This is all just further proof of the infallibility of the free market.

Too many people are unemployed and without healthcare, so big pharma lobbyists hire the homeless to reserve places for them in Congressional hearings.

Poor people have jobs, rich people keep their profits. Everyone is happy. Until the poor people are no longer needed – then the market will correct labor costs down. Or profits up. Whatever the free market does, it will be the right thing.

Dear Friend,

My name is General Joseph Kianga, and I have
documentation proving that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Unfortunately I am unable to pay the holder of these documents because I am in exile and am unable to retrieve any funds from my Kenyan accounts. I would like to arrange a transfer of 3 million US dollars to your bank account. Once you receive the funds, you will transfer them to my account in the US. You will be rewarded with a 10 percent fee for your assistance. If you are prepared to help us, please reply this mail and let us agree on how it will be done.

Bernie Sanders is in the pocket of Big Aardvark.

As I’ve reported previously, the single-payer lobby boasts a $40 million budget

Or roughly what the destitute, totally grassroots health insurance industry spends in one month on lobbying against reform.

Shorter MM

“It’s counterintuitive, but you have to push.”

Yeah, I’m going to be using that a lot.

Also, blackity-black-black-blackity-black.

I wish some lefty would take one for the team and infiltrate the busing system they’re using to get the teabaggers to the townhalls n report back to the sane world. I’d volunteer, but I’d never pass for wingnut.

“throwing shoes are vigilante acts.”

This has interesting implications.
[note–it’s the end of a long list of acts, the grammar is fine]

That whole article makes me think of Madlibs: as if someone’s taken out all references to precisely who is doing what, and Malkin has used it to reflect the teabaggers in a more pleasant, and tragically comletely made-up light.

…have resorted to projection…

Beautiful.

With this post and the next one, it’s clear that all of wingnuttia is adopting the Jonah Goldberg strategy of “I know you are but what am I?

Watching the US healthcare debate/debacle from OS is funny. Then painful. Then funny again.
Shirley youse guys can’t be sirius.

No, YOU’RE projecting! Times the absolute value of infinite whatever you say!

The “thoughtful” left-wing response to the Tea Party counterinsurgency can best be summed up by hysterical Hollywood actress Janeane Garafolo, who railed last week: “F**ng redneck d**chebaggery. Unmitigated d**chebaggery.”

Teh unhinged. The de-hingified. Clearly anyone who feels this way about a bunch of people wearing hats made of teabags and screaming that they’re not going to let Obama’s Kenyan Stalin troops kill their grandma is the definition of “hysterical”.

One would wonder if the actress would be so insane as to go on a national TV political talk show and make crazy googly eyes and say that the reason so many peoples is on the unemployment insurance is ’cause unemployment insurance makes you lazy otherwise you know people might be going out and getting some of those jobs that they make telekinetically by wanting them really bad.

In fact, what Garafalo called this was “..uc… redneck .ou………., unmitigated .ou……….” Get your facts straight!
I am curious about the “liberal philanthropists” who are making this all happen. There’s a lot of them, are there? Considering Bierce’s definition of a philanthropist as someone who “returns by day what he stole by night,” there’s a lot more on the other side of the political spectrum (such as the munificient donors of wingnut welfare). The real figure behind this socialized medicine–if you believe the right, and we really should–is Fidel Castro, who wants to change “the best healthcare system in the world”TM, into a riot of unwashed colored people using rum, banana leaf poultices and santeria to treat your grandmother’s cancer.

…a riot of unwashed colored people using rum, banana leaf poultices and santeria to treat your grandmother’s cancer

Will this be before or after the estate tax exemption expires?

Because there’s probably a whole bunch of conservatives who want to make sure that dear Father or Mother or Grand-MaMa or Grand-PaPa happen to ease their way into the afterlife just before the current 10 year estate tax rollback policy may, if Obama lets it (doubtful, because, like, why should the super-rich pay taxes on inheritance, duh?), expire after its 10 years.

…sharp divisions in the [anti-estate tax] coalition emerged between the super rich and the merely rich. Business groups have sought a measure of certainty with an estate tax that is free of graduated timelines or sunset provisions, with the largest possible tax exemption — $10 million, or $20 million per couple. The rate of taxation above that level was of little concern, since virtually every small business would be exempt from taxation.

Yet the super affluent who began the movement wanted the lowest possible rate, since even a $10 million exemption would leave the bulk of their estates subject to tax. They backed a call by Mark Bloomfield of the American Council for Capital Formation to tax all estate transfers as capital gains, at 15%, with little or no exemption.

“The very wealthy, in their quest to reduce their exposure, made proposals that threw the small-business community overboard,” said one prominent small-business lobbyist, referring to a move to have estates taxed as capital gains upon their disposition, without regard to the amount shielded from taxation.

Death threats to Obama up 400% compared to Bush. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

But please Michelle, tell us more about the projection of the unhinged left, you cunt.

R.I.C.O.
R.I.C.O.
R.I.C.O.

Just Sayin’,…

Maybe I’m just too much of an optimist, but

Several callers to the [JiSM3 endorsing conservative paper, the Napa Valley] Register on Tuesday reported they were repulsed by the aggressive tactics of some members of the crowd.

It’s a good thing the only people misbehaving at the town hall meetings are Soros-funded ACORN-bused astroturfers or the Health Insurance Industry might be in trouble.

I am SO glad that you covered this piece of crazy from Michelle. I took a look at it yesterday, and just couldn’t make sense of what the hell she was saying. Projection was the first word that came to mind for me, too.

