We canÂ’t laugh at ourselves. That would be racist.

Nice

I was also hoping to see Harry ReidÂ…..thatÂ’s another lie

LOVE IT.

Mr. President, I see a lot of famous people here tonight. Some of our top journalists. I donÂ’t see Bob Woodward, though. He sends hisÂ…regrets.

That's just brilliant.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at March 11, 2013 02:46 PM (/kI1Q)

The thing that really gets me is that the Gridiron   Club     is a press group.   It's comprised of members of the press,  news organizations, media...      Yet they don't let the press in.   That's so ass backward I can't even wrap my head around it.

I was on the treadmill the other day and I caught something about the supreme and infallible leader ordained from on high stepping down, and I got all excited, but then I realized it was just the Pope not the President.

I almost want to make that my email signature line.

#6,

I too am amazed. If this represents Ace's output whilst ill, just imagine...

Oh, and the speech? Funny as all get out. As in seriously funny. National ambition funny.

What's even funnier is the "bbbbut he's hurting poor people in Louisiana" rambles from the WaPo commentariat.

>>>I saw a bumper sticker on the way over here that said, “Honk if you’ve been released by Janet Napolitano.”

Hah!

Nice.

Some great zingers throughout that speech. WTG, Gov. Jindal!

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2013 02:49 PM (GQ8sn)

Only one member of the WH press corps,   Ed Henry,    was allowed to attend and report    on the event for    the press pool.      I expect Jindal released   his remarks after the fact.

Posted by: 80sBaby at March 11, 2013 02:51 PM (YjDyJ)

lol!

I like my governor.

>> Soliciting prostitution is completely unacceptable. We would never put up with that in Louisiana.

Oh my.

"commentariat"

See what I did there - thanks to Ace's "made up word" post the other day...

D*mn, that was a good bit of speechifying.

I mean, come on. What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?

Hah!

#30,

ISWYDT

>> So, we asked the Jindal folks to pass along the speech, which they did.

I clicked on the link* and found that line.

*so no one else would have to

"In fact that's what I usually do."

Granted, but usually with such Style and Grace as to defy expectations...

>>I think my performance that night would have been better if I had just taken a 10-minute sip of water, interrupted by 30 seconds of speaking.

Ha.

Posted by: ace at March 11, 2013 02:55 PM (LCRYB)

word

>>Hard to imagine a better name than “Reince Priebus” to connect with the working class people and show that we aren’t one-percenters.

40 >>> too am amazed. If this represents Ace's output whilst ill, just imagine...

 

thanks but all I did was link someone else and cut and paste quotes.

In fact that's what I usually do.

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Not true, Ace...you write a lot of good, original content stuff.

Some of it is gobsmackingly brilliant.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 11, 2013 02:59 PM (Hx5uv)

"And he killed some guy named    Patrick?  That's just    WRONG!"

-Mouthbreathing LIV

I don't know who wrote the prostitution in Louisiana joke but I would be none too pleased if I were Senator Vitter.   That may have been over the line and better left alone. 

"It would be easier to pay off the national debt."

Or say, build a bridge to Hawaii.

Or "understand women".

Posted by: wheatie at March 11, 2013 03:00 PM (2xMNt)

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You're really sucking up today.  What's the occasion?

Jindal was funny but I'm still not laughuing at his move to GOP Establishment in February.

76...You're really sucking up today. What's the occasion?

Sucking up?

You call that 'sucking up'?

I didn't even get into how adorable and hawt he is....or how my heart goes pitter-pat whenever I read his tweets! 

>>ethics faux pas of getting free Hannah Montana tickets

I don't know about that.

I'm not sure I want to know about that.

Just reading those words together is frightening enough.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 11, 2013 03:12 PM (wR+pz)

I bet we could find his college transcripts.

(Guy calls radio station)

Station: Congratulations! You are the 10 caller. You've just won free Hannah Montana tickets

Caller: ........... BLAM!

