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Medfly and Other Dems
With Election Day fast approaching, it’s time to remind Republicans of the unused ammunition they have only three more weeks to expend.
With Election Day fast approaching, it’s time to remind Republicans of the unused ammunition they have only three more weeks to expend. In the spirit of the Marine Corps aviators — one of whose mottos is, “never return to base with unexpended ordnance” — here are a few cases of bombs that are still hanging on the Republicans’ wings waiting to be dropped.
Given his record, it should be easy for Meg Whitman to defeat the gent who the late Mike Royko labeled “Governor Moonbeam.” But the last time Jerry Brown served as California’s governor was thirty years ago, and memories — even bad ones — fade over time. So it’d be a good time for Ms. Whitman to remind Californians of Brown’s other nickname — Governor Medfly — and how he earned it.
In 1980 California was beset simultaneously with Brown sitting in the governor’s chair and an infestation of the Mediterranean fruit fly (the two creatures being easily confused). On November 24, 1980, the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared the state’s effort at medfly eradication inadequate. Gov. Medfly fumbled and fussed, working anxiously to avoid using environmentally unfriendly pesticides against the environmentally destructive fly. Eight months later — on July 10, 1981, after threats of boycotts of California agricultural products came from Japan and Mexico — Brown finally ordered aerial spraying. State ag officials used malathion, a very powerful chemical. But because the infestation had spread so widely by the time Brown acted, the spray had to be applied across a huge area, close to many populated places. The malathion promptly melted the paint off of hundreds of cars. Californians may want to vote “green”, but not if they have green-painted cars.
And while we’re in fruit and nut land, Carly Fiorina might want to remind voters that her Senate opponent, soon after her election, disclaimed any loyalty to the other of the state’s two major employers: the defense industry. And Sen. Barbara (“don’t call me ma’am”) Boxer has remained faithful to that liberal orthodoxy. She’s done all she can to turn California’s aerospace industry into a high-tech ghost town.
Suddenly last August, Boxer realized there were defense industry union votes to mine so she went to the C-17 production plant and promised to do everything in her power to keep the massive transport rolling off the production line. And, of course, Babs didn’t lift a finger, C-17 production is being terminated, and California will lose yet another 5,000 jobs. Babsy Boxer has not only harmed our national security. She’s cost California a minimum of 40,000 defense industry jobs.
Moving east from California, we need to stop briefly in Nevada to remind Sharron Angle of the principal question regarding Harry Reid: where is Harry’s brain? He answered that question for us on August 3, 2007. Remember when the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was being rewritten by grownups? Amidst the New York Times’ conniptions about “warrantless wiretapping” and the ACLU’s rants about “constitutional rights” of terrorists, FISA was about to expire and the Bush administration was pushing hard to get the law updated and reauthorized.
And on that hot and sunny Washington day, Harry Reid was asked at a press conference whether he thought the Bush administration was stampeding Congress to pass the FISA bill. Harry then reached into his suitcoat pocket and pulled out a New York Times editorial from that very morning. Fortuitously, it was entitled, “Stampeding Congress, Again.” And Harry proclaimed, “Here’s what I think about that.”
Ms. Angle should remind Nevada voters that Harry’s brain is not in his body. It’s in the New York Times’ editorial office. If you want to know what Harry thinks, don’t ask him: read the Times. Not many Nevadans do.
It would be ungenerous of us to list the redundant proofs that the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats, poseurs all, are nothing more than Pelosi’s pink lapdogs. So let’s proceed.
Of these 52 ladies and gents who insist that they are fiscal conservatives and strong on national defense, about one-third of them voted for BOTH the “cap and tax” global warming bill AND for Nancy Pelosi’s version of Obamacare. For the record, they were:
Joe Baca (CA-43)
Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
Leonard Boswell (IA-03)
Dennis Cardoza (CA-18)
Jim Cooper (TN-05)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-08)
Jane Harman (CA-36)
Baron Hill (IN-09)
Mike Michaud (ME-02)
Dennis Moore (KS-03)
Patrick Murphy (PA-08)
Loretta Sanchez (CA-47)
Adam Schiff (CA-29)
David Scott (GA-13)
Zack Space (OH-18)
Mike Thompson (CA-01)
Anyone running against any of these folk should be reminding people of these votes. (As Casey Stengel would have said, “you could look it up.” Pelosicare was HR-3962. The “cap and tax” bill was HR-2454.) The ever-informative Club for Growth reports that Pelosi herself cast 62 votes on fiscal issues in the 111th Congress and the Blue Dogs voted with her 80% of the time. (Which brings to mind another useful New York baseball saying: “T’row da bums out.”)
