Newt Gingrich and the Media (also a Christian ska band) have been promising America that the Democrats will lose everything — even their activist gay judges — come November. This is weird because polls tell us voters still hate Republicans a lot, even more than they hate the Demtards and their socialist medicines. Joe Biden knows this (maybe) and is pretty fed up with all the whiny emo liberals and their negative November juju. If everyone votes twice we will be fine.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden was the latest to issue that advice. At a fundraiser in New Hampshire on Monday, Mr. Biden appeared exasperated with the growing belief among Democrats that they are going to suffer huge losses in November.
He told about 200 top Democratic donors that they should “remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This President has done an incredible job. He’s kept his promises.”
It’s true. It’s time to get out there and get this done. After all, Joe Biden is a shining example of how “half of life is just showing up and then telling a man in a wheelchair to stand up.” [The Caucus]
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When is that planned libtard freak show on the Mall, with the bearded lady, the Peta bread people, the ceteceaphiles, and the be-dredded hacky-sackers?
If you dip the whole lot in patchouli and outlaw bathing, that pretty much describes every day here on the Arcata Plaza. I'm cool with you taking the show on the road, get 'em to D.C. and out of my haunts for a bit.
Oh, no! Life in your charming and beautiful little college town up there in gorgeous northern California — it must be a bummer having the DFHs in your town plaza. ;-p
I could learn to love that patchouli stink if I could live in Arcata. I'm jealous!
It's rough, living a 15 minute walk from the beach. The problem with patchouli is that it doesn't so much hide the odor as accentuate it. The cool kids know to use sandalwood. Blends much better with the odor of herbage than does patchouli.
Hey I'm all with the cetaceaphiles. My motto is 'never eat anything that's smarter than you', or at least never both chew and swallow y'know.
I'd take up that philosophy, but there's no way I'm giving up tofu.
“half of life is just showing up and then telling a man in a wheelchair to stand up.”
The other half is making fun of a blind correspondent for wearing shades at a presser.
What does it say about this country that Joe Biden is now the most sane political commentator.
I <3 America.
I am totally with Joey on this, it's one reason that I stopped going to Daily Kos, they are so fucking furious about Barry not doing every single fucking thing he "promised" them, well I would like to see them try to deal with a Republican minority that delights in blockading everything .President Sarah Palin, also.
Joey Ramone?
No Prommie it's not punk, though we wish, but Christian ska
Yeah I can't handle the 'kos anymore because of all the fart sniffing, overwritten, delusional diaries.
Full disclosure, my granddad was a chicken farmer who blah blah blah, and so this is what I told the lady with the mccain/palin bumper sticker blah blah blah and that is how i pwned the old bitch!
Too many people who start their post with the word "people," and then get all William Rivers Pitt high school drama club-ish, with the self-pity and the mandatory Voltaire reference and the "beleaguered martyr for the cause of enlightenment" posing, and then they start wailing how "we" gotta take some action. I am not part of anyone's "we." Especially not those fuckers.
Add Firedoglake to that list, too.
Some of the other liberal blogs have gotten even worse. One seemed to constantly blame Obama for everything bad, including the actions of state legislatures he had absolutely nothing to do with, and adding "And if Clinton was President, she'd have given all ponies by now"; I finally gave up after a transcript of Obama's pretty good declaration for the National Day of Women, which blogger followed with angry rant that basically said:
"How DARE Obama give this speech without declaring that Hillary is the bestest politician in the world and apologizing for beating her in the primary and admitting she'd be such a much better president than him! This proves he hates women!!"
Gave up on Kos a long time ago for just these reasons. Actually they were this irritating when Chimpy was still in the WH.
The Kos gets mighty screechy. I wandered away from Salon for the same tone-deafness. I like opining with an all around sense of skepticism. And maybe self-awareness?
