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November 4, 2010

Karl Rove’s Scary Stories Helped Electorate Realize Obama Is Muslim

by Riley Waggaman  

When Nosferatu gets to the top of those stairs, he's gonna make you buy health insurance! RUN!

  • Every media personality and hologram agrees: Barack Obama was not reelected. He lost the election, sorry, goodbye! But who won? The easy answer is “America,” but don’t be rude: give credit where credit’s due! Scary Horror Stories won this election, and you could easily argue that Karl Rove’s piggy bank was also a big winner. Another unsung 9/11 hero: The US Chamber of Commerce, which funneled many millions of dollars into totally factual political ads targeting Democrats as anti-business baby snatchers. And these ads worked extremely well, so congratulations to the friendly mom-and-pop apple pie corner store lobbyists at the Chamber! What is that Winston Churchill quote? “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. Ha ha, but really folks, American Democracy is the worst.” And then a V-2 rocket hit his house, or something. [Business Week]
  • Was Barack Obama busy apologizing to everyone for losing the election yesterday? Maybe, but somehow he still found time — maybe during his cigarette break — to send a squadron of Flying Death Robots to Pakistan, for a routine killing spree. [BBC]
  • There are so many bombs in the news. Just look at all these fucking bombs! [CNN/Telegraph/MSNBC]

{ 171 comments }

forgracie November 4, 2010 at 8:52 am

I'd like to slap Alito's smug grin right off his face….

jakegittes November 4, 2010 at 9:07 am

You might consider using Carl Paladino's baseball bat. Also, aim for the knees. Too.

mumbly_joe November 4, 2010 at 9:32 am

Actually, if you're anything like me, you'd probably prefer to aim a foot or two higher than that.

Fare la Volpe November 4, 2010 at 10:33 am

Mumbly, he's 60. If you aim for the knees you'll hit the target just fine.

horsedreamer_1 November 4, 2010 at 10:05 am

Of the two Eye-Tais on SCOTUS, Alito, oddly enough, strikes me as the one more likely to be mobbed-up. So, I'm not slapping anything from anywhere.

I keep-a my mouth a-shut.

x111e7thst November 4, 2010 at 8:53 am

V2s, Death Drones and bombs. What's up with that?

MildMidwesterner November 4, 2010 at 9:29 am

Frankly, I like a good obscure WWII german weaponry reference in the morning.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 10:14 am

Von Braun's autobiography was titled "I Aim For the Stars." The subtitle should have been "But Sometimes I Hit London"

–Mort Sahl

Krugmanic Depressive November 4, 2010 at 9:41 am

SOMEbody was assigned to read Gravity's Rainbow, methinks.

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

Greatest piece of writing while the writer was stoned out of his gourd on acid, evah.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 10:19 am

Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!

CrankyLttlCamperette November 4, 2010 at 9:56 am

V2s and Death Drones and Bombs! Oh My!

DCHatesMe November 4, 2010 at 8:55 am

Whenever I get a package from Greece, I just toss it because I know it's a bomb.

CapeClod November 4, 2010 at 8:56 am

Some French minister on the news said that they defused one of the Yemeni bombs 17 minutes before it blew up. Sounds like the worst action movie sequence ever.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 8:59 am

Yeah, because those bombs don't usually get deactivated until there's less than 5 seconds until detonation. What was the big fucking hurry, I wonder?

CapeClod November 4, 2010 at 9:06 am

And I doubt there were any close ups of the bomb squad guy's furrowed, sweaty brow or jump cuts to the digital read out methodically counting down.

PsycWench November 4, 2010 at 9:47 am

nor were there probably any routine household objects or magically located important tools used in defusing these bombs, nor small children or puppies accidentally in the bomb's trajectory.

Fare la Volpe November 4, 2010 at 10:36 am

I bet the wires weren't even color-coded.

Harumph.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 10:23 am

Obligatory XKCD

finallyhappy November 4, 2010 at 9:32 am

MACGRUBER!

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

Someone had to say it.

horsedreamer_1 November 4, 2010 at 10:06 am

Don't lure him here from his posting at MotherJones.com/KevinDrum. He's funny… But not that funny.

SorosBot November 4, 2010 at 9:55 am

Maybe the agents at least were directed to the bomb after torturing the single survivor of the terrorist cell they raided at the end of the previous hour.

