Thinking Right

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 8:10 AM | Link to this

Oh my.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 8:12 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. The good news is that there are only three RINOs remaining in America. The bad news is that is a sufficient number to allow the leftists to continue their program, begun in 2006, to destroy the economy.

Side issue, last week I offered argument that Jaime Gorelick had done more damage to the US than any other bureaucrat in history. While that is undoubtedly true, a comparable argument has to be made for Arlen Specter, whose one other distinguishing act, giving cover to the leftists in the rejection of the brilliant Robert Bork for the court, leaving us the dithering wishy-washy Anthony Kennedy. For those who do not closely observe the court, Justice Kennedy is always the fifth vote in the stupidest Supreme Court rulings of the past 20 years.

Also, as a point of order, President Obama does not seek compromise legislation, nor any rational input from conservatives – in true cultist fashion he seeks only “bipartisan” ratification of his program. Such lock-step ratification is necessary, as there is no intellectual basis for the legislation crafted by the solons. Keynesianism died a horrible death in the 1970s, in only its second true test, and is doomed to fail again. All acknowledge that there is nothing in the current “stimulus” bill – more accurately called a “spendulus” bill or “porkulus” bill by informed observers – that would urge employers generally to increase either production and/or workers. There are admittedly some instances of corporate welfare that would artificially stimulate uneconomic activity, and leftist schemes always require substantial and continuing taxpayer support – the cry next year will be the ‘necessity” of the spending to preserve jobs.

The largest tax increase in the history of the world continues to loom over the economy. The great irony is that simply revering the Pelosi-set course would almost instantly reverse the downward spiral in the economy, as it did with the Coolidge tax cuts, the Kennedy tax cuts, the Reagan tax cuts, and the Bush tax cuts. In contrast, the democrat “spendulus” bill will allow the spiral to continue unabated, both because it has no stimulating aspect for the vast majority of the productive economy, and because of the flawed Keynesian basis for the action (the “multiplier,” which historically proves to be less than 1:1.) Of course, 18 months from now the leftists will beg America to “stay the course” when the massive spending and new debt proves ineffective. The only likely consequence is inflation, and this may be a good time to rearrange our finances to emphasize international entities. One wonders how long the American public will tolerate the mindless spenders.

By jack

February 9, 2009 8:14 AM | Link to this

Jim, these must be interesting times for you. You defended Bush/Cheney as if they were gods and Bush left with a 22 rating and Cheney with a 16.

You defended the “free market” unfettered by the evil government and watched as the economy imploded…how did you feel when even Greenspan admitted he was wrong, we NEEDED checks and balances.

Everything you’ve been so arrogant about in the past 8 years has been proven wrong. Where are you going that you can try and forget all that?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 8:17 AM | Link to this

Apologies, two typos @ 8:12, should have read: (1) “LEFT us the dithering wishy-washy Anthony Kennedy” and (2) “simply REVERSING the Pelosi-set course”

By JACK BURKMAN

February 9, 2009 8:22 AM | Link to this

The GOP is crumbling.

With no leadership and no discernible values, principles or direction, congressional Republicans seem all but certain to be steamrolled by President Barack Obama, whose early approval numbers top 75 percent. Worst of all, filibusters in the Senate may not be possible, because on a number of key issues Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the GOP leader, will have trouble mustering even 40 votes.

Moderate Republican senators such as Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Susan Collins of Maine, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and even John McCain of Arizona may simply not cooperate with the GOP, and the loss of even one of this group will make filibuster all but impossible on most votes.

Some take comfort in the fact that the GOP has staged major comebacks before, such as in 1993-94 and 1965 through 1968. But in those periods, the party had strong leadership and plenty of visionaries, not to mention a firm grasp on exactly where it wanted to go and what its core values were. McConnell has never known passion, and House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio recently responded to a reporter’s question about the stimulus by mumbling something so inarticulate as to not be worth deciphering.

Say what you will about Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay: They had a vision for the country and didn’t stop pushing until it was implemented. Comparing former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Gingrich with the current GOP leadership is like comparing college professors to college students. K Street loves to describe House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia as a star, but this illusion is swept away each time one sees and hears him on television.

Worse yet, even if handsome, articulate Ivy Leaguers in Brioni suits were heading the party, they would have nowhere to lead it. When congressional Republicans caved in on the trillion-dollar Troubled Assets Relief Program — first to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and then to President Obama — they surrendered any claim to being the party of free enterprise. Shortly after the original TARP vote in October, I saw Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a leading young conservative, and asked him which provision of the 1994 Contract With America provided for nationalizing the banking industry. He shrugged and laughed, which is all the GOP can really do in this winter of discontent.

What many strategists fail to realize is that GOP poll numbers today are actually much worse than in the post-Watergate mid-1970s, long considered the party’s low point. The sad reality for Republicans is that Richard Nixon was actually more popular than George W. Bush when he left office. To a political scientist, Bush created a level of disapproval that was almost statistically impossible. Groups that usually hate each other were somehow united in their opposition to him.

Bleaker still is the reality that the party has a terrible dearth of virtually everything from presidential candidates to strategists. Mitt Romney is rich, Harvard-educated and handsome, but he will have enormous difficulty emerging as a charismatic GOP leader because of his lack of belief in, well, anything. Sarah Palin would make a smashing suit model.

At the grass-roots level, the party is no longer even producing good political strategists, something the GOP has excelled at for many years. Most top-gun operatives have become lobbyists, preferring the quick cash to the hard discipline and creativity required of campaign life. The problem is that, with Republicans shut out of power, there is no one left to lobby.

The comeback will begin only if Republicans can muster the courage to return to the core principles with which they are identified by the nation. When, for instance, is the last time you heard a GOP candidate — any GOP candidate — talk about the need to help people start their own businesses? The empowerment message has all but evaporated. Like the Dems, Republicans today do little more than pander to a public seeking handouts and entitlements.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 8:22 AM | Link to this

Dear Jack @ 8:14, you have three errors:

(1) the economy “imploded” after the leftists took Congress in 2006 and declared intention to impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world;

(2) Alan Greenspan, while a good and decent man, is not a god – you must always remember that, unlike leftists, conservatives are not cultists. We analyze policies, and do not specifically accept the pronouncements of “people” no matter how smart or pretty they are. Mr. Greenspan has yet to acknowledge the significant contributing error of the Fed in embracing Keynesian “easy money” policy even after the Bush tax cuts began to prove stimulus enough;

(3) leftists “feel, conservatives “think.”

