Punting
Having discovered how much media attention they could get, Obama, Boehner, and Reid, agreed to deprive poor women in the District of Columbia of choice, and put off closing down the government for a week.
This means that the kabuki resumes on Thursday, which allows Boehner time to recharge his tear ducts, Reid time to look even more haggard, and Obama time to decide who gets thrown under the bus in this round.
Of course, the whole process starts again with the farce about raising the “debt limit”, and then the budget bill for the fiscal year that starts in October.
In the meantime, there is nothing being done about jobs, and the country is slipping back into a recession.
The Romans at least provided bread with their circuses, we just get the clowns.
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The clowns with orange makeup.
WRONG. We ARE NOT “slipping back into a recession.”
We are being driven headlong back into a recession, or perhaps even a depression this time… driven on the bus we’re about to be thrown under, perhaps.
Forgive my crankiness today. I just spent time reading a post on a blog I used to like, about how the “Professional Left” (apparently that’s us; we’re also known as “Firebaggers”) were “whining” and not doing anything to help The President… excuse me, THE PRESIDENT (spoken in tones of utter awe; I almost feel as if I should add “(PBUH)” after the phrase)… and how those on the P.L. should just STFU. I am tired of being called the Professional Left: I’m not a professional anything these days. And I am particularly tired of being told that my expressed concerns about THE PRESIDENT and his civil liberties track record are unwelcome in polite society.
Damn, it’s looking like a long five years ahead… yes, I do presume that $1 billion can buy a presidential re-election…
Kos might be “the professional left”, but I certainly am not. I make not a dime from being “the left” (left of what? Crap, Genghis Khan was to the left of most of what comprises American politics today!).
If Obama had been a Jew in Germany in 1937, he would have been trying to work a deal with Hitler where only *half* the Jews got sent to the gas chambers. As I repeatedly point out to these so-called “serious progressives”, dead people are not a progressive value, and Obama’s “compromises” are resulting in, or will result in, dead people.
We are going to have people dowsing themselves with gasoline in front of city halls and government buildings nationwide and setting themselves on fire as people run out of food and hope and choose to off themselves in the most effective fashion possible, and Obama’s going to end up looking like Mubarak before this is all over. But the “serious people” refuse to admit that they backed the wrong horse when they backed Obama…
Gee, you mean you guys aren’t getting checks from George Soros either? I though I was the only one. 😈
The “firebaggers” would seem to be a reference to the “Pyro Poodle Puddle” which was overboard in its support of Zero, until Jane got thrown under the bus and took it personally. I could have told her that Republicans, like Zero, don’t mind using women, but they never reward them, just ask Katherine Harris [or the poor women in DC].
The problem, as we know, is that the media decided that the Democrats were going to supply either a Black guy, or a woman. Christopher Dodd had a continuous feature on his election site showing the time allotted to the various candidates at the “debates”, and there was no doubt that the media was only interested in Zero and Hillary. As the “most photogenic” Edwards came in third, but there was no air time for any of the others.
Badtux, the best they can hope for is suicides. We both know this can get very ugly, very quickly.
Jobs would solve most of the financial problems, the Federal government is the fastest way to create those jobs. We know this, because we have been through this before. Hoover was wrong, FDR was mostly right, and we know the programs that worked, and which didn’t. FDR wasn’t the longest serving President in US history because he screwed up.
By adopting the Hoover programs they are going to drive us back into the recession. I have no intention of being quiet about it. If anyone wants to know what it was like, they can talk to my Mother – she lived through the end of it.
“Pyro Poodle Puddle”
ROTFL! Did you coin that, Bryan?
I confess I am fond of PPP, and like most self-identified liberals, I am perfectly capable of distinguishing that blog’s general political slant from the foibles of one of its proprietors. Some of its muckraking research, particularly that by emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler), is as good as anything I’ve found anywhere on the web (i.e., she does excellent work), and many of the regular columnists, e.g., David Dayen, are good at concise summary posts from a lefty perspective. And the comment threads, apart from the occasional troll, are astonishingly informative. If saying this makes me a firebagger, well then, in the immortal words of the Orange Man, “so be it.”
“Katherine Harris”
Ah. Now I remember. Now I remember why I tried to forget.
And as I always said about that vacuum cleaner, Hoover sucks. We don’t need another one of those in the White House. But I’m afraid that’s exactly what we have.
I committed that particular offense a very long time ago. It is a holdover from Russian. As it is very difficult not to rhyme in Russian due to noun declension and verb conjugation, alliteration is considered a high form of expression, so I frequently resort to alliteration in English.
I respect Marcy, but Jane is a very annoying person who becomes quite acidic when she goes on one of her “crusades”. She is also an “empire builder”, which I find annoying, given that the other contributors were why the blog became successful. She, personally, was not a particularly compelling writer. She was the money person, so she called the shots.
I rarely read the site, although I haven’t delisted it, because there are still sane people writing there.
Bryan, you’ll find that Marcy Wheeler has her own blog on the FDL site. So you can avoid Jane pretty much altogether if you prefer. Over the past few years, emptywheel has personally broken news stories, occasionally so visibly that even the MSM has credited her, and more than once when they, um, declined to give her credit.
I like Jane for what she is, namely, a vociferous activist. She serves a purpose, whether or not I enjoy reading her stories (sometimes) and whether or not I base posts of my own on information from hers (usually not).
There are other sources for almost everything, Steve, and I tend not to deal with people who have insulted me personally. Visiting anything on the FDL site benefits Jane, if only peripherally, so I will go elsewhere.
I can’t gainsay that, Bryan; everyone has a different experience on any given blog. In fact, my first post on this thread refers to my vexation with a post and comment thread on the Mahablog, a thread where I was not a participant, but on which I felt so insulted by remarks in the post and comments about the basic tenets of my political outlook that I don’t wish to return to that site. And this from someone who has occasionally asked “me” (i.e., everyone, in copy-pasted messages) for help in her grand schemes.
In fact, that reminds me; I need to remove that blog from my blogroll. Maybe she picked the wrong sucker to offend.
It amazes me how people think they can insult supporters and then have them continue their support. This isn’t a game, it is real life. You don’t get to re-boot and start over when there is a major failure.
Ideology is at the core of political parties. If the party isn’t working towards advancing its stated ideals, it’s a sports franchise and nothing more. No one expects the big win, but continued losses are not acceptable.