Wadisay November 4, 2010 at 10:27 am

17 minutes, meh. Jack Bauer could have run out and tortured half a dozen people in that time.

4TheTurnstiles November 4, 2010 at 8:59 am

Will someone please give that fucker Macguyver a better knife and a haircut?

Bonzos_Bed_Time November 4, 2010 at 9:31 am

Needs more sonic screwdriver.

jus_wonderin November 4, 2010 at 9:49 am

Cor-BO-mite!!!

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 10:25 am

Easily the Nerd Highlight of the Stewart rally.

Kitty_Sanchez November 4, 2010 at 1:24 pm

No! The Macguyver mullet must remain or you will suffer the wrath of Patty and Selma.

SnarkoMarx November 4, 2010 at 8:58 am

Didn't Churchill also say that the best argument against democracy was a five minute conversation with an average voter?

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 9:05 am

If he didn't, he should have. These days, though, 60 seconds would be all you needed. They talked slower back in the days when the world was in black-and-white.

GunTotingProgressive November 4, 2010 at 10:21 am

I think it's down to 140 characters now.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 10:26 am

A few seconds of reading YouTube comments would do it, too.

imissopus November 4, 2010 at 12:22 pm

Or reading one post by your average Breitbart troll.

tiger_tree November 4, 2010 at 7:49 pm

Kind of simultaneously sad and interesting how high their p-scores are. Tells you a lot about the discerning taste of people who visit Breitbart sites on a daily basis, doesn't it?

imissopus November 4, 2010 at 8:25 pm

Go over there and post one negative comment and you'll have a hundred thumbs down fast. Which says something about how much traffic Breitbart gets. Lot of assholes down to their last three brain cells in this country. I think they just sit over there and spend all day thumbing each other up.

One of those trolls was over here yesterday for hours writing all sorts of bullshit, telling us we're huge losers, etc., and late in the day he bragged that even though people had been giving him thumbs down on his dozens of comments all day (I'm betting he got a couple of hundred thumbs down) he still had not lost even one p point. But then they turn around and tell us they don't need p points to feel secure and have high self-esteem. So obviously they can't make up their minds.

nachoproblem November 5, 2010 at 1:02 am

"I think they just sit over there and spend all day thumbing each other up. "

They definitely do. They also have this website where they go and give a positive rating to each others' comments so… oh, I see what you mean.

inedal November 4, 2010 at 12:39 pm

just think how dumb the average voter is, and then remember- that 50% of the voters are even dumber than that average moron.
figure it out, now we are in the throes of those teaparty idiots.

slappypaddy November 4, 2010 at 9:00 am

the fucking bombs've been fucking, all right. fucking bombs.

mrpuma2u November 4, 2010 at 9:12 am

Here comes the spin on the bombs. "There are more bombs cuz Muzlins hate the teabag party cuz it stands for freakdom, er uh I mean freedom and they hate our freedom."

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 9:17 am

It's like that "butterfly flaps it's wings in the Amazon rainforest" thing. Causation or something like that. We have an election here in the US, a bunch of brown people on the other side of the planet die. Just ask anyone who was residing in Fallujah in late November '04.

Bonzos_Bed_Time November 4, 2010 at 9:32 am

Yo Dawg, I hear you like bombs… so we put bombs on your bombs!

Oblios_Cap November 4, 2010 at 9:04 am

Barack Obama was not reelected. He lost the election, sorry, goodbye.

Now that he's a lame duck, can we please close Gitmo and end the two wars that no one talks about any more?

HistoriCat November 4, 2010 at 9:11 am

Ha ha – no. War forever and ever! Gitmo for people at random!

glamourdammerung November 4, 2010 at 9:38 am

I still think all the Retard-Americans that like to "joke" about killing Obama need a trip to Gitmo to enjoy the lemon chicken and rape by blunt object. That sure would get the GOP on board for shutting it down within the day.

horsedreamer_1 November 4, 2010 at 10:08 am

I know it's going to sound horribly emo(core) of me, but Thursday's WAR ALL THE TIME still gets me, seven years later.

glamourdammerung November 4, 2010 at 9:25 am

Now that he's a lame duck, can we please close Gitmo and end the two wars that no one talks about any more?

