1. “Them libruls are stealin’ our tax money!”
Here’s a fancy little nugget from my favorite sociopathic troll at Postman on Politics:
KingCo has already sucked up most of the transportation money with that rip-off called a gas tax.
Now Seattle believes the rest of the state should pay for their harbor beautification project?
Screw that.Posted by Hinton at 04:28 PM, Jan 24, 2007
Nevermind the fact that King County exports gas taxes to less populated counties. This is a common refrain among the wingnut “flying monkeys.”
2. “The Democrats control the ________!!”
Unless you’re talking about government in Washington state, what do Democrats really control?
Let’s face it, Washington is a tough state for Repubs because the Dems own the newspapers, the universities, the non-profits, ects.
Posted by thatcher at January 24, 2007 06:53 PM
Do Democrats “own” these things? Granted, most colleges have lots of liberals. But current UW President Mark Emmert was a college buddy of Mike McGavick, and they were still pretty close as of the beginning of McGavick’s campaign.
Washington state’s newspapers are owned by right-of-center families (like these two) or they are owned by big corporations. The Seattle P-I is liberal, but the Times? As if!
(I don’t know why this douche mentions “non-profits”, but the WA-based think tanks skew heavily to the right.)
3. The Seattle P-I and “Sound Off”
The P-I has a great little feature that is currently not available at the Fairview Fanny. What is it? Well, at the bottom of many articles, readers are invited to give their two cents. There are some gems, including…
A film about the Iraq occupation is nominated for an Oscar:
Posted by red-wind at 1/24/07 10:54 a.m.
Should clean up if it shows the US as the enemy, that type of story-line wins all the time!
Apparently, “the left” is intolerant for trying to teach science:
Thanks again for showing the tolerance and open-mindedness that the left demands of others, but seems unwilling or incapable of giving. That gives me such confidence that you are also better judges of science.
Finally, this in response to a P-I editorial blasting Bush’s SOTU speech just makes me giggle:
it was too funny watching the media after the speech. poll after poll after poll scored a very very high positve result for our president from those who watched the speech. even more interesting is that more democrats watched the speech than usually would. it was obvious the media wanted president bush to fall flat on his face, but instead, he came out quite well indeed.
It’s awesome that entire blogs have been dedicated to find these pearls of wisdom shit. Amazing.
My heart bleeds for you. Those poor, poor Democrats!
“Let’s face it, Washington is a tough state for Repubs…”
Let’s face it, it’s a touch time for Republicans because it’s become so obvious that they’re full of shit.
Last night, while waiting for some technical issues to be resolved before closing a deal, somebody had the plasma TV in the conference room on Fox News (with the volume barely audible). I got close enough to understand that some journalist or commentator was interviewing White House Press Secretary Tony Snow. I don’t know who it was, I don’t watch Fox News, so I don’t recognize the characters.
Anyway, this great “journalist” was giving a “hard-hitting interview”, asking (I paraphrase from my memory):
Question: “Given the fact that the Democrats, especially Hillary and Kerry and Obama and all the others, have been critising the White House for not sending in more troops, and are now criticising the President for actually sending in more troops, doesn’t that show them for the hypocrites they are? And if we were to withdraw our troops from Iraq, wouldn’t that be a disaster for Iraq, the entire middle east, and lead to further aggression by Islamic Extemists against our country, and further terrorists attacks right here at home?”
Tony Snow: “Well, you are right about that, there is no question that the terrorists are aided by such irresponsible comments by the Democrats…”
Okay, I quit listening at that point. I wondered who in the world would actually listen to such drivel and obvious falsehoods on a regular basis, but then I remembered that Bush still has about 28% of the public that still thinks he is doing a good job.
And on MSNBC yesterday, the Republican response to the Democratic SOTUS rebuttal was a former Bush speachwriter, who critiqued Webb’s speach and (unsurprisingly) gave it low marks, saying that its good Webb has a job as a Senator, because he would never be able to work as a professional speechwriter. Of course, nothing about the content of the speech, and nothing specific to offer about the writing or delivery of the speech itself. and you have to wonder which is the better authority: a Bush speechwriter, or an author who has published several books (fiction and non-fiction)?
