A must see:

Jon Stewart does Glenn Beck

How to lose an election in 10 steps:

1. Pick a fringe candidate who will fire up the base
2. Summon rogue cheerleaders
3. Force the formidable candidate from you party to drop out
4. Tell party establishment to go fuck themselves
5. Receive an endorsement from Fox News Politburo
6. Claim to get moral guidance from a talk show host
7. Get all the newspapers who can’t tell trash from treasure on board
8. Wallow in wishful thinking
9. Start celebrating the night before the elections
10. Stock up on Vaseline and morning-after pills for the next round

 

Hahahahahahaha! The ideologically pure candidate in NY-23 Doug Hoffman who was endorsed be equally ideologically pure Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Club for Growth (?) and Wall Street freaking Journal went down in flames. I guess it sucks having Glenn Beck as your mentor. Of course, I can hardly find any mention of such a spectacular fuck up in NY-23 in major media sources, who busy themselves celebrating Republican gubernatorial wins in NJ and VA. But I understand – who would want to mention such an embarrassment; Hoffman was supposed to be a shoe in. Newt Gingrich, who supported Scozzafava, is going through “I told you, you stupid morons” stage today. Here’s an adult, who knows how to win with Republican candidates in historically Republican districts. But then the circus showed up – with clowns and elephants and shiny objects and he was reduced to trying to outshout or reason with those who scream for a living and have no brain. Oh, how much pleasure I get from watching the supposedly high-brow and buttoned-up Club for Growth and WSJ Editorial Board to scratch their fucking heads in bemusement this morning. They made themselves look like little kids who went after shiny object only to find out that the sparkle was generated by Rush Limbaugh’s shiny balding head.

Dear Republicans, you can dismiss it and celebrate the NJ and VA wins, but if I were you I’d be very concerned that a Democrat won a Republican seat in heavily Republican district in a year when rural voters are increasingly dissatisfied with Democrats and Obama. In the days leading to the election you tried to make it a referendum on Obama. So what do you say now? Maybe if you listen to Newt next time you’ll get lucky.

Is This as Good as It Gets from Obama?

“That said, I do not forget that if the election had gone the other way, we’d right now have a barter economy and be at war with Honduras.”

This is how the party should deal with the fringes. Republicans especially.

People against options.

I guess I don’t understand something. Normally, I would expect an average person to welcome different options in all aspects of life. Conservatives have been indoctrinated that capitalism and free market is good that’s why I’m puzzled how can they be against people having options. Isn’t that the essence of free-markets? What’s the deal with vehement opposition to public option? All it’s going to do is make the private insurance companies compete harder, like cutting costs and providing better services. All I hear right now from the Right are the whines that it’s not fair. Come on, guys, this is just a taste of your own medicine – you’re supposed to love competition. This is just another competitor coming in to play the game with you. And why should I care that some of the insurance companies might go out of business if the end result will be a better health care for me?

This childlike behavior is becoming boring. They are working tirelessly against their own interest just to prove a point to us, liberals. Like a child threatening to hold his breath until his mother takes him to Disneyland. Most of those teabaggers will never even come close to paying the tax rates that they are opposing. Most of them are quite old, considering the pictures from the protests, meaning they collect Medicare and Social Security. I don’t really see any reason for them to protest, because most of them seem like candidates to benefit from government intervention. They really look like a bunch of cats going on the strike to protest milk to prove a point, trying to outshout each other who hates milk the most. All because they don’t like the guy who distributes the milk. Or because they are concerned for some fat cat, who might pay for the milk and who doesn’t give a flying fuck about them. Because, you know, one day they plan to become that fat cat. Think about the magnitude of brainwashing required to accomplish that! Taking to the streets out of concern for the fat cat who couldn’t care less about them.

And for conservatives this hatred of options extends almost everywhere. Especially in social issues. No, we don’t want options! You take them and shove it! “We don’t want government to do anything for us!” The last one is the actual quote from the tea party protester. How about you take the dirt road, instead of a highway, back to your shack in the woods and next time you have an emergency you heal thyself with herbs and booze. But don’t show up to the emergency room, because it’s going to cost the taxpayers. And you care about taxpayers, remember? You don’t want them to pay for your misfortunes.  Just a thought.

Jesus fucking Christ! The depth of mental depravity on the Right should stop to amaze me by now, but they keep trying really hard and succeed.

First it’s ignoring the facts, then cherry picking the convenient ones and now, get this, admitting that facts are fabricated and standing by them nonetheless. Because they know in their gut.

This is pretty funny:

Wall Street Journal is a solid source of economic news data and good reporting, however, I always found it puzzling how this can coexist with the loonies who write editorials there. I mean, they have Karl Rove as a contributor, for Christ sake, usually lecturing Obama on how to run the country.

Here’s the latest:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574497780846099654.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion

Here’s a quote: ”The logic is clear if curious: While it’s OK to blame Mr. Bush for spending too much, it’s not OK to point out that Mr. Obama is already well on track to spend much more.”

Um, yeah, he has to buy the cleaning supplies plus pay the bills for the stuff you bought. I’m at awe at how the biggest fact that escapes those guys is that the crisis didn’t built overnight, but they honestly expect Obama to fix it in 9 months? Perhaps those “experts” have a solution on how to stop a train at full speed? They demand to see results right now, stomping their feet on the ground and end up looking like petulant juveniles.

After I read the comments page I felt like going into a rant.

Most favorite argument that I keep hearing from many Republican friends is that 40% of taxes are paid by 1% of the people on top. Yeah, and? 35% tax on $1bn is more than 35% tax on $200,000. Yes. We have established that we can count. Are you proposing the top 1% being taxed on absolute dollar amount rather than the percent of what they make? Are you demanding that because the $200,000 guy pays $70,000 in taxes, that’s what the $1bn guy should pay? Because when you make statements like the one above, you sound like that’s what you’re implying. Besides, if that really rubs you the wrong way, perhaps the real reason for this disparity is that now the top 1% earns about 300 times of what the average Joe makes, while 20 years ago it was more like 70 times. Perhaps, you’re barking at the wrong tree and it’s not the tax rates you should be attacking but the wage disparity.

You know, this “cutting taxes will solve all problems” crowd is really a piece of work. Their next favorite argument is pulling Ayn Rand and start painting the horrid picture of rich giving up and disappearing. And where exactly are they going to go? In Russia there’s a flat tax of 13%, but these guys are not in a hurry to move there, because, you see, they are socialists over there. (They really are not, but that’s the storyline on the Right and I don’t want to break it for them. B.L.). Or better yet, Somalia – it’s a libertarian paradise. No taxes, no government, guns everywhere, but again, I don’t see a mass exodus there. You see, while they’d love not to pay any taxes, they still need someone to enforce laws, like property laws and it’s the guvmint job. You know, the same govmint that we hate, but would love to run to show that it doesn’t work. Isn’t that what Republicans excel at?

Democrats are pushing for health benefits to start in 2010. Good idea, considering next year is the election year. You can clearly show that you’re trying to alleviate people’s lives and Republicans block you from it.

Also, looks like Harry fucking Reid is finally behind public option. Maybe they are starting to grow a pair.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28718.html