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Not A Hairy Conversation

Posted 8/12/09 at 1:06pm by jamie

sanhct It came out this week that Mark Sanford used a government airplane to go get a haircut, hence making the cost well over $1,000.

When I first heard that I kept thinking about the John Edwards haircut fiasco. The right went after him viciously for this, calling him a hypocrite for spending $300 on a haircut when their are poor people out there who can’t even afford a $8.00 trim. Oh the hypocrisy of a man who championed for the poor to spend this kind of money!

But lets think about Mark Sanford, a man who was a beacon of conservatism to many. How is it “conservative” to spend so much government money on a haircut? This is true hypocrisy, but the coverage of it was much shorter lived than that of Edwards’ haircut. I guess that is what they mean by “liberal media”.

Would This Be Elitist?

Posted 10/21/08 at 8:33pm by jamie

Or an abuse of campaign funds?

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Can we now stop saying she looks like Tina Fey? Tina Fey looks damn good and I'm sure she doesn't need to spend $150,000 a month to do so.

UPDATE:
And whatever happened to the days that getting a $300 haircut was such a crime?

If Sarah Palin was such a good leader then they would have no reason to play dress up with her. Instead they have to spend all this money to give the right wing idiots a boner. At least it was RNC money and not taxpayers money. Of course that would change if she become VP.

Splitting Hairs

Posted 7/5/07 at 9:39am by jamie

Today's Washington Post has an article by right wing hit man John Solomon. Today Solomon goes after John Edwards and his infamous $400 haircut. They are coining it as "the stylist speaks out", even though I got a feeling Solomon worked hard to get him to "speak out".

Instead of quoting this piece of crap, which has absolutely nothing to do with leadership, I think it is prudent to remember our history. 231 years ago 56 brave men signed their own death warrant. That death warrant was called the Declaration of Independence, and if the Revolutionary War would have gone the other way, all these men would have been hanged for treason.

They took the ultimate risk to build a nation that was better. One above all others. Now we got this - a country that worries about how much a haircut costs. This is not some "scandal" trademarked by Edwards. Clinton also faced the same scrutiny, lead by a rash of right wing lies when he got a haircut aboard Air Force One.

So why is it the right can only find petty things to pick on?

Look at who their top voices are. Ann Coulter, who sinks to the lowest of human standards by making jokes about Edwards dead son. The same person who can joke about a presidential candidate being harassed, while claiming it a "joke" (and you are welcome Bill).

Or how about a man they want to be the next President, Newt Gingrich. This is a man who told a bunch of other neo-cons that people died in Katrina, because the people were "so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane". This statement was also received by a bunch of cheers.

Crybaby Righties

Posted 3/13/06 at 1:50am by jamie

During the 90s, we constantly read articles about Congress investigating the White House. The most infamous was the investigation of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. That was not the limit of investigations though. Questions got raised into who was on the Clinton’s Christmas card list, who was sending mail to the Clinton’s dog, Clinton getting a haircut in L.A. The list is none stop. When all was said and done, there were over 50 congressional investigations into the Clintons.

So why bring this up now? Clinton left office in 2001, it’s like rehashing old memories that don’t need rehashed. Well that is wrong. They do need rehashing and here is why.

I was spending part of my day reading what the right had to say in their own corner of the blogosphere. After browsing a few sites, I came to Michele Malkin’s blog and her take on the arrest of Claude Allen this week.

As usual, Bush Derangement Syndrome is setting in on the Left and in the media. Gleeful minority conservative-bashing and hysterical accusations of a "cover-up" are already underway.

Of course Malkin is in full Bush defense mode. She is accepting his statement yesterday that he is “shocked and saddened” by the news of the arrest of his former aide. So why doesn’t the left follow Malkin’s lead and do the same?

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