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In some ways, the most horrible thing about teatardism is that it makes people like Paul Ryan look like intellectual giants by comparison.

Bobo and Andrew Sullivan and Ross Douthat and the other economic illiterates who populate the *serious intellectual* conservative pundit class are so happy to see a Republican whose calculator goes into the billions that they don’t bother to ask how the fuck raising interest rates would increase lending or what the fuck “vouchering Social Security” could possibly mean.

You can bet that they’ll portray John Thune as a serious policy wonk if he gets the nomination in 2012, too. And the evidence that will be provided is that he’s not as ignorant as Sarah Palin.

Update. Sorry for the lack of links. I did this with the iPad and doing links isn’t so easy with it for me, at least not yet. BTW, this site is barely usable on the iPad — about 45 seconds to load.

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This is funny, defeated Republican Congressman Bob Inglis talking about his meeting with teatards:

I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there’s a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life’s earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, ‘What the heck are you talking about?’ I’m trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, ‘You don’t know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don’t know this?!’ And I said, ‘Please forgive me. I’m just ignorant of these things.’ And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.

I may try this stuff out in my local Tea Party mailing list, see what people have to say.

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Love it or hate it, it looks like time for another open thread.

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Been a long day. Think I am going to crack a Heineken and watch the idiot box.

Here’s a question- is there any reason I shouldn’t throw dog shit in the compost pile? Health reasons, that is.

Also, man were you all right about this worthless POS. Handle falls off all the time, lid never sealed so fruit flies pop up. Worthless. I should have figured- nothing quite says “Die you pretentious yuppie scum” like a ceramic indoor compost container.

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Are we really happy here with this lonely game we play?

Update. My favorite version I could find on the intertubes.

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