We have all had days like this. Claim your pet, folks.
Sarah Palin gets it
Following up on John’s slanted take on the Pailn mockumentary, this should be a slap in the face to those of you who doubted Palin’s wit and authenticity:
Conservatives will be thrilled to know that she immediately “got” and seemed to fully appreciate my joke that Pete Wilson (and not Arnold Schwarzenegger) would go down as the last Republican Governor in the history of California, If that wasn’t enough, when she looked at the back cover of my first film (“Blocking the Path to 9/11” www.blockingthepath.com) and saw the photo of one of the film’s targets, Keith Olbermann, she literally let out a shriek and, pointing to his photogragh, declared, “THAT guy is EVIL!”
This Is A Good Thing
I have already had several people email me this article, and one person in the comments pointed to it and called it the Democratic circular firing squad, so let’s discuss it:
President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn’t do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators from both parties agreed that Congress should do something to stimulate the economy. But Democratic senators emerging from a private meeting of the Senate Finance Committee criticized business and individual tax cuts in Obama’s stimulus plan.
They were especially critical of a proposed $3,000 tax credit for companies that hire or retrain workers.
“If I’m a business person, it’s unlikely if you give me a several-thousand-dollar credit that I’m going to hire people if I can’t sell the products they’re producing,” said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., a member of the committee.
“That to me is just misdirected,” Conrad said.
Sen John Kerry, D-Mass., said, “I’d rather spend the money on the infrastructure, on direct investment, on energy conversion, on other kinds of things that much more directly, much more rapidly and much more certainly create a real job.”
Let me be clear. I think this is a good thing. This is healthy. They are debating actual ideas, and there are disagreements, and hopefully they will work them out and come to a healthy endpoint. Maybe the Republicans will pull their heads out of their collective asses and decide that in the wake of the DOW dropping 80,000 points and massive unemployment and five quarters of negative growth there is something more important than capital gains tax cuts, Elian Gonzalez, Terri Schiavo, and the fairness doctrine, and join in the debate and act for once in good faith and with the best interests of the country in mind. A man can hope.
At any rate, I don’t think of this as the Democratic circular firing squad. When I think of that, I think of the kind of idiocy we have experienced the last few weeks, when DiFi gets butthurt about Panetta because her ring was not kissed enough and says things that she will have to walk back from in the future. Or when a bunch of people get upset at the number of vaginas in the cabinet and we are told we might as well have elected Rush Limbaugh. Or Rick Warren speaks for 3 minutes at the inauguration and Democrats everywhere shriek that Obama hates gays and some idiots go so far as to cancel their inauguration parties. Or anything Harry Reid has done since November 4th or whenever any jackass anywhere states “That is not the change I voted for” when the man isn’t even in office yet. That sort of nonsense, is to me, at least, the true Democratic circular firing squad.
Not actual debates about policy.
And yes, I do believe there is a bit of theatre to it all.
The Republican Twitter Revolution Is Off With a Bang
Every new venture is going to have a rocky start, so why should the Republican foray into the mysteries and vagaries of the intertrons and teh google be any different:
“Our majority was emaciated by electoral liposuction, our bold rebranding initiative put speed freaks to sleep and our approval rating nose-dived faster than Bozo on a bender.”
—Republican House Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter, who — help us — is “blogging” now for Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood”
So much fail.
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Football Open Thread
Apparently there is a game of some importance tonight.
Some Cheese With Your Whine?
I’m with TBOGG– it does seem a little unfair to run “How Obama Got Elected” underneath Sarah Palin’s smug mug for this entire interview, because John McCain made enough mistakes in his own right that you can’t pin the whole thing on the Wasilla Wingnut. On the other hand, I love her assertion that she would have been treated better had she been a Democrat. Always a victim, these Republicans, what with the media out to get them and everything.
I guess it is probably pointless to dig up all the fawning media coverage she got after reading the speech someone else wrote for her at the convention (I remember the terms “electrified” and the phrase “a star is born”) and what not. I guess it is pointless to mention that it was only after she lied repeatedly about the bridge to nowhere that the media started to question her, and that it was after she refused to answer any questions for weeks on end that they started to get pissy. I guess it is pointless to note that it was Palin’s own disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric that cemented the view of her as a dim bulb.
She’s got her facts, and she is sticking to them, and I say “You go, girl.” If I know anything, it is that America hates losers, and Sarah Palin seems intent on spending the next few years reminding everyone what a loser she is. More power to her.
PUMA versus Wingnut
I’ve got an idea for a new feature here. Compare a really stupid statement/post from wingnuttia with a really stupid one from the PUMAsphere, then debate which is stupider.
For our PUMA entry, let’s start with the “PUMAs are the new Jews” thing John alluded to earlier (from NoIQ, natch):
Is puma the new jew – a people persecuted for their beliefs, and eventually for their failure to fall in line, and follow the chosen one?
Now, I am not saying that PUMAS have been subjected to the horrors of the holocaust, or the years and years of persecution, but I thought it was a snappy intro that might grab your attention.
Since I’ve been going local today, I’m going with this from western New York’s premier wingnut blog:
It is believed that AlGore secretly met with Dr. Bittner and was immediately declared “The Saudi Arabia of Lipo Diesel”.
Update: This is the best PUMA-spoof I’ve seen in a while:
Or that a half-Kenyan British citizen/political fiction/Kaspar Hauser/blank-slate mannequin fabricated in the clanking, hissing bowels of the Daley family Chicago Corruption Machine is about to assume the Presidency, with the cowardly, tacit compliance of a bought-and-paid-for media, Electoral College, Supreme Court, Congress, 50 state Attorneys-General, both political parties, and 52% of American voters.
Or that this not-so-black changeling-child Obama/Soetoro/whoever is already assembling a cabinet loaded with Marxist hacks and terror-friendly apparatchiks hell-bent on delivering the United States into a Third World Hell of galloping Socialism.
Maybe none of that matters to this smug little back-slapping society of condescending, elitist political sachems. Maybe NOTHING matters to you.
In which case, please vote for Rumproast in the “Best Small Blog” category of the Weblog Awards.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you more of the flavor of MonroeRising with this link.