Up In Smoke

Laffy over at The Political Carnival has this little gem of a clip that I don't think anyone talked about when it was aired.



What does one do when one "buffalos"?

As Laffy rightfully points out, we consistently hear remarks about what Obama did in his past. His alleged cocaine use is occassionally brought up but now conservatives are more interesting in the specious allegations that he's a hard-drinkin' chain-smokin' Socialist.

I am kind of curious as to what Palin is like when she's high. Does she become more coherent?

Afterschool Special Keyboard Cat

I just love the "refer-madness" after school specials.

Well, That Didn't Take Them Long

As soon as I heard Sec. Of State Hillary Clinton talk about how America is partially to blame for drug cartel violence, I was curious as to when the right-wingers would chime in.

Mexican government officials are in the pocket of Mexican drug lords. Members of the Mexican military lend their support to Mexican drug lords. Mexican police double deal by being footsoldiers for Mexican drug lords at the same time they work for the various states. It’s all a great, corrupt mess down there.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s message to Mexico? It’s America’s fault.

And then Warner Todd Huston cranks it to 11.

And as the violence in Mexico begins to leak across the border into our southwestern states, what is Barack Obama’s idea to help? He wants to disarm our own people by raising the specter of “assault rifles,” a term that has no real meaning, and by re-instituting the “assault weapons” ban in the U.S.


So, another country’s internal corruption and internecine violence is our fault according to Obama and Clinton. And we are going to disarm ourselves in the face of foreign violence to “solve” the problem? Apparently, we are the ones the Mexicans have been waiting for, too. At least we are the ones that Mexican drug lords have been waiting for, anyway.

Clinton said that America shares the blame. And that is a fact.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says America's insatiable demand for illegal drugs and inability to stop weapons smuggling into Mexico are fueling an alarming spike in violence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Clinton said today the Obama administration acknowledges that the United States shares responsibility with Mexico for dealing with the violence. She said the administration will work with Mexican authorities to improve security on both sides of the border.

Here she is discussing this statement on CNN:



It's a fact that is you have something to sell, no matter whether it's drugs or not, you are going to go where the demand is. There have been drugs coming into the country from Mexico since before any of us can remember.

And the paranoid delusional ramblings that Obama is going to systematically disarm America is almost too laughable to discuss. It is, however, a classic example of conservative fearmongering.

The larger point of all this, is that people like Huston are operating under the notion that America is a completely virginal country that is perfect. Drugs come here and are forced up us. America doesn't smuggle products into other countries. I may be cynical at times, but I'm not so blinded by ideology to think that my country has no imperfections.

Sex, Drugs, And GOP Control

The Palin family is full of great news stories.

Aside from Sarah's lackluster performance during the final months of the Presidential campaign, her daughters pre-marital sexual escapades that led to her pregnancy, witch-hunting preachers, and an adminstrative record that wasn't as sparkling as she was wanting everyone to believe, there's Bristol Palin's soon-to-be-husband's mother.

Sherry Johnston was arrested / charged with selling Rush Limbaugh's favorite afternoon snack, Oxycontin, on December 18th.

But, there is allegedly a twist to this:

A Mat-Su drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant because of the November election.

Political and Law Enforcement shenanigans involving a would-be VP just weeks before the election? No, surely not?

But now comes the "he said, she said" part:

Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters and troopers director Col. Audie Holloway vigorously dispute that there was anything irregular in how this case was handled.

"We worked very hard to make sure we conducted it just as fairly and as normally as any other investigation," Holloway said.

More from the Anchorage Daily News.

While Michelle Malkin, and many other mouth-agape conservative bloggers and pundits, will claim that I suffer form PDS ( that's Palin Derangement Syndrome for those that aren't as clever as the conservatives that make up stuff like that ) and it's wildly inappropriate to even consider that local law enforecement would cover for a nationally recognizable politician.

Not to live in the "what if" world that conservatives continually inhabit, but how great it would have been to hear Sarah Palin and her cultish fanbase talk about the "values" associated with hard-working women peddling drugs to teens. The "trickle-down" effect through the conservative blogging community would have been equally as incredible. We might have even gotten to hear Dennis Prager talk about dosing your wife up with Extacy so she would have sex with you.