One of the lefty bloggers I follow, Kevin Drum at Mother Jones, wrote recently: “We are ruled by charlatans and cowards.” And after watching this rope-a-dope chickenshit over what should be a strictly routine procedure — raising the debt ceiling — I couldn’t agree more.
The latest cynical gambit from the Repuglitards, who throughout the process have been focused not on paying the bills they’ve rung up, but rather on getting yet another American laid off (Barack Obama), appears to be to pass the buck now in hopes of getting to hammer the prez and his party in the run-up to the 2012 elections. Let him raise the ceiling now and we’ll knock him to the floor in the general, goes what passes for thinking among this lot.
Well, God knows whichever flag-pinned feeb winds up wearing their nomination like a scarlet “E” for “Eejit” will need all the help s/he can get. But this is despicable even for Turtleneck, Punkinhead and the rest of those smirking ward-heelers. Just ask Kevin, who weighs in with his own mighty snark here.
Last I looked there were a whole lot of folks out of work and an economy limping along like a three-legged sloth with the piles, and these assclowns think the smart thing to do is strive mightily to make matters even worse? Are there no pitchforks? No torches?
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Just read that in the Times … two seconds ago, they were saying that Obama needed to show some leadership, and then they pull this stunt?
Funny that they get their knickers in a wad when you mention anything that doesn’t sound right according to their personal interpretation of the Constitution, but they have no problem with giving up their authority without so much as a legal review from a first year clerk.
I’ve been disgusted with both parties too many times to count lately, but this has no equal in the “chickenshit” department.
Man … I’ve been into politics since I was a teen-ager, and I’ve seen some wicked shit over the years, but these sonsabitches make me want to move to Costa Rica and live in a refrigerator box.
The modern-day Republican Party has no ideology, no foreign or domestic policy, no interest in governance and worst of all, no shame — it’s all about power for its own sake, that permanent GOP majority that Fart Blossom kept talking about. We will take and take and take, and you will give until it hurts, and we will laugh and make you give some more.
Failing that, said Norquist, the GOP radicals will make it impossible for Democrats to govern as Democrats. Well, they certainly got some help from the Donks on that one, didn’t they?
Jesus. Don’t get me started. I feel a twinge of class warfare coming on. Shit’s worse than malaria.
I believe that the Repugs do indeed have an ideology, and it’s been lifted from Milton: “It’s better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.” It’s far, far better to rule over a completely devastated country than to serve in a functioning democracy under a Democrat, since to do so would be to acknowledge that someone else might have a better idea.
It’s far more profitable too. When you have millionaires making the laws you shouldn’t be surprised when the laws benefit the millionaires.
Oh lookie-thar, it’s that class warfare thing again.
There’s a line from the grandpa in Boondocks that sums up my opinion of these guys: it doesn’t bother me that they’re stupid — what bothers me is that they think I’m stupid, too.
Class warfare … some dude sleeping on the couch in his Mom’s double-wide is afraid of raising taxes because he’s convinced he’s one good idea from making $250K.
Then there’s the Dems who can’t explain that $250k wasn’t an arbitrary line — it’s the 98th percentile. (Or, was, when it first came up. Now it’s around the 98.7th percentile.) What folks don’t get is, the top 2% will never be made up by more than 2%. If everyone gets richer, that line moves. I know, crazy concept …
My guess is there will be no pitchforks and torches so long as American Idol still comes on every week.
Contrary to GSH’s song, television will be the reason there is no revolution.
TV is the great soma. Your average American believes that shit. Somehow, the folks who should be supporting the working class (i.e., the working class) have been convinced to form a circular firing squad. Not to mention the uber-rich have no connection with the rest of the nation. One might as well have class warfare. We are all strangers on this bus nowdays.
Now where’s the money for my next lottery ticket? Guess I have to rob my kid’s piggy bank again.
As Larry’s wife says…
TV might be soylent green even more than it’s soma, khal.
Soylent Green may be closer than we think. But probably not 2022.
Listening to NPR this morning I learn that stupidity has migrated overseas to Italy. According to NPR, Italians are taking up the McDiet that is common over here, and with predictable results: skyrocketing obesity.
Happy Bastille Day to all, and happy birthday to Sheldon “over on the other side” Brown.
Italians are fatter than in previous years, I noticed that awhile back. Mickey D’s “hook the kids early” scheme is bearing fruit, they took their marketing cues from the cancer stick industry. There was an article in La Gazzetta just the other day about the addictive effects of certain kinds of fats being proven by some studies. Their economy is tanking as well, they’re not far from Greece or Ireland now…but NONE of that changes the fact it’s still the best place on earth to be a cyclist or cycling fan! We have to go “home” next week but we’ll be back as soon as possible-we hope by October.
I was an increasingly fat young man on a typical American McDiet until halfway through graduate school. When my first wife and I went our separate ways, I started riding lots and eating better (reverting to my Italian grandparent’s traditional Mediterranean diet, which is easily adapted to a graduate student lifestyle, actually). I guess I should thank my first wife for that aspect of our parting company; in the long run, it has worked out OK. For her, too, thank goodness.