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by John Cole|  June 15, 201110:00 am| 32 Comments

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Our BJ rep, Kay, is all ready and raring to go to NN, so I am excited for some updates on that. I got nothing to say, so I will just share this picture that is going viral:

I got a chuckle out of that.

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  1. 1.

    Hunter S. Thompson

    June 15, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Hey Chuck,

    Buy the ticket, take the ride!

  2. 2.

    gene108

    June 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

    How do we get Democrats to start talking about jobs and quit yapping about the deficit?

    Sen. Ben Cardin was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and he was talking about how the Democrats had to bring the out of control deficit under control.

    There seems to be no will to push for any kind of jobs bill, other than cut taxes.

    They need to be reminded that 6% unemployment rate means more revenue for government and thus automatically lowers the deficit.

  3. 3.

    TheOtherWA

    June 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

    That’s the way to start a Wednesday! Thanks, JC.

    My week has been made miserable by people at work doing idiotic things, so to be able to laugh at anything helps.

  4. 4.

    WereBear

    June 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

    @gene108: One thing that might work is to get all the unemployed to clog the Congressional Switchboard.

    800-828-0498

    It’s a toll free number, and they got nothing else to do, dammit.

  5. 5.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    June 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

    @gene108:

    It’s never going to happen. Because 1/3 of Dems agree with the GOP wholeheartedly, another third will go along simply for ‘bipartisanship’, and the final third cares about governance too much to let things stall, even if it means eventually giving away the fucking farm.

    Face it. The GOP wins, every fucking time, because they’re a fucking monolith, and the Dems splinter whenever a GOPer goes ‘BOO!’.

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    June 15, 2011 at 10:16 am

    And, being as it’s an Open Thread, anyone want to chime in on Google AdWords? Tips, tricks, run like hell?

  7. 7.

    Southern Beale

    June 15, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Today In Cheap Labor.

    I’m really, really pissed off about this. NO ONE is talking about the real problem, which is LOW WAGES. Instead they pass the blame around.

    I’m so fucking over it.

  8. 8.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    June 15, 2011 at 10:19 am

    i’m pretty sure richard pryor thinks they are both precious.

  9. 9.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    June 15, 2011 at 10:20 am

    @Southern Beale:

    But that’s because the Minimum Wage, workers rights, all that stuff, that’s SOSHULIZMMMMZZ!! And we can never dare have that, what we need is MORE Supply-Side, MORE Trickle-Down, don’t you see just how fucking hard the rich are getting fucked in this country, they need more money dammit, otherwise how will the rest of the country ever see prosperity, if the rich are suffering so much?! What are you, a monster?! Or worse…a HIPPIE?!!!

  10. 10.

    Rosalita

    June 15, 2011 at 10:21 am

    @TheOtherWA:

    My week has been made miserable by people at work doing idiotic things, so to be able to laugh at anything helps.

    in my AO too. is there a full moon??

  11. 11.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    June 15, 2011 at 10:22 am

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    Meanwhile, Carlin is somewhere, thinking, ‘Yeah, well, I used to swim in RAW SEWAGE, beat that motherfuckers!’

  12. 12.

    Citizen_X

    June 15, 2011 at 10:26 am

    @gene108: Grijalva and Co. in the Progressive Caucus are doing some pushback. They’re doing a “listening tour” around the country, focused on unemployment.

    I don’t know how successful it will be, but it might start to change the conversation a little bit.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 15, 2011 at 10:28 am

    What will be the ratio of Firebaggers to Obots at Netroots Nation? Will there be riots? Vicious taunting about hamsters and elderberries?

  14. 14.

    Ash Can

    June 15, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Hunter S. Thompson FTW.

  15. 15.

    Josie

    June 15, 2011 at 10:44 am

    @Citizen_X: It might be a little more successful if all progressive bloggers (hint, hint) would front page the story and give it more prominence.

  16. 16.

    piratedan

    June 15, 2011 at 10:55 am

    oh I dunno, maybe because we’ve had two whole weeks about Weinergate when no one can even find a law that’s been broken, just bad behavior and worse judgement stealing the spotlight. The MSM only talks about the deficit when they can allude to it as being the president’s personal responsibility and only then if they can shorten it to a consumable 90 second news bite then they’ll have to focus on the next water skiing squirrel or panda birth.

  17. 17.

    TheOtherWA

    June 15, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @Rosalita: Full moon in 5 hours, according to my moon phase widget. Yup, that explains it.

  18. 18.

    gene108

    June 15, 2011 at 11:06 am

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:

    Face it. The GOP wins, every fucking time, because they’re a fucking monolith, and the Dems splinter whenever a GOPer goes ‘BOO!’.

    I never assume Republicans are always winning. They do better damage control / have a bigger media presence, but they don’t always win.

    If they did oil drilling in ANWR would be a reality, Social Security would be privatized, etc.

    Republicans just don’t go all emo, when their side wins or enough of them tow the party line that the emo spazzes get pushed to the margins, where they belong.

