Wonkette
Eh, this is not quite as much fun as, say, OBAMA IN A FOOTBALL STADIUM, with Stevie Wonder. But you don’t fight the Depression with the media you want, etc. BUT: How weird to have a president who can discuss things in an intelligent way. Let’s see how that works out, in this goddamned country. We did the pre-game liveblogging, we did the Obama Speech liveblogging, we did the Obama press conference liveblogging. And now? We will do a bit of this post-game analysis, with the Hardball and whatever.
9:10 PM — Rachel Maddow calls it a “wonky sermon,” which is a compliment, from Rachel Maddow
9:10 PM — Axelrod will be on Maddow’s show, shortly. Will he betray his god??!
9:11 PM — Must refill the wine vessel. Never forget.
9:13 PM — MSNBC is using that terrifying job-loss graph your editor is using for a gchat status message today: OH NOES.
9:16 PM — Chris Matthews is just loving Barack Obama’s “mind.” Gives him a tingle between the legs. But now we must leave MSNBC, because Axelrod is a smarty jones, etc., but he is a PROPAGANDIST.
9:18 PM — Oh, these CNN people. They are so 2008. Fire them! Get new panelists!
9:21 PM — Just commercials, everywhere, every channel. The economy is already recovering!
9:22 PM — Ugh, Bill O’Reilly. We were happy to get the “Fox Perspective,” but not with this assclown. After all, O’Reilly is hated by everyone at Fox, too!
9:25 PM — But what do the blogs say? Who cares, right?
9:27 PM — CNN MapQuest King, John King, is going through the states, pointing out various poor redneck states with Republican senators, who won’t vote for stimulus, because … John McCain carried those states.
9:31 PM — Dinnertime! Thanks everybody for hanging out with Wonkette!
HEY! I’m the newest one on that chart. GO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel Maddow is griping about his long answers? C’mon. The use of multisyllabic words that he actually understood? Beats the last guys and his short answers: “Evil.” “Eviler”. “Gitmo”. “Down in Texas…” Puh-leeeze. Rachel can wind up in those Brian Williams questions that take four minutes to ask, so she’s got no room to talk.
But now we must leave MSNBC, because Axelrod is a smarty jones, etc.
He’s still on, even after admitting to using steroids?
nmmagayar: You are too drunk for the fastest finger question…
I thought Hopey came off too defensive and testy. He didn’t speak for too long per se, he just labored certain points too much, like how the conservative media are a bunch of asshats. I mean, anyone who actually watched the whole thing is media-literate enough to get that point.
Rachel is so cute.
Making work is not a job. LOL.
Rachel just went GACK!
CNN still has its humungeous iPhone-based map of the US.
I can’t watch those cable bull shitters anymore.
Unless, legit journalist, HuffPo has a show.
wheelie: I thought he was saying the conservative lawmakers are a bunch of asshats.
simetrias: My lesbian daughter certainly thinks so.
simetrias: ???????????
Great music on CNN Live.com Was there a speech or something tonight? Hope they didn’t use big words, they give me a headache. Off to PornHub with Denby. Now that is Stimulus I Can Believe In!
Every time I watch MSNBC I think Obama’s administration is a complete failure. That place is full of hysteria. You start with Joe Scarborough and his idiotic side kick who only knows two things “what is the rush?” and “I gotta be honest with you, the Republican’s have a point.” what a dimwit. Then there is Tweedy – what can I say, he is beyond description.
Now Rachel will have a chance to slap that ass-hat Ben Nelson in the face. Just let them filibuster, okay?
And work isn’t a job because it might go away someday. Isn’t the whole idea to jolt the economy into functioning again? Make a few jobs so people will have money to spend so someone will get a job to sell the whatever it is and make whatever it is, etc?
Or is Uncle Michael just smarter than I?
smellyal8r: Hey, he gets some credit on a couple of short answers:
“… needs done, jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our dangerously deficient dams and levees, so that we don’t face another *Katrina*. ”
“Katrina” is the new “9/11″. How ironic.
If Ken leaves, does that mean we have to all stop now? His AOL picture really scares me, so I want to know the rules.
hockeymom: His general denunciation of conservative asshatery embraced both the mediac and lawmaker wings, I guess.
