The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
TGIO '08: Primates of the Year
State Sen. Chris Buttars, thought to be the missing link between humans and creeping things, brings national attention to Utah by insulting blacks, gays and anyone else who happens to be in the room. Buttars also disgraces the Legislature by threatening a judge who ruled against a developer pal. Buttars is not only re-elected by the mutants in his district, but is given positions of power by his colleagues.

State Senator and hominid impersonator Curt Bramble tries to get a pizza delivery girl to accept a check by wowing her with his magnificence. Bramble thunders:
I'm the majority leader of the Senate! And, I'm a CPA — a check is as good as cash!
To indisputably prove he's a member of the Legislature, Bramble stiffs her on the tip.


Jason Chaffetz runs for Congress pitching a scheme to round up illegal aliens and put them in tent camps. In nearly any other Congressional district, such a harebrained idea would have landed Chaffetz in the bughouse, but in Utah it lands him in Congress.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff expands his duties, promoting himself to state Huckster for Hire. He writes endorsement letters and does stand-up routines for businesses that coincidentally contribute to his campaign fund.

Bankrupt geek-entrepreneur SUPERDELL Schanze runs for governor on an anti-anti-Christ platform*, setting the Utah Libertarian cause back to square one (from square two).

*Gov. Jon Huntsman is the "socialist anti-Christ."

10 Comments:

At December 30, 2008 1:39 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, the idiot Chaffetz is in Congress, but the brilliant one is Glen Warchol, who is writing a seldom-read blog for a dying newspaper.

 
At December 30, 2008 1:42 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous?
I'M Anonymous, you tool.
And, I'm a cicada, completely insulted by Buttars being put anywhere above the evolutionary scale when it comes to those of us with many legs and exoskeletons.

 
At December 30, 2008 2:20 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

great article Glen!!!

this paper is one of the best, St.George Ut.

the first anoyous post, is a bigoted con, probably from happy valley, where the Y and Dick 'the bully neocon' Chenney rein. Chaffetz is in congress because idiots of his ilk put him there, where the irrational rule with their rationalizations :), that does not make it something to be proud of.

 
At December 30, 2008 3:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's my prediction: Chaffetz will be still be in Congress when Warchol is standing in the unemployment line and the Tribune is up for sale. I hope the Mormons buy it.

Yes.

 
At December 30, 2008 3:18 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep. I must be a bigoted con from Happy Valley for mocking Warchol. I must support Cheney and Bush, right?

Wrong and wrong. I just believe giving journalists an infusion of reality every once in a while is a healthy thing. Chaffetz is in Congress, which in spite of all of America's best hopes, is not going out of business. Warchol is involved in the newspaper business, and granted in a new and different fashion, but nonetheless, a dying business.

But if you want to believe I'm a slobbering neo-con, go right ahead. Tilting at wind mills is not illegal, just unproductive.

 
At December 30, 2008 4:00 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I suspect "great article Glen" is a bigoted lib who french kisses Las Vegas' culture from the porch of his devaluing home, all while sipping martinis under a Blagojevich bust and badmouthing the LDS church.

Stick with being completely ignored down in Dixie, my friend. The rational, and moral, couldn't care less about your discontent.

 
At December 30, 2008 6:28 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good Heavens, how did that pathetic piece of garbage called Buttars get re-elected? What kind of idiots live in his district?

 
At December 30, 2008 6:48 PM , Blogger Deseret Dawg said...

Anonymous St. George 2:20 - After reading your post, and decoding your "spelling", such as it was, I wonder if any schools in the Washington County School District actually made AYP last year. You're One Child who obviously was Left Behind. LOL!

That look on Chris Buttars' face is classic. He's probably trying to figure out what it is he's looking at. Male? Female? Both? Neither? Inquiring minds want to know.

 
At December 30, 2008 11:21 PM , Blogger arc said...

There are people that want to round up all 12 million illegals, and are mad that Jason Chaffetz DOESN'T want to do that. Jason only wanted facilities where the government wouldn't have to catch and release felons. There are 600,000 they have let go. We wouldn't have to build facilities for that many, as we just need a temporary facility for convicted criminals, to be held prior to deportation.

There are people that don't want anyone new moving in, where Jason wants to fix LEGAL immigration so it doesn't take so long to legally come here.

 
At January 1, 2009 10:31 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dixie here.... when you`re shallow and try the personal take-down as in spelling or someones education, all you have is non-effective weak chatter, shallow as the great salt lake.

just because, in what some would call a narrow view, you see newspapers as a dying business, so what. whether printed on paper or electronically, news is news, even parced with intertainment.

so Mr. Cheffetz lover and hater of progressive views, of which this paper and Warchol represent, how is your only source of neocon views doing, in a 'fair and balanced way' as in Fox Noise?

the only thing intelligent and with any integrity that you quote here in the 5th post, are your first and last paragraphs of which one can only believe you live or better yet standup for, is Happy 'prosac' Valley and BY 'chenney' U :)!!

to even look into Buttars face is disgusting, who but rightwing fringe would care??

get real, Jason wants to lock up anybody of color, you can parce it any way you want. you guys and gals are so locked up into your bigoted perception, all reality is lost in your Happy Valley USA views, only in Ut..... go Utes!!!

 

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