I met a politician, he took my heart away
He said I had it comin’ to me, but I wanted it that way
I think that mod’rate love is good lovin’
And so I took what I could get, mmm
Oooh, oooh, he looked at me with big brown eyes
And said
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Here’s something that you never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet
And now I’m feelin’ bitter, ’cause I found out for sure
I called up my accountant, and he told me I was poor
He said that mod’rate love is good love
So I took what I could get, yes, I drifted toward the left
Oooh, and he looked at me with big brown eyes
And said
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Here’s something, here’s something that you’re never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet
You need to be educated
[break]
I thought that mod’rate love is good love
So I took what I could get, yes, as he smoked his cigarette
And then, and then, and then he looked at me with big brown eyes
And said
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Baby, you just ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Here’s something, here’s something,
Here’s some mod’rate, David, you’re never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain’t seen nu-nu-nu-nothin’ yet
You need to bend over!
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
I know I ain’t seen nothin’ yet
I know I ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Hopey, hopey, changey
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
You need some toobin!
He’s just takin’ care of bidness!
Circular firing squad, ASSEMBLE.
AJB, DISSEMBLE.
Dan: Absolutely great!
AJB: circular firing squad? Only if you are in the middle.
READY! AIM! …
Ready, Fire, Aim.
It’s old, but I resemble that remark.
This general confusion and self destructive behavior will persist for some time, but eventually everyone is going to start blaming Obama (unless things turn around).
Sorry if I cast asparagus upon you, MarkD.
“Circular firing squad”? Nah, Just some Spring yard cleaning. Gotta take out all that trash that hid under the snow all winter pretending to be part of the landscaping. Sometimes there are some dead weasels and skunks found also. The cleanup may take a while.
If you are trying to knock off an formidable enemy, it’s necessary to know if your allies are really allies, right?
David Brooks, Chris Buckley, David Gergen, Jim Cramer, MoDo, now grumblings heard from Chris Matthews, one after another the more sensitively tuned of the finger-in-the-air-crowd has detected a slight shift in the wind.
For now, these eye-openings are restricted to a tiny trickle but this lot will grow, slowly at first, sure, but grow it will, trickle to rivulet, rivulet to stream, stream to river and river to flood. This Obama cat and his crowd are doomed to eventual detestation, with the worst of it likely to come from the people who’ve allowed themselves to be duped, when in the back of their minds, they had a small though genuine doubt but proceeded to crush that doubt with their silly emotions.
It is in-fucking-evitable. Let’s just hope it doesn’t come too late to salvage something of the Republic.
Oh, and moles too. Those are the worst. They burrow in and are so hard to expose. They can make quite a mess of the yard though so they have to go.
With “burrowing in”, I thought you were going for the stock market
tracking pollsindices discounting mechanisms digging their way to the center of the earth aiming at coming out in China eventually, geoffb.HOnestly, we should be ashamed of ourselves … questioning the discourse of “conservatives” we don’t agree with.
At “The Other McCain” link a commenter, Jeremy R. Shown, has the same talking point as our AJB, and managed to be #2 in the comment line also.
I love coincidences in the morning, they smell like enemy action.
The market is more like “augering in”, like a plane when it hits the ground nose first and keeps going.
With “mole” I was thinking more along this line.
Since the Democrats look on politics as war, would they not have placed long term assets into the structure of their opposition? I think it is very likely. I also expect there to be persons who have been turned by money or blackmail. Very common practices in warfare, and quite easy if your opponent doesn’t even think there is a war going on.
Keep a sharp eye out then, geoffb. Still, I kinda like the idea that the Obama admin has taken the Republican chant of the last election to heart, even if only in a mistaken sense. Drill here, drill now!, I remember. Little did I know that Obama thought that meant send the markets to hell.
What better way to put 52% of the voting public in on the take? He is only taking care of his constituents.
What Pink? He secretly enlisted them in a surreptitious full market short and is now planning to cover any day? Ha!
The
stock market tracking polls are down another 3 percent again today.Fortunately they’re just tracking polls.
Did you hear rush limbaugh used to be on oxycotin? Did you hear that? Did ya?
Nah just knocking the bread outa their hands so they have to start begging like that woman in Fort Myers. Once retirees start seeing their 401k cut in half why would they not vote for huge amounts of taxation on the working class and “rich”?
stupid HTML on a cell phone. I think you get the point.
I unfortunately keep stumbling over that “Half of nothing is still nothing” conundrum, Pink, it tends to prevent me from seeing the brighter side of things.
Loud and clear, phil.
The markets are just reacting to the threat of nationalizing of entire sectors of the economy. Once they see that it is “liberal fascism” that is coming, they will recover somewhat, as they realize the government only wants control not ownership. /some sarc> but not all.
Does anybody remember all of the bleatings from Obama and the Dem’s congressional geniuses about Bushes “legacy of debt” that would have to be paid by “our children and grandchildren?”
Anybody?
Our entire government has fallen down and can’t get up. All of it.
And here I was thinking of dumping a couple grand of my tax return into Citibank stock. Silly me.
I’d wait another year Mr. Pink, and pick a different stock.
