Wed-Thursday Nov 11-12, 2009 Vol
2426 - Ridin' a wire fence
Quote of
the Day
"Just pass the bill, even if it's not exactly
what you want. When you try and fail, the other guys
write history."
-- Big Dog, trying to convince bribed Blue Dogs, Link
Excerpt: All the Democrats were using some odd rhetoric
on TV today. When asked directly if they would vote for a bill that had
a
Stupak amendment they kept saying that they were
going to work to make sure that they "preserved the status quo."
The president said the same thing:
"I laid out a very simple principle, which is
this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And we're
not looking
to change what is the principle that has been
in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to
subsidize abortions."
It's just great seeing the president defending
his principles like that. I'm just not sure what the principle actually
is.
It certainly isn't that a woman has a fundamental
right to make her own reproductive decisions.
Evidently, they are signaling that the Hyde Amendment
is their backstop once again...why in the hell do (liberals) go into
every discussion having already given away everything
but their bottom line? Especially when the only people with whom they
are
negotiating are ostensibly on their own team,
where presumably the leadership and the president have some extra sway?
If there was ever a case for the liberals to go
in with guns blazing, demanding repeal of the Hyde Amendment, demanding
single payer,
demanding huge tax increases on the wealthy,
demanding open border access to the health care system (which some countries
have.)
Then they would have had something to work with.
Each day, the words "democrat" and "surrender" come closer to meaning
the same thing.
"Homophobic is merely a made-up word to try
to force everyone to be politically correct on gay marriage
or risk being accused of being hateful." -- Carrie Prejean, wearing
her "God Hates Fags" wife beater tank top, wehateclintons.com
The argument, for me, boils down to this: my Toyota
Camry will built in Georgetown, Kentucky, with 74%
of its parts being produced in American factories
by American workers making a good living.
I looked at a Ford Fusion, which is comparable
to my Camry. It is made in MEXICO.
GM, this summer, closed an engine plant in Wisconsin
and moved it to MEXICO.
I will continue to support companies that employ
American workers and pay them
good wages and benefits, not companies that are
American In Name Only.
Bill in Versailles, KY
Excerpt: The New York Post editor fired after speaking
out against a cartoon depicting the author of the president's stimulus
package as a dead chimpanzee has sued the paper.
And as part of her complaint, Sandra Guzman levels some remarkable,
embarrassing, and potentially damaging allegations.
Guzman has filed a complaint against News Corporation,
the New York Post and the paper's editor in chief Col Allan,
alleging harassment as well as "unlawful employment
practices and retaliation."
As part of the 38-page complaint, Guzman paints
the Post newsroom as a male-dominated frat house and Allan in particular
as sexist, offensive and domineering. Guzman
alleges that she and others were routinely subjected to misogynistic behavior.
She says that hiring practices at the paper --
as well as her firing -- were driven by racial prejudices rather than merit.
And she recounts the paper's D.C. bureau chief
stating that the publication's goal was to "destroy Barack Obama."
"Stupak thinks of himself as a doctor and feels
comfortable inserting himself in between millions of women and their physicians. Not since Dr.
Frist’s remote diagnosis of Terri Schiavo have we seen such arrogance. I’m sick of the C-Street panty-sniffers
like Stupak. Why is it always helmet-haired old white guys who are such busybodies when it comes to a
piece of anatomy they don’t have?" -- John Cole,
Link
I was just wondering why all the congress-people
who are steadfast against a public healthcare option
don't voluntarily forego the public healthcare
they receive as members of Congress.
I think it would also be nice touch if they all
voluntarily agreed to give to charity a percentage of
their total annual income equal to what the average
American pays for healthcare
Just a thought.
Eric from Boston
Eric, the Democrats don't have the brains to use that aginst the sons
of bitches.
Excerpt John Conyers told reporters that he'd like Obama
to channel LBJ if he wants to get health care reform passed:
"The president could take a few pages from Lyndon
Johnson's book... and start knocking heads together," said Conyers.
Conyers came to Congress in 1965, the year Medicare
was passed under Johnson when Obama was not yet 4 years old.
Huh. You know, I thought that the whole knocking
a heads was supposed to be a feature of tough Chicago-style politicians,
and that Rahm Emanuel was going to be sending
intransigent legislators fish-corpses through the mail! But Conyers is
right.
When it comes to swinging pipes, Obama mewls
his displeasure through well-placed, off-the-record quotes.
