Alito is the New Wilson, and Palin is the Same Old Palin.
When it comes to breaching protocol, nobody does it like conservatives. The congress, and now the bench. We all remember Congressman Joe Wilson’s little outburst on the floor of the House when he yelled, “You lie!” much to the horror of his fellow congressional representatives and most of the nation. Difference of opinion must be tolerated, but that kind of breach of protocol was not. Wilson subsequently apologized.
Tonight, during the state of the union speech, the Republican side of the chamber sat on their hands stone-faced for all sorts of things, while the Democrats stood and applauded. My favorite GOP sit line was “Nobody should go broke because they want to go to college.”
But there IS something that says that members of the Supreme Court are not supposed to react to presidential addresses. It’s called “protocol.” Protocol dictates that members of the court be completely neutral always. That’s why, during every state of the union you see them sitting there like waxworks, never smiling, never laughing, never rolling their eyes, never clapping. They do blink every once in a while to prove they’re real, but basically they’re like the guards outside Buckingham Palace.
And then there’s Justice Alito, Dick Cheney’s hunting buddy. Tonight, when President Obama addressed the ruling last week that came from the court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and that it overturned a hundred years of law, he decided for some reason it was OK to shake his head and say “That’s not true.” Neutral? I think not.
Talking head and blogger Sarah Palin spoke out on Fox News saying that Alito’s “Wilson moment” was OK, and that Justice Alito was just “calling him out.” She based her careful judgment on her longstanding and intimate knowledge of Supreme Court protocol. Oh, wait.
In other deep layer of Palin analysis, she went on to discuss health care “mandation.” What’s “mandation” you ask? According to Dictionary.com it means “No dictionary results.” Strange…
And finally, she described the entire state of the union from President Obama as being like “a lecture.” And we all know how she feels about lectures. Maybe that’s why she went through five different colleges.
Thanks for taking the hit and watching her commentary for us. Mandation, indeed.
i was waiting politely for someone else to comment first.
but i ditto the first commenters comments.
also and too, i managed to watch one half of palin being palin…can anyone explain her strange lisp?
I think she is wearing invisaligns-pretty chops for the camera. I caught a glimpse of her speaking for a moment. It really sounded like it was something written for her. Not the part where she was with the group. Can’t find it but will look. She sounded like an educated elite. It was odd and clearly not her normal speaking. Bad move Fox. That will not go well with her base but maybe they are trying to move some of the Elite Republicans. Go figure.
I’m really worried now. Can you catch this unknown mandation. Is it like the swine flu?… or worse?
POTUS speech was mindblowing, if you paid attention, the palinists have block all reason with teabag fantasies, too bad they, the palinists are always one step behind the direction the nation is heading. She’s such a moron.
Mandation? OMG… what a dolt. I actually laughed when you told us that little tidbit. I missed the whole thing. I’m just catching up now. Mandation takes the cake!! LOL
Lol! Mandation can’t be had!!! Gawd…I watched her “commentary” on the State of the Union and it was pitiful. Between the mandation and the lecture part I just cringed and then smiled a bit. The true intellectuals on the right are going to eat her alive. Trust me.
Why anybody cares what this loser/quitter has to say is beyond me.
I ask again – did anyone else see Justice Alito up in the Republican area pre-speech, shaking hands with Republican leaders? When you add to that his awful breach of protocol during the speech, I think I can safely say he has no clue what it is to be Justice of the Supreme Court, dispensing justice for ALL Americans – no clue whatsoever.
He ties with Scalia for my the creepiest Justice of the last fifty years. If we ever move to get one of them removed, man, Alito should head the list of potentials.
BTW, thanks (ahem) for the info on Scarrah – I am going to have nightmares now of her repeating “mandation” over and over again. This is why I cannot watch Faux News – it gets me to faster than anything I’ve seen in horror flicks – no, wait, it is the horror show channel, isn’t it just pretending to be a news outlet.
mrs $ palin is just out right nuts..end of story.
I hereby proclomate and make a mandation that Sarah Palin is sent to the corner of the room, face to the wall and wearing a dunce hat! Hear Ye All This Mandation!
Drink another Red Bull, Sarah. It’s working really well for you! Speak before you think, that’s it! Oh wait, you don’t know how to think – no wonder. Dolt! Dunce!
Damnated2H-Edoublehockeysticks *wink*
I watched the president’s speech as well as most of the rebuttal. It never fails to send me over the edge when the republican’s say Obama said something he did not say.
It’s like they are in an alternate universe.
Mandation and slurred speech on her first commentary. Priceless.
I didn’t watch the new Faux pundit – but clicked on the 2-3 min clip from their website –
Yes – she talked with a bit of a “slur” invisilines make sense – but you’d think she’d take them out before going on camera. Also too, was a bit heavy on the eye make up.
Palin needs to only remember one thing about the speech tonight. Something Obama said at the very end…can you guess what it is?
“I Don’t Quit!”
Palin can’t say the same.
(BTW, thanks, AKM for watching “Faux” “News” so we didn’t have to!)
She is an idiot and a real piece of work! And it amazes me that people listen to her. It’s a joke. Mandation? I’ve never seen anyone butcher our language the wah she does. I’m glad Fox put her on the air. Day after day it reminds America that we are so fortunate we are that she and the angry demented dude aren’t in office.
