Republicans are beginning to eat their young as we watch Kathryn Jean Lopez get snippy with the RNC's Young Eagles:
As the RNC looks for a new chairman, its voting members might want someone to pay attention to their Young Eagles program. This young group of donors might give off the wrong vibe about the seriousness of the stakes for the GOP. The Young Eagles were most recently mentioned in The Corner for e-mailing out an invitation to a party at The Breakers in West Palm proclaiming: “As is apparent to most of you, this election was not stellar, but let me give you some decent news…we lost far fewer House and Senate seats than expected.... We can either rest on our laurels, or we can move forward and rebuild and revitalize the party.”
(Um, what laurels?)
And now, there is this, which comes via forwarded e-mail, from an RNC "coordinator":
Subject: Young Eagles: "Turnin' Up the Heat" Miami, FL Event
All,
Please find the attached invitation to the Young Eagles "Turnin' Up the Heat" event in Miami on January 23rd and 24th. I hope that you can attend as this will be our first event of the New Year. It is imperative that we discuss and plan the future of the Young Eagles as we move forward and look to the 2010 elections.
[...]
In terms of lodging, Miami has a plethora of options. Several choices to consider are The Fontainebleau (305) 538-2000), the Ritz Carlton (786-276-1144), or The Shore Club (305-695-3100).
I look forward to seeing everyone in Miami. …
I have nothing against even losing parties having parties, but I hope some of those Young Eagles share my reaction to this first YE event in the Age of Obama: The hard choices are not the Fountainebleau, the Ritz Carlton, or the Shore Club.
Obviously K-Lo doesn't get it. The Young Eagles want to be taken seriously and the way to have people take you seriously is to act like adults. And what do serious adults do at conferences? They stay at nice places, eat expensive cuts of meat, drink top shelf alcoholic beverages, and play golf. And if they can get someone else to pay for it, all the better.
So if K-Lo doesn't want to come down to Florida and help "Turn Up the Heat" by jumping out of a cake wearing only a Ronald Reagan mask, well, that's fine. She doesn't have to get all bitchy about it and harsh everyone's mellow....
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help “Turn Up the Heat” by jumping out of a cake wearing only a Ronald Reagan mask
Images like that nullify the effect of cute puppy pictures. Just sayin’
Sound like fun! Now where’s that spare $7,500 I had lying around?
I take it the TBogg Retirement Fune is heavily invested in manufacturers of brain bleach…
Fund, not fune. Damned new glasses…
A get together featuring pasty faced white boys and closet cases. I picture a room full of Doughy Pantloads. Not my idea of fun.
Seconded, LittlePig. It bears repeating, referring to K-Lo:
“Turn Up the Heat” by jumping out of a cake wearing only a Ronald Reagan mask
I’m so disgusted I’m going over to the Weblog 2008 site to vote for Chris Muir. And tomorrow I’m voting for instapundit (but seriously, what’s up with cjane dominating? Is it magic underwear hegemony?). Nah, you’d have to replace that horrid mental image with an actual jpeg for that to happen. That’s a warning, tbogg..
Big guy: “Is that an erect penis in your tie (and my mouth) or are you just pleased to see me?”
Clearly, fat, drunk, stupid, republican (redundant?), and rich works for a segment of the population. I look forward to the next story about moralistic conservatives “drugged” and robbed by prostitutes..
The Breakers is in West Palm? Apparently Mann Coulter and Rush don’t invite KLo to any Palm Beach parties. The Breakers is most definitely over the bridge in Palm Beach — Jennifer Love’s Hugetits were there in that movie. The PB cops will videotape you crossing the bridge and maybe roust you if they don’t think you’re supposed to be there. With a name like Lopez, they’d probably assume KLo is someone’s maid.
Who says those aren’t hard choices? If I were a young Republican dumb enough to spend several thousand dollars to attend this dorkfest, that would be about as difficult a choice as I could manage. I suggest the Ritz Carlton. Anything with “Ritz” in the name should be just about right.
Watch out ladies. Not only are they single, they’re also local commanders in the Red State Strike Force. Try to control yourselves.
“Rest on their laurels”? Stupid wanker’s; with this crew you know they are mistaking hemorrhoid cushions for laurel wreaths, and they’ll be resting their fat asses on them, you betcha!
” … rest on our laurels…”
What? Doesn’t “laurels” mean big, fat butt cheeks?
Resting on their laurels? Yeesh, the bar is being set so low now in conservative land I fear not a single member of the Young Eagles will be able to limbo beneath it at the Manhole, Cockpit, or whatever Charlie Crist haunt they choose to turn up the heat at. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Normally, the mockworthy K-Lo gets exactly that from me. But, people, this critique of the plans of the Young Eagles (would that be any relation to a ‘chicken hawk’, circa 1970’s slang) is so obviously a cry for help from a young (?) woman who is having visions of her life passing her by.
Let us be kind to her in her pain (BTW, if we’re talking laurel, K-Lo would be hardy, if you get my drift…)
Oh, and that photograph? Gayer than Charlie Crist’s wedding snapshots…
So if K-Lo doesn’t want to come down to Florida and help “Turn Up the Heat” by jumping out of a cake wearing only a Ronald Reagan mask, well, that’s fine.
