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"CBC Chief: If Bill Clinton were president, we’d probably be marching on the White House"

But he isn’t, so, well, you know. It’s a Black thing. We wouldn’t understand.

Besides. Jim Crow.

Which reminds me: there is no GOP establishment. Except when there is. So says George Will, in yet his latest effort at putting an erudite spin on “I know you are but what am I?”

Defeated by such fancy thinking, I think it’s time we TEA Party supporters cut our losses, pack up our shit, and head back to the double wides to deep fry us up a Thanksgiving turkey. Our work in the big city is done!

Frankly, I’m happy we get to stop making signs and marching — and once again use cardboard the way God intended us to, as a kind of padded barrier surrounding the cock fighting pits.

99 Replies to “"CBC Chief: If Bill Clinton were president, we’d probably be marching on the White House"”

  1. dicentra says:

    Don’t be ridiculous.

    Cardboard is to replace missing window panes and to stop up the leak in the water heater.

  2. LBascom says:

    “They are the establishment today if there is such a thing,” he declared.”

    No shit!?

    When can I expect that sweet, sweet lobbyist money to start flowing in?

    Merck! I’m here. Even though I prefer people use your product voluntarily, call me!

  3. Blitz says:

    Actually? some Pastor out in Wa. brought a lawsuit against the demonrat party asking for an apology for their past racism. No link, I can’t remember where I read it.

  4. LBascom says:

    Too soon?

  5. LBascom says:

    Well, if so, I’ll throw this out for appeasement.

    At least Perry don’t double down on stupid, like Will and Schwarzenegger.

    Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will address the United Nations this week about climate change, his aides said Monday. […]

    He will encourage international leaders to “address issues related to climate change, explore the benefits of utilizing clean energy, and enlist the private sector on building better nations through sustainable investments,” according to a release.

    Schwarzenegger tried to make climate change a focus of his terms as governor.

    Schwarzenegger has his finger on the pulse of the nation I tells ya…

  6. Pablo says:

    It’s tough to tell where the CBC ends and the New Black Panther Party starts.

  7. newrouter says:

    fried chicken in every pot

  8. LBascom says:

    “fried chicken in every pot”

    Obama is FDR.

    An economic downturn in 1920-21 sent unemployment up to 12 percent. President Warren Harding did nothing, except for cutting government spending. The economy quickly rebounded on its own.

    In 1987, when the stock market declined more in one day than it had in any day in 1929, Ronald Reagan did nothing. There were outcries and outrage in the media. But Reagan still did nothing.

    That downturn not only rebounded, it was followed by 20 years of economic growth, marked by low inflation and low unemployment.

    The Obama administration’s policies are very much like the policies of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930s. FDR not only smothered business with an unending stream of new regulations, he spent unprecedented sums of money, running up record deficits, despite raising taxes on high income earners to levels that confiscated well over half their earnings.

    Like Obama today, FDR blamed the country’s economic problems on his predecessor, making Hoover a pariah. Yet, 6 years after Hoover was gone, and nearly a decade after the stock market crash, unemployment hit 20 percent again in the spring of 1939.

    Doing nothing may have a better track record in the economy but government intervention has a better political record in getting presidents re-elected.

    People who say that Barack Obama cannot be re-elected with unemployment at its current level should take note that Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected a record four times, despite two consecutive terms in which unemployment was never as low as it is today.

    Economic reality is one thing. But political impressions are something very different — and all too often it is the political impressions which determine the fate of an administration and the fate of a nation.

  9. LBascom says:

    Also, Back to the Future: Part III.

  10. newrouter says:

    klavan pedaling the “good man” meme

    Over the weekend many people sent me this video, claiming that it shows Michelle Obama dissing the American flag during the 9/11 memorial ceremonies. Reacting to the ceremonial folding of Old Glory, Mrs. Obama purportedly turns to her husband and says, “All this just for a flag.” She then allegedly shakes her head and rolls her eyes while the president nods in agreement.

    You don’t have to be a left-winger to call malarkey on this. It looks, sounds, and feels like internet nonsense and almost certainly is. I, for one, can’t read Mrs. Obama’s lips at all. I’m not even sure I can read her expression — which might be one of appreciation, as if she were saying, “Wow, isn’t it wonderful, all this for our flag.” Anyway, while the Obamas have always struck me as a pair of supercilious prats, they’re not heartless monsters. They’re at a ceremony memorializing 3,000 dead. They may not think what we all think but I’m sure they feel pretty much what we all feel — and if they didn’t, they wouldn’t talk about it while on camera. They’re not idiots either.