Sarah has whatever ailment makes women wear Tammy Faye Baker makeup.
two turdheads mandating each other’s navels. ewwww
mandation?? really?
good grief!!
is there a cure?
@ Martha Unalaska Yard Sign #11:
LOL! Seriously…LMAO!
I’m off to bed. Thanks for the laugh.
oh–need to add HUGE THANKS to those who are strong enough to stomach FUX Noise and O’Palin, so I don’t have to!
Mandation? Is that kind of like tarnation? Mandation! I can’t believe they pay her money for her opinion! And if Justice Alito believes that isn’t true, I look forward to his rebuttal of the Presidents with a well thought out, fact based arguement. Yeah, like that will happen.
She’s starting to look like a hussy with all that eye makeup and age-inappropriate hairdo.
Yes, it was a lecture, Sarah, and get ready, ’cause the test is coming real soon!
Considering her friend Prejean, and her daughter’s recent disavowing of all sex, we are lucky she did not say mandabation.
k, have not listened to (ack!) Scarah, but Martha UnAK, lol, I love you.
Heck, I thought the Prez did great, perhaps tried to cover too much ground, but good grief, he came in with a full plate, so yeah, after a year up against yappin ankle biting repugs trying to take him down and discredit him every day, I was okay with him slappin them upside the head with a yo, I’m the one voted in, so as President I’m sayin to you, the uncooperative, be you my party or the other, this is what I was voted in to do.
Seriously I thought he did well. I do wonder what the shout out stuff mid speech from the left side was all about, when both Joe and Nancy looked that direction. I thought maybe he made a speech mistake about Muslim education? Or someone responded to what he said. I don’t know.
I also found the repubs “response” rather, eh. Obviously they wanted to avoid a repeat of the Bobby Jindal performance, which was hard to watch, much less accept. But really, this was so set up, pathetic and obvious.
Wouldn’t want to misunderestimate her vocabulation capabilities progressing her into mandation of confabulations, also, along the disparate oral highways of political commentizations flowing silverly like the rivers with dead fish flowing upstream.
I was very proud of our President tonight! He covered a lot of bases and called out both sides of the parties to stop campaigning and to work for the people.
As far as educationally and academically Palin, she needs to be lectured until she learns the English language.
educationally and academically challenged
Just wanted to share. My sweet intelligent husband, who happens to be apolitical (well, he can’t be perfect!), was watching TV downstairs while I was upstairs watching President Obama deliver the State of the Union address. Hubby must have flipped to the State of the Union speech at least for a little while. He came upstairs to where I was watching the address to make a comment about how rude the people on the one side of the room appeared. I told him why. He then asked if the Democrats were that rude to George Bush when he gave speeches to Congress, and then said the Republicans needed put in a time out–”What babies” he said.
It hasn’t been a good year for our President,
but it is sooooo much better than the alternative.
Tonight we would have been listening to MsQuitter
give her first State of the Union address after the
sudden demise of McCain within weeks of him
taking the oath of office.
Please, don’t think that before going to bed.
Good day, and good night. I ignored the Bush regime and watched my stocks go thru the roof; I woke up in 2009 to a portfolio that had grown beyond my wildest dreams. I know money is not everything, but fighting for a group of people (Dems) that will not stand up for the little guy that they profess to love and honor and support, well, perhaps it’s time to go to sleep again and wake up in 8 more years and everything will be even better.
That’s where I am now folks; can’t fight the banks that rule us; can’t fight the Dems that won’t get down and dirty and fight for what they supposedly believe.
Back to bed; see you in 2016.
There is research that discusses educational levels and vocabulary. I wrote a thesis once that included as a small part, information on the educational levels of the adults in the home and the social capital it would provide to the children, i.e., parents with college degrees expose their children to several hundred more words by the age of 3 than do parents without. Didn’t I hear somewhere that Sarah Palin has a degree in journalism? “Calling out?” Can’t you just see it? President Palin calls out (insert head of state) for (insert international incident). Cabinet of said country sits around the conference table shaking their heads. “What is this ‘calling out’?” Meanwhile, President Palin is holed up in her bedroom munching on crunchwrap supremes, reading OK Magazine, watching Bridezilla while Todd sits in the Oval Office, feet on the desk, yelling at (head of state) saying that he better do what he says or else, cause Sarah called him out, so there.
Since Sarah’s father was a teacher (if I remember correctly) and she has a college degree, you have to wonder if anyone ever actually talked to anyone else in her family to develop a vocabulary in the first place.
I knew it was bound to happen one of these days. Remember back when Sarah was first running for governor and she had no handlers – and over and over and over she would use the word “craving?” Alaskans were “craving” (take your pick) transparency in government; getting their gas to market; better public safety; and on and on.
It was seemingly the only word she knew when describing what people wanted. We Alaskans were just a bunch of “craving” folks.
Then she was elected and someone told her to lay off her one word of choice. But tonight, at the very end of her remarks to Hannity, not only did she resurrect “craving” – apparently she had hidden this special little word of hers somewhere in West Virginia in the meantime, because it came out “cravin’.”
