Good evening, all!

PW!
The Cruise of the Damned is one of those events that manages to both amuse and depress. It amuses me owing to the cluelessness and inability of those involved to deal with reality. It depresses because there are still so many morally repulsive and delusional people wielding some, rapidly diminishing, degree of power in this country.

PW!

That last comment reminds of what my mother said about the maids that worked for her over the years. I mentioned that they didn’t get their social security paid or even make minimum wage. “They like it that way because they can still get their welfare.” Made my stomach hurt.

WMD = Wingnuts of Mass Destruction…an American nightmare, an American tragedy. From guns to government, today’s Republicans are our nation’s WMD. (Or is that IED, Ideological Explosive Device?).

BTW, did you hear that milk is about to double in price next week BECAUSE the WMD (Tea Party House Republicans) refuse to vote on the Farm Bill that has already been passed (bipartisan) by the U.S. Senate. And butter will go up in price (double/triple?), and cheese will go up in price (double/triple, and what effect will this have on pizza prices?), all because Republican WMDs in the House decided to do nothing, especially if doing something means actually doing something Democrats (and President Obama) are for. The Wingnuts of Mass Destruction have spoken, No Compromise, even if it means destroying America and costing/killing even more American citizens, including Republicans, both WMD and otherwise. Way to go Republican WMDs. Idiots.

The Southern Strategy is morphing into the Corporate Strategy.

mother fuckers.

More the other way around. The GOP has been the preeminent party of the corporations for the past century. They merely adopted the Southern Strategy to convince working class whites to vote against their own interests by playing on their racial fears and resentments.

Do they even have mothers?

In my first scan of Hagan’s piece, I could only imagine that it was allegorical satire transplanted from the Onion. A ship full of pasty GOPers steaming past Guantanamo a few days after the election? Please!

Morphing is how they stay unaccountable. The Southern Dems morphed into the GOP. The GOP is morphing into non-existence. The Dems are morphing into the GOP.

Someone told me that’s one word: motherfuckers. You’re welcome.

If this shit keeps up, preety soon we will all morph away.

It’s really muthafuckas.

Poor old Republicans, the white men with Bushmasters are getting all the publicity. The NRA ain’t winning either. The Republican elected are desperate to get some spotlight, and they are going to get that.

Even if they have to go lower than a snake’s belly to get there.

BOSS: Well, that’s the way it should be.

LOL! Conservatives love hierarchy and a predictable, unchanging world. Nothing is so resistant to change than their attitudes.

Some of the crusies are probably true MOTUs, but most are probably just garden-variety Upper-Middle-Class Twits of the Year.

That’s right. And it’s a key reason why the full story of the Southern Strategy can never be told by the mainstream corporate media.

Reading Hagan’s article I was struck by the similarity of the reaction of the hard Right and the hard Left to Obama – disbelief, hyperbole and depression. Interesting read.

The hard Left in the USA? Can you point me to their offices?

Obama IS hard right he just appears squishy center in a country whose political spectrum is so far right the center is called left.

Disbelief and hyperbole on cue.

Hard Left, Hard Right.

Hard On.

I’m not looking for a fight, but are there Dems who still like and respect … and mostly trust….Obama?

Well I guess the conversation stopped with Starbuck. I find it interesting to hear right wingers talk when they think they are among friends. What I want to do more often is let those conversations get out to other people in such a fashion that their cruelty, racism, sexism and magical thinking are obvious to people whose money they want or whose praise they seek.

Why? Because in so many ways, they will not change their views unless they can see the cost to them. And sometimes not even then.

Many of them they need to have a personal bad experience in order to see things differently. They often are not empathetic, beyond their own family (or tribe) they can’t see that their views hurt actual people.

But if they aren’t going to change I’m not going to keep trying, I will just make it so that holding their views become socially or financially painful for them. That is because I’m a fighting liberal.

Once again, disbelief and hyperbole.

Published: Dec. 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 21 (UPI) — President Obama’s approval rating has climbed to 56 percent, the highest since October 2009, a new Gallup poll indicated.

Word up.

And that’s Gallup, which plumped hard for Romney right up until the election.

More.

President Obama’s approval rating has reached 57 percent, a CBS News poll released Tuesday found.

Other polls have shown Obama’s popularity rising in recent weeks. An Associated Press-GfK released earlier this month also found the president’s approval at 57 percent, up 5 points from a pre-election poll. And in a Quinnipiac University survey, the president’s approval rating reached 53 percent, a three-year high for the president in the university’s poll.

HuffPost Pollster’s chart, which tracks all publicly available polls, currently finds Obama approval rating at 52.6 percent, his strongest rating since late 2009:

I can’t figure out what this post is about but it has some funny stuff.

Not much of a surprise — the GOP establishment stoked the dimwitted tea bagger movement with the intention of coercing it in time to capture control of all branches of government. They didn’t think through the consequences of dealing with the monster they created. Now they’re in danger of being destroyed by the franken bagger. It is fun to watch.

I’ve noticed that people who subject the Presidency to popularity polls are also people who would happily subject your (not theirs – YOURS; big freakin’ ocean of difference) Constitutional and Civil Rights to popularity polls as well — in exchange from the safety and comfort of their own (or the illusion of such) …

The idea that such people can continually pass as “liberal” or “progressive” in this country speaks volumes when terms such as “plantation master” and “house _igger” (between the consonants “W”, “S”, and “N”, pick one) would not only be more apt, but would certainly bring on the bushels of disbelief and hyperbole they love to claim they don’t traffic in. As they will admirably demonstrate in 5 … 4 …3 … 2 …

As divided as the GOP is becoming, beyond Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the cheerleaders at msnbc, the Dem party is seriously discombobulated. O’bummer will not share his database of supporters with state Dem chairs; state Dem organizations are anything but organized, and locally the Dems are more stupified than the Republicans were 20 years ago after Bill Clinton. Thus, the Dems aligned with the King will continue to hold some power in Washington, but everywhere else it’s disorganized Dems on their own. That’s just the way I see it right now, would be glad to be proven wrong.

Whether or not you think the NRA is winning depends on what you think their strategy is. I think they want to bait opinion leaders and policy makers to what for lack of a better term I will call the gun control side over-reach. If the strategy is to make the debate about guns change from one focused on safety to one focused on tribal identify, then getting their opponents to reach beyond policies clearly related to recent mass shootings to policies that would dramatically affect even users of guns that are totally unrelated to those outrages is probably the first tactical goal. The gun control wish list I am reading online includes a bunch of those sorts of tribal markers. If the NRA can call those out, and use them to define the package of proposed policy changes, their chances of defeating even such common sense proposals as closing the gun show loophole, banning high capacity magazines, and limiting access to guns like the Bushmaster are pretty good. Looking at the current state of public debate, I am not at all sure that the NRA is losing.

Population is not the only issue.

White males still have the largest single power base in the nation.

Women have always been in the majority. Fat lot of good we made of that demographic. (Have you seen your transvaginal ultrasound today?)

And it is not as though racial, ethnic and/or religious minorities are united with each other and against WASP male supremacists, either.

So, white guys, you can still breathe easily.

For a time.

The center right, like Obama and Clinton, s called liberal by Democrats and Socialist or hard left by Republicans.

And media and politicians alike mozt often pretend no one is to the left of Obama.

Well, no one sane, anyway.

The hard right express its yearning for Obama to go left?