    But what’s really annoying about silliness of this sort is how distracting it is. The failure of the Obama presidency is a genuinely important event both in history in general and in the history of ideas. It should be explained, discussed, and analyzed seriously — not obscured beneath perfervid speculation or absurd charges. Obama is not a Muslim. He wasn’t born in Timbuktu. He doesn’t rub his hands together when he’s alone and mutter, “The economy is almost destroyed. One more stimulus package should do the trick! Bwahahahaha.”

    Link

  11. sdferr says:

    Klavan needs to get a clue, huh, newrouter! When it comes to childish slanders, what with your outstanding leadership, we’ve got a million of ’em.

  12. LBascom says:

    “When it comes to childish slanders, what with your outstanding leadership, we’ve got a million of ‘em.”

    I’m going to need an example.

    Oh, never mind…

  13. Spiny Norman says:

    Nice to see Cleaver admit he’s a race-hustling hypocritical toady.

  14. sdferr says:

    Yeah, that’s right Lee, all I do here is spend my time slandering poor little newrouter. Ha!

  15. newrouter says:

    “Klavan needs to get a clue, huh, newrouter!”

    tired of people telling me to ignore what i see.

  16. newrouter says:

    “. It should be explained, discussed, and analyzed seriously — not obscured beneath perfervid speculation or absurd charges.”

    i like how mr. klavan has set the terms of the discussion.

  17. LBascom says:

    “obscured beneath perfervid speculation or absurd charges. Obama is not a Muslim. He wasn’t born in Timbuktu. He doesn’t rub his hands together when he’s alone and mutter, “The economy is almost destroyed. One more stimulus package should do the trick! Bwahahahaha.”

    This Klavan fellow knows what Obama thinks when he’s alone. We definitely need to pay attention.

    ‘Cuz at heart, Obama is a good, though perhaps misguided, man.

    We should talk about that.

  18. geoffb says:

    Hmmm, the video that Klaven linked to, it seems the user decided to take it down.


    This video has been removed by the user.
    Sorry about that.

    Maybe it wasn’t definitive after all.

  19. newrouter says:

    or attack watch. cause baracky’s crew never punish their enemies.

  20. newrouter says:

    when you have a scoamf no more free passes.

  21. geoffb says:

    How about we continue the quote a bit further. Just for the shits and giggles…

    What Obama is is the representative and unyielding ideological supporter of a series of ideas that do not work and would be wrong even if they did. He is “a faithful scion of the political culture of the ’60s left,” as Norman Podhoretz put it in a calm, precise, and brilliant op-ed in the Wall Street Journal not long ago. Podhoretz wrote:

    Whereas the communists had in their delusional vision of the Soviet Union a model of the kind of society that would replace the one they were bent on destroying, the new leftists only knew what they were against: America, or Amerika as they spelled it to suggest its kinship to Nazi Germany. Thanks, however, to the unmasking of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian nightmare, they did not know what they were for. Yet once they had pulled off the incredible feat of taking over the Democratic Party behind the presidential candidacy of George McGovern in 1972, they dropped the vain hope of a revolution, and in the social-democratic system most fully developed in Sweden they found an alternative to American capitalism that had a realistic possibility of being achieved through gradual political reform.

    Most of Obama’s supporters, I would imagine, do not share the radical anti-Americanism inherent in this vision. But they often do share in its other errors: most crucially now, the idea that the government can or should be the architect of economic “fairness.” This idea is wrong in so many ways. Economically, it hampers the effectiveness of the markets by robbing money from the production of what people want in order to funnel it to what experts think they ought to want. This fails because, for all people’s individual errors, the wisdom of crowds is almost always wiser than the experts. Stealing money from the markets for government schemes destroys jobs, punishes creators, and hamstrings businesses — and all because people with too much education and too little experience think they know better than those on the economic front lines.

    Or not. Doesn’t sound “good man” to me but what do I know, just another anonymous internet person here.

  22. bh says:

    “Good man” has become a talisman as well.

    Is he one? Of course not. Does that mean that this video snippet means jack shit? Of course not.