I’ll tell you what I’m cravin’: I’m cravin’ the day she’s finally off the front pages of my computer and the screen on my T.V.
AKPetMom, I guess I get your point. Sort of. Hubby and I are in a pretty good position and came through 2008 without too much trouble. Of course, neither of us looked to see what our portfolio was like until after Christmas this year. And it’s OK. It really wasn’t in most of 2009, but we didn’t see how bad it was. We are more debt free than we were ten years ago and we are able to take more trips, go out to dinner or the theater more than at any time in our 36 years of marriage.
But we are in our early 60s, our children are grown, through college, married (or soon to be), have jobs. They don’t have college loans to pay because we were able to do that for them. We have good, really good, health insurance through hubby’s job. (That was tested in 2007 when hubby was diagnosed with colon cancer, went through treatment and surgery, etc.) Our daughters now have pretty good health insurance through their jobs. But that wasn’t always the case. Their first years on their own, they lived without any health insurance because, like so many, they could not afford it. If they got sick, they had big doctor bills to pay out of pocket.
And I think here is the thing we should all remember, and the thing that Pres. Obama was talking about through most of his excellent speech tonight. There are many Americans, of all ages, who are not in a good position, either through jobs or the preparation for their retirement years, or in having even basic health care for their families. There are those who would like to go to college or get some education beyond high school who cannot afford it, or cannot afford to pay off the loans that would be required.
Just because I, personally, am not suffering financially or really in any way, does not absolve me of caring for my fellow citizens. That’s something that I take very seriously, and I was so pleased to hear the President articulate all of the ways we need to move our whole country forward by doing everything necessary to make the quality of life better for all Americans.
I spent most of the Reagan and Bush (Sr and sonny boy) years trying to ignore everything political. But quite honestly, that was the wrong approach. Whether an issue is personal or not, if it affects our country, it affects all of us in some way. We can’t just ignore what’s going on around us just because none of it applies to us.
And if we don’t stand up for what we believe or what we want, then we are going to be stuck with what everyone else decides without our voices being heard. My mother told me, back in the 50s, “you can’t fight city hall”. Remember that old adage? Well, we can. I saw it happen in the 60s and the 70s and I was a small part of it. Did we end up with things being perfect? No, but if we don’t try, nothing will change – ever. And that’s not something that I can accept.
(stepping down off my soap box now – long rant over, for now)
Like a fool I went back to Fake news and watch myself what was being discussed. It was obvious that she is an echo chamber for Hannity. He set her up and let bounce her take. Christ, I shudder If this woman every got close to the nuclear trigger. She’s pure venom. I thank the stars she’s no longer governor, she did us a big favor, grifter once, grifter for life. I hope all her gold turns to lead.
I think it was justafarmer that posted this link from YouTube in the Chat Room.
If you havn’t seen it.. make sure you see the 4 screen shot at the beginning.
She looks like with the make-up she is some female impersonator ( guy dressed as a female ) or something. The eyes and the color of her skin looks like she is maybe a vampire even. So white and unnatural. VERRRRY strange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwN_emGult0
After watching the clip I wrote down two phrases as well that make about as much sense as her made-up ” mandation” .
She said…
1. “the rememberance here “- -…… the WHAT..?? What does THAT mean? More made-up words maybe…..?
2. ” He spoke that being received by Republicans ” – - I can’t even begin to understand THAT. ( from a Journalism Major no less….Show me the Degree, I don’t buy it )
Mandation? I love it!
Maybe this could catch on as a slang term for penis, as in ‘look at the size of his mandation, Bristol!’.
And, ‘oh Mom, how am I supposed to stay chaste when all you can talk about is mandation?’
I’m so sorry the president has a mandation. Those little suckers can be SERIOUS.
And does Sarah not understand that even the Republicans take issue with last week’s Supreme Court decision?
And, the last of my rant: Sarah, you need a little remedial English. See, there’s something called a “gerund” in our language. So stop saying “…like HE not understanding…” The correct way is “…like HIS not understanding…” Or, better yet, “…like his inability to understand…”
OK, that may be a little complex for you to grasp. So the best thing to do is SHUT UP. Your ignorance is on display and it’s UGLY.
SP delivered her remarks from Wasilla. Could that be her own private FOX studio in Wasilla?? Like in the basement of her shiny new home in Wasilla?? Perhaps this is why the place is so big!
@ honestyinGov
Dissecting Palin’s word salad
PALIN: Not necessarily Greta, because the remembrance here has got to be that he and the Democrats, they’ve been in charge of Washington this last year. So the common sense reforms that he is looking to Republicans to join him on, he could have implemented many of those “common sense,” as he calls them, reforms all along. Nothing has stopped him from doing that.
His mention of offshore drilling, considering that, and new energy plants, and other things that do make a lot of sense, and I appreciate he mentioning those in the speech tonight. Those things that again are common sense he could have implemented. And I think that was a bit condescending as he spoke that received by Republicans, who are saying, wait, we wanted to do that all along. Where you been?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584121,00.html
My son is currently studying for his ACT, specifically the English section where you have to put sentences together in the correct format. I am sorry but there is no way this woman could have passed this test. Her bouncing from college to colege could be due to the fact that once the school found out about her ACT score she had already “quit” and moved on to the next school. Thanks to those watching her performances, I do not have the stomach!
