Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Suzi Parker writes at the Washington Post, Mitt Romney’s ‘binders full of women’:

The minute Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said the phrase, social media exploded.

[Before the night was over, it had its own Tumblr. It had its own Facebook page.]

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“Binders Full Of Women” was certainly an awkward phrase to say and it failed to even work as an answer to the question. Instead, it reminded people of a time when women wore girdles or women in China bound their feet as status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. For some, it sounded like a great idea for a Halloween costume.

And like Big Bird, it became an instant meme.

Romney then went a bit patriarchal, reminding me of the Dabney Coleman character in the 1980s movie, “9 to 5.”

“Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort. But number two, because I recognized that if you’re going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school.”

He continued, saying that his chief of staff couldn’t work late because she had to be home “making dinner” and “being with them when they get home from school.”

Romney said, “Let’s have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you.”

Do fathers not have to get home and cook dinner? Do they not want to be there for their children when school is out? After all, there are such things as single dads who balance children and work. Mitt Romney has obviously been watching too many episodes of “Leave It To Beaver” on TV Land on the campaign trail. The days of Donna Reed are long over, Mr. Romney.

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[F]ew will remember any of that tomorrow because “binders full of women” already has its own Twitter account.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

"Don't make me angry" Frank Antenori is terrorizing the villagers, again. And lashing out at his fellow Tea-Publicans.

The political gossip rag The Yellow Sheet Report (subscription required) reports in a story captioned "No Holding Back":

Antenori lived up to his reputation as a warrior-politician this weekend, blasting his critics in a scorched-earth speech to a crowd of adoring fans at a Tucson park on Saturday. Antenori was especially acerbic toward fellow Republicans and HighGround consultants Doug Cole and Chuck Coughlin, who he said were motivated purely by self-interest when they contributed to Bradley’s campaign. (They each gave Bradley $100 in August.)

 Antenori insinuated that the lobbyists didn’t want him back in the Legislature because he’ll vote against implementing Obamacare in Arizona and they have been hired to push for a Medicaid expansion. “They were given a lot of money, six-figure money, to lobby on behalf of certain organizations to implement the healthcare [exchange] and expand the Medicaid entitlement to 138 percent of the federal poverty level,” Antenori said.

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Antenori also had some choice words for former lawmaker Pete Hershberger, who called him “the bully of the Legislature” in a recent Daily Star article. “Pete Hershberger? That guy hasn’t been a Republican in 20 years,” he said.

Antenori’s speech resonated with about 40 people who came to see him. One of them, James Kelley, a Republican who is running for the Pima County board of supervisors, sees nothing wrong with Antenori’s bluntness and seems to relish it.  “You know how to get a warrior to calm down? Stop shooting at him. He’s a warrior, and he’s got a warrior’s heart, and there’s nothing wrong with that,” Kelley told our reporter.