By Peanut Man

February 9, 2009 8:23 AM | Link to this

How much did Saxby take from Peanut Corporation of America? What did they get for it?

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 8:27 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 8:12 AM

“The good news is that there are only three RINOs remaining in America.” We still have 2 RINO Senators.. Johnny the Socialist packed this waste bill with a $15,000.00 tax credit for home buyers and Saxby was trying to add Ethanol and other Special Interest Ag subsidies.

By Stan

February 9, 2009 8:29 AM | Link to this

I spent my working life in academia. In my line of work you had to get things right. If you weren’t able to publish good papers your research proposals weren’t funded and you couldn’t attract graduate students. As a result, you didn’t get tenure if you were just starting out, and if you already had tenure your salary was frozen. Apparently things are different in the newspaper world. Take Wooten, for example. Everything he’s said in the last eight years has been wrong. Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, Bush’s tax cuts did nothing but shower money on the well-off and lead to a permanent structural deficit, and his lack of regulation of the financial industry has lead to disaster. Now he’s giving us his opinion on Obama’s stimulus plan. Why anybody pays attention to this charlatan is beyond me.

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 8:32 AM | Link to this

Why would you waste serendipitous structure on Rushannity material? It has improved structure, but you take a longer route to say what Andy says in one or two sentences using snot.. I get it: you’re the organ grinder and he’s the monkey you keep asking everyone to touch.

Use a third as many words, and let tone dictate the structure, not Rushannity. And you’d have gotten an A+.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 8:33 AM | Link to this

Dear GA Values @ 8:27, surely you will credit Johnny the Socialist with having the good sense to vote against the porkulus bill, even if his unthinking chatter became one provision of the leftist spending frenzy?

By Recreational flatuence

February 9, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this

Mary Kay built an empire through house parties.

By Curious Observer

February 9, 2009 8:40 AM | Link to this

“the economy “imploded” after the leftists took Congress in 2006 and declared intention to impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world…”

Then by Ragnar’s definition, the Bush tax cuts were the largest in the history of the world, since allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire at the end of 2010 is what Ragnar is referring to. And since when did the Democrats have any power in the last two years of the Bush administration? Bush started wielding the veto pen only after Democrats seized control of Congress. Nice sophistry, Ragnar, but it won’t work. Those tax cuts for the wealthy will disappear in less than two years, while tax cuts for lower and middle class Americans will remain. Your people made a major mistake by placing a 10-year sunset provision for the tax cuts for the well-heeled. You’re being victimized by your own stupidity.

By Rascal

February 9, 2009 8:42 AM | Link to this

What p** me off more than anything else? If our government’s intention is to pay back the money they steal from the citizenry, then every dollar spent is someone’s tax increase. How can any elected official spend a single dollar that is not paid with current revenues. I would throw out any notion that “well businesses borrow money all the time to fund activities”. That is a bogus argument in that the money they use is money borrowed in a free market, not a deal with the devil and the devil is holding the gun. This rescue spending package is nothing more than a big tax increase on our children and grandchildren. We are already committed to $56 trillion in entitlement spending through 2050. Add to that the trillions being spent in this bailout spending bill and other bailouts and then add the billions in deficit spending that takes place every year and you have a tax bill per American family of almost $600,000 through 2050. That does not count portion of the budget that is covered with current revenues. How may of you are planning on you or your children making $600,000 in extra money over the next 40 years?

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 8:45 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 8:33 AM

Your boys, Johnny and Saxby the Socialist voted for the trillion dollar Bail Out Wall Street taxpayer ripoff. Face it they are both owned by out of state SPECIAL INTEREST. Georgia has no vote in the Senate. It is obvious like all of Saxby’s promices the prevention of a Obama Majority was a myth.

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this

Lovin’ the McCain/Palin one two punch: Sniping after the campaign’s been over for an entire quarterly report! We almost elected snipers into the white house. I fall more and more in love with Palin with each passing day. Even if he’s more earmuff than earmark, her husband is the luckiest, (luckiest) man (man, man) on the face (face face) iknowugetthebit

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 8:50 AM | Link to this

The bailout explained: Why do you think they call it a piggy bank?

The stimulus package explained: This is the economy. This is your money. zzzzz Any Questions?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 9:03 AM | Link to this

Dear Curious @ 8:40, good morning, but you err. You surely recall that the Bush tax cuts were passed at a time the senate democrats had a sufficient number to filibuster, and the compromise then crafted was a fixed 10-year term for the tax cuts. Thus, when the Pelosicrats took power in 2006, all they had to do, to impose the largest tax increase in the history of the world, was nothing. As is always the case, evil requires only that good people do nothing.

Dear GA Values @ 8:45, you err in part. While it is undoubtedly true that Messrs. Isakson and Chambliss voted for the roughly $300 billion bailout of the financial industry, that is a far cry from responsibility for the current proposed $800 billion. From a longer view, the playboy asked the woman if she would sleep with him for $1 million, and she was interested; he then asked if she would sleep with him for $25, and she angrily asked, “what do you think I am?” We have established what our senators are, I suppose, and perhaps they are merely dickering over the price. However, your assertion that “Saxby’s promices the prevention of a Obama Majority was a myth” sounds like advice to a prospective rape victim to “just enjoy it.” I credit Saxbe with opposing the porkulus bill, and you will surely agree that Mr. Martin would have voted for the bill?

By REPIBLICANS EVIL TIME IS UP

February 9, 2009 9:08 AM | Link to this

IM GLAD THAT THE DEMOCRAPS HAVE A FILIBUSTER PROOF CONGRESS, BECAUSE IT IS THE SAME THING THE 4TH REICH OF THE GOP DID,PEOPLE LIKE RAGNAR AND REDNECK CONVERT AND THE REST OF THESE POOR RACIST REDNECKS THAT SPEAKS THAT THEY ARE CONSERVTIVE,BUT DICK CHENEY SAYS THAT IF YOU DONT MAKE 250,000 A YEAR YOU ARE NOT A REPUBLICAN,YOU GOT THESE POOR STUPID HICKS HERE IN GEORGIA SUPPORTING TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, AND THE TAX CUT ARE NOT BENEFITING THEIR POOR A$$.