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned that lazy eye yet…is it just me or is it getting worse? Must be all that readin’ she does.
@ 31 AKPetMom said:
“That’s where I am now folks; can’t fight the banks that rule us; can’t fight the Dems that won’t get down and dirty and fight for what they supposedly believe.”
@ 34 Pat, Washington state said:
“Whether an issue is personal or not, if it affects our country, it affects all of us in some way. We can’t just ignore what’s going on around us just because none of it applies to us…. And if we don’t stand up for what we believe or what we want, then we are going to be stuck with what everyone else decides without our voices being heard.”
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Lots of hurt being felt in our country lately — palpable.
I too have been hoping that President O (and the Dems) would get some “fire in the belly.” The American people have been getting more and more anxious and desperate ……. and it truly worried me that he was going to back down or compromise on the promises he made for “change we can believe in.”
But this speech gave me new hope! He does get it. He does see that people are hurting, and that includes many who voted for him, middle class folks who are just barely getting through each day.
He didn’t back down. He didn’t make concessions. He restated his goals and even said he would use his veto power if necessary. He didn’t make excuses, but also made it clear that he inherited Bush’s budget.
He called out BOTH parties, as well as the Supreme Court; and he asked for ideas if anyone thought they could improve on his. He’s starting to meet with the leadership weekly, and I’ll bet they won’t be do-nothing meetings.
Sure, it all remains to be seen. But there was a lot of heartfelt commitment in that speech tonight, and I’m hoping/praying that it brings results. We need to give him a chance.
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@ 40 pantsonfire & @ honestyinGov
re: Dissecting Palin’s word salad
“…he could have implemented many of those “common sense,” as he calls them, reforms all along. Nothing has stopped him from doing that.” (Palin)
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This is why he mentioned “the party of No” tonight! What, did she think Obama would just blindly sign anything the GOP put up? Duh! Sounds like she has little understanding of how a bill becomes law.
Am watching FauxNooz now following the SOTU. Most of the nasty comments focus on big government and taxes — big surprise, huh? What I can’t stand is their attitudes — making jokes about our President and having nothing good to say. Didn’t anyone at journalism school teach them about objectivity?
And Faux lets the GOP rebuttal folks downright LIE! They don’t even question them. Journalists, my @ss!
I’m expecting a flood of submissions for “mandation” over at the Urban Dictionary.
This is going to be sweet…
@ FlynnD
I think $arah meant mad nation — her world salad got a little more tossed than usual.
Maybe Mrs. Palin picked up mandation while speaking in tongues.
Don’t believe me? Check this out —–
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1626260
@pantsonfire
Can’t Hannity – the CEO at Mad Nation Central – see that kissing her ass is going to damage what little credibility he has with, er, ANYone?
I do believe that lisp was caused by a tea bag stuck to the roof of her mouth.
Wait, Hannity had credibility?
Of course, Palin didn’t mean to say mandation. She meant to say mandingo.
To AKMagie – gosh, thanks for a good laugh. That was great.
To sunnyjane – thanks to you also. I really enjoyed your comments as well.
To everyone who watched Sarah: thank you for doing it for me. Loved your comments, one and all. I simply cannot bring myself to watch Faux News. I have enough trouble watching Morning Joe on MSNBC. My husband likes to watch it because Joe and Mika make him laugh with their stupidity. As for me, I cannot get that much perspective; they make me cringe and often I find myself shocked at the kind of words I spout in reaction to their mindless twaddle.
so what happens to Alito?
R’ipley in CT…I don’t think anything will happen to him.
I just saw the following article in Newsweek which made me chuckle. Not for its content but for its likely impact on Ms. Palin. Incoming Senator Brown is taking all attention away from the little Alaskan fraud and I’m certain she’s not too happy about it. Besides doing the state a huge service in quitting, she made the right decision to strike while the iron was hot for her earnings power because it looks like that may go away sooner than she’d like. If her performances on Fox are an indication of her ability to work in that arena, then she’d better have a good savings and investment plan because her brand may have finally reached its “sell by”.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/01/27/absurdly-premature-2012-watch-vol-6-why-scott-brown-should-run-for-president.aspx
Having said all that, I don’t really know what God has in his mandation for her so I could be wrong.
Those eyebrows! They are stapled up high and the blinking — plastic surgeon took too much skin off her eyelids and now her eyes are dry, so blinking helps.
She looks so weird.
There goes her highschool mentality, “sounded like a lecture”? What would she know about protocol on any level.
I finally braved a look at the Hannity tape and was disgusted by both of them. This was simply a “bash the President” love fest, nothing more. Heinous journalism at its best as we’ve come to expect from #1 Fox news.
He needed to lecture these idiots in Congress. They ARE more concerned with personal ambition than doing good for the people. They won’t share or play together and the country has SERIOUS problems!
Here is what someone like Blanche Lincoln thinks: I can’t do good things like universal healthcare becasuse I won’t get re-elected. Just wait til I get re-elected then I could do good things for the people, unless I need to be re-elected, and so on and so on.
