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The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.
Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.
I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.
When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
In after Baud. Damn.
Petty moves from a petty man.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.
This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory. oh, and pink furry handcuffs.
One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.
They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.
Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.
Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.
The words do not have to be perfect.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
PaulW
how many commentators are going to claim the CPAC signals a new era of American brilliance?
how many are going to claim Obama is the worst president ever?
how many are going to be singing the praises of the suicide pilot for his anti-government anti-tax vision?
valdivia
Clemmons is now out with a piece somehow connecting Rahm to the Tea Party? Huh? I get he was sort of in jest, hinting it is a good thing and actually making Obama less responsible for his badness or whatever, but I just do not get what the hell this is meant to accomplish.
Brian J
Apparently, John Locke from “Lost” is now hosting one of the Sunday morning shows. Or so that’s what I take away from this page on The Huffington Post.
And since it wouldn’t be Sunday, or any other day that ends in “y,” if I didn’t give Obama advice, let me say that he needs to start screaming “negligence” about the fact that congress isn’t doing enough to help the long-term unemployed. The first page alone of of this article in today’s Times is enough to make you scream.
Brian J
@PaulW:
How can you be so sure that he wasn’t a liberal terrorist?
jeffreyw
Ah..Sunday mornings. Just wouldn’t be the same without Mrs J eating her oatmeal while watching reruns of The Sopranos. Dogs at her feet, drooling. Second pot of coffee perking. Life is good.
demo woman
A Mom Anon, you mentioned that your husband was handy.. I still need to have my house pressured washed and I need to replace some wood rot.. not much work but some… I can paint the house myself since it is only one story but I do have two peaks that I might hire to get done.
Chyron HR
@Brian J:
Gee, it took like a week for Free Republic to scrub all the Holocaust Museum Shooter’s posts, perhaps we should check to see if the Tea Pilot was their latest darling.
jeffreyw
Not to mention the morning trail cam picture viewing ritual.
PurpleGirl
Sorry- a little late with this one.
Better late than never. Just saying.
There’s figure skating tonight. Yay.
Brien Jackson
In other news, WaPo is letting George Will use their pages to blatantly lie about climate science again. Because, you know, serious journalists and stuff.
Maybe they just needed to get the heat off of Quinn.
robertdsc
No fucking doubt. Tax credits? Fuck your tax credits, Senators.
someguy
Can’t we at least get a little golf clap for the Grim Reaper this morning, who took another Reaganite from us yesterday, crazy Al Haig?
I know that I should be miserable about the way the Republicans have trashed the country and how we’ll probably never recover, but it’s hard not to feel better this morning. I don’t think of it as our loss, but as Hell’s gain.
Carol
I thought Haig was one of the nicer ones. There’s a much longer list of Reaganites who are still with us-didn’t Cheney have a minor role in Reagan’s administration at one point?
Brien Jackson
@Brien Jackson:
Also, Nicholas Kristof and all of the editors at the New York Times apparently don’t know what an insurance network is. But at least they pay those people to edit stuff.
Brian J
@robertdsc:
I don’t fault them for trying that. I don’t have the expertise to know if it would work that well, but others do, and it seems like it’s worth trying. even if it’s a second-best option, I’m fine with them supporting it. There’s more that they could be doing, I imagine, but that doesn’t mean the tax credits are bad.
They just need to be doing more, and Obama needs to be screaming that they need to do it. He needs to march the media through Detroit other depressed cities in the Midwest until they have callouses on their feet. He needs to make the woman referenced in The Times article the faces of this nightmare. He needs to make those who vote against any sort of measure to jump start employment his enemies.
mr. whipple
” He needs to make those who vote against any sort of measure to jump start employment OUR enemies.”
Fixed it.
HRA
@Carol:
Yes , Cheney and Rumsfeld, too.
someguy
@ Carol,
I think Cheney was in charge of harvesting souls from orphans to use in powering oil wells on Native American burial sites, while Rumsfeld was Deputy Secretary of Defense for Warmongering, Sword Waving and Bombast Operations.
J.
I (heart) Colin Powell.
