Jesus goddamn indeed. Thank you, Jim, for saying something sane.

What is this “Movable Type” you speak of? Some kind of masturbation club thingie?

Michael Jackson is dead so with Tiger & Obama on the ropes I guess it’s up to Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele to be role models.

Those darned blacks … and just as soon as you take yer eyes off ‘em!

IIRC Tiger was actually suffering from a surfeit of boners.

Wait, what the fuck is “surfeit of hubris” even supposed to mean? Is there some optimum amount of hubris they exceeded? Now that they’ve been smacked down are they going to be under-hubrissed?

Well, they’re both mixed race. Obama could be called the most prominent white man in America or Tiger the most prominent Asian.

Progressives are like that loud Crying Baby at the Grocery Store that will not shut up. Sadly the Democratic Party is its mother and we are all stuck with their hissy fits.

Huffington Post is chock full of the tard.

[re=480079]pampl[/re]: Hubris seems to fill that gap between arrogance and stupidity and I am sure the DSM-V will have a chart quantifying the overlap.

Meanwhile I, Arianna Huffington, an immigrant Greek of no discernible talent or particularly acute intelligence, have a bloggy thingy on the intertubes where you can read my political commentaries and learn about miracle herbs that cure AIDS.

Our progressive wingnuts are aware that at the end of the day, Obama is still president and Tiger is still history’s greatest golfer no matter how many Hooters waitresses he might have been banging in between tournaments, right?

[re=480079]pampl[/re]: Well, I know that very pregnant means at least the seventh month.

[re=480090]MGBYG[/re]: No shit. If you could ever read a list of my huffpo comments it would be one post after another of me screaming at wingnuts and calling them assholes. but for some reason my comments never make it up there.

Also, I would like to add that if you ever finding yourself to bring up Al Sharpton unprompted, you are a racist.

Uh Oh! Olbermann comment coming up. Love watching those flesh tones change color.

Unemployed people suddenly have the time to get pissed.

This shit is so fucking stupid and offensive I can’t even snark on it.

i’M GOING bACK TO PORN ON THE iNTERNETS. nO READIN REQUIRED.

Oh Jim, don’t worry, people take that shit article as seriously as a Dish soap commercial. Besides there is a much more important article on Slate titled; “Why Are So Many American Men Listening to Soft Radio Stations?”

I will not link.

Jesus H. Christ, thank you! Shame that it takes Wonkette to get even a little perspective. Yes, there will be disappointment, and I too would seriously like to skewer Joe Lieberman with a rusty screwdriver in his glory hole, but it’s just gotten completely ridiculous! The same five or six senators who were jerkholes before are the same as they ever was.

And, just to keep things from getting too serious: Sarah Palin. Also.

…a surfeit of hubris…. A what? “Surfeit” already means “too much.” Coupled with “hubris,” which means “excessive pride,” “a surfeit of hubris” means too much excessive pride, which is a redundant pleonasm.

Or maybe the author thinks “a surfeit of hubris” has something to do riding the waves on sperm whale secretions. Mmmmm. I could go for some of that right now! It’s kinda slippery when you ride on it, but afterwards you can eat it and smear it all over yourself. Yum!

So we’re wringing our hands because a president hasn’t delivered everything he prommised, is that it? Actually, Obama has accomplished far more than the previous two presidents by this point. Clinton had barely started on healthcare a year in, and it never got this far. And 3,000 Americans didn’t die this year in a well-coordinated terrorist attack on our soil, so that puts him ahead of Dumbass on national security.

So what’s the problem again — that we’re not done? Jesus fucking Christ. Dry your tears and pull your fucking socks up, Lisa Warren. He said it was going to take work. He said it was going to be difficult. And he said we would encounter hardships and disappointments along the way. Now there — that’s three campaign promises he’s already fulfilled, okay? I’ll bet you feel better already.

[re=480127]AutomaticPilot[/re]: My point is, all the glee exhibited on MSNBC when they outed FNN for their terrible math skills, and now they’re doing the same thing? At least it wasn’t a pie chart, and their total came out a little closer to 100%…

[re=480130]SayItWithWookies[/re]: So are you saying I am a bad person for being a little upset that Hopey has not donkey-punched Lieberman yet?