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio is blessed by the fact that his main opponent, Charlie Crist, has a record that is the rough equivalent of Gov. Medfly’s, minus the malathion. Rubio should need no help at all after Crist’s toss of the first pitch at an MLB playoff game. Crist — apparently dressed in someone’s pajama pants and his father’s baseball jersey — looked entirely ridiculous and threw so wildly that the catcher needed to chase the ball. Why not use the video of Clumsy Charlie juxtaposed with one of Rubio throwing hard to a major league catcher? “Marco Rubio throws heat, and hits the target”?
Pollsters have all but written off Jay Townsend’s campaign to topple uberliberal Chuck Schumer in one of the two New York Senate races. But Townsend may yet surprise them. He’s already remembered two key facts: that Schumer is in a three-way tie (with the aforementioned Babsy Boxer and Barry O’Bama) for the title of most liberal person on the planet. And Schumer’s weirdness is something too few New Yorkers remember. Chuck has two imaginary friends — he named them Joe and Eileen Bailey — who he talks to frequently and who he says accompany him everywhere he goes. They advise him on middle-class issues. Townsend could put out a YouTube video with Chuck and a few cartoon pals talking about how proud he is to lead the national liberal agenda. It would go viral and Chuckie could be the surprise upset of the year.
Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias said on “Meet the Press” yesterday that he (formerly the bank’s senior loan officer) didn’t know the extent of his family-owned bank’s loans to convicted mobsters and assorted felons. And, he said, only 9% of the bank’s loans weren’t bad. Hey, no prob: the mob is a good credit risk to Giannoulias’s “family” bank. Republican Mark Kirk might think about one of those newly-popular YouTube videos featuring Jack Webb’s Sergeant Friday character. Kirk’s staff could cobble together Giannoulias’s statements on MTP with Sgt. Friday questioning him aggressively. No need to waterboard Alexi. The hot lights will be enough. Dumm-ta-dumm-dumm.
By the time the polls close on Election Day, Republicans should feel confident that they’ve missed no opportunity. Bombs away, folks.
About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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Booger| 10.11.10 @ 6:16AM
NOW endorses Jerry Brown for Governor of CA:
From the desk of National Organization for Womyn Terry O'Neill:
Dear NOW Members,
I have received several inquiries of late as to our endorsement of Jerry Brown for Governor of California over Meg Whitman. Specifically, many of you have expressed some dismay that we at NOW have chosen to endorse a man over a fellow woman, along with allegations that the man in question has used anti-womyn slurs. Please allow me to allay your concerns in this matter.
Firstly, it was not Attorney General Brown himself who called Whitman a "whore". As we have now learned, that word was actually uttered by Brown's wife, Anne Gust Brown. Having learned that it was Mrs. Brown who leveled the accusation, we may safely conclude that A.G. Brown has no guilt in the matter.
Furthermore, I would like to point out that Whitman is actually running as a Republican. This makes the use of the word "whore", usually an insult, entirely acceptable in context. Quite frankly, any woman who sells her sisters out by running on the Republican ticket has earned the sobriquet of "whore" for herself in spades. Alternately, perhaps Mrs. Brown was simply suggesting that Whitman has been employed as a sex worker in the past. We have our investigators looking into that possibility with all due diligence at this time.
Aside from the unnecessarily ruffled feathers of those of you who naively objected the "whore" remark, we have perfectly good reasons to endorse A.G. Brown for Governor. A.G. Brown has stressed that not only is he STRONGLY pro-choice, he will also strive to ensure that low-income womyn have state funding made available to them for abortion services. Obviously this is an extremely important reason for NOW to endorse a man over a fellow woman. There are, of course, many other reasons as well. We'll get back to you on those.
Thank you for your continued support in the face of Republican patriarchal oppression,
NOW President Terry O'Neill
P.S. Sarah Palin is a b****.
