Via Steve Benen I read something so sublimely crazy that it cries out for a reality intervention: it seems that Senator Jim DeMint thinks that if the auto companies get some cash, there will be riots against them. Say what? In fact, he thinks there has already been violence because of the issue?
Again, say what?
If Americans are upset about some people getting help when they aren’t, I don’t think a few billion dollars for car companies are going to push them over the edge when 700 billion dollar for Wall Street fat cats didn’t.
Violence, if violence occurs, will come in a factory sit in gone wrong, or at a foreclosure court, or when somebody tries to come and claim property they bought at a distressed auction, and the neighbours get testy. In the Great Depression, when farms were auctioned off, the neighbours would often show up at the auctions with guns. Strangely, usually no one wanted to buy those farms. Even that rarely turned to violence.
No, the US isn’t at the point of food or job riots yet, and when they come it won’t be because of something like trying to save blue collar jobs.



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Riots? What? DeMint, Corker, and McConnell are going to throw on their sheets and go running in the streets?
Does the I.Q. lowering of 30-40 points come before or after the decision to become a republican?
Yea, I’m definitely more ticked about Wall Street than the Motor City. Saving blue collar jobs is just viscerally more appealing than saving a bunch of snotty, arrogant investment bankers.
Riots? Must’ve been thinking about all those slackers at his restricted country club.
DeMintia
DeMint is a delusional moron. Always has been, always will be.
great. first, if brad sherman is to be believed, paulson and company threatened congress that there would have to be marshall law if wall street didn’t get their bailout.
and now another R is saying that here will be riots if the auto companies some help too (but a much smaller amount)?
“WTF?” does not begin to do the current situation justice.
Probably been noted before but Alaska’s Don Young lost his ranking position on the Natural Resources Committee.
this is the ultimate rethug wet dream. Rioting populist mobs hauling liberal elites out of our limos and stoning us.
Thanks Ian.
Thanks to Eureka Springs for opening up the digg
They’ll say anything, they are deranged. Truly.
yes DeMInts s Dementias showing,sad that
They keep these clowns around just so we in Georgia don’t have THE dumbest motherfuckers on earth in office!
mitch mcconnell on cspan2 now – i think recorded from earlier today.
hahahhahahahahaha
707
we were pretty close to ridding this country of that rancid pus bag
Hi,DEARHEART
I saw a great comment on a blog today, but I can’t remember which blog it was (maybe FDL?) Anyways, here’s the gist if not the exact wording:
The Southern Senators think that if any union member is left employed, the terrorist win!
PUS BAGS all,rancid ones,the old southern plantation phillosophy never dies
Sadly!!!
Was thinking about you today. You okay?
if they’re anything like my parents (rethugs), they truly believe that union members ARE terrorists. They really don’t differentiate.
People here are always kicking us Californians.
Lunatics.
Sadly, yes.
We must fight, fight, FIGHT! No rolling over and playing dead for those c*@ksuckers.
for good reason
yea,thanks for thinking about us,Percy was at the brinkk of death(blood infection)but he is really so much better!hurray,going to the inauguration with an african american friend of mine 2(22 yrs) partee like its 1999
It’s a really big state.n Lottsa variety, diversity.
San Francisco is not Bakersfield, or Los Angeles or San Diego….or Chicago.
Just saying you’re not the only one with dubious pols.
(bows) Konnichiwa, sadly. Got a new tiger. Go here and read comments 25, 54 and 71.
Kiddo, we moved to Whittier in 1957. My mom lived in Torrance, my sis is in Hawthorne (go to a Hawthorne High Graduation if you want to see diversity) and my bro is in Sherman Oaks. I’m a south bay surfer all the way!
Well, Cali is the land of the fruits, nuts, and flakes…! ;-)
Demi I just love our pols up here in the Bay Area! Just not Nancy! and DiFi.
Duncan Hunter, I rest my case.
I can imagine a few riots if the bailout ISN’T approved…how many million Americans and their families depend on the auto industry directly or indirectly for their jobs? If that all goes up in smoke to serve the rethugs’ lust for unionbusting, idiots like DeMentia may be seeing some torches and pitchforks…directed at them.
maybe it’ll be all those people working in the bmw plant in spartanberg south carolina who will be rioting
Elegant transference. Impossible folks might be miffed about the brazillian dollars going to the financial services folks for secret who knows what, eh?
Nope, they are going to riot over money going to support jobs.
DeMint is stepping mighty close to a line – incitement.
My dad used to tell people he had another son other than my brother but nobody ever sees him because he lives out in fruit and nut land.
edit – lives in a tree out in fruit and nut land
Whittier, Torrance and Hawthorne? ‘Nough said.
Still, there are a few other towns in this fair state. Just a few.
Not going to take this personally. Nope.
I got too much “class” to do that. Ha.
When we moved to Whittier there was a Nixon’s Big Boy on Whittier BLVD!
Good for you.
Heh, they’re coming to take you away, ha-ha, hee-hee…! ;-)
Brad Sherman’s my guy.
