No shit? Wow. Who could have ever seen that coming.
Not Bill Kristol, or Jpod, or Jen Jen, or Dr Krauthammer, that’s for sure. But that’s okay: they get to “represent” conservative thought whether we’re in power or out, whether their counsel proves effective or not. Accountability? That’s just a word we throw around when we’re trying to lure bitterclingers in flyover country to buy them some subscriptions. And besides, now’s not the time to be engaging in red on red violence. Now’s the time to join together in celebrating the big win!
So put on a party hat, have a hunk of victory cake, take a quick bow, and then go home and shut up already, would you? Stupid hobbits.
Tea Party is the new punk, evidently. Uniformly hated by both donkephants that occupy Washington.
….and yes, it’s time for a 3rd party…
“Hey, Obama! Are you just going to do your ‘business’ and have your way with us, and then bug out when the results come in, the work gets hard and the bills start piling up?”
– Asked a few million of black single mom’s who’ve lived that scenario too many times to count.
In related news, I heard that Moody’s and Standard & Poors are both warning that a future downgrade in the nation’s credit rating is likely.
That’s what happens when you let terrorists stop you from raising taxes, I guess.
They know the economy will be in the crapper for a long time, and want to get started on blaming the Republicans and Tea Party Terrorists early. Yeah, I know, we all knew that already.
I dare ’em to call me a terrorist on 9/11. I just dare ’em.
I’m just glad John Boehner was there to beat some sense into those recalcitrant teatards like West and Ryan. Think how bad the news would be for the GOP if they’d listened to Bachmann instead!
And just think, if the Republican Jihad hadn’t ixnayed the axtay ikehay, everything would have been just dandy.
I think the Tea Party is going to be the new millennium’s Michigan Milita. The left are still hunting to find a McVeigh whose heinous acts can be pinned on them. Gonna be a real hard sell this time though, they don’t control all the narrative.
Note how silent the MFM has been on the “downward revisions” of the economic figures for Q1 and Q2. Clearly the teahadi terrorists are responsible for that.
aren’t we teaorists?
Larry Lindsay has made some comment on the lower GDP numbers JD, specifically where they differ with projections EmpLamDukO’s Treasury would have expected itself to be vis a vis government tax receipts and the like, vs where we are and will be in the future. It’s grim and getting grimmer by the day.
all we want is life beyond
thunderdome
Soon the Turks will be taking what they want and no-one will gainsay them. The Russians, noticing, will begin to do the same. Bad day to be the Kurds, or Georgians, or Greeks. Maybe even the Syrians will remember what life in the Empire was like? How now, brown Bulgarian?
We don’t need another hero, happy.
sdferr: the Turks have had a massive shake up of their most senior officers, and noone seems to know what it portends…least of all the Turks (I asked a Turkish officer that I’m training with…he was genuinely as stumpped as I was).
If by “harm the economy” you mean “pry a few lips off the government teat”, it won’t “harm the economy” nearly enough.
Seth, I don’t mean to pick on the Turks in particular, but merely to suggest that events in that region (among others, really) can move in ways nobody is positioned to do anything much about. So take that sketch in the gauzy sense of *bigger fish eating the smaller*, with nothing necessary other than old grievances to kick the eating off.
a positive feedback loop
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: “We’ve really begun to turn the economy around”
link
sdferr: didn’t take it as picking on. Mentioned it because it was tangentally related to what you posted, and thought it was just an interesting little nugget, is all.
There’s plenty to pick on the Turks about, to be sure. My fine colleague nonwithstanding.
I don’t know about swing-districts, haven’t looked that closely. But if anyone misread the mood of the tea-party, it was those Republicans ostensibly fronting them.
It means Edrogan is successfully eliminating the one of the last and biggest obstacles to the Islamization of the Turkish gubmint. The military has been the bulwark against such urges and the shake up you speak of is actually the unified resignation of the General Staff.
Shit is fixing to get real.
That’s one very real possibility, Pablo. Probably the least good one.
Shit’s already real beyond control in Syria, which I expect will blossom outward, though in what direction, affecting what fractured and fractious population I cannot tell.
No, this can’t happen guys. I have dozens and dozens of copies of The Economist from the late 90s explaining it very clearly.
