To prove he “cares” about America and has emotions just like other childish, petulant politicians, Barack Obama went to a state somewhere (Wisconsin, this time) to have a “town hall meeting” and complain about John A. Boehner for describing financial regulation as “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.” An ant, said Obama. AN ANT? It is more like a giant moon-sized spider that kills everyone on Earth! Boehner, an actual orange spider from Cigarette Land, preemptively yelled back at Obama because come on, ants are also capable of maybe a small, briefly annoying ant bite. This is what these people do with their time. Then, obviously, Boehner accused Obama of being “childish,” before sticking his tongue out and making fart noises with his underarm. Oh yeah and Senate Republicans defeated an extension of unemployment benefits again, so if your job/industry/economy is gone forever, sorry! Please enjoy the political metaphor of ants being bombed with nuclear weapons … you can probably exchange that metaphor for food down at the grocery store. [New York Times/Fox News/LA Times]- Hurricane Alex didn’t really bother Texas all that much because it slammed into Mexico instead, so God currently hates Mexicans more than Texans, until the next hurricane. [Houston Chronicle]
- Speaking of financial reform, which was the thing we were speaking of before that whole “God will hate Texans again next week” item, the House — Democrats and three Republicans — passed “finreg” legislation. The Senate — Democrats minus Russell Feingold plus Scott Brown and give or take one other Democrat and two Republicans, probably including one from Maine? — will probably pass a version that has something about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or doesn’t have anything about TARP and bank regulation. [Reuters/The Big Money]
May 27, 2012
Mean Obama Accuses Republicans of Doing What They Do
by Ken Layne 8:11 am July 1, 2010
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Ken, you missed the big news of yesterday. Hitler’s furious about his new iPhone 4…
http://mingramjr.com/hitler-upset-with-the-iphone-4-antenna-issues
Leather Face is still so so so damned pissed about the ObamaCare murder bed tax. It cuts into his Preparation H allowance.
“Them” Plot synopsis: Atom bomb test in desert mutates ants to make them really big.
thus rendering Boehner’s metaphor a tad confusing? The film PROVES they’ll get bigger!
stupid Boehner.
needz more purple nurples
The next time I read about some poor EX-pol (particularly RW) whining and complaining about how he/she can’t find a REAL job, I will pass doing a not so sympathetic “awwwwwh” and go right to the Nelson Muse “Ha-HA!”
I’m pretty sure the GOPer hatred of the unemployed and poor is based on the RW nut’s fear of being unemployed and poor. Much like their hatred of teh ghey. It is because outside of living in a wingnutty district or to the largess of family/in-laws/friends they wouldn’t/couldn’t hold a real job to save their life.
I knew a guy who has had 16 different jobs in 12 years. Yet he didn’t have any sympathy for another mutual friend who was unemployed for several months. Not so surprisingly the friendship ended he said some harsh words to unemployed friend and Mr 16 Jobs 12 Years found himself being verbally torn to shreds and nearly made to cry. And yes, he was a RW knob, why do you ask?
The GOP is just borrowing their philosophy from the great Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff.
You’ve misunderstood the metaphor, Ken. Ants are like cockroaches and capable of living through a nuclear holocaust. Consequently, Boehner is arguing that the proposed financial regulations don’t go far enough. The only way to fix Wall Street is to arm a bunch of elementary school boys with magnifying glasses.
A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!
So 2010 is no different than 1950.
Wow, there are Republicans voting for finreg? The pathos is awe-inspiring. The act is probably an homage to the Dao of Alvin Greene – committing political sreppuku over a bill any real effectiveness has been lobbied out of.
[re=609852]ManchuCandidate[/re]: So, what did you say…I mean what did your “friend” say to the winger? I would like to add to my arsenal of verbal skewers for RW knobs.
I think that we should line up all the people who voted for Boehner and then let all the unemployed people in the US each smack one of those voters.
I wonder how many spontaneous parties there were in Arizona when the hurricane hit Mexico?
Good news everybody! One of Boehner’s love children has been discovered!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/01/earlyshow/health/main6636708.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel
[re=609859]jodyleek[/re]: Prob’ly something like this.
[re=609859]jodyleek[/re]:
It wasn’t any one liners, but my friend (not “friend”) methodically tore holes in his lojik then went to insulting his intelligence/judgment and then went very personal (awkward kind of personal) pointing out various weaknesses and inadequacies including why he had 12 jobs in 16 years.
The (now former) RW friend was shocked that my unemployed friend would go so “low” and be so mean. I dunno, one viciously rides a guy for several months about his unemployment. Kind of stupid (more the now I understand why he can’t hold a fucking job for more than 2 years kind of stupid) not to expect that the target of said ridings might get just a tad upset.
Thing about the unemployment benefits….
See, they can’t give out checks to unemployed people, because those sweet, sweet unemployment benefits are why no one’s working. People love them too, too much. Oh, and also, all the unemployment benefits must be “paid for first.” This can mean a) that you come up with a budget reduction that offsets them or b) that you raise the revenues, have them in the bank, and then have your emergency need, depending on how the Republicans are feeling that morning when they have their first stool of the day.
On the other hand, war funding is always passed as an “emergency” funding measure, and it never needs to be paid for in advance, behind, or otherwise, because funding soldiers obviously does not cause wars, and sending hundreds of millions to drug lords in Afpak does not lead to war or drugs.