Alan Brooks| 10.11.10 @ 10:37AM
"With Election Day fast approaching, it's time to remind Republicans of the unused ammunition they have only three more weeks to expend."
Napalm?
Agent Orange?
Daisy Chains?
c. j. acworth| 10.11.10 @ 11:04AM
Don't tempt me, Brooks.
rainmaker1145| 10.11.10 @ 12:36PM
It's called a daisy-cutter butthead.
don| 10.11.10 @ 1:25PM
outstanding rainmaker!
Alan Brooks| 10.11.10 @ 1:51PM
"It's called a daisy-cutter butthead."
Oh, how could anyone make such a mistake! A thousand pardons, one thousand lashes.
Hit me with your best shot...
FIRE AWAAYYY
--Pat Benatar
Cpm| 10.11.10 @ 5:16PM
A daisy chain is something else altogether, and more in line with your temperament.
Alan Brooks| 10.11.10 @ 5:23PM
Well, what we (justifiably) do to the enemy isn't all that far from a cluster you-know-what.
Quartermaster| 10.11.10 @ 8:08PM
That you don't the meaning of a cluster fark is not surprising. It isn't what you do to the enemy, it's what you do to yourself. Just like you leftist wingnuts.
Alan Brooks| 10.12.10 @ 1:02AM
"That you don't the meaning of a cluster fark"
a. why should one want to know in detail?
b. is the vehemence of it all that different from battle? 'course, this is way off topic.
Albert| 10.11.10 @ 5:40PM
Perhaps the best weapon the Republicans have is "the Koolaid" which the tempestuous and convulsive Mr. Brooks has obviously drunk with gusto. It has clearly warped Democrats' and other stupid people's minds and the crazier they get, the more they look warped and stupid to ordinary voters. No doubt Mr. Brooks wishes that General Sherman had used naplam on Atlanta. Assuming Moonbean loses, would he then apply Agent Orange to the California Central Valley? One is forced to wonder about this disturbed person.
RacerJim| 10.12.10 @ 12:21PM
Jobs?
Jobs?
Jobs?
Jim| 10.11.10 @ 2:46PM
Double the dose..your meds aren't working properly.
Booger| 10.11.10 @ 3:28PM
My meds? Where are my meds? OH NO! OBAMACARE RATIONING TOOK MY MEDS! Oh well. At least that relieves me of all personal responsibility. Now I can be a good little Demosocialist.
Cordially,
Booger
Alan Brooks| 10.11.10 @ 5:26PM
If McCain were president he'd be taking Alzheimer meds by now.
Albert| 10.11.10 @ 7:23PM
Could this remark be any less clever? This is the intellectual equivalent to saying "your mama." Lame.
Alan Brooks| 10.12.10 @ 1:07AM
"Could this remark be any less clever? This is the intellectual equivalent to saying "your mama." Lame."
Notice you did not write the remark was incorrect-- only lame.
If someone calls Obama a "Marxist" , isn't such as lame as can be?
Albert| 10.12.10 @ 5:40AM
Forgive me. I assumed your lame remark was intended as a jest. I didn't know you were serious. Now I know. You are not only lame, but stupid and arrogant. And, if you had a brain, you would see clearly that Obama IS a marxist. Time to face facts.
CharlieEcho| 10.13.10 @ 9:04AM
What is Obama taking? It's not working.
Shirley| 10.11.10 @ 7:59AM
If this woman thinks all women are Democrats, she is obviously delusional. As to which Brown uttered that word, it makes no difference, as evidently he agrees since he didn't contradict it!
Hopefully the women in CA are not stupid. Why didn't NOW president O'Neill give those other reasons why they would endorse a man over a woman in their organization? Probably because they won't until after elections, therefore, no chance to debunk them.
Publius| 10.11.10 @ 11:38AM
"Hopefully the women in CA are not stupid." They are, and I'm beginning to wonder about you.
Look up satire in your spare time.
Denver Todd| 10.11.10 @ 8:47AM
Correction: Medfly spraying was over populated areas, not just nearby. I remember the planes overhead at night.
c. j. acworth| 10.11.10 @ 11:07AM
Denver: What about that part where the paint was melting off the cars? I lived in Connecticut at the time, but I don't remember hearing anything like that. Is it true?