It’s a nice meltdown they seem to be having with the Chairs race at their (Rs) re-org.
At least we were civil to each other during our last two Chair races.
Every morning when I wake up, I thank God for making me a liberal. Having to face each day from the twisted, bitter, and hateful perspective of a conservative would be just too much to bear.
FWIW, the “Hinton” screen name is a propagandist. It posts stuff purportedly from an “R” perspective. However, it is a statist wolf in a conservative’s clothing. For example, it misstates court holdings regularly in ways certain statist organs wish to promulgate. Just thought you’d like to know . . ..
Right of center?! The Cowles family are “right of center” like Meyer Lansky was a “naval intelligence officer.”
I produce pearls of shit every day! There are little piles of them all over the park.
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That’s why I love it when Anti-Liberal shows up and spews its venom. If that’s what being an Anti-Liberal is like, thank God I’m the complete opposite.
@5 “I wondered who in the world would actually listen to such drivel and obvious falsehoods on a regular basis …”
Alexandra Pelosi recently researched this very question, and here is what she came up with:
“LOS ANGELES (Jan. 24) – Alexandra Pelosi, … [t]he daughter of House speaker Nancy Pelosi[,] traveled the Bible Belt …
“…[T]he parts of [her] film that were most troubling … was the willingness of evangelicals … to accept … anything and everything fed to them by authority figures. They appear as automatons ….
“If Pelosi’s intent is to show that evangelical faith suffocates reason, the point is well-made.”
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@4 Don’t you just LOVE IT when Republicans EAT each other?
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Looks like they’ll have to keep old Frank Blethen connected to the oxygen tank for another 20 years until the Rethugs get another shot at the estate tax.
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Is there any way to prepare a Republican that can mask the stench and bile? Perhaps a ton of curry and garlic would be a step in the right direction.
Nearly all of this crud is from the “Deliverance” wing of the Republican Party.
And they are auto-siphoning more votes away from the remaining core of that once-proud party every day. I feel genuine pity for the honest Republicans out there. You know–then ones who actually stand for smaller government, balanced budgets, environmental protection, and the FORMER traits of their party that aren’t there any more.
All I have to do is point at ’em and laugh.
Wow! Goldy has raised $800 in 16 hours! I’ll bet Stefan’s “legal action fund” (aka “beer money”) didn’t raise that much all fucking year.
Jim said:
Actually, many of those folks are becoming what is known as the “moderate” wing of the Democrats. The neo-cons are continuing to run honest conservatives out of the Republican party, calling them “RINOs” and marginalizing them whenever possible.
Honest liberals and honest conservatives actually get along pretty well most of the time. An honest liberal thinks that the government should do more to help those in need, but understands that a balanced budget is important.
An honest conservative may think folks should do more to help themselves, but has no problem with helping out those truly in need, and considers a balanced budget to be very important, as conservatives (real ones, not neo-cons) feel that it is wrong to pass on a huge debt to our grandchildren.
Differences in priorities, not in basic philosophies.
Give the neo-cons a few more years and we’ll be reading about the Republicans in the footnotes of history books, right next to the Whigs, while we return to a real two-party system with the “Liberal Democrats” and “Moderate Democrats” being the two parties.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....39643.html
“Democrat Christine Jennings has new reason to hope she may still be seated in the 110th Congress after a Florida court ruled in her favor yesterday, denying a motion that would have ended her appeal for a new election in Katherine Harris’s old district in Sarasota.
But the race — and Jennings’s legal case — is far from decided.
Her appeal is based on widespread complaints that electronic voting machines in Sarasota County failed to record thousands of votes in the race. The official count shows Jennings losing to her Republican opponent, Vern Buchanan, who has been sworn in provisionally, by 369 votes.”
The Truth About Deficits
“WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit will fall to $172 billion this year and $98 billion next year, then disappear completely by 2012, according to a report released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But … nobody … believes it.
“That is because the CBO … is required to make some whopping assumptions, including:
• That all of President Bush’s tax cuts will expire on schedule in 2010;
• That the alternative minimum tax will be permitted to ensnare millions of additional taxpayers;
• And that the war in Iraq and other military operations will never cost much more than the $70 billion that has so far been approved for the fiscal year that ends in September.
