Ron Paul maniacs should brace themselves. Today, could be the day Paul gets booted from Congress.
The 20-year congressman is facing a challenge from Chris Peden, the personable Republican mayor pro tem of Friendswood, who says Paul is out there “to make a point, not a difference.” Peden noted that out of 351 pieces of legislation Paul has sponsored, only six have made it out of committee and none has ever passed.
As Wonkette noted last week that “to many of his constituents in Texas Congressional District 14, Paul is just a blame-America-first attention whore who completely ignores the people who put him in office. There are no Democrats running in the 14th District primary today— so if Ron Paul loses, he will have the honor of being a double loser in the eyes of his beloved constituents.”
Yikes–perhaps Paul’s fear of the backlash his run for presidency wrought is the reason he avoided debating Peden. Here’s a video of Paul, flustered as he rants about why he won’t. His response? Peden should go “debate himself.”
Columbia University’s School of General Studies held their Annual Gala Saturday night and presented Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel with the first annual Isaac Asimov Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Columbia alum and former U.S. senator to Alaska recalled his years at GS as a student of humble means. Gravel gathered the kids around while he regaled them with tales of working as a cab driver to make ends meet, living off French onion soup, and sharing a graduation cap and gown with a friend. (I think he left out the part about killing a vagrant man, it being a classy event and all).
Does anyone else get the feeling that Gravel was walking up and down the streets of New York, crazily talking to himself, and just stumbled upon this black-tie affair? The awards committee just made up an award to get him to stop yelling at the cheese spread. That’s what any respectable Ivy League university would do for a potential world leader.
Looks like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ditched his independent, bipartisan, clothing for some sexy elephant skin duds.
The New York Times reveals that several weeks ago, the mayor wrote a $500,000 check to help keep the dwindling and increasingly imperiled State Senate Republicans from losing their grip on power.
The Democrats are seeking to gain control of the Senate for the first time in 40 years, and the race is growing personal and bitter.
Bloomberg has made clear to the Republicans that he is willing to personally campaign for GOP senators.
That’s definitely not the rhetoric Bloomberg was touting while he flirted with the idea of running for president. Before he squashed rumors of his candidacy, billionaire Bloomberg promoted his independence, denouncing party politics and dramatically announcing his resignation from the Republican Party.
“The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy,” the mayor said at a the speech in June that set off presidential speculation. “We can accept this, or we can say, ‘Enough is enough!’ and together build a bright future for our country.”
Oh, so he said one thing then did another. I tell people all the time that peanuts are my favorite food. When they buy me a peanut-butter ice cream cake for my birthday I throw it in the trash. In front of them. (I hate peanuts.)
Alan Keyes — who served as Assistant Secretary of State for under Ronald Reagan and has been hiding out in Texas since February – ended his campaign with an election-eve “Rally for America’s Revival” March 3 at the University of North Texas.
Surely the “complete conservative” wowed the crowd with gems like this speech from his Lincoln-Reagan Dinner:
”If we want to win the victory [as a party], we’ve got to stop pretending to ourselves that we shall win it by scaring people to death with our Hillary masks, our Obama masks, and our bogeyman rhetoric. It has worked once or twice, but I can promise you, it will not work this time — any more than scaring them with Democrat control of Congress secured our victory in 2006. No, if we want their trust back, and their faith back, and their allegiance back, then we must trust the truths upon which this country was built….our allegiance to the authority of our God.”
First, I know I said a “crowd” of supporters would be at Keyes’ gala. But is five people considered a crowd if three of them are family members, one is a janitor and the other is a homeless guy lured in with the promise of whiskey and a half-eaten egg salad sandwich?
At any rate I’m sure it was swell. I hope he wore his “Obama mask” to the rally!