  23. bh says:

    Besides, it’s obvious, she says, “Does your presidency make my ass look big?”

    It’s there clear as day.

  24. newrouter says:

    “Most of Obama’s supporters, I would imagine, do not share the radical anti-Americanism inherent in this vision. ”

    so a snake oil salesman, that is intentionally inflicting economic pain on the body politic for his own reasons, is what? well not evil that’s for sure according to klavan.

  25. happyfeet says:

    that video needs sound so you can hear what she’s saying

  26. newrouter says:

    it is not evil to take $500 million to help to poor school children in chitown and give it to your cronies. no not evil at all.

  27. bh says:

    […]and all because people with too much education and too little experience think they know better than those on the economic front lines.

    That always bothers me though.

    Just a minor amount of education (let alone too much) would open their eyes to the knowledge problem.

  28. newrouter says:

    no that’s not evil that your chief of staff was/is a huge slum lord in chitown while she spouts “social justice” non sense. move along people. jeez

  29. LBascom says:

    Obama is a Marxist. Sorry, that’s what he is. Half American, half Muslim, half white, half assed; it is all distraction. Joe the plumber exposed him before he was elected, everything he’s done since has proven the case.

    If Obama were a good man, he would admit what he is and make the case America should socialize on a global scale. Instead he obscures his true beliefs beneath crisis born necessity and social justice inspired class warfare. he is not truthfull about exactly were he wants to take the country, and relies on the useful idiot MSM to sell his actions as pragmatic.

    Obama is a liar and a tyrant, not a good man.

    ‘Cuz he’s perhaps misguided…

  30. bh says:

    I’d say a video where you can’t tell what the hell that dingbat is saying is about the worst possible jumping off point if we’re to discuss how Obama quite clearly isn’t a good man.

  31. newrouter says:

    if you tax leftoid lunacy in the “court of public opinion” you get less leftoid lunacy. klavan doesn’t want to apply the tax. the klavans and freys play by rules that aren’t honored.

  32. JD says:

    Completely off topic, way off topic …. We should all welcome Beth Behrs and her legs that go all the way to her ass.

  33. bh says:

    I missed where he called him a good man.

    No. That’s the talisman we use.

    I heard “supercilious prats” and a rather unremarkable contention that they’re not necessarily going to act like cartoon villains in public.

  34. bh says:

    if you tax leftoid lunacy in the “court of public opinion” you get less leftoid lunacy. klavan doesn’t want to apply the tax. the klavans and freys play by rules that aren’t honored.

    What, he’s supposed to lie to us because they lie to their rubes?

    I agree with you in the game theory sense. But, that doesn’t include us trumping up nonsense where it’s so easily knocked down. How about we just say that he’s an anti-American Marxist who has been destroying the nation since his inauguration? That’s believable. There’s lots and lots of evidence for that.

    So why do we feel the need to press dumb ass shit like this when we have real weapons to use against him?

  35. Jeff G. says:

    He doesn’t rub his hands together when he’s alone and mutter, “The economy is almost destroyed. One more stimulus package should do the trick! Bwahahahaha.”

    Because he’s not a cartoon villain. He’s all too real. And what Klavan wants us to accept, by way of cartooning what we think Obama is up to, is that Obama couldn’t possibly be intentionally following strategies he learned from Alinksky and Frank Davis and at Cooper Union and through Cloward and Piven and his time as a “community organizer” and race hustler.

    Frankly, I’m tired of people who think themselves so smart — and yet are too lazy to learn about, much less accept, what are FACTS about Obama’s past and his intellectual “training” — telling people who HAVE bothered to figure this guy out that we’re not helping by ascribing to Obama motives he can’t possibly have. Because those are the product of “perfervid speculation or absurd charges” that are not serious. Meaning, Klavan is allowed to ascribe to US motivations of the very kinds he won’t allow ascribed to Obama by people who understand what he’s up to.

    It’s a way of seizing some intellectual high ground you haven’t earned by dismissing that which you find too tawdry to believe.

    And that won’t fly. I don’t have any idea where Obama was born, nor does Klavan. We have Obama’s word and a dubious bit of documentation. I don’t know if Obama is a “Muslim,” either; I just know that Reverend Wright’s black liberation theology and the Nation of Islam aren’t exactly worlds apart, in terms of many of their core beliefs. And while I’m quite sure Obama doesn’t sit alone cackling about the undermining of the capitalist system, it is a fact that he is pushing for a massive tax increase on the last remaining segment of the private sector with capital left to confiscate and redistribute, and that he’s right now trying to reframe the “rich” and “millionaires and billionaires” as those who are really nothing more than the modern upper middle class. The class warfare appeal is clearly not accidental, nor is the race baiting and allegations of “anti-union/anti-working man.”