I hear Retard-Americans whining about the two wars all the time. Of course, they only became horrible affairs we needed to cut and run from sometime around 20 January, 2009.

chicken_thief November 4, 2010 at 10:29 am

Was that seconds before or after the deficit began to weigh heavy on their minds?

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:00 am

WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE. To aver otherwise is unpatriotic.

Gratuitous World November 4, 2010 at 9:04 am

The Chamber of Commerce is calling from inside the house!

WordSaladNation November 4, 2010 at 9:05 am

I can't wait for the best-selling novel, Barry O'Bomber and the Chamber of Commerce.

PsycWench November 4, 2010 at 9:35 am

Karl Rove can play the basilisk.

Zvi_Bleindmeis November 4, 2010 at 9:54 am

Two points to Slytherin!

Grief_Lessons November 4, 2010 at 9:07 am

We need Tyrone Slothrop's penis to get to the bottom of this V2 thing.

forgracie November 4, 2010 at 9:11 am

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow right now! And I thought DFW was dense…..

Grief_Lessons November 4, 2010 at 10:23 am

Did you think DFW was dense?

You never did.

The Kenosha Kid.

mrblifil November 4, 2010 at 9:27 am

If you think obscure Pynchon references help at a time like this, you're right.

Oblios_Cap November 4, 2010 at 9:32 am

Today, we are all Tyrone Slothrop's penis.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 9:14 am

Rove. Him saying Palin lacks gravitas is a Frog calling a Possum ugly. Him taking any credit for Barry's drubbing is like an Ant bragging about how good Elephant Pussy is. I know who caused this debacle and it is not a Republican; it is Harry "Dumbass" Reid. Reid is the one who diddled and daddled playing footsie with the dicks across the aisle until John Q. Public got a long, hard, grinding look at how Government Sausage is made. Bargaining away the meat of your agenda while letting the opposition and your own members drag the process out ad nauseum is not leadership or management, it is weakness and dumbness. Barry just learned a valuable lesson: public opinion is a fickle cunt and you shouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about her if you have an important job to do, even if you are a politician, and you are horny.

Bonzos_Bed_Time November 4, 2010 at 9:34 am

Indeed, did Barry learn the lesson? Or is he gonna' come back for more of that sweet, sweet opinion? Cuz' once you've gone public, it's hard to give it up.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 10:06 am

He did not get where he is being “meeker than thou”. He is a successful Chicago Politician and an ambitious, smart black American male. I just cannot believe that motherfucker doesn't carry a straight razor in his sock and I want him to break that shit out and start using it. He has turned both cheeks, already; time to commence the nut-cutting!

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:03 am

Enh, aren't all House and Senate leaders, to quote the odious George Will, "legislative mechanics"? Was George Mitchell anyone's idea of a charismatic leader? Or Bill Frist or Trent Lott? Or Tip O'Neill, for that matter? The Leader's job is to round up the votes, and Reid did it. Did he round up all the votes a better majority leader might have rounded up? There's no way to know.

horsedreamer_1 November 4, 2010 at 10:12 am

I think Reid's victory definitely takes a lot of wind from the Teatards's sails. They were gunning for him more than anyone else, as he was the leader of the Dem majority, but they failed. Reid, somehow, proved a stronger foe than the much more esteemed — or, at least, considered to be tougher, Plains stock — Daschle. This is not 2002, there is no selling the Iraq War to avoid a "mushroom cloud"… The GOP has boxed itself in.

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:16 am

The hate the teabaggers directed at Reid was all out of proportion to his actual demeanor and presence. It didn’t hurt that Sharron Angle was a loonie who should have been living in an award-winning communications trailer in the high desert, waiting for the aliens to land.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 10:39 am

Sharron Angle = Art Bell? Cue "X-Files" theme music.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 10:24 am

I didn't mention anything about “charisma”. In fact, I can't imagine anyone mentioning Harry Reid and charisma in the same paragraph, much less the same sentence. Harry expounds with all the enthusiasm of a man desperately fighting sleep. No, my criticism was of his lack of leadership and intelligence. Let's recall that it was Harry's decision to stack sub-committees equally with R's and D's, an unnecessary and disastrous exercise in bipartisanship. So far as George Will is concerned, I might consult him if I were curious about some arcane Baseball statistic; but I am not, nor will I ever be, most likely. So far as his political acumen is concerned, I would like to buy him for what it's worth and sell it for what he thinks it's worth. George's smug pronouncements are proven wrong almost as often as Billy “Wrong Way” Kristol… Not to put too fine a point on it, I believe George Will is a chinless, pencil-necked elitist prick with the ego of a rock star and the body of a ten-year old boy, in short, I am not impressed.