P.S. YOU REDNECKS WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE YOUR JOBS IN RURAL NORTH AND SOUTH GEORGIA WHERE ALL THE SUXBY AND JOHNNY BOY SUPPORTERS ARE,IM GLAD YOU ARE CONTINUING TO SELL YOURSELVES OUT BECAUSE YOU RACIST THINK THAT IT WILL HOLD THE JEWS BLACKS ASIANS ARABS AND HISPANICS BACK.

YOU EVIL REDNECKS ARE FINALLY OUT NUMBERED AND THE JEWS BLACKS ARABS AND ASIANS ALONG WITH THE HISPANICS ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR DIXIE $HIT ANYMORE

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

Ragmop. The rabble have indulged your omsbudsman-ship and now they endure it. (you’ve tried to swallow too much, like when clinton explained lewinski: “the Irony! If monica had kept quiet, I’d a gotten outta that mess, yet, on the other hand, if she had a bigger mouth I wouldn’t stained her dress.”

but as a side note, before I am forced to dunce-cap you, I am honored that you think enough of this blog to want to be a better writer. That’s what these good old fashioned bi-partisan p’ing contests are all about.

That’s the thing about arguments and debates: they’re bi-partisan

so i guess my opening gambit will be “If you ditto one more time……”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 9:18 AM | Link to this

Dear Evil @ 9:08, “ALL CAPS” IS SUFFICIENT PROOF OF WEAK INTELLECT.

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 9:19 AM | Link to this

The Towel of Palin is going for a a half mill on Ebay, folks.

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 9:26 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 9:03 AM

Get your numbers straight, Johnny & Saxby the Socialist voted for the $750,000,000,000.00 TARP bill which when you add the various Fed give aways to the Banks is well over $1,000,000,000,000.00. Johnny’s $15,000.00 tax credit will cost over $35,000,000,000.00. They both support the massive refinance of all US housing to 4% which by itself is more than $1,000,000,000,000.00. You can’t hide from the facts.

By Redneck Convert

February 9, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m right proud this guy that writes in all caps lumps me in with Raghead. Me and Raghead think alike, only he uses bigger words. We’re both rednecks and proud of it.

I say they keep right on fighting this stimulation bill and hope like heck it flops when it passes. You got to keep your prioritys in line. It’s more important we get back in power than if America does OK. If the stimulation works we will be out in the wilderness for the next 50 years. Then you can say goodbye to Family Values and Trickle Down and just about everything else we like.

Leastwise we got three Republicans in on the fix even if they are RINOs. If old Saxby had got beat they wouldn’t need no Republican vote at all. I haven’t heard much about if Saxby’s golf game’s got better since he went back to Washington. He needs lots of practice, what with that bum knee and all that kept him out of the military. He probly don’t get more than 300 yards on a drive, not having any leg action and such.

Have a good day everybody and relax. Me and Raghead are on the job taking care of your needs.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

February 9, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration accused the Peanut Corporation of America of repeatedly shipping peanut butter and other products right after discovering salmonella, which is commonly found in the feces of humans and animals. The agency had previously said the company held up the shipments until a second test came back negative for the bacteria.

“Our whole family was angry,” said Jeff Almer of Savage, Minn., whose 72-year-old mother, Shirley Mae, died in December after eating tainted peanut butter from the plant. “This could have been avoided.”

The Peanut Corporation of America, a family-run business based in Lynchburg, Va., now under criminal investigation, declined to discuss events leading to the outbreak, saying in a statement: “We are sorry our process fell short of not only our goals, but more importantly, your expectations.”

Kellogg said it was looking for ways to improve its procedures for buying ingredients.

With children accounting for half of the salmonella illnesses traced to the Blakely plant — and a worldwide recall that now includes pails of peanut butter shipped to schools, military bases and nursing homes — the safety issues raised by the outbreak are drawing comparisons to those in China’s tainted milk scandal.

“It’s easy to fall into the trap of seeing our food safety problems as coming from other countries,” said Robert Tauxe, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who helped trace the outbreak to the Blakely plant. “This outbreak is telling us we haven’t been paying enough attention.”

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

February 9, 2009 9:42 AM | Link to this

Many of the hourly workers earned only minimum wage and had gone years without a raise. Frederic McClendon, 31, a shift supervisor, reached $12 an hour last year but still could not afford health insurance for his two boys, who live in a weather-beaten trailer. “If you pay your workers, you get the best out of them,” Mr. McClendon said. “If you don’t, you don’t.”

Using temporary workers also saved money, said Mr. Hardrick, the assistant manager, “but there was a lot of retraining going on.”

After Canadian officials in April found metal shavings in peanuts produced by the plant, a new manager handed out raises, stepped up cleaning and imposed tighter safety controls.

But the effort, employees said, was too little, too late for the salmonella problems, given that the plant had been shipping tainted products since 2007.

Mr. Hardrick said he had known about the salmonella at the time, but had been told the positive test results were only “presumptive” for the bacteria, not definitive. He regularly took peanut butter home to his family.

Inspecting the plant was the responsibility of Georgia, which like 42 other states is under contract with the Food and Drug Administration to monitor food plants. The agency’s Science Board concluded in 2007 that the agency did not have the capacity to ensure a safe food supply, with domestic businesses under its purview having risen to 65,500 from 51,000 in 2001.

In Georgia, state agriculture inspectors said they were hampered by rising needs and falling budgets. The state asked inspectors to conduct more tests for contamination, but slashed the number of miles they could drive, said Leta Emily Bird, who had 310 businesses to monitor in Georgia before she retired last fall. “You might do the inspection, but it takes a lot more driving to get a test done and delivered,” she said.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

February 9, 2009 9:43 AM | Link to this

Plant employees said they typically had advance knowledge of state inspections and that last month, when they were tipped off that federal investigators were coming, the employees were told not to answer questions. Where the state had found no major problems, the federal team found many, like the leaky roof, and swab tests showed salmonella living on the plant floors. Plant managers had not decontaminated the peanut butter processing line after detecting salmonella, the federal report shows.

In examining Peanut Corporation of America’s records, federal investigators discovered that company tests had found salmonella 12 times since 2007. The inspectors said they got the records by invoking a bioterrorism law.