    If Klavan wants to talk seriously with someone, I suggest he give Stanley Kurtz a call. Or hell, I’m happy to talk with him.

    But he might stop pretending that only people like he or Moran, etc., — those with the fine breeding enough not to consider the information contained in the whispers on the extremist fringes — are capable of serious discussion or analyses.

  36. newrouter says:

    “a rather unremarkable contention that they’re not necessarily going to act like cartoon villains in public.”

    oh really class warfare, like millionaires and billionaires, isn’t a cartoon vision? the leftoids do it all the time. sorry that game is finished. only tucker carlson is playing it these days.

  37. JD says:

    bh posted on 9/19 @ 7:29 pm
    Besides, it’s obvious, she says, “Does your presidency make my ass look big?”

    And the only rational response to that would be, “No. Your gifuckingnormous ass makes your ass look big”

  38. Jeff G. says:

    Of course, I could be going too hard at Klavan.

    I’m a little short these days with people who cartoon my views. I have no opinion on the flag thing. Someone sent me the link, but I never got around to watching it.

    I thought Michele had already made it quite clear what she thought of this bourgeois country whose taxpayers put her up in 5-star hotels and pay for her endless vacations and personal stylist/designer. She can only now be proud, the rubes having elected Barack.

    When they toss his craven ass out she’ll go back to hating the great unwashed with the fat kids only she is trying to save.

  39. LBascom says:

    “’d say a video where you can’t tell what the hell that dingbat is saying is about the worst possible jumping off point if we’re to discuss how Obama quite clearly isn’t a good man.”

    Does it matter what she’s saying, or more when she is saying something?

    Asking for someone to pass the peas during the blessing is rude, kinda like toasting the queen during her national anthem.

    Doesn’t make you bad necessarily, but I’d argue that speculation is not unwarranted..

  40. Jeff G. says:

    By the way? I’m quite proud of the “good man” talisman.

    I take full credit for making that fucker GLOW!

  41. newrouter says:

    maybe that’s whats got me: michelle doesn’t have, after princeton and harvard, the self control to shut the eff up for 10 minutes in a social setting. whiney effin’ fatty.

  42. bh says:

    Does Klavan have some backstory I don’t know about? Is he often a dick or something? (Honestly, I’ve watched about 30 seconds of one of his videos.)

    If he’s all about sniping at the peoples and this is part of a pattern, I don’t pay enough attention to the guy to know it. If he doesn’t have that history, I’m not seeing it. Maybe I’m keying in too much on that ludicrous video interpretation.

  43. bh says:

    I’m not busting your balls with the talisman talk, Jeff.

    You don’t use it that way. Nor did you introduce it that way.

    It’s descriptive or ironic for you.

    Talismanic is my term for describing when it’s used simply to go for an easy rhetorical win rather than put forth the effort.

  44. sdferr says:

    One of Klavan’s recent efforts on Obama.

  45. newrouter says:

    “Does Klavan have some backstory I don’t know about?”

    no he’s just taking the easy way out when discussing baracky. he’s part of the fedora crew.

  46. Abe Froman says:

    I don’t know where Klavan is coming from exactly, but as someone who bit hard on the moron wingnut noise machine during Clinton, I expect video of Michelle Obama fucking herself with a KFC drumstick while humming the Cuban National anthem before I give a shit.

  47. newrouter says:

    “herself with a KFC drumstick while humming the Cuban National anthem”

    oh please the The Internationale

  48. bh says:

    Does it matter what she’s saying, or more when she is saying something?

    Asking for someone to pass the peas during the blessing is rude, kinda like toasting the queen during her national anthem.

    Hadn’t considered that, Lee.

    Yeah, you’re right. That’s there regardless of whatever she said.

  49. LTC John says:

    Thanks for that, Abe. I may not sleep tonight, after reading that. How am I going to explain to the J-4 why I am so bleary eyed tomorrow, when I go in for an assignment?