revmod November 4, 2010 at 10:08 am

I'm not sure it'll come up again now that the House is lost, but just once I would have liked to see Harry or Barry say "Filibuster? Sure, why the fuck not?" Because saying you'll filibuster is not the same as standing in the chamber for days on end talking nonsense on national television. Want a handy visual of obstructionism to offer the voters next election cycle? How about Jim DeMint reading selections from Atlas Shrugged? Perhaps add a fake ticker to the ad, with headlines of the terrible things going on for regular Americans while this jackass halts the business of the nation.

Yes, I'd be very happy if the lesson the Democrats learned on Tuesday was "Bring it on. We'll fucking cut you." But I'm sure it wasn't.

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:13 am

Trouble is, the Senate decided that actually conducting filibusters was too tiresome. So now they just have virtual filibusters with no actual phone-book readings. It's great when you write your own rules.

BarryOPotter November 4, 2010 at 10:25 am

Brilliant. Why oh why didn't Reid & Co call them on their threats? If the Dems hope to have any shot in 2012, they better start drafting laws in accordance with a progressive agenda that also lead to threats of a filibuster.

You're 100% correct, the visuals of these asshats reading telephone books, while a clock in the corner of the screen ticks off the per minute cost of their antics, a ticker scrolls below of all the work that's not getting done, and some analysts that are in the tank rip the shit out of their tactics will go a lot further than any speech.

chicken_thief November 4, 2010 at 10:42 am

The few times that I recall Harry calling their bluff and moving the cots in they folded in a heartbeat. He could have been way more proactive, though – a website with the names of Senators who have appointments on hold, a reading of the blocks at the opening of each session, a daily presser with the status of blocks/filibusters. Put on your man pants, Harry!

reliefsinn November 4, 2010 at 10:43 am

And when they threaten to shut down the Gov't again, someone could remind everyone that the "party of fiscal responsiblity" cost US taxpayers about $800 million, just so Newt "The Grinch" Gingrich could get back at Clinton for not being seated up front on AF1.

revmod November 4, 2010 at 10:53 am

But as the media never tired of telling me yesterday, John Boehner is not Gingrich, so there's absolutely no chance he'll make the same mistakes.

Plus, if Boehner wanted to ride up front on AF1, Obama's capitulating ass would insist Boehner be allowed to fly the thing.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 10:27 am

Used to be said that the Democrats can't handle defeat and the Republicans can't handle success. Now it seems the Democrats can't even handle themselves without getting some on them. I AM depressed.

transfatz November 5, 2010 at 3:38 am

Exactly.

Grief_Lessons November 4, 2010 at 10:36 am

Today we are all fickle…

Oh forget it, it's done.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 11:05 am

Go ahead, say it, SAY IT! You'll feel better.

Negropolis November 5, 2010 at 12:09 am

You are really starting to give off that 70-year-old man smell…

ttommyunger November 5, 2010 at 9:00 am

Thank you, glad you enjoy it; and thank you for taking the time to mention it, very thoughtful of you.Rest assured I'll try and think of something nice to observe about you should I become so enlightened in future. ps. That is the least of the smells I've been known to “give off”, trust me.

mumbly_joe November 4, 2010 at 9:30 am

I like to imagine that somewhere, Alito's reading that thing about the "US" Chamber of Commerce, and saying aloud, "that's not true", but then I remember that I'm kidding myself by thinking he cold gives a fuck about any of that.

SorosBot November 4, 2010 at 9:30 am

It's sad to see how the right has turned FDR's famous saying on its head: The only thing we have to fear is – the Muslims! Look, that guy behind you might be a Muslim, he might blow you up! And the Mexicans; they're gonna your jobs! And the black people; can't forget the classics! And those gays who make some of you feel things you don't wanna admit you feel! And the uppity women-folk who don't wear the burquas and display the proper of their sex! And those atheists with their ability to sleep in on Sundays and lack of fear of supernatural entities! And those Jews with their control of the media and banks!

finallyhappy November 4, 2010 at 9:36 am

You must have been in Silver Spring recently- we are a fearsome place full of brown and black people, all religions and non -religions, many gays- but mainly the scary thing is we are largely democrats. The only thing I fear in Silver Spring is the $3.25 for a cupcake at CakeLove.

