Red fish

When my subscription lapses to the Detroit Free Press this September, this piece by Stephen Henderson will officially be the figurative straw that broke the camel's back.  At column's end, Henderson--either woefully ignorant or embarrassingly naive--makes this assessment of the Senate race between Democrat Debbie Stabenow and republican Pete Hoekstra:  "It's hard to see how the state could lose no matter who wins."

Un-fucking-believable.

Let me count the ways Hoekstra would be worse for our citizens, in no particular order:

1)  He's a racist as judged by his oft viewed Super Bowl ad with the Asian speaking in a broken accent
2)  He thinks equal pay for women is a "nuisance."
3)  He thinks we should drill for oil in the Great Lakes.
4)  He's a fiscal conservative, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling.
5)  He's a deficit hawk, the absolute last thing we need in the Senate right now with our economy still struggling (the failures in Europe aren't from overspending, they're from not spending enough).
6)  Henderson is living in fucking La-la Land if he thinks Hoekstra is going to be some maverick republican based on a couple of half-assed compromises he made when he was in the U.S. House.  If he wins, the day he steps into the Senate Mitch McConnell is going to stick a pole up Hoekstra's ass and he's going to dance however the republican powers that be want him to, just like every other fucking republican in the Senate (and the House, too, for that matter).

That's just off the top of my head.

I mean, if Henderson, head of the Free Press's editorial board, thought he was so great, why did the Free Press endorse his opponent, Clark Durant, for the republican primary?

Frankly, this was merely a Free Press sop to its republican readership.  Henderson just puckered up his lips and placed them squarely on their lily-white asses.

His questionable assertion as to Hoekstra's viability as a candidate for the state of Michigan is beyond disgusting.  We can just call him the Kung Fu Panderer.

Peace,
emaycee

How not to run a Senate campaign

It was probably a longshot that Pete Hoekstra would defeat Debbie Stabenow this year for the Michigan Senate seat--Stabenow is the incumbent, thanks to Obama's auto bailout and a little buyer's remorse over the 2010 elections Democrat and Independent turnout is likely to be higher, and Stabenow has never been quite the lightining rod for hate that Gov. Granholm was (just quietly goes about her business and gets the job done).

Still, between the racist ad he ran on Super Bowl Sunday and his recent appeal to the birthers....

For a member of a party that advocates less government and less spending...doesn't it seem a bit odd that he'd like to set up a commission to verify the birth records of the Presidential nominees?  I mean, couldn't we just take the word of the state's birth records department and FUCKING FACE REALITY?

Just wondering.

Peace,
emaycee

Keep it coming, fellas

Seems our own probable republican Senate nominee to take on Sen. Stabenow, Pete Hoekstra, just can't keep his foot out of his mouth.  When he's not using racist ads to denigrate Asian Americans, it seems he's telling women in Michigan that the Lilly Ledbetter Act is a "nuisance."

Because, you know, it's good politics to tell 51% of the voting public that it's too much of a pain in the ass to see that they're paid the same as men for doing the same job.

Enjoy those six extra years, Senator Stabenow....

Peace,
emaycee

A cold, cold heart

From Michigan republican Senate hopeful Clark Durant:

"In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should 'go find a job.' In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, 'I think it should be wider.'"

While I think the radical legislation struck by Gov. Snyder and the state gop have improved Senator Stabenow's re-election odds immeasurably (and President Obama's chances here in Michigan as well) by firing up unions and the Democratic base (note that Karl Rove--don't like him, but no political dummy--isn't spending money here, at least yet), it doesn't hurt when republicans like Durant (don't think the republicans here in Michigan are nutty enough to elect him) say things that really serve to underscore the differences between the parties.

People like me and you just don't matter to republicans--they wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire unless they were taking your last nickel as payment.

Peace,
emaycee