GOP Leadership Vacuum
With the midterms looming, the GOP is getting cute,
They’re playing to the Tea Party to bring in the loot.
But the Party of No
Has nowhere to go,
If the best they can offer is a Newt.
Month: July 2010
A Note from Glenn Beckistan
Here’s a note from a Beckerhead who happened upon our story mocking Glenn Beck for misspelling the word “oligarch” in one of his blackboard rants about liberals or whatever. If it’s for real, the note is sad, really, and posting it is mean — but what the heck. Here it is, unedited by me and obviously not proofread by the author:
I know that this post is a little behind to be commeing on. I tried to read all of it to get a clear view on why the harsh, non-sensical views pointed at Glenn Beck by blogger and the “in the tank” media. I couldn’t stomach it. Only because I am looking to show of GB’s achillies heal (Gosh~ I hope I spelled it right).
I thought how mundane to only find a spelling error. I right way better since I took a year of English Composition. I used to right like my daughters text messages do today. I still spell things wrong. It is lunacy to go after this nonsensical detail. Then a few sentances later you slight his viewers with a dig at thier collective intelligence. WOW! trully intelligent of you that was. YOu can’t get the ear of people that way. You may only be preaching to the choir.
Obama Proves Hoover, GOP, Tea Party, and FOX Wrong
Score one for the Obama administration; zero for Republicans, Tea Baggers, and FOX News. A newly released study by two esteemed economists (yes, I know that’s an oxymoron) shows that Obama’s fiscal policies did indeed pull the country back from the brink of a depression brought about by Bush-Cheney mismanagement.
…the economists argue that without the Wall Street bailout, the bank stress tests, the emergency lending and asset purchases by the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus program, the nation’s gross domestic product would be about 6.5 percent lower this year.
In addition, there would be about 8.5 million fewer jobs, on top of the more than 8 million already lost; and the economy would be experiencing deflation, instead of low inflation.
We all know how Hoover’s policies worked out. This study show the GOP/Tea/FOX versions would work no better.
The authors of the work, reported in the New York Times, are former Federal Reserve vice chair Alan S. Blinder and Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.
The study makes clear that Obama’s use of multiple strategies to bolster the economy was essential.
Letterman List: Why Jeb Doesn’t Want to Be POTUS
I love number 2, and of course, number 1.
Karlin: ‘Breitbart Smells Like Bad Ass, And It’s Time the White House Started Dousing Him with the Disinfectant of Truth’
From Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash:
Andrew Bretbart may smell like bad ass, but he knows how to grab center stage as the corporate media breathlessly latches on to his bigoted scams and lies and — thus — making the Democrats in D.C. looking like they just took a bath in watered down cow dung. That’s why BuzzFlash honored him as the Media Putz of the Week a few days ago.
Breitbart’s ostensible most recent target, as ACORN and multiple other progressive groups and persons have been, was Shirley Sherrod, a role model for racial healing that BuzzFlash honored with its Wings of Justice Award. And took her down he did, as he utilized FOX and the right wing echo chamber to prime the corporate mainstream media into its usual tabloid frenzy whenever a juicy morsel of mistruth and fraudulent character assassination emerges from the likes of Drudge, who gave Breitbart his start, or FOX Fraudcasting.
Read the rest at BuzzFlash.com.
Verbatim
I think they should name it something better. The top ends up flatter, but we’re not talking about Mount Everest. We’re talking about these
little knobby hills that are everywhere out here.
— Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul (R), in an interview with Details magazine, on mountain top removal coal mining, noting many people “would say the land is of enhanced value, because now you can build on it.”
On Republican ‘Leadership’
Maybe there is a lesson we can learn from the BP oil spill.
Something that will energize the electorate’s political will.
When it comes to Republicans,
Maybe there’s something we can
Take away from the concept of “top kill.”
Verbatim
You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion or is it a nationality, way of life or cult, whatever you want to call it.
— Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R), quoted by NBC News.
A Selfish Consistency
“Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus.”
So said Tony Hayward, BP’s unlovable cuss.
But indeed he was the bus driver,
And it’s we “small people” who suffer.
Just for once, Tony, could you think about us?
