This seems appropriate:
My definition of a stupid person. A stupid person is a person who treats a smart person as though they’re stupid.
(via DF)
Read a fucking book.
mistermix has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2010.
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Google News has 6,531 news articles about the Supreme Court vacancy with the word “Elena Kagan” in them. I guess that means the Solicitor General has a media lock on the nomination.
Obama may well pick her, but I’m skeptical, due to my careful study of the Rule of Geithner, which states: If your high-level position requires confirmation, you must be caught with a live boy or a dead girl in order to lose it.
Here’s the Kagan corollary: You are less likely to be nominated for a new position if your current high-level position requires confirmation.
The prospect of hours of questioning on how the Solicitor General nominee feels about any law longer than 4,543 words, not to mention whether she agrees that all amendments with “teen” in their name are null and void, will at least make Obama think twice about Kagan’s nomination.
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The current chin-scratcher in conservative circles is the importance of Obama’s mother’s preference for “Muslim Third World men”. Two schools of thought have developed. I can’t do much better than Think Progress’ Matt Duss does in examining this important phenomenon.
However, I will add that the man (Spengler) who wrote this:
I’ve been screaming about this for more than two years: Obama is the loyal son of a left-wing anthropologist mother who sought to expiate her white guilt by going to bed with Muslim Third World men. He is a Third World anthropologist studying us, learning our culture and our customs the better to neutralize what he considers to be a malignant American influence in world affairs.
Also wrote this:
Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama’s campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. […]
It is hard for the descendants of slaves not to resent America. They were not voluntary immigrants but kidnap victims, subjected to a century of second-class citizenship even after the Civil War ended slavery. Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. Obama’s choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments. Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common. Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother’s milk.
So at least he has a unified theory: it’s all the bitches’ fault.
(via Sully)
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This reference to the Constitution in the Tea Party Contract from America is simplistic, but at least I understand why it’s there:
1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)
This reference is crossing the line into the realm of Constitution-as-fetish:
4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)
What’s next?
“Legislation should be inscribed on vellum using a quill pen — the writing materials of the original Constitution.”
“Government-run health care should be replaced with leeches and bleeding — the medical care provided to the writers of the original Constitution.”
I’m sure you can think of others.
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Rasmussen just excreted a poll showing that Ron Paul and Obama are neck-and-neck in a hypothetical matchup. How about a peek at the toplines:
1* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of Ron Paul?
10% Very favorable
29% Somewhat favorable
18% Somewhat unfavorable
12% Very unfavorable
32% Not sure
About 1/3 of the respondents don’t know what to think about Paul. Yet many of those probably picked between him and the President. Then we have this gem:
4* Does Ron Paul share the values of most Republican voters throughout the nation?
19% Yes
27% No
54% Not sure
Up next: Rasmussen reports on Americans’ favorite characters on TV shows they’ve never watched, with bonus research asking the question, “How’s the Food at that Restaurant Where You’ve Never Eaten?”.
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This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything
Blanche Lincoln’s proposal to trade derivatives on a public exchange is being called a “surprise” and “contrary to most expectations”.
I can’t see why it’s surprising that a Senator from a rural, poor state, who happens to be in the re-election fight of her life, would want to stick it to bankers and fat-cats. Hating bankers is a staple of rural populism, and the harder Blanche kicks Wall Street ass, the better she’ll do back home. The asses she needs to kiss belong to Wal-Mart and Tyson, not JP Morgan and Goldman-Sachs.
Of course, thanks to Blanche, derivatives may be saddled with the same system of regulation that currently haunts the stock market. That institution has become socialist nightmare, where it’s impossible for anyone to make a cent because of the straitjacket of government oversight.
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Via the comments, some good news: Last night, a Democrat won big in the special election in Florida’s 19th district.
More good news: Yesterday, George Pataki became the latest in a long string of Republicans to duck a run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, even though seemingly every challenger characterizes her as “weak, spineless and out of touch.” Pataki decided instead to confirm his true patriotism, not to mention his complete political irrelevance, by starting “Revere America”, an organization that will run a petition drive to ask for the repeal of healthcare reform.
65% of the voters in the Florida district, and 63% of New Yorkers, voted for Obama in 2008. There are just some places where all the teabaggery in the world won’t make a whit of difference, and it’s nice to see confirmation of that fact.
By the way, my take is that Gillibrand is consistently underrated. She’s smart, hard-working and a great fundraiser. She’ll be New York’s Senator as long as she wants to the job.