This is like the ice floe meltdown, feeding on itself. Since anyone left who is actually taken in by this hysteria cannot have any power of rational thought, all stops are off on the right wing.

OT Any old timers remember Wayne Madsen I seem to recall some controversy about him discussed at the Lake but can’t for the life of me find the comments?

I misunderestimated the power of stupid.

The area of Empty Space that surrounds the solid matter in the universe is infinite:) Glen Beck’s mind is thus as infinite as it is empty.

Caribou Crazy relying on “noted scholar” Michelle Bachmann to assert that Obama was going to set up “Death Panels”.

Look our fake Dems on TV are responsible for this Bull getting out of hand its called a Living Will what do you want to happen if a car accident or something leaves you brain dead?
Do you want the Doctors to pull the plug or not.
Sarah is Lying
That $#$^* has no decency she is pimping her kid and lying about it. Sooner or later our Dems on TV are going to have to call the GOP liars when they are lying!
We are being to nice to the crazies!

The Republicans will follow W into the void.

Just where in the bill is there even a hint Obama’s healthcare plan would kill a baby already born SHOW ME THE SENTENCE!
If Sarah can’t then I want a full on air apology written ahead of time on a teleprompter so she does not mess it up.
Their is a big difference in a Sarah Speech for McCain and Sarah ab libing or mad libbing on Katie Couric interviews or her resignation speech.
I thinks the difference is 5 shots.

W is the Black hole of teh stupid reason cannot escape from:)

So how are they possibly going to top last week?

Well Obama is going on vacation as EW said so I expect the GOP to mock him for going on vacation during a crisis.
They of course will not mention Bush’s numerous vacations the Hurricane Katrina vacation comes to mind.

Next Obama is going to a few Red States for vacation I’m sure the GOP will suggest that Obama better watch his step.

Orly Taitz brought out the world’s lamest forgery;

Has the MSM been debunking this at all?

relying on “noted scholar” Michelle Bachmann to assert that Obama was going to set up “Death Panels”.

A challenge to the Lake get some Choice Michelle quotes call a mental hospital and say you want your grandma committed because she is saying wacky stuff and you think she maybe a danger to people see if they think she should be committed.
Second Challenge call a police station and say a guy with a gun is yelling about ( insert choice Michelle comments ) especially ones about Obama taking away guns say the guy is in a tree next to a school.
Then time the police response to the call, get a watch with tenths of a second timing.

Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online.

Just what does a person have to do to get kicked out of the House of Representatives do we have to wait until Michelle shoots someone?

Kids talk Tech helps but if only a fraction of those kids read the news even just sometimes and on big news days I think they all do the GOP is in trouble.
Informed voters are ours you can’t post a Fox News link about a controversy in the news without risking an immediate smackdown from your more Reality based friends.
Peer Pressure works in our favor now.
Bwahahaha!

‘turk,

I guess what is most upsetting is that supposedly rational people are airing these viewpoints without laughing their asses off.

Seriously, this is the simplest tenet in propaganda: The Big Lie.

The methodology is simple but effective: (as Goebels and Hitler taught us, btw) Say the most outlandish and wrong thing you can about your opponents and keep saying it. Even when your claim is proven untrue, you have cast doubts and aspersions on your opponent.

Too many times Hitler is invoked: this time it is justified.

What do kids consider news when Karl Rove resigned the early morning threads were filled with comments. Even SnarkCassandra a kid was up and had a post on her site.
Is she normal how many kids are like her we need numbers. Well ok the Snark is exceptional but how much of her generation share her interests in reading never mind writing about politics online?
At her age I must admit I never wrote like that.

At early stages of one’s encounters with Teh Stupid, one tends to become Shrill. These stages can last for, say, a decade or so.

But after while, as children of the civil rights movement learned many years back, Shrill is difficult to sustain, perhaps even unhealthy. One inclines to migraine headaches and high blood pressure, not to mention a general snappishness, even longing for an assignment from President Barry’s Death Board. If one is not to become insensate to one’s social and political environment, there is only one solution that allows one’s aorta to remain unruptured:

One becomes prostrate. Real fucking laid back. Slo-o-ow to unfurl to one’s full height.

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow, in this interview with The Atlantic where he discusses the economics of global warming, was recognizing the wisdom of a degree of prostration. Also, here’s a blast from the past at Yves’s, about some of Arrow’s work that showed why even free-market hardheads should find it worthwhile to spend some of today’s resources on preventing a climate disaster years from now, instead of on 80-inch plasma tvs.