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Thats because it IS bio-terrorism. The Patriot Act. Is there a peanut butter reference that allows one to do a piece paralleling the Bush Years to salmonella? They can tap your lines. Ignore Habeas Corpus. Carpe Diem. Seize the Fish. Salmonella!!!

thank you.

By Davo

February 9, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

“They don’t need any more Republicans, except for show.”

As a conservative, I heartily agree.

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

In all this talk about Sam & Ella let’s try not to forget Mel & Edie.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 10:17 AM | Link to this

Dear GA Values @ 9:26, while we would agree that the TARP bill was originally budgeted at $700 billion, “only” half of that was actually expended to resolve the meltdown of financial institutions. The difference between us is that you allege the vote for the original TARP bill is thus “various Fed give aways to the Banks is well over $1,000,000,000,000.00,” the crime I charge to our wishy-washy senators is support for the $300 billion actually expended under their votes.

In any event, the $300 billion expended under TARP offers no intellectual foundation for the “porkulus” bill wending its way through the Capitol now, as the “porkulus” expenditures do not aim to cure any particular problem. The intellectual theory behind “porkulus” would be the same if they elected to shoot $100 bills from a helicopter. TARP, for all its flaws, had a solid intellectual foundation, just one whose necessity I disputed.

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this

Someone write a bit about the savior based economy. Fact: somebody riffed Rushannity’s “Chosen One/Messiah” bit and came up with “savior based economy”.

the bottom line he never saw was that we’ll have to crucify obama if the stimulus package fails, even if all we wanted was a home, not a homeland like the jews.

If Obama cant deliver a home to us, but instead simply angers the money changers, then it’s Full Pharisee for us.

Fact: Early humans learned how to cook different foods by sacrificing them to God. If you keep setting food on fire, eventually you get the idea that a grilled cow tastes pretty dang good. Now, the first jew to eat the cooked meat was committing a sacrilege. Thus early jewish history is about kosher food: which food is okay to eat and not offend god; based on how it bakes in a sacrificial pyre.

OMG! The holy of holies was the first McD’s!. The loaves and fishes was the first happy meal. Judas was the Hamburglar!\

Who was Bozo the Clown? This is harder to decipher than “Bye Bye Miss american Pie, drove the chevy to the levy but the levy was dry.” Look, I admit that I was banned from the early internet that this song created, but somebody’s got to tell me..finally after all these years… WTF does that song mean?

Actually the secret coded messages in “American Pie” were communicated via a long obsolete pipeline of rumor mills and phone calls and word of mouth over pizza and beer internet that deserves further study. How did these things get distributed into the zeitgeist?

Through universities, certainly, but they could take a circuitous route through sorority panty raids, the naked conga line syndrome of 1973, (fannies across america), and of course, the timeless booty call syndrome of America’s inner Peter……….

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 10:30 AM | Link to this

If you write the stupid word, “porkulus” one more time…………

By Thinkwell

February 9, 2009 10:32 AM | Link to this

A Savior-based economy explained: I’ll use the 14 stations of the cross (but in rosary years).

1). The Agony in the Rose Garden - Yassar Arrafat with only an oval office between him and a lewinski.

2). The Scourging at the Piller - 911

3) The Crown of Thorns - Iraq

4) The Carrying of the Cross - since the inauguration

5) The Crucifixion - lame duck in the first 100 days (did they have to break his legs? animals!)

The ascension into heaven - The shorts cover here.. Rally. All is forgiven. The Gop wins in 2012, and a skeet shooting gallery is added to the recreation wing of the Grey House. (the ranger IS going to like this, yogi).

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this

I appreciate your distictions, Ragnar, and agree that this StimPak lacks the kind of conceptual coherence that would allow diverse efforts to operate in concert. Infrastructure investment, energy independence, economic security — any of these could summon Americans to a clear mobilization to which virtually all public agencies and industrial and service sectors could contribute. Instead, Democrats argue that they no longer think (beyond offering Hope and Change) because their electoral gains innoculated them from the tiresome business of conceptualizing. How much more fun to ditch school and dash to the shopping mall.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 10:55 AM | Link to this

While celebrate the 200th birthdays of both Abe Lincoln and Charles Darwin today, we missed the 98th anniversary of the birth of one of our better thinkers last week: “”For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers — they just are not easy ones. The time has come for us to decide whether collectively we can afford everything and anything we think of simply because we think of it. The time has come to run a check to see if all the services government provides were in answer to demands or were just goodies dreamed up for our supposed betterment. The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.” Ronaldus Maximus.

Dear PoFo @ 10:30, I understand you dislike the phony word, I dislike the phony “stimulus.” Shouldn’t you be condemning those who use “stimulus?”

By Recreational flatuence

February 9, 2009 11:01 AM | Link to this

Two things:

First, this huge spending bill isn’t hammered out yet, but a clever e-mailer assures me there is thousands of dollars in the package earmarked just for me and he can help me collect it. Somehow this learned entrepreneur’s pitch landed in the spam folder.

Secondly, from God’s country: Local State Representative Accused Of Extortion

(Nashville, TN) — Allegations are swirling about a local legislator trying to extort a position on a committee post. Republican State Representative Brian Kelsey, who has been critical of House Speaker Kent Williams, is accused of trying to resolve his differences with the new speaker if he would appoint him chairman of a committee. Kelsey allegedly made the offer the day after he filed an ethics complaint against Williams last week. The Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office was notified of the allegation Wednesday, but said the matter would be reviewed but it is not yet under investigation.

Maybe there’s less difference in the Blagowhatsitz and Gregg situation than I believed. Most all pols seem to be scumbags.

By Copyleft

February 9, 2009 11:28 AM | Link to this

“Harry Reid has his filibuster-proof majority. This will be the pattern too for keeping the liberal majority on the U.S. Supreme Court and on filling vacancies elsewhere.”

Glad to hear it, Mr. Wooten. The Dems have a lot of simpleminded Republican disasters to clean up, and they don’t need the perpetrators getting in the way.

I too recall Reagan’s feebleminded speech about easy answers. It immediately brings up the adage, “For every complex problem, there’s a solution that’s simple, obvious… and wrong.”

Nobody was wrong with greater confidence than Mr. Alzheimer’s was—that is, until Mr. Bush took it to a whole new level, without even the excuse of a degenerative brain disease.

