It’s strange that wingnuts are reaching for their nazi/hitler accusation trump card just 7 months into Obama’s presidency. And from something as mundane as health care reform.

Where can they go from nazi/hitler? There’s 3 1/2 more years for them to escalate.

Our bombed out cities are heart rending to Iranians who have fled the same? That’s great argument for stimulus increases, especially the parts directed to inner city infrastructure. But somehow I think DeMinted had something else in mind.

Good morning, pups. It’s Krugman alone today because Bobo is still off, which is good news. However, I have a lurking sense of dread that Bobo’s working on some great opus… Prof. Krugman gets it. In “Obama’s Trust Problem” he says that there’s a growing sense among progressives that they have been duped by President Obama. And that’s why the mixed signals on the public option created such an uproar.

Here he is.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got Thomas’ English muffins and your favorite jam. As glad as I am that it is Friday I can’t figure out where this week went. It feels like Monday was yesterday… Have a great day.

Anyone fleeing the Nazis would have been someone fleeing amurika these last few years.

They may just be fleeing mutant run-on sentences and completely incontinent usage with a side of sentence-ending prepositionism. Not that poor articulation indexes perfectly to stupidity. Only 90%.

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Y’all have to remember that we in South Carolina elect morons of the highest caliber. It’s just what we do, our place in life, as dumb as that seems. (I’ll except Fritz Hollings from this, but it’s his seat that DeMint now has.)

When we elect Dumb, we want the dumbest of the Dumb. No second-rank Dumb will do, it’s got to be top tier Dumb. We hit the jackpot with DeMint (sounds French). We searched high and low (I was mostly high during this), and we found the dumbest skunk-monkey on the planet. (I don’t mean to impugn either skunks or monkeys, it’s just an expression.)

DeMint (sounds French) is our highest benchmark idiot yet. Perhaps if we re-animated the corpse of Ol’ Strom Thurmond he’d have some competition…maybe.

Krugman is right on this morning. I’ve already read him this morning and submitted a comment adding more reasons why progressives are upset. Good for us that we’re standing up!

We here in Georgia are trying hard to take the lead in the dumber-than-dumb competition. We’ve got Gov. Sonny who prays for rain, and are awaiting even more developments from Sens. Saxby (sounds musical) Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. I think we’re strongly in the running here…

Morning all, When comparing dumb, no one has a leg up on Oklahoma

wait!
our governor wants to secede. texas (need i say?).

But all these dumb ass jerks are elected by the dumb voters who identify with them.

There’s obviously been a real dumbing down in the country. The fault lies with religious “education”, home schooling by the uneducated, and sub standard public schools and few race based charter schools poisoning young minds. Oh and I forgot Nascar, and the obsession with pro sports and pop culture, and the cell phone and social networking.

We’ve become a nation of twittering idiots.

OT, and a long quote, but many of us heard about Esten during the primary season. His dad posted about him on Facebook. Here’s what he had to say:

For the past three years, Esten has so charmed everybody at UNC hospitals that we were asked if he could appear in the marketing for the opening of the new pediatric oncology center. Here’s his bio, and the picture they took:

“Esten Maxwell, patient

Esten Maxwell is really into pirates and zombies.

“He’ll probably ask if you’re a zombie if he gets you on the phone,” says his mother, Melanie Girard. “He had been really into trains until a little while ago. That was a good thing, though. When we were in the hospital, you could make his day if you brought him a train.”

In October 2006, Melanie spotted a rash on Esten’s neck. She recognized it as petechiae, blood blisters beneath the skin.

They went to the walk-in clinic at Chapel Hill Childrens Clinic , where tests later revealed leukemia. Esten had to be admitted immediately. He would need to endure three and a half years of spinal taps, chemotherapy, and steroid pulses.

“I felt like we were dropped into a play and everyone knew their parts but us,” Melanie says. “But the care was incredible. Dr. Gold; his name says it all. He is truly a saint. He is completely dedicated, a real calming spirit who doesn’t freak you out. And the kids love him.”

“Really, everybody who works in that clinic is stellar. I never—honestly—never had a bad experience at UNC. They’re just incredible.”

On Valentine’s Day, Esten’s arduous three and a half years of treatment will end. “He’s been such a trooper,” Melanie says.

She might not get him a toy zombie or pirate, but she and Esten’s dad will definitely give him lots of hugs, just like every other day.”

