Randi Rhodes: Ending Wars & Economic Saboteurs

Last night President Obama said he was going to speed up our pullout from Afghanistan. We’ve been there for a decade. Any movement at all would be a speed up. This has been the most drawn-out ending since Hey Jude. At least that long drawn-out ending gave DJ’s a chance to use the restroom. President Obama said “America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.” Unfortunately, I think the Republicans want us to pull out of America too.

Democrats are finally explicitly calling out Republicans for sabotaging the economic recovery (video below), which they have been doing… explicitly. Dick Durbin said “Our Republican colleagues in the House and Senate are driven by putting one man out of work: President Obama.” And if the best way to do that is to keep millions of other Americans unemployed… well, so be it!

Sarah Palin is whining about media reports that the remainder of her bus tour has been cancelled. Palin claims that she just returned to Alaska because she had jury duty. Can you even imagine Sarah Palin serving on a jury? “Please, juror Palin, just say ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty.’ There is no such thing as a verdict of ‘you betcha!’” Palin said “the next leg of the tour continues when the time comes.” Yeah, when the time comes that Sarah craves media attention. I don’t know if you realize this, Sarah, but you can’t keep on teasing that you’re going to run for president in 2012 indefinitely. For starters, it won’t sound very believable after 2012 comes and goes. Does anybody really think that Sarah Palin is going to run for President? It would be a disaster and a huge embarrassment for her. Of course that didn’t stop Newt Gingrich.

A pilot at Southwest Airlines went on a rant about his attempts to enjoy the nightlife with female crew members, on a cockpit microphone that he didn’t know was live (complete audio). I’m sure everyone listening to it was thinking “What is Charlie Sheen doing flying an airplane?” The pilot called his Chicago-based flight crew a “continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes.” For the record, he was complaining. But I think there must be a website called “Gays, Grannies, and Grandes” for people who are into that sort of combo.

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