I've pretty much weaned myself off of most political blogs except for the sane ones and even they have become wearying. Hell, even the Daily Show has become tiring. I just keep on wanting to jump into every comment thread and either write "HOW THE HELL WOULD YOU GET 60 VOTES!" or "WHERE'S MY PONY?" to everything. And those are the nicer things I can think of.
"WHERE'S MY PONY?"
Hee
Also "Ed Schultz" and "The Huffington Post"
And that ghastly Arriana Huffington, good God , she sounds like one of the Gabor Sisters.
Hell, even if their political content was decent I'd avoid because of their "health" section which promotes all sorts of snake oil therapies, along with the evil "vaccines cause autism" bullshit that's killing kids.
HuffPo has good political/news content and some good columnists but I stopped going there because they'd have an article where say Pelosi would say something like "I keep on inviting Obama over to dinner but he can never make it because he's too busy" and then the headline would read "PELOSI SLAMS OBAMA!! ACCUSES HIM OF BEING TOO BUSY TO VISIT CONGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!" And then you'd have Alec Baldwin's take on it.
Alec Baldwin: "THEY SHOULD EAT SOMETHING VEGAN FOR DINNER."
With you on that. It took 8 years to completely f*ck up the country, and all these people are somehow expecting Hopey to wave some magical muslin unicorn wand and make everything shiny and bright.
It's bad enough that the loudmouth whiny repugs & teabaggers are acting all "WHY HASN'T HE GIVEN EVERYONE NEW FABULOUS $$$$ JOBS AND PAID OFF THEIR MORTGAGES YET???" , but it really chaps my butt when Dems & Liberals start complaining like that. Are people this childish and simplistic? UGH
The Kos Crowd hasn't gotten over the fact that the Obama Inaguration Stage wasn't dismantled and used to construct the gallows that the entire Bush Administration was to be hung from for war crimes.
The man wasn't even in office and they were screaching "BETRAYAL" because he named Rick Warren to give the Invocation.
Actually, I'm not over that either.
Me either. But I think it will be much more satisfying to see the boys doing the perp walk after they start thinking they are in the free and clear.
Hey Joe — it's a lot harder to bitch about how tough things are when my weed is legal. Just sayin'.
Legalizing pot would be political suicide for the democrats. You think voter turnout is low now, . . .
I'd be way more likely to vote while toasted – especially getting loaded in the parking lot outside the polls checking out the people dressed up for a Sam Adams commercial.
Yeah, but I think the point is that while you might be more likely to go, you're also more likely to get lost, or camp out in a Taco Bell drive through.
Hey, look, a butterfly. . .
I see it too.
A van pulls up outside the polling place, a guy opens the back door and then yells to everybody that if they show him their "I voted" sticker they get a free slice. Landslide.
Thank you-talk about single issue voting. Leave that platform for the Libertarians-I think every hippie wanna-be Phish fan in their 'Dead Concert 1976' t-shirt from Target votes for all-things-Ron-Paulish strictly because of that.
Joe, Joe, Joe, a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. Or a blunt. Either way, there's a better way to say it.
Where I come from, the blunt IS the medicine!
Also, in Soviet Union, blunt smokes you!
That feller dont know what is about to hit him.
As part of its First 10 Days Agenda, the new Christian Conservative Congress plans to take the empty, unused rail cars that demoncrats would normally load up with ACORN voters for trips to the polls, and fill them up with all the pregnant mexicans and ship them back over the border before it is too late.
And then they will stop ALL GOVT HEALTHCARE which is evil and incompetent
Get y'all black tees on
All black everything
Black cards, black cars
All black everything
BIDEN: "That republican crazy talk with the tax cuts and the repeal-obamacare/institute teapartycare? We are going to fuck that shit up."
If everyone votes twice we will be fine
First voting in Illunoise back when the real Mayor Daily was in office, that was SOP. Even the dead would open their crypts or urns and drag their zombie selves to the polls. Isn't that the Demrat way coast-to-coast? Ya vote early and often until you've been dead at least 50 years.
