Tonight’s the night Obama turns it around.

And now for something completely different.

All good progressives, please stand up.

“they’ll just pull the rug out on that one on January 19,2013, too”

No doubt Obama will accommodate them by removing all furniture and cleaning the rug.

The only conclusion to come to here is that the fix is in. Flows with all that has preceded. We are toast, whitebread, sourdough, pumpernickel, your choice.

endless shiite that never ends.

thanks for writing. Mr Doom will lie from now on, can’t always tell it true.

Good morning, pups. It’s Kristof and Collins today. In “Finding Hope in Libya” Mr. Kristof says there may be some goons among the rebel movement in Libya, but there are reasons to be optimistic about the post-Qaddafi era. Ms. Collins is back from her book leave. In “Debating With the Stars” she says the race is on in the Republican Party to find America’s Not-Mitt.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes for breakfast. The Times gave some poor sods the job of fact-checking last night’s debate. They must have done something truly awful to have been punished that way… Have a great day.

I hope that it’s Dennis Kucinich that shouts, “You lie!”

Mr. Nesbitt has learned the first lesson of not being seen: not to stand up.

Although the President’s speech is sure to be cringeworthy, I think I’ll pass. I just can’t take the lies anymore. I will look for the bloopers reel of the GOP “debate”.

My stars; the Lofgren piece was well-written. Thanks for steering us to it.

His theory about middle-class Republicans who vote against their own economic interests (the old ‘cognitive dissonance’ meme) is intriguing: they absorbed the cynical and dangerous Prosperity Doctrine with their mothers’ milk. I hadn’t realized for how long that had been the de facto credo of Evangelism.

It does make me wonder if that might not be the case with Obama, too, at least to a certain extent. He’s otherwise at least intelligent enough to grasp how damaging neoliberal economics have been/still are to this country and the rest of the planet, and what such inequality in wealth distribution means not only historically, but to the futures of the 90% non-wealthy.

The two key reasons I despise both him and his Presidency are that he was elected to show the population that supply-side economics are disastrous for all but the oligarchs; and that the degree to which he has doubled-down on militarism and a security state and Empire…will kill the country. The suffering most Americans feel now will be increased by an order of magnitude soon, and much of the blame will be his.

The Democratic base that has allowed him to get away with, or actively promoted, this perfidy are most to blame, IMO. Had they/we pushed back against his worst moves undermining both civil and economic justice early on, he never would have been the recipient of so much of Wall Street’s filthy lucre by now. And government may have been seen again as a useful force, not the enemy; designed to protect our citizenry, not corporate thieves and plutocrats.

Screw him and the compliant Dems. We can rail against the bat-shit hate-all-but-affluent-whitey Republicans all day, but it leaves the rest of us off the hook far too much. IMHO, of course.

Unrelated but should come as no surprise to anyone here. I guess catching a (non alcoholic) buzz is “terrorism” now.

Thanks, rule of thumb; whatever appeals to the cult of the moment. SS should be given to the states is Perry’s line for the anti-northeastern librul vote.

Yeah, Lucy and the football no longer works. It never really worked, because the basic assumption has been that Obama WANTED to kick the football. He never really did, just wanted us to think so.

Obama has been playing eleventy dimensional chess. Only he’s been playing with us, not the GOP.

Boxturtle (We’d have been better off with McCain, the Dems might have tried to stop him)

Yep. Not any more interested in what he has to say than I was in listening to those idiotic Republicans blather about values and small government.

The voters the right depends on are the ones they can confuse by repeating Big Lies over and over.

Good morning,

And now we’ll see the other cheek, between the “two parties” worthless leadership to confirm there isn’t a speck of daylight between the two parties, only we’ll be stuck with just another asshole either way.

Since o gave us unending bush tax cuts that don’t work he better not say a fucking word about any “TAX’ cuts tonight concerning jobs unless he’s a closet republican.

Obama doesn’t need the Republicans help to disembowel the government.

While I tend to agree, I think we’ve been getting bogged down in endlessly debating corporate shill vs political coward. Does it really matter? Because either way he has no business being president.

Everybody knows that all pot smokers are terrorists. And they’re buying pot with their government benefits.

