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You are here: Home / Giving It My Best Shot

Giving It My Best Shot

by John Cole|  September 20, 20103:13 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: Sweet Fancy Moses!, Teabagger Stupidity

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Look, if nothing else on the world will motivate you to vote for the Democrats, do it so we don’t have to hear this over and over and over again.

It’s just excruciating.

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  1. 1.

    ArchPundit

    September 20, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    I’m pretty sure that’ll be on the Christmas with a Capital C soundtrack.

  2. 2.

    TooManyJens

    September 20, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    “To ride in on a pure white horse.”

    Yeah, no symbolism there.

  3. 3.

    cmorenc

    September 20, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    I had problems with completing a donation to ActBlue today as an attempt to do my little part. I don’t know what the problem was, but I’ll try again.

    PART of the problem could be that I absolutely REFUSE to include my phone number along with my donation, since past experience with making political donations where I have answered the phone number part of the donation form has been that the result is an intolerably ANNOYING deluge of political solicitation calls – eight or ten a day. At best, that’s unwanted litter on my answering machine, and at worst, when I want to answer the phone because I’m expecting a personal or bona fide business call, I too often get some cheery flack mispronouncing my name.

  4. 4.

    freelancer

    September 20, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    ugh, FUCK YOU, COLE!

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    September 20, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    WTF is that song? Context, please, somebody with non-bleeding ears?

  6. 6.

    Delia

    September 20, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    So tell me who will be the next to carry the torch
    To ride in on a pure white horse

    torch and horse rhyme? Gah!!!!

  7. 7.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    You ratbastard! That was awful.

  8. 8.

    freelancer

    September 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXAxDzIuuE&feature=related

    Eat it John.

    ETA: Eat it hard:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3PlssjT2s&feature=related

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 20, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    @Delia: You have to lisp.

  10. 10.

    General Stuck

    September 20, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Oh never mind

  11. 11.

    Peter

    September 20, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    As wretched as that song is, the lyrics made me think of a much better one.

  12. 12.

    Earl Butz

    September 20, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    As horrible as I’d expect from someone who was a shitty, temporary replacement for Steve Perry after he left Journey.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 20, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Palette cleanser. We need it.

  14. 14.

    El Cid

    September 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    Obama at a CNBC TownHall, responding to a poor, bedraggled Wall Street hedge fund investor who feels like he’s been whacked, they’ve been treated like a piñata.

    During today’s discussion, Anthony Scaramucci, a CNBC contributor who is also a hedge fund manager, stood up to represent the aggrieved “Wall Street community.”
    __
    Scaramucci told Obama, “We have felt like a piñata,” complaining that “we certainly feel like we’ve been whacked with a stick.”
    __
    Obama responded that Scaramucci needs to put things into perspective:

    Now, you know, I have been amused over the last couple years, this sense of somehow me beating up on Wall Street.
    __
    I think most folks on Main Street feel like they got beat up on. … There’s — there’s a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street. That’s probably the majority, not the minority.

    Obama went on to note that the top 25 hedge fund managers took home $1 billion in profits last year…
    __
    “If you’re making $1 billion a year after a very bad financial crisis where 8 million people lost their jobs and small businesses can’t get loans,” Obama said, “then I think that you shouldn’t be feeling put upon…”

    Obama then was asked about being compared to a Kenyan anti-colonialist and like Hitler invading Poland when he suggested hedge fund managers no longer be allowed to treat those gains at a mere 15% tax rate.

    Like Warren Buffett, he pointed out that hedge fund managers earning millions upon millions (while complimenting the valuable work they do, etc.) shouldn’t be extremely upset at the notion that they might have to pay the sorts of taxation levels that their secretaries have to pay.

  15. 15.

    Gravenstone

    September 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    In response to APs post title, I’m hearing Charles Barkely’s voice saying, “turrible, just turrible.”

  16. 16.

    David Brooks (not that one)

    September 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    “All for one and one for all” is primarily associated with a group of French men. Who supported a monarch against the church.

