Obama Playing the Bipartisan Card *sigh*

News comes out that Obama plans to include 300 billion in tax cuts for families and business in his stimulus package. Apparently, this is a move aimed at gaining support from the Republicans. You know, that bipartisan angle Obama has been leaning on since day one.

Nonetheless, Paul Krugman makes a most delightful point to any economic recovery plan:

Let’s lay out the basics here. Other things equal, public investment is a much better way to provide economic stimulus than tax cuts, for two reasons. First, if the government spends money, that money is spent, helping support demand, whereas tax cuts may be largely saved. So public investment offers more bang for the buck. Second, public investment leaves something of value behind when the stimulus is over.

My question is, now that we have only the most ardent and conservative Republicans left to deal with in Congress, why is Obama betting that they will play ball even if he tries to appease them with these tax cuts? In fact, I bet this won't even begin to appease these lunatics...it will simply make them ask for more...and ultimately give them an excuse to suddenly become fiscally responsible. "Whoopsie, it was all spent on tax cuts, sorry!"

Democrats finally have a huge majority, minus one filibuster proof vote in the Senate now that Al Franken seems to have won. You mean to tell me that Obama and the rest of the Democrats can't find one other congressperson to vote their way and pass this stimulus package on their terms? Of course, it would have to be to the chagrin of those dipshit Republicans, who are proven economic failures, and who wouldn't know how to balance a budget if their lives depended on it anyway.

I was always suspicious of Obama's bipartisan attitude but he has been able to pull this thing off so far. Maybe all of these new green technologies and infrastructure projects will actually pan out like they should, regardless. Maybe he knows something we all don't know, but the Republicans - especially the most fervent maniacs that are left - are not going to make it easy on him. Personally, I would steamroll over Republicans like wet icky asphalt:

Poll: 20% of West Virginians Are Clueless Bigots

Listen here to Rob Rupp, commie liberal professor at West Virginia Wesleyan, and one of the authors of the poll, explain that one in five West Virginia voters believe Barack Obama is a Muslim - still!

This is also a good indicator of the same 20% of the American people who are right-wing lunatics that will always make up the Bush/McCain/Palin prejudiced base.

The Debate is ON

Ah nah, itz ON now baby! It was all a stunt and Obama called him on it. That's why Obama is a bad muthafucka and McCain will always be a McChickenshit!

Sarah Palin is Scary as Hayul

I would be lying if I said that I'm not surprised that the media would end up loving Sarah Palin after her speech at the RNC last night. Heck, even their one sentence talking point got faxed to every news outlet and was repeated with actual seriousness.

"A star is born," said Chris Wallace on Fox.

"A star is born," Blitzer said.

"A star is born," said Anderson Cooper on CNN.

The media has admittedly been on Obama's side for a time. I wouldn't say completely considering the Wright scandals and the incessant circulation of ridiculous claims that he is a secret Muslim terrorist. Sorry, he's a moderate Christian just like the rest of you hypocrites.

The media has, in fact, had a fascination with Obama and has taken a small liking to a Democrat, probably not seen since Kennedy. But after the dust settles, the media must take it's predictable turn, under the guise of fair reporting, and actually gloat over the most unqualified VP pick in a century.

I won't even entertain the ridiculous notion that Obama lacks experience. Call me an elitist but I trust a man who put himself through Harvard Law School to make intelligent decisions about the safety and security of our country more than a hotheaded bottom of the class buffoon who is willing to bomb anything in his path. It's just me but if you forgot Czechoslovakia was no longer a country then maybe you should have paid attention in class if you ever plan on invading them one day!

It doesn't surprise me that Palin is another dullard conservative who panders to the idea of raping oil rich land and pocketing its riches. McCain is the same is the same is the same as Bush, and it really makes no difference that he chose a running mate with the same unabashed thievery of the American people and un-maverick-like qualities. Sorry lady, but governing an entire State with less people than the city of Chicago does not make one a political maverick or apart from the Washington elite. It makes you about as qualified as Rusty Casto.

It doesn't necessarily surprise me either that she campaigned as a fiscal conservative (like they all do) in Wasilla, Alaska and then increased government expenditures (like they all do) by 33%. Taxes were also increased by 38% in an underhanded move (like they all do) by lowering property taxes and increasing sales taxes. Essentially, the wealthy land owners benefited and the residents of Wasilla did not.

It wasn't enough that she was given zero debt to play with, that she had to leave a city with a population no bigger than Nitro, WV in debt (like they all do) for 22 million because a SuperDome was more important than a sewage treatment plant. Can you imagine a SuperDome in Nitro?

