my money’s on Rand Paul to be the first newly minted teabagislator to get caught up in a dead hooker scandal.

He was only stomping her head because she asked him to.

He was only stomping her head because she Aqua Budda asked him to.

…Fixed?

Meanwhile, my money’s on Rand Paul to be the first newly minted teabagislator to get caught up in a dead hooker scandal.

Boy or girl?

Boy or girl?

Both.

Just heard NPR clip from Kirk in Illinois gloating that the seat formerly held by President Obama is now “back in the hands of the American people.”

These fuckers are going to overreach, you watch.

Yesterday the Age of Enlightenment took three steps backward in America.

Lovely.

Carry on.

I’ll gladly give credit if the teabaggers somehow manage to provably steer the economy back in the right direction faster than the current DC set is doing. But I’m not exactly scouring the Internet for crow recipes just yet.

Both.

Fucking libertarian teatards. Don’t they realize how hard it is to find a good ladyboy hook..uh… nevermind.

I, too, was listening to NPR this morning, also, too, and there was discussion of how the U.S. has been swinging back and forth majorly between parties over the last several years. It’s true, and it disturbs me. It shows that people see government as being ineffective in addressing their problems and that neither party is doing a satisfactory job. That, you know, breeds radicalism.

Rand Paul and sex?

DA! HOW COULD YOU SO EARLY IN THE MORNING!?!?!?!?!?

That, you know, breeds radicalism.

You make this sound like a bad thing…

That, you know, breeds radicalism.

As we’ve seen the last few months, no offense.

These fuckers are going to overreach, you watch.

Wait…there’s more?

You make this sound like a bad thing…

It is when it’s right-wing radicalism, which is usually what springs up in the failure of the state.

As we’ve seen the last few months, no offense.

Well, yes, central to my point and etc etc etc.

Also too, kudos DA for the word-smithery. Last sentence of the post has got to be the best use of the word “first” since someone used it as the initial comment on an EPIC THREAD.

OT – Through the looking glass here people.

Dragon – was that the one that began, ‘First they came for the Congressional page-harassing creeps, and I did not speak out because I was not Mark Foley …’

It is when it’s right-wing radicalism, which is usually what springs up in the failure of the state.

Yes, but it also lays the groundwork for leftwing radicalist responses, as we saw in the 60s after the Goldwater debacle.

I, too, was listening to NPR this morning, also, too, and there was discussion of how the U.S. has been swinging back and forth majorly between parties over the last several years

The pendulum swings further each time, too. I never expected Obama to win North Carolina, nor teabaggers to win seats in New England, but there are less and less safe seats in each election cycle.

It is when it’s right-wing radicalism, which is usually what springs up in the failure of the state.

This.

OT – Through the looking glass here people.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up huffing glue…

teabaggers to win seats in New England

New Hampshire’s always been a bastion of rightwing kooks. That whole “Live Free or Die” is taken awfully serious. They really do love themselves some red meat libertarianism. I hope Ayotte knows what she’s in for.

I was a dissenting voice.

September the 11th, 2001, in the afternoon

Rumsfeld in the White House basement: There aren’t any good targets in Afghanistan. We got great ones in Iraq!

Cheney from his secure location: Destruction, terror, and mayhem!

Bush from somewhere in Nebraska: Hang on, maybe we should wait just a little.

I was a dissenting voice.

By the way, how ineffectual does this make Bush look?

You’re the President of the United States, and you’re a *voice*?

“No one was more sickened or angry than I was when we didn’t find weapons of mass destruction.”

Yah right.

Clearly, Obama used the Presidential time machine to invade Iraq in 2003, leaving Bush dumbfounded as to how the US had wound up in another war when Afghanistan was still a mess.

I wonder what happened to “I’m THE DECIDER!”

Better moment from the interview, and finally, Matt Lauer shows some balls to a Republican:

MATT LAUER:
This from the book. “Five years later I can barely write those words [ed. note Kanye West sayng “Bush doesn’t care about black people” during the Katrina telethon] without feeling disgust.” You go on. “I faced a lot of criticism as President. I didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all time low.”

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
Yeah. I still feel that way as you read those words. I felt ’em when I heard ’em, felt ’em when I wrote ’em and I felt ’em when I’m listening to ’em.

MATT LAUER:
You say you told Laura at the time it was the worst moment of your Presidency?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
Yes. My record was strong I felt when it came to race relations and giving people a chance. And– it was a disgusting moment.

MATT LAUER:
I wonder if some people are going to read that, now that you’ve written it, and they might give you some heat for that. And the reason is this–

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
Don’t care.

MATT LAUER:
Well, here’s the reason. You’re not saying that the worst moment in you’re Presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You’re saying it was when someone insulted you because of that.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
No — that– and I also make it clear that the misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well. There’s a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple.

Actually, “dumbfounded” is kind of Bush’s normal state.

The press release that was lifted from is here. Sorry for missing that.

Once again, thank you. Given that the teabaggers make him look almost rational, I need things like this to remind me what a piece of worthless shit George Bush really was.

“I was a dissenting voice. I didn’t want to use force,” Bush said. “I mean force is the last option for a President. And I think it’s clear in the book that I gave diplomacy every chance to work.

As I recall, you demanded they allow the inspectors back in. They did. The inspectors didn’t find anything. You then claimed he must be hiding it (funny how conspiracy theories justify themselves, isn’t it?) and invaded anyway. All within a span of about six months.

You’re lying, George. Hardly a first for you.

And I will also tell you the world’s better off without Saddam in power. And so are 25 million Iraqis.”

There are over a million Iraqis who might take issue with the notion that it was worth it, if they were still alive to take issue with anything.

There are over a million Iraqis who might take issue with the notion that it was worth it, if they were still alive to take issue with anything.

Well, to be fair to Bush, in his view “dead” is probably better than “under Saddam’s rule”.

You’re not saying that the worst moment in you’re Presidency was watching the misery in Louisiana. You’re saying it was when someone insulted you because of that.

What was that thing, you know, that weird thing that happened in September of 2001? I forgot. But Kanye West was mean to me….!

Man….either Jonah’s hiding behind the couch or one my dogs has a case of the ass…cuz it stinks in here.

George W. Bush is an epic douche. The biggest douche of them all. EVER.

Thread Derailment Accomplished*.

*Your mom likes my codpiece.

Also, the worst moment in Pol Pot’s presidency was when DMC said he didn’t care about bespectacled people.

Funny that Jonah should come up…I posted a video that features him in a cameo role over at my joint last night.

It still hurts.

It still hurts.

Don’t rub. Be a man, walk it off.

Sadly enough, it’s actually *less* depressing for me to think about what an epic douche George W. Bush is than to think about the election results…

Also, the worst moment in Pol Pot’s presidency was when DMC said he didn’t care about bespectacled people.

Stalin’s worst moment was when MC Hammer spoke out against the tyranny of the brushtache.

Don’t rub. Be a man, walk jerk it off.

Fixed!

Just imagine those sleepless nights when Bush was racking his brains, trying to work out if there was something more he could have done, some way he could have prevented the invasion of Iraq.

Just imagine those sleepless nights when Bush

Passed out from the drink?

He was praying. Face down on the carpet, a position cavorted by evangelical drunks.

If you want to quit your job with a bang, this is how you do it!

He was praying. Face down on the carpet, a position cavorted by evangelical drunks.

Was Laura holding his hair back?

Don’t feel too bad… the board was set with Gore giving up the fight and Bush II getting sworn in. A few Supreme Court justices, a gross reallocation of wealth and two unendable wars later, we pretty had nowhere to go. The campaign finance decision closed Big Money’s lock on the country.

At least watching the clowns in office will be an entertaining distraction from the collapse of the empire and maybe the global biosphere.

I just thank god I’m white and male. I’m not sure what the rest of you are going to do though.

Passed out from the drink?

Actor212, you judgmental liberal elitist! Drinking and passing out are acts. People are saved through faith not acts. Thus, this act is irrelevant.

The campaign finance decision closed Big Money’s lock on the country.

History shows us that the collapse of the middle class in any society presages the collapse of that society.

Once all you’re left with is the rich and the poor, better get out of the way.

At least watching the clowns in office will be an entertaining distraction from the collapse of the empire and maybe the global biosphere.

