…Ilsa she-wolf of the Nazis Michelle Malkkkin said that The Kenyan was using children as props and it counted as child abuse?
(Petunia and Pals) If it’s Thursday, it must be Malkkkin. Today she says that the President is a Child Abuser. No, really.
…it of course triggered off a day of Wingnuttian outrage comparing the president’s use of children to Sadaam Hussein‘s, it’s never been done before, etc., etc., etc.
Yes it has:
Tonight is a tribute to Ronald Wilson Reagan, “the greatest president of the last half of the last century, maybe the greatest president ever.” — Peggington Noonington
“I reject a potted plant presidency. I’m here to do a job.”
–President Reagan picking up his newest prop, an oversized pair of scissors, and cutting a big credit card labeled, “CONGRESSIONAL EXCESS.”
5/30/88
At a state dinner at the Kremlin, Saint Ronnie nods off during Gorbachev’s toast, then offers his own remarks, which are dominated by a long-winded synopsis of the 1956 Civil War film, “Friendly Persuasion.”
“It has fun,” says the President, who gives his hosts a copy. “It has humor. There’s a renegade goose, a mischievous young boy, a nosy neighbor, a love-struck teenager in love with a gallant soldier …”
5/6/88
“We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex …”
–George Bush, meaning to say that he and the President had “setbacks”
So let’s celebrate by attacking the Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby!
Hey guys, do you remember when Saint Ronnie won the Indy 500? Me Neither! Because it didn’t happen. Well, anyway, someone bolted onto the nose of his race car the centennial seal of Ronnie, the most-blessed of all preznints, and won the race!
Politico’s Playbook email thingie tells us:
REAGAN CENTURY — “100th Running of Indianapolis 500 Won by Car Honoring the 100th Birthday of America’s 40th President, Ronald Reagan – Reagan Centennial Seal Affixed to Nose of Dan Wheldon’s Winning Car” – Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration release: “As presidential candidate, Reagan drove the pace car in the 1976 Indianapolis 500. Ronald Reagan was a fan of auto racing, and established strong relationships with several major racing series. In 1984, he became the first sitting president to attend a NASCAR race. … A replica of the winning Indy car is now on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, Calif., through Oct. 23, 2011, as part of the exhibit ‘Start Your Engines.’”
And thus NASCAR became a political tool. The End.
Saint Ronnie’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, bans rock music from the upcoming Fourth of July celebration on the Mall because it attracts “the wrong element.”
If Mr. Reagan thinks he has to cut social spending to help right the economy, others might disagree, but he has earned the right to try. What he is not entitled to do is to cut spending for the poor and then claim that he is increasing it.
–NYTimes Editorial
Saint Ronnie is asked about the perception that his administration helps the rich at the expense of the poor:
Oh, I’m concerned about it. It’s a political problem if people believe it, but there’s absolutely no truth in it.
Hi, Bush.
–unimpressed child, greeting the Vice President at the White House Easter Egg Roll
Argentina invades Great Britain’s Falkland Islands. Just hours later, UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick attends a dinner at the Argentine embassy.
“We have taken that question out of the game because it is distasteful in this country.” –John Nason confirming that the question, “How many months pregnant was Nancy Davis when she walked down the aisle with Ronald Reagan?” has been removed from the American version of Trivial Pursuit. (Oh, the answer is two and one half.)
The Los Angeles Country Board of Supervisors votes to lobby Congress to rename the Angeles National Forest the “Reagan National Forest.” Says Sierra Club spokesman Bob Hattoy, “Naming a national forest after Ronald Reagan is like naming a day care center after W.C. Fields.”
A White House official admits that Saint Ronnie has never discussed AIDS with Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and has yet to read Koop’s 6-month old report, which predicted 180,000 deaths from the disease by 1991.
The president, in one of the rare times I have seen him really disgusted, threw his glasses down and said he’s had it up to his keister with the banking industry.
Sen. Bob Dole
The next day, the New York Times helpfully explains that “keister” is a slang term for “rump.”
It is a risk that has to be assumed.
–Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater, when announcing that Saint Ronnie will hold a press conference in two days.
I’m looking forward to it.
–Saint Ronnie when he learns that he is having a press conference in two days.
Is it news that some fellow out in South Succotash someplace has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?
–Saint Ronnie
(St. Ronnie believed that everyone’s opinion is shaped by the teevee machine, and so he complained, bitterly about teevee coverage of his collapsing economic policies, and the misery that they caused.)
Saint Ronnie’s deputy national security advisor Thomas C. Reed resigns after it is reported that insider information enabled him to turn a $3,125 investment into $427,000 profit.
Saint Ronnie’s Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan resigns after being ordered to stand trial for fraud and larceny charges
I guess in a way they are counter-revolutionary and God bless them for being that. And I guess that makes them contras and so it makes me a contra, too.
