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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute / Capitalismos’ favorite boy child

Capitalismos’ favorite boy child

by DougJ|  April 6, 20112:06 pm| 100 Comments

This post is in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Failed Media Experiment

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Tiger Beat Time magazine (via) features a hard-interviewing hard-hitting interview with teen idol Paul Ryan:

In terms of coordinating your message with outside groups, Tuesday’s roll out seemed to be a great success. What was your process with them?

[….]

Sure, but what drove an Irish Catholic guy from Wisconsin to get so involved in this?

Justin Bieber gets tougher questions than these.

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  1. 1.

    Joseph Nobles

    April 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Hey, OT, but Fox just announced that Glenn Beck will be “transitioning off” of his cable show. Mercury Productions will continue to work with Fox to produce programming, and Glenn Beck is excited to begin this new phase of work with News Corp.

    My vote for a Beck replacement: “Paul Ryan Is Making Sense!”

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Tongue bath!

    PS: kudos on the Tiger Beat reference.

    “Tiger Beat journalism” for inclusion in the blogtags?

  3. 3.

    Carnacki

    April 6, 2011 at 2:10 pm

    I liked Paul Ryan better when he was a child star playing Eddie Munster.

  4. 4.

    singfoom

    April 6, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    With notably rare exceptions, Time is not even worth wiping your ass with.

  5. 5.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    April 6, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    Krugman is savaging this budget with everything he’s got, but he’s only one man. Hate to be a bummer but I think this has a low but nonzero chance of happening. I’m already thinking about how to spend my groovy voucher, how about you?

  6. 6.

    virag

    April 6, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    just like rock ‘n roll

  7. 7.

    virag

    April 6, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    ryan is a vile little turd.

  8. 8.

    wengler

    April 6, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    The same Time magazine that had an Afghan girl on the cover that had her nose cut off during the US occupation, in order to evoke emotion as to what could happen to others if the US occupation of Afghanistan ever ended?

    That Time magazine?

  9. 9.

    McKnuckles

    April 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Ryan Paul er um Rand Ryan Urr um Ann Paul Rand I mean Von Ryan sorry er Paul Ryan is so dreamy

  10. 10.

    Dr. Psycho

    April 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    But remember, it’s President Obama who is a media-coddled man-boy….

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    April 6, 2011 at 2:21 pm

    Wha…whatwhatwhat? (scans page manically)…Wait…WHERES THE FUCKING LINK TO SULLIVAN?

    How DARE you post a thread without telling us how Andy feels. Unbeelubul.

  12. 12.

    Loneoak

    April 6, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    Does Beck call it Mercury Productions because it slowly poisons your brain? Probably not, but we really ought to be calling it Mercury Poisoning.

  13. 13.

    Mary Jane

    April 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    Quite awhile ago my husband paid, I think, $15 for a two year subscription. Seems it should have expired by now. Every issue sits unopened on the kitchen table for a week before going in the recycling bin. I won’t donate them to the library, there are enough misinformed idiots in this town.

  14. 14.

    Mark S.

    April 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    Yeah, Krugman’s been brutal: Paul Ryan’s Multiple Unicorns.

    Hey, someone here said that it might be possible to read K-thug w/o paying the subscription fee. I think I can live without reading Bobo and Friedman, but it would be nice to read Krugman.

  15. 15.

    Comrade DougJ

    April 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    @virag:

    As I’ve said before, maybe the best album opening song ever.

  16. 16.

    quaint irene

    April 6, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    Yeah, but where are the shirtless pix?

  17. 17.

    MikeJ

    April 6, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    @singfoom: An excellent call back to last week’s joke that most, with notably rare exceptions will have forgotten.

  18. 18.

    virag

    April 6, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    @Comrade DougJ:

    100% agreement from me. i think i got the album after hearing the song on the radio one time–hard to believe that was 22 fucking years ago. they did a great rendition at the mercury lounge in 2009; i was psyched since they didn’t play it in 2007 during the acoustic show i saw.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    @Loneoak:

    Beck’s production company is named Mercury Radio Arts.

    Which is lovely.

    However, its output is paranoia, greed, filth, lies and innuendo.

    Not lovely at all.

  20. 20.

    Josie

    April 6, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    @Carnacki: All along I have been thinking how much he resembles Eddie Munster, but I thought it was just me. I am so glad to know I’m not crazy.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    OT, but:

    looking at the likely govt shutdown beginning Friday:

    Would you buy a nonrefundable ticket for the middle of next week? Or flights being postponed/cancelled right and left?

    On top of any airline inspections of Boeing 300s for cracks …

    Choice is flying or driving.