“Back in the real world, even Democrats want to extend at least some of the Bush tax cuts. Even the White House wants to halt the expansion of the alternative minimum tax. And, as for global war efforts, the president … is expected to ask Congress to approve an additional $100 billion for this year alone.
“Add it all together, and the deficit would be about $200 billion this year, according to the CBO … [and] would climb back up to $275 billion in fiscal 2008 … [a]nd by 2012 … would be back in the $300 billion range ….
“Bush’s budget director, Rob Portman, acknowledged that the White House, too, is projecting larger immediate deficits than the CBO foresees. He said the president’s fiscal 2008 budget will include some expensive items left out by the CBO ….
“CBO Director Peter Orszag acknowledged that the numbers ‘may not conform to what many people expect will actually happen in the future.’ But he said the CBO is required to make projections based on current law.”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/33fyag
10/13/16 One of the things that’s disappointed me about the GOP is that they keep shoving their own best peoples’ faces into the mud. I would have really loved to see Liddy Dole take a run at the White House–probably would have voted for her, in fact. Now instead of people like that they offer us drooling, delusional creeps.
@17 The race for Katherine Harris’s seat in FL-13 was hotly contested — yet the voting machines recorded 18,000 undervotes in Sarasota County. Hundreds of voters complained the ES & S touch screen machines refused to record their vote. A distinct pattern exists in the undervoting: Most of the undervotes are associated with voters who voted straight-party tickets. Electronic voting experts from Stanford and Cornell universities say there’s evidence of a “mechanical cause” for the undervotes. What all of this adds up to is that a House race decided by less than 400 votes in an election where 13% of the voters did not cast a ballot reeks of machine rigging and election theft. ES & S touch screen machines have been controversial all over the country — and, somehow, their machines’ malfunctions never seem to help Democrats.
What is the proper remedy? Some people are calling for a revote, but there are many problems with that. The Constitution makes the House the final arbiter of who will be seated in its chamber. I think the House should examine the evidence, then take a vote on who actually won the FL-13 election, just like a jury would.
Amazing the lies these sucking scumbags will come up with. Line ’em up at sunrise tomorrow!!!
Hey Roger,
I notice you’re up late at night posting stuff here. Do you have a little insomnia?
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I think that’s the best solution I’ve heard yet. If I was sure they weighed the evidence fairly I’d go along with whoever they seated, whether it was Jennings or Buchanan.
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I hear rumors rabbits don’t sleep as much as humans.
Actually I think he’s one of those people who does stay up late at night thinking up ways to discredit the trolls.
Sorry, rodents, not people. Didn’t mean to malign your species, Roger.
Since 18,000 of the votes were undercounted, that means the election was never decided because of mechanical malfunction. So, strictly speaking, it would be a correction, not a revote.
Sure my arguments b.s. — but the longer we keep alive the news that Republicans are liars and cheaters, the morwe likely we are to win.
It’s pretty funny. After we DESTROYED the cowardly GOP in November, most of the inbred right wingers did what all right wingers do, they tucked tail and ran from HA. They don’t have the guts to stick it out and fight like we did. They’re all dick-sucking punks.
And the few child-raping republicans who remain are of course the nuttiest of the wing nuts. So who can doubt that they’ll post lies, lies and more lies. They have nothing left; not even hope.
Personally, I love watching these asswipes make fools of themselves. We’ll take back the White House in 08 and then we can really show these punks some pain!
Roger Rabbit @ 19
But hasn’t the House already seated Vern Buchanan? They are the judges of any election contest. Why is a Florida court involved at all?
If they merely provisionally seated Buchanan, they can still entertain the election contest, of course. If he was fully seated, he will serve his term, regardless of any ruling made by a Florida court.
Richard Pope: Remember, Furball has issues with nouns too.
@22 “Libertarian says: I notice you’re up late at night posting stuff here. Do you have a little insomnia? 01/25/2007 at 4:50 pm”
Of course not! Rabbits are nocturnal, and I have no problem sleeping all day.
@28 If you had paid attention, Richard, you would know they seated him “for now.”
@29 “Furball has issues with nouns”
For someone who doesn’t know the difference between a noun and a conjunctive, how the hell would you know?