a problem.
So, they're going to have it both ways by staging a little pageant. I wrote about it for Salon this morning:
Bad cop Karl Rove stormed into the room, slammed his hands down on the table and hurled his accusations about Clinton’s so-called brain damage. He luridly went on and on about blood clots and secret hospital stays, implying that Clinton was hiding a very serious brain impairment of some sort.
He was then pushed aside as a more responsible member of the GOP immediately stepped up to criticize Rove’s indelicate comments. That would be the very sensitive good cop and new age guru Newt Gingrich:
i am totally opposed and deeply offended by Karl Rove’s comments about Secretary Clinton.
I have many policy disagreements with Hillary but this kind of personal charge is exactly whats wrong with american politics. he should apologize and stop discussing her health. i was angry when people did this to Reagan in 1980 and I am angry when they do it to her today.
I have many policy disagreements with Hillary but this kind of personal charge is exactly whats wrong with american politics. he should apologize and stop discussing her health. i was angry when people did this to Reagan in 1980 and I am angry when they do it to her today.
That’s so true. It’s just shocking that we’ve come to this. How do you suppose that happened?
Well, it turns out that back in the 1990s a self-described Republican revolutionary promoted a new way of talking about politics and trained an entire generation of politicians in its dark practice:
Read on ...http://www.salon.com/2014/05/16/newt_and_karls_latest_trick_inside_their_good_cop_bad_cop_routine/
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It is Foo Foo the sNewt after all. And whenever I hear that cad's name I think of this lovely character...
The one and only Foo Foo the Snoo!
as a kid. I loved going to the library to get new ones every two weeks. I have a copy of a first edition McElligot's Pool that I love dearly. One you don't see very often is "The 10,000 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" one of my life-long favs.
You might like this web site: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/23/the-secret-art-of-dr-seuss/
Stuff I had never seen before...
But I digress. sNewt has always been a thorn-in-the-side kind of guy if not something far more annoying and dangerous.