    Do you think we’re looking at miles of airport security lines?

  22. 22.

    FormerSwingVoter

    April 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    My personal favorite part of the Ryan budget plan – he assumes that, in 2012, unemployment would be 2.5% lower than under current law. Due to 500k more jobs.

    For those unfamiliar, 1.5 million jobs would lower the unemployment rate by 1.0%.

    Not only is the entire document based on lies, but the lies aren’t even consistent from line to line within the same page. It is nothing but a gibbering pile of madness, spewed from the foaming mouths of the insane.

  23. 23.

    Calouste

    April 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    @Mark S.:

    Ryan is assuming that everything aside from health and SS can be squeezed from 12 percent of GDP now to 3 1/2 percent of GDP.

    The only way possible to do that is abolish the DoD. At the moment Defense spending takes up 4.7% of GDP, so at the very minimum Paul Ryan’s WeDontCare plan proposes to increase defense spending by way less than GDP growth, and probably even less than inflation. Why does Ryan hate America?

  24. 24.

    Joseph Nobles

    April 6, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    @Loneoak: No, it’s an allusion to Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater. No lie.

  25. 25.

    parenthetical

    April 6, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    Love the Mekons reference, DougJ. You were truly born inside the belly.

  26. 26.

    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    April 6, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    @Mark S.:

    I don’t know how their paywall works but I’ve had no problem clicking into Krugman and Nate Silver as many times as I want for free.

  27. 27.

    cleek

    April 6, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:
    i like the AV Club’s take.

  28. 28.

    Calouste

    April 6, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    @FormerSwingVoter:

    Efficiency and progress is ours once more
    Now that we have the neutron bomb
    It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done
    Away with excess enemy
    But no less value to property
    No sense in war but perfect sense at home¡­

    The sun beams down on a brand new day
    No more welfare tax to pay
    Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
    Jobless millions whisked away
    At last we have more room to play
    All systems go to kill the poor tonight

    Gonna
    Kill kill kill kill kill the poor¡­tonight

    Behold the sparkle of champagne
    The crime rate’s gone
    Feel free again
    O’ life’s a dream with you, miss lily white
    Jane fonda on the screen today
    Convinced the liberals it’s okay
    So let’s get dressed and dance away the night

    While they¡­
    Kill kill kill kill kill the poor¡­tonight

    That’s how you lower the unemployment rate by 2.5% while only creating 500,000 jobs.

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    April 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Time magazine features a hard-interviewing with teen idol Paul Ryan

    Well that didn’t take long, but who’d be surprised to see his mug on the cover in 2-3 weeks? How about a nice overwrought caption next to it, like “Can this man save America?”

    TIME is shit.

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Welles did some scaremongering in his day. (War of the Worlds) Although for entertainment value.

    Beyond that, no comparison.

  31. 31.

    Emma

    April 6, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    At least it’s a relief to see so many of the comments mock the whole thing… sometimes reading the comment sections on online newspapers and magazines is like taking a bath in frog slime.

  32. 32.

    cleek

    April 6, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:
    as in “let’s make money by making the listeners believe the world is about to be destroyed by a surprise Martian invasion” ?

    makes sense.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Time has gone with a LOT of Sarah Palin covers and coverage.

  34. 34.

    Maude

    April 6, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    @Elizabelle:
    #21
    I don’t know what happens when the govt shuts down this time. The MSM certainly hasn’t informed people of what this will do to the people in the country. I guess that would take work.
    We need to know the effects of this.
    People might not be so calm about it if their ox is gored.
    The Repubs are not telling .

  35. 35.

    Culture of Truth

    April 6, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    it, like “Can this man save America?”

    oh yeah. Or “The Most Courageous Man in America”

  36. 36.

    FormerSwingVoter

    April 6, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    @Culture of Truth: Or “His Testicles Taste Like Candy”

  37. 37.

    Mark S.

    April 6, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    I get a little pop-up telling me I only have 2 free articles remaining this month.

    How about a blockbuster trade: Krugman to the Daily Beast for Andrew Sullivan to the NYT paywall. Maybe that will cut down on the posts here about Sully.

  38. 38.

    StringonaStick

    April 6, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Oh, goody! I just got an invite from my senators for a “discussion of the debt and entitlement crisis” this Friday, featuring Alan Simpson and Alice Rivlin! I do believe I’ll be going to that one, armed with some data.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    April 6, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    @FormerSwingVoter: There is probably an assumption in there somewhere that all the illegal aliens will be deported – that would fix it!