    Some conservatives didn’t approve of Bush, Jr. passing Medicare Part D, signing McCain-Feingold into law, etc., but the big boys, who run things made sure those guys didn’t dominate the discussion on the right, i.e. Limbaugh, Hannity, et. al. weren’t giving George Will a platform to vent and they kept the right-wing wurlitzer focused on topics that would benefit Republicans like drilling in ANWR, etc.

  19. 19.

    eemom

    June 15, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Mitt Romney said something that made sense about Afghanistan, thereby “stunning” his supporters, according to They Who Must Not Be Linked.
    I.e., he said we should GTFO.

    The remark is a “disaster,” according to a “flood of e-mails” received by some twat at AEI.

    This shit. It cannot be made up.

  20. 20.

    Alex S.

    June 15, 2011 at 11:21 am

    ED Kain is on the voucher train.

    He also thinks that more housing permits create more job growth.
    I hate this argument, it’s exactly why there was a housing bubble. Jobs should boost housing, not the other way round. Also, Texas isn’t as outstanding as he claims if you account for size of population and population growth.

  21. 21.

    spark

    June 15, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Last year, I read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” back to back with “Nixonland”. Good juxtaposition.

  22. 22.

    Jay

    June 15, 2011 at 11:30 am

    I got a big smile from the “Countdown” ad in this blog’s left margin. Cole, how’d you get K.O. to the Juicers a personalized shout-out?

  23. 23.

    Rosalita

    June 15, 2011 at 11:31 am

    @TheOtherWA: Crap, that’s freaky. I swear I never have to look at the sky any more, just look around…

  24. 24.

    Tuttle

    June 15, 2011 at 11:38 am

    Soldier: It’s so rough in the field the boys have been brewing hooch out of glass cleaner!
    Duke: Heh.
    Soldier: What?
    Honey: Mr. Duke starts every day with a gallon of aviation fuel.

  25. 25.

    BruceK

    June 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    I just hope that the protestors in Wisconsin don’t go the way of the hooligans here in Athens. It’s almost never quite as bad as the news reports, but I’m sorry, people who throw firebombs never get the benefit of the doubt, I don’t care how righteous their cause is.

    (May 5 of last year, during a protest march with hooligan outriders, a bank got burned out, with protestors blocking the fire brigades from trying to put it out. Three people died. That was one and a half blocks away from my office, where I was working right as it happened.)

    On the other hand, less than three hours after the concussion grenades stopped going off, the tear gas had cleared from the air, the fires had gone out, and I almost got run over by a motorcycle driving on the sidewalk while going to get a bottle of Coke from the corner kiosk, so I guess life’s back to (ab)normal here.

  26. 26.

    Joseph Nobles

    June 15, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    In my more cynical moments (which last longer and longer the older I get), I think that all of Clinton’s work (fine, give the GOP Congress credit as well) to pay down the debt and deficit was just getting the credit card ready to go to war with Iraq. Bin Laden fucked it up a bit by forcing us into Afghanistan first, but since the ultimate prize was Iran anyway, having troops on both sides of Iran was just fine and dandy.

    And now here we are, ready to toss Grandma to the predations of the insurance market so that we can start drastically paying down the credit card again. In other words, the war with Iran is on, motherfuckahs, and Obama may well be happy to be a one-term president if he doesn’t have to lead us into that round of utter BS with his Nobel prize held high.

    Ugh.

  27. 27.

    Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    June 15, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    Called it.

    Georgia will be replacing the Hispanic migrant workers that are fleeing the state in droves with prisoners.

    Hooray Slavery Part II!

  28. 28.

    evinfuilt

    June 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    @Southern Beale:
    Love that link. Republicans really would love to force Americans to work for $5 a day, poverty be damned. I hear in Maine they’ve got a bunch of kids able to work at a younger age than before, time to ship them to Georgia.

    I expect someone will find a way to pass a law that allows these farmers to legally pay American Citizens on quantity harvested, and get away with $5-$10 a day in pay.

  29. 29.

    evinfuilt

    June 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    @Jay:

    I didn’t realize we’re supposed to drink Balloon Juice, is that something from Tunch?

  30. 30.

    Wag

    June 15, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    Mr Sheen, I knew Hunter S. Thompson, and you are no Hunter S. Thompson.

  31. 31.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    June 15, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    @Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory:

    Georgia will be replacing the Hispanic migrant workers that are fleeing the state in droves with prisoners.

    If those prisoners didn’t want to be slaves, they shouldn’t have gone to war with the law and lost.

  32. 32.

    Juicetard (FKA Liberty60)

    June 15, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Quote of the week-
    [News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey] “Our rights are our backbone. It can’t just be the Wild West … you have to do a structure within which you do business,” he added.

    Soooooo….Fox News wants the business world to be structured, regulated, tamed….none of this Wild West stuff!

    eta- Here is the article- more hilariously, it states that News Corp and other cable operators are worried that declining household income threatens their business model.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/us-cableshow-idUSTRE75D6IA20110614

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