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:05 am

It's an old tactic, most useful when either (1) you're not in power, or (2) the real remedies are politically unpalatable. The Know-Nothings, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Blame The Other! Beats the shit out of raising taxes to pay for public werx jerbs.

chicken_thief November 4, 2010 at 10:50 am

Maybe us real 'merikuns should just line up on the east coast and make our way west, slaughtering everything in our way that is not white and Bible totin. Like we did in the old days! Let's see 'em try to take the Alamo this time – we'll drone attack 'em 7 ways to Sunday! Like (I allege) Thomas Jefferson said "go kill all the scary browns every 20 yrs or so". We are long overdue!

Pop_Socket November 4, 2010 at 9:31 am

Harry Reid helped plenty too. It seems that anything standing in the middle of the road gets run over.

Sepatown! November 4, 2010 at 9:38 am

Guess this explains why Amazon can't send my three year old a hot pink ukulele in less than 15 days.

Sgt_Biyatch November 4, 2010 at 9:41 am

I think it was Kaiser Permanente who once said, "The greatest trick corporate lobbyists ever pulled was convincing white America that trickle down economics actually worked."
Or wait, maybe it was the crippled character played by Kevin Spacey all along, I forget.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 9:49 am

Who is Kaiser-Frazer?

Sgt_Biyatch November 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

Nice. I had to look that one up.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 10:14 am

Yeah, pretty obscure unless you're a car nut. My aunt had a Henry J when I was wee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J

Sgt_Biyatch November 4, 2010 at 10:24 am

Very cool. You can call it Henry. Or you can call it J. Or you can call it Henry J.

Damn…p….score…falling….needs more snark.

nicnack74 November 4, 2010 at 9:41 am

Okay here's what's gonna happen. Barry's gonna disappear this weekend and come back and go all Shaft on us. He will be just like scary New Black Panther Party reports on Fox. He's gonna come to Orangey McBoner and goes straight Samuel L Jackson on his ass and says "Look, Bitch this is how its gonna be for the next to years and I don't care if I don't get reelected cus I aint running again. So fuck you. And you're damn lucky I'm not blowing this mutherfucker up." And then he's like peace bitches.

*And then I wake up*

738838 November 4, 2010 at 10:11 am

You wish.

nicnack74 November 4, 2010 at 10:16 am

I believe *And then I wake up.* implies that, in fact, I do wish.

BarryOPotter November 4, 2010 at 10:29 am

Me too. I wish…

finallyhappy November 4, 2010 at 10:37 am

so seriously, Barry has to go all Original Black Panther Party. I was around when the Black Panthers were real and I was in a confrontation with the "new" ones in DC(over a rally to save people in Darfur). The New Black Panthers are just stupid- and that is not My Barry's style. However, your concept is excellent!

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 10:51 am

I can't wait to see him in the Linc Hayes Afro.

FNMA November 4, 2010 at 10:43 am

"You read the Bible, Boner?"

Katydid November 4, 2010 at 12:09 pm

Think Boner has nightmares where he and Barry are in a Quentin Tarantino movie, and Barry's face keeps melting off, right after the ass-fucking?

imissopus November 4, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Boner: Where you going, Barry?

Barry: I"m going to get laid!

PsycWench November 4, 2010 at 9:42 am

Someone…I don't remember who…asked an audience to comtemplate the airline industry if they advertised in the mode of political ads. "Delta SAYS they have a safe track record…but (cue in menacing music) in fact they had XXX crashes in the last year alone! They lost people's luggage at the rate of 1 piece/ per person! Delta…for those who don't want to survive the flight". You might steer people away from Delta but the net result would be very few people flying and those that did would be mighty nervous and suspicious.

I thought about that analogy a lot over the last month or so. It explains a lot.

Troubledog November 4, 2010 at 9:56 am

Then you be back at yo crib chillin wif a fat spliff thinkin we was some crazy ass angel. Cause at Delta, it's laid out like that.

You goin? We fly you there. You been? We done already been up in there.

At Delta, we loves us some flyin' and it be showin' like a motherfucker.