Beck is a high school grad as is Rush, Hitler also was on the lesser education track but he did want to go to art school. Also they blame everyones else for their problems and have no empathy for out groups who they view as the enemy and not human/deserving of rights.
Repeating a message with emotional conviction seems key I half remember a John Denver interview Placido Domingo told him to imagine steel when you sing about steel. Imagine love when you sing about it (please do not quote me on exact words).
I think GOPers do something similar the vocal tone of imagining a lie to be true and putting emotion behind it triggers Lizard brain trust. Unfortunately Crazy people I think live in the Lizard brain mode more than most folks and receive the message better.
Also notice Pat Buchanan move his hands often up and down in a rhythmic fashion. It helps keep the audience attention or he could be dreaming of masturbating on TV?

I am convinced there is a GOP school that studies Hitler’s speeches. I smell the Family.

Good morning, pups. If it’s Monday it must be Douthat. At least there’s also Krugman. Oh, cripes. That schmuck Douthat, in “The Unfunny Truth,” says “Funny People” is the first Judd Apatow film in which you get punished for your sins, and in that sense it’s his most conservative film yet. And of course he babbles that that’s the reason American audiences don’t like it. Pssst, Russ, I’ve got another suggestion why folks don’t like it, in 2 words — Adam Sandler. He also calls calls the crowd at the notorious C Street house “a cluster of family values politicians.” I guess blatant hypocrisy is the new family value… Prof. Krugman, in “Averting the Worst,” says the economy has backed up from the edge of the abyss, with the government’s stabilizing role preventing a replay of the Great Depression.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I guess that means I’ve got to bite the bullet and face Monday. Have a great day.

“The Unfunny Truth,” says “Funny People” is the first Judd Apatow film in which you get punished for your sins, and in that sense it’s his most conservative film yet. And of course he babbles that that’s the reason American audiences don’t like it.

I take it he has never seen “Chasing Amy” a film about a closet judgemental guy who can’t get over his girl friend having had a wild sexual past and after he loses her because he can’t deal he realizes she was the One as Mark Sanford put it, great film audiences loved it.

Hold onto your shorts! The President is going out of the house again. He plans to hold a question and answer this week too. It makes them crazy when he leaves the house to talk.

I’m already planning the Laugh In. Newz will be so funny. Since I don’t have pay for tv anymore I pop the corn and laugh at the evening newz.;-)

you lost bubba?

Apatow, the 41-year-old auteur of gross-out comedies, to rebrand social conservatism for a younger generation that associates it primarily with priggishness and puritanism.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

I confess I have ignored the grossout comedy of the GOP. I normally focus on the mean attempts at comedy Glen Beck joking about poisoning Nancy Pelosi for example.
Bush was found of this school of 13 year old boy humor certainly “TurdBlossom ” is funny except when you give your friend that nickname.
My friends don’t put up with names like that.
Next question what kind of friends does Bush have that they put up with names like that?

Which State is Obama going to speak in extra points to drive the GOP crazy if its a Red State.

No recent movie has made the case for abortion look as self-evidently awful as “Knocked Up,” Apatow’s 2007 keep-the-baby farce. No movie has made saving — and saving, and saving — your virginity seem as enviable as “The 40-Year Old Virgin,” whose closing segue into connubial bliss played like an infomercial for True Love Waits.

“We make extremely right-wing movies with extremely filthy dialogue,” Seth Rogen

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

The right wing message is so weak even a Lefty like me did not catch it I don’t think it will convince anyone in real life.
Ask yourself this Seth whats more likely you changed one person’s mind about abortion with that film or did you change one hot blonde’s mind about sleeping with a fat slacker with no job?
Just what are the odds slim and none?

New Hampshire on Tuesday.

Well, according to Wiki:

Turd Blossom is a Texan term for a flower which grows from a pile of cow dung.

So I suppose it could be considered almost a compliment of sorts, that something lovely has risen from something not so lovely. Of course, were I a parent of the Turd Blossom I’d be pissed…!

I did. I was only able to see him briefly on the broadcast newz. That did not deter my joy.

Ah well maybe he can do a townhall in a red state on vacation.

So I suppose it could be considered almost a compliment of sorts

Snark tag needed:)

Sorry! Sometimes I forget to add those!

Same here:)

Look, don’t ever expect today’s Republican Party and conservative movement to ever tell the truth. It’s not about the truth but power. All’s fair when it comes to gaining and keeping power. Anyone that studies the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany learns how these movements used tactics of lies, obfuscation, misrepresentation, demagogery, intimidation and ultimately violence in their rise to power. What can we expect next from today’s Republicans and their surrogates and minions? violence.

So how are they possibly going to top last week?

I don’t know but I’m thinking we should start scaring people (with lies if necessary).
If we don’t get a one-payer system:
-Medicare will be bankrupt and abolished within 1 year.
-your health insurance premium is going to double next year
-employers are going to stop pitching in for health insurance
-No more surgeries without up-front payment
-50% of hospitals will close
-Disabled and retired people will lose Medicaid
-you’ll have to fly to India for surgery

Add anything you think will work.

