Heh, indeedy.

They are not “losers.” They’re overbearing, ball-less, marxist, Chairmen Mao loyalist.

Duh.

“Why are the Democrats complaining about Republican obstructionism when they control the White House, the House and have 59 senate votes?”

See? This is why we can never have nice things.

*phew*

The clean fresh smell of new thread, undisturbed by racist asstrolls.

True story: once upon a time (this morning) when I checked my Snotmail, I discovered a piece of junk-e-mail in my inbox all-on-a-sudden-like from none other than The American Spectator, & its subject line was “Free James O’Keefe” … & I just couldn’t help but mentally add “– with large fries & a medium shake”

… & they all lived happily ever after, The End.

Okay, your story is better.

Here’s about the only one who isn’t:

They are not losers. They have collaborators among them.

This is akin to moaning about the French surrender to Nazi occupation when so much of the French elites supported the Nazis’ breakup of communists and socialists and trades unions.

Imagine if we Mass Democrats selected Mike Capuano in the primary. He would not have taken a vacation before the general election. He would not have scoffed at the idea of shaking hands outside Fenway Park. He would not have allowed the vacuum to develop that Scott Brown stepped into. He would not have lost.

Imagine if we had Mike Capuano in the Senate, giving us four Democrats–yes, four whole Democrats!–plus Bernie Sanders willing to stand up for the Democratic Party and Democratic principles.

Sigh.

“This is akin to moaning about the French surrender to Nazi occupation when so much of the French elites supported the Nazis’ breakup of communists and socialists and trades unions.”

You hit one of my pet peeves whenever people bring up Munich or compare the modern left wing to World War Two collaborators.

Lest anyone forget, Neville Chamberlain was a conservative, Phillipe Petain was another (as well as a war hero), and so were the Republicans preaching isolationism here in America. And most of the collaborators and sympathizers collaborated and sympathized not because they were weak-kneed peaceniks and politicians, but because they shared the Nazi prejudices against socialists, liberals, unions, intellectuals and unpatriotic minorities (plus the unfiltered terror of communism).

digby is also reporting that Franken seems to be getting all crazy and representing his constituents:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/go-al-again-by-digby-so-apparently.html

Democrats! They so crazy!

Losers?

No.

Weak-kneed pansyasses who have been beaten down so many times that they won’t force Republicans to actually filibuster, nor actually push the obstructionist story as much as possible?

Yes.

Sadly, yes.

A lot of them aren’t even losers, or weak-kneed. They just happen to work for the same people the Repubs do, instead of the people who elected them.

Both partiesare both bought and sold by the same elites, and almost all of the Senators belong to that economic class.

It’s simple, really. We have a one-party system of goverment – the Money Party.

The general loserness is a total drag, but they are dealing as well with some Grade A asshole problems.

Exhibit 2010.

Geez I wish we had a senator like Sanders. Dick Durbin (the Whip who doesn’t have one) and Roland “I’ll Pad my Resume” Burris just don’t do it for me.

The general loserness is a total drag, but they are dealing as well with some Grade A asshole problems.

Then you call them out on it. Say, “Sen. Shelby has put his own pork ahead of the needs of the country.” Humiliate the SOB. But they don’t do that.

Curiously, Pelosi is doing just that with her tactic of forcing an up or down vote on key parts of the conference healthcare bill.

Also, if you follow that link to digby, Franken seems to have done that to Axelrod, and some others…

All you need to do to run as a Democrat is to call yourself one. The Republican leadership, on the other hand, kicks the ass of any Republican who doesn’t follow their lead.

Humiliate the SOB. But they don’t do that.

Obviously. But they are still tied to their hopeless bipartisan meme. Until Obama tosses this dumb idea overboard, the GOP will continue to be assholes and the Dems will continue to look like losers as a result.

One way to break this cycle would be to commit properly to HCR… just saying, it’s one way, but it’ll take some leadership from the top.

Republicans destroy. Democrats do nothing.

Republicans are dangerous. Democrats are useless.

Republicans aim for the cliff. Democrats stay that course.

Over time, then, the trend is not so good.

Possibly the only justifiable use of the blink tag that I’ve ever seen.