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    April 6, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    @Mark S.: Sometime last week this link was provided for a way to read the Times.

    http://toys.euri.ca/

    I haven’t tried it cause I got a subscription invitation (I’ve had their headlines by e-mail for years on a Juno e-mail account). I bookmarked the site anyway, in just case.

  41. 41.

    geg6

    April 6, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    Is it just me or does Paul Ryan remind anyone else of Eddie Munster?

    Edited to add: Heh. I see Carnacki got there first.

  42. 42.

    Lawnguylander

    April 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    The coverage of Ryan reminds me more of an early 1990s Spin profile of a new band that they swear is so awesome that you’ve just gotta buy their new CD. But it turns out to suck and you’re pissed at Spin and embarrassed for owning it. If seniors are given the freedom to go Galt on the health insurance marketplace they’re going to have that same awful feeling about Galtcare. They’ll be thinking they were getting a Pixies or Replacements replacement but they’ll end up with Teenage Fanclub. They’ll be pissed at whoever sold this to them and will be the ruination of the for profit health insurance industry with the high call volumes and all.

  43. 43.

    Bex

    April 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    @Mary Jane: I get a gift subscription every year. The fate of every issue I get is pretty much the same as it is at your house.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:

    I’ll see his Orson Welles and raise him a Graham Parker.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws_DmRZXWBw

    But, wherever shall I buy my gold?

  45. 45.

    joeyess

    April 6, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    I was listening to Mrs. Greenspan today on MSNBC and I couldn’t continue on. She is so transparent in her agenda that her questions in the he said/she said segment made me want to vomit.

    This is indicative of what the chattering classes have become: Plutocratic Megaphones.

    I’ve tried to find the humor in it all but it’s so tragic that I just find myself switching to the NFL channel and watching “Film Sessions”.

  46. 46.

    catclub

    April 6, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Yglesias suggested the other method to get to 2.8%:
    shooting the unemployed!

    Once word gets around, nobody will admit to it in the employment survey and … voila, problem solved.

    Creative, market based solutions! Not like the job killing Obama healthcare plan.

  47. 47.

    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    @StringonaStick:

    I do believe I’ll be going to that one, armed with some data.

    And a video camera?

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    @catclub:

    Wow, will that snare Yglesias a Moore Award(tm)? some kind of matter-antimatter scenario there.

  49. 49.

    fasteddie9318

    April 6, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    @Shoemaker-Levy 9:

    I’m already thinking about how to spend my groovy voucher, how about you?

    By the time I’m ready to receive it, I’m planning on trading it for a can of gasoline and a match so I can self-immolate outside the Capitol. Although by then, gasoline will probably be worth more than the voucher.

  50. 50.

    joeyess

    April 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    C’mon people. We all know in our heart of hearts what the Ryan budget is about. It’s a negotiation ploy. Look ridiculous and get what you want in the end.

    Ryan just likes to play the role of Harpo to Groucho and the joke is a running one.

    We ask ourselves constantly why the Dems capitulate to this nonsense all the time. Well, like Cole once explained, when one party is fucking crazy a “compromise” is like going on a date, suggesting Italian and your date wants a meal consisting of “tire rims and anthrax”.

    Pretty hard to get a decent meal out of that negotiation. May as well just go home, eat what you like and diddle yourself.

  51. 51.

    Jeremy

    April 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    DougJ –

    Great lyric – to paraphrase Bill Murray in “Stripes”, I want to party with YOU, man.

  52. 52.

    Southern Beale

    April 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    GOP has a thing for teens.

    Drunk Pawlenty Worker Tries to Break Through Teen’s Door at 3 a.m.

    A drunk campaign worker for Tim Pawlenty scared a teenage girl as he tried to break into her family’s back door at 3 a.m. on Wednesday. In the middle of the night, 15-year-old Chloe Steward went to see what her dog was barking about when she saw a man’s arm pushing through her back door. She screamed and ran into her parents’ room.
    __
    Benjamin Foster, the offending drunk, was arrested and charged with trespassing and public intoxication. KCCI Des Moines reports that the Steward family, of Ankeny, Iowa, said Foster was trying to get to a friend’s house when “he vomited in their backyard and scared their daughter.”

    Proof positive that our presidential campaigns are TOO DAMN LONG. This dude would never make it to Super Tuesday.

  53. 53.

    Judas Escargot

    April 6, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    @Mark S.:

    If you have a Kindle, you can get Krugman’s blog by itself for a whopping $0.99/mo.

    And I *think* that blog subscriptions can be routed to the Kindle-app on non-kindle devices now (ipad, android phones, computers) also.

  54. 54.

    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Would you buy a nonrefundable ticket for the middle of next week? Or flights being postponed/cancelled right and left?