Hur hur
This has to be good for John McCain
Y'know, Joe, I've gotten six emails in the last 4 minutes from Democrats whining at me for money. Although I agree the firebaggers and DKos'ers are whiny bitches, maybe not lumping us all together when you insult us is a better way to close that enthusiasm gap?
Love,
Your fucking, whining, retarded base.
That's about the size of it – "Give us your money, then shut the fuck up, you Liberal bastard, we don't want to hear anything you have to say."
The Dems can't match the fear factor of sharia law being imposed to get the base out. Obama saying he would issue an executive order legalizing cannabis might help. And issue it now so the celebration will level off by the time the election rolls around.
All those lesbians and gays they want to serve in the military make it pretty clear that the Democrats are imposing She-Ra law, not sharia law.
How about the fear factor of losing social security and medicare? The whining left isn't the problem. The problem is the Democratic party's not being able to stay clear and on message.
The bumper-sticker version I first saw here a few days ago is pretty good: Borrowing from our grandchildren to give to billionaires.
A "bake-the-nation proclamation?"
"The Dems can't match the fear factor of sharia law being imposed to get the base out."
Which is weird because Democrats are actually the ones in danger of having fundamentalist religious law imposed on them if we lose.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden? When I want your opinion I'll tell you what it should be.
In the meantime you can blow me and tell me the flavor. No, really.
"I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to get dissed regularly on Wonkette? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever get reamed out by Ken Layne? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright?"
IF you have a problem with Congress, the answer to that problem is more democrats, not fewer.
more republicans would just make it worse, like that 5th bloody mary I had during overtime of the saints game. much, much worse.
Why do they call it 'the Democratic Party' when nobody has any fun? I say we're all due a vodka-and-lime or whatever floats the old canoe.
Joe Biden says we libtards wouldn't be shoegazin' if our boots were buried ankle-deep in Mitch McConnell's turtle ass! Joe Biden pities us fools!
If he thinks Demoncrats are whining now, wait until the Repubicans implement their
newBush policies.Or try to impeach Barry for the ultimate sin of Presidenting While Black. Cause you know that's coming.
Yeah, I think its going to take a lot more than 21-22 months to sort out the fuckery that was the preceding eight years.
I mean, how can you actively toss the keys to the guys who say; As soon as you toss me those keys, I'm running your fucking ass over.
Amen (to you and the other commenters with a similar sentiment). I may bitch and moan about the Democrats being afraid of their own shadow, but that doesn't stop me from getting off my ass and voting. I may not have my feet up smoking a spliff while watching the war crimes tribunals on my solar-powered television yet, but there's no fricking way that's ever coming to pass if Republicans take back anything at all. Those fuckers would rather play chicken with my economic security than do what's right for this country — and that's a fucking god complex that needs to be repudiated every single time.
True that
All we asked was for you to throw some fuckers in jail, but nooooo, you wanted to look forward and be bi-partisan, you wouldn't listen to us, nooooo, would it have been so hard to have tried for single payer universal coverage, I mean come oooon, would it have been so hard to actually make the Republicans filibuster something they said they were going to filibuster instead of just folding up like a revival tent on Monday morning, Barry might have made with some recess appointments instead of just waaah, waaah, waaah, we didn't get to fill all the jobs, so sorry if we're sounding a little bit whiney now, Joe, but you guys started it.
#shitmyJoeBidensays
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Not a single person's head has been toilet-bowled. I, for one, am not happy Mr. Vice-President.
No snark today – I agree with Prommie that I don't want to be part of anybody's 'we', and with freakishly wrong about the whining requests for money, but I'll tell you this – I'm thinking of volunteering for my local Dem to do get out the vote on Nov 2. I'm talking the real deal – phone calls all day, driving old ladies tio the polls. I haven't done that shit in oh god maybe 38 years but it'll make my deceased union organinzin' Mom and Dad (who understood coalition building) proud, and besides my personal volunteer activity vs a Republican controlled government will likely have to be way more violent. Just sayin'
I've thought about volunteering too, but I don't know what to say to people, and I'm afraid I won't be any good.