Images like that make the Baby Jesus colicky.
K-Lo appears to be arguing with an argument that was never made. Where in the email does it say that lodging is a hard choice? Nowhere.
Dumb.
I think they should take their elder’s advice and find a nice motel or something in Liberty City from which to plot their comeback. I’ve read many even charge by the hour.
Also: The Fontainebleau, the Ritz Carlton, or The Shore Club? The Breakers? Jesus Christ, even the “Young Eagles” of the Republican Party are hopelessly out of touch. Did they find these recommendations from a 1952 Frommer’s guide?
Has anyone ever actually been at a party where someone jumped out of a cake? Or is this one of those things that we all agree happens even though it never really does?
I think it used to happen, but a bunch of gangland killings where a moll with a tommy gun jumped out of a cake and shot everybody sort of spoiled it for everybody.
I am simply unable to understand how and why that woman has a real job.
It doesn’t really do much good for my self-esteem-based meritocracy fantasy-land world-view.
*searching for sharp objects*
Just for the record: I think Dr. Gupta will be judged well by history, if Obama isn’t making a huge laugh out of me.
Dr. G. does what his job will be quite nicely. I say.
Interesting, out of the box, contemporarily astute pick, if you ask me.
Fuck, I don’t hear what the Surgeon General says, but I’ll bet I do if Dr. Sanjay is the Man.
Again, welcome to the Brave New World.
K-Lo’s year is getting off to a bad start. She was DENIED a press pass to the Inauguration.
Yes you read that right. AN ALL CAPS REJECT.
/me scratches head, trying to figure out when being the alpha dog inmate at the asylum that is the Corner of Befuddled Boulevard and Lost in Space Lane suddenly became a real job.
And tomorrow I’m voting for instapundit (but seriously, what’s up with cjane dominating?
They didn’t have a category for “I write the first inane thing that comes into my fucking mind.”
K-Lo might be right for once the Young Eagles flaunting wealth during a time of bank bailouts does send the wrong message.
But just what pulled K-Lo’s head out of her butt, stock market losses perhaps?
How appropriate that thedailybeast is featuring some classic oldies but goodies Bushie neo-con scandals.
Mark Halperin has not reminded us about the shoplifitng, prostitution, sex and cocaine parties at the Interior Department, and massive theft of billions by Halliburton.
We certainly cannot expect David Gregory to remember Jeff Gannon, or the $240,000 to Armstrong Williams or the phony Irak stories bought and paid for by us taxpayers.
That “Lady of Liberty” Kookie Roberts has forgotten the Pay for Play money that Paul Wolfowitz tried to get for his lady friend Riza, or Lorita Doan using the GSA for Bushie and neo-con political campaigns.
One of my favorites, though probably not David Broder’s is that “Oath to the President” made by Sara Taylor at the Justice Department.
Even TDB may have left out a few others of course. Those “actors” have created so many “realities” it is difficult to judiciously study all of them.
Did someone say “resting on my orals”?
-Larry Craig, GOP Mentor and Big Brother Outreach Director
We never hear the assbags calling it the scandal plagued Bush Administration.
Forgetting David Safavian, Scooter Libby, Bernie Kerik, Claude Allen, Dirty Dusty Foggo, Abramoff and the rest of the corrupt vulgarians that Bush kept near and dear to him.
-G
Thanks Dennis, I was wondering. I read three posts @ cjane and teh boring was starting to make my ears bleed. It’s like a facebook page with status updates that lasted 6 paragraphs.. With pictures of kids!!
God, Frick and Frack Pasty-Faced White Boys look like screaming queens, which, being Republicans, they no doubt are. Closet dwellers, of course.
Geez, Louise. Just how big a Democratic blow-out were they expecting?
Time to Digg this post Pups!
Those boys need to either lose a lot of weight or grow some more hair.
must be friends with Jon Favreau the Obama frat brat.
With the military once again loosening it’s standards, this time on weight, these well fed fellers should be hustling off to the nearest recruitment center.
It’s obvious to the rest of the world, that if YOU believe in war, you must “walk the walk”, not just “talk the talk” to show your support and garner support from like minded fools.
Judging from the picture, there is certainly a lot to eat. But K-Lo, one of the older and wiser generation of Republicans, is herself no slacker as a meat-bearing creature.
I can’t stand looking at that Young Republicans photo every time you put it up, but its so iconic. I think some blog needs to put a gallery up of the 10 most disgusting conservative images, such as Malkin’s cheerleader outfit, that Tbogg and others continually use to illustrate their posts… not out of a desire to make us vomit but because they so perfectly encapsulate our visceral disgust at the narcissistic snotty conservatism that rules political discussion. I would love a BAG news notes treatment of these iconic images.
and you’re not even talking about the bassets.
Hee hee hee! Yesterday the DNC called and asked me for a thousand bucks, and I told them I was very flattered that at the starting request. It was easy to talk them down.
If my kids asked for $7,500 to become a Young Eagle, I’d disown them. Of course, they already know that…