Your turn.
its a suburban problem in the southland. We have liberal city centers and fascist peripheries. In San Diego’s case, we have a prosperous and fairly progressive inner city and an increasingly bitter and impoverished fringe (particularly to the east and areas along the northern periphery) dominated by rethug Palinists. San Diego gets the worst of it because the county is so large (the entire metro is within one county.. 50% urban, 50% periphery). Davis/Filner = urban, Hunter/Issa = suburban disenfrancised bitters, Bilbray = affluent suburban old people
I hid out by getting a job on the flight deck (what vets call psych units at VA).
Ever read The 9th Wave by Burdick? Great story of California politics.
Rachel covering the “riots” story now
When Loo Hoo and I were interviewing Issa’s Deputy, Something Pauley, or Polley and he learned I was from LA, he said Oh, you probably Luvvvvv Henry Waxman!
He’s no Darryl Issa, that’s for sure.
Rachel must read the Lake…! She’s hitting all the high, errr low, lights…!
night ya’ll
*sigh* Whatcha drinking…? ;-)
Not to mention the Naval Station San Diego, Amphib base Coronado, MCRD and Miramar.
Aloha, Raven!
Rachel is devoting a fair amount of time to the auto story, putting it ahead even of Blagogate.
No, but, I’ll look it up at the library.
I’m seriously considering focusing closer on more local politics. This national stuff is giving me a headache.
any decent microbrew would be fine :)
Sweet smelling dreams, you.
Night, bro. Enough snow to go sledding yet?
msnbc is saying buy a “tentative accord?” Say what?!
Is that a new car by Honda?
somebody announced that the negotiators have agreed on some important points–but not others.
pretty vague.
yep..and when the enlisted guys retire, they move to places like Santee and Vista, where they find lousy employment prospects and plenty of other bitter people to commiserate with. I don’t mean to rely on stereotypes.. its really a failure of the system that these communities become dumping grounds for vets (and others) who we should be providing proper training and brighter futures for.
More like Rachel is hitting all the low lifes … who are Repugs … Surprise Surprise !
If your still here…
You got me at Find the thing that people are afraid of and you can control them: , from your link.
he s a doll CONGRATS!
Or as bouncers at the Westerner in National City, if it’s still there.
Pick one… ;-)
Tentative deal reached:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166218/
nite Raven
hehe. National City is the next happenin’ place. I’m serious. I like that place.
18 NEW …NON union foreign plants to be built in the deep soouth…poor shmucks
{{{{{ Rachel }}}}} … Superb as always !
Mehana Volcano Red Ale sounds interesting…*g*
shes da bomb
“While we’ve reached some agreement on a lot already, there are issues that are still outstanding,” Dodd said.
basically, lol. wtf!
In about 10 minutes, she framed this entire mess exactly as it stands.
Is the Westerner still there? Used to be that’s where all the WestPac widows hung out. In the old days if you couldn’t get lucky at the Westerner …
Wall Street should be renamed to Crook Street. When there is a $50 billion fraud at one advisory firm, one has to wonder how more ponzi schemes just like it are being bailed out.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..QSr_LRM_.8
i just love her,she always gets it right,and she is a SWEETIE
Ian’s up one flight.
It’s a fine ‘ride’ we’re havin’ …
Yep, pure sweetheart. Big as a damn horse.
OH BOY DA guovernators WHOLE FAM DAMNLY ARE craazzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Where are we goin’, and why am I in this handbasket?
you lucky cool kat,you
I don’t think it survived the final death throes of NASSCO (national steel and shipbuilding)
The prime minister of Sweden doesn’t like labour or welfare benefits. Guess who he hired as a political consultant for the 2010 election?
None other than turd blossom.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/11-8#
This person isn’t scary, it’s the ones that voted for him.
Sweden swing to the right once again.
jo6pac
Prediction time
Do these folks have any idea what’s happening to our economy? Do they imagine that they’re invulnerable? Do they think it impossible that no matter how much misery their policies inflict on however many people, their victims will never rouse from their slumber to the realization of who their tormenters have been, and proceed to wreak a terrible vengeance on them? You’ld think that even if the events of the past two months had failed to convince them of the fundamental unsoundness of their economic beliefs, the scale of misery now welling up would at least make them circumspect in their rhetoric. Now is not the time for them to be suggesting that the people will turn violent against the UAW or the automobile manufacturers. Folks like DeMint are the last folks in the world who should be reminding the people of the possibility of their turning to mob violence to achieve justice. That potential just might be actualized, but on other targets.
Let me make a counter-prediction about mob violence for the Senator. This is not something that any sane person would predict with any sort of gladness, however much folks like the junior Senator from SC might arguably deserve just retribution, but I put his chances of getting through the next two years without our seeing his head stuck on a pike at less than even. The odds get worse every time he opens his mouth.
That is the craziest rationale for dumping jobs I’ve heard so far. Maybe one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard in my life!
They’ve made certain of their future jobs with the corporations they’ve really bailed out….or they’ll go to Dubai or Mumbai or some other bai
Ain’t no bai far enough…
Places that don’t have extradition with the US are likely to fare even worse as the result of these folks’ policies. And these same places don’t even need some huge new breakdown in public order before we see mobs dispensing street justice. Folks like DeMint used to have South Africa to plan to escape to as a last resort, but that’s gone with the wind, so to speak.