I’d like to know how many Republican Senators and Representatives or their families and trusted advisors are playing the US Treasury derivatives market. Bet it’s most of them.

That’s their kind of patriotism.

Morning SP. You mean they’re not just wanking themselves up on the Hill? I think you’re right: the Repugs are all betting short on the economy so they’ll make out like bandits while the rest of us crash and burn.

They’re like the Keystone Cops responding to a real terror attack. And Obama…don’t get me started.

It would be a blessing if they would just shoot themselves in the head, feet, and/or gut.

Yup. I’m not in the mood, either. “Just how crazy are they?” seems a lot more pressing than “What the heck is he thinking?”

The whole point of eliminationist rhetoric is the eliminating part.

Political theater over nothing. Had Boehner and Mr. O done nothing in December, Bush tax cut for billionaires and millionaires would have expired… Had Mr. O pulled the troops out of Iraq at the end of the year, as promised…. Had Mr. O not escalated the Afghanistan invasion….

Well there wouldn’t be a deficit problem.

Had Mr. O gone with a public option, single payer, we’d be seeing job growth and surpluses.

And how silly for Mr. O to give businesses tax holiday by allowing them to not fully pay into social security. Why when they have record profits?

Meanwhile Mr. O wants three more NAFTA like slave trade deals that will close even more plants and cost us hundreds of thousands of more jobs.

I’d like to know how many Republican Senators and Representatives or their families and trusted advisors are playing the US Treasury derivatives market

Unfortunately it is not just the republican pols, the dems are equally as culpable in this bloody idiocy. The none of them give a sweet pidoody about what is needed in this country right now, jobs and healthcare for all, they are far more concerned with filling their own pocketbooks and protecting their own power. But, most disturbing, it is The Big Zero aka “little dick” that is leading the charge to the country’s ruination.

The lying, hypocritical bastard in the WH has become so enamored with the trappings of power and money that he has forgotten that there are hundreds of millions of disaffected Americans that he is supposed to represent and not just the score or so of jewelry encrusted banker buddies that own him.

Since the “debt” is the accumulation of all previous spending and tax cutting decisions, why should raising the ceiling be a crisis at all?

Most of our corporate-selected politicians don’t give a shit about us, as seen in the Gang of Six proposal: tax holiday, cuts in taxes for the wealthy, etc. Even the name of the Group shows how ignorant our masters are: Mao had a “Gang of Eight” which were villanized during the Cultural Revolution and blamed for all society’s ills.

Don’t you know all the Democrats investers are playing the US Treasury derivatives market with there partners in crime.

I can’t help but notice that the wheels of government promptly fell off the minute Obama took office.

I guess it’s just a “suggestive correlation,” and God knows our government was not exactly a well-oiled machine before Obama came along.

But is it merely coincidence that Congress suddenly couldn’t pass bills the minute the Obamacrats took over? People who had spent their lives writing and passing legislation…suddenly couldn’t write bills or pass legislation.

During the same period–the Obama Era, if you will–Americans’ view of government has dropped precipitously, and now everyone thinks our government doesn’t work. All this has happened under Obama’s watch. It’s as if Obama tossed a wrench into the wheels of government.

The Whining Liberal

I can’t help but notice that the wheels of government promptly fell off the minute Obama took office.

The Big Zero touted himself as being the “Great Unifier” and this he has done, in spades. He has succeeded in unifying the government against the people.

“forgotten that their are hundreds of millions of disaffected Americans…”

He hasn’t forgotten, he just doesn’t give a damn.

He hasn’t forgotten, he just doesn’t give a damn.

Gotta agree with that assessment. Nobody is that clueless but there are people that callous.

Good morning, pups. It’s The Pasty Little Putz and Krugman today. The Pasty Little Putz is forced to address “A Right-Wing Monster,” and he has a question: What does the right-wing ideology of the Norwegian man charged with mass murder mean for European politics? He also reminds us that Al Gore is fat. Prof. Krugman, in “Messing With Medicare,” says it’s actually good that the “Grand Bargain” is apparently dead, because what President Obama offered to the Republicans was a very bad deal for America.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and the biscuits are out of the oven. Since the heat index is 83 at sunrise I’m heading out into the garden to water and try to keep a few things alive. Have a great day.

Thanks – and right wingers fighting against progressives, meaning the best interests of their countries, is a disaster in Europe as bad as it is here.

The 240 Representatives and 47 Senators, who portray themselves as crusaders against a tide of Big Government, say they want to explain acts they deem ‘atrocious’ but ‘necessary’.

Obama holds a fake gun to his head and says we must surrender our homes in order to save him from shooting himself – a scene straight out of 1974′s Blazing Saddles where Bart does the same – and calls the folks he is playing to “stupid”.

Good morning,
I woke up stupid.

