Fear me, for I shall purge the non-believers as I bitterly cling to things and fail to recognize the nuance in brilliantly conceived political stratagems designed to save the GOP from getting bad press from a media that might otherwise praise and adore them!
(Or maybe not. Depends on whether I get caught up in a “Pawn Stars” marathon. Which is quite possible. So I’d say the chances are maybe, say, 60/40 for a purge? Check back later.)
Wait, who has the keys to the liquor cabinet?
liquor shall be purged from my pure kingdom. Except for me. And those I choose to bestow liquor upon.
And most certainly I shan’t allow it in the open. I don’t want the MSM to seize on that and suggest I’m a drunkard. My heavens, what would I do then?
I’m pretty sure Mr. Crowbar has a set.
I’m with you. I don’t think contrived notions on how to transfer “blame” to the president will work, because the MBM is on board with the progressives. There is too much nuance in such a deal, and only political junkies will appreciate it. It’s better to be direct. The House could either pass another bill that does what they proposed before “negotiations (Do what I say or else – Obama)” changed it, or just put up Ryan’s plan for a re-vote and force the Senate to vote it down again and again.
Also, they need to get their asses on teevee and sell sell sell the truth so much that the MBM cannot avoid broadcasting it.
If liquor is being purged then I’m stocking up now.
Bernanke wants another round of money printing for reals?
What does China say?
oh, ME! pick me!
China probably approves of (at least) four more years of Obama at the helm of the deteriorating state hf, don’tcha think?
China and Russia and France and Brazil and Daddy Soros and al Qaeda
Was there a five year plan preceding the purge? I’m a traditionalist.
That pawn stars show is in a baaaad neighborhood. I know you’re shocked.
I have been watching The Virginian on Netflix and the bitches just sent me notice that the rates are going up 60%. I am only on episode 5. Fuckers. I am hooked.
Sort of how the Dems do it with entitlement programs. They sneak up on you.
China may do, as they did with Greece, and demand that any debt bought be secured by something other and in addition to “full faith and credit” if we continue to raise our debt limit with no end or plan to change course in sight.
They have Pawn Stars on Netflix too. The first time I saw the name, I thought it said something elese. False advertising!
I watched the Stone of Destiny last night. It may be time to steal the Constitution. The Declaration too. For safe keeping.
Dude. Virgins are way too hard to find anymore. Lower the bar, or get used to disappointment.
It took the Progs 40 years to gain complete control of the Democrat Party.
starting in the streets of Chicago in 1968, they gradually extended their headcount and assumed increasingly important roles within the party.
Finally, in 2006, the got Nancy Pelosi into the Speaker role, and then, in 2008, were actually able to get a true progressive their POTUS nomination.
Regardless how many purges we enact, it will take several election cycles before the Tea Party can wrest control the GOP party mechanisms from the old RINO bulls and appeasers.
Hopefully not 40 years, but it will take time.
Sadly, time is not on our side.
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding:
Appointmenttrain wreck televisionRush seems to be on your page today. Your mind control-fu is impressive.
I’m a purgist myself. Take Fresno Mayor Swearengin for example. I thought she was a conservative. Then she let the vampire in.
Fresno is one of six cities taking part in the pilot program. To promote fascism and government sponsered “job creation”.
Swearengin is dead to me.
I’ve grown tired of even train-wreck tv. BSG was it for me; once it was gone, I was pretty much done with it. Sure, I try to watch stuff. Hoarders? sure, I’m intrigued.
But, books have been calling me. I challenged myself to read a book per week this year. I’m a tad behind. Just finished #27. Foucault’s Pendulum set me back a bit, as did Middlemarch.
If the GOP keeps caving, it will take less time to replace the cavers with other people. I think a few cycles will be enough. Then we need all the newbies to not learn to be establishment types, which is a much harder task.
I think it’s too late anyway, unless some miracle occurs in 2012. After that we’ll be electing people to preside over the remnants of our country.
I just got the complete series “The Prisoner” on dvd to replace the vhs ones I’d recorded many years ago. Figure it is appropriate TV.
I’ve been watching Babylon 5 again, starting from the start. The politics are applicable to what’s happening to us now, in some ways. The blatant fascism of the government certainly is.
At least we don’t have a Psi-Corps to deal with.
“Be seeing you” cranky-d.
I haven’t kept track, but I’m reading a lot more. the two stacks on the nightstand are now one.
What does China say?