    Where was the obituary of irony written up?

  17. 17.

    TooManyJens

    September 20, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    @El Cid: I know what that guy’s full of, and it ain’t candy.

  18. 18.

    Gravenstone

    September 20, 2010 at 3:43 pm

    @El Cid: Ooh, I do hope that Obama rejoinder left a mark. Sadly, for folks with that ingrained a sense of self entitlement, being run through the stun line at a slaughter house likely wouldn’t register either.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Mary

    September 20, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Sadly, for folks with that ingrained a sense of self entitlement, being run through the stun line at a slaughter house likely wouldn’t register either.

    Paging Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

  20. 20.

    licensed to kill time

    September 20, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    Scaramucci, after being whacked with a stick.

  21. 21.

    hilzoy

    September 20, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Two whole minutes of my life, ruined.

  22. 22.

    gene108

    September 20, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    I give up. I surrender.

    If the Republicans regain control of Congress, it’s pretty much proof that the rich have won and there’s nothing we can do about it.

    There’s been class warfare waged by the rich for decades, to undo whatever gains were had by the working stiff during the Progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the New Deal and Great Society.

    I can’t wait for the minimum wage to abolished, so we can have wages competitive with other third world nations, environmental laws rolled back and a host of other anti-business laws abolished, which were put into place over the past 100+ years.

    The sad part is there are some folks, like my brother, who works for a bank in NYC and is upset with Fin Reg, because it’s big and no one knows how the new law will be interpreted. That’s a fair criticism of the state of things, because implementing 2,000 pages of new rules – some little more than pet projects / peeves of Congressman, who got an amendment added – would effect business and has caused uncertainty for banks and other financial firms.

    What my brother, who has some support for social safety nets and environmental laws, doesn’t realize is the people who may be pro-Wall Street today are just as likely to make sure we gut all the social safety nets that were put in place and wipe out all the environmental laws, because some segment of business’ profits is hurt by those laws; we can’t have anything interfering with a businesses ability to make a profit after all.

  23. 23.

    El Cid

    September 20, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    @Gravenstone:

    Ooh, I do hope that Obama rejoinder left a mark.

    And if it does, then it allows him to even further press his notion of being a member of the capitalist class being brutally oppressed by the proletarians.

    OMG, did you hear how Obama said to that poor hedge fund manager Golden Goose laying producer that since he made a lot of money the government is going to take away all his money and give it to his secretary? OMG! HITLER! STALIN! POL POT! LEX LUTHOR! DOCTOR DOOM!

    Ooooh — Obama mocked Rick Santelli about his rant which launched the Tea Parties — ON CNBC. Ha.

  24. 24.

    Chris

    September 20, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    @Delia: You’re supposed to pronounce them “tor” and “hor”.

  25. 25.

    Citizen_X

    September 20, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    @licensed to kill time: Will he dance the Fandango?

  26. 26.

    El Cid

    September 20, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    @gene108: We need to stop discouraging the building of favelas on hillsides and slums outside our cities. Living in such environments would teach America how to have better work and savings values and make them inspired to be harder workers.

  27. 27.

    Bulworth

    September 20, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    Sacrificing All for One…and One for All

    Sacrificing? Sacrificing?

    “Playoffs?! Playoffs”

  28. 28.

    gene108

    September 20, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    @El Cid: Hedge fund managers really do feel Obama hates them and I guess this answer doesn’t do anything to smooth things over.

    The sense of entitlement the rich and powerful have is amazing.

  29. 29.

    licensed to kill time

    September 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    @Citizen_X: ♪♫ I see a little silhouetto of a man ♪♫

  30. 30.

    Cacti

    September 20, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Speaking of the Angry Rich…

    Ben Stein is whining about his taxes. It’s a punishment that his 10-year tax holiday on borrowed money is coming to an end.

    And remember, he’s just a regular guy like you and me…

    Who’s Dad was an advisor to two Presidents and sat on the board of the Wall Street Journal.

