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May 9, 2008

Snake Oil Salesweasels

(Click on [Original Article] to view our posts.) Another couple of items in today’s news* examined here courtesy of the Funny Farm News Burrow**:

Obama’s Faulty Tax Argument

As the presidential campaign heats up, a key issue is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts, which expire in 2011. John McCain wants to make the tax cuts permanent. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to let the tax cuts expire as was agreed upon when they were put in place rates rise. Isn’t it interesting to note that the expiration of these tax cuts, which was agreed upon by Republican’ts when they instituted, is now being considered a raising of the rates? [rhetorical question] Why doesn’t this Republican’t propaganda catapultist mention that his Republican’t legislators are now trying to renege on their word?

[snip]

I’m not even going to get into any sort of discussion about the steaming load of horse hockey that this spokesweasel gets into in order to try and justify yet another example of Republican’t politicians going back on their word. Let’s just say that the Funny Farm Economic Evaluation Department thinks that it is a lot of deflect and smear tap dancing that tries to justify most of the standard arguments of the Norquist ‘drown the gubmint in the bathtub’ stategery. We’ve seen this (badly directed, written, and produced) movie non-stop for the past seven years. Funny, that…

Damsel of Distress

This is an amazing story for the Republican’ts to exploit and comment on. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because I just told you so, silly! he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there’s no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. Even after, in this conservative sycophant’s mind, the worst two weeks of his campaign, he blew past her by 14 in North Carolina and came within two in Indiana.

He’s got this thing. And the Democratic Party, after this long and brutal slog, is should be dancing in the streets. Party elders should be coming out on the balcony in full array, in full regalia, and telling the crowd, “Habemus nominatum”: “We have a nominee.” And the crowd below should be cheering, “Viva Obamus! Viva nominatum!” if they were intelligent and edumacated enough to be able to speak the dead language, Latin, and didn’t care about the Republican’ts labeling them as elitist. Good advice, Nooners!

Instead, you know where they are, the party elders. They are in a Democratic club on Capitol Hill, slump-shouldered at the bar, having a drink and then two, in a state of what might be called depressed horror. “What are they doing to the party?” they wail. “Why are they doing this?”

You know who they are talking about.

[snip]

Again, I don’t really want to rehash all of the glaring propaganda that this Republican’t operative is slinging in this article. I would like to point out that, once again, here is a Republican’t media maven giving ‘helpful’ advice to the Democratic party. Would you consult Charles Manson about how to co-exist peacefully with those you disagree with? Would you ask AnnThraxx CoulterBeast about the positive aspects of liberal philosophy? Or Rush Limbaugh about how to make a marriage work? Thanks, but no thanks, Republican’t hack, for the ‘friendly’ advice.

It is also interesting to note the characterization of the leadership of the Democratic Party as a bunch of drunken chickenshits who want everyone else to make their minds up for them. Funny - I don’t notice that at all - I noticed that a lot of citizens who vote Democratic are excited about the political process again, have a bunch of varied interests and philosophies about how a campaign should be run, and the leadership of the Democratic Party has been utilizing this to energize its’ constituents. For a herd of cats, they have been amazingly well-organized and united in their distaste for the current cabal. Funny how the Republican’t media has sent a different message to the american people about the situation…

I did notice that Peggy Noonan has called some Democratic Party officals racists and sexists, though. While completely ignoring the many racist and sexist comments coming from her fellow Republican’t sycophants. [rhetorical question - this has been going on quite a while] Is this type of hypocrisy worthy of the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal?

For a while now, Your Humble Narrator has been engaging in efforts to avoid blowing a gasket about the constant disconnect between reality and the Republican’t media that has covered for this junta’s high crimes and misdemeanors, its’ effect on the sheeple I have to interact with on a daily basis, and the real stories that slip through the cracks because a bunch of frelling Republican’t propaganda catapultists control the dissemination of information in this country. Some days my efforts are more successful than others…

* - By an amazing coincidence (cough), they’ve both been published today by that bastion of even-handed, impartial, objective reporting, the Whore Wall Street Journal. And American Enterprise Institute fellow Andrew G. Biggs and noted Ray-Gun fluffer Peggy Noonan have been given carte blanche by a major news media outlet to spew their partisan hate in public.

** - as usual, emphasis of all kinds and / or off color commentary courtesy of the Funny Farm Editorial Staff

The Perfect Storm

Consider our prospects for November. In addition to an economic meltdown and an illegal and endless war, and a still-free Osama Bin Laden, there’s fresh reports that Iran’s not adding to the Iraq arsenal, the Middle East may yet explode to send oil prices into orbit, and could Republicans make matters worse?

Yes, they can. They can go on record against honoring Moms.

But even with that, I think it wise to heed the cautions Krugman’s providing.

With 6 months to go till Election Day, the last thing we need are early victory celebrations. What we should refocus our attention on is the downticket races: Senators and US reps, governors and Secretaries of State. The Netroots are far more effective building greater foundations, not just for six months from now but well into the future.

Let’s get to it.