I seem to remember when Code Pink dared to disrupt a hearing, they were quickly hauled from the room, and arrested. These clowns are lucky to have their time without that fear.

It seems pretty clear that the wingers are getting ready to start shooting. The came too early, and their is no more headroom left.

–mf

I also seem to recall one guy getting tased for asking a question…..

That’s funny, because Malkin is actually a signatory to the astroturf organization she denies exists.

I am SO glad that you covered this piece of crazy from Michelle.

There’s bonus crazy today in the same cesspool. I’m not linking, but the long and the short of it is as follows:

Yesterday, Lanny Davis posts on Politico that people disrupting townhalls are fascists. He makes very clear that he is referring not to people dissenting against healthcare reform, but the shitbag mobs wanting to hear no other voices but their own.

Malkin sez: Hey, look my preciouses, Lanny Davis hatez you! Teabagz rule!! Commenterz R go!!!

Lanny Davis, being a lawyer and all, emails Malkin to say, maybe you didn’t hear me right, but let me restate my position.

Malkin thinks Lanny is being all bipartisanny and making nice and all (when actually Lanny is saying – you really want to be the dog that whelps the loudest? [Sneaky goddamn lawyers – I know your type.]), and goes – Lanny’s still projecting, I report you decide, my preciouses!!! Commenterz R go!!!

Moral of the story is these fuckheads are as dumb as planks, the reason this healthcare reform is stuck is because of corporate interests. That is all.

And PENIS.

You know, so long as no one has actually gotten physically injured, the Teabaggers For AHIP antics are pretty much win-win for me. Firstly, I am a big proponent for BURNING SHIT DOWN. I’m sort of kneejerk Pro-Anti-Authoritarian. Secondly, the jerkwads certainly do seem to be doing a good job of illustrating how empty and distasteful their arguments are. It’s all good.

OK, so it’s probably just a black sweater worn as a cape, but I expect her to start wearing elbow-length black gloves and a monocle soon. It would suit her.

You know, so long as no one has actually gotten physically injured,

umm, I’m gonna bet that doesn’t last through the weekend.

I’m gonna bet that doesn’t last through the weekend.

I dunno. I’d bet the majority of these guys are chickenhawks, and town hall organizers are tipped off now, so police presence is probably a given. But again, I am an optimist.

@Dragon-King Wangchuck:

All you people up there in City Hall,
You’re fuckin’ it up for the people that’s in the streets.
This is a song for the people in the streets,
Not the people City Hall.
All you motherfuckers in the streets it’s time to rise up, up up up
Come along children and fuckin’ rise!

Lots of times when me and KG are watchin’
All the fuckin’ shit that goes down at City Hall,
We get the feeling we should fuck shit up,
Yeah we should fuckin’ start a riot.
A Riot!

We have ’em screaming in the streets,
we have ’em tippin’ over shit and breakin’ fuckin’ windows of small businesses,
and settin’ fuckin’ fires!
and settin’ fuckin’ fires!
and settin’ fuckin’ fires!

. . .

People inside me are askin’ me to smoke up City Hall,
‘Cause no one here is talkin’.
People inside me are askin’ me to blow up City Hall,
‘Cause no one here is rockin’.

People inside me are askin’ me to blow up City Hall,
‘Cause everyone is Rock-’em Sock-’em Robots.
Everyone is Rock-’em Sock-’em Robots.
Everyone is Rock-’em Sock-’em GO! OH!

I have been unable to escape this song in my head for several days now.

Michelle “Viewmaster” Malkin accusing anyone else of projection? It is to LOL!

“No no! You’ve got it all wrong! It was them! It was THEM! They did it, not ME!”

*tries desperately to pull hand out of cookie-jar*

Robert Gibbs: “I think you’ve got somebody who’s very involved, a leader of that group that’s very involved in the status quo, a CEO that used to run a health care company that was fined by the federal government $1.7 billion for fraud.”

Malkin: Just to make the Gibbs’ moral equation clear: Ties to health care companies involved in government settlements = suspect motives.

The man of whom they speak is Rick Scott. Scott founded the Columbia Hospital Corporation in 1987 and acted as its CEO until resigning after FBI agents raided company facilities. In 2000 the company pleaded guilty to fraud and ultimately paid $1.7 billion, making it the largest fraud case in American history.

To say that Scott has “ties” to CHC is like saying Rupert Murdoch is loosely affiliated with News Corp.

I have been unable to escape this song in my head for several days now.

It is pretty tenacious.

SETTIN’ FUCKIN’ FIRES!!!!

Lots of times when me and KG are watchin’
All the fuckin’ shit that goes down at City Hall,
We get the feeling we should fuck shit up,
Yeah we should fuckin’ start a riot.

I’d love to see Kenny G starting a riot.

Those groups – with their diverse lobbying load – are only worth $40 million per annum? The health insurance industry lobby spent $133 million in the second quarter this year, alone.

and settin’ fuckin’ fires!

And I thought this explained how we keep starting fires.

Dragon-King: they apparently couldn’t even make it into the weekend:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/tampa-town-hall-on-health_n_253478.html

Ahh, remember the good ol days when we had a real, manly preznit? Back when we had “free speech” zones and none of this unruly behavior at town halls? Damn, I really don’t miss those days at all.

zrm,

Well fuck. I guess that’s one you didn’t want to be right about.

Spoken like a true Dragon king.

It’s gonna get worse now that Gibbs called Limbaugh out.

Hey! Maybe someone can turn some fire hoses on ’em, then they can Really feel like the Blacks of Liberal Fascism!!