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Hard sell: inevitability is here again, and it’s being rolled our way like a giant human flab boulder

Take a look at this FOX News video and see if you aren’t about ready to vomit by the end.

It’s one thing to push a narrative.   It’s quite another to hide a boner under your desk while you’re spinning the thing — particularly when the object of your obvious lust seems to be the dumpy RINO and not the more interesting and attractive interviewee who you’re directing with some of the most obviously slanted and loaded questions I think I’ve ever seen.

For those of you who think FOXNews (with a few notable exceptions) is anything more at this point than the House organ for Rove and the erstwhile “center-rightists” who are now trying to usurp the “conservative” label while vowing to fight actual conservatives in primaries using “pro-business” (read:  GOP cronies and corporatists) candidates, you’re wrong.

In fact, it’s as if Joe Scarborough has taken over the GOP “strategy” department.  And how fucking sad and frightening is that?

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31 Replies to “Hard sell: inevitability is here again, and it’s being rolled our way like a giant human flab boulder”

  1. Drumwaster says:

    And the alternative to Hillary’s 2016 run? Fauxcahontas. Not kidding. Princess Fullofbull Warren.

  2. leigh says:

    The upside is that the Dems have no bench. Who are they going to run Hillary (I have my doubts if she will run)? Biden? They’re both older than dirt and what do they bring in the way of executive experience? *crickets*

    The presidency isn’t a jobs training program and “historic” this and that can go scratch.

    Christie? Not a chance. He’s loud, bombastic and great for New Jersey. Stay there. He won’t win any friends or influence people outside the NE Metro areas. His appeal to people in the South, the Midwest, the Rockies is zero.

    He also suffers for the Rudy effect. He may be a hero in NJ, but that doesn’t translate to much anywhere else as Rudy found out when he figured just showing up as “America’s Mayor” would lead to a bounce into the White House.

    As he found out, not so much.

  3. sdferr says:

    It’s very hard to listen to political bibblebabble. This Barber can be understood as an award winning champion of it. Have a cookie Ellison. Or a change of nail-color.

  4. serr8d says:

    Another inevitable about this big guy is that one day he’s going to keel over from congestive heart failure. A shame, but his fault alone, for his own personal lack of responsibility.

  5. Pablo says:

    Speaking of inevitability, death panels!

    In August, Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission issued an update to its guidelines for providing cancer treatment to low-income individuals covered by the state Medicaid program. These new guidelines require that Medicaid deny coverage for certain cancer treatments for patients that have been deemed “too” sick, haven’t responded well to previous treatments, or can’t care for themselves.

    Through these new rules, Oregon state bureaucrats are severely restricting access to care and dooming potentially thousands of local patients to a premature death.

  6. McGehee says:

    Christie is every bit as inevitable in 2016 as Hillary was in 2008.

  7. leigh says:

    Well said, McGehee.

  8. Shermlaw says:

    The elites disparage the rest of us at their peril. We’ve seen this game before with McCain and Romney. They won’t prevail again. Of course, this means some serious involvement and “get out the vote” efforts in the primaries and caucuses. The establishment has a good ground game and I watched it unfold at my local caucuses the last go around. They just ignored everyone who wasn’t “Romney,” and called it a day.

    Never again.

  9. eCurmudgeon says:

    And the alternative to Hillary’s 2016 run? Fauxcahontas. Not kidding. Princess Fullofbull Warren.

    Yup. And, by all accounts, the campaign is just getting started up:

    In addition to being strongly identified with the party’s populist wing, any candidate who challenged Clinton would need several key assets. The candidate would almost certainly have to be a woman, given Democrats’ desire to make history again. She would have to amass huge piles of money with relatively little effort. Above all, she would have to awaken in Democratic voters an almost evangelical passion. As it happens, there is precisely such a person. Her name is Elizabeth Warren.

    Begun, the internecine wars have…

  10. Slartibartfast says:

    Ellison Barber. I think I could not only count all of her teeth, I could if needed count all of her fillings.