While Palin applauds the reaction from the Justice who broke protocol, does she have any idea what that ruling was all about and that republicans and democrats question the decision…does she even know that McCain agrees with Obama:
“McCain did agree with Obama: on his rebuke of the Supreme Court’s recent campaign finance decision. McCain, the longtime campaign finance reformer, told CNN’s Larry King after the speech: “Obviously, I agreed with the president. I tried to get a look at the Supreme Court justices down there, but it is what it is, and I think the president did raise a legitimate point in what are we going to do about foreign owned corporations being involved in American election campaigns.”
Holy Mandation, Batman!
She, not understanding, english…. Buttercup.
Watched Sarah do a “contribution” with Greta as well; this, just before the one with Hannity. With the Greta contribution, SP was sharing the screen with a panel of three other commentators. It was so funny so see her there amongst the others, like looking at a group of majestic lions, and among them a goat. This goat too, had way too much eye-makeup, looking like a Queen Cleopatra look-alike. The whole scenario looked like a dream sequence.
And, when her mouth opened, that’s another story. Whoever was doing that drinking word game, got 4 swigs for “common sense solutions”.
Hey, I liked the new “Mandation” coming from Buttercup’s mouth: FACT CHECKING. Hope my laptop likes Earl Grey (decaf).
lilybart I noticed that right away. That and all the extra eye makeup and the glaring look.
AKPetMom,
If the Dems had used the fillerbuster the way it is being used today, it would probably be a safe bet your pre Obama portfolio would be nothing to talk about.
Even though the D’s didn’t fully agree on the Bush agenda. They did step up to the plate when they believed it was right for our country. So, if you think about it, the party who helped you fill your bank account is the same party depleting it. Why? Because they could care less about you, or the rest of the country. Their only goal is the filling of the pockets of their corporate masters.
while I am happy you have a portfolio to talk about, think about this.
Your money was NOT made by the building up of this great nation. It was made from the blood, and death of our children.
I have read hundreds of your posts, and have great respect for your writings, but I’m sorry, this one struck a hurtful nerve.
rebekkah; She musta thought she would be able to copyright that term “common sense solutions” that she used a multitude of times on the first fox rollouts. (Without mentioning or elaborating on the solutions, of course).
WakeUpAmerica Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 4:47 AM
I do believe that lisp was caused by a tea bag stuck to the roof of her mouth.
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too funny. can’t stop laughing.
Perhaps..during any comments from palin, news programs should show the running-line under her picture..with a translation?
I watched the U-Tube clip of Sarah on Greta last night when I got home. I couldn’t help myself, but I just burst out laughing. What a very strange look she had. The false eye lashes were a “no”.
Mandation? Good Gawd, did “W” prep her for this “in-depth” analysis?
There she goes again, making stuff up.
@ Juneaudream
Great idea like they do at a bar/airport where it’s hard to hear. Special sub-titles for $arah speak so that the masses can truly understand how profound she is.
To Post37, JCos – I absolutely ROARED with laughter at your post re possible meanings/uses of the non-word, mandation. Scared the beejezuz out of my two sleeping cats! If laughter is good for one’s health, you just added about a week to my life.
May I also too suggest, “Is that a (wink-wink) mandation in your pocket, Todd, are are you glad to see me?”
And the conservatives remain sexist, of course. Why didn’t she say womandation?
Sarah has “progressed” malapropisms into a new dimension. In his 1975 Restoration comedy, The Rivals, Richard Sheridan introduced a humorous character by the name of Mrs. Malaprop. The name is derived from the French mal à propos, which means inappropriate, and describes the manner in which she used many words in her speech.
The self-educated Mrs. Malaprop was always substituting a similar-sounding word for the word that she actually intended, often with the consequence of a hilariously nonsensical sentence. The name Malaprop has been immortalised in the form of the malapropism, any sentence in which one word has been used incorrectly in place of another.
Example: How fortunate the country is that Sarah is no longer a civil serpent.
Would someone puhleez explain to Sarah there is a DISCONNECT between saying the “government needs to empower the people” and that people don’t need the government to do things for them?
Which is it? Do something or don’t do something? People need government empowerment or people don’t need the government to do anything?
And Pantsonfire–kudos to you for transcribing that. My head almost exploded reading it. She has no idea what’s coming out of her mouth at any given moment, and no memory of what’s already come out of her mouth.
“Lecture’ is what mom and dad Heath didn’t do enough of.
My brother and I knew right from wrong at a pre-memory age. I have not doubt, based on other moments of my childhood that it was becasue we got lectured on what was right what was wrong, what was acceptable behaviour in public. etc.
As for the Gang of Five supremes, they will get more brazen in their disregard for the Constitution as time goes on, and their majority will serve for decades
I had to force myself to watch “political analyst” Palin after the SOTU address. I was bewildered by Greta’s first question..”If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be, and why?” As we know that was not Greta’s first question, but that’s immediately what I thought of when she asked Palin to sum up the speech in one word, and why. There should be a mandation on questions such as that.
R’ipley in CT Says:
January 28th, 2010 at 5:38 AM
so what happens to Alito?