Same with Pakistan.
(Same with Eqypt? Yikes, this feels like a trend.)
Getting rid of the Ba’athist regime in Syria: good!
Replacing the Ba’athist regime in Syria with an islamist one: very bad.
I hope that it is a net good outcome, we’ll see.
No, not good at all, Seth. Not good at all.
Sdferr, I’m of a slightly different mind about Syria. Not about what’s going on there, but about it blossoming outward, at least in a bad way. This is not good for Iran, nor for Hezbollah. But you’re right. Who the hell knows where it goes from here. Except maybe for Beck, who was hollering about these very things nearly a year ago, crazy person that he is.
bh: heh.
The Economist has been known to engage in a wee bit of wishful thinking at times.
I dint mean to suggest the outward blossom would necessarily be bad in every respect, though it may in many. geoffb and I had an exchange awhile back on the question what’s Israel to do. I think we reached a consensus that they deal with Iran first, then turn to the local-yokels.
What we’re seeing, I think is the fruit of the Bush freedom agenda (at least in part)…without the leadership to manage the forces that were set loose. We (as a nation) decided to abdicate leading on the world stage, oh….round about 2008ish.
“(Same with Eqypt? Yikes, this feels like a trend.)”
turn off glenn beck he makes you think crazy thoughts.
well the golan heights could use a buffer zone.
Sdferr, I suspect that Israel is already prepared to do what it needs to do with Iran when the time is right, but the local yokels also have a vote as to the order of their agenda. Which…
Oy.
Oy indeed. Still, there’s always bigger fish eating smaller ones to think about. I wouldn’t be resting easy were I a Palestinian today, whether in Gaza or Judea-Samaria. Sometimes exigencies simply preclude anything other than quick and dirty get it over with sort of actions.
Re: Pablo’s link…
The problem with the “Palestinian question” is that the west and Israel have been approaching it as if there were an answer to be arrived at….there isn’t. The question is a rhetorical on for the Muslims and leftists. Which….gets back to who’s controlling the narrative.
I’ll have to differ with that. The answer for them isn’t rhetorical at all. It’s absolute.
Have you noticed the push to demonize anyone who even mentions Hitler or the Nazis? (Which is quite a departure from the Bush years, no?) If you don’t talk about that thing we all agreed was to be “Never Again”, we don’t really have to remember that we said it, do we?
Speaking of who’s controlling the narrative…
Not being one of the smart set, I may have mis-used the word “rhetorical”…I meant it as “a question whose answer is so self-evident that it need not be answered”.
If only there were some kind of book I could use to look word meanings in…
I’ve always considered it a thought provoking question for which an answer is not expected.
California is going through a strange redistricting process. San Clemente is currently in CA-47, Ken Calvert (R), but it looks like we will be pushed into a district mostly south of Camp Pendleton for 2012 that I assume is going to be the district Darryl Issa runs in. These abrupt, significant changes in congressional boundaries might provide an opening for non-traditional candidates in 2012.
So, does Darryl Issa need a TEA party primary challenger in 2012? You can see the preliminary final districts draft here, you have to select “q2 congress final draft” under District Type and then scroll and zoom.
Ah yes, economist Ann Curry….
Quit laughing.
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We live in mind-bogglingly interesting times.
Someone might ought to scrawl a chill out message to Assad on a GBU-31 and send it to him from a Spirit. Or better yet, put it on a dozen of ’em or so just to make sure he gets it.
Is it possible that that someone is Barack Obama? Prolly not, unless Sarkozy or Cameron goes first. And even then, it’s still a longshot unless Ban Ki Moon likes the idea.
For all of his failings, George Bush would have decided whether we’re in or out.
How fucked are we when I’m pining for Dubya? Extremely, I think.
Nope, not Barry. But if I were king, it’d been done already.
It’s really the least we owe him for the Anbar campaign.
It’s shit like this that makes me wish we’d have nuked Tora Bora back in Dec. ’01.
The only thought more depressing is that not only did we not even consider it, no one even suggested it as an option.
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/08/03/the-real-war-ignored-as-usual/
Bush, for all his shortcomings, genuinely liked America, and had a certain clarity of purpose in a lot of things. Obama, not so much.