Station: Hello? Hello? Helloooo?

:::The LA media already dislikes him, so responding only gives them a chance to bring up the scandal again and wishcast again for someone to beat him, like porn star Stormy Daniels.::::

This could happen.  After looking up Stormy Daniels, I beat myself.

He told exactly one stinging joke directly about Obama.  He balanced that with a joke by making fun of himself for the benefit of Obama.  

I'm not a big fan of Jindal as I once was based on some of his comments on the Katrina relief and of course, his non gridiron bashing of Romney after the election.  Big suprise huh!  Again I see that as more betrayal than constructive criticism as it served no purpose. 

>>the face value of the tickets were over that amount IIRC.

Oh the horror.

Posted by: wheatie at March 11, 2013 03:10 PM (2xMNt)

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You're furry, aren't you?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge

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That would have been cruel and unusal punishment.

Posted by: alex® at March 11, 2013 03:14 PM (m9cpE)

Yes I'm sure Senator Vitter's children and wife like to be reminded.  Thanks Bobby.  

>>Of course in any normal society

If there isn't massive civil disobedience and ignoring of the law, they deserve him.

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BREAKING: Judge Halts Nanny BloombergÂ’s Big Gulp BanÂ…

Cool. Was it a Federal Judge? 

I wonder if Heir Bloomberg will appeal it.

who knew? Jindal is one funny guy

What do you mean I'm funny?

What do you mean?  You mean the way I talk?  What?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 11, 2013 03:26 PM (9Bj8R)

Maybe he could deal with that massive increase in homeless people too.  Maybe he could do it all at once by employing them to fix the cross Bronx expressway.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 03:24 PM (4OvDk)

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That's how I read it too.   All Bloomy has to do is dictate it for  ALL  consumable liquids and he's in like Flint.

130 Hey bloomberg you jackass, never mind what I drink, fix the fucking cross bronx expressway you fuckwad

Does Bloomberg ever spend time on any of the actual...problems...in NYC?

Or does he only zero in on the trivial ones that aren't even really problems.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 11, 2013 03:30 PM (9Bj8R)

He could fill those holes with confiscated styrofoam and hide the baby formula in there too.

Where's the YouTube video of that judge sticking a two liter soda bottle up Bloomberg's ass? 

And who has the Mentos?

143 That is some funny shit right there. Second look at Bobby J?

I think that there might be an issue with whether he qualifies as a "natural-born citizen" - neither of his parents were citizens when he was born, IIRC.

That CS Lewis quote should be fucking etched on Bloomberg's tombstone.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan

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Some people are Romney fanboys...

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 03:33 PM (QupBk)

I do anything but live politics 24/7.  This is basically a political blog so comments are mostly political.  Imagine that.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at March 11, 2013 03:37 PM (uhftQ)

Oooh the sting. It hurts.

I told all the fatties I know they should defend smokers, because they were next, but did they listen? No, they did not.

Go Bloomberg. Show the rest of the nation what a living hell the elites will build.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2013 03:40 PM (GQ8sn)

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We could hide them in the semi-truck underneath the out-of-state cigarettes.

Posted by: Peaches at March 11, 2013 03:32 PM (VISKy)

Don't want! But, I do wish him the best of luck with the politics within his crumbling party.

Oh. My. God. Stop. That. Shit.

If you are a citizen by virtue of your birth, you are a "natural-born citizen".

There are only 2 kinds: "natural-born" and "naturalized". There is no magic generational window. There was some attempt to find some historical statements that natural-born meant something else so that we could declare Obama ineligible.

Nope. Not true. Jindal is a "natural-born citizen" because he wasn't naturalized.

I said there was a question, not that he was disqualified. I don't recall the details - I just remember that there were some folks that thought he might not be qualified. Hence the caveat about jumping on the Jindal '16 bandwagon.

Personally, I would be delighted if he ran - I like him and never figured out why one poor speach in '08 was such a deal-breaker when balanced against years of good governance.