I wish I could describe how much he’s taught me about resilience and perseverance, or even communicate how grateful I am to still have him around. I now tell people who are dear to me that I love them much more often, and am much less likely to sweat the small stuff.

I don’t know how to get the picture over here, but he’s adorable.

Yeah, Krugman is reading the situation correctly. What happened to a president not negotiating with terrorists? Isn’t the definition of terrorism: “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.”

Doesn’t that describe exactly what the teabaggers have been doing this August?

Refresher Course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnY-jy_cE0
Motivate a friend (or 50) this weekend with this clip.

“And we’ve seen a lot of countries over the years collapse when they’ve gone down the road that we’re going down.”

Really? What countries are those, Jim? Name one.

This guy reminds me of a joke I once heard, though it may not go exactly like this…

How can you tell when a Republican Senator is lying?

His lips are moving.

Happy Friday, ya’ll. Wolverines!

He’s not from the State of Moran; he’s from the State of Flat-Out Lies.

BMW has a plant in his state (in his old Congressional District); he might know a couple of German managers; there are Iranian refugees from 30 years ago in the area, only a few of them.

But to say that they wanted to escape from competitive healthcare with the choice of a public option is such a flat-out lie that you question whether he knows any Germans or Iranians at all. One suspects that these references are just like the “I have friends from Canada and Britain” references.

We shouldn’t let liars off the hook by treating them as morans. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Frank Luntz wrote it.

For serge, Marion, and all the other pups who have their share of dumb pols -

I’ll see ya yours and raise ya one jesse helms (sounds batshit insane). The good thing about ours is he’s now six feet under…..I give the one finger salute every time I drive by the brick edifice they built to his honor horror in his home town.

Marion -

Thanks for the update from Tommy on Estan’s status. *smooch*

You also need to except Spratt and Clyburn, but there does seem to be a pattern, dating back to sometime around the birth of John C. Calhoun. Still, I’ll see your Demint and raise you Cornyn, Perry, DeLay, Bush, Rove, Armey and any number of malevolent, ruinous shitheads.

Is he talking about escaping from bed bugs…they are a menace over there.

A report just came out that students in the sub-standard public schools are actually scoring higher in math than students in the charter schools, which charge a tuition.

How dumb is paying to be dumb?

Records of GOP-sponsored credit card reveal lavish spending by Sansom

The pols in Tallahassee aren’t the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

Mornin’, BT, pups

Are we in for another troll-a-lific day?

It really pisses me off that Mr Obama and his education secretary are so in love with the sham known as charter schools.

You’re right. That takes a special kind of stoopid…

There is no explaining it.

Refresher Course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnY-jy_cE0
Motivate a friend (or 50) this weekend with this clip.

thank you for that. i just watched. it’s so stunning in its simplicity.

when you speak of malevolent, please don’t leave out phil gramm.

You all have me in stitches this AM irt your comments on Southern politicians. I have one big trump card on you being from Ohio. One word.

Boehner.

(klynn raises Dr. Evil pinky finger to the corner of her mouth!)

This is a wink and nod to the “free choice” advocates who think anything that the government does steps on one’s freedom. Oh except for a woman’s body. That belongs to the religious right.

You’re right. I didn’t kick over every rock in sight. I have a weak stomach this morning.

Thank you for posting the link. Perfect. The link should become a front pager today. Hope someone picks it up and writes about.

Have you thought of turning your comment into a diary?

If President Obama is truly Adolph Hitler, then let’s hope the conservatives are the Jews. Hey, I’m just saying!!!!! Bub bye conservatives! Nice knowing ya!!!!!

That’s where we need to take our closing argument for voting yes for healthcare reform. it really is that simple. Thank you.

It’s lame, but not really anything new, not even the timing:

“When this essay comparing Hitler’s rise to power with Bush, and the tactics of the present GOP with the 1930s Nazis and Stalin’s communist regime was first published in July, 2001, the author was the recipient of a flood of hate mail and even a couple of death threats from militant rightwingers. But the comparison hit home: the article has been been circulating all over the world, reprinted in at least five languages. Unlike the lame, even bizarre comparisons rightwingers try to make between Clinton, Dean, et al. and Hitler, the similarity between Bush’s regime and the rise of the Nazis is REAL and has evoked a shock of recognition in readers – or, as the title says, a “Chilling Deja Vu.”

