CAN’T EVEN HANDLE THIS NEWS: “Under intense pressure from Democratic Party officials, Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman, has decided not to challenge Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the primary this fall, according to two people told of his plans.” This is just an extreme disappointment for comedy, one for which there is no comprehensive one-liner at the moment. [NYT]
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Dude, if the Democratic Party can push you around like that, I’m not sure you’re qualified to run.
Fortunately, Murtha’s demise opened up a spot for itinerant carpetbagging in Pennsylvania. You’ll love it there.
Aw, fuck, does this mean he’s coming back to Tennessee?
[re=522332]Potater[/re]: Please don’t, we don’t want you here. And that’s even considering the OTHER people who live in TN.
[re=522332]Potater[/re]: Only his taxable income.
He wanted more time to explore all the NYC restaurants in his Zagat.
PLEEEEEEZZZZZE HAROLD, Don’t move back to to Tennessee.
Signed affectionately,
Tennessee
Gas up the helicopter, let’s see if there are any other states who need that special brand of corporate whoredom.
Gay Power. [fist in air]
[re=522338]Jim Newell[/re]: A good call, actually, as TN has no state income tax, instead opting for a high sales tax. Fuck you, poor people!
This should definitely open up a hole for Governor Paterson to run.
Must want to spend more time with family or something.
This is good news… for Scott Brown!
Who wants a stinky old Senate office when there’s a governor’s mansion up for grabs!
Thank God that Merrill Lynch has its Vice Chairman back again! Strategic synergies will soon be ramping up and the economy will recover! Thanks, Harold!
[re=522350]Zadig[/re]: Ditto for TX (8.25% in Austin) & of course our property taxes are un-freaking-believably high. Oh, & I hate Rick Perry…
He’s taking on the John Edwards aura of loserdom.
[re=522365]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I recall the first time I bought something in a state with no sales tax. “You mean… you mean this costs what it says it does?” *tears of joy*
Get ready for more shitty appearances on Morning Joe.
May be a joo should step in and run beings they’re good with money and in NY.
The world is literally his oyster.
“I refuse to do anything,” he wrote…
Noted for future reference. Merrill-Lynch will just have to buy themselves one on the open market like the’ve always done.
He asked his Magic 8-Ball if he should run and it said “Outlook not so good”. No brainer really.
But who will represent the people of Tennessee who move to New York now?
Harold, we’ll always have Syracuse.
[re=522379]progressiveinga[/re]: If he really wanted to run, he’d've asked again. What do you think that dipshit Palin is bugging The LORD
(ahem — sorry) What do you think that dipshit Palin is bugging The LORD about three times a day?
Try Kentucky, Harold.
The comedy will resume in Tennessee, when he returns to run for [insert office here] and repudiates ev’rything he said in New York because the drinking the New York water made him a little gay.
[re=522388]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Jesus has a Magic 8-Ball?
[re=522398]progressiveinga[/re]: Jesus could have turned vitamin pills into amphetamines, if he wanted to. No wonder there are so many Christians.
[re=522404]southern mark smith[/re]: Word.
[re=522398]progressiveinga[/re]: It’s probably the other way around, but you get the idea.
[re=522408]SayItWithWookies[/re]: The magic 8-Ball has Jesus?
[re=522410]southern mark smith[/re]: Exactly.
Headline: Spoiled Prick Anticipates Hard Work, Preemptively Quits
If only Dubya had had that much quittin’ in him. Later, bro!
Today we are all chickenshit flip-flopping carpetbaggers.
He made the sacrifice for us because he knew it would get ugly. What a brave, pure, noble soul. Just too good for the cynical, dirty old town of New York.
[re=522388]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
http://tinyurl.com/yjeuezt
How Reagan ruined conservatism
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/94a998da-2598-11df-9bd3-00144feab49a.html
Pity.
This feels like Democracy..
[re=522491]S.Luggo[/re]: That’s quite a trick that FT writer tried — criticize Reagan’s followers for being shallow, unprincipled idiots while calling the original shallow unprincipled idiot a successful president. It would’ve looked silly even if it had been done well.
And thus the Ford-Imus-Scarborough love-triangle is free to resume its peculiar style of wankery.
This is actually a genius move on Ford’s part. He can skip the formality — & cost — of a primary in NY (which would be considerably more expensive than the general in TN in ’06) & get on the November ballot via signature collection as an Independent. Just like his mentor, Joe Liebermann.
Those two Social Security bamboozlers can get adjoining Capitol offices after the inevitable “insurgent” win for HFJ.
Betcha he comes back to Tennessee to run for Governor.
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