Comments on: Video: Colbert interviews Eleanor Holmes Norton

By: Stop The ACLU

Stop The ACLU — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:24:59 +0000

Sunday Funnies…

image courtesy of faithmouse
I’m out of town, so the links are gonna be a few days old. I prepared this on Thursday and Friday.
The Skwib has the Carnival of Satire.
The Kag Report has carnival of comedy.
Potfry intercepts a phone call from…

By: BMasso

BMasso — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:26:19 +0000

Babs, Residents of DC are US Citizens, but the founders established it the way it is on purpose. We needed a capitol somewhere, but the paranoa was that whatever state housed it would have undue power.

So a (then) centrally-located rectangle was carved off from MD & VA, consisting at the time of mostly useless swampland. It was to be forever “Federal” land, not part of any state.

Personally, I think we could allow their “non-voting” representative to vote – but I don’t know of a fix for Senate representation. They’re too small & dependent on the Fed gov’t to merit statehood, and the original injunction to keep DC seperate from any state may not be a bad idea.

Citizens who choose to permanently live in other places not-States also don’t get to vote for Senate/House races. Perhaps, like with Puerto Rico, we could refrain from collecting income-tax on permanent residents – to render the taxation/representation point moot?

By: shooter

shooter — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:18:12 +0000

Great stuff, they work extremely well together , kinda neopolitan…….. without the strawberry.

By: PeteRR

PeteRR — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:57:56 +0000

I’ve taken to not watching The Daily Show as it’s become predictible and preachy, but The Colbert Report is consistently excellent. The only thing about SC that sticks in my craw is, he is a gunbanner.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Friday night fights

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Friday night fights — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:42:23 +0000

[...] 3. DOD versus WMD skepticism. Captain Ed showcases the latest memo rescued from the Iraqi intel document dump, this one with the subject line “we have information about the location of Mass Destruction Weapons.” I don’t want to spoil it, but it truck convoys, payoffs, and Syria all figure prominently. Fascinating reading, but I think I’m beyond the point of being convinced. Like Colbert with his faulty gaydar, I’ve been burned too many times. [...]

By: Sugar Land

Sugar Land — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:54:02 +0000

I took Colbert off of my TiVo schedule when he pulled that idiotic stunt at the correspondent dinner.
But I’ll give it up. That is the funniest interview I’ve ever seen. And frankly, kudos to the lady from D.C. She was equally funny.
Good stuff.

By: Drtuddle

Drtuddle — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:59:48 +0000

That can’t be real??

By: Subsunk

Subsunk — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:45:02 +0000

She was great. It was a pleasure seeing her using his own tactics against him. Good on Eleanor.

Subsunk

By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:18:20 +0000

I really have to hand it to the Rep from D.C. All in good fun but, the question still remains, why don’t they have congressional rights? Are they American citizens or not?

By: Citizen Journal

Citizen Journal — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:46:17 +0000

Friday diversion…

Steven Colbert (“KOHL-bare”) at his best…….

By: p0s3r

p0s3r — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:31:53 +0000

One of his better ones for sure.

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:08:24 +0000

That was Hilarious! He is always funny with his congressional interviews.

By: The LLama Butchers

The LLama Butchers — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:07:26 +0000

Oh. Sweet. Jeebus!…

Via Allahpundit, I realize Colbert is one of them, but this has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time… Skip to minute 2:00 for an interview like another with Eleanor Holmes Norton. Just as an……

By: havok

havok — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:00:10 +0000

Now that was Funny….

By: dahat

dahat — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:53:02 +0000

At last! An at large ‘district.’

By: Military Matters » Blog Archive » Stephen Colbert & Eleanor Holmes-Norton

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:43:09 +0000

[...] This is why God Al Gore invented the internets. Colbert has run laps around quite a few Congress critters and it is surprising to see them still showing up. Eleanor Holmes-Norton brought the heat and she and Colbert rocked. Most of the time he just leads a clown looking for some cheap pub down the garden path and edits rings around them, but this was money. He launched all kinds of baloney at her and she just returned it all and more. Go watch it courtesy of the Mighty Allah. [...]

By: New Acronym Needed at The Politburo Diktat

New Acronym Needed at The Politburo Diktat — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:41:57 +0000

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