We have a 14 trillion dollar deficit, right ?

Did I read last week we bailed out the bankers to the tune of 13 trillion ?

WE borrowed money from China for personal benefit of the bankers, the 1%ers ?

Can we have our money back without those bastards charging us interest on our money or threatening to raise the rates ?

Our DC clown collage is going to put on smoke and mirrors shows this week the likes have not seen in decades ,if ever.

OED

forgotten = put out of one’s mind; cease to think of or consider

According to TPM, Obama has a 45% approval rating. Who are these stupid fuckers?

Obama has a 45% approval rating. Who are these stupid fuckers? Republicans

I don’t think he ever gave a damn. He lied his way into the White House.

Its now so obvious that we have a situation in DC where nobody represents the vast majority of the American electorate anymore. The only section of the electorate that counts is the base of the Goper party which is about 28% of the voters. Both parties cater to these folks, as does the so called MSM.

Glad somebody’s trying to keep something alive this week.

I would include the U.S. public who either doesn’t care or are that callous. The brainwashing has been thorough and complete. Where is the outrage other than at the Lake? An indifferent, apathetic and/or callous public allows this charade and fraud to continue. Perhaps the public has to be reduced to begging and/or dying in the streets before they wake up from their coma.

See 24

I wish that were true. But there are just as many Democrats in love with the man. If in doubt, refer to The Daily Kos.

We’d have been better off with Clinton.

Boxturtle (I use to think that O was better than McCain. Now all I can say is he’s no worse)

McCain wasn’t lying.

good day to buy Euros?

‘You don’t want to be the average American in a default scenario, whenever it arrives. Ray Dalio, the head of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, puts that day in “late 2012 or early 2013.”’

http://news.yahoo.com/dont-caught-holding-dollars-u-default-arrives-191153227.html

We are not a poor country. There are at least a dozen US BILLIONaires and over 2.5 million millionairs. Yet we are actively discussing shortening the school day and the school year because we have no money.

Boxturtle (What’s wrong with this picture?)

I didn’t exclude the public but until unemployment is much higher and until their needs aren’t being met, you can keep on waiting for the response you’re hoping for. Comfortable people don’t join revolutions, (except the rich when they see an opportunity to use it as a way of getting richer and more powerful).

Perhaps the public has to be reduced to begging and/or dying in the streets before they wake up from their coma.

And yes, historically that’s true. Things aren’t different now because you’re paying attention. This has been going on throughout human history and I have no reason to believe it will change now because we’ve arrived on the scene.

If only. 70% of people believe in angels and the majority don’t “believe” in evolution. So why are the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s numbers so low?

We’d have been better off with Clinton.

Interesting. The results would be the same i.e. sell out to bankers & large corps, lousy foreign policy, no war crimes tribunal, no re-visiting NAFTA, bust unions etc, etc, etc however we may have had Lieberman as Sec. of State and that would have been even worse. NO we got the lesser of two evils but evil none the less.

Sadly, I believe you’re right.

It would have been much more difficult to roll over Clinton has has been done regularly and successfully with Obama. The debt limit would already have been resolved under her, IMO, and she’s a much better leader.

That said, I think you’re right about the sellout. I didn’t say perfect, I said better.

Boxturtle (Not sure if we got the lesser of evils or the evil of lessers)

The public is being primed to accept higher unemployment as the “new normal.” The brainwashing continues.

Historical AND human “reality”, Margaret … exactly.

DW

Suspect that the wars would not be winding down, altho I like Hillary Clinton, she seemed to think she’d shore up against being a woman by being militant.

It is a sad commentary that there are no “leaders” worth a damn.

Oh yeah, it’s “structural”, doncha know?

DW

You think HRC would have handled the “sell-out” more gracefully and graciously, then, BoxTurtle?

Would she have had Geithner et al, do you suppose?

Just a wonderment, as I agree with Ruth that Hillary was out to prove she could be as “tough” as ANY militant male …

And, I do recall her comment, “Thank God for the rich!”.

DW

A general suggestion for economic health, with or without default; cancel your credit cards.

Good idea. More importantly, I think everyone should do their banking at a local credit union.

HRC = BHO = DLC = RNC

Indeed. And do not take out loans.

I don’t know that it would be as bad of a sellout and I don’t known that I’d have used the word “gracefully”. I think she’d have added a new dimension to the word “bitch”.

I think war-wise, we’d be exactly where we are now. Spreading war everywhere and trying to get out of Iraq while leaving a few thousand special forces “trainers”.

Boxturtle (I’d rather have Hillary being tough than Barry being bipartisan)

I think we need far better choices, BoxTurtle.

However, I also understand that, if sanity, not belligerence or shock-doctrine capitulation, is what we desire and need, then it will be up to us to do something about it.

Ah, the open-ended opportunities (and possibilities) before us …

DW