  31. 31.

    lacp

    September 20, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    Jesus. The “man on horseback” is most assuredly what this country DOESN’T need.

  32. 32.

    AWJ

    September 20, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    “The song is a tribute to the foundation that our great country was built on and to remind people of the patriotic principles that continue to shape our world,” he explains of the power ballad (which was co-written by Chuck Giacinto) that’s quickly being considered the “God Bless the U.S.A.” for the current generation.”

    With apologies to those who have managed to purge “God Bless the U.S.A.” from their memories, that’s the three-minute offense against the English language that has the refrain “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free”.

    Someone just shoot me now…

  33. 33.

    Joe Bauers

    September 20, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    That sounds like one of those Real Men of Genius beer commercials.

    “So here’s to you, Mr. Cheesy Jingoistic Song Singer Guy!”

    [echo] “Mr. Cheesy Jingoistic Song Singer Guy!”

  34. 34.

    Triassic Sands

    September 20, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    Look, if nothing else on the world will motivate you to vote for the Democrats, do it so we don’t have to hear this over and over and over again.

    John, just how many people who read BJ do you think are going to “stay home” in November? One? None? How many?

  35. 35.

    Catsy

    September 20, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    To ride in on a pure white horse

    One might almost say, “a great white hope”.

    Semi-OT: tried to make that exact same comment on the Archpundit blog, and kept getting a “your comment seems spammy, try again” message, so decided they could fuck off and came back here.

    When your anti-spam measures are even shittier than the ones here, you’ve got problems.

  36. 36.

    ArchPundit

    September 20, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Sorry–I’ll work on that. As I said to one commenter though, I wouldn’t try to deconstruct the imagery created by a guy who thinks torch and horse rhyme.

  37. 37.

    rdalin

    September 20, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    Wow, I just took a look at americablog and FDL’s viewer stats compared to balloon-juice. I didn’t realize you guys have so many readers! That gives me a lot of hope.

    It looks like americablog is down about 20% over the year, give or take. You’re not too far off from FDL either, which is holding steady.

    Baring another major national catastrophe, the Dems might actually make it through this election in one piece.

  38. 38.

    Poopyman

    September 20, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    @rdalin: The Dems might make it through in one piece, but the question is; can the country, if the Rebs take over.

    BTW, here’s what Shelby promises if they do take over in November…

  39. 39.

    Ripley

    September 20, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Behold, a pale horch.

  40. 40.

    Joshua Norton

    September 20, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    My, my. That’s a catchy little dirge.

  41. 41.

    Catsy

    September 20, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    @ArchPundit: I don’t know about deconstruction, but I couldn’t pass up a straight line like that.

    And no worries–you should see the venom I direct at the WP editor and anti-spam bullshit around here. Working with software for 20+ years has left me with less than zero patience for software that tries (and fails) to be smarter than its user.

  42. 42.

    Anton Sirius

    September 20, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    It’s no Let The Eagle Soar.

  43. 43.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 20, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    @Anton Sirius:
    Or Proud to Be An American, for that matter.

  44. 44.

    John Bird

    September 20, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Because freedom isn’t free when you bleed red white and blue.

  45. 45.

    j

    September 21, 2010 at 5:26 am

    FWIW, that Beck-fest @ the Sears Center drew fewer than 5,000 rabid nut jobs to a GOP area of the Chicago suburbs. The Sears Center holds 11,000. Is the bloom off the rose or is Beck overplaying his schtick?

  46. 46.

    bjacques

    September 21, 2010 at 7:28 am

    Behold, a Fieseler-Storch!

    (Yeah, yeah, I know)

  47. 47.

    Dr. Morpheus

    September 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    @Delia:

    torch and horse rhyme? Gah!

    Why do so many people ask that question? Is it not obvious?

    Uh, yes, yes, they do.

    It’s an ugly, doggerel type of rhyming but they do rhyme.

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