Randi Rhodes: OWS Evictions & GOP Embarrassments

In Los Angeles, police used cherry pickers to pluck Occupy protestors from the trees. That’s appropriate—they’ve cherry-picked Occupy as a protest to crack down on as opposed to, say, a Tea Party rally. A cherry picker! We told you that police were using military equipment and tactics. Now it seems they’re also using farm equipment.

Speaking at a New Hampshire college, Rick Perry said “Those of you that will be 21 by November the 12th, I ask for your support and your vote.” The voting age is 18, for those of you who missed the 26th Amendment. I knew Republicans were trying to restrict voting, but this is getting out of hand. Amazingly, Perry squeezed another major gaffe into that one sentence. He mentioned November 12th as election day. For one thing, the general election is scheduled for November 6th, not November 12th. Second, that date will be meaningless to Rick if he doesn’t win the nomination, and New Hampshire’s primary election is January 10th. Congratulations, Rick—you just wrongly told most of your audience they’re too young to vote, and sent the rest of them to the polls on the wrong day. I have some advice for Republicans—do NOT put Rick Perry in charge of “get out the vote” efforts.

The New York Times is out with an investigative piece showing that Newt Gingrich’s “consulting” business is nothing but lobbying, pure and simple. The first clue? We’re talking about Newt Gingrich. Newt has been trying to portray himself as a visionary who offers his clients ideas. Newt, we’ve seen your ideas, and there’s no market for them. None of his clients gave a crap what Newt Gingrich knew. All they cared about was who he knew. Newt always tries to hide behind the fact that he’s not a registered lobbyist. That just tells you that we have to be a lot tougher about who has to register as a lobbyist. If Newt Gingrich isn’t a lobbyist, then nobody in Washington is a lobbyist. And that’s pretty much what Republicans would like you to believe.

Ginger White, the woman who had the affair with Cain, says Cain “consistently” gave her money, but it wasn’t “sex for cash.” Yes, and what Newt Gingrich did was not lobbying. Ginger, just say you were being paid to have sex. That’s better than having people think that you were having sex with Herman Cain because you wanted to.

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Herman Cain whined about being 'attacked' for his 'solid ideas' earlier today...

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