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He gets to go hunting with Joe Biden…
OT KindaSorta
Here’s a Nashvillian’s take on the teabagger convention :
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/28/831260/-Maybe-Quitting-On-Them-Is-Easy-After-All
An excerpt:
“” We have been calling upon our fellow Tennesseans to join forces with the growing national plans to “welcome” the Teabaggers to Nashville with a real show of force. Talk about seeds that didn’t need much water or coaxing to sprout into big, old trees! Everywhere I have been in district 7 in the past week folks have been telling me in no uncertain terms they are fed up with the kind of extremism brand of politics of the teabaggers and those that encourage such nonsense like Congressman Blackburn. “”
Sheridan’s play, “The Rivals,” was first produced in January, 1775.
And yes, Palin does remind me of Mrs. Malaprop
My remembrance about the mandation is all a bit fuzzy now perhaps because of the disconnect that has me really perplexed also too because the republicans had those ideas all along–where ya been?
I had to take a quick peek at the video of Palin just to see what everyone was talking about regarding her looks.
Wow. She looked like a freakazoid! What is she doing? Her face looks frozen, she was blinking a lot, eyebrows look like they were stitched up, and her makeup made her look like a drag queen.
Very odd indeed. Besides the fact……..she made no sense.
Good comments from Sullivan regarding Rove’s SOTU reaction:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/from-the-annals-of-chuztpah.html
mandation of common sense conserva-babble….
Jane in NC – you are spot on – thanks for catching my typo – but, hey, what’s 200 years in the grand scheme of things?
trisha I was looking at that white gunk that she had painted right below those new wing eyebrows and I forgot to listen for a few minutes there. That and the cotton candy pink lipstick upon her lips which she had troweled on. Getting the knack here, of the mandation of word saladation, there.
KVC she used that same “lecture” bit on Hannity, you’d think she would come up with something new between Greta and Hannity to use, or would have rummaged her thesaurus through.
Everyone knows by which the delay is caused, but suit her it doesn’t, as she is smiling, it seems, at inappropriate times there.
Granny I have a mandation for you, go wash that paint off your face and then STFU.
What is the general consensus of the speech last night?
Sarah Palin – “Mandation!”
Bugs Bunny – “What a maroon!”
I think Murdoch is hoping to get a little Yogi Berra-like traction for Sarah. Yogiisms, a noted collection of clumsily lucid comments and witticisms given an affectionate pass. Problem is, Sarah can’t pull it off.
Mandation, Gutteral, Progressing, Carica. . .carac. . .I don’t know (caricature but Couric gave her “mock.”)
If she was endearing, this could work, but add the blatent insecurity so incongruent with her hubris – it’s always a messy, steaming pile of BS.
All the wishful thinking of the collective teabaggers and delusions of a desperate GOP can’t make this straw-woman a figure of substance. It is so embarrassing, such a terrible miscarriage of worthiness.
yes…eyebrows were very distracting. Mandation….she is an idiot. And why does Hannity insist on calling her Governor? Lecture? It’s called a well written and delivered speech…..Honestly don’t think she added much of anything to the analysis. Good tv!
I greatly appreciated the President’s speech last evening… and the political theater was a joy to behold. I absolutely loved the not-so-subtle slaps upside the heads, on both sides of the aisle…and I think that reference to a “common sense approach” being a novel idea was specifically directed to the ice queen of the north. In other words:
Common sense, Sarah ~ Get Some!
Ha!
http://trueslant.com/harmonleon/2010/01/12/sarah-palin-joining-fox-news-the-way-wed-really-want-to-see-it/
Do you notice every time Hannity asks Sarah a queston her throat clinches with such fear and insecurity. Sarah knows she is pulling things out of her ass and winging what she has no knowledge about.
Put Sarah where her knowledges can be of service to the people not in government but in sexercise and abstinences!
What in Mandation is going on in here!?
OH, bless her heart, she’ll never live this one down. It reminds me of that other thing she said…..OH yeah! Fungible commodities.
Mandation! These fungible commodities are gettin’ out of hand! Jocularity! Jocularity!
God help us all.
Mandation will now be inserted into the AK version of Webster’s…it’s a fact!
we should progress the dictionary to include mandation
Mrs Paylin is morphing into Tammy Fay Baker !! I think her face lift is failing quickly and she is working feverishly to hide it,more makeup,eyelashes to get the attention away from the furrows by her mouth. I don’t know what is going on with her mouth,it seems to twist sideways as she speaks as though there is nerve damage,or maybe its the lies she tells causing it.The lisp is accompanied by a strange look to her front teeth and you can see she keeps touching her tongue to the backs of them as she speaks.Something is very wierd there.
Her word salad makes it so difficult to listen to her that we spend our time looking at the garish Elvira look to her face.
@ mommom…. “garish”… perfect word.
Sarah strikes me as the type of woman who would not visit a physician for botox or silicone, but would instead have someone come to her home and do it for her privately. I think she’s had someone “do” her lips and forehead, but not professionally.
Moon @83…I thought the President’s speech was excellent.
I thought $P was channeling her inner Tammy Fay also, too.
Mandation, what a sensation!