Boxturtle (And probably giving it to illegal aliens)

Interestingly, saw Dylan Ratigan go on about how corporate CEO’s aren’t the problem, they’re doing their job, but political promoters of corporate welfare are not. And that makes the political representatives who sell out their actual constituents the wrongdoers, not the CEO’s. Of course, I’ve always wanted violation of the oath of office to be subject to legal action.

unless he’s a closet republican.

He’s been out of the closet for awhile now.

Boxturtle (Currently, he’d be considered “mainstream”, but he’s working on “batshit”)

Of course anyone who doesn’t bow down to the authorities is a screaming lunatic terrorist.

Those who kidnap handcuff a 5 month old babies and their family before giving them an extra hole in their head are “Exceptional”, the best ,the brightest heroes that ever walked the face of the earth.

I just read a quip that said the republicans are looking for the non-Mitt.

When are the dems going to start looking for the non-Obama?

corporate shill vs political coward

They are not mutually exclusive in Obama’s case.

Boxturtle (He can be both, and have his head up his butt at the same time)

Dana Priest’s investigations into the enormous Dark Government and Military/Intelligence machine aired last night in Frontline’s post 9/11 video; can’t recall its name just now). There have been an ungodly number of billions poured into DHS (as well as over a thousand different agencies and programs) that many of those billions were dumped on state and local police departments, which was to be spent on high-tech gizmos that allowed cops to be the ‘eyes and ears of vigilance’ within communities, and Keep Alert to ‘terrorist’ threats.

Couple the ability to spy on, collate information on, and share it all (pretty much Total Information Awareness, or close to it), and add in the prison industrial complex, and bingo! Everyone’s a potential criminal. War on drugs? Lotsa profit there to be had. Criminals!

And here we were promised we’d be getting our governmental Soma in the mail each week by now. Idiots shouldda made sure we had it.

They’re the next military suicides. I wonder how many soldiers killed themselves because of involvment in things like this.

Boxturtle (While our President sits in his office and speaks of “collateral damage”)

My favorite boondoggle is the border fence. I understand it’s being sold off by the truckload to metal recyclers.

No doubt Obama will accommodate them by removing all furniture and cleaning the rug.

I hope he has enough notice of who’s the winner to figure out which letter to remove from all the typewriters. [A la Bush's accusations that Clinton's folks removed all the "B"s.]

One [of the many] thing that infuriates me about Obama is that he is/was so focused on “winning” that he never bothers to “fight the good fight.” Part of ultimately “winning” on an issue is educating people why it’s important to win, and thus why it’s important to rally to your [his] side.

Because he was never willing to stand up and call out Republicans on any number of issues, from taxes to regulations to whatever, their specious, insane arguments have become accepted. And because of Obama’s quashing of any criticism from the Democrats [after all, he was negotiating with the Republican clowns and wouldn't want to insult them or piss them off], there’s nothing, NOTHING said that refutes their crazy.

I recall the late, great Molly Ivins talking about parties in which fence climbing was one of the activities.

Couple that with the Virtual Fence technology that…didn’t work in real time, and I’ll join you.

Are you near Austin, Ruth? Our son’s Type I crew just got to the Bastrop Fires last night.

Safe wishes for your son.

with prizes!

Here we’re on the northern fire zone, almost to the OK fire zone. Best to your son, hopefully staying safe.

And to catch22oy,

Ah; he will. He always jokes that he’s there to save Bunnies and Babies, anyway, and has wanted to go to a hot climate to fight fire, and to Alaska, which his crew never draws. I tell him the mosquitoes would kill him there. ;o)

But thanks for the good wishes. I always figure no news is good news, and ever since the tragedy on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, they have really tightened up their safety protocols.

I’m terribly disturbed. Every place one looks the progressive agenda is under assault. It seems that we just can’t catch a break. This last few years has left me deeply troubled. What appeared to be an imminent global transformation to sensible governance has been reduced to a humiliating shell of the vision so nearly realized. Whatever happened to “The oceans shall cease to rise, and the planet will begin to heal”?
This is just to much. To go from that to hardly more than a year away from yet another Texas dunce seizing the reins of power.
Crushing! We must find other means to deal with these evil nut sacks. Democracy is broken.

It was called “Secret America” and was really scary what they have done with all our tax money.

Yes, popeye; ‘Top Secret America’. I was too lazy to grab the links I’d put on a diary at My.fdl. Shiver-producing, even though you thought you knew the strength of the MICC/Intelligence machine? Not even close!