Mike E
It’s gonna be in the 60s today here in Mayberry–Miss E and I will get out for a bit, then she’ll do her homework, and I’m gonna read the Bobblespeak Translations. Fuck all Repubs.
NobodySpecial
@J.:
Can’t join you in that one. He’s done enough damage that he’d need three lifetimes of doing reasonable things to undo the damage. He’ll be lucky if he reincarnates as a sentient being.
Just Some Fuckhead
@someguy: I feel better, should there ever be a leadership crisis in Hell, knowing Haig is there.
OTOH, it worries me a little that the whole Nixon administration is getting together again.
robertdsc
@Brian J:
I suppose they’re right but I just don’t see it. To personalize it, a tax credit for my company re-hiring me won’t go very far if we have nothing to do.
I imagine it’s like that in every industry across the country. To top it off, there are untold trillions of dollars in infrastructure projects that need to be taken care of. Hiring millions of people to do manual labor on these projects seems more my speed.
And of course, the conservatives in both parties who scream about the deficit have to DIAF soonest. For every fucknut conservative, there are millions of unemployed people in their states. Yet here they are with their thumbs up their asses whining about spending. Pathetic.
Brian J
@robertdsc:
I understand what you are saying. Demand does need to be created. But to the extent that this gets any firms hiring, thus giving people incomes and money to spend, it’s a good thing. It doesn’t replace government purchases like infrastructure projects but rather complements it, I think.
gwangung
@Brian J: Well, that’s the kicker, “the extent that this gets any firms hiring”, isn’t it? I’m an economics ignoramus; how efficient is a tax credit, as opposed to, say, running a deficit and staring up an infrastructure project?
WaterGirl
@someguy: Anyone want to bet on what Al Haig’s first words were when he got wherever he is going in the afterlife?
WaterGirl
@demo woman: Do we know the general area where A Mom Anon lives? I’m sure many of us have work that needs to be done…
robertdsc
Why run a deficit? Why not instead raise taxes on millionaires and put the proceeds to mass employment programs?
MTiffany
“The Democrats overread their mandate.”
Charles Krauthammer is a fucking hack.
SIA
Watching Howie Kurtz. He thinks people don’t trust the media! ZOMG. And Julie Mason is a disgrace. Flake.
demo woman
@WaterGirl: GA just north of Atlanta.
SIA
@ Water Girl & demo woman, I’m in east Atlanta and might have a few things (90 year old house aka money pit).
Morbo
It’s never too early for USA curling skips to miss easy opportunities.
HRA
Best wishes for the day and the year, Mike E.
darryl
What the republicans would do instead, on the big topics
Reading about these GOP plans, which are 75% garbage, reminds me why I’m not a conservative anymore. They just have no clue about serious topics. I can understand why republican Hank Paulson said talking to senate republicans was a complete waste of time.
Ruckus
@Brian J:
Tax credits only work when you owe a tax to take it against. If you don’t have enough business to pay taxes and fully staff a company then they are fucking useless. But on the up side they don’t cost the government anything because very few can claim them. Most likely the masters of the universe who got all the bonuses will be able to make even more.
Tax credits and deficit hawks are useless at this time. But it’s all the tiny minds we elected can deal with.
One of the basics of business that I learned was that risk is part of the deal. A bigger payoff assumes bigger risk. But that’s not the businesses that government supports these days. The only businesses doing well, banks, investment houses, are not taking risks. They have become too big to risk failure, so we take all the risks. And lose big.
And most in congress take very few risks, especially risks that might cost them anything. Money, political capital, pissing off big business. We the people take all the risks these days and we pay the price for that.
darryl
the GOP wants to scam the Tea Partiers
4jkb4ia
Pitt 70, Villanova 65. Travon Woodall makes four killer free throws down the stretch.
BURKE Tim appears to have done something horrible in the interim.
4jkb4ia
However, it is proper for all right-thinking people to cheer for WVU tomorrow because UConn are losers and should not get into the tournament on a fluke.
Nellcote
@PurpleGirl:
Oh joy! West coasters get to stay up past midnight again if they want to watch the end of the competitions. I guess NBC extended the notion of “primetime”.