– Saint Ronnie
Desperate to win contra aid, President Reagan says that the Nicaraguan rebels are “the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.” Historical novelist Howard Fast calls this “an explosion of such incredible ignorance that… he is not fit for public office of any kind.”
Federal district judge nominee Jefferson B. Sessions is questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee about his statement that the Klan was “okay until I found out that they smoked pot,” and about some derogatory comments about the NAACP. “I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist,” he admits, “but I meant no harm by it.”
He is the first of President Reagan’s judicial appointments to be denied confirmation.
I hope she makes a lot of money. I thought it was interesting fiction.
Saint Ronnie’s reaction to his daughter Patti’s 1986 quasi-novel, Home Front, a thinly disguised novel about their family. “Her father is genial, distant and dim, and her mother is dainty, distant and determined.”
Andrew Sullivan announced today that his Daily Dish blog (or What I Did While Waiting for the Return of Saint Ronnie and Maggie Thatcher long-format essay) will be leaving The Atlantic and moving to Tina Brown properties, The Daily Beast and Newsweek.
I sometimes find Sullivan amusing, and I cop to reading his posts now and then. That said, I find his long-term memory loss for all things Movement Conservative, his role in the creation of the Beast that is destroying America, to be at best disingenuous. I don’t give hall passes to the guilty.
Anyway, Mr. Sullivan is now well-positioned to become the digital doppleganger of David Brooks, reasonable conservative, with a two-pronged media pitchfork. The only questions that remain is if Tina Brown will insist on celebrity gossip in his posts, guest appearances by dim-witted (but I think very pretty) Naivtée Meghan McCain or at least one Kardashian buttock per week.
Mr. Sullivan, being a gentleman, did not discuss terms.
REAGAN CHOPS WOOD AS TOP AIDES PREPARE TO SELL HIS BUDGET CUTS
NYTimes headline of 2-21-81, thus showing that some things are eternal.
Q: What kind of governor would you want to be?
I don’t know. I’ve never played a governor.
Saint Ronnie answering a reporter’s question during his 1966 campaign for the California statehouse
Scissorheads -
This Sunday marks the centennial of that old cabbage-headed, B-grade actor, Saint Ronnie of Reagan, our nation’s first senile-while-in-office president.
Originally, I was trying to get some more lefty bloggers lined up to do a blogswarm, but we are competing against Blogroll Amnesty and the Superbowl, so it sort of sputtered and fizzled.
That said, if you would like to write some Saint Ronnie commentary, please let me know. I’ll be glad to round them up here and link to your blogs. I’ll put up a post on Sunday and we will begin collecting your nostalgic comments for the magic of Saint Ronnie, or what you think about the old bastard now that we’ve had 40 years of VooDoo economics to ruin the country and bankrupt us. He really was the gift that kept on giving.
If you do not have a blog, feel free to comment at length on Sunday. Colorful language is essential, Photoshopping is always encouraged (though I will ask you to put it on your own server, Flickr, Picassa, whatever and link it here).
As the Gipper would say, “Have fun, Mommie.”
Regards,
Tengrain
PS – There will be some sort of government-sponsored celebration of old Potato-head’s life sometime in March. (Your tax-dollars at work, but I’m sure that the dingbats in the GOP will be OK with it…) Maybe we can jin up a real blogswarm for that event?
You’ll never guess that Grandpa Walnuts is trying to derail the START treaty, right? But… it looks like another defeat is heading Walnut’s way as the nose-counters at the WaPo says that it is about two Senators shy of right now of passing, and two GOPers are getting wobbly.
Walnuts is having his petulant temper tantrum, but I’m sure will be given plum seating on the Sunday Morning Talkies.
But the quote of the morning has to go to Chinless Mitch:
“Our top concerns should be the safety and security of Americans, not some politician’s desire to declare a political victory and host a press conference before the first of the year…. Americans have had more than enough of artificial timelines set by politicians eager for attention. They want us to focus on their concerns, not ours…. It is unfortunate that something as important as the Senate’s consideration of a treaty like this one was truncated in order to meet another arbitrary deadline or the wish list of the liberal base.”
Liberal base? Saint Ronnie started this thing, and every hawk since then has endorsed it.
UPDATE: Time says that the votes for it could go as high as 75, now that their stop everything strategy is falling apart; er rather, Time reports that Rich Lowry says that… Starbursts! (TIME)
Media Matters
Icky. He must be all worm-ridden by now. Just like Nancy.
…at least I think this one doesn’t have access to The Codes.
Remember those creepy claymation Christmas Specials, like the one with the Island of Broken Toys? Brrrrrrr, me neither!
Anyway, welcome to the new GOP-world of CGI-Reagan (minty fresh!), where you can watch the resurrected Saint Gipper (Zombie?) do battle with President Carebear. We’re not sure what this is, but we liked the Road Runner better. We think he might be smarter that the Gipper, too.
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