Yet more proof that they’re lazy and shiftless, doncha know?

One really has to wonder where we are headed. The economic dislocation that we are going through (and likely will continue to go through for some years) is a very serious matter, but it only masks even more severe GLOBAL problems that those in power refuse to face. So we have kids who can’t get jobs … can’t start on their careers. They also can’t go to school, because we are cutting grant programs, and their parents have already lost their jobs and their house. And the generations that follow will have it even worse, because we are CUTTING public school education funding (fewer – and worse – teachers, and 4 day school weeks). And all of this is just the immediate problem, not the long-term problems that are going to cause famine, floods, etc.

If we think it is going to be bad this year and the next, imagine what happens when the environmental refugees start flooding in. And this will happen sooner rather than later if Republicans in Congress continue with their insane program of cutting disaster planning, prediction, and relief funds.

Amerika will be needing more jails.

At least, thanks to true business sense, we’re making the world safe for CEO’s;
‘Twenty-five of the 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study by a Washington think tank said Wednesday.’
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0901-ceo-pay-20110901,0,261944.story

The rich are confident that they will be able to summon a police state in America if need be.
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I see nothing to make me think they are wrong, given the measured pacing of their assault on America and their selective targeting of vulnerable social classes.

Obama wanted Wednesday. Boehner said Thursday. Obama negotiated a compromise and agreed on Thursday.

The dry cleaning bills to get the Republican tire tread marks off the back of his Hartmax suit jackets must be astronomical.

Since they’ve played out the “lower taxes” talking point, the new one is that gummint regulations are killing employment. Here comes the deal: they’ll give him a jobs bill if he guts the EPA. Obama will compromise. We’ll lose. Heard it here first.

Why shouldn’t Republicans nominate the most insane of their insane clown posse? With O, they get everything they want, and they can just keep moving them goalposts.

They sure seem determined to make the same mistakes that all tyrants and empires make, don’t they? Trouble is, none of those tyrants and empires are around anymore. Doesn’t anybody read history?

I’ve been enjoying The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive, link to PDF at the end of the description, by Dean Baker.
Baker opens with an overview of “continued support for too-big-to-fail banks, patent and copyright protection,restrictions on organized labor, corporate liability limitations, Federal Reserve monetary controls, trade and dollar policy, and housing policy.” and fleshes out the details from there. (h/t tp Yglesias)

Good morning, pups. It’s Kristof and Bruni today, since Ms. Collins is still on book leave. Mr. Kristof is in Tripoli. In “‘Thank You, America!’,” says Libya, for the time being, has become a shining example of successful humanitarian intervention. Well played, President Obama. Mr. Bruni, in “Sorry, Wrong In-Box,” says with all of our e-mail addresses and cellphone numbers, we’re so accessible that we’ve become inaccessible.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes for breakfast. I’m brain dead this morning, so I’m going to investigate whether an additional infusion of tea will help the situation. Have a great day.

Obama wanted Wednesday.

What the fuck is WRONG with those morons at 1600? You cannot possibly expect me to believe that they had no idea that there was going to be a big Republican clown show that day. Dumber than a bag of rocks…

Thank you Marion and the pancakes sounds spot on right now.

I love the qualifier “noninstitutional”. The kids locked up for pot are assumed employed.

Boxturtle (Just counting my area, the number of folks who could be put to work fixing potholes is astounding)

This is the only administration I can remember that let the opposition party schedule it’s speeches. I wonder if Obama has to get the text approved?

Boxturtle (I bet they make him say “Job killing regulations” before they approve it)

In the eternal debate, “Incompetent clowns or soulless grifters?”, yesterday’s antics
moved the needle back towards “clowns”.
Someone should lock Carney back in Swampland and throw away the key.

(Just counting my area, the number of folks who could be put to work fixing potholes is astounding)

Librul, hippie infrastructure? Are you crazed? Why, you can tell it’s socialist just by the fact that there are more than three syllables.

Make him? Make him? Nah, after 31 months of getting mugged in the exact same way under the exact same circumstances, you really can’t call it mugging any more.

Obama will “cave”, just like he always “caves”, because that’s what he really believes. Gummint regulations will go because Obama believes gummint regulations kill jobs. There is no other explanation.

You won’t get him to say it, though. And they don’t want him to say it. That would just ruin this fine kabuki theatre.

Observe the exquisite coordination:

1) They start a talking point, spend some time pumping it on Fox, getting all the zombies on the same page.

2) Out of the blue, Obama has a bipartisan request to make of Congress, something so bland and bipartisany no one could refuse.

3) They scream, “Socialism”, “Kenyan Usurper”, &c., and vow to resist to the death.

4) A compromise is reached wherein they get their fondest desire, and America gets half of that bipartisany thing, aka nothing.

5) Lather, rinse, repeat, for years.

Doctor Watson, a dance of this sort requires commitment and real cooperation.

I wonder if Obama has to get the text approved?

No doubt it’s on BONER‘s desk as we speak. Can’t even schedule their own speeches and we’re supposed to vote for this guy?

here I tho’t that ‘noninstitutional’ was outside the ivy covered walls! (humor)

I stand corrected, you’re quite right.

Boxturtle (I would like to apologize to America for Voting for Obama in the Primary)

IMHO Obama isn’t caving he is doing what he wants. He is using disaster capitalism to destroy Amerika. Outsourcing, Privatization, low wges, and shredding of the safety net these are all tentacles of the IMF. Never thought it would come here this fast. My 2 cents.

You know this is the featured selection of the Sept. 18 FDL book salon, right?

they got too much already, besides we got the cops and I’m sure it wouldn’t interest, anybody Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends ….Phil Ochs

Welcome to Dark Ages 2.0