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Category: Liberals suck

  • What is going on?

    Here in the Metro DC area, I keep my political views to myself in the real world. Not that I’m afraid of the stick-armed, puny, intellectual midgets that live here, it’s just that I usually need to get from point A to point B without delaying every ten feet to explain why I think everyone on the way are morons.

    Every person in DC has the political depth of the Daily Show and the calm demeanor of a typical Daily Kos diarist. As I’m fond of pointing out, DC voted 90% for John Kerry in the 2004 election (they picked Howard Dean in their straw primary, and Al Sharpton came in second). So why should I waste my day trying to penetrate that level of ignorance?

    TSO wrote the other day at The Sniper that he’s tired of fending off the Obama-ites in DC’s subway system in Virginia (a state Obama hasn’t quite locked up yet). I guess I’m lucky…Obama figures he’s got Maryland in the bag.

    But to my larger point. Every numbskull in the area has taken it upon themselves to just start a conversation with me to declare how stupid John McCain was to pick Sarah Palin as his VP. People I’ve never spoken a word to, just walk up to me in elevators, on the sidewalk, on the subway, at my desk, on my balcony and start right out with “Do you believe this Sarah Palin person?” The conversation varies with whatever rumor is popular that day, whatever Obama tells them is important through their party organ at the Washington Post.

    When I actually take the time to point out how they’re wrong and present actual facts, they just move on to yesterday’s rumor, then the day before that. When I get tired of listening to it and turn to walk away, they declare themselves the winner (I didn’t even know it was a competition). Each encounter is the same as if they’re all scripted. My building maintence guy in my apartment building started in on me the other day.

    They don’t think much of Alaskans either, as if they’re savages from some outlying territory. They’re also fond of demeaning Palin’s term as governor of such a backward territory as somewhat less worthy than being a community organizer. When I remind them that Palin isn’t running against Obama, they bring out the fact that McCain is a cancer survivor and near death at any given moment.

    I’m charged with being a partisan Republican just defending my “people”. Well, if Sarah Palin and John McCain supported each and every one of their issues exactly the way they themselves would, these clowns would say the same things about Palin and McCain just because they’re Republicans. So who’s really being partisan here?

    It’s a nuisance akin to Hari Krishnas in the airport. I’ve tried to find a movement on the internet that would explain this odd behavior, but I can’t find one. I guess it’s just indicative of the fact that Democrats suck.

    But I guess it could be worse (h/t The Jawa Report);

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  • Nutroots picking nits

    Apparently, the nutroots are clinging to every half-wit rumor they can these days. the media has given Obama and Biden a complete pass on every misstep while focusing on the minutae of the McCain/Palin ticket.

    The latest? Well, McCain and Palin are anti-Semites. Why? Because John McCain was endorsed by that Hagee fellow who has never been part of the McCain campaign or advisor…just a casual acquaintance of McCain’s. And apparently Hagee once said that God was disappointed in the Jews. So McCain must be an anti-Semite. The connection is indisputable. Oh, and Pat Buchanan once complimented Sarah Palin…proof positive.

    Oh, and the other day, a former POW who had been imprisoned with McCain supposedly compared an America with Obama at the helm would be like the Holocaust. But is that what he said? Hardly. Some journalist put the words in his mouth. The story from Capitalwire (subscription only);

    “All we have to do is open up the history books and look at what the fruits of demagoguery are,” [Colonel Tom] Moe said. “When any individual or group tries to pick up a target of opportunity to blame social problems on … the results can be catastrophic. And you can choose any point in history that you want.”

    Asked whether Obama’s statements could cause an event like the Holocaust, Moe responded: “If you like.“

    I screen captured the article so readers wouldn’t have to subscribe to Capitolwire;

    Col. Moe hardly called it a Holocaust.

    Don Surber catches AP nitpicking in Alaska;

    Today’s attack is on how many snowmobiles the Palins own:

    “In the past two decades, the Palins have owned 43 vehicles, including at least 17 snowmobiles. In 2000, the most recent year for which information is available, there were 33,576 registered snowmobiles for a total of 221,600 Alaskan households, which means the average household did not have even one snowmobile, according to the Division of Motor Vehicles and the U.S. Census Bureau.”

    Yes, the Palins gorge on snowmobiles while the poor go hungry. I’m no expert but wouldn’t a champion snowmobiler own snowmobiles? Kinda hard to win a race with a rental, although knowing how cheap I am, I would try.

    Imagine that, a family of seven people in Alaska, one of whom races snowmobiles,  over the last twenty years have owned 17 snowmobiles. What a waste of money. Next you’ll tell me they’ve owned 20 snow shovels over the same period. Uppity rich folks with their 20 snow shovels.