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:08 am

I'd sure like it if fewer people flew, so long as the airlines didn't cut the number of flights to keep the butts in their tiny little seats. Can we threadjack this into a rant against airlines?

Allmighty_Manos November 4, 2010 at 9:43 am

If Obama was really serious about working together with GOP he would just quit now and let Boehner appoint Sarah Palin as president for life, the end. It's the only classy thing he can do at the point after insulting America by saving global capitalism and trying to prevent people from getting royally fucked by giant insurance companies.

neiltheblaze November 4, 2010 at 9:44 am

Harry Reid, to quote Churchill again, is a sheep in sheep's clothing.

jus_wonderin November 4, 2010 at 9:48 am

Anita, is that you?

seppdecker November 4, 2010 at 9:51 am

We had 18 months to put Rove in jail. That window is closed and we're on the high road with our dick in our hand.

ReaganSuksBalz November 4, 2010 at 10:01 am

Ain't that the fucking truth.
If I could honor you with the official Wonkette Golden Bag of Dicks statue award for this comment, I would.

bitchincamaro2 November 4, 2010 at 9:51 am

So, Death By Remote Control is our theme here? Rovian money-bombs, drones dispatched from windowless rooms in the American desert, and cell phone activated lead azide/PETN fireworks; they're one and the same.

fatoots November 4, 2010 at 9:55 am

Sounds like you've just given Nintendo their next big idea for Wii!

bitchincamaro2 November 4, 2010 at 9:59 am

Copyright!

mavenmaven November 4, 2010 at 9:52 am

Smaller government, bigger capitalist oligarchy!

V572625694 November 4, 2010 at 10:09 am

You talk about these as though they are two different entities.

Troubledog November 4, 2010 at 9:52 am

Moar liek LAME-ber of Commerce, amirite?

Mindblank November 4, 2010 at 9:53 am

So, how long before the 'analysis' dies down? It's been a long couple of weeks since the election.

jus_wonderin November 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

Okay, so Reps, you have control of the House. WHY ARE SO MANY STILL UNEMPLOYED? We need action!!! You have had a day, why aren't America's problems solved?????????

P.S. Karl Rove is a pig.

SorosBot November 4, 2010 at 10:02 am

Please apologize for that.
-Wilbur & Babe

jus_wonderin November 4, 2010 at 10:34 am

Sorry Wibur and Babe. I was rude. Karl Rove is a scumbag. And my apologies to scumbags in advance of any offense taken.

Fare la Volpe November 4, 2010 at 10:45 am

Apology accepted.
-Carl Paladino

Katydid November 4, 2010 at 12:12 pm

I like the cut of your jib, kid.

arclight2012 November 4, 2010 at 10:08 am

It's officially the Rand Paul Recession!

Negropolis November 5, 2010 at 12:14 am

We wish. The economy could continue to tank for the next two years and the GOP would still effecitvely find a way to pin it on Obama/Pelosi/Reid.

Allmighty_Manos November 4, 2010 at 10:07 am

Speaking of scary, I've just noticed that Karl Rove looks the weasel-faced Nazi who gets his faced melted off in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

finallyhappy November 4, 2010 at 10:38 am

Hey, don't insult weasels.

arclight2012 November 4, 2010 at 10:08 am

Bombing Pakistan???

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

738838 November 4, 2010 at 10:14 am

Barry's biggest mistake was not organizing the overthrow of Reid and Pelosi at the beginning of his "reign". They have totally fucked up his agenda.

EdFlintstone November 4, 2010 at 10:23 am

Are you on drugs? Pelosi was the one leader in congress who got shit done despite dealing with 50 some blue dogs who are scared to do anything the democratic party stands for. Now Harry is different story, keep chasing the non-existant Mitch McConnell bipartisanship. Lets not let Max, lets drag health care out for 9 months, Baucus off.

738838 November 4, 2010 at 10:28 am

Hi Ed, unfortunately I am not on drugs. I just think she provoked the idiot Repubs to the point where they had an easy target for their bullshit missiles.

SorosBot November 4, 2010 at 10:38 am

Pelosi was the target because she was the Dem's House leader, and the possession of a vagina really made them hate her even more; it was just her existence that provoked the morons, nothing she did wrong.

