September 2008
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Ceterum censeo GOP esse delendam
David Brooks, the man who (uh, more or less) admits to covering for John McCain these past ten long years, is officially off the bus with regard to the bleeding edge (circa 1984) economic and geopolitical thinking of the current GOP: It has been interesting to watch them on their single-minded mission to destroy the Republican Party. Not long ago, they led an anti-immigration crusade that drove...
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We ought to route him into Lake Michigan, at least...
Looks like the GOP is taking its own advice. ~60% of them voted against the bailout bill. The Dow promptly closed down 777 points. Tomorrow, it would seem, is when the shit really hits the fan: …new worries were building inside the nearly $2 trillion world of hedge funds. After years of explosive growth, losses are mounting — and so are concerns that some investors will head for the exits. ...
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I say "Let 'em crash!"
Shorter GOP house membership: They Bought Their Tickets, They Knew What They Were Getting Into. I Say—Let ‘Em Crash!Seriously, this bunch of idiots prefer decades of economic destruction to sacrificing their (fake) small guvmint “credentials” at the altar of actual necessity? We can argue and re-tune deals until the cows come home, but I think any responsible person...
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But Joy Behar knew better
Sometime, in the far future, when they are writing the definitive history of that mysterious entity known as the United States of America, you know, the one that went through this odd, transformative period that no one can really explain, still, even here in the far future; when they are writing that history, they’ll come to the point where they write “But Joy Behar knew better.”...
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This Is Who We Are
Another example of why we fail: As it happens, Ford, the struggling American car company (in certain ways, probably more centrally “American” to most citizens than even longtime industrial titan GM, nay “The General”), has a new model of the Fiesta coming out that seats five (well, five people the size of Winona Ryder, anyway) and gets 65 mpg. You’re saying...
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The Lies of Sarah Palin
I told the Congress to take their bridge and shove it! This one is a flat out lie and lately even conservative stalwarts such as the Wall Street Journal are willing to soft-pedal around to tell you that: “She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 2006. And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not...
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In Aid of A,B,C
The lipstick on a pig thing is indeed the greatest issue facing the country since John McCain spent several years as a guest of The Red Menace. But it’s worth noting that there’s another scandal of phenomenal proportions out there, just waiting to give us its money: Palin’s [gubernatorial] office requested $2 million in federal monies to study crab mating habits; $494,900 for the...
