…to have a President who’s an erudite man of principal. “The United States of America does not torture.” Period. No equivocation. No asinine snicker.
I’m proud to be an American again.
Then I watched Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal. While it was nice of him to acknowledge that Republicans have spent the last eight years acting like drunken retarded two-year olds, it’s asking way too much to expect us all to accept that they’re ready to think about acting like sober adults again. Sorry, Bobby. Nice try.
So…….why is Obama convening an interagency panel to discuss possibly using different interrogation methods than those specifically allowed in the Army Field Manual? That seems like having it both ways.
Also, I vote the American homeowner / banks as the problem, with Bush deemed as “not helpful”. So help me God, if I start paying more taxes so these ass clowns can stay in their houses with one too many bathrooms……well, I’m probably gonna bend over and take it.
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … and an enormous debt to boot!”
–Henry Morgenthau, FDR’s Treasury secretary.
Bush’s stupid bailout didn’t work, and this wont either.
The beauty of it all is that we can have these discussions, vote people in, vote people out, pass crappy or excellent legislation and move on, and not a roadside IED to be found. Don’t be unproud to be an American, whomever sits in the Oval. Obama’s a good speaker who’s principles have yet to be tested (except for that whole lobbyist thing, ahem). It makes me proud we elected him, and now I’m done with that. Show me the money.
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I’m with you on the show me the money thing; but some patience is in order here. The guy’s been in office for a month. And honestly, it’s even too early to judge the efficacy of Bush’s bailout. It took “us” a long time to dig this damned hole, we’re not going to fill it in in 30 days.
I’m placing the blame much more heavily on the banks than on the stupid people. The banks know what they’re doing much more than the average citizen does. And when they spend decades marketing themselves as trustworthy, solid, etc., it’s not surprising when people start to believe them, is it? I didn’t fall for it, you didn’t fall for it, but I can certainly see how so many people did. Hey! It’s the American dream, owning a house! While we’re at it, here’s some free money so you can do it!
Speaking of assclowns, did you see that knob on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, bitching about how we shouldn’t be bailing people out? Yeah, buddy. That’s a good message. Tell you what: sit your speculating ass down and shut the fuck up. If you work on an exchange – any exchange, not just the NYSE – you’re part of the problem. So spare us your sanctimony and go live in a hole somewhere. It’s idiots like you who drove gas prices through the roof last summer, not OPEC. So can it, assface.
Anyway, back to Bobby Jindal. Is it me, or was he a complete robot? And what’s this shit with bitching about Obama’s stimulus bill? Your party runs up the bill on a war we didn’t need, your party lets the market run rampant while you pat them on the back and cheer them on…and now you want to bitch about someone trying to fix it? Your party’s only idea – ONLY IDEA – is tax breaks for your über-rich buddies. That isn’t going to cut it, Bobby. Get your head out of your ass and smell the coffee.
(Jim, I fixed the attribution for you.)
Coffee aroma would probably clear up that ass smell right quick and in a hurry.
Those guys yelling on the floor of the exchanges are all “here’s the problem” but no solution. But don’t fret — no one watches CNBC anyway. Unless Erin Burnett is on. Insert stimulus package joke here.
The banks were mostly at fault…..but……lots of people who bought those houses did pay their mortgages. 98% of the country found a way.
It unfortunately would be a little hard to separate out those with truly unfortunate circumstances from those retarded consumption monkeys who HAD to have a 3 car garage and a breakfast room.
That’s the thing. It’s really such a small percentage of people causing the problem.
I really believe that this time, the recession grew worse because of the 24-hour news stations, the internet, and the political environment. In the past, we got a little bit of news per day (which to my mind was plenty), so we couldn’t dwell on the negative. Now, though, we have a constant feed. And most of it from people who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. People listen to this crap, don’t apply any kind of historical perspective or the least amount of critical thinking, and pass it on. It’s damn echo chamber that actually gets louder as it repeats.
Politics fucks everything up, of course, but it’s gotten substantially worse since the Republicans started their witch hunt on the Clintons and Newt Gingrich signed his farcical Contract with America.
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Back when I was a young whippersnapper, starting my career as a TV news photographer, a big story might have been covered by 3 local network affiliate stations which would sometimes put footage on the Greyhound Next Bus Out shipping service to feed the national network, so there was often a time lag between the original local report and wider coverage.
Now, the president farts in the oval office and it’s immediately reported on 36 different cable networks, the internet, Billy Blowhard’s Blog, etc. The booking producers from the 24 hour news shout outs then contact every Washington think tank to book the same guests as every other network to analyze the pitch and tone of the president’s fart, how much gas was emitted, rebuttal from those who think that farts have religious meaning, comparison of republican vs democratic farts, farts through the ages, the economic impact of farts, Rick Santelli’s ersatz outrage over farts, Larry Kudlow’s view that we only need free market farts, Rush Limbaugh’s rant that he wishes Obama’s farts would fail, etc.
It is indeed overwhelming how every utterance has become big news.
hmmm…I tried to pull a short quote, dave so that my last remarks made sense in context.