Yeah, I mean, today was just a nice little reminder that we’re circling the bowl.

That was meant to be “favoured” rather than “cavorted.” If I mean “cavorted” I will type “cavorted,” you stupid spellchecker.

At least watching the clowns in office will be an entertaining distraction from the collapse of the empire and maybe the global biosphere.

For one terrifying moment I thought you said “blogosphere.”

Drinking and passing out are acts. People are saved through faith not acts. Thus, this act is irrelevant.

So when Laura murdered, I mean, accidentally ran over her ex-boyfriend a couple of times way back in the 60s, she was in good faith?

Animus? Is that you, Poopy???

In seriousness, one could wonder (if one didn’t already know they were full of shit) why so many conservative evangelicals are so concerned with politics, if this world really is as depraved and beyond saving as they say it is and the only thing that matters is the next life.

For one terrifying moment I thought you said “blogosphere.”

I’d be cool with that. Blogosphere is them. We’re blogtopia, according to Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo.

I just thank god I’m white and male. I’m not sure what the rest of you are going to do though.

If the ChiComs replace us at the top of the food chain, I’m not sure what the rest of us (white males) are going to do either, brah.

Obviously, you want to provoke war, in order to prevent it.

Once all you’re left with is the rich and the poor, better get out of the way.

Tru dat. I’m guessing that when there is essentially no wealth in the US left to take, they will move on to India.

In seriousness, one could wonder (if one didn’t already know they were full of shit) why so many conservative evangelicals are so concerned with politics

Because Reagan asked them onboard to his coalition in order to get his creepy ass elected. Once they realized there was power to be had and money to be grifted….well…

Actor, who’re you thinking of when you say “history shows?”

I know history shows middle class societies are the only ones where stable democracies grow… I just can’t remember a case (though I’m sure they’re there) of a country with a strong middle class losing it and then going down the tubes.

If the ChiComs replace us at the top of the food chain, I’m not sure what the rest of us (white males) are going to do either, brah.

????????????

In seriousness, one could wonder (if one didn’t already know they were full of shit) why so many conservative evangelicals are so concerned with politics, if this world really is as depraved and beyond saving as they say it is and the only thing that matters is the next life.
The only time I really think the world is depraved beyond saving is the fact that it produces people who say the world is depraved beyond saving. And then I remember that it is only individual whackos who are depraved beyond saving. Or maybe our current civilisation. But the world is pretty nice, especially once you get past all of the depravity.

For one terrifying moment I thought you said “blogosphere.”

ROFL! No, my dear, for as long as there are masturbation references to be veiled and conservatives writing to make Trig look smarter, there will be a rich and vibrant blogosphere!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, that’s supposed to read “I don’t know about you, but I’m learning Mandarin” in glyphs

A mainstream media that filters everything through the prism of the rightwing narrative, combined with an unabashed Republican propaganda network(Fox) played a major role in last night’s results. It’s not the sole factor however:
http://wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/elec-n03.shtml

Obviously, you want to provoke war, in order to prevent it.

Still not the most over the top I’ve seen. During the Cold War, the CIA apparently once considered painting a transport plane with Soviet markings, loading it with pigs and dropping them all over Mecca in the middle of the Hajj. The plan was ultimately scrapped, presumably because it would have looked just a little obvious…

In seriousness; he realizes this is exactly how the invasion of Poland kicked off, right? Phony border incident in which the weaker nation struck first?

George W. Bush is an epic douche. The biggest douche of them all. EVER. – T&U

See! I told y’all I was the best at something. Y’all see. Ah’m from Texas. And in Texas, everything is biggerer … so I ain’t just a frat-boy douche. I’m the biggest douche of them all.

Boo-yah, puny DLC douches. You ain’t never gonna match my good ol’ Republican douchitude. Go GOP! Go Texas! Go ‘Murka!

BTW — how am I postin’ comments too quickly? This is my first comment of the day. Wow! Even I’m smarter than WordPress.

The only time I really think the world is depraved beyond saving is the fact that it produces people who say the world is depraved beyond saving. And then I remember that it is only individual whackos who are depraved beyond saving. Or maybe our current civilisation. But the world is pretty nice, especially once you get past all of the depravity.

As an unlikely Disney movie put it, “you always told me the world out there was cold and cruel, but now I see the only thing cold and cruel about it is people like you.”

That quote comes to mind a lot when you’re around conservatives.

In seriousness; he realizes this is exactly how the invasion of Poland kicked off, right? Phony border incident in which the weaker nation struck first?

It was also the plot device in “Wag The Dog” if he couldn’t be arsed to read a history book.

That was meant to be “favoured” rather than “cavorted.”

Hey, a lot of people make that cunnilingus.

What the hell? Dd I write “cunnilingus?” That was meant to be “mistake!”

As an unlikely Disney movie put it, “you always told me the world out there was cold and cruel, but now I see the only thing cold and cruel about it is people like you.”

Yea but he says it while getting butt-reamed in the bell tower.

What the hell? Dd I write “cunnilingus?” That was meant to be “mistake!”

Damn autocorrect.

Cunnilingus is rarely a mistake.

What the hell? Dd I write “cunnilingus?” That was meant to be “mistake!”

Damn autocorrect.

Autotune is of more help with cunnilingus.

What the hell? Dd I write “cunnilingus?” That was meant to be “mistake!”

Damn autocorrect.

I’ll keep this in mind if I ever get the chance to mistake you for someone else.

Autotune is of more help with cunnilingus.

Especially if Phil Rizzuto is calling the game.

“Two down, no score, bottom of the ninth…”

So starting January 2, can we start harassing the Republicans about job creation?

So starting January 2, can we start harassing the Republicans about job creation?

That’s OBAMA’S fault.

That’s OBAMA’S fault.

Well…

So starting January 2, can we start harassing the Republicans about job creation?
Oh, no you don’t. Waiting for January 2 is for chumps and losers. We start harassing now!

America: it was a fun ride while it lasted

We start harassing now!

YAY!

Now, where’s Troofie?

Now, where’s Troofie?

Surprisingly subdued, isn’t he? Aside from a couple appearances last night after which he went away awfully quick… What was he expecting, more?

Surprisingly subdued, isn’t he?

He had to cover the breakfast shift at Denny’s. His boss had to get a gay abortion.

What was he expecting, more?
he was expecting more sadness, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and dressing in sackcloth and ashes. Our expressions of ‘damn, this sucks’ aren’t schadenfredelicous enough for him.

Surprisingly subdued, isn’t he?

He’s still masturbating.

he was expecting more sadness, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and dressing in sackcloth and ashes.

Oh, the pain! The pain! The agony! Oh, woe is me! The (corporatist) Democrats lost control of the (minor) House of Congress! Oh whatever shall I do to ease my pain? Is this a dagger before me?

Oh. No. It’s the TV remote. I wonder who’s on Oprah?

What was he expecting, more?

Why not? God was behind a whole bunch of those teabagger candidates, like a couple of the ones who lost lost lost.

Why not? God was behind a whole bunch of those teabagger candidates, like a couple of the ones who lost lost lost.

I don’t think Christine O’Donnell likes it doggy-style.

I don’t think Christine O’Donnell likes it doggy-style.

Maybe not from you!

I don’t think Christine O’Donnell likes it doggy-style.

Y’know, I had *just* gotten my mind free of that Gawker article…

So starting January 2, can we start harassing the Republicans about job creation?

Why wait until Jan 2, 2011? Limbaugh and co. didn’t hesitate to label our current ecomonic woes “the Obama Recession” right after November 4, 2010.

Say it with me: Where are the fucking jobs, Boehner?

I have one word to say about the election results, and I’m saying it over and over like one of them prayin’ mantra things. And the word is:
MEG MEG MEG MEG MEG MEG MEG MEG MEG
But that’s just ‘cos I’m a dirty hippie who lives in California

Attention all you “poor” people out there!

Trooffully, you’re really rich!

You no longer exist

Where are the fucking jobs, Boehner?

I wonder if his website accepts comments?

His blog does!

Frankly ever since Christine O’Donnell stated “I’m you”, I have been kinda upset that I didn’t win the open U.S. senate seat in Delaware yesterday.

Attention all you “poor” people out there!