Um, I don’t even understand the nature of the question. It’s precisely because the Democrats _have_ all those structural advantages that the complaint about obstructionism makes any sense. I.e., we have a large majority that those stupid fuckers are playing games to prevent us from doing anything with. If the Senate were 51-49 or something, there’d be no sense in complaining about “obstructionism.”

Huge red blinkey text does very, very bad things to people with epilepsy. I won’t be able to visit until it’s gone of the page. Sorry.

Good point, though.

–mf

I think the “money party” claim is slightly overblown. After all, there’s never been a point in our history where the money wasn’t running politics. John Adams and Jefferson were some rich motherfuckers.

Honestly, I think that Obama wants to be legitimately more bipartisan than Bush was, and I think the Democratic majority (especially in the Senate) legitimately doesn’t want to be a rubber stamp for the President in the way that Bush’s Senate was. Which are both noble goals, but it’s hard to win with nobility when the other guy punches you in the nuts.

Yes, Reid is a wimp, Baucus is a shitbox tonguejacker, et cetera.

Obama’s biggest problem? Axelrod. It’s Axelrod. His chief political adviser has bungled and mismanaged pretty fucking much everything. He’s been pwn3d by the R machine.

Dear Mr. President,

Please stop listening to David Axelrod. It turns out he doesn’t know shit.

Thank you,
America

FlipYrWhig – well, that kind of is at the heart of it, innit? I mean, there are ways the Dems could steamroller over the opposition, i.e. the “nuclear option”, reconciliation, recess appointments, and others. The problem is, they’d rather whine about how their hands are tied rather than picking up those hammers and bashing the Republicans’ fucking heads in with them.

There’s a reason for that: they don’t really want to do anything, at least a lot of them don’t. Doing stuff makes their corporate funders angry, and without them, they think they can’t get elected. Of course, they can’t get elected if most people refuse to vote for whiny crybabies either, but that point always seems to elude them.

Instead they seem to think that if they sack up and roll over their opponents, their opponents will say mean thing about them and that, coupled with angering their corporate sponsors, will keep them from getting re-elected. And it would, if they play the game the way they’ve been playing it for the past 20 years. But if they went out there with a message that the Republicans left them no choice – that they are the party who claims government can’t do anything right and use all their energy making it true – that wouldn’t be the case.

And again, there’s no shortage of people here on the internets that are good at crafting these types of messages…yet they always end up going back to the Bob Shrums. There has to be a reason, and that reason is that they don’t really care about winning when it comes to delivering on promises. If they did, they’d pick up the ball that’s being pointed out to them by smart people all over these interwebs and they’d run with it. They don’t do that. It’s a choice.

Huge red blinkey text does very, very bad things to people with epilepsy. I won’t be able to visit until it’s gone of the page. Sorry.

Neither Safari nor Internet Explorer support the blink tag. Firefox lets you shut blink tags off.

2. It is possible to turn off blinking in web content by changing the about:config setting called “browser.blink_allowed” to false. The about:config advanced settings can be reached by entering “about:config” in the address bar and pressing Enter.

What Jennifer said.

oooooooooh, I love big red letters directed at Republicans.

It’s unfortunatel the person who called in can’t read them. Not because they’ll nver see them but because THEY CAN’T READ.

Please, Brad. Don’t you know the correct, SadlyNo Troll term is “Loosers”?

Imagine if we had Mike Capuano in the Senate

Imagine if the ability to carry out public policy depended on whether someone did or did not shake hands at a sports venue. How screwed up would that be?

Oh, wait.

And still…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html

Why are liberals so condescending?
By Gerard Alexander
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, all the appeals to bipartisanship notwithstanding, President Obama and other leading liberal voices have joined in a chorus of intellectual condescension.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Time machine!

Imagine if the ability to carry out public policy depended on whether someone did or did not shake hands at a sports venue. How screwed up would that be?

Meh, God knows we have problems, but that wasn’t why she lost.

But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration.

Yeah, and liberals are always telling conservatives that they’re ASS RAPING BABY-KILLING MONSTERS WHO ARE GOING TO HELL for not being liberals. Also that they’re naive about killer mooslims and ignorant about economics because LAFFER CURVE.

… while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration.

Hmmm … let’s see here …

Wrong: Tax cuts for rich people; Iraq will be a cakewalk; torture is not illegal

Illegitimate: The 2000 election, decided not by actual votes, but by the Supreme Court.