Transcript:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/iraq-war-on-terror/topsecretamerica/dana-priest-top-secret-america-is-here-to-stay/

Watch:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topsecretamerica/

Good luck to him; just heard 1300 homes have been lost in that area; then there are at least 2 other areas seriously effected. Great losses.

Thanks, RevBev. There were only state FS and local firefighters there for far too long given the size of the fires; dunno if Perry declared it a national emergency to get the National FS Wildland Firefighters there or what. But Perry did managed to get off the campaign trail long enough for a good photo-op, then split.

Here’s a cynically spot-on piece about his funding choices. The idiot.

The winds were down yesterday, and most of the growth’s been inside loose containment lines. Hope the wind stays down.

Good stuff, ‘Turk!

No more bullshit.

Obama is reduced to whining at the assholes, and hoping against nearly three years of the reality of their utter refusal to help him mount any kind of a salvage operation, that some Jesus-blessing will descend from heaven to turn things around.

Although, you have to admit that he doesn’t look like he’s even hoping very hard. More like, he’s just playing out the string of being the lamest lameduck one-termer in our history.

His options are becoming clearer with every passing week:

Corporate think-tank or University sinecure?

A profile in courage… :o)

“I hope it’s Dennis Kucinich that shouts “You lie!”

And that is one short-but-accurate yardstick on just how screwed we are, with this cowardly hack.

The republicans OWN him; does he think that begging them can save him, now that he’s pissed 99% of the mountain of political clout that we gave him in 2008, down the tube?

“and now we’ll see the other cheek…”

I think both cheeks, well spread.

Democracy is not broken, it’s dead. The “electorate” has been indoctrinated and propagandized to for the last 30+ years and now are on the same page with the cons and the neoliberals, willingly, gleefully voting against their own best interests. What has occurred since Reagan has been a slow motion coup d’etat that is near it’s completion. Obama has his part to play in bringing it all to fruition for the oligarchs and plutocrats.

Good,I don’t know what’s good about it morning, to all of The Knight-less of the Round Table. Happy day’s will be here again, I hope. Eliminate all party affiliation, save a ton of money in co-operative contributions or should say payout money.

In other news, Dick Cheyney is pimping Hillary for another run:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cheney-talks-2012-hillary-clinton-campaign-130624083.html

Too precious. This asshole whose hands are covered with blood, flacking for the “progressive” who helped put it there, and who then practically held hands with the right wing, in her “savvy” campaign for the nomination…

It’s a laser-accurate measure of how totally screwed we are, that Dick Cheyney is advising the democratic party on how to get out of the political shitter into which Barack Obama has dragged us. The democrat who ran to the right of Obama is going to save us?

I don’t think so.

Memo to Dick: just because Barack Obama has turned out to be a country-club republican doesn’t mean that YOUR cred has gone up: not even Obama can do rehab on your sorry ass.

I’m tired of Lucy and the football…

Sadly, the President doesn’t seem to get tired of it.

We DO have it….it’s called TEEVEE

LOL! Mebbe I should turn it on more often… ;o)

Don’t worry, Perry’s too insane even for most of the non-humans who make up the populace of Amerika

Here are some new shows for your viewing “pleasure”. If you like the current war on women, you’ll LOVE these:

10 Revolting TV Shows That Need to Die
Television influences our culture and mental health. Here are shows that we need to kill like a virus.

a bunch of stuff showing how horrible women are and how much men are right to hate us…and LOVE< LOVE<LOVE themsleves
. Just the thing for an evening's relaxation……..

I watched the whole program and what is troublesome for me is that they say the amount of money spent and the extent of their operation is a “state secret”. They will put down any rebellion of the American people. It sickens me and we are not far away from the “F” word. I would say it but would receive a well you know. Thanks for the links. If you are interested in this subject buy the book “Nazi Hydra in America” that will scare the bejejsus out of you. :)

While I tend to agree, I think we’ve been getting bogged down in endlessly debating corporate shill vs political coward. Does it really matter? Because either way he has no business being president.

Amen, Margaret.

We the people don’t pick the president anymore; it’s down to the Bilderbergers. And in their eyes, Oblabber is doing exactly as they wish (and being well-paid in the process).