By Truthifier

February 9, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this

It’s really a matter of perspective isn’t it? One can say that the House vote on the stimulus WAS NOT a case of BIPARTISANSHIP with every Republican voting against it, or one could say that the House vote on the stimulus WAS a case of PARTISANSHIP with every Republican voting against it. I suppose it depends on how you’re trying to spin the situation.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

A couple of unrelated items, an argument and a story.

The Kyrgyz decision to close our support air base, coupled with the new pointed non-cooperation from Pakistan makes our position in Afghanistan untenable. Without launching a “who lost Afghanistan” argument, I now advocate cut and run as our policy in Afghanistan. Perhaps we can honorably withdraw, vaguely promising a return “if necessary.” However, with the current new tone in the middle east – change we can believe in – we have little prospect for meaningful additional progress in the war against terrorists, short of a scorched earth policy, which I think would be unproductive for other reasons. There is no intelligent reason to sacrifice our noble military without prospect for significant improvement on the ground.

Dear Glenn @ 10:49, thanks. A story for you, from the Lt JG. For those without military background, “chiefs run the Navy.” Chiefs are not officers, but rank higher than enlisted men, and generally are the grizzled veterans with 20+ years. In my son’s particular unit, the chiefs take personal ownership of the equipment under their charge. Lt JG recently finished his training, and immediately after reporting to his unit he went on extensive training exercises. His work is going well, but on completing the maneuvers Thursday he turned a switch too far and broke a radio, thus obliged to contact the chief to procure a repair.

The nature of their work is that the craft takes a high altitude position, and the flight officers monitor all traffic in the area, and direct fighters to “areas of opportunity.” Because the nature of the work is two parts complex skill and one part performance art, the Captain (remember, “Captain” is O-6 in the navy, the equivalent of a full bird colonel in air force or army) in charge of the wing is always urging aviators to ride along, to learn all that is going on the background. Friday. Friday the CAG (commander of the air group, i.e., the Captain) successfully persuaded a high-ranking guest aviator to join the group on maneuvers.

So for the first hour in the mission the aviator joined the Lt JG in the back end of the plane, and watched the spectacle of identification and opportunism skillfully blended by a rookie. Halfway through the maneuver the CAG, who had been riding co-pilot, suggested swapping with the aviator, so the CAG could observe his new young charge. At the altitude they were flying the cold began to distract, and the CAG urged the Lt JG to turn on some heat, so the guest would not freeze. Shortly after turning on the heat, that foul odor one associates with electric coils wafted through the air.

45 minutes later the maneuvers were complete, but all began to notice smoke coming through the vents in the aircraft. After quick assessment the Lt JG realized the heaters had not been the source of the foul odor, it was the radar unit. Quick thinking, he retrieved the fire extinguisher, and opening the unit saw there was no flame but mere dying smoldering from the now shut-down unit. He asked the CAG whether he should spray the interior of the unit under that circumstance. The CAG suggested he should, as some plastic coating on the wiring is toxic, so the Lt JG thoroughly dumped the contents over the sensitive machinery. Because of the fire on board, the normal landing protocol – my son’s unit is always first up and last down – was changed and they landed early.

After a positive debriefing – the mission had gone marvelously well – the Chief caught up with my son and teasingly snarled, “You did a helluva job spraying that radar unit, Sir.”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 12:55 PM | Link to this

These are certainly the type of people we wish to supervise lending at government-controlled banks.

By itpdude

February 9, 2009 12:58 PM | Link to this

To all the GOP whiners out there: You deserve this. 6 years you guys had. 6 years with majorities in the House and Senate and you had the White House.

What did you do with it? Oh yeah, put us $10 trillion in debt. Thanks! Now go away.

By Sharecropper

February 9, 2009 1:00 PM | Link to this

We can only pray the Democrats have this “filibuster proof” margin, or we are in for another two years, added to the past eight, of gridlock, obstruction — even to the point of a depression — from the wingnuts on the right. Which apparently now means all but three or four Republicans in Washington. When the Republican Party has Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity as its theological underpinnings, they are doomed to regionalism. Georgia, for instance, which insists on electing somebody called a Chambliss, though he is not smart enough to get home by himself. (His ridiculous explanation for the Blakely peanut fiasco was classic Chambliss: It was “an isolated incident.” I looked it up It means singular. Only a year ago we had the infamous ConAgra contamination in Sylvester, Ga., which closed the plant for most of the year and which, when the plant reopened, ConAgra boasted it had closed the plant to “remodel.”) These peanut corps open in South Georgia and South Alabama for a reason: no sanitary conditions and no inspections. Betcha Saxby Chambliss has no peanut butter in his house.

By Ty One On

February 9, 2009 1:06 PM | Link to this

POTUS Obama is bypassing the Constitution and going to take over the census. Isn’t that special. Imagine if Bush & Cheney had done this. JUST IMAGINE THE UPROAR AND SCREAMS FROM THE LEFT.

“Utah’s congressional delegation is calling President Obama’s decision to move the U.S. census into the White House a purely partisan move and potentially dangerous to congressional redistricting around the country.”

“Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told FOX News on Monday that he finds it hard to believe the Obama administration felt the need to place re-evaluation of the inner workings of the census so high on his to-do list, just three weeks into his presidency.”

“This is nothing more than a political land grab,” Chaffetz said.

More shenanigans from the O-Team:

“Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama has issued an executive order backing the use of union labor for large-scale federal construction projects.”

“The order encourages federal agencies to have construction contractors enter project labor agreements. Those agreements require contractors to negotiate with union officials, recognize union wages and benefits and abide by collective bargaining agreements.”

Incrementalism! Liberalism! Cronyism! Workers rights! Unions! Government directives! Sniff, aaaahhh, the smell of Socialism in the air! As soon as they get done with Porkulis - they can pass the union-backed Card Check and we can usher is a new Worker Paradise!! Viva La Messiah!!!

Newsweak’s new cover page headline:

“We Are All Socialists Now”

Speak for yourselves, Newsweak libs. 60+ million did not vote for this new administration, and the VAST majority of America rejects the socialist (non)Stimulus spending plan by POTUS & CO.

God help this nation.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

February 9, 2009 1:14 PM | Link to this

Dear itpdude @ 12:58, you err. The republicans did not control the senate from 2000-2002, nor from 2006-2008. And the republicans certainly never had a filibuster proof majority. Indeed, from the stupid spending that went on during that period, one could easily affirm that it was the spenders, not the conservatives, who were in control.

