It’s official: Americans have now “forgotten 9/11.” Obama is tied with Mittens in a new Post-ABC poll after losing his “bin Laden bounce,” and voter focus has mysteriously switched back to the jobs crisis. Our national honeymoon with bin Laden’s corpse is over (the sex was already sort of dropping off), and America is still married to the Kenyan Muslim Socialist black guy who is not very talented at helpful distractions. In the olden days, this would have meant it was time to start another war so that Americans could NEVER FORGET all over again.
From the Washington Post:
The survey portrays a broadly pessimistic mood in the country this spring as higher gasoline prices, sliding home values and a disappointing employment picture have raised fresh concerns about the pace of the economic recovery.
By 2 to 1, Americans say the country is pretty seriously on the wrong track, and nine in 10 continue to rate the economy in negative terms. Nearly six in 10 say the economy has not started to recover, regardless of what official statistics may say, and most of those who say it has improved rate the recovery as weak.
Obama is going to have to find someone to kill very soon. Could we suggest Dick Cheney France? [WaPo]
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Gaddafi's compound is still in the cross hairs. This time Obama is cleaning up for Saint Reagan!
He's fulfilling his purpose then. It seems like that was really his goal all along, to be the caddy for Reagan's ghost. Hope and change were just words, he really just wanted to bask in the reflected glow of St. Ronnie.
"Gaddafi's compound is still in the surveyors' marks."
fxd
So if Mittens is the frontrunner, what will the evangelicals do? They can't vote for the Muslim or the Mormon or Jesus will hate them!
According to the good book, we're all brothers beneath our skin. But more importantly, ain't no white conservative gonna vote for a black man, ever again.
so it is between Kenyan Muslin and Taxassuchet Mormon….
for right wing its like choosing between forced to eat salad or to leave their guns
Write in Pat Robertson, problem solved!
Not to worry there are plenty of people left that should be shot in the face.
Maybe if someone would bang the administration's thick heads to start trying to fix the job situation and stop giving a flying fuck about the deficit which doesn't matter this would improve.
Someone needs to make a hardcore remix of Cheney saying "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" over and over and over and over and over again, and use that as a warm up song.
Repeal the dang tax cuts for the wealthy, also too.
But they create jobs, because of magic.
Why, pray tell did Obama continue them and many of Bush's policies? He said what he needed to get elected. Max out our credit hasn't worked. It is not like the libprog's do, max out credit and declare bankruptcy and start over. The IMFwill not bail us out.
"Why" you ask?? Gosh, I just have to say, I loved the way they portrayed you in Memento! Hope that's not insulting to your condition, but what the hell, you'll forget in about 2 minutes anyway.
You might not have an annotated polaroid, or tattoo reminding you how the Senate rejected Barry's original tax plan outright (which let the cuts expire for the Kochists), and also forgot how Repubs basically held hostage all the expiring stimulus support for the unemployed, in order to extend the cuts for another two years. In fact, you forgot that they were proposing making the cuts permanent. Also, you probably forgot that every Republican's and every news outlet's favorite sparkly political-group-named-after-balls-on-chin-activities acronym actually stood for "Taxed Enough Already."
He didn't continue the policies because they were good.
… Disingenuousness looks good on you, though.
We have ten + years of Bush Tax Cuts to prove that theory.
stop giving a flying fuck about the deficit which doesn't matter this would improve.
I've been screeching this for months on end now. Think about it. According to this deficit "logic," the very first thing you do after you are laid off and have no income is to pay off that massive credit card debt you've accumulated over many years.
Right? That makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
Starve state and local government, and you get more unemployment. Ala the Repubtards and their harping on the deficit that Cheney said doesn't matter.
Well, the deficit said that Cheney doesn't matter, and I sorta have to agree with that.
You do not put yourself in that position in the first place. Flying by the seat of your pants and hoping for the best doesn't seems nonsensical. I play by the rules, I didn't go after the McMansion and now I seem to be rewarded by helping pay for those who did.
Easy solution: divide the right. The evan-joes and the big money crowd can't agree on a stuffed shirt…
What a heartless suggestion… Oh, wait.
All he has to do is start a fourth (is my counting off?) war. That's the ticket!
But the top 1% have more stuff than ever…so we're supposed to feel some trickling down, per Sir Ronnie, right? Like it might LOOK like sweat, or urine but it is definitely prosperity.
If the trickle down economics we've lived with since 1980 worked, by now we'd all be drowning in money, not debt.
