Sooner Blue

... exit stage too far right

Our long national Book Tour is finally over. Goodbye Newt and your bloated ego .. goodbye Callista (not Flockhart) and good luck with that Tiffany monkey on your back, what with that massive $4 million debt you guys ran up executing a non-campaign campaign

Newt Gingrich finally made a rambling farewell speech .. I didn't listen to it all, but he thanked his billionaire, did a boring recap of his lifetime achievements, quoted someone who said his best days are ahead (yeah, right) .. yet he really didn't say much about supporting Mitt Romney .. other than the inspirational statement that any Republican was better than Obama.

All this is bittersweet for me .. Newt was good for giggles .. but I don't think he'll be back .. this campaign shed too much light on his pissy little ego and his batshit crazy Big Ideas .. hiring poor kids as janitors, colonies on the Moon ...

Pulling the curtain back on the Great and Powerful Newt of Oz to reveal a bumbling little con man is kind of satisfying .. though it might put a crimp in his highly profitable direct mail grift. But then, the people who were laying down $20 for his CDs about scary Muslims aren’t the brightest bulbs in the chandelier .. so they may not have noticed.

Can too much schadenfreude kill you?

A new Pew Research poll finds the public becoming more and more unhappy with the Supreme Court, which has reached a quarter-century low in favorability ratings.

Just wait until they destroy Health Care Reform with a 5-4 vote .. and in the process toss out the other reforms that are now helping millions of working-class Americans. Let's see how much the American populace likes the Supremes then.

"Unlike evaluations over much of the past decade, there is very little partisan divide. The court receives relatively low favorable ratings from Republicans, Democrats and independents alike. ...

... In April 2009, soon after Barack Obama took office, 70% of Republicans, 63% of Democrats, and 64% of independents held a favorable opinion of the court. ..."

This is what you get when you pack the judicial branch with partisan hacks who are supposed to defend the people against corporate interests .. I ain't too happy with the lower courts, either, and for the same reason.

Beats hell outta me why Republicans don't like the Supreme Court .. after all, it handed them George W. Bush on a silver platter .. also the Citizens United decision, which declared that corporations had the same rights as an individual person, and allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections.

Then too, maybe the Republican disaffection coincides with President Obama's two female appointments ...