    Airports are considered “essential” and are not affected by this shut down.

  55. 55.

    Joseph Nobles

    April 6, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    @cleek: Oh, yeaaaaaah.

  56. 56.

    cleek

    April 6, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @joeyess:

    your date wants a meal consisting of “tire rims and anthrax”

    are they alloy or chrome ?

  57. 57.

    Mark S.

    April 6, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @catclub:

    Yglesias’ proposal, whatever you think of it, is serious. This proposal will set the standard of seriousness for anybody who wants to play in this discussion. Matt Yglesias has grasped reality with both hands. He’s forcing everybody else to do the same.

    Now let’s all get behind the more moderate Bowles-Simpson plan of imprisoning the unemployed. That’s how compromise works in this country.

  58. 58.

    Sentient Puddle

    April 6, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    @Judas Escargot: Instructions, please. And does it include his columns?

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    April 6, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    @StringonaStick:

    I do believe I’ll be going to that one, armed with some data rotten eggs.

    Fix’d.

  60. 60.

    geg6

    April 6, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Heh.

  61. 61.

    geg6

    April 6, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    @Mark S.:

    FTW.

  62. 62.

    catclub

    April 6, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    @joeyess: Speaking of negotiations and contracts (and Harpo) … There is no sanity clause.

  63. 63.

    Dan

    April 6, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    For Time to ask serious questions, they’d need someone who
    1) was capable of understanding the proposal, and
    2) read the proposal, and
    3) had the balls to call Ryan’s bullshit

    I think they are 0-3.

  64. 64.

    joeyess

    April 6, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    @catclub: I know! That’s the insane part.

  65. 65.

    Judas Escargot

    April 6, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    @Sentient Puddle:

    It’s just the “Conscience of a Liberal” blog, not the columns: linky.

    The amazon page says Kindle/DX only, but on my amazon.com/manageyourkindle page, the option to send it to an iPad or other device does appear, so it’s unclear if it’s Kindle only.

    You don’t always get the charts/graphs, but for a buck a month I won’t betch.

  66. 66.

    Mary Jane

    April 6, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    @Bex: Bet there’s a lot of that going on. The recent issue with G.W. Bush on the cover didn’t last a day.
    But in the case of your gift subscription, its the thought that counts, right? :)

  67. 67.

    Bulworth

    April 6, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Teen idol. Love that one.

  68. 68.

    Cris

    April 6, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    I can’t even get past the “what drove an Irish Catholic guy from Wisconsin to get so involved in this?” What the glimmering fuck? Am I ignorant of some stereotype about the Irish, Catholics, or people from Wisconsin being apolitical or lazy?

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    Maude and Nellcote:

    Thank you.

  70. 70.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    April 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    up in the rafters a rope is dangling
    spots before the eyes of rock n’ roll!

  71. 71.

    Suffern ACE

    April 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    @Mark S.: Yep. Bowles Simpson set the overall limit of the government share of GDP at a magical 21%. Ryan sets it at 18% and demands a 2/3 supermajority amendment to the constitution. My guess is that our leaders will ditch the constitutional amendment but go with 20% as the maximum goal, since 20% is a nice round magic number.

    Our leaders don’t do much in the math department. They do like magic numbers, though.

  72. 72.

    Time Magazine Editor

    April 6, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    I don’t care what you guys say about Ryan. He’s dreamy.

  73. 73.

    Elliecat

    April 6, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    @Cris:

    Am I ignorant of some stereotype about the Irish, Catholics, or people from Wisconsin being apolitical or lazy?

    Oh it’s probably some crap like them being modest or too busy working hard and taking care of their families or something to get involved in anything big.

    Or that Catholics are supposed to support an option for the poor and care about social justice, neither of which his plan does.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    April 6, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    @Judas Escargot:

    You should be able to read it on your iPad or iPhone using the Kindle app.

  75. 75.

    Mark S.

    April 6, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    I’m surprised Ryan didn’t ask the CBO to assume that somebody invented a perpetual energy machine that runs on static electricity.

  76. 76.

    patrick II

    April 6, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    Justin Bieber gets tougher questions than these.

    … and gives better answers: Bieber:

    “Canada’s the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.”

    He’s a teen idol, not an idiot.

  77. 77.

    Chyron HR

    April 6, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    @Cris:

    Am I ignorant of some stereotype about the Irish

    Let the record show that the witness made the “Drinky-Drinky” motion.

  78. 78.

    eemom

    April 6, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    DIE MOTHERFUCKER.

    I think that’s going to be my mantra until this Ryan scum washes out in the next news cycle.

  79. 79.