Dear cropper @ 1:00, “We can only pray the Democrats have this “filibuster proof” margin…” We would agree that the Obamacrats, “think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” Filibuster-proof majority is the only way Obamacrats can inflict such gestures.

By Mindy Minxobamacainalin

February 9, 2009 1:21 PM | Link to this

So, like, I know a lot of you guys haven’t done your “25 random things …” lists for Facebook. Dontcha think you ought to get off this boooring political blog and get that done?

By Dusty

February 9, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this

OH bother and all other aggrevations.

I’m tired of twobit lib posters calling Jim Wooten “names” when their IQ is below the bottom of the scale.

I’m already TIRED of hearing about Obama “parties” to set up propaganda units for the NON STIMULATING Bill TO RUIN THE COUNTRY. Obama must have had some of those million$ left he got after lying to McCain to get extra funds during the election. Cash for the COMittee’s “cells”.

I’m TIRED of Copyleft@11:28 calling one of our most successful presidents, Ronald Reagan, as feeble minded and Mr. Alzheimers. All those insults from one slow brained blogger who sits here every day day like the proverbial “bump on a log”. A degenerate who insults the sick and the dead.

I’m tired of RedNeck ‘cause he’s not funny any more.

I’m tired of “Thinkwell” ‘cause he’s an overdosed PoFo.

I’m tired of Glenn @ 10:40 ‘cause I can’t figure out what he’s saying.

I’ll never tire of hearing about Ragnar’s son, he who serves his country well.

I’m tired ‘cause it is lunchtime and I’m hungry. See you folks later!!

By @@

February 9, 2009 1:25 PM | Link to this

How-do, Jim? Whenever I see the word filibuster, it always brings to mind sheetrock repair (a task I loathe) which requires “joint compound”. You know…..

the stuff that fills a hole in the wall. You fill it……it shrinks. You overlay with more joint compound, it shrinks. Again! more joint compound until eventually there’s an unsightly “bulge” that requires extensive sanding of “the protrusion”.

Here’s hoping the three rinos take a “header” along with the dems who buy this pig-in-a-poke. Ouchies are in order.

I would be proud to voice my support any Blue Dog Democrat or Republican that votes in opposition.

Ragnar brings up the proposed Afghanistan operation. I’m in agreement with RG. Al Qaeda prime has been severely and operationally limited thanks to our steadfast efforts in Iraq. The Taliban is a fractured lot and Russia is deeply embedded in the global maneuvers.

A covert approach would prove to be more efficient, both in manpower and cost — something that AmVet argued a week or so ago, but I can’t bring myself to agree with AmVet on much of anything. I’m just not that into his HUGEly sneaky maneuvers. Subversive tactics violate my principles.

Let Putin pay for his meddling. His financial reserves have taken a brutal hit in this economic downturn. The Russian people are beginning to voice opposition to the once “lovable” Putin. We all know what the reaction to their opposition will be. Down will come the hammer and sickle.

By Jackie

February 9, 2009 1:25 PM | Link to this

The Senate does not have a veto-proof majority. If one looks at some of the conservative Dems and Mr. Liebermann.

The problem still exists because all Repubs except 3, possibly 4 are against anything the Dems propose.

I hope Mr. Reid calls their bluff and put other stimulus items up for vote and let the Repubs filibuster against help for the citizens.

Strange, they were more than happy to vote for “schools for Iraq,” yet, the oppose schools for Americans!

By getalife

February 9, 2009 1:27 PM | Link to this

I think they have seized on the argument to destroy the gop in debate:

Summers To GOP: Don’t Lecture Me On History After Last 8 Years.

Ouch.

By @@

February 9, 2009 1:44 PM | Link to this

Make that “RD” rather than “RG”.

IHB!

By getalife

February 9, 2009 1:47 PM | Link to this

Perhaps your leader rush should do some counter townnhall meetings.

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 3:15 PM | Link to this

Alter Dusty,

I love you when you can’t understand what I’m saying. It’s how I love you best, except that I couldn’t understand you any other way. And I love the real Dusty better.

But then I never could understand Peaches & Herb, to say nothing further of Sam & Ella.

Ragnar,

That story’s a classic. My stepfather retired a Chief Petty Officer, and I fell in love with a Captain’s daughter. You can imagine which one always scared me the more.

By Prescott in AZ

February 9, 2009 3:26 PM | Link to this

They don’t need any more Republicans, except to cover the dems A*******inine booty call.

Pass the damn thing, morons. DO IT NOW!

I, for one, can’t wait to see the inevitable backlash from voters when their A*******es are left flapping in the sucking wind that will result from the stim bill.

JUST DO IT!

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 3:32 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:17 AM

This is NOT correct, go back & look at YOUR post around the time Saxby & Johnny was voting for the $700,000,000,000.00 Wall Street taxpayer ripoff bail out. Don’t you remember Saxby admitting he had not even read the bill just voted for it because his local Bankers told him to. That and the $2,500,000.00 that he got from the Bamking/Insurance lobby. Have you forgot the $30,000,000.00 earmark to build a British Rum Plant in the Virgin Islands. Johnny & Saxby are RINOS not Republicans, LIVE WITH IT

By Steven Daedalus

February 9, 2009 3:39 PM | Link to this

Copyleft is absolurely right, all of this economic mess can be laid at the feet of Ronald Reagan and his economic guru Laffer, trickle down economics is a joke and always has been. Our problems now are the result of unregulated greed, be it oil speculators, investment bankers, Wall Streeters and their Republican acomplices.

By ATL

February 9, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this

The Republicans succeeded in defeating Obama on one of his goals — more bipartisanship. But, I think they did themselves a disservice in the process. I wish Republicans would work with Obama and the Congressional Dems rather than taking lame stands and making scenes.

By Dusty

February 9, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this

Dear Glenn, 3:15

I luv you too….. Sam and Ella I understand but it is Seudo and Mona that really worry me. And that eeeee coli cola can be troublesome. Strip a’cockeye is just another pole dancer with an infectious nature.

Mycin I suggest, they don’t make ‘em like they use too. It Emmu this and Emmu that. What’s this cell coming to ?