What does frighten me the most, however, is her pander to the extreme religious right. Because these are the people who not only want all your money, but they want you kept dumb and justifiably enslaved - mostly the women and darkies.

What you are seeing is the media's natural tendency to gloss over the real issues facing our country. Instead of making fun of Bristol Palin's babbydaddy, they should be asking how a mother who cut funding for teenage pregnancy, promoted abstinence-only education, and cut funding for special needs babies could possibly be so hypocritical. How can you force others to abide by your set of moral codes when you can't even abide by them yourself you sorry example.

Instead of telling her she's a trooper for homeschooling son Stump and daughter TwitterBug, ask her how she plans to reject science in our public schools and ban books from public libraries because James Dobson told her to do it.

Instead of likening her to Hillary Clinton, demand logical examples of how Miss Congeniality and a Governor of 20 months compares to a lifetime of achievement. Because actually working hard, educating yourself in political law and public policy, serving in the Senate, and fighting for women's rights can't possibly be as admirable as getting it handed to you!

So Sarah Palin will cinch the evangelical base. That is a given and the second reason McCain picked her. But remember, Karl Rove is actually advising this campaign as well, and it was the evangelical excuse used to explain how Bush got so many votes in 2004. I'm just sayin'.

Obama voted YES for FISA!

FISA vote here.

NAYs ---26
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 2
Kennedy (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)

So who will Obama choose as the VP pony?

Since Obama is the chosen one he needs to pick Chuck Hagel for VP or someone like him. Someone who's kinda opposite of the "perception" of Obama, like a tough white military centrist...to combat McCain's mythical foreign policy expertise. Because everyone thinks Obama is some sort of hippy liberal progressive (he's really a moderate christrian, like Hillary) he needs that military figure head of a Hagel to play off the turist fear card. Hillary kinda represented both (minus the chick thing), but she's been shut out... since Iowa... and it would be too good to be true for an Obama/Hillster ticket I'm afraid.

Update:
Edwards has stated that he will not be VP but you can still choose him if you think he's the better choice. Has he been looking at Attorney General maybe? Ooo! Go after Rove, W, and that whole attorney general scandal. That would be cool.
This makes a team Obama-Hillary ticket look even better. Plus Edwards and his wife like Hillary too and have maybe brokered a deal with both. Let me endorse Obama now, get a good position in his cabinet, and you can have the VP position. Hmmm....maybe not.

Roseanne: "Oprah.....you are a closeted republican..."

Celebrities sometimes have blogs and like to express themselves too. And whatever you might think of Roseanne, she seems to have a point about this whole Obama thing. Oprah is supporting Obama. Just the other day I was talking to a fellow co-worker and we were both like, Wtf? What has Oprah really given us... Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray! Oh, and a school in Africa that isn't going so well. Now she's selling us a black man and hope.

Below is Roseanne's recent blog entry. Her official site seems to be down but I stole this from Perez anyway:

"barak obama

is an empty suit selling "hope" in lieu of Truth. Oprah Winfrey helped to elect Arnold Swartzenegger. I have no doubt that she voted her purse by doing this, as she is a large land owner in California, and that ilk fears Dems because they do not want to pay their "fair share" of Cali tax.

Oprah has given us Swartzenegger and Dr. Phil. If that was not offensive enough to decent thinking people, now she brings us Obama. He has no ideas, no plan and nothing to add other than the cynical pacification of the masses with bedtime stories about hope, while calling Unions "special interest groups" that need to be done away with.

Obama votes with Bush constantly funding this terrible endless war.

Oprah, you play the race card and the gender card too.

You are a closeted republican and chose Barak Obama because you do not like other women who actually stand for something to working American Women besides glamour, angels, hollywood and dieting!

When Americans find out that Obama backs right wing corporate racist anti worker bullshit, they will not vote for him, and the victory will go to the most racist right wing republican ever…. Mccain, who is a fascist!

That the culinary service workers in vegas have promised barak their vote,( he is anti union in his votes) over edwards, who is a pro-union man, just proves how stupid americans are and how they can be tricked so easily by the color of a person's skin…exactly what MLK hated!

Obama doesn't even back reproductive rights for any woman! It is historical that Oprah Winfrey, beloved of women, chooses a flashy man with small credentials over a seasoned woman politician with 35 years of experience…and sells that to the female demographic who look to her for inspiration!"

When Roseanne goes on a drunken blog rant, you know your country is in trouble!

UPDATE:

Roseanneworld is back up and she has edited her original Obama post. Ah well.