Also, I am very glad for the edit button on that one.

marinmaven November 4, 2010 at 11:00 am

If you are going to get anything done, I don't care who you are, the republicans are going to come after you. The Health Care plan was actually quite moderate, but the republicans only desire is to have Dems fail. Pelosi was going to be demonized regardless of what she would have done, because they want that spot.

The problem is that the Dems were not reminding the American people DAILY what a cluster-failure the Republicans were and asking, "Why are you still listening to the republicans they are failures?" They should have told the American people that the Republicans are against controlling the deficit because they are against reforming health care the fastest growing item in the budget. The communications offices should be war rooms everyday flooding the airwaves about what they are doing for average people. Everyday they should crowd out the republican memes and point out that republicans are no longer relevant since they do not want to play ball.

Fare la Volpe November 4, 2010 at 10:47 am

I'm with you on Reid, but if you look at Pelosi's record she got about 95% of her legislative agenda passed. Say what you will about her PR skills, but Mizz Nancy know how to get shit did.

BeWoot November 4, 2010 at 10:53 am

Barry fucked up his own agenda. Pelosi was a very effective speaker. Reid was (… how the hell did he get named majority leader in the first place?) trying to run the Tour de France on an Exercycle.

GOPCrusher November 4, 2010 at 1:39 pm

Agreed. Barry knew what he was getting with Harry Reid as Majority Leader, he needed to be replaced before they even started talking about the Stimulus Plan. Hopefully Barry has learned an important lesson, trying to be bipartisan with people that were working to see you fail before you took the Oath of Office will never work.

horsedreamer_1 November 4, 2010 at 10:17 am

So, Paul Ryan, out with your Roadblock for America's Future. Out with it!

chicken_thief November 4, 2010 at 10:33 am

With Rahm at his side I thought for sure that message would be better managed and with moar ballz than the usual Dem. Sadly, I was wrong…

Ducksworthy November 4, 2010 at 10:36 am

Is there an echo in here?

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 10:39 am

I see everything twice!!

–John Yossarian

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 11:11 am

Maybe you have flies in your eyes.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 11:22 am

But I can't see them! Do you know why?

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 11:34 am

It's either those flies in your eyes, or the apples in your cheeks. Here–have a plum tomato.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 11:06 am

I hope so.

simplyblue7 November 4, 2010 at 10:45 am

nothing makes you feel better after ordering a robot death squadron to bomb the hell out of a town. I'd like a predator drone for christmas! preferably one that syncs to my iTunes and updates my statuses on the facebook.

BeWoot November 4, 2010 at 10:46 am

How do you do that? Everything I say is worth repeating. (Really. Everything I say is worth repeating.) But it just doesn't happen for me.

ttommyunger November 4, 2010 at 11:07 am

Repetition is the highest form of repeatedness.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 11:24 am

It's some kind of secret html code thing related to having two identical consonants in series at the front of his boardname.

PresBeeblebrox November 4, 2010 at 11:03 am

I think I spent half of this election cycle sending people I know (including my boss) links to Snopes.com debunking the scary multi-colored email chain letters that the Olds like to send around, like "KONGRES IS SPENDING THE SOSHAIL SECURITY COLA ON A $24 MILLION ELECTRONIC MEDICAL REKORDS PROJECT FOR THEMSELVES!!!1" and "LOOK AT THESE ANTI-MURRKIAN REMARKS OBAMAR MADE AT A SPEECH IN EGYPT!!!!1"

When you link up the Olds with email, Facebook, & teh Twitters, bad things happen.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 11:32 am

Hey, did you hear that Barry Soetero personally requested an ornament with a picture of Chairman Mao for the White House Christmas tree?

PresBeeblebrox November 4, 2010 at 1:37 pm

And did you hear that the Clinton Christmas tree had hypodermic syringes and coke spoons hanging from it?

Same shit, different decade. The difference is that instead of getting their disinformation from Regnery Publishing and the Conservative Book Club, the Olds and wingnuts get it from the intertubes now.

EdFlintstone November 4, 2010 at 12:17 pm

God this could be it's own thread. You mean to tell me that every immigrant gets a 50,000 tax free loan from the government isnt true?

GOPCrusher November 4, 2010 at 1:41 pm

It's also not true that Obama was elected President because illegal immigrants voted for him.

mereoblivion November 4, 2010 at 11:13 am

We need Carly to come back around and remind us that these are the good old days. Cause when this bunch gets done fucking us we gwine stay fucked a long time.