You no longer exist

Hasn’t even been elected a day and already reneged on his fiscal responsibility promise. That didn’t take long.

Where, indeed, are the fucking jobs, Boehner?

Say it with me; I hope he fails!

Why can’t we make getting a passing grade in history, statistics, micro and macro economics, civics and law a prerequisite for elected office in this country?

Hasn’t even been elected a day and already reneged on his fiscal responsibility promise. That didn’t take long.

I’d argue that he has, in that he’s magically made the need for government in the economy disappear! Now we can be fiscally responsible to the rich!

Where are the fucking jobs, Boehner?

Upon further reflection, the above question works better as:

Where are the fucking jobs, you Boehner?

Why can’t we make getting a passing grade in history, statistics, micro and macro economics, civics and law a prerequisite for elected office in this country?

Because it makes Alvin Greene sad.

Rand Paul: Asked if he would end the $830 billion, unpaid-for Bush tax cuts to the rich and return tax rates for the wealthiest bracket to Clinton-era levels, Paul snapped and said such a move would cause a “second great depression” and declared that “anybody who proposes such a policy really is, I think, unfit to be making decisions.”

His daddy needs to take him out behind the woodshed and teach him a thing or two about paying for the shit you buy.

Fucking reality, how does it work?

Why can’t we make getting a passing grade in history, statistics, micro and macro economics, civics and law a prerequisite for elected office in this country?

It would also eliminate the one Palin who could actually win office: Trigg.

Oh, the pain! The pain! The agony! Oh, woe is me! The (corporatist) Democrats lost control of the (minor) House of Congress!

As I said several weeks ago, this won’t really change anything. Before, nothing could get done because of Republican obstructionism. Now, nothing can get done because of divided government. Even if the Dems had held the house, nothing would get done.

The only difference is that Moron Americans will get to see how ridiculous the people they just voted for are in action (or inaction as will be the case). Meanwhile, all the folks who sat on their hands will get to enjoy 2 years of endless, pointless investigations into nothing, probably with a vote for impeachment thrown in, and just for shits-n-grins, possibly a government shutdown and/or default on the debt, which will do wonders for the shitty economy they were so pissed off about that convinced them to stay home or go to the polls and vote for crazy irresponsible people.

The end result: an economy just as bad as it is now, if not worse, and voter anger finally directed at those responsible two years from now, with the “I’m so disappointed I didn’t get my pony so I’m not voting” contigent chiming in as well, and as big a turnover or bigger than what we saw yesterday.

In short, things aren’t going to get better for the next two years, but they weren’t going to anyway, and now they may get worse. Thanks, Moron America! Your just rewards are in the mail.

Thanks, Moron America! Your just rewards are in the mail.

Oh boy, a check for a brazilian dollars!

His daddy needs to take him out behind the woodshed and teach him a thing or two about paying for the shit you buy.

Didn’t Daddy read to him that bit from The Fountainhead about everything being an equal exchange?

Oh boy, a check for a brazilian dollars!

I was gonna send them POOP, but I guess that works, too.

In short, things aren’t going to get better for the next two years, but they weren’t going to anyway, and now they may get worse.

but but but Tea Party! Liberty! Revolution! WOLVERINES in a tricorner hat!!!

Say it with me; I hope he fails!

Can John Boehner succeed?

HELL NO HE CAN’T!!!

Didn’t Daddy read to him that bit from The Fountainhead about everything being an equal exchange?

I swear to God, what I’m about to say is true.

I have a friend who’s a fairly big Wall Street investment star…you know, on the hot list of CNBC interviewees, best selling author, occasionally gets lucky and picks the right stock….and she quoted “Atlas Shrugged” to me to defend a real-world economic point (I think it was about job creation) and asked me if I’d ever read it.

Being the wiseass that I am, I pointed out that, like comic books, I read it in high school and like comics books, I outgrew it.

WOLVERINES in a tricorner hat!!!

Actually, dancing badgers in tricorner hats would make one helluva graphic for S,N!

In seriousness, one could wonder (if one didn’t already know they were full of shit) why so many conservative evangelicals are so concerned with politics, if this world really is as depraved and beyond saving as they say it is and the only thing that matters is the next life.

From a different perspective, I wondered about this also, surely if your a god botherer then are you not interfering with his divine intentions…. i.e you are questioning god by getting involved in politics?

Actually, dancing badgers in tricorner hats would make one helluva graphic for S,N!

Tea Badger script!

Mat said,

Yesterday the Age of Enlightenment took three steps backward in America.

I, for one, welcome our new Medieval-American overlords.

Rand Paul: Asked if he would end the $830 billion, unpaid-for Bush tax cuts to the rich and return tax rates for the wealthiest bracket to Clinton-era levels, Paul snapped and said such a move would cause a “second great depression” and declared that “anybody who proposes such a policy really is, I think, unfit to be making decisions.”

this is what has changed in the last 10 years, nutters getting airtime, saying shit like this & not getting fucken pulled up on it by the so called liberal MSM…

Asked if he would end the $830 billion, unpaid-for Bush tax cuts to the rich and return tax rates for the wealthiest bracket to Clinton-era levels, Paul snapped and said such a move would cause a “second great depression”

Weren’t the Nineties a) a time of great economic growth and b) run by Congressional Republicans including his dad?

Why did I read this story? Why? WHY?

Oops. Wrong Link. Sorry

Why did I read this story? Why? WHY?

That’s like the “Here, smell this!” of linkage. No thanks.

Hee hee. Miss Bone indeed.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:
Don’t care.

Well that about sums it up.

Somebody wrote an article about D-KW’s mom?

Laugh it up Whale Chowder. You’re just bitter that even the loose and swinging Miss Bone won’t throw a leg over you. Maybe if you worked on that beer gut.

Somebody wrote an article about D-KW’s mom?

No.

This woman said 200 men, but DKW’s mom does that standing on her head.

This woman said 200 men, but DKW’s mom does that standing on her head.

Oh, I misread. I thought the article was about last night.

Oh, I misread. I thought the article was about last night.

Y’know, it could have…let me check.

No. No. Can’t be DKW’s mom. You can see only one chin.

I woke up this morning and Tom Tancredo was NOT my governor. Happy days and Good times!

I woke up this morning and Tom Tancredo was NOT my governor. Happy days and Good times!

What I really want to know is, did that Government Department For UFOs Act thingy get passed?

Damn, New Yorkers are rude.

Nice one guys. An article about a super slutty granny that just loves doin’ it, and you have to dirty it up with mom jokes. I understand that you’re upset about her being out of your class – that despite her obviously low standards the two of you both fall incredibly short*, still that’s no reason not to celebrate Miss Bone’s incredible promiscuity.

Miss Bone, I raise a glass to you. I’ll also raise something else, just as soon as I’m done having dirty Teletubbies sex with Whale Chowder’s mom.

*VPR

What I really want to know is, did that Government Department For UFOs Act thingy get passed?

No

Damn, New Yorkers are rude.

Huh? What did I do????

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Shift-in-Washington-Stirs-nytimes-1172040071.html?x=0

I wondered when this might start.

Fact is, the rest of the world isn’t constrained by the ideologies of exceptional America. They’re seeing the economic crisis for what it is – the failure of the American economic model – and now they’re seeing a people stubbornly digging in their heels, refusing to admit there’s a problem with the system, and swearing to all who’ll listen that things need to be exactly the way they were, only more so.

So, I’m half-expecting a lot of countries to start quietly looking around for new partners and new economic models, rather than tie themselves to a sinking ship. And the more the teabaggers win, the likelier that is to happen.

What I really want to know is, did that Government Department For UFOs Act thingy get passed?

No

FRAKK IT!!!

*string of Chinese swear words

Huh? What did I do????

It wasn’t you. This time.

I just had to call a bunch of them. You guys don’t believe in stuff like saying “thanks” or “bye” to strangers on the phone, do you?

You guys don’t believe in stuff like saying “thanks” or “bye” to strangers on the phone, do you?

Depends on who you call.

Say, did Carly! concede yet?

Carly is so yesterday.

Oh boy, a check for a brazilian dollars!

But what are you going to do with all those pictures of bald Washington?

…cause see, Tea Badgers sounds like Tea Baggers…

…heh.

*harumph*

I’ll go quietly, Officer.