    I think Jeff and S. Kurtz have given us all the demolition material we need for O! = good man. No need to waste time parsing Mrs O!’s talking during the flag ceremony – she (and he) have demonstrated enough outside that to be considered ungood.

  50. bh says:

    Okay, here’s an analogy.

    Take Perry and the Merck deal. Bachmann bugged the hell out of me and actually hurt herself with some of her rhetoric. Even though there is something there.

    On the other hand, pay attention to Geoff during this whole thing. Never stretching the truth like this video interpretation. Just quietly murdering the guy with facts and details.

    At the moment, the Merck/Perry/Gardisil dealio isn’t a -1 for me. It’s a -5.

    Bachmann didn’t do that. Geoff did.

    (Not that this was his intent. He’s just looking for the truth of the matter.)

  51. newrouter says:

    “No need to waste time parsing Mrs O!’s talking during the flag ceremony”

    there is always a need to sow doubt about this regime. they gotta big media waiting to unleash.

  52. newrouter says:

    “At the moment, the Merck/Perry/Gardisil dealio isn’t a -1 for me. It’s a -5.

    Bachmann didn’t do that. Geoff did.”

    only if you put the “debate” about sex and vaccinations otherwise ricky perry is a big gov’t do as i say guy. ricky let peeps know you want to take their liberties and the burritos.

  53. Abe Froman says:

    there is always a need to sow doubt about this regime. they gotta big media waiting to unleash.

    Anyone willing to buy shit like this already thinks he’s a Kenyan. So, way to fight that liberal media, Sparky.

  54. happyfeet says:

    gardasil! gardasil! dry and secure!

    raise your hand! raise your hand if you’re sure you won’t die from a ghastly cancer

  55. newrouter says:

    “Anyone willing to buy shit like this already thinks he’s a Kenyan. ”

    or an idiot. i say call baracky an idiot. some folks in the middle think so too?

  56. bh says:

    Trust me, ‘feets. I’m not a big fan of those cancers.

    But… (yeah, I’m definitely the asshole who says “but” now) that’s what a record is for. To be looked over.

    That doesn’t make him a devil nor does it erase his positives. But, it’s there. It’s something to be weighed.

    If it puts this into context for you imagine I’m talking about his horrible Christian pandering at the Super Texas Dome or whatever.

    Doesn’t change the fact that he does indeed have positives and it doesn’t change the fact that Obamacare counts for at least -1000 against his possible opponent.

    But, it’s there. It’s problematic and isn’t what we’d hope for from an executive.

  57. newrouter says:

    “gardasil! gardasil! dry and secure!”

    let’s talk about sex rather than gov’t overreach. go swiss cake rolls.

  58. geoffb says:

    This here does more harm to Bachmann as this is not a presidential way to act but more like Obama.

    Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Monday she was not arguing that a vaccine intended to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation when she repeated the scientifically unfounded claim last week.

    The Minnesota congresswoman said she was relaying what a distraught woman told her after a GOP presidential debate in Florida in which Bachmann criticized rival Rick Perry for ordering the vaccine in Texas.

    “All I was doing is relaying what a woman had said,” Bachmann told The Associated Press after touring a manufacturer in Waterloo. “I relayed what she said. I wasn’t attesting to her accuracy. I wasn’t attesting to anything.”

    I like much of what Bachmann has stood for but this is a foot in mouth moment. I would not at all be surprised if it turns out the un-named “woman” who told her this is an opposition operative. Call it her “macaca” moment if that proves true.

  59. Abe Froman says:

    I’m just thankful that the Bachmann bandwagon finally has a raging herpes flareup.

  60. bh says:

    She might be out. If she endorses Romney I’m gonna laugh my ass off.

    Don’t think she will. It’d be funny though. That whole Obamacare and Perrycare without Romneycare fundraising talk gives me some hope for future laughs.

  61. bh says:

    I would not at all be surprised if it turns out the un-named “woman” who told her this is an opposition operative.

    Gonna be real honest here.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if that unnamed woman doesn’t exist.

    Besides, we can’t really pretend that it’s better if she only passed it along from this mystery woman can we?

    I can’t.

    There’s no positive out for her here. She’s either lying or too gullible to be president

  62. Abe Froman says:

    But she wants it so so so much.

  63. sdferr says:

    They should campaign to govern, not just win an election.

    Holy crap! What is he talking about?