If Obama would bust somebody hard - someone we don't need, like
Kissyface
- other Democrats might think, "I don't want
that to happen to me," and they'd fall in line.
But Obama tends to reward people who attack him so there's no incentive
not to attack.
"Stupak doesn't care if women die. I suppose
that's unfair, it's possible he's too stupid to understand the consequences
of what he's doing."
-- Atrios, Link
It seems like you're biased and afraid of the
truth.
So far you haven't said anything.
Why do you think Fox news is so fascist?
Because they f-ing are - what country are you
in?
Rupert Murdock is an Israeli.
How can you criticize Bush and the Republicans
and not Israel.
Your complete bias is affecting your credibility.
I am biased about gtetting drawn into a never-ending
fight that makes friends hate each other.
If uou want to spend a few years or a few decades
there, be my guest, but count me out..
Wake up and smell the marijuana. we're at
www.lajemm.com
Excerpt: One could almost literally see the thought bubbles
above Obama's head on Sunday, in the Rose Garden:
"Now it falls on the United States Senate"
-- God help us, I know these charlatans firsthand -- "to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line"
-- Yeah, if the baton were lathered with earmarks, maybe, and the finish
line
were a pot of fundraising gold -- "on behalf
of the American people" -- Who writes these fantasies? -- "and I’m absolutely confident that they will" --
Well, not really confident, more like hopeful, actually, a bit disillusioned,
no,
in reality, downright discouraged and depressed.
Whether or not one believes that President Obama
deserves this particular Congress, he asked far too much of it.
Revamping such a huge and broken segment of the
American economy -- health care -- is a job for dispassionate
lawmakers with an eye toward what works nationally,
not poseurs and popinjays with an eye only for reelection back home.
Rahm Emanuel recently observed, "Let's be honest.
The goal isn't to see whether I can pass this through the Brookings Institution.
I'm passing it through the United States Congress
with people who represent constituents" -- and lobbyists drenched in
special-interest cash, both of which influence
how legislators attempt to educate those constituents. So round and round
it goes,
and it always comes back to the money.
"Democrats are on the verge of throwing women
under the bus. If they do, pro-choice women will almost
certainly return the favor." -- Jed Lewison,
Link
> "Last week, RNC Chairman Michael Tom
Steele made clear that moderates who > don’t walk the Party line have no place
in the GOP... "
Why don't the Democrats do/say this about that
weasel Lieberman?
Susan S
It's because the GOP wants to win and the Democrats? Let's
say there are certain
situations where they might accept victory - if all conditions
line up perfectly.
Excerpt: If Clinton or Gore had been President in 2001,
the Ft. Hood massacre almost certainly wouldn't have happened.
Because George W. Bush was president, it did.
Here's why it's Bush's fault:
The goodness of a hero is defined by a single
quality - the evil of his opponent. From Superman's Lex Luthor to
Batman's Joker, for a hero to be perceived as
larger than life, he must have a larger than life enemy.
This is a lesson that was not lost on Karl Rove
and George W. Bush. If they could recast George as the opponent
of a power as great as Luthor and the Joker,
then the rather ordinary Dubya could become the extraordinary
SuperGeorge, rising from his facileness to prevail
over supernatural powers of evil.
Mullah Omar of Afghanistan's Taliban first offered
to arrest bin Laden and turn him over to us and then made
an explicit offer to arrest Bin Laden and try
him for the crimes of 9/11.
But Karl Rove knew that George W. Bush had a problem,
and saw in bin Laden the solution. Bush was seen as
a buffoonish pretender, an ineffectual manager,
and a sellout to big oil and other scandal-ridden industries. He was
an inside trader, a small man on the national
and international stage.
George W. desperately needed his own Lex Luthor
if he was to reinvent himself as Superman.
You know politics real good, but when it comes
to comparing the cars of today, your still stuck in your 80’s Cutlass.
Yes, if I still had that 86 Cutlass Supreme,
I'd be stuck.
I remember trying to pull the door closed and
the door handle came off in my hand.
The handle was attached to the door ...with f-ing
cardboard.
I paid $16,600 for that Cutlass in 1986.
Maybe if I'd paid $16,001 they could've used
wood instead of cardboard?
Wake up, join the crowd and stop helping ruin
the economy with your shameless worship of inferior Asian automobiles.
Sadly, the cars speak for themselves.
