Drudge & GOP Spreading Bizarre Claim of Funding For "Pelosi's Mouse"

[Julius Civitatus]

Here we go again!
Scum-sucking lowlife and other GOP acolytes are spreading the bizarre rumor that the Stimulus Package includes $30 million for "Pelosi's mouse". You can't make this shit up, but apparently the right wing morons are buying it:

Pelosi's Mouse Explained: What's Actually In The Stimulus Bill

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A prominent headline on the Drudge Report Thursday: "Pelosi's mouse slated for $30M slice of cheese..."

Drudge is often the last stop a story makes just before showing up on cable news and other mainstream outlets. (It was Drudge who highlighted the STD funding that ended up axed.)

The problem for stimulus critics is that the package has no earmarks, leaving little to ridicule.

But the money has to be spent somewhere, so House Republicans went looking for embarrassing projects that could be funded by the stimulus. "Appropriations Committee Republicans have been asking federal agencies exactly how the pots of money in the bill will be spent - since much of the spending isn't explicitly spelled out in the legislation," wrote Michael Steel, an aide to Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), in an e-mail to reporters.

"One response? Thirty million dollars for wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area - including work to protect the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse," he said.

The Washington Times and conservative blogs picked up the charge and ran with it. "Pelosi's mouse slated for $30M slice of cheese," headlined the Times.

Steel's argument is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had previously supported protection of the mouse. "So can Speaker Pelosi explain exactly how we will improve the American economy by helping the adorable little fellow pictured below?"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/pelosis-mouse-explained-w_n_166442.html

The same tactics of spreading rumors, falsehoods and innuendo that worked so well for the GOP against the Clintons are being used again. These people are completely depleted of any kind of shame.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. drudge sure has fallen hasn't he?

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. I didn't know he was ever angelic. nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I was thinking along the lines of the mighty & powerful

[Julius Civitatus]

4. He's always been a paid GOP propagandist

from the very start. I mean, it's been widely documented.
Not sure if he's ever had any "higher standards".

[Chulanowa]

6. "Falling" implies a transfer of one's position from the Y plane to the X plane...

Meaning, you have to be "up" before you can come down.

Matt Drudge has never had an "up" and has in fact been rather low-slung and sessile, not unlike a limpet, for his whole... career, if you want to use that term.

Therefor, I must argue that indeed he has not fallen, simply by default; there is nowhere for him to fall to from his starting position.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. From power & influence. Have some literary imagination.

Jesus.
What's a "Y" plane anyway?

Oh, you mean "YZ" plane to "XZ" plane I get it.

[Chulanowa]

10. Well, that's my point

What power, what influence? He's always been a two-bit hack, and even all the Republicans I know think he's a douchenozzle.

[WCGreen]

2. Blind ambition...

And then when they get what they so desire, power, they almost immediately fuck it up for themselves...

[malaise]

7. Drudge should carve a big D on his face

like the Rushican loony who carved out his last Big Bogus story.

[EFerrari]

9. Right wing morans will bite anything they're offered. It's not even worth

getting upset about.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Right., And when they include contraceptive coverage in expanded $ for health insurance it becomes

"Taxpayer money for millions of dollars worth of condoms".

:eyes:

I swear to God; it's not true that nothing is manufactured in the Good Old USA anymore. We have a highly efficient production stream for Republican Bullshit that never stops.

[deacon]

12. Their implosion continues. n/t