  64. geoffb says:

    Not better no, just as bad.

  65. bh says:

    Not better no, just as bad.

    Sorry, I’m overly loose sometimes.

    Oftentimes even.

  66. happyfeet says:

    sorry i had to go to chin-chin’s

  67. zino3 says:

    I hear steroids shrink your “stuff”.

    The bigger your biceps, the smaller your…you know.

  68. Pablo says:

    I like much of what Bachmann has stood for but this is a foot in mouth moment.

    Yet another in a long string of foot in mouth moments. She can’t stop.

    It gets worse.

  69. alppuccino says:

    This is easy. All you have to do is listen to Dr. (yes, DOCTOR!) Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of Black Studies.

    What you get is a big heap of bullshit wrapped neatly in black skin. If you can make heads or tails, or sense out of anything Dr. (yes, DOCTOR) Hill says, see a counselor immediately.

    It’s the classic Peter Principle accelerated due to the black man getting his due, after centuries of oppression.

    I don’t deny the oppression part, I just don’t get where Clarence Thomas fits in to the whole reparations bit. What memo did Clarence miss? Did Walter Williams miss a meeting? Was Herman Cain raised by white people.

    Obama is trying to bullshit his way out of a situation that is clearly above his pay grade. He’s a con man with a problem: he’s an idiot.

  70. Matt says:

    Interesting thing is, with all the criticisms of Sarah Palin not being ready for primetime, I feel that way with Bachman. Stuff comes out of her mouth sometimes and I wonder what the hell she was thinking prior to saying it. I don’t think she’s a loon or religious nutjob or anything like that and she certainly was instrumental in mobilizing the tea party and setting out the important issues in the last election. I could see her with a cabinet post or running for Senate but I just don’t see her as presidential material right now.

  71. geoffb says:

    His main “mark” is himself, so it’s not really a problem …. for him.

  72. mojo says:

    Headline: Professional Black Caucus Gets Jiggy Wit it

  73. McGehee says:

    Mojo, I think you misspelled “wif.”

  74. happyfeet says:

    I don’t understand. It’s Romney vs. Perry you have to pick one. I have to pick Perry cause nominating Romney would be a big Fuck You to the party of tea, which would be bad for you and bad for me and bad for America.

  75. sdferr says:

    Why hf? “It’s Romney or Perry you have to pick one” is exactly the same form as “it’s Obama or Romney you have to pick one” to which you yourself have said, no, no I don’t.

  76. happyfeet says:

    well I mean if you want to play you have to pick

    I can really easily see me losing any and all motivation to play come next November but still I’m hopeful I can just go in and vote for Perry and get my sticker

    not that I like Perry or anything it’s just that’s where we are it seems

  77. happyfeet says:

    it’s very disappointing though that the Team R people aren’t talking about the spendings just gardasils and errant mexians

    I care not a whit about gardasils and errant mexicans

  78. sdferr says:

    Isn’t it though? There is a great story to tell, both in terms of the dangers we face and also in terms of the terrific renewal that facing and conquering those dangers would bring. But the candidates we have aren’t possessed of the requisite grounding in political philosophy nor, apparently, of a governing vision sufficiently fleshed out in their own minds that they might present — or else, I assume, they’d have presented it by now.

    Typically in human history, great crises bring forth great men of action. It could be that this crisis will be an exception, and the people will go wanting a leader worthy of the challenge. Unless, maybe, we seek and find one on our own.

  79. newrouter says:

    “the spendings just gardasils and errant mexians”

    the spendings and errant “mexians” are related no.

  80. happyfeet says:

    if Team R isn’t ready they should just say so

    what they’re going to inherit economically is not something they should sign up for if they don’t have a good grasp of the ramifications

    and they needed to have started explaining the situation yesterday

  81. happyfeet says:

    errant mexians are far less problematic than the average R would have you believe

  82. newrouter says:

    errant mexians in prison cost dineros no?

  83. geoffb says:

    Everything can be related to the “spendings”.

    Perry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines. In addition, he ordered that Medicaid offer Gardasil to women ages 19 to 21.

    It is just necessary to decide what “spendings” are right, proper, and needed.

    That said, if my choice is Romney or Perry then I choose Perry. His speech on Israel was very good.

    We should also take a moment to thank president Obama for all he has done for us. No really.

  84. sdferr says:

    Here’s a strange thought. How about Clarence Thomas run for President? He might be up to the task.