That the US is spending just too darned much on its military and defense.
they have a point brokedick America with its coward president and 16% unemployment can’t afford to prance around like it’s a for reals superpower anymore – America has made a resolute decision to be a whorish dissolute ankle-grabbing little country and whores don’t need militaries mostly they just need antibiotics and food stamps
and hugs
Dear oh dear. Noted supergenius Jennifer Rubin is yet again explaining to the Neanderthal hordes how brilliant our GOP elite has been, specifically Mitch McConnell. Fortunately, over at Ace O’ Spades, the management isn’t swallowing it, but some commenters seem mesmerized by Rubin’s clearly superior intellect.
turns head, vomits in wastebasket
After all the destruction wrought by bailouts and TARP and QE I and II and the rest of the federal alphabet soup response to the Obama Depression, some people still believe the only answer is to raise the debt ceiling… borrow more! Because the answer to excessive debt is more excessive debt. Because the sky will fall if we don’t. Which is puzzling, because we’ve been smothering under a fallen sky since 2009 began. We may have run out of sky.
It is appalling that some of our “allies” on the right still bite at the “end of the world” bait, trolled like juicy chum whenever financial bigwigs think their first access to easy government money will stop, even temporarily. More than appalling, it is infuriating. Hey, here’s an idea… unless and until there are actually consequences to financial markets to endlessly growing sovereign debt, don’t expect or even ask it to stop. If there is no political will to stop government’s debt addiction, and some of our conservative allies actually think stopping the borrowing is worse than continuing it, then put a permanent end to the fiction that we even want to stop it. Dispose of the debt ceiling entirely and go full Krugman.
A Punch and Judy show has more depth and rationality than this absurd dumbshow about debt.
Speaking of demanding purity:
Insty tells us that Our Betters in the form of researchers from Haaahvuhd think that fat kids should be taken from their parents and put in foster care.
Thou Shalt Not Exceed the FDA Approved BMI.
We need a name for a whole day spent surfing and commenting. Other than weekday.
We need a name for a whole day spent surfing and commenting. Other than weekday.
The mainstream media suggests “funemployment.”
gooftag?
I call it brainsleeping, myself. I’m doing it right now with a tasty Coconut Mocha Frappuccino by my side.
I don’t know about you, but that’s got me all fired up to go out and save our country from our misguided and dissatisfied fellow citizens.
Right after I catalog my media collection.
keywords are so important
I have a question, if it’s okay: If you take shit by government action, is it still charity?
If a word falls in the government’s media, does it scream before dying?
But that’s too hard to follow, feets. And sounds odd. Let’s ignore it.
We’ve other people’s stuff to rearrange.
If schadenfreude is taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune, what do we call taking pleasure in a sovereign debt crisis? Because it’s either that or despair, and I’m not up for despair at the moment.
I spent the day unioning, then I really wanted to chill out so I had my brains vacuummed and I’m going to Pelosi the evening away.
Heh, it’s too bad you’re kidding because a pw purge would probably be one of the more entertaining internet events I could imagine, Jeff.
Hey, could someone ease my ignorance over something I’ve stumbled across. Somewhere, maybe a couple places, I’ve heard reference to the possibility that Obama couldn’t prioritize spending if there is a shortfall. As in, it’s never happened before so there is no precedent and it’s not the executive’s job to allocate funds regardless (other than within a certain department for instance with a fixed dollar amount pre-determined by Congress). I would certainly assume that debt debt could be. Then I might hazard a guess that entitlement funding would be similar (as somehow non-discretionary by either statute or congressional practice). Would either of those first two assumptions be correct? Then, what of the rest? Military pay before park service rangers, for instance.
Think I’ve heard something of a bill (and maybe Jeff mentioned this a long while back when this was all beginning) that some Republican wanted to introduce that would have the legislature properly rank the spending categories into a payment order.
It seems the post above deals with this as well.
Okay, take debt service out. Settled question. What about all the rest?
What about sex Jeff?
Where does that fit in the purity continuum?
After all, a lot of academics say that the personal is political.
The spirit of General Ripper called to add his support to the necessity of maintaining our purity of essence.
Jeff, speaking of Babylon 5, you might want to use this as a model for your apology to Patterico and the rest of the “good men.”
Jeff, if you need your own version of the Red Army, I’m here for ya! I suspect I might live well for a while, then get purged in a show trial – but no worries, I will yell “support Comrade Goldstein” as I am shot and topple into the ditch.
Oh, I can be had for a case of Ardbeg 10 year old.
“I grabbed her hair
Got her legs in the air
And asked if she had any cooties in there…”
— Frank Zappa, “Dyna-Mo Humm”