Month: April 2011
The Budget: Everybody’s Got It Wrong
It is obvious that the nation’s desperate fiscal condition requires higher taxes on the middle class, not just the richest 2 percent. Likewise, entitlement reform requires means-testing the giant Social Security and Medicare programs, not merely squeezing the far smaller safety net in areas like Medicaid and food stamps. So the Ryan plan worsens our trillion-dollar structural deficit and the Obama plan amounts to small potatoes, at best. Worse, we are about to descend into class war because the Obama plan picks on the rich when it should be pushing tax increases for all, while the Ryan plan attacks the poor when it should be addressing middle-class entitlements and defense.
— David Stockman, former Reagan administration budget director.
We Apologize for This Offensive Version of Marilyn Davenport’s Racist Chimp Photo
Okay, right off the bat, we want to apologize for this lame attempt at humor, not to mention the half-assed Photoshopping. However, unlike Marilyn Davenport, the Orange County, Calif., GOP birther and GOP tea party official,
who caused a controversy after she sent out an email based on this same montage but with Pres. Obama’s face superimposed on the adorable baby chimp shown here, we’re not going to issue a non-apology apology.
You will recall that Davenport’s first response went went like this: “Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people — mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”
As we noted at the time, one way to tell you’re a racist is if you find yourself saying crap like “Everybody who knows me knows I’m not a racist,” and especially, “I have friends who are black.”
i Know Where
Somehow I feel like I’m never alone.
I can feel the invisible eyes of someone.
Jobs says, “Don’t be scared,
We know you’re there —
You’re just being stalked by your iPhone.”
Verbatim
What House Republicans propose is that the government simply push the problem of rising health care costs on to seniors; that is, that we replace Medicare with vouchers that can be applied to private insurance, and that we count on seniors and insurance companies to work it out somehow.
Paul Krugman, Nobel-prize winning economist, New York Times columnist, and loyal opposition leader
Most Think Humans Cause Global Warming
35%
Of adults in 111 countries in 2010 said humans cause global warming, while less than half as many (14%) blame nature. Thirteen percent fault both. Americans are the most likely to blame natural causes, setting them apart from the rest of the developed world, according to Gallup.
Meghan Interviews The Donald: When Unassailable Emptiness Meets Irrepressible Vapidness
Donald Trump: So are we doing a radio show?
Meghan McCain: No, this is an interview for The Daily Beast.
Donald: Oh, OK, good. I like you. I see you a lot on television. I like you and I like your father, I’ll tell you. And I like your mother. I like your whole family. Hey look, I supported your family, right?
— Excerpt from the classic meeting of the media personalities, published on Gawker.
Ensign In Sin
John Ensign resigned, blaming “turbulence,”
But we blame his concupiscence.
When you bonk your friend’s wife,
You’re going to screw up your life —
It’s not the turbulence, stupid, it’s the tumescence!
Hey Paul Ryan, How’s That Ax-y Medicare-y Thing Workin’ Out for Ya?
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan’s constituents showed they are much smarter than he thinks they are. They aren’t buying the latest iteration of trickle-down, voodoo economics. And when he persisted in trying to get them to see it his way, they booed him. Let this be a warning to other tea bag Republicans who underestimate us. You need to throw out new red meat. We aren’t swallowing the old stuff.
Oil Junkie’s Refrain
It’s the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill,
But nobody’s worried about oil extraction’s ills.
With gas near four dollars,
People start to holler —
That Palin-esque refrain: “Drill, baby, drill!”