    The nutroots are also in a tizzie because CNN reported that a “language monitor” determined, somehow, that Biden spoke at an 8th grade level while Palin spoke at a tenth grade level;

    The analysis by the Austin, Texas-based Global Language Monitor said Palin, governor of Alaska and the GOP vice presidential nominee, used the passive voice in 8 percent of her sentences, far more than the 5 percent used by the Democratic senator from Delaware.

    The analysis noted that the “passive voice can be used to deflect responsibility; Biden used active voice when referring to [Vice President Dick] Cheney and [President] Bush; Palin countered with passive deflections.”

    One of the netroots went berserk;

    Oh, and there you were, you fancy-pants, elitist, latte-drinkin’ beltway insider, know-nothin’ sillyhead… foolishily thinkin’ that Biden’s reasonably informed, fluid and measured responses were markedly better than the inane gibberish and awkwardly folksy patois of Palin. How remarkably dumb of you.

    I guess anyone who thought Biden sounded “reasonably informed” would be surprised that he performed at an 8th grade level.

  • What they said about Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac

    The video I posted last night (among hundreds of other bloggers) has made it mainstream, sort of. The Wall Street Journal has transcribed many of the comments in the video and put them in the editorial section under the title “What They Said About Fan and Fred“. Here’s a sample of some of the more egregious comments from the “we care” party;

    House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 10, 2003:

    Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.): I worry, frankly, that there’s a tension here. The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disaster scenarios. . . .

    Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), speaking to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez:

    Secretary Martinez, if it ain’t broke, why do you want to fix it? Have the GSEs [government-sponsored enterprises] ever missed their housing goals?
    * * *
    Rep. Waters: However, I have sat through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. Housing is the economic engine of our economy, and in no community does this engine need to work more than in mine. With last week’s hurricane and the drain on the economy from the war in Iraq, we should do no harm to these GSEs. We should be enhancing regulation, not making fundamental change.

    Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines. Everything in the 1992 act has worked just fine. In fact, the GSEs have exceeded their housing goals. . . .

    Senate Banking Committee, Oct. 16, 2003:

    Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.): And my worry is that we’re using the recent safety and soundness concerns, particularly with Freddie, and with a poor regulator, as a straw man to curtail Fannie and Freddie’s mission. And I don’t think there is any doubt that there are some in the administration who don’t believe in Fannie and Freddie altogether, say let the private sector do it. That would be sort of an ideological position.

    Mr. Raines: But more importantly, banks are in a far more risky business than we are.

    These are the people we want to put in charge of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Short-sighted vindictive little cretins whose concern for the voters only go as far as the next election. Republicans have tried to regulate the two mortgage giants, the President has tried 17 times in this last year to rein in the two GSEs with no support from the Democrats. They try to lay it at the feet of the Republicans for what happened a decade ago while taking no responsibility for their behavior in the last five years while the crisis built.

    Funny, but the Washington Post is too concerned with tearing down Gov. Palin to pay attention to what the party they support caused.

  • That $1.7 trillion loss

    Now that I work from home most days, I get to have the news on in the background. So I finally got to hear Obama talk about the economy to supporters in Wisconsin today. He really is a lying piece of shit, ya know. To hear him tell it, you’d think the economy is in such trouble, it’ll never recover. Of course, that’s the same line we heard after 9-11, too.

    But, I want to explain this huge lie about the supposed $1.7 trillion loss earlier this week. The only people who lost money are the people who shifted it around at the bottom of the market, sold off stocks and locked in the lower value. There was no loss since when you buy stocks or mutual funds you’re buying shares. The number of shares you own didn’t change (unless you sold them). What changed was the value of your shares.

    Obama claimed that $1.7 trillion was “lost”. It wasn’t lost…it’s still there when the market recovers. In fact, I usually buy shares when the market makes wild swings, because that’s when the market is headed back north.

    Suppose you had a new car and had an accident with it. It lost value in it’s battered condition. You certainly wouldn’t sell it in that condition and eat the loss, would you? So you take it and get it repaired as good as new and the value recovers. It’s the same with the stock market. You don’t sell off your battered stocks off while they’re still dinged up.

    Obama is hoping you’re stupid enough to think that everyone lost their collective shirt the other day. If the market worked like that, no one would ever buy stock. The Democrats want you to think that they are your salvation, the only chance you have for a future.

    The economy will recover…regardless of whether the bailout happens or not. The bailout will speed up the recovery, which seems to be everyone’s big concern here, but the US economy is the strongest in the world and it’ll always recover, the value of your stocks will return. But knowing that doesn’t make you vote for Democrats.

    Speaking of the bailout, you’ve probably all seen this video by now (I’ve been up to my ass in aligators since last Friday so I’m catching up on email and news) but Bev Perlson (of Band of Mothers) sent me this today at MsUnderestimated. It’s the best eight minutes you’ll spend on YouTube.

