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kpete

(71,996 posts) Mon Jan 26, 2015, 12:27 AM Jan 2015

KING FOR A DAY: THE IOWA FREEDOM SUMMIT - By Charles P. Pierce

Mr. Pierce, in Esquire, on “King for A Day“:

… The event itself was a measure of how politics in the country have changed over the past 25 years. It was organized by Congressman Steve King, defender of conventional light-bulbs, flush toilets, and the southern border, and it was run by Citizens United, the brainchild of David Bossie who, in 1991, was nothing more than a low-rent ratf_cker chasing Bill Clinton’s penis all over Arkansas but who now is the overlord of a large and lucrative propaganda operation, an independent base of considerable power beyond the reach and influence of the Republican party, which is why Bossie could provide a platform for presidential wannabes on which they were free to rail against the “Republican establishment.”…

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So far, the pandering to the xenophobes – Hi, Steve King! Thanks for having us over! – has been sanctified to a certain extent because it can be swathed in rhetoric about “the rule of law,” which immunizes the hardcore anti-immigrant Right by allowing it to say how much it loves legal immigrants who do things the right way. If Santorum can energize the debate by arguing that legal immigrants are taking jobs away from “American workers,” then that loophole closes, and the party finds itself with an internal debate over whether it wants to limit all immigration, legal and not. And then we’ve got a real show on our hands, and I shall despair even more profoundly about the rebranding.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/King_For_A_Day_In_Iowa

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KING FOR A DAY: THE IOWA FREEDOM SUMMIT - By Charles P. Pierce (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP

Listened to about 10 minutes of it on the radio (then had to throw up out the truck window) world wide wally Jan 2015 #1

Hysterical on mooseburger.. Cha Jan 2015 #2

world wide wally

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1. Listened to about 10 minutes of it on the radio (then had to throw up out the truck window)

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:43 AM

Jan 2015

I would say to get ready to hear the term "liberal elite" more than you ever cared to over the next two years. I think that they must think they got a winner there. It's going to be a long two years, so get the barf bags ready. You can use bread bags if you're poor.

Cha

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2. Hysterical on mooseburger..

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:00 AM

Jan 2015

(Except, of course, for Sarah Palin, who seems to be going backwards. When I saw her at CPAC last year, she sounded like an angry middle-schooler. Now she sounds like an angry fourth-grader. She did make time to call the president “an overgrown little boy,” which, of course, is not in any way About Race, because nothing ever is About Race. She also had a brilliant idea to move all the Cabinet departments out of Washington. Why move the Department of Agriculture to Iowa, she suggested, where somebody who knows something about agriculture could run it. The Secretary of Agriculture is Tom Vilsack. Once, he was a governor. Of Iowa. Oh, dear. Maybe we should move the Department Of State to an actual state! If you think she’s a national leader, you’re an idiot and I feel sorry for you.)

thanks kpete

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