November 1 at 11:00AM
John Cleese on Joe the Plumber, John the Candidate & Bill the Berk
Last night on The Countdown with Keith Olbermann, John Cleese pretty much lost his shit to one of the only comedy groups funnier than Monty Python… the McCain campaign.
And he introduced me to my new favorite word…
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Lotta bloodletting at the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, as I remember, but most of it was Anita Hill's. And we still wound up with the dumbest ass ever to sit among the Supremes. He wouldn't have an opinion if he couldn't borrow one from Scalia.
Clarence Thomas was an exception — and made it through. He left with his penis attached and a pube on Anita Hill's soda can. Look at all the court packing Bush did. Harriet Myers (or whatever her name was) didn't even get there for the Supreme Court. The only one to have been shot down for the U.S. Supreme Court over the last thirty years or so, as I recall, was Borque. Douglas Ginsburg withdrew after Nina Totenberg revealed he smoked weed. As a matter of history, Senate confirmation is very par for the course and a neutering from a botched circumcision is rare. The president can also appoint when the Senate's not around as Bush did. Name one person aside from Borque who didn't make it through since 1964.
Castration fantasy..? Supreme Court….
Diagnosis: You are having some troubles with an opinionated and shrewish anti-abortionist woman, or you are one.
The only reason I expound on appointments to the Court is simply because Fred is… wrong. It's not Congress. It's the Advice and Consent Clause as it pertains to the Senate. Even with a Republican majority, his appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court will all go through. 98% of his appointments to the Federal courts will as well. The Senate virtually always plays only a figurehead type role in the process unless there are pubic hairs and mime impersonations. Even then, they get through. Borque was not smart enough to keep his mouth shut. Thank God. Ironically, the one thing Thomas is great at. And, from a die hard Republican point of view, perhaps the best appointment to the Court in decades.
Now there are four whacks with a horrific narrow view of interpretation of law. Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Scalia. Scalia will probably ride out Obama and maybe even McCain because he doesn't trust him I'd suspect given his friendship with Cheney. Those four will in all likelihood survive an Obama administration. Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, and Souter even might step down. Leaving Kennedy who is getting old. Expect hardliners to clutch to the Bench for dear life rather than allow Obama to appoint anyone. Reality, the composition of the Court will not change in ideology. Just some faces. Obama however saves a Judicial disaster because the liberal members of the Bench can't hang on much longer.
Castration would have been too nice a punishment for Thomas Freud. Go back to law/psych school.
Thomas? Actually it's Sigmund. There's a lot in a name, or am I wrong? No, wait, it's you that is wrong. It's says so on your post.
And by the way, which one of us is kidding? I think it's me.
I was talking about Clarence Thomas ya' hump. Tell me about your mother.
If McCain wins this election he will begin berk-packing the judicial system.
Hump, is it? Well, could you make your interesting points without so much blood in them next time? And my mother's fine. A little strange, but who isn't? Mein Gott, I was just trying to bring ze light…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKLYkUWwZA