Cincinnati hate-radio host Bill Cunningham—the tongue that licks the toilet seat of Rush Limbaugh’s Port-O-Pee—just declared on his national Sunday night Drudge-replacement broadcast that the one and only true, perfect shoo-in Conservative candidate for President in 2012 is Sean Hannity.
No media yet, since the show is live. However, you may remember Bill as the human slime John McCain rebuked for humping the “Hussein” Obama slur at a McQueeg primary rally in 2008.
In the immortal words of Was/Not Was, “Woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks.” These loons don’t know anymore which side of the donut hole to screw.
I was totally happy to see this piece by Paul Krugman in the NY Times today. It’s been driving me crazy to hear Rethugs repeat these lying talking points over and over.
Myth Number 1: Obamacare will result in a government takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. Economy
Myth Buster from Krugman:
Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs already pay for almost half of American health care, while private insurance pays for barely more than a third (the rest is mostly out-of-pocket expenses). And the great bulk of that private insurance is provided via employee plans, which are both subsidized with tax exemptions and tightly regulated.
The only part of health care in which there isn’t already a lot of federal intervention is the market in which individuals who can’t get employment-based coverage buy their own insurance. And that market, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a disaster — no coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, coverage dropped when you get sick, and huge premium increases in the middle of an economic crisis. It’s this sector, plus the plight of Americans with no insurance at all, that reform aims to fix. What’s wrong with that?
Myth Number 2: Obamacare will do nothing to control costs.
Myth Buster from Krugman:
[C]ritics point to reports by the Medicare actuary, who predicts that total national health spending would be slightly higher in 2019 with reform than without it.
Even if this prediction were correct, it points to a pretty good bargain. The actuary’s assessment of the Senate bill, for example, finds that it would raise total health care spending by less than 1 percent, while extending coverage to 34 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured. That’s a large expansion in coverage at an essentially trivial cost.
As this race unfolds, the winning coalition for us is clearer and clearer. There are three demographic variables that explain almost all of the voters in the primary—gender, party, and income. Race is a factor as well, but we are fighting hard to neutralize it.
We are the candidate of people with needs.
We win women, lower classes, and Democrats (about 3 to 1 in our favor).
Obama wins men, upper class, and independents (about 2 to 1 in his favor).
Edwards draws from these groups as well.
Our winning strategy builds from a base of women, builds on top of that a lower and middle class constituency, and seeks to minimize his advantages with the high class democrats.
If we double perform with WOMEN, LOWER AND MIDDLE CLASS VOTERS, then we have about 55% of the voters.
The reason the Invisible Americans is so powerful is that it speaks to exactly how you can be a champion for those in needs [sic]. He may be the JFK in the race, but you are the Bobby.
Quelle surprise!
Too bad Lambert wasn’t an Obot. A much more skilled operator like Axelrove would have been manipulating him by remote control to terrorize Hillary’s angel-like supporters by the time the Iowa caucuses rolled around. Thug 4 Life!
Palin propagandist John Ziegler warns that unless God Himself sends a golden chariot drawn by legions of cherubs to elevate Sarah Palin to the presidency, she is toast should she choose to disregard his advice and run in 2012:
[B]arring a literal act of God, there is absolutely no chance that Palin can beat Obama in 2012.
[snip]
[T]here is no doubt that her celebrity power keeps her theoretically viable to do literally anything she wants, except the problem here is that huge portions of public believe, wrongly, that they already know the real Sarah Palin… [A]re Republicans really going to run against an over-hyped, inexperienced, charismatic celebrity by nominating someone who is already thought of exactly that way by at least half of America?
Glenn Beck made a big deal out of landing an exclusive, hour-long one-on-one with outraged, seething, ready-to-go-Krakatoa Dem Congressman Eric Massa. Malkin and Limbaugh both warned him that interviewing Massa was likely to be the “Al Capone’s Vault” of misbegotten on-air scoops, but Beck predictably followed his gut straight into this year’s Christmas party reel of TV’s Queasiest Moments.
I haven’t screened the entire show, but this clip is guaranteed to make you feel like Emily Litella watching a live performance of “Who’s On First?” featuring Bob Dole and the ghost of Brother Theodore. The other segments can be viewed here.
From the comments on the Freeper live-thread, I get the feeling Beck was as bored as his audience by the end. Bored—but, surprisingly enough, not to tears.
Fulfilling his bloggy mission, Zandar points out the stupid in this wingnut-prØn poll, which finds that, according to Americans, the US has lost international standing during the Obama administration:
What a ridiculous poll. If you want to know how the US is perceived internationally by non-Americans, why are you asking Americans?
Good question, Zandar. As it turns out, Gallup released a poll last month that actually did gauge non-American perceptions of American leadership and presents data from 2006-2009:
Everyone knows squishy, effete, elitist Kenyan lawyer Barack Obama is just longing to coddle America’s enemies! Unlike Dick Cheney, who once shot an old lawyer in the face (it was just Dick’s manner of saying, “Outta my way, motherfucker!”), Obama wants to serve terrorists glasses of warm, halal milk, read them Koranic bedtime stories and tuck them into comfy featherbeds with extra-soft pillows.