I woke up this morning and Tom Tancredo was NOT my governor.

Unfortunately I woke up this morning and John Kasich was mine.

He seems to have gotten nuttier since his days as a (relatively) moderate GOP congressman.

I woke up this morning and Tom Tancredo was NOT my governor.

Unfortunately I woke up this morning and John Kasich was mine.

If it’s really too much, I suggest DC. The Statehood Green Party’s actually gotten more votes than the Republican Party a couple times in the past.

If it’s really too much, I suggest moving to DC

Fixxed.

…cause see, Tea Badgers sounds like Tea Baggers…

Y’know, I didnt notice that until just now…

So, I’m half-expecting a lot of countries to start quietly looking around for new partners and new economic models, rather than tie themselves to a sinking ship. And the more the teabaggers win, the likelier that is to happen.

Oh, totally. We must look like insane morons.

Depends on who you call.

Psychiatrists on behalf of a friend?

Sam Brownback is Kansas’ governor. That’s fucking nutballs, even for Kansas.

You know, Carlyfornia’s always a little bit different – right?
So here in Carlyfornia, here’s where we are. 97.1% of the vote has been counted – 97.1% and we are in a dead heat <sotto voce>if you give me 700,000 more votes;/sotto voce> tie. And so the facts are, it is too close to call, the facts are it’s going to be a long night week and we’re going to be watching returns all night week. BUT all of those people who have already declared this race… maybe that was probably not a smart thing to do. [wait for applause to die down]

Good news for John McCain!

Psychiatrists on behalf of a friend?

Oh. Well, psychiatrists are assholes, full stop. They don’t have to be from NYC

Oh. Well, psychiatrists are assholes, full stop. They don’t have to be from NYC

This is true.

97.1% and we are in a dead heat

She’s seriously suggesting that, in an election where 97.1% of the vote equals 7 million votes, that somehow in the last 2.9%, even if every vote was hers, she’d make up 10% of that vote total and win????

Hey there, my hippie friends! Was Nov 2 a great day or what!? Sadly, hippies in California will still have to complain of a headache or something to smoke their weed legally. And almost as sadly, Frank and Reid kept their jobs. But other than that, everything is wonderful!

Hope you guys had as much fun as I did.

Uh no, it was 36% at the time of concession, but “dead heat tie” at the time was something like a 10 point gap. It’s just 97.1% now.

I meant of the raw vote total, not the percentage won.

There are roughly 7 million votes. She needs 700,000 to catch up. That’s ten percent.

Which might make sense if only 90% of the votes had been counted, but even mathematically speaking, there is no way in the universe she could make up 700,000 with only three percent not reporting yet.

I’m guessing this is the manner in which she ran HP, and what got her drummed out.

Was Nov 2 a great day or what!?

The weather was kind of nice, yes.

I’m guessing this is the manner in which she ran HP, and what got her drummed out.

She should have worked for Goldman Sachs instead.

Hey there, my hippie friends!

Finally, the gloaters have arrived.

Welcome, Kevin. I think you’ll find the residents here friendly and helpful, so long as you don’t act like a giant fuckbag.

So far, you are not off to a good start.

Paul: Well, the thing is, we’re all interconnected. There are no rich. There are no middle class. There are no poor. We all are interconnected in the economy.

Fucking Socialists!!! He really pulled the wool over the tea partiers eyes didn’t he.

But other than that, everything is wonderful!

In my district, every candidate I voted for won (AG still in contest) and all but 3 ballot measures went my way.

She should have worked for Goldman Sachs instead.

She’d be President if she had. If there’s ever been an industry that rewards failiong upward, and a company that most epitomizes that philosophy, it’s Goldman.

Don’t you think that the first people to be affected by the teabagging legislators are going to be the ones in their own districts and states?

I woke up this morning and Tom Tancredo was NOT my governor.

Unfortunately I woke up this morning and John Kasich was mine

Last night, Susana Martinez was elected to be my governor.

If there has to be a GOP governor in New Mexico, why can’t it be of the pro-pot legalization persuasion like the last one?

We all are interconnected in the economy.

I can haz my share of the McMahon family fortune now, plz.

Don’t you think that the first people to be affected by the teabagging legislators are going to be the ones in their own districts and states?

How do you figure?

She’d be President if she had. If there’s ever been an industry that rewards failiong upward, and a company that most epitomizes that philosophy, it’s Goldman.

Mah point. You maded it.

I can haz my share of the McMahon family fortune now, plz.

Uh, well there’s been a wee bit of shrinkage*.

*VPR, steroids will do that to you.

Don’t you think that the first people to be affected by the teabagging legislators are going to be the ones in their own districts and states?

Probably. Those dumbshits likely have no idea how much government actually, like, does?

Oh, and we have this that just passed, which is thoroughly dumb.

Ed McMahon took steroids?

Ed McMahon took steroids?

You think checks that size happen naturally?

Uh, well there’s been a wee bit of shrinkage*.

She spent her 2009 bonus on the election.

No. Really. That’s what the McMahon family took in as a bonus from the wrestling biz last year.

You think checks that size happen naturally?

Well, some checks are just genetically blessed.

She spent her 2009 bonus on the election.

No. Really. That’s what the McMahon family took in as a bonus from the wrestling biz last year.

I’ve been saying for years that the fact that TV wrestling is so popular in this country shows exactly why we get such awful politicians elected. After all, a large percentage of the idiots that love them some wraslin’ also vote.

No. Really. That’s what the McMahon family took in as a bonus from the wrestling biz last year.

I hate people.

I wonder. Will Boehner take impeachment off the table or is that a tactic* that only Democratic Speakers of the House employ?

*By tactic, of course, I mean capitulation.

No. Really. That’s what the McMahon family took in as a bonus from the wrestling biz last year.

I’m all for badmouthing the McMahon’s, but I think you may be exaggerating a bit.

I’m all for badmouthing the McMahon’s, but I think you may be exaggerating a bit.

I wish I was

McMahon Family Collected $46 Million in Dividends in 2009: According to the Hartford Courant, in 2009 the McMahon family received a total of $46 million in dividends. [Harford Courant, 9/26/10]

I wonder. Will Boehner take impeachment off the table or is that a tactic* that only Democratic Speakers of the House employ?

Off the table? It’s the appetizer, all three main courses, dessert, salad, and after-the-guests-go-home blowjob.

I woke up this morn with a Teabagger for a Governor. Whee.

And they’re all in a fine froth in the local fishwrap ’cause she’s the state’s first woman Governor and the first minority Governor. WELL, YES, BUT.

It’s the appetizer, all three main courses, dessert, salad, and after-the-guests-go-home blowjob.

What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

I, for one, welcome our new Medieval-American overlords.

Me, three! It is because of how this election went I will no long try to talk sense into conservatives. They don’t care about anything but bringin’ on the fascism.

It’s the appetizer, all three main courses, dessert, salad, and after-the-guests-go-home blowjob.

What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Actor, don’t get greedy, you would be happy with some after-the-guests-go-home dry humping.

Speaking of which, will Christine O’Donnell shut up sometime soon?

I don’t understand that guy’s math. If McMahon owns a bit over half a million shares, the dividend would have to be a hundred dollars a share. That’s fucking bullshit. The stock price right now is $13.64.

Here’s a WSJ aticle complaining about the high dividend on WWE stocks. A 10% dividend is ridiculously high, but it’s also $1.44 per share. Meaning McMahon’s WWE dividend would have been in the order of $1 million.

There’s a line in that ad about the McMahon’s owning $700million in WWE stocks. Really. The market cap is $1 billion. What the fuck was the point in going public in 1999?

I going to call Shenanigans on the ad.

Furries? Cthulhu can be yours!

Speaking of which, will Christine O’Donnell shut up sometime soon?

Is this a rhetorical question?

I don’t understand that guy’s math. If McMahon owns a bit over half a million shares, the dividend would have to be a hundred dollars a share. That’s fucking bullshit. The stock price right now is $13.64.

The McMahons own class B shares, which according to the company website are worth ten shares of class A shares the public can buy. They are not counted towards the market cap, of course, since they were never traded publicly.

And yes, they pay a 10x dividend, too.

I woke up this morn with a Teabagger for a Governor

It get’s worse. Much worse.