By deegee

February 9, 2009 4:02 PM | Link to this

Wait til Al Franken gets on board! Whoopeee!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

February 9, 2009 4:02 PM | Link to this

Finally, someone has laid all the economic mess at the feet of the guy who started America on this voyage into bankruptcy-that old fool Reagan!

By Dusty

February 9, 2009 4:03 PM | Link to this

getalife still votes for Huey Long!

By Jim Jr.

February 9, 2009 4:04 PM | Link to this

SWEEP

Thanks W – The President. You did your part —20% approval rating. Thanks Sarah – The Governor – More than did your part —58% incapable rating.

Read um and WEEP

By Curious Observer

February 9, 2009 4:05 PM | Link to this

Here’s one for Ragnar and the GOP talking points on the stimulus:

From the moment FDR began to enact the programs of the New Deal, the economy began its recovery. After four years of steady declines, Roosevelt’s programs brought on an immediate improvement in the national fortune. Within three years, the national GDP exceeded the level in 1929. By the time the bombs fell at Pearl Harbor, the GDP had been up every year but one since 1933, and that one downward tick in 1937 marks the exact point at which budget hawks forced cuts in the New Deal programs.

That’s the story the numbers tell. The New Deal worked, worked well, and worked quickly. These days, we define recessions as two consecutive quarters of declining gross domestic product. By that measure, when did the Great Depression end? One quarter after Roosevelt took office, that’s when. Yes, it took years to repair the damage of the anything goes marketeers, but the recovery started the moment the New Deal started.

But even clamping their hands over their eyes and refusing to look at the numbers isn’t the strangest part of the Republican Myth of FDR Failure. The oddest idea is that “putting the nation on a war footing” was the cure that finally ended the depression when the New Deal couldn’t get the job done. It’s something that gets repeated every time this tall tale is told, because even Republicans realize that the Great Depression did end. They just have to think of some way to give credit to something other than Democrats.

So Republicans have developed the idea the government putting people to work, spending on public works, and taking a bigger hand in the markets couldn’t possibly help. Instead, things were cured when the government put even more people to work, spent many times more, and took absolute control of prices and wages.

Sure, let’s go with that.

But if they really believe that wars are stimulating, you have to ask: why aren’t we stimulated? We have two wars going on. We’ve invested lots of capital — including the kind that lives, breathes, and has family — but that doesn’t seem to be shooting the GDP skyward. Maybe Republicans think we need to take on a bigger target. Would a war with Iran get the stimulus working? Or is this stimulus more China-sized?

Maybe it’s not the fighting on the ground that makes the difference. Maybe it’s that “war footing” at home. You know, the one that comes hundreds of thousands of more government employees, and the OPA setting the prices of every item on the shelves, and government rationing, and higher taxes. Is that what the Republicans think it will take to stimulate the economy?

Crazy socialists.

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 4:08 PM | Link to this

What real Economist think about Johnny the Socialist’s idea of a Flip this house to your Brother Program….TAXPAYER RIPOFF

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 4:13 PM | Link to this

I see that our own Neal Boortz has taken to calling the Stimulus Package the “Government Expansion Bill”. (In political parlance a “package” is a body of interdepent but separately deliberated and negotiated pieces of legislation; this one’s a single, up-or-down, take it-or-leave it bill, not a package.) The idea of “stimulous” is that in tough times the collective government can, in some case, spend enough money to spur almost immediate employment and to ameliorate immediate hardship. For example, with unemployment mounting, claims for food stamps, for AFDC, and for participation in free and reduced-price lunch programs all are mounting; similarly, the loss of healthcare coverage associated with employment has resulted in a burgeoning of demand for — or at least a marked increase of pressures upon — county health services.

But “stimulus” is understood really as something like an injection of Adrenaline. It’s not supposed to respond to a chronic condition, and probably it cannot do so, without ushering in new generations of sickening dependency upon stimuli administered not too to system of the body politic, by by The System that chooses to mistake itself for the body politic.

What’s good for government so seldom is good for people, but if governmental activism is good for people in the meantime, who cares what is or isn’t good for government? CBO’s answer is that, in this huge spending program the pennies that are good for people in the near term are, more significantly, dimes and quarters that will sustain a metastasized Government forever.

As the Democrats say, “elections have consequences”.

By Ga Values

February 9, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

Good read on the peanut butter mess, glad I don’t eat peanut butter..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/us/09peanuts.html

By Georgia First

February 9, 2009 4:22 PM | Link to this

I don’t give a rat’s patoot what the NY Times has to say. All Georgians need to support our state’s economy and eat peanut butter and other peanut products at least three times a day … even if the rat’s patoot is in it. Pansies.

By ButtHead

February 9, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this

It will never cease to amaze me how stupid some people can be. It was forced regulation that caused the current crisis. But the liberal dimacrats keep saying that it was lack of regulation and then the sheeple keep repeating that, then some start to believe it. It was the congress forcing banks to make risky loans to people that could not afford them; years ago you needed 10 – 20% down to buy a house. Then in the ultimate wisdom of our government, they MADE banks make no money down, 100% and interest only loans to make sure that even people who should not buy houses could. Then they made Fanny and Freddy to by these toxic assets, but they ran out of money, hence forth the collapse of the wonderful government system. If you where forced by the government to make these loans then you should get bailed out, but instead of fixing the original problem we are throwing money away. The amount of money the dimacrats want would be enough to pay off 90% of ALL mortgages in the US, but I bet the average Joe just get stuck with inflation. If this is SOOOO important how come the spending does not start for 2 years?

By AmVet

February 9, 2009 4:40 PM | Link to this

ButtHead,

Appropriate name.

You clearly don’t have a clue what caused this meltdown, do you? You have no grasp whatsoever of the BIG picture of this economic debacle. You couldn’t possibly begin to describe in any detail at all how many levels of corruption in both the private sector and in government are involved, right?

You have nary a clue how many administrations and Congresses threw gasoline on this fire. You couldn’t possibly begin to explain Glass-Steagle or anything remotely connected to this. Hint: CRA’s were a tiny part of this equation.

No wonder this country is tanking.

Nobody takes the time to educate themselves on an extremely complicated matter, so they parse it down to sophomoric pablum and take one small aspect of this clusterf&ck and attribute it as the primary reason so it sounds good on Kneal Boar-tz’s show.

It’s called the corporate destruction of capitalism.