[re=480137]glamourdammerung[/re]:

You do realize that the “Donkey Punch” involves both anal sex and orgasm, right?

That should answer your question right there.

jesus goddamn this:
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/supreme-court-refuses-hear-suit-seeking-accountability-guantanamo-torture

and jesus goddamn this:
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/obama-attorneys-step-defense-torture-memo-author

and jesus goddamn this:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout/print

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23411.htm

etc

yar.yeh whahh? i hams dumms? is senscible?

Thanks, Wonketteers. I thought it was just me.

Do I smell progressive guilt (it’s the new “liberal guilt”)?

To put it nicely: anyone who fits actual complex real-world events into this simplistic a storybook narrative should not be granted publishing privileges on Movable Type.

So no more Thomas Friedman?!

[re=480130]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I am considering having every comment you have posted this week written on index cards and laminated so I can have them handy to scream at every whiny ass concern troll I encounter. Keep up the good work.

[re=480163]Buzz Feedback[/re]:

From the food commune!

[re=480160]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: “Apartment” can be traced back using science and etymology to Latin, while Ariana Huffington is Greek, which can be traced back to ancient Greece. The correlation is therefore “togas”. Simple, eh.

glamourdammerung: Yup. And to think, these are usually self proclaimed civics geeks who all of a sudden couldn’t find the separation of powers in a well lit room if they were cast in iron and the “analysts” were given a huge magnet.

Because.

IT’S RAHM’S FAULT!

[re=480141]Way Cool Larry[/re]: I read a quote somewhere the other day, maybe on TPM, in which the speaker said essentially that Obama can say whatever he wants, the simple fact is shit does not pass the Senate unless Ben Nelson votes for it. In other words, nothing about our sausage-making legislative process has changed. I’m not letting Obama completely off the hook but considering the forces arrayed against him on nearly every issue I think it’s a fucking miracle he’s gotten Congress to push through anything he’s proposed. Any bill they pass now is hopefully laying groundwork for further changes to the system down the line and he deserves credit for getting us even that far.

Sister Chuckie Jesus of The Halfrican Nation says, “What’s so wrong with Hubris when you’re awesome?!”

Bammers has an approval rating of 60% with the Unemployeds, and 50%ish with the rest. Tiger is now golf’s Wilt Chamberlin. Condition win, fuckos.

[re=480164]Tommmcatt[/re]: TOMMMCAT! Good to see you. That is all.

[re=480172]AddHomonym[/re]: And Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. But not Jefferson or Barry. Hmmm.

I’m surprised she didn’t go all in and mention Larry Sinclair’s allegations about Obama ‘cos you know, them darkies is sex maniacs.

(I missed the Mike Tyson is a positive role model memo. I missed the African American guy who gets reconstructed to resemble Barbie is a positive role model memo, too. Not sure how getting sick tarnished Magic’s image. Maybe she got him confused with Wilt, because you know..)

WWPND? What would Peggy Noonan do?

[re=480141]Way Cool Larry[/re]: Obama’s not much better than Dubya? Now you’re being hyperbolic — this is the worst president in the history of the United States we’re talking about here. And dug us into giant holes in every field you can name — so President Obama’s starting from a horrible position, which might affect everyone’s perception about where we are.

And yet, he’s already passed an SCHIP bill that was stymied for two years; he passed the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; he’s kicking all the corporate goons out of the executive branch advisory committees; he passed a huge stimulus that (regardless of what the Republicans say) has created or saved a million jobs and kept the GDP from falling through the floor; he created a program to keep homeowners from being foreclosed on; he kept GM and Chrysler from completely imploding; he made TARP more accountable and toughened what was once a giveaway.

As far as projects still in the works, he’s closing Gitmo (no, it’s not closed yet, but the government just bought a prison for them); he’s changing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, at least by telling generals to ignore it rather than enforce it; he’s getting us out of Iraq, if not fast enough; he’s actually implemented a plan to do something about Afhanistan other than let it fester; he’s started on the path towards healthcare reform and reform of the finance industry.