    MikeJ

    April 6, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    @cleek:

    as in “let’s make money by making the listeners believe the world is about to be destroyed by a surprise Martian invasion” ?

    I think of Welles as the guy who wrote and directed the one about a guy who couldn’t run for office because of his personal life so he tried to control the US through the media.

  80. 80.

    Ann B. Nonymous

    April 6, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    Peter Barca (a paisan!) used to have Ryan’s House seat. He’s very popular as the leader of the Democratic caucus in the Wisconsin state assembly.

    If I were a professional Democratic strategist, I would be thinking about an upset. Daschle Rand Munster out.

  81. 81.

    Mnemosyne

    April 6, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Fun fact: Welles, a lifelong liberal, always blamed himself for the rise of Joe McCarthy because he had friends begging him to run for senator of Wisconsin (he was born in Kenosha) and he decided not to. The guy elected that year Welles would have run was McCarthy.

  82. 82.

    Suffern ACE

    April 6, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    Yeah, you may dismiss our celebrity coverage as trivial, but celbrities may actually have it tougher than politicians in terms of the coverage. I mean, this week’s cover of the National Enquirer has the headline “What is wrong with Sandra Bullock’s Face!?”

    A good question that no reporter seriously asks about the orange one, at least not to his face.

  83. 83.

    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    @Mark S.:

    I get a little pop-up telling me I only have 2 free articles remaining this month.

    Try clearing your browser cache or using another browser.

  84. 84.

    jayackroyd

    April 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    Yes, but it’s really good that they are printing the transcripts of these interviews.

  85. 85.

    arguingwithsignposts

    April 6, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    Completely OT, but further proof that Gov. AdolfScott Mussolini Walker doesn’t give a crap about referendums:

    Gov. Scott Walker said this afternoon that the spring election results show there are “two very different worlds in this state.”
    __
    “You’ve got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin,” Walker said at a press conference in the Capitol.

    via TPM

  86. 86.

    Nellcote

    April 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    per TPM even the Heritage Foundation is backing off Ryan’s numbers a “tad”.

  87. 87.

    catclub

    April 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    has anyone noticed that Ryans plan also does Social Security privatization.

    private accounts… you can opt in or out of the present system … automatic investment in a lifecycle fund … your account is eventually dangled in front of the wall street firms so they can compete for it …

    no change in COLAs – the only thing the oldsters are interested in.

  88. 88.

    vtr

    April 6, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    All right allRIGHT! Make fun of Ryan if you want, but just remember, he has a College Degree in economics. b.a.

  89. 89.

    Chris

    April 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    “You’ve got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin,” Walker said at a press conference in the Capitol.

    To be fair, the union-busting law was imposed from on high by a politician in Madison who never breathed a word about it during his campaign. And it has been met with statewide opposition and the disapproval of a majority of Wisconsinites (and Americans for that matter) polled. So technically, the good Governor’s dead right.

  90. 90.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    April 6, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    The way the Medicare policy in Obamacare works in they take money from Medicare and then use it to spend on this other government program. So they raided Medicare to pay for this other government program. We keep those Medicare savings but we dedicate them to Medicare.

    The stupid, it burns.

  91. 91.

    j low

    April 6, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    “what drove an Irish Catholic guy from Wisconsin to get so involved in this?”

    Wasn’t it just yesterday that an Irish Catholic was just a pope lovin’ smidge better than a “negro”? Now he’s a Real Merkin. I can hardly keep up with these changing times.

  92. 92.

    chaucer

    April 6, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    haha! you are showing your age with the tiger beat reference. i know; i used to read it.

  93. 93.

    PIGL

    April 6, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @virag: born inside the belly of….

  94. 94.

    Mary Jane

    April 6, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @chaucer: Tiger Beat beats on. The latest issue arrived Monday, turning my gloomy almost-teen into a gleeful child.

  95. 95.

    Bex

    April 6, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    @Mary Jane: I think I’ll tell them to give me a gift certificate to the gourmet ice cream store. I’d rather be fat than stupid.

  96. 96.

    chrismealy

    April 6, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    It’s appalling that the Mekons don’t get more love. Thanks DougJ.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ6DLwV9CI

    Also great, TINA (there is no alternative)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG_6EoyPI

  97. 97.

    virag

    April 6, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    @PIGL:

    rock ‘n roll!

  98. 98.

    virag

    April 6, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    @chrismealy:

    they look so young in that video, likes kids covering the mekons in their basement.

    destroy your safe and happy lives…

  99. 99.

    Lou From Here

    April 7, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Doug, many thanks for the Mekons reference! Or in newspaper tradition, does someone else write the headlines/

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