91% have sworn to never allow an income tax increase on any individual or business – regardless of deficits or war

Hooray for years of stagnant growth and a non-existent middle-class!

Furries? Cthulhu can be yours!

I’ve actually got that one in a larger size. He brings eldritch awesomeness to my living room.

I’ve also got a completely frabjous stuffed Jabberwock.

Yes, I’ll miss having disposable income in the coming economic apocalypse…

Okay, I did a bit more digging. Holy moly, it looks like Vince really does sit on 70% of the shares (I probably shouldn;t have doubted considering his weel publicized megalomaniacal control fetish). The IPO really wasn’t about raising money. Possibly part of some kayfabe plotline or a bid for respectability or something he thought of whilst drunk (on power).

Then, at $700 million in shares and a 10% dividend, $46 million is probably a bit low. Wowzers. That’s a lotta Money In The Bank™

91% have sworn to never allow an income tax increase on any individual or business – regardless of deficits or war

It’ll be interesting to see what spending they figure on cutting. The only figure I’ve seen tossed about is $100 billion (off social programs, natch).

In a day and age of trillion dollar deficits and an economy that can best be described as inching along, it will take millions of years to trim the deficit of even that first $100 billion.

I woke up this morning to find I have a tea party senator. The tea party rejected Crist because, as governor, he did what was best for Florida rather than what was best for Republicans. Also he had the audacity to shake hands with the POTUS. I also woke up to a governor who, as a CEO, stole billions of taxpayer dollars in Medicare fraud. Which makes him a tea party hero because he showed that the government can’t do health care properly.

Is this a rhetorical question?

Those are the only ones O’Donnell answers. So…. no?

Holy shit; I just found this comment in the Krugman blog,

Those of you who consider Obama a “leftist” must be under 50 years. When I was in college, the official debate topic in 1978 was the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.” There was broad consensus in pre-Reagan America that sound economic policy included measures to ensure full employment. In the mid-1970s, union membership was at a “peak of 22.2 million workers” or well over 30% of workers; now it’s below 10%. After years of corporate outsourcing, downsizing and profit-taking under Reagan Republicans and Democrats alike, labor organizations have been decimated;the elite financial class have become obscenely rich; and the country has politically moved far to right. Indeed, now after the Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” the financial elite and corporations basically control political discourse. So, any policies that supports labor and social well-being in general, are shouted out of the room as “socialist” and “leftist.” It’s a tragic state of affairs that will impoverish everyone. No investment in social goods, like water systems, schools, hospitals, transportation, will make life impossible for everyone. Go to a Third World country where the elite don’t pay taxes and pillage the earth; that’s our future. So, do we need “leftists” who speak for the common good, the social good? You bet.

They actually debated a full employment act back in the seventies?

God Almighty, we’ve fallen so, so fucking far.

The only figure I’ve seen tossed about is $100 billion (off social programs, natch).

It’s obviously, social programs = socialism and we can’t have that.

Honestly, don’t teabaggers understan…. oh nevermind.

And yes, they pay a 10x dividend, too.

Uh, I don’t think so. Otherwise they’d just be 10 Class A shares.

The kicker is that Vince is sitting on ($13.64 a share into $700 million, carry the two) FIFTY MILLION SHARES!!11!fiftymillion!!!1

In a day and age of trillion dollar deficits and an economy that can best be described as inching along, it will take millions of years to trim the deficit of even that first $100 billion.

They assume that, like science, math can be fundamentally altered to fit their political whims.

The IPO really wasn’t about raising money

Actually, it was. You seem to be pretty knowledgable about the WWE. You might recall a joint venture with NBC called the XFL (which holds the distinction of having produced the lowest rate television show in prime time, ever). This was also the era of the worldwide expansion of the WWE theme restaurants, and the opening of the movie production arm, as well as the purchase of rivals WCW and ECW (which came cheap, because it had filed bankruptcy).

So yea, he needed cash.

the financial elite and corporations basically control political discourse

George Carlin had been saying that for years. Actually, he went further to say corporations own everything. It’s sad that comedians aren’t taken more seriously; considering they are the most honest about our problems.

DKW, you may have missed this. I can’t access the original proxy filings from work:

McMahon Owned 566,770 Shares of WWE: Since at least January 2009, Linda McMahon has owned 566,670 shares of Class B stock and 100 shares of Class A stock. [WWE Form 13D, Filed 1/9/09, WWE Form 13D, Filed 5/18/10]

· Class B Stock Votes Worth 10X Class A Stock Votes: Each share of Class B stock is worth 10 votes, while each share of Class A stock is worth one. [WWE Form S1, 8/3/99]

91% have sworn to never allow an income tax increase on any individual or business – regardless of deficits or war

I remember when they all swore they’d abide by term limits. Didn’t last long once it got inconvenient. Republican intentions only apply until someone offers them a bigger bribe.

It’s sad that comedians aren’t taken more seriously; considering they are the most honest about our problems.

Does that include Larry the Cable Guy? Or did you mean comedians only?

So yea, he needed cash.

What cash? He leveraged his stake by 50% (assuming he hasn’t bought back a shit ton of shares since 1999). Whoop de fucking dooo. Considering the encumberances you take on by going public, it seems like a totes shitty deal.

I remember when they all swore they’d abide by term limits. Didn’t last long once it got inconvenient. Republican intentions only apply until someone offers them a bigger bribe.

As long as there’s money to borrow, why bother with tax increases?

Oh, fuck it. I’m going back to bed. Forever.

They actually debated a full employment act back in the seventies?

Ford was voted out of office partly because was around 8%. 4% was considered full employment, however.

Republican intentions only apply until someone offers them a bigger bribe.

Back in high school (heavy on the high), when I ran for class president I won because I said “no new taxes”. People just really like hearing it.

DKW, you may have missed this.

I caught that. Isn’t that 10X for voting purposes only? It doesn’t say anything about dividends.

It’s sad that comedians aren’t taken more seriously; considering they are the most honest about our problems.

Which is why, P J O’Rourke aside, there are no funny Republican comedians.

(and he’s only funny when he’s not being political)

Does that include Larry the Cable Guy? Or did you mean comedians only?

Funny comedians. Sorry, should have been more specific.

painting a transport plane with Soviet markings, loading it with pigs and dropping them all over Mecca in the middle of the Hajj.

As Allah is my witness, I thought they could fly!

DKW:

July 30, 2010
STAMFORD, Conn., July 30, 2010 – World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:WWE) today declared the Company’s regular quarterly dividend of $0.36 per share on its Class A shares of common stock. As previously announced, members of the McMahon family have waived $0.12 per share of the dividends. As a result, all Class A and Class B shares owned by the McMahon family will instead receive dividends in the amount of $0.24 per share. The record date for the dividend will be September 15, 2010, and the payment date will be September 27, 2010.

Again, I can’t link to the website to provide a link. This was cached at Google.

As Allah is my witness, I thought they could fly!

It’s unfair for southern hemisphericals to be stealing northern jokes. HANDS OFF MKᴚԀ!

Ah, so Class A and Class B shares do provide the same dividend (twenty four cents that quarter if your last name is McMahon). Also, the 50% bonus waiver explains why it’s $46 million on $700 million in stock.

Wow, Vince. You are some piece of work. Linda has one share to your hundred. Anything to keep the little lady in line, right Vince? I’m sure it has nothing to do with your steroid induced shrinkage. It’s a good thing she didn’t win the Senate seat – I mean what would you do then to prove yourself the bigger man?

They actually debated a full employment act back in the seventies?

God Almighty, we’ve fallen so, so fucking far.

Amen. It’s so simultaneously inspiring and depressing to read left-wing stuff from the 70s.

I mean what would you do then to prove yourself the bigger man?
Hit her with a folding chair?

Linda has one share to your hundred.

In fairness, he did inherit the business from his dad. That’s probably an insurance policy against losing the biz in divorce.

Did anybody talk about how Oklahoma is now safe from Shania Law yet?

DKW’s mom does that standing on her head.
Is there a name for that position?

Did anybody talk about how Oklahoma is now safe from Shania Law yet?

That should make Steve Earle happy.

Did anybody talk about how Oklahoma is now safe from Shania Law yet?

In OK’s defense, it’s not like they have anything else to do… um.

