In a rather amusing story on the WSJ’s front page today, we learn that the new Republicans that were placed in those House seats in Washington about 5 minutes ago, all want the same things in common.
These can be listed as “smaller government, less spending, lower taxes, sculpted abs, bulging biceps and flexibility they never dreamed possible” jokes the WSJ.
A group of these Republican politicians gather each day in the House gym to worship at the shrine of a series of DVD workout routines known to latenight informercial freaks as being P9OX or “the most extreme home fitness program.”
It mirrors these newbie politicians roll to “chisel away flabby federal programs.”
Their leader? Not John McCain, but Tony Horton, the tanned fitness guru who created P90X and leads the routines on DVD. Tony’s combined skills as a Hollywood personal fitness trainer and actor were fused together to make him “Master of Motivation” where he has also fused his best sayings together, these being “Bring it” and “Man, on Manischewitz”.
Yep, that really is Wall Street’s front page lead in story today. Read it. Hilarious!
The story penned by an Elizabeth Williamson & a Patrick O’Connor goes on to drivel: “The goal of the exercises is to “confuse” the muscles by working different parts of the body each day in a workout that escalates in difficulty. Like much that gains traction in Congress, it’s a familiar idea wrapped in new packaging. ”I thought it looked like some kind of Jane Fonda video,” says Rep. Aaron Schock (R., Ill.), 29, a former recreational weightlifter, but “it kicked my butt.”
[Photograph - Office of Kevin McCarthy. Photo caption - Tony Horton with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who follows the exercise guru's P90X workout program with a crew of young Republicans, at the Capitol.] Read the rest of this entry »
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON ON JOHN BOEHNER’S ARRIVAL – TEN SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS FROM HOLLYWOOD – 1.4.11
Meet Viola St Michaela, a pedigree jersey heifer in training for the show ring. She has nothing to do with celebrity blogging but I thought we needed to see a pedigree something today, other than celebrities we always see a lot of.
And in New York City on Washington DC News Arianna Huffington previews John Boehner’s Big Speech, asking: Will he (Republican) like it’s 1995? Lol! She’s outrageous. Her intro copy after our top ten social media post being shared by you all worldwide follows below. Cool choices people:
1. Josh Groban and reading The Book of Ezra in Hollywood 1.3.11
2. Ryan Reynolds really did okay with Scarlett Johansson beside him
3. Lady Gaga attends her blisters Sacred Heart Graduation
4. Jeffrey Lurie is one savvy starbacker
5. Cheryl Cole
6. Country Hotties know how to stay in Shape
7. Did Johnny Depp borrow Ezra Pound‘s swagger? Swashbucklers!
8. Breast Cancer PSA. Check regularly, mammogram it, Go to another doctor to make sure
9. Jeweler Snooki is just tumeke, an author now too?
10. Graham Hensen is doing way too much with a rugby football
Kalani Jones: Rudy Huxtable gets her own reality show
Arianna on Boehner: “As we get ready for John Boehner to take the gavel on Wednesday, I find myself thinking back to the last time a Republican speaker took control of the House from a Democrat — and reflecting on how far down the wrong road we have traveled since then. It was January 1995. After taking the oath of office, Newt Gingrich delivered a speech that presented concern for the least among us as a shared national objective. “The balanced budget is the right thing to do,” he said. “But it does not in my mind have the moral urgency of coming to grips with what is happening to the poorest Americans.” And now, with poverty higher than it was 16 years ago, with greater income inequality, and with the middle class struggling to hold on, what will be imbued with “moral urgency” in Speaker Boehner’s speech?” She’s outrageous! Love it. Already USA Today is running with Ari’s words. Unreal! Photograph via HuffPo.
Some other bloggers who blog like Arianna and I do: Funny or Die; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by horiwood on January 4, 2011 in A Different View, America, Arianna Huffington, Guest Commentary, Humor, John Boehner, Politics