Actually, they'll never get done fucking us. The sickest nightmares are the ones we don't get to wake up from.

Gorillionaire November 4, 2010 at 11:17 am

I told them, I told them, I told them, Rove should be in prison for the shit he has pulled, not out raising millions of dollars from gangsters.

EdFlintstone November 4, 2010 at 11:36 am

Fear and ignorance are the bread and butter of the republican party. It's how you get people making 50 grand a year to think they're going to pay the 3.5 million estate tax, you Luntz it, abracadabra it's now the evil "death tax." It's how income inequality is at it's worst since the 1920's. My jaw hit the ground when David Stockman said on 60 minutes, that the top 5% had a net worth in 1980 of 8 trillion, they now have a net worth of 40 trillion. Yet, somehow raising their taxes 2 percent is still debatable. You just say hey look over there!!!!! Poor minorities are sucking you dry with their welfare!!! If the great recession started under W wasn't enough to wake people up to what's really going and reverse the what's the matter with Kansas syndrome, then I say bring on soup lines, tent cities, selling apples in the street because maybe only then will a good portion of the electorate finally "get it."

Geminisunmars November 4, 2010 at 11:41 am

Ya, but unfortunately we get dragged along to the soup lines too, unless we were right-thinking enough to be born independently wealthy.

Mindblank November 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Well, OK as long as it's good soup and none of that Campbell's crap.

PresBeeblebrox November 4, 2010 at 1:39 pm

Sir/madam, that is an epic avatar. Just sayin'.

Geminisunmars November 4, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Merci beaucoup. And good soup to you.

GOPCrusher November 4, 2010 at 1:47 pm

I sat through a George Will speech in September where he laid out that the deficit wasn't caused by people not paying enough taxes and spending too much on Defense, it was because people retired and expected a Social Security handout and the poors were leeching off the government by expecting food stamps and other forms of assistance.
Between that and Nov 2nd, I've never been more ashamed to be an American.

MiniMencken November 4, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Expanding upon the "death tax" meme, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in D.C. observes "Nationally, less than 2 percent of estates, —those of the wealthiest people, —are large enough to have any estate tax liability. Over 98 percent of people will leave a net estate that is valued at less than the minimum required to trigger state estate taxes." I believe the average value of an estate at death in the USA is currently around $29,000, less than the cost of a good car. The top 2% tier for estate value in the USA begins between $800 and $900 thousand, enough to buy an efficiency apartment in one of the American cities still worth living in.

Negropolis November 5, 2010 at 12:21 am

And, Oklahoma banned Sharia Law.

Really, what the fuck country do I live in, now? We have a Democratic President and Senate, and yet this is still worse than the presidential loss in 2004.

imissopus November 4, 2010 at 12:29 pm

I'm halfway through this thread and I've already run across exchanges of both Gravity's Rainbow and Catch-22 references. Thank you Wonkette for making my morning brighter with the realization that there are still some literate and erudite folks left in this hellscape we call America, even if those folks are obviously huge nerds.

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 1:32 pm

Remember, we're also UNEMPLOYED huge nerds.

slowhansolo November 5, 2010 at 2:51 am

Huge nerds, and also doomed to wallow in the mess along with the people who were too simple to vote their interests.

GOPCrusher November 4, 2010 at 1:12 pm

I thought it was a giant rabbit?

Kitty_Sanchez November 4, 2010 at 1:16 pm

I think it was a badger.

jim89048 November 4, 2010 at 2:34 pm

And not one of you guys mentioned wolverines? what has become of our Wonkette?

Kitty_Sanchez November 4, 2010 at 5:03 pm

Beauty. Good save.

gvvt November 4, 2010 at 10:48 pm

I figure Churchill was half right.

slowhansolo November 5, 2010 at 2:42 am

And, for good measure, he scuttled off just before things got bad.

ttommyunger November 5, 2010 at 9:02 am

Some people are just not very good judges of character, maybe that's Barry's problem.

BaldarTFlagass November 4, 2010 at 11:45 am

No apples growing here in TX, I have to use horse chestnuts.

Mmm, plum tomatoes. Can I have a bushel?

DoktorZoom November 4, 2010 at 12:24 pm

Notice how firm and ripe they are, like a young girl's breasts.

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