Political Irony

Conservative radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt got a wee bit carried away on his Wednesday show:

I’m still trying to find two tickets to the Ohio State-USC game. And none of the USC people will give up their tickets to me. I’d pay fair price. They — they know Ohio State’s gonna slaughter the Trojans. They know that they’re gonna slaughter the Trojans, and therefore they do not want me there at the bloodbath, since it’s probably the last football game we’ll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama.

The best part of this is that once you stop laughing over his cheap shot at Obama, you realize that he has just acknowledged that Obama is going to win the election.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806260004?f=h_clips

McCain’s website now features a “cool” “new” video game called Pork Invaders (you can play it, below). Unfortunately, as Wonkette says, the game looks older than John himself. And the game was clearly “borrowed” from somewhere else, and somewhat sloppily — all the aliens use the same pig image, even though they have different point values.

And correct me if I’m wrong (it has been 30 years since it came out) but as I recall there was no way to win Space Invaders. No matter how many aliens you kill, they just keep on coming and coming until you (eventually) die. Is that the message we are supposed to get from this game: that no matter how many vetoes McCain uses, he will never be able to defeat pork spending?

McCain’s website does make one acknowledgement of the InnerTubes — you can add the game to your Facebook profile. Any takers?

© August J. Pollak

The twin cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul are hosting the Republican National Convention this summer, but they are having a big problem. They can’t find enough volunteers to work at the convention. In response, they are putting out the word that party affiliation is not important. “This is not about being partisan; it’s about putting our [Minnesota’s] best foot forward.”

Unanswered is the question of whether you can wear your Obama t-shirt while greeting Republican delegates at the airport, providing information at hotels, or staffing a booth.

The convention needs 10,000 volunteers, but so far they are 4,000 short. They are going so far to offer prizes for people who sign up the most volunteers. Note that the Democratic convention has the opposite problem — they have too many volunteers signed up (25,000) so they are limiting each volunteer to only 4 hours of work.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/20653709.html

Two weeks ago we reported on the strange goings on in New York concerning the congressional seat formerly held by Vito Fossella (which incidentally is the only New York City congressional seat held by a Republican). Things were pretty strange then, but they just got even stranger. If I were a tele-evangelist, I’d claim that the supreme being is punishing the Republicans.

To refresh your memory, Republican Congressman Vito Fossella was stopped in Virginia for running a red light. He was also drunk, and was on his way to visit his second family, complete with an out-of-wedlock daughter. Vito Finito, as the tabloids put it. Next the Republicans can’t find anyone to run for his seat, but after frantic searching they finally settle on Francis Powers, a wealthy businessman. This despite the vow of his own son (also named Francis Powers) to run against his father as a Libertarian.

Yesterday, Francis Powers (senior) died of a heart attack.

At this point, if I were thinking of running for that seat as a Republican, I’d strongly reconsider. But the Republicans don’t have much time — the filing deadline is July 10.