Trickle down is a hated word–why doesn't the administration and the rest of the Democrats hammer on "Republican trickle down economics?" What the fuck are we missing that they must know that causes them to act so stupid?
Needs MOAR dix pix!
Americans are starting to realize that the future is not so enchanting, equisite, and exhilirating as they had hoped?
But, it's exceptional! Whether or not exceptionally bad is beside the point entirely.
And I'm excited by the possibilities. I mean yeah there's the possibility I will be living among rats and selling my blood for hobo beans, but that hasn't dampened my EXCITEMENT one bit.
Economic collapse will be an exciting adventure, won't it? I'm looking forward to riding the rails, sleeping in our "hobo jungles," and leaving our secret signals on the curb in front of the houses of people who are good for a handout. I'll know every door that ain't locked when noone's around, its like we'll be kings of the road!
Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let for 50 cents…
Of course, I won't actually have 50 cents.
You spelt eksepshenul wrong.
Stoopid fucking soshulist publik skool dat edumak8ed mee.
Here's a wild thought: instead of starting a new war, maybe Obama could end one or two of our existing ones?
Interview on NPR with Marines in the Helmand Province, the Marines are saying there is no way forces can be taken out of Afghanistan. In fact, they want more.
I'm beginning to think that we have been at war for so long, that our troops are beginning to like it.
well at least Iraq was 'officially' over .. Afghanistan on the other hand is a clusterfuck for western armies since British invasion in 1880s
the only westerner who successfully conquered Afghanistan was Alexander the great ,, and he was a sissy bisexual
The timing of the faked OBL assassination was way off. Way, way off. Almost like it was real instead of contrived.
So. Wait. Republics fuck up the economy with tired-ass conservative "fiscal" policy, we're just now crawling from the rubble of those policies, a bunch of rightwing nuts give the House back to the same Republics that voted "yes" to all that bad policy, and now they've managed to message the polls to show that people would actually consider voting for these retards and and their shitty policies AGAIN? I'm buying stock in Brawndo.
You left out the saddest/funniest part: Our current president has been pursuing those same policies.
That's why we have 9.1% unemployment and everyone in Congress, the press, and the White House is talking about cutting spending.
The only problem Republicans really have with President Obama is he isn't 1) officially a Republican, and 2) white.
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Good point. Have you ever tried yelling over the ignorati when they're in full "the porkulus didn't work" mode? And trying to explain to them that no, it wasn't a trillion dollar failure, it was a a half a trillion dollar TAX CUT failure. The other half a trillion, that actually went to stimulus, worked.
Personally, I love the line that the fact that the stimulus didn't end the recession instantly PROVES that Keynsian economics are completely wrong, even though literally every Keynsian economist worth a damn was saying *at the time* that the stimulus was too small, frontloaded, and tax-cut-heavy to actually be effective and we probably wouldn't get another shot at this so Democrats should stop negotiating with themselves on it.
The congress controls the purse strings during that time. And if you think we got here in just he last ten years, you are a product of public education (indoctrination).
Shut the fuck up.
Like that is going to happen…
"And if you think we got here in just he last ten years"
I, personally, think this mess started with St. Reagan and got worse in the intervening 30 years.
What do I win?
A partial prize, look back to Wilson, FDR.
"Republics fuck up the economy with tired-ass conservative "fiscal" policy, we're just now crawling from the rubble of those policies"
You're a sunshiny optimist if you think we'll actually crawl out from under the rubble — or indeed, that the rubble is done falling on us.
I went through the congresses over the last 70 years or so and Dems controlled during the most tumultuous times.
Well, this is good to know so I can have a timeline for immigrating to New Zealand. 01/20/2013 sounds like a good departure date.
Bin Laden rises again? Stop looking at me like that. It could happen.
Worked for reagan, right?
Ha ha! Like the GOP will nominate Mittens. Say hello to President Palin, First Dewd Todd and get ready to see lots of drunk, rolling on the floor photos of the president's children.
Well, at least we could count on Palin quitting as soon as it became clear she might have to actually do work. Imagine if Bachmann was elected? She'd have her favorite minister, the one who thinks the Pope is the anti-christ, right there in a Oval Office praying with her and advising her for all four years.
I think the thing to do is to get Palin and Bachmann to scissor, with Orly Taitz operating the video camera and shouting instructions to them. This will hopefully cause an explosion that will hopefully get rid of all three of them.
"get ready to see lots of drunk, rolling on the floor photos of the president's children."
We already saw that in 2000-2008.
The beginning of the end for American exceptionism was allowing colored people and the gheys access to the media and the political process.
Ask any conservative.