Albert| 10.11.10 @ 5:45PM
I was not near any spraying areas, but people who could park their cars in covered areas at night (when all spraying was done) did so. I'm sure there was some damage, but it was never reported as a severe problem. Malathion was mixed with a jelly like substace which was sweet and attracted the medflies. The jelly would stick to most things, particularly cars.
R Martin| 10.11.10 @ 8:58AM
Isn't Whitman really running against Governor Gadfly?
Eric Cartman| 10.11.10 @ 9:24AM
Well, lets just hope we have some Republicans who know how to use the pickle. But I'm not seeing any guts to speak of coming from the GOP apparatchiks in DC. Steele is just futzing around on a bus somewhere and no real ordinance is being used to nuke these bastards.
When they start hanging the likes of Detroit, California, NY, Chicago - all bankrupt Democrat fortresses and general sludge pots of their making - then we may have something. Start showing what these programs lead to, Ahole GOPers! You can't be that stupid to be overlooking these things by accident, can ya? Or are they ignored on purpose? Well, look who we're talking about. The second most worthless aholes in America.
Charles Perry| 10.11.10 @ 11:07AM
Jerry Brown also killed every freeway project he could get his hands on, in order to "wean" us Californians from our "irrational attachment" to our cars and force us into public transportation. Hence the (time-wasting, fuel-wasting) traffic we suffer today.
Just like Obama, Brown always holds his nose in the air as if he's smelling something that offends him. I can't avoid the feeling that it's us.
Albert| 10.11.10 @ 5:52PM
Mr. Moonbeam has a reputation as an "environmentalist" (hence his opposition to malathion spraying) but this didn't stop him from campaigning for a ballot measure to build the peripheral canal, which thankfully was defeated. This canal would have sent most of Northern California's water to Los Angeles and Southern California. How someone who bills himself an "environmentalist" could support such a project is beyond comprehension.
Floyd Krautner| 10.11.10 @ 11:50AM
I have a problem understanding why anyone who works for a living supports a party that has never done anything worthwhile for the working man.
The behavior of most Republicans is so self-defeating that I wonder about their sanity. What I'm talking about is why working people or small businessmen for that matter see any profit in the GOP.
To hear the folks on this line one could easily assume that you are all multimillionaires reaping great benefits from GOP policies instead of getting the shaft every time the Conservatives get into power.
You insist on giving an unfunded $700+ billion dollar tax break to people who need no tax breaks. Doesn't any non-millionaire "conservative" on this forum realize that this gift will come out of your own hide in reduced benefits across the board— less money for schools, less highway maintenance, reduced police and fire protection etc etc.
I often read comments about great GOP personalities with great amusement. Take Ronald Reagan as an example. No one ever gives the man credit for wrecking California. How so? Well just one thing did it. Mr Reagan was told "Most of the people in California mental institutions can be released by prescribing them anti-psychotic (and etc) medications. The pills will cure them....."
Unfortunately no one told Mr Reagan how to get the psychos to take their meds. The result has been decades of crazy homeless people who refuse medication and are too disoriented to use the housing provided for them. Only in the last few years has San Francisco been able to cope with these crazies.
Those with accurate memories will recall that President Reagan's domestic programs were a huge failure. Except for pumping up the military-industrial complex to new highs it is hard to find any long term benefits to anyone except the rich.
The Savings & Loan swindle is an example of a Reagan domestic program. When the law was passed giving Savings & Loan Banks the right to expand their lending into high risk areas, Reagan told enthusiastic money grubers, "Gentlemen, we have hit the jackpot!" It took a couple of years to realize that a multi-billion dollar scam was what he had in mind.
In the Republican tradition, Reagan had a pretty good recession.
Reagan never did anything of lasting benefit for anyone but the rich.
The last Bush had two huge money scandals— Enron - which ripped California off for many billions in fraudulent electrical deals. Remember that Bush and Cheney actively opposed providing any relief from Enron's predations. Only 9/11 saved Bush from being a one term President solely because of Enron. Did I mention that Bush put more than 200 Enron Execs to work in the Executive Branch.
Bush's failure to regulate the banks has brought us into the most serious recession in 50 years.
Since I'm not rich and have no hope of becoming a billionaire, I see no good reason to support anything the Republicans are promoting. The super-rich have never done anything to help me or any of the working people I know.
