The other day lowlife Karl Rove described Senator Obama as such:
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.
And to think, some people call Rove a political genius! Anyway I thought I’d collect the funniest responses to Karl’s comment. Here ya go:
Mark Schmitt: ABC’s Jake Tapper posed the question, at the same country club, who would Rove be? The easy answer, of course, is “the guy who quit the club when it integrated.”
Chris Orr: Because when we think of country clubs we all think of their extensive black memberships, right?
Ezra Klein: I really like that when Karl Rove is talking to “Republican insiders,” he finds it easiest to illustrate concepts by referring to “types of people you might meet at a country club.”
Jesse Taylor: So, let me get this straight. The bad thing about Barack Obama is that he’ll go to a place full of uptight, snobbish pricks and alienate himself from them by mocking them. And he’s with a hot woman.
John Cole: When I think of country clubs, I think of the Enron crowd that puts folks like Mitt Romney and George Bush and Kay Bailey Hutchinson in office. But black liberals from Illinois named Obama?
My thoughts on the hearing today, as told by John Cole:
I simply am stunned that our Congress, who has rolled over and played dead and abdicated every opportunity for meaningful oversight of this administration, actually is making a stink about Roger Clemons and steroid use and the NFL tapes.
Stunned. I really don’t know what else to say. The day after rolling over and giving the administration precisely what they wanted, congressmen up with puffed out chests, red-faced, screaming at a pitcher about whether or not someone shot him in the ass with steroids.
It is obscene and beyond absurdity. It has to be a sick fucking joke, but there it is, on the television.
No one involved in these things comes off looking good. No one. Although if I had to pick someone who looked particularly bad I’d pick Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), David Kurtz reports:
I’ve got the Roger Clemens hearing going in the background, and I swear I just heard Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) decrying “trial by media” and “circus” hearings in his defense of Clemens.
If you weren’t of age during the Clinton years, then you missed Burton in his trial-by-circus-hearing heyday:
Burton regularly makes headlines with attention-getting stunts. In 1993, he fired a rifle at a “headlike thing” in his backyard in front of a homicide expert to prove his theory that Clinton advisor Vincent Foster did not commit suicide but was murdered and that his body was moved to a Virginia park. In 1995, he wrote Clinton, demanding to know whether taxpayers were footing the cost of stationery and postage for the fan club dedicated to Socks, the first cat. (They were not.)
Interesting in that from what I can tell most Republicans on the committee sided with Clemens. They deserve each other.