Sarah appears to be embracing her own caricature… she’s taken Dave Letterman’s spot-on “slutty flight attendant” look to the next level, a hybrid of over-the-top Real Housewives enhancements and drag queen stage make-up. Slap a wig, false eyelashes, and all those cosmetics on a man, give him some Red Bull to jack him up and some Valium to knock the edge off, and the result would be what we saw last night. Whoa, what a “brand” she’s got going there!
Most enjoyable comments ever.
Maybe Ms. Payme had a thread lift and one of the threads broke. Could explain her cockeyed face. For a person who has given many speeches before huge audiences, she certainly acted nervous.
I think Sarah would be wonderful as a new cast member on the reality show, “Real Housewives of Alaska”. She’s got that look going on and she’s ditzy enough.
man-da-tion (man-day-shun) n… from ‘mandate’: an authoritative command or instruction… and ‘-tion’: suffix meaning ‘act of, process of, result of, state of’. Generaly misused term attempting to describe the action of enabling a mandate, or the carrying out of such. Gibberish term associated with yearling political commentators or those who believe they are.
Hey, if Stephen Colbert can get ‘truthiness’…
Snicker snicker!!
This cannot end well for Sarah. She’s playing on a free pass with an expiration date; the Fox guys will canibalize her just as soon as the TMZ and Enquirer buzzards land.
Greta referred to $P as Governor *twice* — Greta, did you miss something? She QUIT! Quittypants Buttercup should never be referred to as Governor. That honor is reserved for those who completed their terms, not for those who quit to “progress” their personal bank accounts.
I admit it, I have Restylyne and botox and I do NOT look like that because I had a talented professional in NYC do it.
Some salons do botox.
Wonder if Jessica is wielding that syringe?
lol, I need to watch the dang video just to see the awful face that sounds like a train wreck. Perhaps she and the make up artist don’t get on real well, perhaps she tried pulling a tantrum and wasn’t appreciated? ala sabotage? I hope so, lol. maybe they’ll butcher her hair or was that also bad? how about her clothing? oh heck, I just remembered reading she did it from Wasilla, so, lol, hmmm, did she do her own makeup? ha
Off to watch it uck and shudder, if I can, maybe it will make me laugh.
I thought our President was fabulous and I really admire the man. He kicked some butt, those who voted for him needed to see and hear exactly that. I need to watch it again, also, too. I love how he pounded home over and over that he will not QUIT, it was perfect and right on.
I thought it was great how he ‘showed’ what common sense should look like, by putting forth actual solutions, common sense belongs to everyone. It’s not one parties brand. Hell, if we look at both parties record and behavior, Republicans show way less common sense and way more selfishness. I love the common sense idea of ‘posting on a politicians web site the money accepted from lobbyists’, I like that common sense transparency.
SayNO: I love him and I loved the speech. I really liked when he told the Reps that if they insist on 60 votes, then they have to be part of the solutions.
Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and those other two yokels = enemies of our democracy. One wonders how many hard stares they got when they waltzed in in their robes of office?
If I correctly recall a couple of your posts from 8/08, she attended 6 colleges but only paid at 5.
Alito was probably daydreaming,
was awakened by the applause,
and thought President Obama said something like “The Supreme Court saved our a$$e$ last week”,
and chose to break protocol by objecting,
because his conscience got the better of him.
That is the only explanation that would keep me from feeling he should be kicked off the SCOTUS.
Oh, yeah, baby, it was a lecture delivered by our President of these United States. You, however, are completely unable to comprehend even in the most minute of ways just one of the topics; not even one, also, too.
Mandation is the complaint her children have with her……….
Palin knocks someone about the scotus ruling but she is also calling the other justices liars and they are the ones who said it would lead to business from foreign countries taking part in our election process.Even the republicans see this at least some of them are worried enough about it to want to close loop holes.So it was not alright for president Obama to disagree with the courts decision but it is alright for her to call the rest liars.I think not.Does she not realise she contradicts herself in her statements about this?
Hyper-inflation is the Obama mandation. Configuration without compensation
is his compulation to have everything we own confinscatnation. No taxification without representation. Leave us be in a white nation so we
can obey on constitutation.
Sarah P is truly the most dim witted dolt to grace the airwaves. She belongs on Faux Noise where they never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
one thing i noticed immediately abou this sotu is that it was the most raucus and rowdy one i have ever seen. there was loud incomprehensible murmuring, laughing at inappropriate times, talking amongst groups of people. i am trying to figure out a reason why this is so without resorting to the race card. is it because obama is more casual? i don’t think he came off as caual last night, evem though he seemed at ease and spoke in easily understood terms. is it his style of speech, that recalls the rallies that were so high-spirited? all the rep’s have rallies, though, and they know the difference between a rally and a sotu address. is it that obama is sort of like a new or a substitute teacher who gives in too much to the kids in class and so creates an environment where they feel safe in going over the line? but these justives and rep’s are not obama’s students, nor are they kids (not agewise at least). so does anyone else have any guesses? is there a lack of respect for the president and if so, why? why these breeches in protocol? does it have something to do with race? i have a strong suspicion it does, but am having a hard time figuring out a diplomatic way of expressing it.
There has never been a word that she doesn’t try to improve by adding ‘-ing’ to the end of it. If the ‘-ing’ doesn’t work, she takes arbitrary syllables from other words, slaps them together and thinks everyone’s going to believe that she’s just so smart ’cause she knows all these fancy words that they never heard of.