There's an old saying "When the poor give to the rich, the Devil laughs."
Clinton nee Publius| 10.11.10 @ 12:40PM
Stick it in your ass. I'm still paying a higher electricity rate here in Houston to pay for the Enron payout to your state. You have no idea what you are talking about. Did you mention that until the fall of 2008 gasoline prices were affordable under Bush? Did you mention that we are paying close to $3 a gallon now and you seem to think that is okay. What a world-class putz you are. Rich people never did anything for you because: (a) nobody does stupid people favors; and (b) rich people don't exist to give you anything.
Get a job and stop waiting for everyone else to make your cash register ring you sponge.
Floyd Krautner| 10.12.10 @ 8:09AM
"I'm still paying a higher electricity rate here in Houston to pay for the Enron payout to your state."
There you go. Who protected Enron as far as humanly possible— a couple of guys named Bush and Cheney come to mind. Incidentally, California electrical victims only got back a fraction of the money Enron stole.
The Republicans allowed this scam to go down.
One other thing, I own my own corporation and will never have to pay any taxes whatsoever under current rules.
Of course, we have to start making a profit again before taxes even become theoretical. We haven't seen any real income in three years now, which puts the blame firmly on Bush and company. We are breaking even which will enable us to survive, but no thanks to GOP economic morons.
The GOP wants to continue the same lunacy that got the country into this mess.
I do not doubt that people are braindead enough to re-elect the clowns that wrecked the economy and got us into two needless wars.
Indiana Alex| 10.11.10 @ 12:51PM
You, are an idiot. How, pray tell is allowing people to keep more of their money "the poor giving to the rich?"
How is it, that someone who EARNS over $250,000 is all of a sudden rich?
When i was growing up in this country, we were supposed to want to be rich, becuase everything is possible here.
Now, with you idiots in charge for a few years, the overwhelming goal seems to be a dream of mediocrity, and resentment for those that have more.
Piss on you, Jackass.
Floyd Krautner| 10.13.10 @ 1:48PM
You, are an idiot. How, pray tell is allowing people to keep more of their money "the poor giving to the rich?"
Apparently you are unaware of the fact that less than 5% of the population owns more than 90% of EVERYTHING in the United States. Giving these jokers a tax break puts more money and more assets into the hands of a few.
Some economists are beginning to think that the rich have gobbled up so much of the ready cash that the middle class doesn't have enough money to buy the products being made. In other words, the rich are starving the rest of the country from the cash flow needed for small businesses to succeed.
Unless YOU are making more than $250,000/yr, YOU are a victim of GOP economics.
Albert| 10.11.10 @ 5:59PM
Ronald Reagan did not empty the State Mental Hospitals. This is a myth which has long been debunked. The Democrat controlled State Legislature enacted a law BEFORE Reagan became Governor, that mandated release of patients, and it was Governor Pat Brown (Jerry's Dad) who signed it. Reagan had nothing to do with it. The rest of your posting is equally rife with errors and illogic. Get a clue. Keep voting Democrat so you can keep getting your government freebies. And as for your last remark about the Devil laughing, the poor giving to the rich is the really poor taxpayer giving to the Rich Democrat politicians so they can buy your vote. Now go drink your Koolaid.
FLOYD KRAUTNER| 10.13.10 @ 1:34PM
Reagan might not have got the laws passed but he wholeheartedly endorsed the release of mental patients. He remarked about the great benefits many times.
If I remember rightly, most of the patients were released during Reagan's term as Governor.
However, the real damage Reagan did to the nation was his escalation of the drug war. The mandatory prison terms etc came under "Just say no! policies.
Now we have the largest prison system on the planet and the cells are filled with nonviolent drug users instead of career killers.
Reagan's domestic policies are still causing great damage. His utterly failed drug war costs the country more than $80 BILLION every year.
When you are deprived of legitimate government services, tip your hat to drug prohibition.
RacerJim| 10.12.10 @ 12:29PM
I have a problem understanding how anyone with a job can support the Party which believes in punishing those who create jobs to the extent they have to cut jobs to stay in business and/or go out of business altogether.
FLOYD KRAUTNER| 10.13.10 @ 2:04PM
I have a problem understanding how anyone with a job can support the Party which believes in punishing those who create jobs to the extent they have to cut jobs to stay in business and/or go out of business altogether.
