Thune

“I’m a moving on up, to the top, to a deluxe office on Capital Hill . . .

l3wis June 18, 2009 0Comments

“Weezy, looks like Ensign got caught with his hands in the honey pot. Oh well, another man’s affair is just an opportunity for me to climb the ladder a little more. I wonder if I will still have to do Boehner’s dry cleaning?”

Gee, maybe someday Thune could be majority leader! Wouldn’t that be wonderful for South Dakotans to have one of their senators with that much power and clout? Just imagine the possibilities! Of course, a Democrat, who had been working for lobbyists, would probably run a smear campaign against him and his wife and dethrone him because he was doing bidding for his party instead of work for the people of South Dakota (from KELO-TV):

Senator John Thune of South Dakota is running for the Republican leadership post left vacant by Senator John Ensign of Nevada.

Ensign announced he was stepping down as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth-ranking post in the Senate GOP leadership, after admitting he had an extramarital affair.

Thune says he talked to a lot of Republican senators on Wednesday to seek their support for his bid to replace Ensign.

Thune already holds the fifth-ranking Republican post, and he says a higher leadership post would let him more effectively push for South Dakota priorities.

Slow down, Ironic Johnny, you are starting to sound like Tom Daschle more and more every day!

Thune; Still a Dink

l3wis June 12, 2009 15Comments

Is Ironic Johnny’s legislation idea a good one? Sure. Will it pass? Hell no. This is just another political game by the GOP’s whipping boy;

The federal government, which has amassed large ownership interests in private companies, would be forced to sell those interests by July 1, 2010, under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. John Thune.

Thune said Thursday that the government’s equity stakes have made President Obama a “de facto CEO” and Congress a “board of directors.” The relationship between government and private industry, he said, has “created a dangerous conflict of interest.”

Blah, Blah, Blah, Fart, Fart Fart.

John, when are you going to start talking like an adult instead of a HS Cheerleader? Let’s talk ‘dangerous’ conflicts of interest. Like when we let Enron and the energy companies have a private meeting with Dick-Dick Cheney and right the Bush energy policy. Or when we let Haliburton and Blackwater run operations in Iraq. You are worried about ‘dangerous’ conflicts of interest now?

Thune voted for the $700 billion TARP program last fall, but he said the purpose of that program was to remove troubled assets from bank balance sheets, not to buy equity stakes in private companies.

Yeah, just like authorizing the President to go to war in Iraq, wouldn’t mean he would go to war in Iraq. How did that turn out?

Thune’s bill will be popular with the Republican Party base, said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. But with their depleted numbers in the Senate, Sabato thinks the bill has little chance of passing.

 

“The Democrats aren’t going to permit Thune and the Republicans to tie Obama’s hands in that way,”

Thune. Go do something constructive, like retire.

Huh? Did you hear that? Oh Nevermind, it was just a John Thune.

l3wis June 11, 2009 4Comments