Well what I want to know is this? Will the 2nd amendment enthusiasts shut up now, or do they still think Obama will try to take their precious, precious guns?

I awoke to (or should I say stayed up way too late for) two senile old white Republicans to win our Senate seat and governorship. At least neither were teabaggers or dominionists. Honestly, I don’t think the Republican candidate for governor said one word in any of his television ads. It’s like he has a degenerative neurological condition and is trying to hide it until the inauguration and then will stroke out on stage five minutes afterwards or something.

Also, too, the butthurt brigade (paid for by NOM and the AFA) smacked around some judges. But OH NOES TEH GAIEY MARRIAGES!! are still ongoing for at least the next four years.

I woke up this morning to find I have a tea party senator. I also woke up to a governor who, as a CEO, stole billions of taxpayer dollars in Medicare fraud. Which makes him a tea party hero because he showed that the government can’t do health care properly.

You too, huh? I can’t hardly wait until we get that Arizona-style immigration bill and have what little money we actually have embezzled. Maybe we can stop all the spendin’ if we’re flat-fucking-broke.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw this out there whilst ranting about the McMahons.

YOU SCREWED BRET!

Well what I want to know is this? Will the 2nd amendment enthusiasts shut up now, or do they still think Obama will try to take their precious, precious guns?

I suspect a lot of those ‘2nd amendment enthusiasts” would be less than enthusiastic about some peoples’ gun rights:

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

DKW’s mom does that standing on her head.
Is there a name for that position?

The Flower Vase

You know, for all the stems that get crammed in there.

Alledgedly Bennett won, but, as I am wont to say- more will be revealed.

The collapse of the working/middle class has been ongoing for some time now. I remember the 70’s amd the start of the slow descent into the present (and future) hell. Burning ROTC buildings didn’t engage a new direction (except bullets directed towards protesters). The bonfire of our freedoms will light the cigars of the uppa crust.

Yeah, when the going gets weird, the weirdos get crazy (apologies the HST)

Furries? Cthulhu can be yours!

I have one of those. Used to hang from my rearview.

Saddest thing was, no one knew what it was. When I got it I was all “Woo hoo! I got a plush Cthulhu!” and people were all “A what?” *pout*

They’ll find out. THEY’LL FIND OUT, I SAY!

When I was at the salon getting my hair did, I overheard lots of inane babble about the election. One woman said she was a Repug and was happy about the outcome. The other one claimed to be an Independent, who was saying the country was a mess. I couldn’t get–because there was water streaming over my ears–if she thought that was Obama’s fault or not. The moron who was washing my hair and wouldn’t stop softly babbling to me even though I told her I was hard of hearing in my left ear said she liked to “go with the flow.” And also informed that maybe some day she’d pay attention to politics. Sometimes people make me sad.

When I was at the salon getting my hair did

*raising eyebrow*

That’s…elitist of you…

I suspect a lot of those ’2nd amendment enthusiasts” would be less than enthusiastic about some peoples’ gun rights:

Conversely, conservatives in Congress stubbornly opposed security laws passed by the Clinton administration in the wake of Oklahoma City… including laws intended to target Hamas and co.

It really is a completely variable ideology. They’ll believe whatever the Party requires them to believe at any given time.

Now point me at Eastasia.

Saddest thing was, no one knew what it was. When I got it I was all “Woo hoo! I got a plush Cthulhu!” and people were all “A what?” *pout*

They’ll find out. THEY’LL FIND OUT, I SAY!

The furries will die last. Or maybe first.

Whoa, I missed the implications of that.

National debt right now is $13.7 trillion. The debt ceiling ($14.3 trillion) will be hit next spring, maybe the summer.

That means Congress has to raise the ceiling or put the US into default on its bonds…

Hm, interesting:

The narrative did not hold up as well as the Fox News team had outlined. Some Tea Party favorites lost big, while some Republican establishment figures triumphed easily. Exit polls indicated a majority was either indifferent or opposed to the Tea Party, while the number of voters who favored repeal of the health-care law was matched by the number saying the law should be maintained or even expanded.

Wake up, sheep!! Electoral politics is a joke. Second Amendment remedies!!

When I was at the salon getting my hair did

That’s…elitist of you…

I know! I cut my hair with a pet groomer!

Hey, yeah, is it our turn to talk insurrection and treason? Just wondering.

I know! I cut my hair with a pet groomer!

Peasants! Haven’t you ever heard of the Flowbee?

Speaking of Dominionists, Junkets for Jesus!

Your tax money at work!

Hey, yeah, is it our turn to talk insurrection and treason?

Dissent is no longer patriotic, shut up that’s why!

Hey, yeah, is it our turn to talk insurrection and treason? Just wondering.

Not recommended. These asshats wouldn’t hesitate to turn the military on you.

See State, Kent.

Hey, yeah, is it our turn to talk insurrection and treason? Just wondering.

Where’s all these Black Nationalist Weathermen I keep hearing about?

It’s not treason, it’s justice.

That means Congress has to raise the ceiling or put the US into default on its bonds…

Tee hee hee. This is where we’ll see if the Teatards are going to play nice with the real GOP. I really hope they won’t, but I expect the ‘tards to fold like origami.

LilPig, they must just be stoopid enough, like Newt shutting down the government in 1995, to go there.

Here’s the thing about that: Newt could re-open the government. You can’t U-turn out of default. Even if you go back and raise the debt ceiling, the markets will assume that you don’t mean it.

Here’s the thing about that: Newt could re-open the government. You can’t U-turn out of default. Even if you go back and raise the debt ceiling, the markets will assume that you don’t mean it.

I suppose it’s a nice rip-the-bandaid-off-fast approach to the death of the American Empire.

Speaking of Dominionists, Junkets for Jesus!

Okay;

1) It’s incredibly nauseating that people like this go unscathed while people like Rauf get a blistering media storm for their being “taxpayer underwritten.”

2)

He once took to the floor of the Senate with a giant photograph of his children and grandchildren and announced, “I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.”

Which means your family probably had enough abusive, dysfunctional and loveless marriages to destroy anything that could meaningfully be called “family.” Seriously. People aren’t perfect, people make mistakes; this kind of utopian picture-perfection isn’t possible except on polaroid.

3)

Next Page: As “followers of Jesus” who also still adhered to Islam, rulers could serve as spiritual double agents

Reminds me of the fundie church down the street from my college, whose pastor claimed to have converted the chief of the Saudi secret police. Nice thing about being a double agent, I guess, is you don’t have to stop chopping off Christians’ heads. Gotta preserve your cover, doncha know.

Also, taqiyya anyone?

I suppose it’s a nice rip-the-bandaid-off-fast approach to the death of the American Empire.

Except, to waterboard your metaphor, the bandage is stuck to the wound, which was a sucking chest wound…

“I’m really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we’ve never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.”

Those were all female sheep.

Fiorina conceded, finally. 100% of the precincts: B. Boxer 52%, CF 42.6%.
Virtual neck & neck tie!!
Note photo, too. Is Carly wearing a housecoat?

Here’s the thing about that: Newt could re-open the government. You can’t U-turn out of default. Even if you go back and raise the debt ceiling, the markets will assume that you don’t mean it.

Legislatin’ is hard!

Fiorina conceded, finally.

Next time, she should bid for a seat on eBay.

It really is a completely variable ideology. They’ll believe whatever the Party requires them to believe at any given time will fuck up Democrats, regardless of the greater effect on the nation, the world or even themselves.

fiqused for proper sad-hazzing

Next time, she should bid for a seat on eBay.

TBogg made several snide comments about Nut-Meg futilely pushing the “Buy It Now” button.

Except, to waterboard your metaphor, the bandage is stuck to the wound, which was a sucking chest wound…

I didn’t say we’d survive it.

The GOP says the election means we want a smaller, cheaper, more accountable government.

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH, I guess. Wankers.

The GOP says the election means we want a smaller, cheaper, more accountable government.

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH, I guess.

Oh no! This time, they really and truly mean it!

Also, too. They have already been screeching about impeachment and shutting down the government.

You go right ahead, fellas. Make Obama’s second term come easy.

