Wow, talk about Rossi leaping into the conversation:
In a move stunning some of his conservative “family values” supporters, the former state senator Dino Rossi pledged this week that if elected governor he would use less expensive prostitutes than disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer, (D-NY).
“It’s just one more example of people in government spending the people’s hard earned tax money in an inefficient manner.”
Rossi declined to say if he would use prostitutes if elected governor, but said that if he did he wouldn’t spend as much “as that guy from New York.” He went on to blame Gov. Christine Gregoire for rising prices that have earned Washington state a reputation for having some of the most expensive hookers in the nation.
“This is just more proof of the awful business climate she’s responsible for,” added Rossi. “Thousands of whores leave this state every year for states with lower taxes and less regulation. If I’m elected, hookers are going to get the respect they deserve.”
A spokesman for Gregoire couldn’t stop laughing long enough to comment.
Linkee?
Jokee.
@1 are you really that clueless? It’s a joke!
Thousands of whores leave this state every year for states with lower taxes and less regulation.
There’s only one whore I really want to leave, but Tim Eyman won’t budge.
If he had said that, he would have gotten my vote.
…. Then after she stopped laughing, she realized she’ll be needing some money if she’s defeated….
Well, again Dino Rossi is just following someone else’s lead. Didn’t Representative Richard Curtis offer a measly $1000 to that male prostitute? That’s way less than Spitzer.
I suppose Dino’s old pals at the Forward Washington Foundation might be in a position to cover “The Dinos” whore bills?
After all, they are all about improving the business climate for small and medium sized businesses.
Don’t let our whores leave the state Dino!
Another 17 percent increase in this year’s state budget, yet all you ignoramouses can do is take a Democratic Governor’s scandal and somehow twist it around on Dino. Your audacity is amusing to say the least.
@ 1 – now THAT’s funny! ;-)
@ 9
You’re welcome.
# 9: Come on, Mark1, have a sense of humor for once! It’s satire, after all!
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D): Driving Prostitution to its knees…
One hooker at a time.
I think Dino’s too dim to know what to do with a prostitute.
@12:
I do, and yes it is. When I need a laugh, I picture a ditzy Darcy falling flat on her face in government. Now that’s funny!
You wanna talk about unfortunate choices of words? Yesterday NPR had a lengthy report on how Spitzer was caught up in the legal stuff. They started (seriously) the report with something on the order of “Who fingered Spitzer?” It is not safe to have convulsive laughter when driving to work.
leftist @14,
Too “dim”…? That wasn’t the word I was thinking of.
Goldy
It is probably true that the only stiffness Dino can achieve is via hairspray.
Well, on thing these sex scandals prove is that Republicans are more frugal than Democrats.
Eliot Spitzer = $80,000 on prostitutes
Larry Craig = $Zero dollars spent. Priceless.
Correx at 19:
Should read
Larry Craig = $Zero dollars spent random strange men. Priceless.
Did you hear the one about formerly liberal David Mamet the playwrite – he of Glengarry, Glen Ross – and his great awakening? In his own words, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal?'”
Wonderful essay! He contrasts the realities of life against the mushy-headed fantasies of the left and comes down on the side of letting people live as they see fit with minimal – and mostly ineffective and counter productive – do-gooder interference and letting life and markets simply do their thing since they do better when left alone.
http://www.villagevoice.com/ne.....064,1.html
I could quibble with Mamet on some points (John Simon isn’t the villain he portrays him as), but overall that he’s now on a path to right-thinking and political redemption I will simply applaud him for his progress while awaiting further “Aha!” moments.
If a David Mamet can see the light, who among the HA Happy Hooligans will be next? To realize that your efforts at political alchemy will yield only dross – there is no gold to be had, nor is there a pot of same at the end of any regulatory rainbow – is a singularly grownup event.
No, Goldy, there isn’t a Santa Claus…either in Olympia or Washington, D.C.
The Piper
@18…PL…
Then where is there stiffness in Christine Gregoire? It certainly isn’t in her spine!
The Piper
@ 21:
Would that me the markets that require $200 million of taxpayer money to bail them out?
Free market, indeed.
Since you KLOWNS all of a sudden have a new found sense of humor, take a look at Stefan’s caption contest and the picture of Gregoire & “Smilin’ Eliot.
They are quite a pair.
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/010342.html
@24
I thought about copying that over here. We could come up with some funnier shit.
# 21: Well, that was 200 billion US Dollars directly infused into the capital markets. What wasn’t counted was the fire-sale of U.S. mortage-backed securities to foreign banks.
It’s 11:43 a.m. Do you know were your mortage is?
Abdulah: “Okay, what’s the plan?”
Terrorist #007: “I have completed yet another step towards conquering America!”
Abdulah: “Okay, you have my attention. What have you done?
Terrorist # 007: “Today I used a grant from the Saudi royal family, leveraged together with matching grant from the Iranian Revolutionary Army, to buy a controlling interest in a U.S. mortgage-backed securities!”
Abdulah: “What is that?”
Terrorist # 007: “U.S. mortgage-backed securities are companies where their value is primarily based upon Americna real estate which serves as collateral for loans held by the company”.
Abdulah: “I’m lost. How does that help us”.
Terrorist # 007: “Simple. Since housing prices are falling in the U.S., and foreclosures rising at a record pace, many people in the U.S. owe more money on their debts than the value of their houses.”
Abdulah: “So you made a bad investment???? What kind of fool thing did you do???!!!!”