Didn't women's suffrage even predate those?
Sure, but most of those uppity gals were dykes, anyway. So, Sandman's point stands.
Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln are spinning in their graves watching Wingnuts take over of their party
USA: The shortest attention span in the world.
What?
I resent that. I, for one, am totally dedicated to solving this…..
Oh! Look over there! Shiny!!!
Squirrel!
Not true! We can stay focused on a single penis for days.
I don't know about your focus, but dang!, do I have to bow to your stamina.
Needz moar tax cuts fer the rich and 'publican comprimizin'
I mean, it's worked so well for him up 'til now……
Republican obstructionism, of course, explains none of this – so I'm glad the Washington Post didn't bother to mention it.
Why can't Barry be more bipartisan?
I thought yesterday's national weiner roast would have helped.
If I were Obama I'd give every american cookies with macadamia nuts. That is what I do when ever I started a new job so people will like me. Every one likes cookies and macadamia nuts make it seem more fancy for some reason.
macadamia…academia…smartz…baconzgood…Kevin Bacon!!
But "macadamia" just seems so…foreign, like Hawaii. He should refer to them as "freedom nuts".
Freedom nuts?…..Nah I'll let that innuendo slide.
No, not Hawaiian, think Scotland. And higher education. Place is crawling with MacAdemics.
Oh, and Stabbies too.
And big monsters hiding at the bottom of lakes.
How about 'chocolate salty balls' ?
Say everybody have you seen my balls?
They're big and salty and brown
If you ever need a quick pick-me-up
Just stick my balls in your mouth!
Ooh, suck on my chocolate salty balls,
Stick em in your mouth and suck em!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls
they're packed full of vitamins, and good for you
So suck on my balls!
Have you seen the GOP candidates lately?
The only ones who can win are the not totally crazy boring types like Mittens, but their lack of crazy in the current GOP means they can't win the nomination. Thanks, teabaggers!
A delightful teabagger catch-22. Serves 'em right for hatching the teabagger "movement".
It's hard to believe that the t-tards could get a crazy through the primary. They're more likely to make the saner ones toe the crazy line, instead.
Same difference, though. Whether they find one that was born that way or converted, it's still a tea bagger when it gets time to vote for him/her, and that's good for us regardless of the origin.
What's really scary is the talking heads that think Michele Bachmann could be a viable Republiklan candidate.
That's like the loony tunes that thought a full-blown nuclear war with the Soviet Union was winnable.
Mitt is tied with Hopey because of the magic panties…give it time.
"In related news, Purina has announced a new Purina People Chow. Priced at $7.99 for a twenty pound bag, Purina will also offer an upscale version with Extra Cardboard Chewies or McFried Blubberpuffs for $8.39 a bag."
#Winning the Recession!
Oh, sir or madam, do you not know? People Chow has been manufactured for many years, thats whats in those sacks of instant gruel-like stuff you see them ladling out to starving Africans with flies on their eyeballs in the late night "give to Margaret Switt's charity" commercials. You should stock up now, by the way, and get bullets, too, to protect your hoard.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
From beloved former pres. Dubya, here's a little reminder to the moran Americans who keep insisting that the shitty economy is all Obama's fault: "We recognize, loud and clear, the surplus is not the government's money," he said. "The surplus is the people's money. And we ought to trust them with their own money."
Whereas the deficit represents the borrowing of the money the children who are not already full time employees will someday make. You surely don't expect children to make the correct choices with the money they'll be making in 20 years do you?
Like we should trust Wall Street nitwits. With their OWN money. (Which kind of doesn't make sense, in the context of Wall Street, but then and again, it does. Head exploding much?)
"The surplus is the people's money."
I'm a people, and I never saw any of the surplus money, let alone got my hands on it.
I see it now: Obama campaign promises all Americans a FREE medium fries, gets poll bounce.
& to subvert that, the GOP nationally takes a page from South Cack in '10 (Alvin Greene) & Wisconsin (today, in the re-calls) & runs a fake Democrat or three against Obama to make him work thru the primary, thus deteriorating his energy for the fall campaign.
I want free LARGE fries, because I'm
acceckI'm good, damnit!Outlier. Emphasis on "lier."
This week its all about the Breitbart bump. But next week, what new crisis will the media create and poll about?
Did that ABC/WaPo poll ask anything about torturing dogs on the roofs of cars?
If America can't be proud of killing people better than anyone else, I'm afraid I will have to return to my ancestral homeland and seize power once again!
Muricans finally came to their senses…Dubya killed OBL! Barry just killed the economy, jerbs, etc…
Obama, just leak the penii pix (long form, pref) you tweet to Michelle, stat! It'll work, I swear!
I'm hoping for a live press conference – "excuse me while I whip this out!"
Canada just elected a majority conservative government, so no, Canada is not still nice – or it won't be soon.
The bounce thing? Could have been worse. Instead of disappearing, his bounce could have been blown away.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/bounce-house-flies-13-ki...
Bin Laden Gets It In The Face, Thanks To The Black Guy, arriving in theaters everywhere beginning October 2012.
Starring Samuel L. Jackson as The Black Guy and Mel Gibson as Bin Laden.
Canada has her own Sharron Angle — & he's the Prime Minister! — so, no.
Americans say the country is pretty seriously on the wrong track
What the hell type of polling is this?
"Do you think the country is on the wrong track? Seriously?!"
Pretty seriously? Awfully seriously? Fairly seriously? Barely seriously?
Dude, seriously?
Could we suggest …France?
Barry should bomb Burkina-Faso all the way back the the Upper Volta Age.
That eagle looks really stupid.
Given that the vast majority of French, both men and women, think that D.S.K. has been railroaded in a sting because we're a national of puritanical sex-haters, yes, go ahead, shoot France in the face.
Why do the anti-socialists look to the govmint to bail out the economy?
Not necessarily the economy, but certainly the corporations and Wall Street.
I don't suppose there's any chance that investors are holding their cards, companies aren't hiring, homes aren't selling, and consumers aren't buying because we're on the cusp of massive economic chaos if the debt ceiling crashes…or that we just went through the same thing, reflected in the latest numbers, when the government came an hour away from shutting down….
Naw! That's crazy! I haven't heard anyone, left or right, say a damn thing about it; so it can't be true!
Why is anyone surprised that massive cuts in government spending by the States has resulted in a slowing recovery? Austerity measures always result in decreased economic activity. That's why you don't willingly engage in them in bad economic times. It almost as if people don't understand basic math.
It almost as if people
don't understand basic mathare being disingenuous and pushing for austerity because they want the economy to fail and more people to lose their jobs so they can blame it on Obama and be in better electoral shape in 2012.Exactly. It's so obvious, why don't they get it? And as to basic maths, why do they never point out that 10 years of tax giveaways to the Job Creators have created no jobs.
It's like they're driven by what the pubtards want, not what the country wants. Don't they read fucking polls? The majority is one our side. Why don't fight for what the people actually want?
Because they like money even better than they like votes, and WAY better than they like us people.
Sex ain't over yet. Merkel's in the White House today.
That nice lady who's Chancellor of Germany?
I bet she can do a *great* Lili von Schtupp imitation!
I get that the Amerikkkans don't want the "Kenyan" guy to be President, but have those same ignoramuses figured out yet that Mittens is Mormon? Let me know when they do.
I guess the American people do not like the libprog, "if you can beat em join em" philosophy. America doesn't want the governance of the rest of the world.
"I guess the American people do not like the libprog, "if you can beat em join em" philosophy. America doesn't want the governance of the rest of the world."
Hmmm:
Predictable, stereotypically jingoistic avatar…
Screen name references Beck and goatse, two unappealing things made even worse by combining them…
Self-description uses the words "Fair and Balanced", apparently unironically…
Thinks "liberal" and "progressive" are insults…
Doesn't appear to make a coherent point, but isn't entertainingly batshit, either (I'm not sure whether "if you can beat em join em" is an *intentional* typo)…
No real insight…
Nothing much in the way of originality, content, or writing skills; essentially Fox talking points regurgitation 101; manages to be mildly irritating while somehow not ceasing to be boring.
Overall, I give this troll a C-minus at best, and I'm being generous.
"Nearly six in 10 say the economy has not started to recover, regardless of what official statistics may say, and most of those who say it has improved rate the recovery as weak."
No shit. The economy IS weak, and that socialist radio propaganda network NPR was talking about the possibility of a double-dip recession yesterday. Maybe, just maybe, those Repugnicants who ran on a platform of job creation should stop trying to attack Planned Parenthood and rewrite rape till it's legal just long enough to actually focus on jobs, or at least something consistent with their party platforms. You know, just a thought.
The public is not going to be distracted by OBL or Weinergate… Of course weare to stay tuned iwith jobs and the economy. Did you read the article?
