Fuck the fucking Yankees. If they win tonight, I’ll have to re-run “Prince of Darkness”.
P.S. If Steve Gilliard were still blogging, I think he would say Sullivan hates Sarah Palin ‘cuz Levi Johnston never brung Andy a taco…
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I’m seeing more and more of this meme, from Bobo for example:
The Democrats have their problems too. And if anything, their problems are deeper because they are intellectual, not merely partisan. The Obama administration has sent the country off to the right. The president is creating a counter-realignment.
Voters don’t identify with the G.O.P. but the number of people who call themselves conservative is now near an all-time high.
What could be more than conservative than 60+% approval for a public option, right?
Meanwhile, Rove is pushing the “conservatives win even if they lose in NY-23” thing — the idea being that if the conservative candidate total plus the Republican candidate total exceeds 50%, then it means conservatives really won.
You know what, how about this? The teabaggers form a real third party that runs in all the elections. Their total plus the Republican total will be over 50% in a lot of races, we can all agree this means we’re a conservative country, and Democrats can actually run the country in peace.
There is nothing, nada, zilch, zero, nothing, that is bad news for conservatives. When they win elections, it proves we’re a conservative country. When they lose, it proves it. When we pass health care bills, it proves it. When we lower taxes, it proves it. When we raise taxes, it proves it. Everything proves it always.
Update. I can accept that in this particular universe, the sentence “everything is always good for conservatives” is true. What I’d like to know is if that sentence is true in any model where certain weaker statements about conservatives hold. Here’s what I’m driving at: is there a formal proof of the sentence “everything is always good for conservatives” using only the statement “Reagan is good” along with the usual first-order logical axioms and the “no true Scotsman” fallacy?
Update. Bob Somerby has more on Kristol’s similar claims about the conservative renaissance we are living in.
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Slow on the Uptake
Looks like the members of the Iowa GOP are a little dimwitted:
A conservative Iowa group’s effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group’s plan to raise a six-figure sum to bring her to the state has GOP activists recoiling at the thought of paying to land a politician’s speaking appearance.
The Iowa Family Policy Center’s effort to cobble together $100,000 for Palin would represent a striking departure from customary practice in the first-in-the-nation state, these Republicans say, noting that a generation of White House hopefuls has paid their own way to boost their party and presidential ambitions.
Umm, guys? SHE’S. A. GRIFTER. She quit her damned job to go on the wingnut welfare circuit. Seven in ten people think she is unqualified to be President. She’s just in this for the money, and she is currently having a public feud with the father of her teenage daughter’s child who is himself cashing in by posing for Playgirl.
This isn’t a credible politician. It’s a Jerry Springer episode.
Late Night Open Thread: FTFY
Fuck the fucking Yankees. In loving memory of Steve Gilliard.
Open Thread
I’m kind of otherwise occupied with stuff, so an open thread seems appropriate.
I know it is only 9 am, but I think it is late enough in the day to reflect on the many ways Barack Obama has let you down today. As an additional thought, why does Rahm Emmanuel hate you?
Early Morning Open Thread: Lexi-conning
I have finished polishing the latest round of edits, corrections, and additions — even a stolen cool epigraph! — to the first section of the new tripartite Balloon Juice Lexicon (A – H). Your revisions, suggestions, and links are hereby solicited.
Specifically: I could use some good links for ACORN that would give a better flavor of the whole mishagaus than Wikipedia’s blandly correct entry. I’ve been told there is such a thing as a Cavuto Mark, but its meaning is not clear to me. I know people had some wonderful snarky links to explicate the Doughy Pantload, but the list has been lost and my google-fu is not strong enough. If there is to be an entry for Freeping, and there probably should be, someone is going to have to explain its history.
And finally, perhaps there should be some explanation of why accusations of goat molestation are so popular, but I’m not even gonna try googling that meme!
Not Dead
Just chucking this out there:
I’m looking for a god hearted woman who loves me in spite of my ways she don’t understand.
Also, yes, I have called five times and Lily is ok and my brother has said to stop calling because “she is ok, damnit.”