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:

South Park Characters and Their Republican Counterparts

"I'm not gay!"







"God Bless America!"









Evil Dough Boy







Meddling Moralizing Token Jewish Person










...and the token black guy







Total Fag







Totally Oblivious








Total Piece of Shit
(or is that a piece of shit in his mouth?)






Total Drunk Loser







Total Tranny






I'm sure Dr. Mephesto appreciated that Officer Barbrady pardoned Kevin.

An Oldie But Goodie

Arrozconpollo beat me to it....

The TN man who targeted a church said it was because,

"of its liberal teachings..."
"who are ruining the country,"
"and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets."
Adkisson, 58, of Powell wrote a four-page letter in which he stated his "hatred of the liberal movement,"
"Liberals in general, as well as gays."

Meanwhile, officers searched his home and

found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

Also,

The church's Web site states that it has worked for "desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women's rights and gay rights" since the 1950s.

Hmmm....shotgun shells, right-wing reading material,


for everything mentality. Plus


and don't forget the

suck too!

Reminds me of a quaint little Kanawha Valley internets community....

Walker Texas Ranger Chuck Norris Makes It Out To Support Mike Huckabee

A few weeks ago I did a really really mean post about Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and body fat distribution in general. I thought it was completely done in poor taste and decided to delete it, but I do want to revisit the Huckster.

This man scares me. From his total batshit crazy Faith-Based Constitution to his projected obsession with homosexuality, you would think many of these wacked out ideas of his would be plenty for half-thinking zombies to run for the hills and take his bizarrely life-like resemblance to Nixon off the goddamn TV and off the polls for good. But that would take a miracle free and publicly funded media to accomplish. So instead, I urge everyone, who seems so fixated on celebrity and Britney anyway, to maybe then make your decisions based on which "famous" person stands behind them during acceptance speeches.



Chuck Norris is the absolute worst artiste evah! I actually find a C-section not nearly as gut-wrenching and vomit inducing as watching Chuck Norris act. Just look at him. The TEETH! The botox! Jesus!

This is my call for everyone to denounce any candidate who uses such pitiful actORs as campaign tools (by 'tools' I mean that literally and figuratively). As though Chuck Norris has some sort of wherewith all for political discourse anyway. He can't even convince me he's a Texas Ranger, how am I going to be convinced Huckadip should be President? Chuck apparently has never taken a road trip in places like Bolivia where there is no such thing as tax collection, but he's sure passionate about his phallus...err I mean gun...heh heh, heh. I might think differently if it was De Niro or somebody cool like that. But crappy actors who have for years polluted the airwaves with horribly bad syndication and infomercials should be banned from showing their faces on TV ever again.

If Chuck Norris's face isn't enough for you to give the Huck a big Chuck in the ass, then you should be disenfranchised.

UPDATE:

Ric Flair has joined the ranks of douchedom. Whoo!

2004 Republican National Convention

This was in 2004 folks. Although totally highlarious, can't believe it takes movie magic to invoke how many times these bitches said the same dumbass things over and over... and how many of you fell for it.

The GOP: Grand Obstruction Party

When did a junior high journalism class become qualification to write for the Charleston Daily Mail? From Don Surber's opine:

Public support of the Democratic Congress is a Fizzie, too. The Los Angeles Times released a poll this week that showed only 27 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 65 percent disapprove.

Last April, the same newspaper poll showed a Republican Congress with 28 percent approval and 61 percent disapproval.

It took Republicans 12 years to dissolve. Democrats have done it in less than six months.

I congratulate them on their efficiency.

Surber dutifully fails to note that Congress's current approval rating is based on one issue and one issue alone: Getting our soldiers the fuck out of Iraq.

And what...we've had like 6 months of a Democratic Congress? So I guess suddenly now that anything that gets done in Congress, or doesn't, is somehow a Democratic blunder to a grub writer like Surber. Nevermind that there were 12 years of corporatist welfare, 5 years of enabling the worst administration evah, and now just enough obstructionist Repubs to prevent any such accomplishments.

As Senate Minority Trent Lott, R-Miss., said, “the strategy of being obstrucionist can work or fail. So far it’s working for us."

Republicans continually threaten to filibuster, requiring 60 votes for cloture (a limit on debate) to proceed on a wide variety of measures. In the first six months of the 110th Congress, there have been 13 cloture votes. In comparison, in the first sessions of the 108th and 109th Congresses, when Democrats were in the minority, there were a total of four cloture votes.

You can view a chart of how senators voted on key issues here.

But that doesn't stop guys like this



from getting published and passed off as a journalist.

Update:

Shiite! Bob Geiger has more about Reid and his cohorts possibly stepping up tomorrow bitches!

Monday, July 16, 2007

Reid To Force Senate Into All-Night Session Tuesday

Forcing his Republican colleagues to put up or shut up on the notion of an up-or-down vote, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) just moments ago announced that he will immediately file a cloture motion on the Reed-Levin troop redeployment bill and, if Republicans follow through with a filibuster, will place the Senate in a prolonged all-night session Tuesday to force a true continuation of debate.

Here's the the text of the Reed-Levin amendment.

Update II:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proposed “an automatic 60-vote threshold for all key Iraq amendments.”

While Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) calls out McConnell and Repubs filibuster threats. Watch it!



Crooks & Liars has the transcript.

Update III:

Well Congress did have an all-nighter and there were some pretty passionate speeches. Crooks & Liars has a noteworthy one from Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisianna).

Republican Activist: Faulty E-voting Machines and "idiot" Media

Everyone knows e-voting machines are pieces of shit. Even Jer.