Obama is getting knocked around over at Dkos, specifically these recommended diaries:

– http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..-you-doing

– http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..-Democracy

Apparently that big-pharma deal was the last straw for some people.

How about this one:
One payer will only cost $12/month and all medical bills will be paid in full. No co-pay, no worry. (Lie? Who the hell knows, they’ve never done a study on what one-payer would cost)

Did you see Frank Rich’s editorial? “Is Obama punking us?”

Apparently that big-pharma deal was the last straw for some people.

Wigwam,

I know the feeling.

I have really tried not to be cynical but it is not easy, you know?

From the bank bailouts and insane bonuses paid with taxpayer money to the parsimonious treatment of the auto workers: it is very difficult to draw any other conclusion than the one Frank Rich did this AM: Obama is just one more corporatist and gives lip service to working people while his policies bend against them.

Morning all. Standing in line saturday at the Perlmutter townhall the wacko behind me had an exerpt from the bill that said that family counseling would be covered and this meant that the government was going to control families.

“Glenn Beck called the President a racist who hates white people”

Race is the only card played by a man whose admitted dysfunction with the drug “alcohol,” has destroyed so many of his neurons, his ability to reason has been compromised, hence a statement right out of the mouth an racist American alcoholic? Glenn Beck personifies corporate servitude sure as a “slave hunter” represents the dysfunction of man’s darker side…. Beck…. here is a suggestion! Shut the “f” up and sit down, loser………… The unfortunate reality is the “yuckhead mentality” Beck offers is pure “dyfunction.”

Yes “corpopoliticians” and aristo-rats, use ignorance and wedge issues to make people vote against thier own self interest! Would you walk a mile for a Camel cancer stick cigarette today or get a Black eye for a Tarrington cancer stick cigarette? Probably not!

Protect that corporate bottom line…… at life’s expense!

Gotta go. Can’t wait to see what this week brings. Or not.

Did you see Frank Rich’s editorial? “Is Obama punking us?”

Yup. I’m beginning to fear that Obama “jumped the shark” with his Big-Pharma deal.

But the sooner he understands that his base is getting disillusioned with him, the better for the country.

You’re on the scent. Tax-exempt disinformation in the name of Jeezus.

It gets better, Attaturk! Sarah Palin’s haidresser is now on Twitter as one of her PR people (amongst all the other noise she tweets about):

http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/…..pr-people/

Should be fun!

It gets better, Attaturk! Sarah Palin’s haidresser is now on Twitter as one of her PR people (amongst all the other noise she tweets about):

Hmmmmm. “JessicaBeehive” ???

Is he also planning on morphing into a white guy like Michael J.?

Glenn Beck on his radio show in the last two weeks asked, (paraphrasing) “Why is it no other person in the MSM is talking about the things I’m talking about?”.

Well Glenn, maybe it’s because you’re talking crazy talk? Or maybe it’s the fact that you subliminally tell your listeners to be humble and not use violence to make your points, but then go into a long diatribe about armed revolutions over in Europe? Maybe you’re exactly the domestic terrorist the Bush & Obama Admins told us about!!!!

Speaking of crazy, how come Mike is wearing teenage pillow fabric for a shirt today?

Yep! JessicaBeehive. She owns the Beehive hair salon in Wasilla. I’m sure the name she picked out for herself was meant to give her sex-appeal. Sarah does this all the time too when it comes to our soldiers. She’ll do her fancy pageant walking while saying slowly licking her lips, “Our manly soldiers protect our freedoms”. See? LOL

Eventually these morons will be yelling at the town hall meetings, “And stop delivering our mail to us! We’d rather pay an outsider to deliver it because we don’t like the government being in our lives!”.

Idiots.

Another Christian anti tax group?

For a dedicated blogger teen with political interests check out http://www.carmonreport.com. Full disclosure: Jordan Carmon is the son of friends. How he gets time time for school, in addition to both blogging and sports, beats me.

-your health insurance premium is going to double next year

Well, ok, now instead of going up 32% in October, the State is allowing 20% in January. It’s not double, but it’s still a lot.

The wingnuts don’t have to scare me – I’m already there and it’s with nothing Obama’s supposed to have done. This is just the reality of the current system.

Facebook had a poll I just took asking if Congress should be forced to use regular health insurance. of course I responded yes. Senator Dodd is getting treated for prostate cancer and another congress critter had open heart surgery. you know they won’t get bounced from the program, you know their premiums won’t go up. But by G-d, as an American taxpayer, I’m paying for their wonderful care (which I hardly begrudge, don’t misunderstand), while I can barely afford my own.