Bobby Jindhal, the POS left wing fascist posing as a republican;  the man who would send his state brownshirts out to businesses because they have the crassness to sell milk below the price that he demands it be sold at;  the man who wants to ban the use of cash at garage sales because it could lead to his state not getting it's fair share;  the man who wants to turn parents into child protective services because they are late on a school lunch payment....

yeah, that man wants to be the nominee for what once was considered a freedom party, you know pre-Romneycare.

177 Bobby Jindhal, the POS left wing fascist posing as a republican; the man who would send his state brownshirts out to businesses because they have the crassness to sell milk below the price that he demands it be sold at; the man who wants to ban the use of cash at garage sales because it could lead to his state not getting it's fair share; the man who wants to turn parents into child protective services because they are late on a school lunch payment....yeah, that man wants to be the nominee for what once was considered a freedom party, you know pre-Romneycare.

At least learn to spell the man's last name correctly.

-The milk price fixing program didn't originate with Jindal, it came about in the 70's under a democratic administration. If we're saying that administrative enforcement of an existing law makes it so that the current senior elected official "demanded compliance", than we should reject the memory of Ronald Reagan because he demanded compliance with unnecessary taxes and administrative fees every single one of his years in office. After all, even though he reduced or eliminated many and probably would have done away with more if he could have managed it, they were all collected while he was there. Would it be better if this law wasn't on the books? Yes, but it's more helpful to the majority of Lousiana's citizens if the tenure track for teachers is abolished and the state income tax is ended. Jindal will be much more responsible for those successes than he is for enforcement of the milk price rules.

-Cash sales between individuals have not been outlawed in Louisiana. They had an epidemic of people stealing sheet metal and wiring from both abandoned and occupied properties and reselling it. The legislation requires that records be kept, not outlawed, on cash transactions above $25 that occur more than once per month. The state is trying to police an area causing harm to citizens and businesses in the state. It creates an added burden, but given the problem I can't say I blame them.

-The stated goal is that cases where people don't pay for 3 meals in a row are reported to Child Protective Services, because it may be symptomatic of other issues at home. 

I don't like the last law, if only because a simple mistake in billing info could result in three missed payments and a notification. But given everything else that Jindal has and will accomplished, along with his drive and intelligence, is this bill- which may be modified anyway, once the effects are realized- enough to show that he's a secret fascist?

Look, the media makes fun of us enough  without dopes  like  Jindal  doing it, too. I did not find his jokes about Mitt  or PERRY funny AT. All.   Jindal has been on my  s-list since he ranted about the party for all the wrong reasons a few months ago.   Now I have more  reasons. It's for Mitt to make fun of himself  and it's for Perry to make fun of himself (which he has more than he even needed to, btw)  not for poseur "friends" to stab them in the  back in DC  in front of the  ENEMY.  Stay in LA, Bobby, and leave us  alone.

If this   had been just another election, these jokes  would be  funnier, but it's not funny to have one Republican make fun of his fellow Republicans to the ENEMIES' faces.  It would be like  Patton making fun of FDR in front of Hitler.

Nobody realizes the situation we're in.

Dan, those people usually get caught, at least around here they do.  They don't get caught right away, but I'm guessing they don't last more than a few months - the problem is once they get caught (and that plan isn't going to catch any more of them any faster, or deter it any more) they don't face enough jail time to make it worth it.  They are tweakers for the most part and should be in prison for 7 or more years when they do get caught.  Here, they have to be caught 3 times before they do any time.

Again, the solution to that particular problem is following the law and incarcerate them to the fullest allowed, instead they chose to still be lenient to save jail space but instead inconvenient the vast majority of folks who do work honestly.

Red tape bureacracy working in conjuction with business is not anyone's solution except the big government types and Jindal is one of those - only that the big govt. he wants is one he pulls the strings of.  We need to PURGE the politicians that have that mindset.

The govt. is there to work for us, not the other way around.