DustBowlBlues: She slapped him left and she slapped him right and then slapped him around a few more times after that just for good measure.
That was fun.
Ben Nelson says that–Do the math–58 votes out of 100 isn’t enough to pass anything?
Is this the new math? I’m on the bandwagon with MSNBC who says make them do it. The Dems are calculating everything on how they want to be treated next time they’re in the minority, which at this rate will be soon.
recharged95: Barack Obama cares about black people
Nighty-night. I have to get off the computer so my husband can google porn when he thinks I’m not looking.
DustBowlBlues: Teh Google has PORN now? No wonder they are always in the newspapers and whatnot.
It’s a good thing it wasn’t Obama in a football stadium with Stevie Wonder. Biden would have said something about the blind leading the blind.
– How weird to have a president who can discuss things in an intelligent way. —
Is this a jibe at Harding? Fess up, you libtard.
Oh man. The snark on here is soooo discreetly deferential when discussing Barry. Truth is that it was a brilliantly handled Presser by the wonky fresher. This guy is highly capable - we will know in about a year of what. C’mmon, though. Transparency? B.S. Ask Helen Thomas. She asked a question knowing he knew the answer. She just wanted to see if he would admit it. He didn’t and she bet her years of experience that he wouldn’t. Helen was just reminding us but that we may want his kids but he is just another politician for F’s sake with a nice refreshing line of rhetoric written in adult joined up writing. The sort of thing that makes childrens’ stories like Lord of the Rings, Huck Finn and Alice in Wonderland so enjoyable for forty year olds.
But we didn’t get to see through the looking glass any more than we did at a Bush presser, it’s just that we didn’t feel anywhere near as dirty and humiliated by watching it.
I miss feelin’ dirty and humiliated. It’s OK, though. I will just re-read what the White House attorney said in court today using the Bush arguments to support their denial of constitutional legal scrutiny of rendition. Ah, back to swampland - mud, mud lovely stinkin’ rotten mud, nothin’ quite like it for coolin’ the blood.
And if that ain’t dirty enough for Wonketteers, how about that I want Helen Thomas to have MY babies. If some on here think she is bat shit crazy then her sort of insanity is our last hope. And No, I’m not being snarky. It wasn’t required as a condition of signing on here.
I support Helen Thomas.
Eight years of the White House Press Whores licking shrubs stanky ass crack, except for one person.
Helen Thomas.
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Wat? No questions about dogs, as I am extremely interested in the inner workings of Lindsey Grahams dog brain. I think Prez answered that one. You all screwed it up for 8 years, so you have no credibility. The American People want Cha Cha Cha Change. So STFU!
Uh Oh. This Biden thingy is getting really interesting. The 30% solution. MMM K?
The Gray Panthers can’t even get RV Loans. That’s it pass the damn bill. The forecast is cloudy with a dash of Springsteen & Steinbeck. Haunting Harmonica off the next exit. Thanks eternal optimist! Shrubry & Co. are the architects of this disaster. Prez is up to the challenge. We are with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEtA5fhk4k&feature=related
DustBowlBlues: Ben Nelson’s calculus is bit suspect. An advocate of Reagan, white bitters Welfare to Work and “trickle-down” while he was governor of Nebraska, he has never quite been able to master the decimal system. Too FDR.
I saved lives and gave people free bus rides & all I got from “Golden Boy” was a thank you & no poetry? What kind of news conference is that? All ginned up? You are supposed to be methed up. I’ve given 800 news conferences & interviews in 2 weeks I should know. I am the master of the universe. Good night in every language of the world ~Blago
After the press conference I said to my husband, “Let’s turn to Fox just for shits and giggles…that whole bit about keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
What O’Reilly said about Helen Thomas only proved he’s a scum-sucking pig, not that there was ever a doubt. He threw some mighty big rocks her way, but has he fucking LOOKED in a mirror lately? Good God almighty. And that porky pig, high-pitched squeal of Dick Morris.
