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Finally, Paul says something I can agree with!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And how exactly was Billygoat elected? By a minority of voters since the majority voted for Bush and Ross Perot. Then Billygoat was reelected when they ran "Viagra" Bob Dole against him --- like who couldn't win against Bob Dole???
Sound familiar?? I mean, which nutcase will be running against President Obama, after all?
That would be the same president who has done everything for the republiCONS and Wall Street? Whose VP, Joey bin Biden has some choice pro-China comments on their saving our economy, while they routinely disappear people there -- and in Bahrain -- and eventually probably in the USA, a likely scenario given those "preemptively arrested" activists, which Obama has now exceed even Bush's number of arrests!
James Carville must play Lex Luthor in a live action Superman at some point before I die.
This needs to happen and I have several piggy banks of pennies I've collected in my quest to make the world just that much better.
Carville is easily the most useless and obnoxious democrat in the entire country... which is probably exactly why CNN keeps putting him on the air.
There we go.
"There is never an easy answer to these unnerving questions"
Sure there is. The media likes to push narratives. The media does not exist to be right. The media hires multiple experts to be wrong, because that's what they want to sell to the advertisers, backers, and corporate interests.
Given the competition, that's a Herculean task.
Congratulations Carville!
1. Fire somebody. No -- fire a lot of people. This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad.
2. Indict people. There are certain people in American finance who haven't been held responsible for utterly ruining the economic fabric of our country. Demand from the attorney general a clear status of the state of investigation concerning these extraordinary injustices imposed upon the American people. I know Attorney General Eric Holder is a close friend of yours, but if his explanations aren't good, fire him too.
3. Make a case like a Democrat. While we are going along with the Republican austerity garbage, who is making the case against it? It's not the Democrats!
4. Hold fast to an explanation. Stick to your rationale for what has happened and what is going to happen under your leadership. You must carry this through until the election (never say that things are improving because evidently they are not).
The course we are on is not working. The hour is late, and the need is great. Fire. Indict. Fight.
Really, who can disagree with those points?
Did Boogie Man not make you filled with rage?
I mean, I'm sure they (as with plenty of conservative/lib opportunists) are nice people IRL but I have a very hard time separating someone's persona from their everyday lives.
@28 Every time I see her name come up I keep reading it as Mary Magdalene for some reason--spooky!
Us Versus Them era.
This criticism is entirely applicable to "both sides".
One correction to Constant's rant. He writes: "...yet he's allowed to just blather on about anything to an audience of millions,..." Wouldn't it be more accurate to say an audience of thousands? We are talking CNN here.
Ah yes, the tea party network.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/us/pol…
@34 Aaah, yes, I typed my soapbox stance a touch too quick there, trigger finger still a bit twitchy. I was focusing on some of the one liners too much.
It'll take a while for our current media to fall apart, the system is already weakening, but I'm not entirely sure that what's replacing it will be that great either.
@30, you are goddamned rad.
You think he's crazy - great - fight crazy with crazy. He's the lone voice, with no vested interest other than as a patriot, who shouts out what pansy pols only whisper. Forget the details about how and who and when POTUS should panic, fire, whatever. Clearly the GOP needs neither truth nor facts and look where they are - not too far from controlling the country and with whom: a nutjob religious zealot who wouldn't know a fact if if hit her in the face; a businessman who actively decsontructed companies making millions for himself at the expense of all those who were 'right-sized', or a really dangerous, self-inflated megalomaniac - a graft loving, pay to play criminal who in earlier times would be tarred and feathered, if not hung.
So keep on spitting it out James. Be the reptile - go for the throat - that's the only way to get Dems moving--spew that venom. Expose the GOP as nothing more than a good meal for a hungry python.
I thought Dan had written this piece until I saw the byline...all these years of writing next to bitchy gay men have paid off...Paul has gotten claws, and they're JUNGLE RED!
If you lost some weight, you wouldn't be so angry.
Sez the guy who led the charge against the tunnel . . . .
Seriously? Even noble Aragorn couldn't have resisted the call of the dark side, and you want to hand it over to Michael Vick?
And? The effort failed, but the Tunnel remains a piece of shit "solution".
Hooray for the fratboy douchebags of politics, brah.
When you write "Billygoat" or ""Viagra" Bob Dole" or "republiCONS," this is what people think of you.
(I'll not bother to comment on multiple exclamation points or question marks.)
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/21517…
MICRO$HAFT, DUMMYCRATS, OBUMMER, FAUX SNOOSE, AMERIKKKA, those are just juvenile and rolleyesworthy. But sgt_doom doesn't have much to offer but warmed-over Alex Jonesisms, so I suppose getting rid of them wouldn't make his posts any more insightful. I suppose I'd be more disappointed if someone used those and had interesting opinions.