I am hoping the tea infusion really does ratchet up the crazy to China Syndrome levels. Apparently, the only way we’re going to get past this idiocy is by giving them enough rope. Hopefully the damage will be survivable, but it’s going to have to happen. Democrats can’t discredit these assholes, and wouldn’t if they could. It’s only going to be getting hit with the spray of them splashing in the filth of their noxious ideology that might bring some sanity and civilization back to American politics. People are going to have to look at them and be disgusted. Some of us are already there, but there’s a ways to go before the obvious becomes obvious to everybody.

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH, I guess. Wankers.

Bush wasn’t a conservative! They promised it’ll be different this time!

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH, I guess.

Who knows – now that Bush is saying he stood helplessly by as the Iraq War started all by itself, against his wishes, anything is possible.

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH GINGRICH REAGAN NIXON umm… Hoover?

Not fixxed.

Rush! Glenn! Sarah! Help! I need a thought!

JUST LIKE WE HAD UNDER BUSH GINGRICH REAGAN NIXON umm… Hoover? Jesus.

Man, you’re dumb.

And maybe, just maybe, these people might come to realize that you can’t fix structural problems with your society by yelling louder platitudes when yelling them really loud didn’t work before. You actually have to work at fixing them.

Yeah, that’ll happen. Right about when they cast aside their socialist-funded free hoverounds.

Last night, Susana Martinez was elected to be my governor.

If there has to be a GOP governor in New Mexico, why can’t it be of the pro-pot legalization persuasion like the last one?

Same here, Nym. This state had enough problems already. At least it is gorgeous.

I would first ask if she had been dead before their date began.

Man, you’re dumb.

OH NO SHE DIDN’T!!!!

Argle argle LIBERAL ELITIST blargh YOU JUST WAIT argle blargh.

Also, the indignity of being called dumb by you has made me endured suffering that’s totally worse than four hundred years of slavery. I’m the victim! Argle.

Here’s the thing about that: Newt could re-open the government. You can’t U-turn out of default. Even if you go back and raise the debt ceiling, the markets will assume that you don’t mean it.

But the Yew Ess Of Ay is not a pop stand. I’ll bet as the 900 pound gorilla, we actually could do a U-turn out of default. It would be interesting to watch.

I don’t expect the country’s masters will allow us to default, but even if we did, I don’t expect those masters would let the situation lie for very damn long. It wouldn’t be the end of the country – way too much money tied up for that.

People are going to have to look at them and be disgusted. Some of us are already there, but there’s a ways to go before the obvious becomes obvious to everybody.

Yea, and to think, I said that in 1998…and when Gore looked like he’d comfortably win (three point lead with just a few days left)…and when Kerry was selected at the convention…

I’ll bet as the 900 pound gorilla, we actually could do a U-turn out of default. It would be interesting to watch.

Oh, you can go thru the motions, to be sure. All it takes is going back into session and agreeing to raise the debt ceiling, then let the Fed try to sell bonds to China and the UK and Saudis.

The sound of crickets would be…soothing.

let the Fed try to sell bonds to China and the UK and Saudis.

Exactly where else will they go?

(not the Fed; China, EU, and the Saudis)

my money’s on Rand Paul to be the first newly minted teabagislator to get caught up in a dead hooker scandal.

He was only stomping her head because she asked him to.

Safe words are theft.

Goldberg feels vindicated everytime he passes gum. “See? I told you I could chew it with cashews!”

Yea, and to think, I said that in 1998…

And clearly, things needed to get worse. Much worse.

Still do, I’m afraid. Looks like they will, too.

Some folks just won’t see until they’re beaten over the head by their own foolishness. Some folks won’t even see then, but more will.

Yea, and to think, I said that in 1998…and when Gore looked like he’d comfortably win (three point lead with just a few days left)…and when Kerry was selected at the convention…

I agree… I’ve long since passed the point where I think the American people are going to finally wake up. If Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich and Bush didn’t do it, why should this?

They promised it’ll be different this time!

Jon Stewart said it best, as usual: “Please, baby, this time it’ll be different.”

Exactly where else will they go?

Well, the UK is probably hosed out of the markets anyway now, they have their own deficits to focus on. The Sauds don’t really have to buy any of our bonds now, anyway, they really do it to solidify their investments in the States, which really leaves the Chinese as the critical component.

They could just de-couple the yuan from the dollar and cut their losses.

Yea, and to think, I said that in 1998…

Clearly, things needed to get worse. Much worse.

Still do, I’m afraid. Looks like they will, too.

If Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich and Bush didn’t do it, why should this?

Because Hoover did. That’s about what it’s going to take, too, and we’re better than halfway there.

They promised it’ll be different this time!

Jon Stewart said it best, as usual: “Please, baby, this time it’ll be different.”

Yeah, that’s what I was going for. Dammit.

Meet the new fuckheads, same as the old fuckheads.

Voters are expecting the government to get Americans back to work … & to cut the deficit. Math is plainly not their strong suit.

In other countries, liberals & conservatives alike warn the public to tighten their belts & expect austerity in bad times (& the public bitches & pouts, but then usually goes along with austerity measures for its own good) – in America, that would be like giving a speech in Klingon.

I’m half-expecting a lot of countries to start quietly looking around for new partners and new economic models, rather than tie themselves to a sinking ship

I think that’s the real downside to this election.

I suspect the threats of a 90s-style shutdown are empty – even the FOX NEWS zombies will be able to figure out who screwed that poodle. All the truly batshit-insane initiatives can be vetoed. Another Whitewater circus will likely backfire on its authors.

But when a GOP-DINO coalition starts slashing all the things that make the US attractive as a place to invest or set up a factory, shit is going to get real, fast. Infrastructure is increasingly FUBAR, but the usual bipartisanship on that issue is a thing of the past. The same goes for much-needed upgrades in education or R&D. Low wages are a short-term advantage, but they can’t offset an unskilled workforce. America went from #1 producer to #1 consumer, but today most of the consumers are flat broke & credit is tight. China has the US over a barrel right now: how can it possibly fight China’s artificially low currency with any hope of success when China owns its ass? Even foreign-owned plants employ Americans – but only if they stay in America … & in reaction to this HISTORIC LANDSLIDE, the stock market is flat.

You can’t U-turn out of default. Even if you go back and raise the debt ceiling, the markets will assume that you don’t mean it.

A riot is an ugly sink. Unt, vonce you get vone schtarted, zere is little chance of schtoppink it, short of blootshet.

By the way, if you missed Michael Moore on Democracy Now! talking about the midterms (and you probably did), you can watch it online here.

Best 40 minutes you’ll spend today.

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They could just de-couple the yuan from the dollar and cut their losses.

I don’t believe that for a second. That’s way to into ‘cut off your nose to spite your face’ territory for the rational Chinese. “There ain’t no dollar no more; that’ll show those Americans” is way too unpredictable a situation for financial types: there’s no telling what would happen in a short-term conversion to a new financial reference (I don’t think even Iran changed its oil bourse to Euros).

It’s not like the country is a damn Starbucks that can close up shop over a weekend. The displacements from the loss of the U.S. dollar can’t be absorbed overnight, any more than the trillions of still toxic debt in the world’s banking system have been forced to do what smaller players would have to do in similar straits.

The Chinese own a lot of dollar-denominated debt, I’m sure they’d like very much for their savings not to become worthless. I can see hard austerity measures being rammed down our throats, though, along with a pretty drastic shrinkage of our own influence.

LilPig,

It’s doable, and if I made it seem as tho it would be a one swift sword strike, that’s my error.

They’ve already started the process. At our urging.

For one thing, a weaker dollar makes exports to the US much more expensive. By coupling, the Chinese have stabilized that, but it also means they’re cutting off Europe as a trading partner (the euro is rising against both currencies). Eventually, if things continue on this unstable path, the Chinese will be forced to cut the ties, or see their entire economy crumble.

The Chinese own a lot of dollar-denominated debt, I’m sure they’d like very much for their savings not to become worthless.

True, but it could happen despite their wishes. For example, another collapse of the US economy, an intractable gridlock in Congress, the default against the debt ceiling….

This is an ugly sink.

I was able to make a few teatards heads explode by pointing out this little fact: In my lifetime there have been the same number of Democrats as Republicans sworn in to the office of POTUS. In that time 40% of the Democrats have manged to balance the budget and one even managed a surplus whereas 0% of the Republicans managed to ballance a budget. I have also made it a point that whenever I hear someone refer to the “tax and spend Democrats” I always make sure to point out that the alternative is the “don’t tax and spend even more Republicans”.