How about this. Business always does better under Democratic administrations (providing the GOP didn't cause a huge recession first).
Check the rate of business failures under GOP administrations and you might change your mind.
Clinton created more jobs than Reagan and all of the Bushes. Clinton actually had a budget surplus!
The GOP serves the rich and no one else. Unfortunately for the rest of us, these policies do not help working people.
Redstateboy| 10.11.10 @ 12:17PM
You know what?? I think I speak for a lot of the Country when I say... F!k California!!
Willis| 10.11.10 @ 12:38PM
Except for the wine.
Big Elk| 10.11.10 @ 1:45PM
And, I speak for a lot of Californians when I agree with you and also say F!k California. Don't give Californians a dime in assistance. Most California voters have screwed themselves by voting for crash and spend crooked Californication democRATS. Not only that but at Fisherman's Wharf (no real fishermen in that tourist trap), in Frisco, the waiters spit in the soup, just like Fidel Castor's friend, Jerry Brown, spits in the soup that is California. As for the wine; are you kidding me? California wine is doctored with chemicals and is unsafe for human consumption -- read the warning labels.
TimG| 10.11.10 @ 12:51PM
I lived in California during the Mediterranean fruit fly infestation. This story brought to mind the funniest editorial cartoon I have ever seen. I've forgotten the name of the cartoonist, unfortunately. It was printed in the Orange County Register, and depicted a fruit fly, with Jerry Brown's head, buzzing around an orange grove. Priceless!
Dean| 10.11.10 @ 1:05PM
Gabrielle Giffords? Isn't she the airhead who asked General Petraeus about what steps he was taking to reduce the carbon footprint of the military operations in Afghanistan? If she is indicative of the intellectual firepower of the Democrat party, then they are totally dead from the neck up.
Diana| 10.11.10 @ 2:44PM
I would also point out that Jerry Brown gave the citizens of California the worse Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court in history - Rose Bird. A woman who never met a death row inmate she didn't like. Her legal acumen was so atrocious and Californians became so fed up with her that the voters passed a low allowing them the power to kick her and Brown's other uber-lib justices off the Supreme Court.
megapotamus| 10.11.10 @ 2:55PM
Another strike for Brown, let us not forget, is that he is the scion of a political dynasty. Pat Brown was the Leftwing governor of Cali that Reagan had to remove with (electoral) C-4 from his perch. It was Pat Brown who cleared the path for the Leftwing lunatics that have reigned so destructively over the Golden State to this day. I seem to remember the Lefties didn't care much for dynastic successsion, unless it were a Kennedy. Or a Clinton.
Alan Brooks| 10.12.10 @ 1:28AM
"I seem to remember the Lefties didn't care much for dynastic successsion, unless it were a Kennedy. Or a Clinton."
Kennedys only gave us one president; whereas Bush family gave us two. Besides, RFK was a better person and politician than anyone the GOP will fob off on us..
Albert| 10.12.10 @ 11:39AM
The Kennedys only provided one President, but three ran for President, and before he was killed in WWII, the eldest Kennedy, Joe, was being groomed for the job. Sounds somewhat dynastic to me. Personally I don't care for dynastic succession no matter who the family, Kennedy, Bush, or other.
Al Adab| 10.11.10 @ 3:23PM
The only redeeming feature of the Brown Governorship was that every time he left the state to campaign for President, accompanied by Linda Ronstadt no less, was that Mike Curb as acting Governor was able to sign bills and make appointments. Where's Mike now?
Oldefarte| 10.11.10 @ 4:25PM
As Jed accurately stated, American taxpayer-voters need to REMEMBER and to KNOW what these liberals have done to their states and to our country. The most slanderous is Moonbeam's calling Whitman a slang-word for PROSTITUTE. While most [should] understand his intended POLITICAL connotation of the word usage, nonetheless, for a male to call a female that word is [or should be] fighting words being heard by the female voters of California. Moonbeam failingly attempted to cast aside blame for the remark by assigning its utterance to his [female] wife; but since it's obvious that it was he/Moonbeam that issued said word description of Whitman, the political blame should be placed squarely upon his shoulders by the female voters of that state in November!!!!!!!!!!!
Dan| 10.12.10 @ 10:23PM
If its Brown, flush it !