Midterm Madness, Part Three: August And Everything After

Once upon a time, political wags used to talk about the "silly season" as a portion of the campaign calendar where everyone sort of loses their mind for a spell, transforming the serious election season into a comical geekshow of cartoon self-abuse and strenuous exercise. Traditionally, this goes hand-in-hand with the late summer months, when the news-cycle drags to a halt and you spend the days hoping that maybe some story about litigious zombies will break somewhere.

Well, we're in the last throes of August now, and the sad truth is there's really no way of distinguishing this month in the campaign from the ones that have preceded it. Even as America experiences the brunt of a massive unemployment crisis at home and a souring war abroad, political candidates continue to wage an ongoing campaign to determine who can be the most asinine dimwit in America.

Once again, Ben Craw, Elyse Siegel and I have surveyed the political discourse and found it wanting! In this edition: we have Harry Reid going yellow-bellied on the Cordoba House, Aqua Buddha worship, a zonked out Ben Quayle, John McCain going goo-goo eyed over Snooki, and Basil Marceaux -- whose internet prank campaign actually seems to be making more sense, compared to everyone else.

Enjoy, I guess? Because this is just not going to get any better, America.

[WATCH]

[Video produced by Ben Craw. Thanks to Internet-whisperer Elyse Siegel.]

Comments

[Ohioan4truth]

03:28 PM on 08/25/2010

What we have here is a poor crop of politicians to pick from. Can anybody spray them with a pesticide AND herbicide to get rid of the nasties they seem to have abundances of? If it were up to me, I'd plow the whole dang group under and plant me some beans! At least you can eat beans! Thses people are WORTHLESS!

[GerryS]

01:07 AM on 08/25/2010

funny

now how about the dems sticking their feet in their mouths-----------

and I am a registered dem------------------

[RyanC1384]

10:52 PM on 08/24/2010

Did you guys see this? 2 potential news worthy stories within this audio. Sharron Angle agrees that we have domestic enemies within the Congress, & she is a hypocrite when it comes to the Constitution...

http://www.doubledutchpolitics.com/2010/08/sharon-angle-strict-constructionist-or-hypocrite/

[Yikes11]

10:18 PM on 08/24/2010

Da m**n, where's the dog catcher when you need him? Oh, wait, call coming in . . . wouldn't you know it, he was laid off. This explains why the dogs have been let out.

[FJames]

10:07 PM on 08/24/2010

i grow fatigued off liberal dribble, it's time

[FJames]

10:02 PM on 08/24/2010

uuuubama. the worst

[Savage Saint Roger]

09:38 PM on 08/24/2010

This election, to date in my mind, is nothing less than a complete cartoon. Both parties carry their share of circus clowns, to be sure! Were we Americans truly as independent, free thinking, and free reigning as we like to consider ourselves, we would have a no party system! And the fools would have to compete with the talent on basis of merit alone instead of who can best represent an empty headed American to the rest of world!

[FJames]

10:01 PM on 08/24/2010

couldn't agree more but the progressies ike mccain neeed to b gone

[CaraTaylor]

11:30 PM on 08/24/2010

Is there something wrong with your keyboard? Seriously, dude . . . . can't understand anything you're writing!

[wilb36]

09:33 PM on 08/24/2010

How come the Democrat Tea Party Scam in Michigan where Democrats entered fake Tea Party candidates to try and siphon votes from Republicans instead of running on their own principals does not get a story here on the Huff?

http://www.freep.com/article/20100824/OPINION01/8240323/1322/Time-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-Tea-Party-scam

It is a disgusting ploy

[FJames]

09:47 PM on 08/24/2010

TYPICAL the freaks run on mis-information and it is catching up stay strong

[wilb36]

09:52 PM on 08/24/2010

I'm actually an independent. I think Democrats and Republicans are equally disgusting.

[scjk67]

08:33 PM on 08/24/2010

Just saw that Meeks won the Democrat primary, now have to face Crist and Rubio in November.

[oldfuzz]

08:32 PM on 08/24/2010

Who in the media previously shouting "The Tea Party is coming... the Tea Party is coming..." are now apologizing for their Oscar winning Henny Penny performances?

[hackerblaster]

08:19 PM on 08/24/2010

Profile not found for user hackerblaster Go to the home page.

??

[LooktotheLeft]

08:18 PM on 08/24/2010

Not sure why but J.D. Hayworth strikes me as one of four things (if not all three):

1.) A flesh-eating cannibal
2.) A Central or South American d*eath squad leader (provided he speaks Spanish)
3.) One of those people that come out of the hills (as portrayed in various horror flicks) in places like West Virginia and terrorizes, k*ills, and then dines on young, unsuspecting college students who, for god knows what reason, happen to be cruising through W. Virginia to begin with.
4. An incredibly unscrupulous used car salesman

Perhaps he is a combination of all of these: a used car salesman cannibal who, on weekends, terrorizes and k*ills colleges students and, when on vacation in El Salvador, Peru, or Honduras dabbles in d*eath squad activity.

Not sure why I feel so unflattering about him....but I think it's the teeth...

[crosshatchaz]

08:38 PM on 08/24/2010

Probably because, as a bottom feeder, he resembles all of the above. We already kicked him out of congress and his pathetic career as a radio announcer wasn't cutting it.

haven't you heard? There's lotsa money in them thar Capitol Hills!

[maxwelldog]

08:13 PM on 08/24/2010

Get a membership at a movie rental place near you and stop watching tv altogether.
Bound to ease those nagging headaches and terrible nightmares.

Rent some good comedies.

(not just smoke, folks...I didn't get a converter box and until the tube dies, we aren't planning on public tv at all.
Movies, and more reading.
Ahhhhh.
Way more relaxed, too!

[iMissMollyIvins]

08:12 PM on 08/24/2010

Ben Quayle isn't zonked out in that ad, it's a 'genetic thing'.

[truerunner]

08:27 PM on 08/24/2010

Fanned!

[Manwhatthe]

08:12 PM on 08/24/2010

Netflix streaming is very dangerous.