Wonkette
- Even though Democrats dropped their scandalous plans for birth control and re-sodding the National Mall, House Republicans still didn’t go for the stimulus bill. [AP]
- Ford announced that 2008 was its worst year in history, but it will do just fine, not go bankrupt, etc. [Bloomberg]
- Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike in France to protest … the shitty global economy? [International Herald Tribune]
- If you’ve ever fallen for the whole “go on exotic vacation, wake up drugged in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney” trick, fear not! A new study shows you can get by on only one just fine, for a long time. [US News and World Report]
- Militants from Gaza fired rockets into Israel. Israeli warplanes launched a strike on Gaza. God, this is getting old. [Voice of America News]
- Robert Gibbs told the Today show that it was really too bad that zero Republicans voted for the stimulus bill, and insisted that Republicans had helped write it. Huh? [AP]
Dear Jean Schmidt:
Congratulations on committing political suicide; now that your Ohio constituents know that you don’t care if they die in abject poverty, they will use their last act before dying to kick your ass to the curb.
Sincerely yours,
Barack “I won” Obama
“One kidney will suffice”? Tell that to J.C. Trembley.
Ford says, ““We are not tapping the revolver to fund operations.” Idiots. They could take a walk down any street in Detroit and you’d learn soon enough you do EXACTLY that.
I guess US News and World is telling US America they can make monies and hobo beans selling their kidneys to the riches and eelights of the world who need them. Considering that Wall St owns most of us financially (including Furriners) that it seems appros that they also get the actual useful parts as well.
Re: France strike. Quelle surprise. Only if the French would start rebuilding their guillotines and take up knitting during “judgements” again.
Every time I get a good idea about how to make extra cash, there’s something in the media and then the price goes down. My kidney just depreciated! Thanks a lot Wonkette. What price a sliver of liver? Maybe a cornea? I mean it’s not like I’m a commercial pilot or really need the depth perception.
I’ve got a question: can anybody tell me why the entire news media is genuflecting before the Wall Street Editorial page and accepting as sacrosanct their definition of what government spending is “stimulative” and what is not? See the Wall Street Journal ran an unsigned editorial that declared that only 12% of the stimulus package is actually stimulative, and all the news media outlets are treating this declaration as gospel. And they’re most shocked that the Obama stimulus plan puts money into the hands of people of modest income, some who… gasp… make so little money they are exempt from income taxes (but not payroll taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, car taxes, tolls, user fees etc.) Because you know, if you give money to poor people they’re not going to actually go out and spend it (and thus stimulate the economy) but rather, they’re going wallpaper their rooms with it.
Oh sure, the Dumbocrats try to appease the Repukelicants by removing mandatory abortions and money for elitist lawns from the bill and they still vote like lemmings. This means war. They should put in some really objectionable stuff like mandatory spontaneous combustible flags, a ban on all Leave it to Beaver reruns and money to update science text books that are older than 1929.
Serolf Divad:
1) Intellectually lazy. If it comes from the WSJ, it MUST BE TRUE!
2) Bought whores. MSM depends on ads largely from those industries that DO NOT benefit from “socialism” and “peace.”
Hey, Republicans? I got two words for ya: Suck it!
Serolf Divad: But, but, it’s the WALL STREET JOURNAL!
Those guys pay for the campaigns of Republicans! They’re businessmen! They know the heads of the NASDAQ, like Bernie Madoff! They never ever make a mistake!
French people go on strike, Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other, and the Republicans vote against help for private businesses, since that might cut into Republican-sanctioned war-and-surveillance socialism, which is more pure because it employs millions of people producing absolutely nothing at all. Unless you count nuclear weapons and cheesy Blackwater muscle shirts.
It’s like Groundhog’s Day.
actor212:
I like how Rush bobs his head towards the mic when he talks into it, that boy got game.
Honestly, the National Mall does need to be resodded. Been loved to death by the shoes of generations of tourists.
As long as Rush Limbaugh is breathing our air, bi-partisanship will never exist.
Serolf Divad: Because the media can’t be bothered to actually ask real economists about the bill. They’re fucking lazy bastards, and unfortunately most of our problems come from that.
So, General Shermanstein keeps the Gazans hostage because the Israeli’s won’t let the Gazans escape the Warsaw Ghet–no, wait, I mean Gaza. And the good general announces to Hamas, “For every Israeli killed (even soldiers killed in absurdly named friendly fire) I’m going to shoot, bomb, whatever, 1,000 Palestinians until you quit lobbing the odd missile into Israel.
And Hamas says “We’ll see you that bet.” And in the middle, the hapless hostages.
I don’t know, but I think this is bull shit.
Republicans suck. That is all.
I thought the Republicans liked stimulus?
I guess the French don’t read David Brooks.
I just had my kidney pan-seared with fava beans and a micro-salad of fresh herbs and endive.
Problem is I gotta pee pretty bad now…
4tehlulz: She keeps getting reelected! Far from suicide, her political career is the equivalent of the “Reanimator” films.
Serolf Divad: I hope you’re not suggesting some kind of collusion…
Dolphins can suck it!
Saw Gibbs on the Today Show this morning, and I must say, his skin looked FABULOUS!
Terry: You know, the last time I was walking down The Mall, I said to my wife “Man, this place could be really impressive if they’d just re-sod it.” But then I thought, y’know it’d just get trampled to death in another couple of years, so why bother?
I use this same principle to justify never, ever washing my dishes.
Terry: Yeah, thanks for nothing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and your lo-o-o-o-ser followers…
Barry bent over for the righties, chucked out all the favorite libtard parts of the bill, put in lots of pointless tax cuts, pissed off his own party (Rep. Lazio on Rachel complaining that Obamabots spent more time cuddling with Republicans over this bill than with the FUCKERS WHO WON THE FUCKING ELECTIONZ) and still every goddamn Republican voted against it.
Go Barry. Next I expect the Bush tax cuts to be made permanent, in the spirit of bi-partisanship, you know. Also.
Serolf Divad: I was watching the news last night and the story wasn’t “Obama passes big stimulus job, more hookers and blow for poor people!” but more like Obama being a failure because none of Boner’s Buds voted for the bill. Which, yes, is somewhat important, but if you’re a laid off factory worker in Ohio, why the double h hockey sticks would you care that no Republicans voted for the bill? Why are does this happen– because the news media sucks.
hobospacejungle: This debate is everywhere these days and the other side of the coin is that the whole thing played out like Obama played all nicey-nicey but the Republicans acted like clueless dicks and spurned him because Rush Limbaugh told them to. Advantage Hopey
DustBowlBlues: Damn, girl! Thanks for the cold chill up my spine!
Can’t you make your point without the slurs? WTF?