Yeah well I haven't done it since I was a kid – had more confidence. Tell you this – you (and I) will do fine. What I remember about 1972 was having dinner with my girlfriend (now wife) being bummed by Nixon II. Don't want THAT again.
Seriously, your local organizers will take care of all the brainwork for you. "Half of it is just showing up. " So go an show up.
I'm in a solidly blue district; otherwise I'd be signing up for duty. I'm still writing checks, though. Just wish it didn't result in so damn much junk mail from the DNC. I've gotten back about 30% of what I've donated in form of bulk-postage pleas for more donations.
You actually get a little script from which you can freelance.
I was nerbus about volunteering too (I don't wanna go around knocking on doors and talking to hostile strangers, you know?), but I found out there's other stuff I can do. Like this weekend — I'm helping to register new voters and urge them to vote.
Also, when you do "phone banking" to urge people to vote, you'll probably be calling people who are on a list of people registered with your party (they're trying to get out their "base"), so the people you're calling will likely be sympathetic or even friendly. It's really not so bad.
Volunteering is a piece of cake. And a great way to fill your time if you're a victim of the Bush Depression.
Would Reid be as hateful if he didn't have that recording-secretary Mister Peepers demeanor?
Joe, I'm with you. So now that Rahm is packing his shit and leaving, who is going to put some sack into the Dems in congress to actually, you know, DO something. You get the votes you earn.
In a weird way, it'd be almost better if Republicans do take over because the first thing they're going to do is that run boat up the rocks. If you thought watching the Democrats try to organize was fun, wait until the Republican leadership tries to deal with The New Righteous, for which every parliamentary point turns into Braveheart. Joe Lieberman's going to be one sad, lonely dude when he tries slithering over to get all huggy with Rand Paul, who picks him off like a leech and flicks him across the chamber. Then the Democrats can be: don't look at us, dickhead–you made that bed.
But being Democrats, they'll probably just pussy out, give him a blanket and a hot water bottle, and sing Carole King songs.
No thank you — I've seen the Republicans fuck things up already, and in case you've forgotten, it's not much fun. If I want to enjoy their revolution eating itself, I'll be perfectly happy to watch the bitter infighting and recriminations that come after they don't have the overwhelming victories they're expecting. Remember Rush bitching in 2006 about how he wasn't going to carry water for the fake conservatives anymore? And all their whining about how they'd lost their way and had to return to their real values? I wanna see that show again.
Well…yeah. You're absolutely right. I think I was just giving myself a pep talk, like: sure kidney stones hurt, but they give you killer Vicodin.
And, of course, that should have been "run that boat up the rocks." I are a proofreader.
Uncle Joe laying the smack down! I love him this is a big fucking deal! stop whining hos!
Quitcherbitching, Joe. I'm still willing to vote against opening the Hellmouth, or whatever it is that the GOP is offering. Just continue to suck at least a little less than the republicans, and you've got me.
I wonder who'll be whining when the impeachment proceedings commence…
Jeebus. That would suck. And Republicans are crazy enough to do it. But I'm not so sure Democrats would mind a big ol' Republican impeachment freak show. It'd prolly guarantee Obama's re-election and add some Democratic seats back to Congress. And most of 'em — Republican and Democrat — love a distraction that keeps 'em from having to actually VOTE on actual policy, so they'll love it.
Are you kidding? They probably are already planning it. First plan of action, pass a bill repealing Health Care Reform. When Obama vetoes it, all further action by Congress stops as the Impeachment Proceedings begin.
It's a difference between the Republican and Democratic parties; after the Dems began impeachment proceedings against a Rep president because of actual crimes that lead him to resign, and investigated another, the Reps responded by launching a witchhunt based on media bullshit over a failed land deal that ended up in failed impeachment over a blowjob.