Dan, these lyrics are priceless…
Especially the part about, “…as he smoked his cigarette…”
This quote by Greg Mankiw at the Maggie’s Farm link throws me back on thoughts of Robert Higgs’ posited “Ratchet Effect” in political economics:
I notice that theorists don’t seem to spend a great deal of time thinking on how to reverse these trends. Rather, they spend gobs of time bailing the bilge post-onset, always behind the curve as one quasi-permanent entitlement wave after another swamps the boat.
Sdferr,
I think that mole hunts are even more destructive than the moles in most cases. It does do to simply keep in mind that they can exist and that our politics was set up to be a substitute for civil war as a means of changing governments.
Politics is supposed to be a “civil” war, and not the total war that the Left seems quite willing to practice. They badly need to be disabused of the notion that total war is the way to go. Oh the irony of “Civility NOW!”.
geoffb, see this.
Plus which I entirely agree about mole hunts. I’ve had real moles in my yards, both in NJ and right now, right here in SWFL. I actually caught one in NJ, just happened to notice the ground moving and grabbed him/her. Cute little bugger whichever sex. Let it go in a distant interstate highway traffic median. Dig away, baby!
Thank you Sdferr.
Mickey Kaus**:
There it is again!! Ratchet Effect, Take Away Rule, we need to find a means as a polity to put a stop to the runaway insanity of such things.
Apply the “Take Away Rule” to taxes and we can limit government to what is necessary instead of what is desired. Wants are always in unlimited supply, money to purchase them not so much.
Something Rush pointed out today, which I had also been thinking about.
Nobody we bailed out- Citibank, AIG, etc, seem to be getting any better. They just keep asking for more money. Well, what did they do with the last suitcase full of dough ?
Sdferr:
I have waged a jihad against moles for over four years. Traps, poison, water–nothing kills’em. The best advice I ever got was from a crusty old lawn and garden shop owner who told me to use a 12 gauge and whiskey.
Sit on your back porch, sipping whiskey until you see your lawn move. Walk over and shoot it.
WARNING: Do not stand directly over the suspected mole while shooting. Dirt and mole guts make remarkably stubborn stains on clothing.
Since I busted my hip I find I’m a little more careful walking in the yard with a cane, Cowboy. Seems like if I don’t watch out the damn thing stabs down eight inches or so when I least expect it. Other than that, I don’t much mind the moley depredations. They don’t bother the oranges, bananas or avocados so I’m happy to live and let live at this point.
Moles are annoying, but they show up in your lawn when you have grubs and bugs. The moles eat them. In their own wierd Outlawy way the little fuckers do more good than harm. My kid’s cat brings dead ones home sometimes.
The kid’s cat also caught a gopher. One other kid in the neighborhood tried to save it and the little fucker bit her. It was like a demented hamster. Showing again that no good deed goes unpunished.
Oh wait, the animal daemon totem of Protein Wisdom is the armidillo.
How can you talk about moles when we’re being invaded by gay dolphins?
Don’t harass that pink dolphin, it is not gay, it is the daemon for Johnny and Edgar Winter.
The Obama RINO’s Song of Lament:
Cash on the Run
We’re so sorry … Uncle Barry
But we really thought your budget wouldn’t fray .. our pay.
We’re so sorry … Uncle Barry
But you didn’t have to speak and give the Treasury all away.
[snappy French horn interlude, followed by pop rock guitar]
Well the banks and markets made heavy crash
And they tanked the homes and cars.
And while the debt is sailing on a bright red sea
This spending’s just a start!
Cash on the run! Cash on the run!
With cap and trade, and ACORN paid
2 billion in the sun!
We’ll have cash on the run! Cash on the run!
Now the stocks are diving to a fearful hole
While our pensions screwed the pooch.
But entitlements have the mother load
Of coin from which to mooch!
Cash on the run! Cash on the run!
So Harry Reid, his train he needs
To speed the gambling fun.
Just more Cash on the run! Cash on the run!
related I think. How does that even happen? Carlos Slim is an idiot.
The inmates are running the asylum, hf. I just don’t know what else to say.
At a guess BJTexs, the security people on the White House detail are if not already about to be freaking out for overwork. Evil begets evil, I think.
There’s some Zimbabwe in our future. Support El Supremo unquestioningly, and you will be given rice and government cheese. Backtalk, and you get no food, plus a complimentary wood shampoo from the People’s Militia.
It is kind of slow today. Don’t you almost miss thor?
Well, maybe not yet.
<a href=”http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1882569,00.html?cnn=yes”Symbolic of what we will have to swallow under the Obama Administration.
No, not even a little bit.
Don’t you almost miss thor?
I miss him like I’d miss a case of the clap.
DJIA closeds down over 280 points.
Some gyration.
Funny how it never gyrates up, ain’t it?
Jeez McGeehee, it was up 164 yesterday!
You’re just hung up on the day to day ups and downs; unappreciative, that’s what you are.
And short sighted.
And probably unpatriotic, you don’t WANT the president to fail, do you?
Sheesh!
Symbolic trend
Roger Simon offers depression economic advice!
It bobs up and down. Well, mostly down.
I want him to live to be 112 years old, knowing for 60-plus of those years he was a failure as president.