Mark Sanford: The Movie

There’s the Emmy, the Oscar, the Grammy. Where do I send a nomination for the Tubie?

lol. stings quite a bit. But i’ve been hoping that somewhere, somehow i wasn’t the only person staying up all night trying to find out more about the new HELP bill. Looks pretty promising: covers 97% of people for about 600 billions bucks. Has a public plan apparently. But that’s as much as i can find about it. I totally would read the white papers if i could find it.

luper: am waiting for it too. all i have seen so far is jonathan cohn’s description of the CBO scoring, which leaves a lot of questions unanswered, including what kind of public plan we are talking about.

I can not find much either luper. I am sure KT will blog as soon as she has a clue or three. Other than Huffpo and a few short columns I know nothing.

earlier versions look like the public plan is watered down from earlier trial balloon (looks more like an insurance company than medicare), which i think is going to happen anyway. right now, i’m more interested in where they set the limit for subsidies.

No speakers, so I can’t hear the clip.
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Hard not to gawk at this spectacle though. Sanford is clearly mentally exhausted and keeps talking because he has to talk to somebody, anybody, about Maria.
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His job is his one point of stability, so of course he wants to hang on. But once he loses his job there’s really nothing keeping him from fleeing to Argentina to be with his soul mate, so of course he’s sabotaging his job.
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Pretty hard to see how this marriage can be repaired. It’s almost comical that far from seeming to be dissing his wife, he seems to want her – as his best friend – to understand what’s going on with him and to come meet his soul mate. Except for the lives of the people involved, I don’t want this opera to stop.

Some people are trying to help, but like anything else more voices are needed. Its a matter of life and death.
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I guess the Mark is a “romantic” narrative some in the media were attemping to be building has kind of fizzled out.
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Mika on Morning Starbucks claimed “this is so totally different from Clinton and republicans are judged by a different standard and it’s just not fair(he’s in love) and he didn’t break any laws, Yeah right, bullsh*it Mika. The guy is a lier, cheat and a hound dog.
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And if Mika was in Mark’s shoes she would be called a slut and every other demeaning slur Rush could think up and the Mark Halperins, Drudges and Politicos of the world would be linking to Rush’s transcripts as must reads. Not to just pick on Mika because she certainly wasn’t the only one embarrassing herself on the tevee.
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However, I clearly remember Mika getting all over Obama when the cling to guns comment was made and defending the faceless Americans that were offended by Obama’s comment. Here is a woman with a face she can see who has been disrespected to her face and Mika’s first thought is poor Mark.
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Seems sort of silly now blushing and gushing over those emails only to find out the “rest of the story.”

Gunny, someone should tell Mika that adultery is against the law in South Carolina.

Love means never having to say your resigning
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Didn’t Al Gore say that?

Here’s a link to Mika making her point on June 25, 2009. You really have to watch this to get the full understanding that Mika serves no purpose what so ever on Morning Starbucks. I don’t who she is attempting to please here, but it is not her audience, its not women in general and just watch.
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http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906250006

This is such an old story. My father told it to my mom, and his mom told it to his dad (runs in the family, apparently, but not as far as me.) A good friend just told it to his wife, right down to the “unexpected” online connection with a soul mate. My only observation: lying always makes it worse, and they always start with lies, before the truth just can’t be contained anymore.
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Loved the part about celebrity deaths. That was my first thought when Michael Jackson died and booted Sanford off the teevee news cycle.

Mika is an airhead; and pathetic to boot. She’s there to get Prof Brezenski (Dad) to remind her and her self-important co-host how “stunningly superficial” Morning Joe is. I see the hapless Mike was replaced by the equally hapless Mark. Two minutes and it’s change the channel time.

[...] clock is ticking for Gov. Mark Sanford… Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo raises an interesting concept… I know there are a [...]

Oh yes MIKE BARNICLE! If Joe disagrees with something anything, Mike couldn’t agree more with Joe. If Joe agrees with something anything, well Mike couldn’t agree more with Joe. Of course Mike’s performance may have something to do with watching Joe remind anyone who does disagree with him and advocates a view other than “I couldn’t agree with you more Joe” that it is his show and he will have them escorted off the set if they say anything other. Mike likes his job.

The man is obsessed, his wife needs cut her losses and start a new life for herself. No marriage can survive without trust.

‘Loved the part about celebrity deaths. That was my first thought when Michael Jackson died and booted Sanford off the teevee news cycle.’
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The luckiest guy in this whole sordid soap opera has to be John Ensign. The way he behaved (cheating on his wife with the wife of one of his staffers) is arguably sleazier than what Sanford did. Ensign is another sanctimonious ‘family values’ politician who touted his membership in ‘Promise Keepers’ and was always the one ready to cast the first stone. But thanks to Sanford, Ensign’s philandering has dropped off the media’s radar entirely.

Way to go Harry!
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“We have 60 votes on paper,” Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said Wednesday in an interview. “But we cannot bulldoze anybody; it doesn’t work that way. My caucus doesn’t allow it. And we have a very diverse group of senators philosophically. I am not this morning suddenly flexing my muscles.”…
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“One or two could peel off on any issue,” said Mr. Reid, who has seen the ranks of his party swell by 15 in the past two elections.
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‘Way to go Harry!’
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Could we replace the Senate Majority Leader with someone who knows how to lead a majority?

Jenny Sanford has to be one of the most forgiving people on earth to have not used SuperGlue or pruning shears on Mark already. I wouldn’t even stay in the same house if I ever pulled something like Mark did. The only reason I can of that Jenny hasn’t publicly castrated him and filed for divorce would be the lack of a pre-nuptial. She’s the one with the big bucks.

someone like chuck schumer? i bet i’d feel a bit more at ease cuz chuck’s a real cunning strategist. But we’d prolly end up with a ton more moderate, practical proposals. matter of fact, we’d almost never get any ideological bills. which is fine by me anyhow.
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My point being, what would you have reid say? that he actually was gonna flex his muscles? what part of expectations settings don’t you understand?

Mr. Reid, please describe a time when you have flexed your muscles as the Senate Majority Leader with a popular Democratic president. Explain to me when a better time to flex your muscles would be.

lupercal: Reid seems to have a strap-on backbone that’s more often off than on. Gunny and Sgwhite and SZ and others on here could probably quote instances for you. But whenever the GOP threatens a filibuster, Reid backs off rather than choosing particular times to at least get the GOP on the record.
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I realize Harry Reid has a lot harder time corralling votes from the Democrats than McConnell does getting the GOP to toe the line. But the Dems need someone with a bit more gumption and determination and leadership in the Senate, which is one of the most screwed-up deliberative bodies in the world.

“My point being, what would you have reid say?”
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How about something postive. Like a leader. I imagine Harry Reid as a general telling his officers and men. “Look, we vastly out number the enemy in fire power as well as man power. But because 1 or 2 of us might get killed I seriously don’t think we can win. So run away!”

I don’t have much experience with “Morning Joe” but was forced to watch this morning because CNN cannot let the Jackson thing go. I don’t know about Mika’s having no purpose–this morning she seemed to be the only person on the set who tried to escape the forced, artificial conviviality and bring conversation back to whatever topic seemed to be at hand. She was not often successful, of course.

Just got off the Senate HELP Committee conf call. Will write a post as quickly as I can.

lupercal –
He might say, privately to unsupportive members of his caucus, something like this: “That’s a nice little appropriations proposal for your state you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” If he prefers a more down-homey style he can try channeling LBJ (see Caro, Robert, Master of the Senate.) Anything but more of his white-flag “leadership.”