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Quote Quiz: Democratic Operative or Republican Candidate?
We're rapidly approaching peak Meh-cceptance and moving toward the point of the primary season during which bitter Republican rivals proclaim their party's nominee to be the greatest specimen of human accomplishment since Ronald Reagan. But before they anoint Mitt Romney as successor to Saint Ronny, let us pause to recall the awful things they said about him and try to distinguish them from the awful things Democrats have said about Romney.Our scoring system today honors Newt Gingrich — identify all 6 quotes correctly and you're a "Leader…of the civilizing forces;" 3-5 correct, you're an "Advocate of civilization;" 0-2 correct, you must suffer from a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
For each quote, identify whether the speaker is a Democratic operative or a would-be Republican nominee:
1. "[Mitt Romney] is someone who doesn't have a core. He has been on both sides of almost every single issue in the past ten years."
2. "I think there is a sense there is no core to [Romney]"
Tags: David Axelrod, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrats, Games and Challenges, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Rick Santorum -
From the Pork Barrel: Tweetering the Dog
* As a sort of playful jab at Mitt Romney, David Axelrod tweeted a picture of President Obama throttling his dog. Ha ha! Very playful!
* In an amazing turn of events that no one could have predicted, it now appears as though Michelle Obama did not buy $50,000 worth of lingerie.
* Newt Gingrich has moral qualms with the idea of in vitro fertilization. Though, I should point out that he considers in vitro fertilization any form of conception that does not involve his own man junk.
* TPM has an unsettling slide show of your President engaged in a series of Terrorist Fist Jabs.
Tags: Bo Obama, David Axelrod, Fashion, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Pork Barrel, Primaries, Puppies!, Republicans, Sex, Twitter -
David Axelrod, David Axelrod's Mustache Admitting Tough Days Ahead
Two of President Obama's most-trusted advisers — David Axelrod and David Axelrod's mustache — were in New Hampshire earlier today, showing signs that anxiety and doubt might be endemic to the White House administration these days…In a blunt admission Tuesday, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod acknowledged the president's re-election bid would be a "titanic struggle" in the face of the slumping economy and unpopular partisan gridlock in Washington.
"We had the wind at our back in 2008," he said. "We don't have the wind at our backs in this election. We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces."
And for its part, David Axelrod's mustache was seen drooping dourly from its host's upper lip in a manner that seemed to imply existential ennui or perhaps acknowledgement of defeat.
Valerie Jarrett's haircut was not available for comment at time of publishing.
Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: David Axelrod, New Hampshire, Valerie Jarrett, White House -
Obama Campaign Won't Call Mitt Romney the "W" Word
Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod announced on MSNBC today that any Team Obama staffer who refers to Mitt Romney as "weird" will be instantly banished to some cold, dark, depressing place that isn't Chicago.A recent story on Politico alleged that the Obama re-election campaign's main Romney-related strategy was to paint the fellow as a weirdo wackadoodle, just because he wears skinny jeans and totally turned around his formerly pro-choice stance on abortion. Now that Axelrod has publicly promised former RNC Chairman Michael Steele that he'll axe any worker who uses the "W" word in reference to Mittens, this whole controversy should settle down.
In fact, Indecision's crack investigative team has uncovered a top-secret Team Obama memo that lays out even more rules of polite conduct for the president's re-election staffers. We present nine more words Team O may no longer use to describe the gravelly-voiced Mormon with the matinee idol hair…
1. Wacky
2. Far-out
3. Loosey goosey
4. Trippy
5. Freaky deaky
6. Spacey
7. Eerie
8. Odd
9. Lady GagaPhoto by Mark Wilson/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Michael Steele, Mitt Romney -
Quote Unquote: RomneyCare
David Axelrod, on MSNBC this morning, continues twisting the health care-shaped knife in Mitt Romney's side…
"That work inspired our own health-care plan. I think it’s been a great boon. Ninety-eight percent of the people are insured up there. People in the state like it, and he ought to be proud of it and he ought to embrace it and I’m sure some day he will."
That's gotta be pretty annoying to Republicans. The only thing more annoying I can imagine would be if it turned out that their hero had been an advocate of union rights.
Tags: David Axelrod, Health Care, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Quote Unquote