Ideological: Cut taxes and institute a spending freeze in a recession; ignore the rule of law if the person arrested is foreign and brownish; invade a country without any plan on how to control it afterward; advocating the unmitigated use of torture.

Unworthy of serious consideration: A budget that lacked any, ya know, numbers; a “health care plan” that has slogans and pictures of happy white families, but no actual “plan”; tax cuts solve every economic problem in the world;

So, um, in this case, the claims against conservatives are 100% “correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason.”

What a Gertard …

But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration.

Well, duh.

Gerard Alexander is an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. He will be online to chat with readers on Monday, February 8, at 11 a.m. Submit your questions and comments before or during the discussion. On Monday, he will also deliver the American Enterprise Institute’s Bradley Lecture, “Do Liberals Know Best? Intellectual Self-Confidence and the Claim to a Monopoly on Knowledge.”

But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason

Well, YEAH! To a degree far surpassing conservtives we do base our views on fact and reason.

Imagine if the ability to carry out public policy depended on whether someone did or did not shake hands at a sports venue. How screwed up would that be?

The point is that Coakley left the state on vacation–vacation! from a month-long campaign!–and then ridiculed the idea that maybe her time would’ve been better spent if she’d been out working for votes. It’d be nice if competing politicians stayed off the tv and quietly issued white papers which all pored over with great care, but that’s not how it works.

It’s really fucking stupid to act lazy, entitled, and haughty about doing some gladhanding with the voters. That she managed to be lazy, entitled, and haughty about it while also casually insulting a popular event at a popluar landmark is doubly fucking stupid.

I guess this guy isn’t a conservative:

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php

OT: Roy has a quote from Doughbob that includes this:

They’ve tried (and retried) aliens, drug kingpins, bad weather, and the always-enjoyable zombies.

“always-enjoyable zombies”? Look, even though I’m pretty much straight zombie and don’t swing breather, I don’t have much problem with a bit of good-natured affection, expecially on bloggos like this one (most of you are pretty cool. But I won’t turn my back on Substance, and you shouldn’t either).

But I don’t need to take this kind of harassment from the likes of Jonah Goldberg. I will be calling Milwaukee Law Firm and Zombie Protection Corporation immediately.

I feel dirty.

It’s not quite fair to say all of them are losers. Many of them have the right intentions and will to do the job, but suffer from a nauseating lack of assertive leadership. Many Dems do serve the same masters as their Repuke counterparts, that’s true, but I think that some heavy handed leadership might turn a few of them away from that as well.

Coakley was fucking awful, and frankly deserved to lose.
Brown will not be re-elected, but that is cold comfort at the moment.

Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem.

I suppose suggesting “free and fair elections as mandated in the Constitution” would only make it appear that I believe my views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason.

be so you should, zombie scum..

“But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives…”

Ummm, no. Racism, xenophobia, bigotry, ego/ethnocentrism and aristocracy are the ultimate forms of condescension in action. It’s one thing to be snotty in an argument, outright oppression is quite another. As for me, I’ll stick with being condescending and right.

the Obama problem

Why does this phrase make me think of a bunch of teabaggers sitting around having their own lil’ Wannsee Conference on “The Obama Problem”?

p.s. someone please explain nicely to the fucknozzles over at Newsmax that you NEVER, NEVER get a free government out of a military coup. It never works like that.

Meh, God knows we have problems, but that wasn’t why she lost.

Actually, yes it was. She was woefully out of touch with the people she needed in a general election and unfortunately, those are the people to whom a simple act like standing outside Fenway on New Year’s Day and shaking hands matters to.

“the Obama problem”

That sure has a familiar phrasing to it, does it not? It gives me a shiver to hear it.

It happened in Portugal, kinda.

Academia has a strong conservative institutional bias. In the modern era, the wealthy have realized that it is in their benefit to buy intelligent minds that will approach problems from a relatively independent perspective, so that they aren’t all sitting around circle-jerking while the roof is collapsing. Of course, the brains must be kept on a short leash. Their audience must be limited to the rich and the children of the rich, along with an occasional mamluk from the lower classes. Their funding must be tied to the class interests of their patrons. If intellectuals didn’t serve the interests of perpetuating wealth, they wouldn’t be allowed to function – certainly not within institutional structures.