The GOP: War on Poverty ver. 2: “Kill the poor, and you end poverty.”
Time for a remake of Them but this time have the ants with giant orange Boehner-heads.
[re=609865]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Boy, that sounds familiar. I once had a lengthy discussion with a right-wing wingnut and after pointing out that his facts weren’t quite correct and even if they were, his logic made no sense, he accused me of insulting his intelligence. And I said I would if you had any.
Hey, it’s ok guys, we can fight those massive ants with the new 50 ft Pelosimonster!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/30/AR2010063005328.html?hpid=topnews
Yes, but think of the explosive growth in the blogger industry caused by all those unemployed people.
[re=609867]Geogre[/re]: So the GOP is like a Final Fantasy villain: “If we ended all life, would that not end all suffering too? No moochers on the government teet, size of government cut down to size, no more smelly, smelly browns stealing our jobs. Hell, it’s perfect! Fire ze missile, Dick.”
[re=609865]ManchuCandidate[/re]: This is one thing I’ve noticed about the right-wing. They spend such a vast amount of their time in conservative echo chambers (talk radio, Fox News, gentleman’s clubs, Hooters) that they forget that public policy affects actual people — you know, that friggin’ “public” the liberals whine about. Then once they actually meet people they’ve so maligned from a distance, it shocks, shocks them to the core, that these people actually have lives and goals and families to feed. “Cut off unemployment, people get back to work.” I have not known a single human being who has enjoyed going down to the unemployment office, nor enjoyed having nothing to do all day with no prospects to boot. Of course, all this ignores the blatant hypocrisy of the poor blue-collar worker who stands up for these “values” despite the fact that they overwhelmingly hurt him. Considering his conservative overlords at the factory are just as likely to ship his job overseas as deny him health benefits, his rabid defense of their tax cuts seems so bizarre. But because they’ve drummed enough hate into his skull of those lazy/job-stealing Mexicans, and those jobless/stinkin’ rich unemployed peoples, he whistles a merry tune while he checks the (R) box on his ballot.
Rant over. Rat dicks, also too.
Today, we are all Robert Byrd.
[re=609896]Potater[/re]: And all this collectively makes it all the more sad when the not-so-well-off back the GOP, and I’m not talking just about supporting them because of God, Guns, and Gays. I have known families who stick with the GOP because they’re just stubborn and would rather work for everything than have it given to them. It really goes back to the yeoman farmer mentality.
Of course, the idea of Dems just giving you everything is faulty (or, it probably should be), and last I checked the hardcore righties wanted the banks to all collapse and die, not realizing what that might do to the credit that it takes to have your self-sufficient business or farm or what have you (aside from gov. loans, but they don’t want that either).
So yeah, back to what I was saying: the GOP is for stubborn people, which is disappointing as a stubborn person myself.
If you give money to the unemployed, they’ll just spend it. Whatever happened the savings ethic in this damn country I ask you?
[re=609867]Geogre[/re]: Re: War on Poverty: “I wanted to help the president in the war on poverty, so I threw a grenade at a beggar.”
— I’d give the attribution if I could remember who he was (some comedian in the 60′s).
[re=609867]Geogre[/re]: Perhaps they are trying to force all the long-term unemployed into enlisting, as the military may be the last employer left with job security. Unless you are General McChrystal.
Of course there is that whole “You could be maimed or killed in a foreign land for no good reason” thing, but my last job had a long commute, so everything’s a trade-off.
[re=609851]cheeto_jeebus[/re]: And anyone that has watched Toho movies know that setting off nukes in the ocean will cause Godzilla to rise from his slumber, so nuking the hole in the floor of the Gulf to stop the oil spill is out of the question.
Well, you know, if these unemployed people would just go out and get a job they wouldn’t be unemployed. We need to quit paying these people for being unemployed, its just encourages them to not look for a job.
That was painful to type, how do those Teatards do it?
[re=609994]imissopus[/re]:
You may be closer to the truth than you realize. I’ve always thought that was GW’s real reason for destroying the economy since it had the added benefit of enabling his buddies to systematically loot the Treasury using the time-honored Bush practice of war profiteering.
Plus, you don’t have to pay the soldiers a decent wage or give them decent post-enlistment health care or benefits. Everybody wins!
Messico just needs to accept Jayzus into their hearts. If they were a good, decent, Christian nation, that hurricane never woulda’ happened, also.
[re=609965]proudgrampa[/re]: Jackie Vernon.
[re=610149]spudgun[/re]: That’s it! Thanks!
Today we are all Robert Byrd…..???!!% What the fink is that?!? Last time I checked I still had a pulse. Sorry for the lack of sensitivity but….really!!!
Wow!!! And I thought liberal drivel was extinct!! What a relief to find it alive and well here at Wonkey Donkey
And some of the nearly unintelligible rants were particularly encouraging!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
liberal drivel
I tired to use liberal and drivel together and this “open” forum wouldn’t allow it….go figure!!!
forget my last…it’s just slow:)
Unemployment checks are not that much; if one has a partner it helps. I can just get by on it because my living expenses are so low, my only debts are humongous student loans in constant deferral for low income. I’ve been unemployed and feel not one iota of guilt for taking it. I have no retirement and what are the odds I’ll be able to collect on any social security, let alone retire? I just turned 53. Fuck neoliberal capitalism. Unless I can find some rich dude with sound investments who likes slightly older smart ass women, this is about it for me. TruckNutz, too, for laffs.
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