Terrorist #007: “No, it’s not a bad investment after all. You see, not all of the loans are bad. Just some of them. Most will turn out fine. But the Bush administration didn’t exercise any oversight of the lending practices, so nobody really knows right now which loans are good, and which ones are bad. So they are assuming that most of them are bad.”
Abdullah: “So how does that help us?”
Terrorist# 007: “Simple. The loan agreements allow us to declare the loasn to be in default anytime we “deem ourselves unsecure”. That means we can insist on immediate payment of the full amount, and start foreclosure if they can’t pay immediatly. Then we step in and buy the properties for pennies on the dollar. Not only do we put the American economy in the toilet, we use their own money to do so – and it’s completely legal!”
Abdullah: “Surely the government would put a stop to that! It’s illegal to engage in such ungodly conduct!”
Terroist #007: “Not in America! They expect you to engage in such treasonous conduct, and reward the heads of companies that do so with big bonuses and stock options!”
Abdullah: “But surely even with the Saudi gifts and the Iranian oil money, we don’t have enough money to make a dent in the American markets, do we?”
Terrorist # 007: “That’s the beauty of the plan. We don’t have enough money ourselves. But much of the rest of the similar securities are owned by foreign government banks. The Americans even begged them to buy them!”
Abdullah: “Surely they are not that stupid! It must be a trick. After all, what other governments would be willing to give America the finger and protect their own interests first?”
Terrorists #007: “Well, one of the big purchasers in the recent sales were the French….”
Abdullah: “Enough said! You will receive great rewards in heaven for your scheme! While America is busy trying to control Iraq, they will return eventually to find that America is now owned by Al Quida!!!! They will have to pay us huge rents just to eack out a meagre living! It will be like holding the deed to Boardwalk in a Monopoly game!”
Terrorist #007: “Thank you, great Abdullah. Uh, does that mean I can take off the bomb vest now????”
Yea, I know #27 is an exaggeration. But since we are already engaging in a little harmless satire…
You know what guys, if you make a reference to something offsite, even to a joke, you should provide a link. Of course it’s a joke, but I’d like to know where it came from. Is that too much to ask?
Idiots.
I mean good FSM, sometimes you people can really be stupid!
re 21: Piper:
“Wonderful essay! He contrasts the realities of life against the mushy-headed fantasies of the left and comes down on the side of letting people live as they see fit with minimal – and mostly ineffective and counter productive – do-gooder interference and letting life and markets simply do their thing since they do better when left alone.”
This is also what the left believes.
I do not see how you can miss the point that huge, monopolistic, oligarchic corporate business machine/mechanisms are not a free market. They are an overbearing presence that inhibits the free market.
@27: Are dem bad terrorists now going to refer to us as “the great BANKRUPT Satan”?
They can now claim, as Reagan did, that they enticed us into Iraq to destroy our econmony and that Bush idiot fell for it. In fact, he manufactured 935 lies to gewt the US into Iraq.
by the way all those trolls – looks like the terrorists are back in operation in Iraq – US deaths and total deaths are on the rise again and surge is somehow “not working” now. Gee – who could have prdicted this?
AND the US military chief resigns becuase the surge is indefinite – but Bush only follows the advice of the military he agrees with…
WODER HOW MUCH THE JOHNS CHARGE CHRISTINE TO GET LAID.
Piper: If your ancestors were anything like you and they lived in Boston in the 18th century, I cannot see them participating in the Boston Tea Party.
“Why, that’s destruction of ‘private propitty’!!! they’d be sayin’.
Lee says:
@24
I thought about copying that over here. We could come up with some funnier shit.
Lee–
Do it. Plagarism is often an honor…especially when dealing with low-level, gutter stuff like this.
@6 “Then after she stopped laughing, she realized she’ll be needing some money if she’s defeated….”
Given how you Repubs have been prospering lately, I doubt she loses sleep over that.
@21 Some people are more susceptible to mass hypnosis than others, crackpiper. You, for example.
@22 What on earth are you prattling about now?
@23 That would be $200 billion, with a “b”, not $200 million, with an “m”, and it won’t make a dent.
The value of your hard-earned dollars continues their free-fall with every breath you take as the Bush regime races the clock to leave behind a legacy of currency devaluation rivaling that of the Weimar Republic.
Perhaps Bush thinks that because it worked the first time to replace an elected government with a fascist dictatorship maybe it’ll work this time, too.
@29 How the fuck do you provide a link to something you peeled off the wall? BTW, if you wonder why the wingnut comments here don’t contain links, that’s why!!!
“Tlazolteotl”
Interesting screen name. Does it signify the type of social and economic organization you favor?
Hey, I’m just saying… Christine may not be Emperors Club material, but I’m sure she could make some money as an escort to the elderly if she wanted.
Sorry trolls. The number of people in this state stupid enough to vote for “ANY” Republican is shrinking faster than the polar ice cap. The only way Dino the fraud could get elected governator would be for every democrat in this state to drop dead.
Not funny. Apologize for this ridiculous piece of libel.
Apprantly the poster at # 41 hasn’t ever read “The Onion”.
Don’t mock these prostitutes. They are hofessionals.
Ms Dupre’ be in the money now, an her NY Guv soon be livin in one of them self flushin 3 million dollar self flushing Pimphouses King County is getting rid of.
Gregoire will be shipping one down to him.. We want him to be able to continue his life long trade.
Let’s recap – GOP brings crybaby court case in the most conservative County in Washington, with a republican judge – and a republican Secretary of State – tries to steal election that it couldn’t win – cries fraud – and the only fraud found – is – now wait for it – fraudulent votes by republicans.
You gotta love the Keystone Cops version of Washington’s GOP!