And Dumb & Dumber orchestrated the final siege…

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 5:14 PM | Link to this

Hi AmVet,

I don’t know how good Boortz’s show sounds, as I’ve never heard one of his shows. I just liked his re-naming of the “Package” for “Economic Stimulus” in favor of what it is: a discrete bill engendering mostly a permanent expansion of government.

You’re dead-on about the incapacity, seemingly widespread across this Society, to anatomize our predicaments. That’s long been called, as you know, the “doing of history”, the attempt to understand our Present, and our present prospects, with something more retrospective than last week’s news-cycles in view. I know you’re committed to the historical approach, as well as you are to plannning, but just because one or the other of us fails to enframe a comment on the events of the day, to “bookend” the comment fore and aft, doesn’t rule that comment out of order.

We all do generally about the best we can, and whether you accept it or not, you’re helping the curious, the interested to place these events into a more thoughtful context. (In Beijing you still could go to jail for that, and Google wouldn’t hesitate to tell them where you live.)

By Jackie

February 9, 2009 5:14 PM | Link to this

@ButtHead

If you would take time to re-visit your ECON 101 and 102 courses, you could begin to get the basic concepts relating to the current problem.

Think of it this way: if one throws a rock into a pond, there will be a ripple-effect all across the pond. The economy works in the same way; it is called the ripple-effect. One business feeds other businesses and the dollar spent for goods and services turns over multiple times.

By @@

February 9, 2009 5:15 PM | Link to this

This oughta interest Jim.

They already had it spent before they got it?

You see, for years the racetracks in Maryland have been suffering. Operators lobbied for slot machines to add to the dwindling attractiveness of playing the ponies. The one Republican governor we had for four years agreed with them, but was routed as too “pro-business” by the dominant liberal culture who considered slots exploitative of the poor and old.

Until they had re-established one-party rule in Annapolis again, that is.

Suddenly, under the new governor (who had opposed slots as mayor of Baltimore), slots became the indispensable key to funding schools and social projects, damn the exploited poor and old.

Earlier this week, businesses were allowed to pay multi-million dollar filing fees to submit their proposals… $3 million for every 500 slot machines they bid on.

Problem was there were only a handful of bids—for just 6,550, out of 15,000 slot machines authorized in last November’s slection. Two of the five companies placed their fees in escrow, contingent on approval of the required permits once licenses were granted. Out of reach of needy state officials.

As I believe, it’s PoliFore that used to say……..”Fart smellers,” those business types.

“Lawmakers in Annapolis reacted with disappointment,” wrote the Baltimore Sun. They had counted on (and redistributed) $600 million in annual slots-related tax revenues.

Oh well! The lawmakers gambled and lost.

By Peanut Man

February 9, 2009 5:20 PM | Link to this

The 5:00 news says that the Peanut Corporation of America plant is full of FBI Agents, Looks like Saxby may be working on his golf game in jail. Wonder who Sonny is going to appoint?

By Glenn

February 9, 2009 5:33 PM | Link to this

What about the New England liberals who bred both Ben and Jerry, and swept under the rug the resultant general outbreak of Beningitis, a chronic affliction with Brain Freeze commonly resulting in a terrifying lockjaw? Hhm-mmnh?

By Georgia First

February 9, 2009 5:37 PM | Link to this

Eat all the Ben & Jerry’s with peanuts in them three times a day.

By Raggedisnott Dangimapretentioussdungholle

February 9, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

Avast, children of the boards! Cursed am we (note: given that my intellectual faculties and penchant for verbosity are so superior as to constitute mine own sovereignty, henceforth myself must be addressed in the third person) that the fiendish Thinkwell hath, this very morn, Borked me from my place as Initial Poster of This And Every Day. For those who do not closely observe this Board, fie on all Friends of Loki! How do I love me? Let me count the ways: this very day have I coined yet more idioms which, only threescore and twelve minutes ago, were but frail figments of mine own imagination (yea, any who do not closely observe the workings of my arse fail to fully comprehend the exertion necessary to pull such from the deepest recesses of the terminus of my digestive tract). Aye, it’s proud I am of “porkulus”—and “spendulus”! Are they not splendid exemplars of our creativity and (dare we utter it) rapier wit? Doom, DOOM, I say, shall be our fate if The Dark One, the Muslim-Monikered Moor, suceeds in his dastardly deviance, for ‘twill spell disaster for all who seek to resurrect and preserve the late, great theocracy begat by our revered Ronald The Catatonic, borne meekly but faithfully by George H. W. The Lackluster, interrupted indecently for lo, too long by William The Unlamented, and righteously revived by George W. The Complacent (nimbly aided by our own Dark Lord, Richard the Rictus Deviantus, also fondly referred to as “Biggus Dickus”). Aye, the leftist hordes do swarm over our government, and powerless we presently are to thwart them, as we daily dwindle in number and influence. Verily, children, pray we must for the Gods of Trickledown to evacuate upon our economy once again, that the profligate Pelosicrats, the debauched Democratic demagogues, and the unwashed Keynesians may be swept from power. (Hark! Can it be? I “think” that I “feel” something trickling already…nay, ‘tis but Dusty, my spiritual concubine, unstropping her feedbag…blast, Woman!) Whereof was I speaking? Ah, yes—the erring-do of mine adversaries, GaValues, Curious, et al…sure an their tongues be clever, and their facts be inconvenient, but we shall not lose heart nor hock, for naught but a leftist would proffer his favors for more, but settle for less (nay, children, try not to make sense of the foregoing, we ourselves have little idea of which we have just spoken). For lo, these nigh twenty years distant, our own Gipperous Goofballicus did quake Heaven and Earth when he bellowed, “Just say NAY, I prithee, to welfare queens, whilst we deregulate the corporate schemes!” Yea, he spake, and it was so. Let us make it so once more, my sheeplings. Hooves and ankles, HO!

By GA VALUES

February 10, 2009 2:42 PM | Link to this

It’s only valid to mobilize support for a bill when lobbyists and fancy dinners and campaign contributions are involved. If normal people want to get together to show support for the President, that’s “cult like.” Whatever.

By GA VALUES

February 10, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this

Peanut Man, you know if the Peanut Corp. of America had received any favors from Sissy Saxby in return for campaign contributions, the AJC would have written about it.

Ha Ha, just kidding!