Here is what amazes me about a system of hereditary wealth, like ours: each successive generation only has to be just competent enough to keep from burning the whole house down. People will happily feed them, clothe them, and change their diapers, while continuing to shovel more money into their accounts. All that they have to remember is not to touch anything. But in every society throughout history, they always fuck that part up.

Also, Bingblart has officially declare victory over the forces of darkness on Twitter.

Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem.

Hmmmm …

Win an election or two?

Put forth policies that benefit more than the wealthy?

Create actual, substantive, and workable solutions to our nation’s problems, rather than bringing up the same shit that caused the mess in the first place?

There are three off the top of my head, and not a single one involves sedition.

But maybe I’m just using too much logic and reason …

“Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.”

We really are turning into a Latin American country, complete with right-wing agitators calling “communist” anyone who doesn’t believe in might makes right, and ready to use military force to stop them and anyone else they don’t like.

Just a historical point;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plot

The last time they tried this, it failed because the military was loyal to the Constitution and the people. Pretty sure that’s still the case, which is the only reason this sort of thing doesn’t happen every time a Democrat wins an election.

Actor, it may have been indicative of a character flaw for which she lost votes, but she didn’t lose because she didn’t shake hands. The lack of campaigning as a whole, the hubris of so blatantly thinking it was in the bag so she didn’t have to campaign, the sorry GOTV efforts on her side coupled with the big efforts on Brown’s(plus lousy weather on the day, insuring most non-enthusiastic leaners wouldn’t bother), her rep as a party hack, Brown’s “Coakley hates Catholics” ads and push-polls all contributed.

On an OT note, read this on Yahoo News;

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/lf_afp/somaliashippingpiracykenyafishing

Anyone who doesn’t understand why these guys are so popular need only look at Jesse James, John Dillinger and so many others in our own history – except these guys seem to be getting a lot more done for the poor in their part of the world than our folk bandits usually did.

David Brooks, you reading this? It’s a case of “punishing the elite” leading to the rest of the people being able to breathe again, against your predictions I might add.

the Obama problem

I just re-watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised the other day. For those who haven’t seen it, you should, and can for free here.

I’ve been annoyed and a little amused by Fox News coverage of the Obama administration, but I was absolutely shocked at how closely it resembled Venezuelan TV after Chavez was elected. I can easily see the cast of “Fox and Friends” sitting around and laughing about how much fun they had had engineering their little coup.

and here is the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144#

WP fucks Glen Beck with a giant black dildo

But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration.

I think this has been said before – hm, how was it? Oh yes, that liberals were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which [Rove?] defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Rove’s speech sounds like that Nietzschean will to power thing. (Which isn’t too far removed from Ayn Rand).

WP fucks Glen Beck with a giant black dildo

With BIG RED STRAPS.

Here is what amazes me about a system of hereditary wealth, like ours: each successive generation only has to be just competent enough to keep from burning the whole house down.

Alas, the current generation has already set a torch to the drapes. The house is burning.

Rove’s speech sounds like that Nietzschean will to power thing. (Which isn’t too far removed from Ayn Rand).

True enough, though we’re still not sure it was Rove that said all that – I merely suspect it, and I doubt I’m alone.

In any case, Rove is a dick.

More in-depth;

The problem people like Rove don’t understand (or don’t say out loud because it throws a wrench in their plans) is that while they do create reality, they don’t understand their own creation and they certainly don’t understand that after they’ve created it, they can’t control it anymore.

When we overthrew democracy in Iran, we created our own reality, that of an Iran ruled by force not law and where ultimate power (and ultimate blame) would rest on the United States and not the Iranians; that led to the backlash of the Islamic revolution and the cold war between us and them that’s hung over the Gulf ever since. When we backed the creation of Israel, we created our own reality by demonstrating to the Arabs that all our talk of human rights and national sovereignty were a bunch of bullshit and that they had to oppose us by force. When we invaded Iraq, we created the reality of an Iraq without Saddam, but we also created a reality in which acquiring nuclear weapons became not just desired but imperative for hostile countries wanting to stay independent (like Syria or Iran).

If you’re going to create your own reality, you need a reality-based community to tell you what the world out there is really like and what will happen if your actions change it. Otherwise, you’re exposing yourself to unexpected backlash after unexpected backlash and worse, you don’t even know they’re coming which means you can’t protect yourself until it’s far too late. The country could use a little more people whose base their thinking on reality as they observe it, and a little less sorcerer’s apprentices fucking things up with creations they can’t control or even understand.

