The Superior Frack

And here I was hoping that maybe Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY22) had the lone redeeming character trait of being a Battlestar Galactica fan.  Although it figures that he's against "fracking" regardless of the context.

This American Crossroads ad is a cautionary lesson to all would-be (and current) pols of the importance of keeping that restrictor plate on their brain-mouth circuits.

The punchline?  Hinchey said "Shaddup!" almost as many times in the full original video clip as he did in this spot.

***I don't know which is the more pathetic - that Dirty Harry Reid tries to deny that he's been Red Barry's water boy in the 111th Congress, or that he can't even manage not to malapropize his lame denial:

He's as incoherent here as he was in the debate with Sharron Angle a couple of weeks back when he did everything but drool on the podium while pissing himself at the same time.  Serious question: Is there something physically wrong with him?  Early stages of Altzheimer's or something?  This is starting to become a pattern, and one that I don't think anybody would want to see in a majority leader of the United States Senate.

***I hate to say it, but this Meg Whitman ad has all the look and feel of a defeated candidate taking his/her last, best shot, knowing it's not going to be enough to make the difference:

No question Moonbeam said it.  But he said it FIFTEEN YEARS ago.  Which means it's already baked into the Brown cake, as it were.  Sure, we know what Team Whitman is trying to get at here - "He admitted to being a liar then, so he's that same liar now!"  But this is the same guy that endorsed smearing Mrs. Whitman as a "whore" not fifteen years ago but in the past month without it making the slightest dent in his polling lead.  The same guy who got thrashed in debates with Mrs. Whitman and duped into admitting on stage that he's in the back pocket of the public employee unions that are strangling California to absolute death, and it didn't even slow down his leaving of Mrs. Whitman in the dust.

If the doddering old hippie can self-destruct multiple-times and still run away with this gubernatorial election, there simply isn't a "final argument" that is capable of mattering one jot or tittle - let alone this irrelevant blast from the past.

***Man, the confidence continues to exude from Team Madcowsky, doesn't it?  It's reached such a level of imperious conceit that even her archenemy Sarahcuda has noticed it:

Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1,000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air.

Does all this sound heavy handed? It is. It is an interference with Dan Fagan’s constitutional right to free speech. It is also a shocking indictment against Lisa Murkowski. How low will she go to hold onto power? First, she gets the Division of Elections to change its write-in process – a process that Judge Pfiffner correctly determined had been in place without change for fifty years. She is accepting financial support from federal contractors, an act that is highly questionable and now pending before the FEC. And today, she played her last card. She made it clear that if you disagree with her and encourage others to exercise their civic rights, she’ll take you off the air.

The concept of “electioneering” involves several issues, but typically refers to campaigning at the polls, which is appropriately banned. Under federal law, it can also mean paying for advertising on broadcast media during a federal election cycle, and it requires disclosures if done by groups and corporations. Fagan used satire to mock Murkowski’s write-in efforts and encouraged Alaskans to run as write-in candidates. That is not illegal. That is free speech.

Yes, you read that correctly.  Illegal electioneering isn't illegal for the crown princess of the Last Frontier because Daddy's Supreme Court wrote her an exclusive special dispensation; but a local radio host doing nothing of the sort but simply exercising his First Amendment right to mock her megalomania and frak up her state-sanctioned electioneering is bullied off the air by this skirted fascist as summarily guilty of what "illegal electioneering" has evidently been redefined to be in the Armpit State.

Curious behavior for a frontrunning incumbent allegedly up by double-digits in the "polls," is it not?  Or has Luella been possessed by the vengeful spirit of Maximilien Robespierre?