  85. newrouter says:

    the spendings revealed yummy

    U.S. Justice Department agencies spent too much for food at conferences, in one case serving $16 muffins and in another dishing out beef Wellington appetizers that cost $7.32 per serving, an audit found.

    Link

  86. happyfeet says:

    texas has a balanced budget though so the gardasils came at the expense of something else, which is way different than how America does the spendings

    I would choose Clarence over that Romney person every single time. Romney lied and said Perry wanted to abolish social security and acted like Perry was overstating the fundamental insolvency of that ill-fated ponzi scheme.

    Romney’s a liar and a douchebag. Also he’s a pansified masachussetts fuddletwat.

  87. happyfeet says:

    what is a $16 muffin? How many people does it feed? Does it have fun prizes inside?

  88. Abe Froman says:

    What does a $16 muffin taste like? I know from personal experience that $30 hamburgers taste exactly like hamburgers, but I’m thinking a $16 muffin might actually be some kind of miracle treat that’s worth every penny.

  89. happyfeet says:

    I’m intrigued

  90. newrouter says:

    savoir

    “That audit cited a reception that included Swedish meatballs costing $5 apiece. ”

    or

    “A March 2009 conference of the Office on Violence Against Women served Cracker Jack, popcorn and candy bars at a single break, costing $32 per person, according to the report. ”

    the wymyns had special stuff

  91. happyfeet says:

    the swedish meatballs at ikea are actually cheaper this year than last year

    it was on a sign there

  92. Abe Froman says:

    $5 Swedish meatballs? Haven’t these assholes ever heard of IKEA?

  93. newrouter says:

    more spendings: dancing with the dollars edition

    I’m serious. Close it. As CNS News reported, $762,372 of your money was spent — under the stimulus, of course — by the National Science Foundation to study . . . interpretive dance. Here’s Recovery.Org on this fiasco:

    In this project the PI will study lightweight embodiment as an input for collaborative creative interaction, specifically applied to the domain of dance. The PI and her team of technologists, choreographers and artists will work together to define an evolving system that assists in the design and production of interactive dance performances with real-time audience interaction. The Dance.Draw system will enable dancers’ motions, tracked via small RF transmitters worn in satin cuffs . . .

    Link

  94. sdferr says:

    Y’all remember Ali Abunimah? He was one of Obama’s Palestinian pals prior to Barry’s announcement for the Presidency. Abunimah fessed up right around then that he and others would have to quiet down for Obama’s sake, and further, to not expect too much of their buddy on the Palestinian’s behalf, the US Presidency being a captive of the Israeli lobby and all — so Barry would have to be cut some serious slack on that account.

    Anyhow, Ali shows up in Foreign Affairs yesterday, talking shit about Abbas’ plan to run through the UN. Well, that and making (or assuming, more like) the case that Israel has no legitimate right to exist. Nice friends Obama keeps.

    This chunk-O’-shite by Abunimah stacks in pretty well with that vid take-off of Sol Stern that Bill Whittle’s narrating.

  95. newrouter says:

    the spendings were fun but the regs are funner

    In my own business, securities regulations have prohibited me from hiring brokers for more than three years. I was even fined fifteen thousand dollar expressly for hiring too many brokers in 2008. In the process I incurred more than $500,000 in legal bills to mitigate a more severe regulatory outcome as a result of hiring too many workers. I have also been prohibited from opening up additional offices. I had a major expansion plan that would have resulted in my creating hundreds of additional jobs. Regulations have forced me to put those jobs on hold.

    Link

  96. newrouter says:

    and funner

    National Economic Research Associates (NERA) used the Federal Government’s own data in finding that Obama’s proposed EPA regulations would cost America over 180,000 jobs per year between 2013 and 2020.

    This includes effects from the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) as well as Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) rules.

    Here’s a break down of just a handful of the states affected by these regulations:

    Projected Job Losses between 2013-2020:

    Pennsylvania: 59,000
    Ohio: 53,500
    West Virginia: 38,500
    Michigan: 40,000
    Illinois: 48,000
    Indiana: 51,500
    Wisconsin: 24,500
    Iowa: 26,500
    Minnesota: 12,500
    Florida: 135,000
    Missouri: 76,000

    Total nationwide will be in the range of 1.44 million jobs lost.

    Link

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