Following up on that $100 buy-your-vote plan that Bill Frist proposed, it was treated with derisive laughs this weekend on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” (and on The Keri Rodrigues Show WSAR on Friday, when some caller threw Frist “under the bus”).
And now the NYT notes that nobody is fooled by the ridiculous attempt to keep incumbents in office, proving that the American people have both a pulse and an IQ - and both were underestimated by the Republicans. Just mark Dr. Frist down for one more thing he’s not good at “diagnosing” from a distance.
The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help. Aides for several Republican senators reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent effort to pander to voters before the midterm elections in November.
Speaking of the weekend shows, conspicuously absent from MSM reportage this weekend was any mention of the hilarious talk that Stephen Colbert gave at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Follow that link because I’m calling it a “Must See” video this week.
Peter Daou writes a strong criticism of this phenomenon, noting that the media preferred to ignore the president’s reaction, and how flatly the crowd received Colbert’s mocking commentary on press corps coziness. I guess it’s tough to write “Colbert got us, but good!”
When you watch the (very compressed) video, try to read the almost nonexistent crowd reaction.
Posted by James at May 1, 2006 9:23 AMI am attempting to watch Colbert right now. I read some of his comments and thought it was some gutsy stuff! Stewart/Colbert 2008!
Posted by: briwei at May 1, 2006 11:45 PMThe link in my post, as it turns out, is only half of what he said.
Some of the best stuff is in the first half, which you can see on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/results?search=colbert%20bush%20cspan&sort=title_sort
Posted by: James at May 2, 2006 12:00 AMThis was great, James. Thanks!
Posted by: Chuck S. at May 2, 2006 1:00 AMCame across this:
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/
over 30,000 "thank you"s to him so far...
Posted by: Pat at May 2, 2006 9:01 PM