That might work with some of the tea party crowd but it won’t fly with anyone who’s got more than a 6th grade ‘edumacation’. As a teacher, I would be SOOO embarassed to admit that she was my daughter!
@ 118 GrainneKathleen:
“one thing i noticed immediately abou this sotu is that it was the most raucus and rowdy one i have ever seen. there was loud incomprehensible murmuring, laughing at inappropriate times, talking amongst groups of people. i am trying to figure out a reason why this is so without resorting to the race card. is it because obama is more casual? ….. is there a lack of respect for the president and if so, why? why these breeches in protocol? does it have something to do with race? i have a strong suspicion it does, but am having a hard time figuring out a diplomatic way of expressing it.”
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Yeah, noticed that too. Perhaps it was a way for the gallery to deal with their ‘jitters,’ an outlet.
One might say that it was good to see them reacting — compared with other SOTUs that have put us to sleep!
But under it all, I do think there are deeper reasons. Lack of respect, perhaps …….. although I certainly can’t see it from my point of view. Perhaps they all resent him because he has a strong agenda and won’t knuckle under to their games – Dem or Repub.
If it’s the race card, they won’t get anywhere with that! He’s too smart.
GrainneKathleen @ 118 & yukonbushgrma @ 120:
Excellent observation(s)… I, too, was rather taken aback by the lack of decorum during the SOTU. Then I got to thinking about ‘our’ behaviour –in general– in public places and spaces, and I think I detected a distinct ‘carry over’ onto the Hill from those places. I don’t know what it is, but people don’t seem to be aware of who or what is around them, anymore…don’t seem to be aware that they are in spaces and places *with* other people who can see and hear everything they are doing.
Movie theaters, restaurants, houses of worship, libraries, you name it, where once people were mindful of those around them, they don’t seem to be any longer. If they want to talk to someone, they do – no matter what *else* is going on.
I, personally, attribute this phenomenon to the advent –and now, transportability and affordability– of the cell phone. For some odd reason, folks figure that when they’re on their cell, no one else can hear them *except* the person on the other end of call. I think that figuring is carried over into their everyday attitudes and interactions ~ if *they* are engaged in a conversation with someone, it is a conversation *only* they (the ‘participants’) can hear…no matter where they are or who else is around. At times it seems as if they’re also under the impression that the cell phone gives them a measure of ‘invisibility’ — that no one *else* can see their ‘behaviour’, either.
I’ve had daggers eyed at me on more than one occasion for asking a cell phone be turned off. Even though the physical cell phone is turned off, though, the behaviour it has engendered [in the past few years] through its reassuring always-available ‘for private conversations’ and use, carries on without skipping a beat…oddly ‘contagious’ reassurance, too, it seems. And, to my way of thinking, very rude. beth.
thanks for your thoughts yukonbushgrma and beth! both very interesting!
yukon, i think you are right that in some sense it was a relief to see people passionate about what the pres had to say. i confess, i couldn’t watch bush sotu’s after a while for many reasons, one of which that they felt like they were sucking the life out of me. i think you are also right that they resent obama for his intelligence and his agenda and most likely believe that the only way to ressurect their sorry excuse for a party is to destroy him. and we know how single-minded and united the gop can be – i so wish we could use this “talent” for good. and i wish that the dems (whom i, as a progressive, have also been calling a sorry excuse for a party occasionally out of frustration in the past few months) would develop and use this ability once in a while.
and beth, i know what you mean about cell phone use and its effect on our culture. i went away to study abroad in ireland in the late nineties, right before the cell phone boom in the US. i was shocked to find lots of the irish walking around talking into cell phones in public places. i thought it was strange and funny and that it was a “european thing.” but when i arrived back to the US almost a year later, everyone was walking around with cell phones. public manners had changed in a heartbeat. as you observed, people walked around talking about anything and everything as if no one else could hear their conversation. this behavior has become acceptable. for me, a cell phone-less person, it has created a parallel universe. i still abide by the pre-cell phone manners yet live in a world where most people don’t. the cell phone and other inventions such as the lap top and the i-phone, the blackberry, the i-pod have, i believe, led people further and further into parallel narcissistic universes that occur side-by-side but never seem to unite or connect. perhaps the lack of dialogue between the parties is also an effect of the cell phone syndrome.
Well clearly Sarah Palin knows more about the Constitution then our President, who once taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. But then Palin has always assumed that the proverbial wink-and-grin trumps actual intellectual capacity. And, from recent photographs, (this should really distress her whereas comments about her intelligence don’t) I am seeing a tad of aging in her face…a slight widening of the jaw. A slight drooping of the eyes. Yep….no more beauty-queen-runner-up for you Saracuda.
Thank u Thank u thank u, I have been missing my daily dose “This is your life stupid girl who thinks you are something”. And if you thought the pres was good at the sotu address, check him out at the GOP meeting. They thought they could trap him, HA. Score one for the good guys.
The GOP looked like the fools and morons they are, trying to debate with a true scholar, who stood there poised and confident, while they listed GOP talking points and he shot them down like the pheasants(friends) that Cheney shot. President Obama should do this every week. Excellent reality show.