I paid extra for a "bumper-to-bumper" warranty
on that Cutlass so after 11 months, I took it back
with a list of 16 problems and they said only
one of the problems was covered.
My take is that you’re secretly funded by some
Asian auto dealers in Okie.
There are dozens out there that may actually
believe you know something about cars.
Danny Detroit
Are we pretending that Ol' Bart bankrupted GM, Chrysler and Ford?
All those years of planned obsolescence are taking their toll.
Maybe your vision would be clearer if you lived outside of Michigan?
Subject: Detroit cars
Hey Danny Detroit. The two Dodges I owned were
made in Mexico City, and a Ford made in Germany.
My Nissan Frontier was made UAW in Tennessee
and my Toyota Tacoma was made UAW in Ohio.
I got an awesome deal on the Tacoma and it runs
about 240 HP and tows anything I want.
I looked at the Chevy Colorado. For another 4500
bucks it coulda been mine. With it's 5 gutless cylinders.
Danny, have you researched where the Ford F250
and F350 are made?
Get back to me on that one.
Sparky
Subject: Detroit cars
Bart, I work as a car mechanic (my degree is in
Aviation Maintenance, but aircraft jobs are non-existent right now).
This crap he's always saying about how American
cars are soooo much better than Japanese cars is pure BS.
I specialize in Subarus, which are half and half
US and Japanese built (Imprezas in ?ta, Legacys in Indiana),
and the build quality is largely the same. It's
not that Americans can't build cars, it's that we can't design them for
shit.
And good design is what makes cars work well and
last a long time. Which in turn leads to a better reputation.
It is Detroit's reputation for low quality that
is currently killing them.
Look up the blue book values on a Pontiac Vibe
versus a Toyota Matrix.
The Toyota is worth more, and other than the
name they're the EXACT SAME CAR.
-J
Longtime readers know I used to finance used cars. From a value point
of view, I'd rather finance a
2004 Accord than a 2006 Malibu because the Malibu will break and the
customer will refuse to pay for it.
Meanwhile, the guy who bought the Accord is happy and he makes his
payment on-time every month.
My old boss had a deal with a local Pontiac dealer.
They'd call and say, "I have 20 used cars
for you to buy," so the boss would keep the Toyotas
and Hondas and he'd send the American cars to the auction - to be someone
else's headache.
We all wish the facts were different, but they can't be ignored.
"As soon as Muslims give us a foolproof way
to identify their jihadis from their moderates, we'll go back to allowing them (in the military).
Until that day comes, we simply cannot afford the risk. Invent a
jihadi-detector that works every time it's used, and
we'll welcome you back with open arms." -- Bryan Fischer, at the American
Handjob Association, Link
What if Japan said, "As soon as America
give us a foolproof way to identify their rapists, we'll go back to allowing the military in our country.
Until that day comes, we simply cannot afford the risk. Invent a rapist-detector that works every time
it's used, and we'll welcome you back with open arms."
What if Catholics said, "As soon as The
Vatican give us a foolproof way to identify their rapists, we'll go back to allowing the priests in our parish.
Until that day comes, we simply cannot afford the risk. Invent a rapist-detector that works every time
it's used, and we'll welcome you back with open arms."
Quotes
"One man cannot guarantee the actions of another." -- Mr. Spock, The Enterprise
Incident, 1968
Don’t forget that the Dallas Police Department
threw out some boxes a number of years back
with multiple negatives from that series, all
with Oswald’s body cut out of them. This is a primitive
technique for matting images together. Which
begs the question:
What were they doing in the Dallas Police Department?
Excerpt: Harry Reid faces a number of obstacles to passing
health care reform (Like courage, brains and a spine) but his main task
is to keep his caucus united for not one, but
two, supermajority votes, just to get the reform bill an up or down on
the Senate floor.
Failure to get 60 votes to push past either of
those two procedural chokepoints could derail the reform bill.
Here are the six key holdouts Reid must wrangle
to reach the magic threshold.
"Last week, Glenn Beck had an emergency appendectomy,
but he'll be back on the air tomorrow. However, doctors are warning Beck to
take it easy and only compare Obama to Hitler three times an hour." -- Conan,
How long will NBC continue to deny they have a severe problem?
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Subject: Obama's other Greatest
Mistake
Bart, the reason Karzai is still in place is because
BushCo put him there.