  11. Darleen says:

    Oh I certainly hope Miz Cheekbones gives Cankles some sleepless nights!

  12. bgbear says:

    In debates Hillary could do her fake Southern drawl and Liz could do movie Indian pidgin English talk.

  13. daveinsocal says:

    Meanwhile, some 2016 election-related news from the mirror universe (where everyone sports a goatee):

    McCain: People want me to run for president again

  14. Jeff G. says:

    If Warren runs, Billy Jack returns.

    And yes, I know there are people here who haven’t the slightest idea what I’m talking about. That’s how long I’ve been around, working my way steadily down the popularity ladder.

  15. leigh says:

    The return of Billy Jack would be badass.

  16. Darleen says:

    what leigh said!

  17. eCurmudgeon says:

    The return of Billy Jack would be badass.

    Thirded.

  18. bgbear says:

    and it would star who? Johnny Depp? Dwayne Johnson?

  19. leigh says:

    He may be a little rusty, so you could trot him out to school the Wan a bit first.

  20. cranky-d says:

    McCain thinks that people wanting him to leave the senate means they want him to run for president.

    Not so much, Johnnie Mac. Go away. Please.

  21. palaeomerus says:

    ” gbear says November 11, 2013 at 4:51 pm
    and it would star who? Johnny Depp? Dwayne Johnson?”

    Diedrich Bader

  22. happyfeet says:

    who is this Ellison Barber whore

    is she necessary?

  23. happyfeet says:

    the googles say she’s on twitter

  24. happyfeet says:

    she doesn’t have a wikipedia page though

  25. Pablo says:

    Who the fuck names their daughter Ellison? They should be lined up alongside Jedediah Bila’s parents and shot.

  26. leigh says:

    There’s been a trend in the last few years to give baby girls boys’ names. I think she must have made it up.

  27. palaeomerus says:

    Karl-Douglas Alvin would probably make a really good contemporary girl’s name then. Or Peter Oscar Marcus. Triple up on that recaptured patriarchal power the boys have hoarded for so long.

  28. bgbear says:

    hee hee palaeomerus, Billy Kwon Do.

  29. bgbear says:

    or using last names as girl’s first names like “Madison” .

  30. newrouter says:

    Charter 77 is a loose, informal and open association of people of various shades of opinion, faiths and professions united by the will to strive individually and collectively for the respecting of civic and human rights in our own country and throughout the world–rights accorded to all men by the two mentioned international covenants, by the Final Act of the Helsinki conference and by numerous other international documents opposing war, violence and social or spiritual oppression, and which are comprehensively laid down in the UN Universal Charter of Human Rights.

    Charter 77 springs from a background of friendship and solidarity among people who share our concern for those ideals that have inspired, and continue to inspire, their lives and their work.

    Charter 77 is not an organization; it has no rules, permanent bodies or formal membership. It embraces everyone who agrees with its ideas and participates in its work. It does not form the basis for any oppositional political activity. Like many similar citizen initiatives in various countries, West and East, it seeks to promote the general public interest.

    It does not aim, then, to set out its own platform of political or social reform or change, but within its own field of impact to conduct a constructive dialogue with the political and state authorities, particularly by drawing attention to individual cases where human and civic frights are violated, to document such grievances and suggest remedies, to make proposals of a more general character calculated to reinforce such rights and machinery for protecting them, to act as an intermediary in situations of conflict which may lead to violations of rights, and so forth.

    By its symbolic name Charter 77 denotes that it has come into being at the start of a year proclaimed as Political Prisoners’ Year–a year in which a conference in Belgrade is due to review the implementation of the obligations assumed at Helsinki.

    As signatories, we hereby authorize Professor Dr. Jan Patocka, Dr. Vaclav Havel and Professor Dr. Jiri Hajek to act as the spokesmen for the Charter. These spokesmen are endowed with full authority to represent it vis-a-vis state and other bodies, and the public at home and abroad, and their signatures attest to the authenticity of documents issued by the Charter. They will have us and others who join us as their colleagues taking part in any needful negotiations, shouldering particular tasks and sharing every responsibility.

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