Friday, September 19, 2008
Family Guy Predicts the McCain/Palin Campaign
Ask yourself: Does the McCain/Palin campaign seem any less surreal when compared with Lois Griffin's run for Mayor in this clip from Family Guy?
Department of 'Are you F*cking Kidding Me?'
Talk about the height of Orwellian doublespeak. John McCain came out today and blamed Obama for the current economic crisis:
"We’ve heard a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was square in the middle of it."
Um, are you f*cking kidding me?
Isn't this the dottering old man who accused Obama of being a naive whippersnapper who didn't have enough experience to be President because he'd only been in the Senate for a couple of years?So, Senator Dipsh*t, how the f*ck does some naive little pisher like Obama cause a systemic financial meltdown in his measly two years in Washington?
Wouldn't it make just a tiny bit more sense to blame the angry over-the-hill Republican hack who's dwelt in the halls of Washington power for 20+ years and offered up an economic plan written by a man who called us a "nation of whiners" and probably did more than any single person in creating the current mess by stripping away all meaningful regulation of the financial industry?
Again, are you f*cking kidding me?
Here's Obama's more diplomatic response to McCain's Abject Lying Depravity of the Day (TM):
Quote of the Day
Ha!
"After initially casting Palin as a dedicated foe of earmarks, and then having it revealed that she asked for and received enormous sums of earmarked projects, the McCain campaign has fallen back to the defense that she requested fewer earmarks than other Alaska pols.
Yet this defense raises the question of why Ted Kennedy never thought to run for president on the slogan "He Never Took a Drink In His Life," and then, when challenged, point out that other members of his family are less sober than he." - Chait at TNR
The Swift Disintegration of Sarah Quaylin
Chait has an incisive article up on The New Republic on the swift disintegration of Sarah Palin and her parallels to imminently ludicrous former Vice President Quayle.
A few sample points:
- Conservatives received Quayle's selection rapturously. L. Brent Bozell pronounced himself "ecstatic," and Jerry Falwell called the surprise pick "a stroke of genius." After a media frenzy, Quayle's speech was well-received. The convention hall burst into cheers of "We want Dan!" NBC anchor Tom Brokaw said that Quayle executed "flawlessly," and CBS's Bruce Morton called it "a good speech."
- [Quayle] did his best to turn [questions about his readiness] into elite condescension toward small town America. Quayle, in his acceptance speech, spoke movingly about the small towns in Indiana where he had grown up, and later disparaged Dukakis for "sneer[ing] at common sense advice, Midwestern advice."
- [D]uring the campaign, [Quayle's] supporters believed that media skepticism of Quayle had rallied ordinary Americans to his side. Dukakis "looks down on his fellow Americans. He looks down on Bush and Dan Quayle as--in his word--'pathetic,' " wrote right-wing columnist Michael Novak. "Thus, the 'feeding frenzy' of the press in New Orleans stirred a national backlash. It united all the scorned of America as one."
Sound familiar?
Read the Whole Article Here
Obama Expands Poll Lead Over McCain
The deflation of the Palin bubble continues. Obama now leads McCain by 5 points, garnering 49% to McCain's 44%, in the new Gallup daily tracking poll:
Paying Taxes During Wartime Is Patriotic
As I've pointed out before, Bush's tax cuts earlier this decade were the first time in American history that the American government cut taxes in a time of war. Let me repeat, tax cuts during wartime never happened before in our history.
So, when you hear about Joe Biden out there on the stump talking about how it is the patriotic thing to do to reset tax rates for those making over $250,000 to the levels they were before the highly irresponsible Bush tax cuts, bear this in mind:[T]he idea that paying more taxes during war is an act of patriotism has quite a long and distinguished history in this country. During the Civil War, Representative Thaddeus Stevens--then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--said that "the annihilation of this government is the alternative" to increased taxation. To finance World War II, FDR actually proposed a tax that would have effectively capped incomes at $25,000 (or about $300,000 in today's dollars).
Check out the patriotism of taxes in this Donald Duck cartoon from WWII:
WSJ Slams McCain for Scapegoating SEC Chairman
McCain truly has become unhinged in the last few days. I worry for his sanity.
Apparently, so do the good folks over at the Wall Street Journal, who slammed McCain for his imprudent and inaccurate attacks on... the Chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox:
[McCain said,] "The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the President and has betrayed the public's trust. If I were President today, I would fire him."
Wow. "Betrayed the public's trust." Was Mr. Cox dishonest? No. He merely changed some minor rules, and didn't change others, on short-selling. String him up! Mr. McCain clearly wants to distance himself from the Bush Administration. But this assault on Mr. Cox is both false and deeply unfair. It's also un-Presidential...
In a crisis, voters want steady, calm leadership, not easy, misleading answers that will do nothing to help. Mr. McCain is sounding like a candidate searching for a political foil rather than a genuine solution. He'll never beat Mr. Obama by running as an angry populist like Al Gore, circa 2000.
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