JUST A LITTLE ONE-SENTENCE REMINDER ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FACING AMERICA FOREVER: We award nine million “succinctness points” to beloved CBO director Doug Elmendorf: “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services.” Blah blah blah, whatever, Elfinwhore. [Ezra Klein]
Huzzah for the Golden State, where crazed prisoners will soon wander freely and the poor will wrestle for rat crumbs and all the parks will be closed and all the counties will be robbed of various monies and the GOP threatens to wreck even thisrotten deal, because there is still a chance to make things even worse. Feeling smug out there, rest of America? Don’t. You’re next. MORE »
Oh well here is a shocker: Nobody in California had the time, inclination, or detailed budgetary expertise to make a good ruling on the many ballot measures up for approval yesterday, so instead they voted “no” on everything except a legislative salary freeze and then they went to In-n-Out Burger for a double double. MORE »
BUDGET PASSES HOUSE, NO GOP VOTES: Surprise surprise, the Impotent Obstructionists voted en masse (that there’s a French socialist term) against the $3.44 trillion federal budget. Did you know they are against federal spending now? [CNN]
Mormon crickets: If you live, say, anywhere in the American West, you know these horrifying animals as a persistent cannibal scourge that can form a phalanx a mile across and two miles long, marching through the desert in search of food. If you are a senator “from” Arizona who grew up in Virginia and spent most of his life in Washington D.C., they are a punch line to a terrible joke. MORE »
How to describe the music playing in the background here? It’s hold music, isn’t it, like what you hear while you wait 20 minutes to speak with a Capital One representative? Or is it what you hear piped in while you’re waiting for your 40-minute “Shiatsu” massage in one of those mall massage chains? Perhaps it’s the soundtrack of thousands of Vietnamese nail salons across the US. Whatever it is, it is INAPPROPRIATE for a humorless DNC ad about how Republicans are “hypocrites” for voting for a Republican president’s budget but not a Democratic one’s. Such a serious occasion obviously calls for Barber’s Adagio for Strings. [YouTube]
Here is the known dingus, Governor Mark Sanford, saying some thing about why he doesn’t want to spend the stimulus money on stimulation. Instead he would like to use it to pay off some loans. President Obama told him no dice, so now Sanford is literally taking food out of the mouths of poor South Carolinians and shoving that food into a giant incinerator full of money. Literally. [South Carolinians for Reform]
Well, this is uncomfortable. Here’s Walnuts having a “senior moment” as he mumbles happily (or sadly?) about how the House and Senate will surely pass Obama’s Democratic $3.6 Trillion Welfare Budget today. [YouTube/Associated Press]
Earlier today, while no one was caring, the Republican House leadership unveiled “The Republican Road To Recovery,” which is more or less the budget plan they pretend to support, even though they know it is 100% comical and will be rejected in full by Obama, thereby reinforcing his Communist public image just in time for the GOP to lose the next elections miserably, again. MORE »
Who does this guy think he is? He installs a bunch of dumb clowns at Treasury who are continually getting pantsed by incompetent bankers, and at the height of the shitstorm he gets on a plane to California — but not before recording another one of his “Join my movement by harassing your neighbors about Hope, and my Budget” videos. Sorry bro people will not campaign for your budget when they are too infuriated about the economy to even get off the motherfucking couch. [Organizing for America]
Oh, gross! It’s a “viral marketing scheme” designed to shanghai you into taking a blood oath in support of Barack Obama’s socialist revolution. Just watch this video by the new fake David Plouffe, sign some dumb little online petition, and voila, you will be spared a personal “visit” by Obama’s praetorian guard. [Organizing for America Pledge Project, Ben Smith]
Huzzah for the Golden State, where 
Oh well here is a shocker: Nobody in California had the time, inclination, or detailed budgetary expertise to make a good ruling on 
Mormon crickets: If you live, say, anywhere in the American West, you know these 
Earlier today, while no one was caring, the Republican House leadership unveiled 