Smokin’ Joe Biden vs. Paul “The Randian Ravager” Ryan, RomneyLies, down goes (Wells) Fargo, not-so-Affirmative Action, Chuck Schumer has the right idea, Purple Arizona, meet the Ohio voters killing Romney’s campaign, and President Obama gay married Islam.
Welcome to the Daily Sausage.
First up, tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Smokin’ Joe Biden and Congressman Paul “The Randian Ravager” Ryan. LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUUMBLE!
Charles P. Pierce starts us off with this gem from this morning’s column:
I think that Joe Biden, who is not laboring under any delusions about what’s at stake here, likely will point a lot of this out tonight. (I’ll send him a buffalo nickel if he asks Ryan whether Ryan felt he was a “taker” when he was cashing all those government checks after his father kicked.) Ryan will assume his sad-eyed pose as the lonely embattled truth-teller, and he will hope that the country buys it one more time. He’s a much smaller bag of hot air than his running mate, drifting down the boulevard with his guide-wires held by dozens of easily impressed media types. He doesn’t even react well to needles. Not at all. Joe Biden is not afraid of needles, and Joe Biden wants to stay vice-president for awhile. I’ll never understand that, but people take their fun where they can find it and needling Paul Ryan can be rare good craic. I do not think Joe Biden will be so overwhelmed by the gravity of the occasion that he denies himself that kind of fun.
In case you’re wondering how the candidates have been preparing for tonight’s debate, Paul Ryan has taken a somewhat unconventional approach, while Joe Biden is being, well, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is quite the character. A liquor store in Delaware still has a bounced check of his. He once washed his prized ’81 Trans Am in the White House driveway. He was banned for life from Dave And Busters. He had to go incognito in Mexico for a bit. He jumped over the Vietnam Memorial to honor fallen soldiers. He hitchhiked to the Democratic National Convention. And even though nothing will top the Summer of ’87, he knows things are still better today than they were four years ago.
Ed from Gin and Tacos has chimed in on the tremendous amount of lying that Romney did during the debates. I mean, it’s hard to understate the fact that a major party Presidential candidate went in front of the country and basically lied his ass off. I don’t think the President lets him get away with that again.
Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi has a new report on Wells Fargo being sued for massive banking fraud relating to bad loans being eligible for federal mortgage insurance and ripping off the government over a decade long span.
You have to wonder how long it’s going to take until someone in power pulls their head out of the money trough and realizes that Wall Street is rotten from the leaves to the roots.
Affirmative Action took a beating at the hands of the Supreme Court’s five Conservative justices yesterday, despite being part of a case so stupid on its face I’m ashamed that the plaintiff is in my generation. If this is what we have to look forward to, I’m thinking maybe we should all skip the “Millennials at the knobs and levers of power” thing and just go right to whoever’s next, which if my calculations are correct have not yet entered pre-school.
Chuck Schumer is imploring Democrats to not give away anything to Republicans during budget debates. Also, the bipartisan Gang of Eight is “divided on nearly all key issues — including taxes, entitlement programs, and legislative process issues.”.
This is where the idea of “bipartisan” budget and tax reform falls apart. One party has moderate to conservative ideas, and the other has no ideas at all.
The idea of the Southwest going Purple has been a Democratic pipe dream for a long time, but it looks like the tables are finally turning. After turning New Mexico and Nevada Blue, Arizona appears poised to be the next state to head in that direction. Of course, the big prize is Texas. If the Democratic Party of Texas can get off their collective asses and do something, they might have half a chance of winning a statewide office.
Now let’s meet the Ohio voters killing Mitt Romney’s campaign. Under-educated Appalachian whites in Coal Country who should, by all accounts, be Romney supporters. Instead, they view Romney with more skepticism than Obama because “Obama’s more for the regular working class people, and Romney’s for the big business and the well-to-do”.
And that, right there, is why Mitt Romney will not win the election.
And finally, via Wonkette, President Obama gay married Islam. Did I hit all the keywords?
