Political Ruminations

Margaret Thatcher Snubs Sarah Palin

Thatcher Ally: “Sarah Palin is nuts.”

Last year it was announced that Palin was to meet with Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, and Ronald Reagan’s closest ally.

Sarah Palin reportedly has plans in the works to meet with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she makes an upcoming trip across the pond to the United Kingdom.

British tabloid the Daily Mail first broke news of Palin's visit to the UK on Sunday, reporting that representatives for the ex-Alaska governor had reached out to Thatcher and asked "for a meeting as part of a bid to enhance her claim to be the 'heir to Ronald Reagan' and prepare to challenge Mr Obama."

According to the British tabloid, Thatcher accepted Palin's "informal" invitation to meet should she travel to London.

Meanwhile, Palin relayed news of her upcoming trip to the UK with a slightly different twist. When the ex-governor took to Facebook to address the matter Monday, she signaled that her arrangement to meet with Thatcher arose from an invitation extended by the former Prime Minister:

It seems that Palin’s plans will now have to change, as Mrs. Thatcher’s allies are apparently on to Sarah, and Mrs. Thatcher will not be meeting with Mrs. Palin. The Guardian, emphasis mine:

Morning Quote: Rand Paul is a Whacko

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blathering as to how if you support universal health care, you wish to enslave health care workers, you believe in slavery. Seriously.

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.

Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.

I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.

Quote of the Week

Last night, at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made fun of Newt Gingrich for his flip flops on Libya, along with  his many wives, and then he got in a dig at Fox News. Amazing or just punked by a writer?

I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a position, or two, or maybe three. I don’t know. I think he has more war positions than he’s had wives. [...]

There’s a big debate over there. Fox News can’t decide, what do they love more, bombing the Middle East or bashing the president? It’s like I was over there and there was an anchor going, they were pleading, can’t we do both? Can’t we bomb the Middle East and bash the president at the same time? How are we going to make this work?

Watch it:

One has to wonder if he wrote his own material, or got punked by a Lib speechwriter.

Via Think Progress

Andrew Breitbart Served at CPAC

The New York Times reported today that Shirley Sherrod filed suit, and Breitbart was served at CPAC, emphasis mine:

Andrew Breitbart, the owner of several conservative Web sites, was served at the conference on Saturday with a lawsuit filed by Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department employee who lost her job last year over a video that Mr. Breitbart posted at his site biggovernment.com.

The video was selectively edited so that it appeared Ms. Sherrod was confessing she had discriminated against a farmer because he was white. In the suit, which was filed in Washington on Friday, Ms. Sherrod says the video has damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work.

Mr. Breitbart said in a statement that he “categorically rejects the transparent effort to chill his constitutionally protected free speech.”

Fine. Protect the creep’s right to free speech, and charge him with cyberstalking.

Jamie at Intoxination:

What’s funny is if you follow Breitbart on Twitter, there’s been more than one instance where someone says something about him and he threatens a lawsuit. He’s a typical right-wing thug, that thinks he has constitutional protections, yet people he disagrees with don’t.

I wish Mrs. Sherrod all the best, and I sincerely hope that she is able to teach Breitbart a well deserved lesson in respecting the rights of others.

BREAKING…John Boehner Cheats on His Wife

Oh the irony is too delicious.The National Enquirer gave Speaker Boehner an early Valentine’s Day present contained in a front page expose of the orange speaker.

Now, I don’t read the National Enquirer, and I normally would not have posted about anything found on its pages, but….

The blogger who originally broke this story in September, Mike Stark of StarkReports.com, is a highly credible kinda guy, so I felt comfortable posting this NE bit.

Stark has updated his story. He recorded  the refusal to comment by the woman involved, Lisbeth Lyons, a lobbyist for the paper industry, for the update. Also, be sure to watch the vid of the conversation Stark had with Sam Seder on Sam’s show. Mike Stark:

Wonder how well Boehner’s zero-tolerance pledge regarding corruption will hold up when it comes out that several hundred paper-making jobs were lost in his district and he refused to do anything about it at the same time he was sleeping with a lobbyist for the printing industry that was very happy to get their cheap paper from China.

Watch:

How long until Boehner is brought down, forced to resign? Or will that even happen? And WHO was the source who originally told Mike Stark about this “situation”, and which political party did they belong to?

Taking odds……personally, I think it could have been the eminently obnoxious and driven, Eric Cantor.