Also, the real bad news from this election is that Alan Grayson lost 🙁

I was able to make a few teatards heads explode by pointing out this little fact

But “facts” have a known liberal bias!

I realize it’s Europe, but have they not paid attention?

an intractable gridlock in Congress

Bing! We have a winner!

an intractable gridlock in Congress

Bing! We have a winner

Already, Europe is musing whether this election means a returns to American Exceptionalism and the shit that carries with it.

It’s pretty troubling.

in America, that would be like giving a speech in Klingon.

Worse than that – it’s like giving a speech in a cardigan.

from the CS Monitor article:

“The coverage was more than I’ve ever seen in a midterm,” says political scientist Nicole Bacharan at the Paris-based Sciences Po, a leading academic institution in France. “We want to see if it is again the Bush America, the tea party, the very conservative, the intolerant. Is that America still there and powerful and maybe not what we thought?”

Yep. It is, indeed.

The killer for me is how we could have turned the tide away. Turnout. We could have gotten the poor and the young to the polls and they would have taken one look at that Teabagger “revolt” and said “oh hell no!”

Even ministers in black churches reported apathy on the part of their congregations, even after Obama made personal appeals to the ministers.

Well I told you you fucking retarded pieces of shit were too motherfucking stupid to get out there and fucking vote your goddamn brains out for the good guys and now look what you’ve got. The only fucking mystery to me is how the fuck we could have motivated you slackjawed ball-less humps to fucking go out there and show us the love that we motherfucking deserved just for being so cunt-lickingly awesome all the fucking time. I keep saying to myself “Rahm, you gorgeous fucking carved-from-marble-Adonis you, what the fuck could you have done differently to motivate that brain dead congealed wad of cum and snot that calls itself the “Progressive” movement? What the fuck more could you have possibly done for those clueless schmucks? And the answer I keep giving to my own face in my own platinum plated mirror is “Not a goddamn thing, hunk. You did everything just right. The fault, sexy boy, is with those fucking liberals.”

The fault, sexy boy, is with those fucking liberals.

I am embarrassed to say this made me chuckle.

Then sob.

My hazy memory says Ho CHi Minh said it best- something along the lines of ‘Americans want problems and can’t deal with struggle.’

Rahm Emmanuel said,

November 3, 2010 at 23:04

Don’t you have a campaign to focus on?

Time’s a wastin’. Those mayoral races don’t lose themselves, ya know.

The thread. I broke it.

All the eastcoasters went home to start their drinking their families.

All the eastcoasters went home to start their drinking their families.

Fucking time zones. How do they work?

Did anyone see Eric Cantor on MSNBC last night? Maddow nailed him pretty good but it was the other guy whose name escapes me because I rarely watch anything but PBS and the Speed channel but not Tweety and not Olbermann that other other guy asked him “What are you going to say to the Tea Partiers when you raise the debt ceiling?” Cantor tried three or four times to respond buty he just kept starting and stopping, furiously trying to figure out how to respond to a question that he never expected. The next minute or two of Cantor being metaphorically kicked in the balls was the most entertaining thing I’ve seen in a while.

Coming right after Tweety asked Michelle Bachman (R – DSM IV) if she had been hypnotized because no matter what question they asked she recited the exact same (vacuous) talking points, it was almost magical.

Re Europe;

1) People are always bemused when another country tosses out a leader we liked. Westerners are similarly stumped when they find out how many Russians fucking hate Gorbachev.

2) On one level, I think it’s a bit rich for Europe to concern-troll about intolerance in the States given the wave of Islamophobia that’s been sweeping it. Particularly true of France, with the rules Sarkozy recently passed.

But I’d still say they have a right to be concerned, because unlike them, we actually export our intolerance. French identity politics, for the most part, stay in France. Ours have a disturbing way of crossing oceans and leveling cities in foreign lands, then letting our allies suffer the backlash.

Pup, I was doing dishes and saw just about exactly that much. Bachman and Cantor had their talking points down pretty good. I’m not sure the MSNBC ‘heads really laid a glove on ’em but there was zero information coming from any direction. The point about having to raise the debt ceiling was a good one but as usual they drove it into the ground, then kept hammering on the dent.

About ten minutes of that was all I could take but it was enough to get the kitchen cleaned up and escape to the TiVo.

Also from the CSM article:

Beyond that, however, this year’s midterm election that delivered a stinging rebuke to the Obama agenda has many Europeans at a loss over why Americans are not as smitten with Mr. Obama, who is seen here as cool, articulate, and almost European, as they are.

See, the sad thing is that they evidently don’t understand that that’s why the votes for the GOP were cast. To a teabagger, being pro-American automatically means you’re anti- everyone else in the world. Obama can’t be a good American if he seems European.

In my state, Connecticut, it was a clean sweep for the good guys. First Dem governor in 16 years, Blumenthal gave McMahon a pile driver, and all five Dem reps were re-elected. Woo woo!

All we have left to do is get rid of Lieberman in ’12.

Here in Oregon, I’m grateful that DeFazio and Wyden were re-elected. Which reminds me…

Governor’s race here is still up in the air. Go Kitz!

Question about OK shania law and all foreign based law prohibition: Doesn’t it ban all discrimination against gays? Don’t all anti-gay laws originate from middle eastern law dating back 4000 years? The Founding Fathers never mentioned teh gays. Why should we base our laws on what some long dead dudes from Palestine thought. Aren’t Americans good enough to craft our own laws? Why do they hate America so much?

A riot is an ugly sink. Unt, vonce you get vone schtarted, zere is little chance of schtoppink it, short of blootshet.

Never been in a riot

In my state, Connecticut, it was a clean sweep for the good guys.

Massachusetts too, and yet we still have John Kerry saying crap like he’ll respect the feelings of the nation or whatever. Respect your own state’s citizens, numbnuts, the weak tea partiers don’t live here, and wouldn’t vote for your ass anyway.

gocart mozart-

Fat chance. I’m guessing Droopy gives CT the finger and heads straight to K Street before any vote is ever cast against him.

Here in Oregon, I’m grateful that DeFazio…

Now then, it’s not really fair to mention DeFazio without a link about his batshit insane opponent. I only got to vote for Kurt Schrader cause the 5th district is boring. And for Wyden, of course. And for Kitz. And for dope.. And for no casino.

The Founding Fathers never mentioned teh gays

Recalls a favorite line: If the USA was founded as a christian naiton, why didn’t they put it in the Constituion?

Now then, it’s not really fair to mention DeFazio without a link about his batshit insane opponent.

And here I was trying to forget that proto-teabagger. A literal fuckload of money was poured into that climate change-denying assshole’s campaign, everything from huge roadside signs to magnetized plaques that his ignorant dickhead supporters were putting on the sides of their vehicles.

Did I mention how extremely grateful I was that DeFazio won?

Klaus – OPB and a few others just called the race. For Hitzhaber!!! Yays!

“Fat chance. I’m guessing Droopy gives CT the finger and heads straight to K Street before any vote is ever cast against him.”

You may be right D.N. or you may be wrong. If he runs it will be as an independant. He can’t win the Dem or Rep primaries. He won’t be re-elected but his ego may think he can or perhaps you are right and he will cash out to K-Street. Either way, only two more years of the fucker.

Things went about as one would expect in Hawaii. The Democrat (Colleen Hanabusa) knocked out Charles Djou and DFH Neil Abercrombie is the new governor.

The State Senate Republican party was halved due to retirement from umm…2 guys to 1.

Carl Paladino’s super fantastic concession speech.
“You have not seen the last of Carl Paladino!”
Special appearance by Mr. Orange Baseball Bat at the 6 min mark.

Sorry, forgot link.

Nah, Rand Paul’s got his daddy to ride herd on him.

My bet’s on Allan West. The guy’s out of control now.

Wait until he gets to DC.

First Dem governor in 16 years, Blumenthal gave McMahon a pile driver

*smiles quietly to self*

All we have left to do is get rid of Lieberman in ’12.

He’s not running again, is my guess. I don’t know if Linda McMahon will run again, but since this race only cost her one year’s worth of dividends, my money is on yes.