I couldn’t hang with it for a full 60 seconds without feeling like I needed a hot shower with lye soap and a wire brush. That was an hour ago and I still want to peel off my skin because it was in the same room as Fox teevee rays. So much for shits and giggles.
accidental_tourist:
What? What did the piglets at Faux say about Helen? I missed it. Unfriggin believable. They are nothin’ but bottom feeders. The outfit that only Dick “I shot my best friend in the face” Cheney would give an exclusive interview to after he was tanked up buckshooting his bestest cronie. Be proud! Dick Cheney wuvs you!
How weird to have a president who can discuss things in an intelligent way.
You obviously missed the Messiah’s answer to the first question. By the way, is he finished answering that first question YET?
O’Reilly is a 6 ft 7 stick with a loofah for a mouth
Morris talks out of so many sides of his mouth that he has to have a surgical procedure to keep the cud he spurts out with no pauses, from being sucked into his 4th cow stomach only to be regurgitated every weeknight at 8pm eastern time.
Welshman:
— “but he [Barry] is ‘just another politician‘” —
I do hatez that phrase. It is used by Republicans to imbue cynicism in the Everyman (don’t matter whom you vote for, it will always be the same) and keep the Everyman discouraged and away from polls while the Republicans mobilize niche voters such as the Evangelicals and Supply-side Reaganites to the voting booth.
You wanna snark Barry? That’s okay. He should be snarked for his naïve bipartainship and DLC centrist mantras, despite the predictable John Boehner, Jon Kyl, Mitch McConnell, McAged, etc. coming kick to his man-parts to re-establish the Republican conservative core. As if they would ever care about us.
accidental_tourist: Political discussion is to O’Reilly as the peanut butter is to salmonella … or herpes.
Dinnertime? Since when do peyote buttons require a knife, fork and bib?
Welshman: NADER 2012. Other than that— thanks man. Many people should appreciate it. But damn you Nader! NADER PAULTARD FASCIST SOCIALIST WARMONGING EXOSKELETON MUSLIM ANGEL RAPING PEEPAL. Duhh… STRIKINGLY INTELLELIGENT AND SORT OF ATTACHED TO BELIEF TYPE— Have you been saved?
S.Luggo: When Red Lobster says so.
2 shorts posts without an also. Also.
bago: Gin is a very fucking important thing. You don’t just give it away. The same is true of rum, but also, there is pot. Also.
There will never be agreement on the stimulus package because liberals and conservatives don’t use logic the same way.
http://www.yeahokthen.com/2009/02/liberal-vs-conservative-logic.html
shortsshortsshorts: Point.
AWOcoholic: Agree, except that the in second flow chart, there should be a prior square which says, “Soul taken by Beelzebub.”
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Well, I guess that’s my cue to start drinking.
Congressman Kanjorski reveals (at about the 2:15 mark) that the move to raise the move to guarantee money market funds up to $250,000 was an emergency measure to stave off a massive run on the banks that removed $550 billion from the system in a matter of just a couple of hours. Treasury then injected $105 billion to no avail, and shut the system down to prevent a panic continuation of this electronic bank run. By “their” [read Treasury’s] estimation, had they not shut it down and issued the guarantee, money market withdrawls would have reached $5.5 trillion by two ‘o’clock that afternoon!! He then indicates Treasury’s assessment that the run not only would have destroyed the U.S. economy immediately, but would have collapsed the world economy within 24 hours.
And here is another reason to finish the whole goddamned bottle.
Poor liver.
bago: Oh my God-who-doesn’t-exist.
I doubt that any sort of stimulus package to the tune of a mere $800 billion will do much other than make people feel good, but good feelings might help. Such a herd-stampede mentality.
DustBowlBlues: Hey I didn’t know my wife had a wonkette account?!
DustBowlBlues: What he really means and didn’t say well is that to pass deficit creating legislation you need 60 votes. Since nowadays every thing creates a deficit you always need 60 votes. Also.
Welshman: OK, so I’m really behind the curve here, since you said this last night, BUT, what idiot would respond to Helen Thomas by saying, “Oh, let’s see, Israel, maybe the Saudis, some of the little countries have them on loan from the Russians….did you want to talk about Africa…?” What fucking purpose would this serve…?… just because Helen isn’t expecting the truth, doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to boast about your preznetial knowledges….
Indiana pimps itself again- The great irony of the stimulus package:
http://tinyurl.com/bm3u3f