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    Reader cbullitt asks a good question about the bailout;

    Question: Since the oil drilling moratorium expired today, has anyone checked to see if the ban has been inserted into this Dumbshit bailout? Its seems like the perfect solution for the Dems because it will pass this time thaks to the other 300 pages of pork in it.

    Hell, we might find Jimmy Hoffa in the damn thing.

    Another great ten minutes spent on YouTube (thanks to EagleSpeak and Rurik);

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  • Astroturfers busted cold by Ace and Rusty

    If you’re not reading Ace of Spades (here and then here) and The Jawa Report, you’re missing the big blog story of this election. The Astroturfing saga continues.

  • So, who asked you?

    In the last few days, I’ve noticed a bunch of celebrities weighing in on Sarah Palin. Don Surber has Linda Carter, Vintage Duh! (on doubleplusundead) has Pink and Jen at Demure Thoughts has Matt Damon. Gateway Pundit quotes that  Pamela Anderson says Palin should ‘suck it” – deep thoughts from the first woman assembled from random body parts to please rock stars.

    ABC News asked a slew of “celebrities” like Margaret Cho and Meg Ryan. Margaret-fricken-Cho, for Pete’s sake.Even Lindsey Lohan sobered up long enough to write a comment on her MySpace page.

    Who’s asking these morons their stupid opinion on Sarah Palin? More importantly, (besides conservative bloggers) who cares? Is there so little going on in the entertainment world that entertainment reporters are relegated to asking the political opinions of boneheads who make their respective livings by repeating phrases someone else writes for them? Of course, we all know what their answer is going to be…they can’t buck the Hollywood party line and keep “working”. I guess if the leftist media needs some anti-Palin chum, the best place to troll is among the lockstep pinheads of Hollywood.

    I believe it was John McCain who once said “Washington is Hollywood for ugly people and Hollywood is Washington for stupid people.”

  • We know what they think of veterans now

    Well, if we didn’t know before, we know now what the Democrats think of veterans. From Cuffy Meigs we see how Obama is willing to make fun of John McCain because of the injuries he suffered after ejecting from his aircraft after being shot down (hint: think about that for a second. You’re cruising along a the speed of sound and suddenly stop and fall a few thousand feet…it’s not the cakewalk it looks like on TV) and beaten by his captors and refused medical attention for a couple of years. Now he can’t manipulate his fingers to type…har-di-har-har.

    Wesley Clark said back in June that McCain‘s time as a prisoner doesn’t give any special insight to being president. Maybe John McCain’s time as a prisoner didn’t make him presidential material, but the training he got at Annapolis and the years after his capture as a military officer give him a leg up on a “community organizer” as far as leadership and decision-making…well, to every one except a community organizer.

    And did I mention that Track Palin was arrested in a vandalism ring a few years ago and part of his plea deal was to go in the Alaska National Guard? Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence. Everyone knows that the military is just jam-packed with criminals.

    And idiots. John Kerry said so

    I remember when Bill Clinton was trying to balance the budget, one of the first things he did was start a program for veterans to pay for their health care (called TriCare) – this was after the Democrat Congress doubled the copay for everyone (including recruiters and ROTC instructors who were stationed away from military healthcare facilities). Then Bill Clinton kicked veterans 65 and over off of TriCare and put them on Medicare to save more money (George Bush gave it back, by the way).

    But, hey, the Democrats accepted a letter from the IVAW, so I guess we can trust them to take care of vets now, right?

    UPDATED: Parody video from Scrappleface (h/t Bloodthirsty Liberal‘s Aunt Agatha)

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  • More change you can forget about

    Up until recently, Obama’s “new politics” included campaigning in all 50 states rather than in a handfull of states where he could influence electoral votes rather than popular support. Well, that’s gone under the proverbial bus according to the Washington Times;

    Despite the talk about a changing electoral map and new strategies, Barack Obama is pulling back from his 50-state plan as John McCain has solidified Republican support, turning November’s presidential election into a contest for the same handful of states that have swung the last two contests.

    The first round of post-convention polling shows Mr. McCain, in picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, has enthused Republicans. Meanwhile Mr. Obama, the Democrats’ nominee, is pulling back resources from Georgia, a state he once boasted he would flip Democratic; is stepping up efforts to hold Democrats in Pennsylvania and Michigan; and is showering attention on Ohio, the lynchpin in Republicans’ 2004 victory.

    But, don’t worry, just because he changes his mind on electioneering, that doesn’t mean he”ll change his mind on middleclass tax cuts or national healthcare or the war in Iraq or his pledge to make the US the world’s BFF or any of those myriad other promises about creating jobs and punishing corporations.

    it seems the only thing that’s changing is the perception of change.