And that’s just what I can come up with off the top of my head. He’s done more good in less than a year than any president in my lifetime. I for one am willing to keep donating, writing letters, bitching, and supporting him and the direction he’s going. I mean, the alternative is to sit back and let the Republicans run things, right? At least when the country’s moving in the right direction it can be shoved further to the left — I don’t want to throw up my hands and then make the next liberal have to stop the ship and turn it around before it’s going this way again.

[re=480189]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Wow — sorry for the logorrhea, Wonkette. If you have to take it to the cleaners, send me the bill.

[re=480188]Katydid[/re]: Bitter much?

[re=480069]MGBYG[/re]: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/23/Meeting-Tiger-Woods

[re=480201]naveed[/re]: Pic 1: “Come on Barry, you know you’d tap that ass.” Pic 2: “Check out my fine selection of white hos, Mr. President.”

I hear he’s a demon who gets his life sustainance from failed US legislation.

[re=480196]5th Level Halfling Rogue[/re]: But apparently it’s not working as most of his comments so far have been from people who appear to understand health care better than a Nobel Prize winning columnist.

Everybody pretty much sucks, in their own special way.

Thanks, SayItWithWookies.

At least this article gave me a suggestion for a user name.

[re=480217]Surfeit O’Hubris[/re]: You’re welcome — and there should be a warning about putting an apostrohe in your name, but it’s a little late now.

[re=480137]glamourdammerung[/re]: Not at all — Lieberman and Obama deserve to get criticized — Lieberman vastly more so, but if Obama doesn’t catch shit from his left then we’re not trying hard enough. Keep the pressure on, just don’t ditch an okay deal because we didn’t get a better deal.
Harry Reid is sort of in the middle of that spectrum — I’m not willing to forgive him for not revoking Lieberman’s parking privileges, making him ride the Metro, losing his account at the Senators’ dining room so he has to brown bag it every day, and moving his office to the steam room in the basement.

[re=480161]OffTheRecord[/re]: Holy crap, and thank you. I wonder if it’s too late to get 2010 calendars printed up…

[re=480206]Kevin Bacon[/re]: You really are trying to hard.

[re=480169]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Well according to FireDogLake it is all Rahm’s fault. Jane whateverthehellhernameis becomes unhinged at the very thought of Rahm whispering sweet nothings into Barry’s ear.

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he stood her up at her senior prom or something.

[re=480232]Holding Out for a Hero[/re]: according to ezra klein, it’s not rahm’s fault, but not really harry reid’s fault, either. staffers in reid’s office were the sources for the “rahm was mean to harry and made him eat lieberman’s shit” angle because they were running interference and trying to save face.

reconcilation, anyone? i know that it would be a risky path, but the public option would be intact. you lose anything related to the private sector(insurance regulations), but a strong public option would require nothing more than a simple majority.

[re=480219]zhubajie[/re]: I forgot to mention Ghengis Khan, with 16 million known descendants.

Newell: THANK YOU. That is all.

[re=480234]obfuscator[/re]: Without regulation, any public option just becomes a dumping ground for sick people and will either (a) have to start acting like any other asshole insurer or (b) go bankrupt in about six months when no one can afford its insane premiums anymore. This is why regulation is the key to the whole thing and why reconciliation exists only to give the kos kids a ridiculous premise for their stupid arguments. This is also why the whole “nonprofit insurance” idea has failed in the past, and it’s also why the “them regulations won’t work, we need a public option” argument being tossed around by the kos kids is the even more Downs-laden half of whatever misshapen zygote gave rise to the reconciliation argument.

[re=480122]InKnockYouUs[/re]: Yeah. Wonkette hates the racisms even if it comes from Progressives. Oh the horrors!

Final word, it does my heart good to read the comments to the original post, basically all of them blasting the hell out of the original author.

[re=480480]S.Luggo[/re]: Thank you. Thank you for this. This is quite possibly the most entertaining thing I’ve seen in the past five minutes. It’s like, five tweets in and she says, “You’d be surprised at how many black people I know.”

Some of my best friends are black but…

Now if that don’t beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So we can appoint a President that’s blacker than any Indian. I am depressed.