Alas, the current generation has already set a torch to the drapes. The house is burning.

Nah. That’s just the mews. Y’know, the little people. The wealthy have no compunction about burning them (us) out periodically. Quite the opposite, really. It lets them know their place.

Heh. The dog ate my homework.

The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them.

Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff

Damn Messican aliens…

he problem people like Rove don’t understand (or don’t say out loud because it throws a wrench in their plans) is that while they do create reality, they don’t understand their own creation and they certainly don’t understand that after they’ve created it, they can’t control it anymore.

I don’t think that matters. As long as the entire media is captured (or fearful of being called “liberal”, which amounts to the same thing), they have access to a a memory hole better than anything Orwell ever imagined.

Thus, there were no terrorist attacks while Bush was the president. Bush inherited a recession. Obama is the most left-wing president the US has ever had. Obama’s monthly deficit is greater than the Republicans’ annual deficit. Republicans are for fiscal conservatism and budget surpluses. We never said we were invading Iraq because of WMD. It’s OK to torture, as long as you only torture bad people. Tax cuts for the rich stimulate the economy.

And so nauseatingly on.

Xecky Gilchrist–
That was “an unnamed aide to George W. Bush” as quoted by Ron Suskind.

But, yeah, the point still stands, as Chris so eloquently put it: “[W]hile they do create reality, they don’t understand their own creation.”

P.S. The funny is why I love this blog — actor, rotten zombie, PeeJ, et alia, crack me up every single time I visit.

But it’s the posts like those by Chris, Lurking Canadian, and about 99% of what Jennifer writes that keeps me coming back.

::hearty round of applause::

I’m not sure if it helped anything. But it sure felt good.

Congratulations, you’ve officially become a cranky old man. It’s cool, I do it all the time.

*Ibid.

“Congratulations, you’ve officially become a cranky old man. It’s cool, I do it all the time.”

Why so serious?

nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

Event planning FAIL. You have to request it. Duh.

“Why are the Democrats complaining about Republican obstructionism when they control the White House, the House and have 59 senate votes?”

Democratic Congressfarts and Senators aren’t complaining at all about Republic obstuctionism, for most the part, because they love it! It gives them cover for their own venality in accepting corporate bribes & lolly to vote against what their constituents want.

Democratic voters, OTOH, are complaining because there is only one party in operation at this time: the party of No! By that I mean that the two branches of the one political party both just say NO!! emphatically NOT to whatever us peons *think* we want.

The Plutocracy is very well pleased, indeed.

nor was there an American flag in the convention hall.

Are they worried the audience is so dim they might forget what country they are in?

Freedom Coffee

Hmm, that’s curious… which do you suppose it is?

a) not actually grown in America, or
b) from the exotic foreign land of Obama’s birth, aka Hawaii?

Lest anyone forget, Neville Chamberlain was a conservative, Phillipe Petain was another (as well as a war hero), and so were the Republicans preaching isolationism here in America. And most of the collaborators and sympathizers collaborated and sympathized not because they were weak-kneed peaceniks and politicians, but because they shared the Nazi prejudices against socialists, liberals, unions, intellectuals and unpatriotic minorities (plus the unfiltered terror of communism).

QFT. Which is not to say that conservatards aren’t wusses, as well.

How could peaceniks be weak-kneed when they endured unlawful detainments, beatings, and legal prison sentences for their convictions?

Bullshit walks, etc, u.s.w.

i’m pretty happy with how things are going. gonna go out tonight and have a big steak, smoke a cigar, drive my suv home. i know how much all those things piss you looney libs off rofl.

my neighbor’s daughter got pretty sick last week and you know what? she’s getting the best medical attention in the world right here in the u.s. of a. life is sweet. and our health care isn’t going to change very much because obama has heard us loud and clear.

i’ll still vote for the good guys next time around but obama has really won me over lately. he knows how to be a good boy. he’s one of the ones who really gets it, i think.

That’s cute, Troofy. So anyway, I recently came into some unexpected money (royalty payments, and “came into” in the sense of receiving, not of jizzing all over a big pile of money, by the way) so for every comment you post, fifty dollars goes to the ACLU. If Rabbi Saul shows up, that’s fifty for ACORN. If you keep busy, I might not even be able to afford Streisand tickets.

doctorb, I think you oughta jizz all over some of it anyway, and send that on to Michael Steele with a note explaining the stains.