Do you truly think that Obama doesn't want to see a stronger economy? You're not making any sense. We have a whole passel of new GOP governors and legislatures. They're all pursuing the tax cutting/deregulation game. Where is the massive economic growth that this should be engendering? The new businesses and new hires should be stacking up. Where are they? Obama may suffer from the anemic recovery but those fools will suffer worse. Not only will there be no jobs but they will preside over States with lousy schools, crummy infrastructure, polluted streams and crappy public service. 2012 ain't going to be a Teabag year.
Give the GOP a break — we've only given this tax cut/deregulation game 10 years so far (yes, I'll conveniently forget Clinton's hand in deregulation before then for now, thank you very much). Recovery's just around the corner. Just gotta get that upper income bracket's taxes down to -4% and the economy should totally rebound.
10 years? They also tried the game from 1981 to 1993, and the miserable failure that time around shouldn't stop us from trying again.
"Give the GOP a break — we've only given this tax cut/deregulation game 10 years so far (yes, I'll conveniently forget Clinton's hand in deregulation before then for now"
Ah… A fresh, apple-cheeked young slug who doesn't remember the Reagan years, or an embittered middle-aged slug who's blocked out the bitter memory of those years?
I was too busy switching from AD&D to getting laid to doing stupid shit in the army to have paid much attention to the Reagan years. And looking back at the clothes I wore during most of that time period, I can see why I didn't pay attention/blocked it out. I do remember that the free cheese sucked rancid balls, though (or tasted like sucking rancid balls . . . ).
Oh he would like to see it happen but it will not. These policies are not conducive to a strong robust economy. In actuality the econmy has to broken down in order to transform it. Higher food prices, (imperial Valley California, EPA, regulations, higher fuel costs). Deregulation had more help than Clinton, like Dodd and Frank and you have to go back to the CRA. Obama wants to train 500K students for jobs? What jobs?, It is not a training issue. We spend 13K per year average per student, more than any other nation, yet they scream for more and the results are substandard. The money goes for pensions and administration cost, not students. It will not be a libprog year, that's for sure.
Hey Speaker Drunky McNictotinestain, WHERE ARE THE JERBS?
That's the question, where are they? Thanks Obama.
"Wonkette, Jr. (IF that is your real name!). "
Yes! The fake name meme. If everyone picks it up and challenges the mysterious junior, we can smoke him/her/it/them out.
It goes back to the beginning, with the stimulus bill; to appease the Repubilcans and Blue Dogs he offered a minimal amount, and then it got cut down in negotiations; things would be much better if the stimulus wasn't way too small.
Part of the original Stimulus–they never branded it the Recovery Act–was to have been public works jobs but they traded a chunk of that away and did tax cuts instead.
Like Rachel said about Barry and the 'pubtards: Mr. President, they're just not that in to you.
They can hate the bastard all they want, but they're going to re-elect him, so they can just quit their bitching right damn now. If you think that Obama held back against war-hero John McCain in 2008, just wait until he's stacked up against something either serially crazy or someone as duplicitous as Romney without having to worry about (further) offending any such American sensibilities.
I don't like to be overconfident, but I'm damned tired about this hand wringing over his re-election. Time Dems stop despairing and realizing that for as fucking crazy as this nation is they are the one's facing and upheal battle, not us.
Wake up, most have.
And yet you are still so soundly asleep in fevered dreams. Troll, be gone. Keep fuckin' that geoat!
Instead, we're actually eagerly anticipation the start of an actual draw-down in Afghanistan, this summer. My, how things change when you're not having much fun.
WIN
They didn't vote for him the first time; they ain't gonna vote for him this time. It's hard to lose something you never have.
Fuck 'em.
all thoes Repug govs chopping jobs willy-nilly has nothing to do with the poop in the economy, does it?
Thinking of Reagan as a hero instead of the vicious old dumbass who bankrupted us isn't shortsightedness; it's either a very short memory or a complete lack of the ability to link cause and effect, or both.
"The administration's approach seems to be if we give up enough stuff before we start talking to the other side (Republithugs, Bankers, CEOs, Big Pharma etc.) they will like us and we'll prove we've changed Washington. "
You would almost think they don't know how to haggle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm7K4VM_7Rg
Apparently not. But those who live in glass houses…
Then explain the strategy.
Substandard education. Not teaching them to go out into the world and succeed, but trying to neuter them to be lead. Public schools have been infiltrated by liberals trying to indoctrinate them into a failed ideology. Pretty common knowledge now.
Like GE?
I do not accept your premise.
If Americans only bought American and refused to buy from those who were not being equitable, how could Big corps and Wall Street be the cause?
That was a great movie, I just can't remember any of it.
Check your memory, Obama had the the house and senate, how could anything have gotten blocked?
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