Obama must be on board with the plan to construct
a pipeline though Afghanistan
so our puppet will remain in place and
we'll continue to use poor americans who
cant find other work outside the military to
shore him up.
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Quotes
"Just imagine, folks, if the Fort Hood shooter
was shouting 'Jesus Christ!' as he fired. Do you think there would be any of
these calls: 'Hey, let's not rush to judgment here'?"
-- the vulgar Pigboy, attempting to make some kinf of point,.but the syphilis
won't let him
Excerpt Matthew Continetti has a piece in this weekend’s
Weekly Standard hailing Sarah Palin as the ideal leader
of a new populist uprising. One obvious objection
to his thesis: The populist Sarah is in fact one of the most
unpopular figures in American life.
According to Gallup, 63% of Americans say they
would never consider voting for her and 62%-31%
Americans rate Palin “unqualified” to serve as
president – the worst score for any Republican.
Palin supporters have constructed an alternative
reality in which their heroine is wildly cheered by average Americans,
and despised only by a small coterie of sherry-drinking
snobs. No contrary evidence, no matter how overwhelming,
can alter this view: not the collapse in Palin's
support in just 5 weeks in 2008, not the statistical studies that show
her
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Excerpt; Lou Dobbs, the outspoken racist and xenophobe
who has been with CNN since 1980, is a quitter.
Dobbs, who is married to a Latino woman, yesterday
told viewers that he was resigning immediately.
The long-serving whore has become an increasingly
controversial figure in the eyes of non-racists with
his outspoken comments about those with nothing
who'd like a piece of the American dream.
Earlier this year Dobbs became a senior birther
handjob, urging the president to prove he was born in Hawaii.
In announcing his resignation last night, Dobbs
indicated that he was quitting CNN to gain more freedom
to express his views and even hinted at a possible
move into politics.
Translation: CNN told me to stop with the racist crap so I'm quitting to join insane
handjobs like Bachmann,
Beck, Limbaugh and Palin as they screech obscenities
at our he's-not-white president.
Excerpt: Every day I wake up with the same thought: "I
used to be such a goddamned idiot."
I am a former Republican. And I wasn't merely
the libertarian, live-and-let-live, fun-at-parties kind of conservative
whose primary concern is balancing the budget;
I was a spiteful, narrow-minded, fire-breathing paranoid lunatic who
questioned the patriotism and morality of my
liberal fellow citizens. Recognizing the error of my ways has done wonders
for my mental health but left me with constant,
unremitting remorse; I really want to go back in time and kick my own ass.
Since CBS made super-boring Laurence Fishburne
the star of C.S.I. (ignoring the characters
American viewers came to love) the show has lost
its "top drama" status and ratings have fallen 25%.
Fishburne's wooden acting and lack of personality
has plunged a dagger into TV's top drama,
dropping them out of the top ten for the first
time in nine years.
Note: Fishburne is being paid $350K
per episode to murder C.S.I. Hell, I could've steppen in and killed the show
for half that price.
Tonight, in a brilliant move, CBS is sending
Fishburne to C.S.I. MiamiandC.S.I. New York to see if he can kill those shows, too.
Does Fishburne have pictures of Les Moonves with
a naked Dominican boy?
Why would they focus their top show on somebody
the viewers clearly don't like?
Moulitsas said to Tom Tancredo, "I'm
a veteran. I did not get a deferment because I was too
depressed to fight in a war that I supported in Vietnam."
Clinton
Health care Quotes
"We need to put a bill on the president's desk
and he needs to sign it, so at the State of the Union he's not
explaining why we haven't done health care." -- Bill Clinton,
Link
"What's ironic about what President Clinton
apparently had to say today is he is now of the Obama school and the Rahm Emanuel school of 'accept
anything.' There's nothing worth fighting over. There's nothing worth voting no over here. This is
exactly the opposite of what his approach was in 1994." -- Clinton-hating know-it-all
Lawrence O'Donnell, Link
Butt Larry, assholes like you called Clinton's 1994 health care
plan "a disaster," " a fiasco"
and "a debacle" and now you're angry that he's taking the opposite
approach?
Go fuck yourself.
"This was a political speech he gave to them.
And the underlying message from Clinton, who is the best politician in his party and the
best strategist in his party, is, folks, you have to go along with this. You don't get health care, you're in
huge trouble. This was a politician coming to talk to other politicians." -- Candy Crowley
(R- Butter Queen), Link
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