“came into” in the sense of receiving, not of jizzing all over a big pile of money

Welp, there goes any interest in your newsletter.

God’s Own Johnson: Hey everybody, the President is a ni(BONG, BONG)

Howard Johnson: What did he say?

Robert Johnson: He said the President is near.

God’s Own Johnson: No, Dagnabbit! I said the PRESIDENT is A NI(BONG, BONG)

Also: libs!

gonna go out tonight and have a big steak, smoke a cigar, drive my suv home. i know how much all those things piss you looney libs off rofl.

See, where does this form of self-obsession come from? This must be handed out in the membership pamphlet for Wingnuts, they all get around to mentioning it at some point. What pathetic, needy souls they are, with this craving for attention – “hey, libs, lookit how my personal behavior is pissing you off! Lookit me! Loookiit me!!”

Funny thing is, they’re the ones who fill columns with writing about the personal behavior of supposed liberals or other targets for their bigotry that pisses them off, so I suppose it’s a bit of classic projection.

Note to Twoofy – as much as you would really really really wish it to be true, your personal behavior doesn’t impact me in the least. Have at it – smoke a box of cigars, and pump your tank full of high-test. Oh, and leave your lights and heat on when you leave your house too.

it does in fact, affect my feelings to think of all that money you’re wasting. it makes me smile.

gonna go out tonight and have a big steak, smoke a cigar, drive my suv home

sounds good. Have a nice time. tip your waiter.

Enjoy the safe, well regulated restaurant, the public roads, and the subsidized tobacco.

I’m just here to say a bunch of incredibly stupid shit, because I know from abundant prior experience that some of you lack the self-control required not to waste your precious time wrestling with a troll, even when you already know you’re making his day by doing so.

ADDRESS MY BIG HARD THROBBING POST, LIBS!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!!!!

they seem to think that if they sack up and roll over their opponents, their opponents will say mean thing about them and that, coupled with angering their corporate sponsors, will keep them from getting re-elected.

Please note that the system in place is a revolving-door/demonic carousel between political & corporate dungeons, so those corporations they’re giving blumpkins to aren’t just sponsors – they’re potential employers … & thus Congresscritters are in a situation where one’s “opponent” of today can quite easily become one’s potential job-reference (or divisional-supervisor) of tomorrow.

They’ve got a lot more in mind than re-election.

Voters come & go, & so do Senate seats … but cronies are forever.

Funny thing is, they’re the ones who fill columns with writing about the personal behavior of supposed liberals or other targets for their bigotry that pisses them off, so I suppose it’s a bit of classic projection.

Hee hee, as if people are gay, poor, or get abortions just to annoy them.

If you really have epilepsy, you’d better get a damn extension that blocks blink tags installed. This is basic common sense. It’s not Brad’s job to safety-proof YOUR browser for YOUR condition.

I really don’t care if it makes the troll’s day. I enjoy talking to trolls. It’s like yelling back at the asshole on the radio/TV except he can actually hear you. Anyway, people who simply drive an SUV don’t upset me that much — it’s the people who sit in their SUV idling the engine for hours and hours, even though they’re not actually driving anywhere, and are in fact in an enclosed garage that really get this liberal all upset.

Cigar smoking, though, now that upsets me. For reference, other things that upset me as much as cigar smoking are:

cigarette smoking
pipe smoking
chaw/dip (flavored or not)
working with asbestos without safety gear
eating acrylamide
eating the mold off of improperly dried peanuts
frequently exposing yourself to radiation, formaldehyde
and
Russian roulette

gonna go out tonight and have a big steak, smoke a cigar, drive my suv home. i know how much all those things piss you looney libs off rofl.

Really?

Cuz, I smuggle Habanos by the boxfull for my own personal enjoyment, as well as for hijacking the wallets of friends.

Now, the SUV…well, see, I don’t have penile inadequacy issues, and yours doesn’t piss me off. I know you’re paying three times as much for gas as I am, which means your paying three times the gas taxes I do.

A true conservative would own a Prius.

They are not losers. They are winners. They take the money, They keep the good job. We, some of us anyway, vote for them. They win. Side A equals Side B. We are the losers.