“I ain’t NEED ta read it! Obama’s a knee grow! Therefore: IT BAD!!”
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Again, the only adult in the room.
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Okay before I comment on this story I must get this out of the way first. i LOVE MY PRESIDENT
I presume all of you have seen the attack ads on this deal. I also understand there was a big protest at the federal building in Los Angeles yesterday. Most of the protesters had jewish last names
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His avatar speaks volumes. For “so-called progressives”, nothing is ever enough
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Well said
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Yesterday I felt like a person suffering from an ailment for years, not knowing what it was, and then finding out that others suffer from it too and that it’s been medically defined. The stereotype response is: “I feel better knowing that there’s a name for what I suffer from.”
So when, in Krugman’s recent blog, the term Kakistocracy [government by the incompetent] came up, I realized what the GOP has been subjecting us to all these years and it was wonderful having a name put to it. It’s a fascinating read.
And this immediately makes me think of one of the mysteries of economic “debate” in America, namely the preference of the right not just for hacks but for incompetent hacks. Here’s what I wrote:
I suspect that the incompetence is actually desirable at some level — a smart hack might turn honest, or something,
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Exactly, the Democrats up for reelection in 2014 weren’t getting pummeled because Obama wasn’t forceful enough, but because they lived in red states where voters believe Obama is a mustache-twirling supervillian who has shirked the rule of law in a maniacal attempt to destroy America from within. No matter what Obama does or doesn’t do, in some states it’s unassailable proof he’s about to do something awful.
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Mr. President, BRAVO!
You should have been doing this to those clowns from the get go. The very first insult, very first “birther” comment, you should have come out swinging.
You sir, can win any debate! Especially against those that don’t know what they’re talking about. They’ve got nothing, but insults.
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How would you know most of the last names of the protesters at a “big protest”?
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I’m sure Republicans will finally find a useful, if brief, function as ablative shielding.
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Historically speaking losses in the second half midterms were a foregone conclusion anyway but I watched as every Democrat up for re-election ran from him while every Republican ran against him and I find analysis based on Green Lantern fantasies a little annoying.
Obama is finishing strong and the Democrats should run on his accomplishments but the people saying “he should’ve done this or that” are the same one’s running from his record again.
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“A lot has been said about politicians; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.”
Eric Idle.
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Remember, the Democrats believed the Fox News hype and ran away from President Obama in 2014. They told the only person who could galvanize their supporters and get out the vote to stay away!
However, I do think that the President should put “Luther”, his anger translator, on staff full time for the duration of his term.
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These clowns are not just sad, they are dangerous. They have not read the terms of the deal nor will they even bother if given the chance, because after all, why mess up a good headline with facts.
And could someone please tell me why the media keeps calling this “Obama’s Iranian Deal”. Last time I looked there were multiple nations involved in this deal and its negotiations, such as Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, among others, not just the US, and they all have as much to lose as we do if the deal goes South, perhaps more considering that they are closer to Iran. It is only the Saudis and the Israelis who seem to be controlling the public media outrage and feeding the cowardice the GOP.
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If only that were possible. These schmucks break shit and blame it on others. For them, scapegoating is a way of life. I really don’t know if they still can be called human.
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Any excuse to drag out your anti-semitism
Republicans deeply resent the constant barrage of “clown car” comparisons, yet their behavior only serves to reinforce that notion.
Like the unmistakable stink of a dead rodent behind the refrigerator, the familiar smell of GOP panic and desperation is in the air. And the election is still 15 months away.
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The Huckster to his fellow GOP POTUS wannabes:
“I’ll see your hyperbole and raise you ten eye rolls.”
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7/22/15 in NYC
“The demonstration was organized by the Jewish Rapid Response Coalition in partnership with more than 100 Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, StandWithUs, Christians United for Israel and the Zionist Organization of America.”
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I believe its a way to turn off voters so that folks just turn away from politics altogether, while being able to claim the entire field of candidates are all full of shit. Its a very cynical approach to governing, but its a strategy the GOP have resorted to employing in several of the last election cycles.
The entire reason the Teabaggers succeeded in '10 and '14 was because they were able to get a toe-hold into politics by employing their willingness to slash and burn every normative value to the ground, rhetorically-speaking this is, when it came to civility in politics. Those opposing many of these Teabaggers just didn’t show up in enough numbers to counteract their non-serious, nihilistic approach to politics. Not only does their approach to politics “cheapen the debate”, it cheapens the entire field of candidates, and what it means to be a public servant in general. But since it worked once or maybe twice in driving some voters from coming out in midterm elections, they’re back to trying it again. Unfortunately, they fail to see that Presidential election years bring out an entirely different crowd of voters, those that take issues very seriously as to who occupies the White House and those down-ticket candidates on the ballot.
These Rethugs are still working off their midterm election playbook…They’re incapable of shifting gears because they’ve come to believe their own hype.
Still, the tendency to drive down interest in serious policy debates and generally in our elections because of non-serious comments made by non-serious candidates, presents itself again as nothing more than farce, which some voters are convinced is what the entire electoral process has become. I personally don’t think it will work in '16, but in '18 (another midterm) we’ll be back to square-one trying to keep the barbarians at the gate.
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