In response, when they took back Congress under a President who had likely ordered war crimes, the Dems did absolutely nothing, since the impeachment process was seen as tainted. Now, if the Reps take back Congress, their even more insane than 1998 members probably won't even wait until they have some flimsy legal pretext to initiate impeachment proceedings.
Dear Joe: The Veep is supposed to be the knife-wielding summbitch who says the over-the-top things the POTUS can't say that rally the base. When you kick ass, it's supposed to be the elephant kind, not your fellow donkeys'. Read your fucking job description.
Seriously, I love that picture of Biden. Crazy ole Uncle Joe, gotta love'em.
gaffy joe is america's answer to silvio only w/ a hotter wife.
Also, he will eventually have to leave office.
Poor Uncle Joe, his hair technician obviously forgot to plug all the holes in his scalp and his brains are leaking out. Oh well, everybody has a crazy Uncle, even 'Merika.
OT but MSNBC just said that Jimmy Carter has been taken to hospital.
Democrats: We Suck a Little Less Than Republicans
I'm inspired.
Could someone remind me why I bothered to get out of bed and vote for Obama? Oh, that's right – the legalized gay marriage, end of DADT, universal health care, end of the wars, open government and flying unicorns thing. Yeah, I remember.
Oh so Walnuts would've been OK? Can you imagine the scripts they'd be feeding him? Not 3rd term Bush, more like 3rd term Reagan, complete with ketchup is a vegetable
From my perspective, I can't see much difference – the economy would still be in the toilet with Congress and the Prez not showing much leadership on changing it and bailing out banks and CEOs. The wars would be about the same – even Walnuts would have to make some token withdrawls as people get fed up with it. The stuff with terrorism or the Feds wanting to censor the web and eavesdrop on everyone is about the same.
I feel like I voted for FDR and got Alf Landon instead.
Incessantly complaining fickle Obama fans = "WHINE-Os"?
Sharron Angle getting elected to his seat will show that fucker what's what.
Joe Biden ate your fucking pony, Okay?
Best VP ever…and he still runs on his original heart…
I dunno who's come up with this "tough-love-quitcher-bitchin" campaign theme, but I think he/she has his/her head up hi/her butt.
I am the fucking Democratic base, and of course I'm going to vote D, like I have for the last 42 years, even if the Party leadership insists on insulting me.
But how is this "stop whining" theme going to play with the folks who are "enthusiasts" rather than "base"? This isn't a sport, where it may make sense to tell team members to "buck up" because their desire to remain on the team will override their annoyance at being ignored.
It is of course true that the goopers have blindly obstructed everything, and it could be argued that what the Democrats have achieved in the face of that obstruction was about as good as possible. But this is not really the same as "we accomplished 70% of our campaign promises, so shut up". (Also, too, it might have been a clever idea to highlight the obstruction — recess appointments early on, a few executive orders — rather than to accommodate it in the pursuit of phantom bipartisanship. It's too late now (for this election) to expect to get any traction with an "obstructionism" narrative.)
Bottom line: I don't see the "stop whining" theme winning over many whiners, but I do fear that it will put some over the edge.
Living in Michigan, I am reminded about the desperate losers who still wear Detroit Lions stuff and go to their games. I had a guy last year argue with me that I need to support the home team. Asked him if he got food poisoning each time he went to his "homer" restaurant, would he go back. Plenty of justification for the whine.
It's been said here before, but people get precisely the government they deserve. I'm not saying that I deserve John Boehner as Speaker, but what the hell have I done to affect that outcome? I mean, I'm a little shocked at our President's lack of balls, but I am terrified of the awfulness to come if the twinkie-eating, rascal-riding lunatics start running this asylum.
I keep wondering if I give them the $5 they keep asking me for, will make a difference? I absolutely don't want certain people to get into office but the alternatives are confusing.
Thanks for that image. Now my collection of pols making the "six inches" gesture is more complete.
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