PETE STARK OUT AS WAYS & MEANS CHAIR: Nancy Pelosi has replaced sketchy old liberal placeholder Pete Stark with Sander Levin of Michigan, who will now have sketchy old liberal Charlie Rangel’s powerful House chairmanship. This message brought to you by Democracy. [Roll Call]
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Is Rosty available?
HAHAHA. Best. cartoon. EVER.
Confederation of dunces, for that matter.
The Levin siblings now control a good portion of the world. After the Muslins, the Joos.
[re=524371]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]:
3 Little Bops. Cool Daddy-O.
Harry Reid: Wow, look at Nancy go! I wish I had the power to make decisions like that.
Top aid: Well sir, um, actually you do have that power.
Reid: Oh no no no no no. I could never do anything like that. Somebody might get their feelings hurt.
Top aid: Go ahead boss, give it a try. How about, say, removing Lieberman?
Reid: What?! If I did that he might not support the caucus.
Top aid: shoots self
Sander Levin looks suspiciously like Bernie Madoff. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen the two of them together.
It’s too bad that we can’t have some type of hybrid named Sander Stark, because Sander Stark sounds cool!
My name is Stark. Sander Stark.
“Stark — who has a history of off-color remarks and ethics issues of his own — lacked support for moving into the chairmanship.”
Is too much to ask for some of these off-color remarks to be printed? Details people!
Looking him up on Wikipedia, at least Rep. Levin, like Stark and Rangel, is comically old. It certainly wouldn’t do to have someone who still possesses their full mental facilities to chair the committee.
[re=524371]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]:
OT… again. Enjoy.
http://animationtidbits.blogspot.com/2008/01/1957-three-little-bops.html
[re=524390]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Well, ol’ Fortney “Pete” is the only admitted atheist in Congress. I’m not sure that’s the shade of “off-color” they’re referring to, though.
That’s POWERFUL Ways and Means committee. Which is why it’s always an old.
Damn! If only it could be Grayson. Then we cold enjoy the spectacle of rwingers pointy heads assploding all over the internets and teevees.
[re=524390]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: But the 78-year-old Stark has a reputation among his colleagues as a loose cannon with a history of off-color remarks including calling then-Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) a “little wimp” and a “fruit cake” and accused then-Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) of being a “whore” for the insurance industry.
That’s the good stuff — but more about his ethics issues here: http://www.rollcall.com/news/43828-1.html
[re=524405]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Reading this almost begs the question, Are there any Congresspersons who aren’t under an ethical cloud? Almost.
[re=524390]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: His responses to Teabaggers during the Health Care forums were considered off-color, but it was as if he was reading my mind. He also once called George Bush a liar during a speech on the House Floor, and said that Bush had sent soldiers to die in Iraq for his own amusement. Yeah, boy, he was really far off with those.
[re=524410]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Hmm; Washington’s and Puerto Rico’s non-voting fake Representatives have no actual power, so bribing one of them would be pretty useless. Otherwise, no.
Say what you will, our Harlem Congressmen know how to roll. I remember Adam Clayton Powell chillin out on Bimini.
“It’s not Black Power, but Green Power! It’s not Burn Baby Burn, but Learn Baby Learn, so you can Earn Baby, earn.”
It’s the American way, dammit.
78 years old! Guess he’s not Carl Levin’s son like I thought at first…
Oh, we couldn’t have an actual Democrat, no, that would be too much to ask.
Fuck you, Nancy Pelousy.
[re=524393]JMP[/re]: When they came for the 78 year-olds, I remained silent, because I was not a–well, actually because I didn’t give a shit.
Isn’t he one of the Monkees?
78 years isn’t too old to chair a committee. As long as it’s a comfy chair.
[re=524390]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: “Stark — who has a history of off-color remarks and ethics issues of his own — lacked support for moving into the chairmanship.”
Is too much to ask for some of these off-color remarks to be printed? Details people!
Honestly! Journalism has reached a sorry state when trash doesn’t lead.
3 days later I still come back here just to see the juxtaposition of the news story and the cartoon. bravo, wonkette. bravo.
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