I’ll leave that chore to better writers. I’m content being a part-time muse. Thanks for the complement.

Just transcribing a few of the quotes and posting the link to YouTube would do it for a diary.

I bet it would go frontpage.

Interisting list of “dumbs”, but I suspect the populations of the catagories that you listed don’t even vote in very large numbers. In my experience it’s the smugs who do all the voting, and we still end up with these reps.

The most universal and powerful organizing platform is the church in america – that’s why the capitalist pigs on wall street hold their noses and got in bed with the morals crowd, gun crowd and the entire religious right. THAT is the mass of voters who have dragged this country to the right.

There was discussion on the left that the dems should suck up to “religion” to capture and blunt the block that the R’s had created for themselves.

No one on the D side will talk ill of the influence of the church in american politics – but they will gleefully court it.

The Family is but one symptom of how the church and the power elite are working together.

Let me give it some thought. No promises, through.

Sounds about right about religion assuming the R’s can actually get them to vote. I’ve got extended ‘base-educated’ relatives that run in the NASCAR / pro-sports loving crouds that bytch a lot about the govmint, but never actually vote.

Here’s a start. You can copy and paste it into a diary if you want.

Tony Benn:

It all began with Democracy. What Democracy did is it gave the poor the vote…It moved power from the marketplace to the polling station…From the wallet to the ballot.

In the 1930’s we had mass unemployment. But we didn’t have unemployment during the war…If you have employment by killing Germans (during the war,) why can’t you have full employment by building hospitals, building schools, recruiting nurses, recruiting teachers? If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people…

Democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world. If you have power, you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

I am working on the end quotes irt “shackled with debt.”

After this section of quotes, it would be powerful to display the stats on the number of people who declare bankruptcy due to medical costs and stats on the uninsured and underinsured.

Then I would also link to the 60 minutes interview of Stan Broc and his charity RAM.

We might want to point out those who need a PO the most, probably cannot make it to a townhall meeting to share their story.

Didn’t think Yankees could tell stoopid from flat-out lying.

Test: Which of these are stoopid and which are flat-out lying?
Bachmann, Boehner, King, Schmitt, Foxx, Cantor, McHenry, Broun, Hoekstra, Imhoff, and Big Eddie’s new BFF Istook

Could add a few Democrats like Mike Ross and Kent Conrad to the mix.

At first blush the numbers look high, but when you consider a population of 300M people, it turns out to be a pretty small percentage. If you’re only looking at medical bankruptcy it’s about 1/2 of 1%. Each case is sad, but it’s probably better to use a different metric to justify changing US healthcare policy.

Trick question, some are both stupid and liars.

Silly me. When I first read that statement, I thought he was referring to the rise of the American brown shirts, and I thought he made sense. I didn’t realize he was talking about the terror of Medicare!

Sorry, but in the dumbest of the dumb sweepstakes, we in Texas win, and not by a nose.

We don’t elect just dumb senators, of which we currently have two, we like at least one of the rascals, not to mention our governor, to have excelled at cheerleading during their college years.

We also elect dumb governors like Bush, who was also a cheerleader and who was rejected by my alma mater, the U of Texas school of law, when he sought entry. And then, to make up for that slight, we collaborated with the national dimmest of all the gathered wits in electing him pres not once, but twice, albeit with a little help from corpulent Nino and his merry gang of thieves first time around.

Can you imagine what greater harm he could have done with a law degree? Think Bush and Gonzales, Torturers at Law.

Sorry, pal, but the trophy for dumbest of the dumb has been retired, and we proudly owns it. Like the Houston mom who killed off her daughter’s main cheerleader competition, we take our leaders of the cheer almost as seriously as we take politics and football.

Yep, but calling them stupid lets them off the hook too easy. “They didn’t know any better.” Maybe for Bachmann or Palin, but for DeMint? Nope. He’s is just a flat-out liar and has been ever since he entered South Carolina politics.

They are asking Demint that becuase, i guess, they dont speak english very well yet, and if they’re listening to FOX, they probably think the President is a communist,and FEMA is going to build detention camps.. PLUS! demint is not above lying so, we cant really know what those huddled masses are cringing from. Again, if they’re having a conversation with demint, they are probably fleeing interpol.

Thats a yankee specialty acutally

I’m from Maryland, so I can be impartial. Oklahoma has the dumbest senators.