But damn it all, whenever secret Muslim Obama tries to deliver engraved invitations to Islamic terrorists to please come dine on pork-free goodies on the East Lawn, he keeps accidentally blowingthesumbitchesup with Hellfire missiles! It’s all a horrible, horrible misunderstanding.
Dan Riehl’s by-God had enough of getting elitist, America-hating arugula jammed down his throat. From now on, it’s Leafy Green Spinach, or Death.
Granted, the Right doesn’t have much to celebrate lately. Their leaders seem silly, obtuse, feckless and prone to spontaneous performances of Comic Opera on the public stage. Warring bloggers, dueling Tea Parties and freelance IEDs like Palin and Beck have unleashed Open-Source Lunacy on a 4th Generation political battlefield where Republican message-control is proving increasingly vulnerable to “Black Swans” and systempunkt attacks.
With contrarian surreality, wingnut blogs announce that the never-before-thus-unified Right is inexorably “in the Ascendant.” Conservative pundits claim Obama is “finished” and the Democrats are “committing suicide.” The Hill is alive with vows to “recapture Congress” and “take back the Country.” Nonetheless, the USS Usurper steams blithely ahead, intent on reaching its destination and indifferent to the Conservative howl that “reconciliation” is a legislative equivalent of the Black Mass, with Orc-eyed Obama presiding over a blasphemous procedural peversion where Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi dance widdershins whilst reciting the Constitution backwards.
On a cinematic scale of vengeance-spawning insults, last week’s tableau of senior Congressional Republicans seated in a Kindergarten-desk semicircle as Prof. Obama distributed juice boxes, Fruit Roll-Ups and stern upbraids rivals Capt. Kirk’s stranding of Ricardo Montalban on Ceti Aplha V. But it’s the prospect of reconciliation that finally has Conservatives channeling Ahab.
A new player seems to have entered the political landscape. Frustrated and fed-up by partisan gridlock on, literally, every important issue in Washington, Annabel Park, a documentary filmmaker, launched a Facebook page titled “Join the Coffee Party Movement”. The page quickly took off (currently over 60,000 fans) and the NY Times took notice reporting that “[g]rowing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to ‘support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.’ ”
Further:
The slogan is “Wake Up and Stand Up.” The mission statement declares that the federal government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans.”
Park was also interviewed on CNN about the goals of the fledgling group where she stated:
First of all, I love coffee. Although at times I definitely like tea as well. But there is actually a historical reference as well. During the American Revolution, after they dumped tea into the harbor, they actually declared coffee the national drink. That was the solution to the problem. So I associate coffee not only with solutions, but also with people working, working hard. Because we need to wake up and work hard to get our government to represent us.
OK, sounds intriguing enough that I have become a fan. (Although I think the assertions that they may be able to work towards better government with the Tea Party groups are naive.) The group is attempting to arrange rallies around the country on March 13. Check out their Facebook page and their website if you are interested.
This music video is the creation of director and “pie baker” (WTF?) Molotov Mitchell, who has done work for WND, is a REALLY GOOD CHRISTIAN (he has “ZEALOT” tattooed on his arm), and, according to his YouTube channel, is inordinately obsessed with homosexuals (seriously, just scroll ... TEH GAYS HAUNT HIS HETERO DREAM WORLD!).
The only nice thing I can say about this video is that it’s better than anything the Young Cons have ever done and if that bar were any lower it would be poking up sod in China. And congrats to Islamophobic “Constitution Kate” and birther “The MZA” (Meathead Zipper Attack?) for being two of the whitest people I’ve ever seen in my life. Now everyone point and laugh because pasty wingnuts are rappin’ again! Yaaaaay! [via Instaputz and Wonkette]
Champion sour-grape sucker Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild takes liberties with Fox & Friends peasant Steve Doocy:
You can watch the entire episode here (not recommended). In it, her ladyship expounds upon the theory proffered in her gently received “I Told You So” column at The Daily Beast.
To wit, socialist monster Barack Obama used the Trojan Horse of centrism to get elected. Only Lady Lynn and other prominent peers of the realm had the wit to perceive it because you Obot peasants are all what Rush Limbaugh might satirically call “retards.”
Moreover, Obama is a big fat liar with all this bipartisanship stuff because while he pretends to extend the PATRIOT Act, incorporate GOP ideas into a corporate-friendly health care bill and not raise taxes, he’s really dismantling the very foundations of liberty in a mad bid to transform America into France. Or maybe Greece. At any rate, some socialist country with BIG GOVERNMENT and teeny coffee cups.
Anyway, Lady Lynn told you so, you ignorant bumpkins, but you wouldn’t listen, and now America is doomed. The end.
