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Milk before swine.

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No crystal ball here, but their version of Keynesianism is going to look more like China's and less like FDR's.

Yeah, but consider the private sector spin-offs: More advanced penile and breast augmentation and sick video games!

If I thought you had any idea of what you're talking about, I'd play along. But I don't, so goodnight.

Please tell me you're unemployed.

There's an enormous amount of economic analysis out there right now that is quite clear as to why this recession is persisting. The difference with yours is that it is essentially political in nature, it has a clear scapegoat and a clear white knight. That the white knight is the same shit that got us into the problem in the first place shows a continuing lack of ideas about how to solve our problems and a blind adherence to dogma from conservatives. Neither of which lead me to believe that we won't be hearing more of this junk science "analysis" from the banks, developers, corporate managers in the near future. You've found a message Jay, stay on it!

She's moving from being a politician to being a celebrity blowhard. The main thing she's left behind is a political constituency that she has to be accountable to. That lack of accountability (which she shares with her new colleagues in the Right media), coupled with a guaranteed audience means she can say whatever the fuck she wants (hello, Diva) and generate $$$. Yes, the Party establishment and bluebloods will bitch (they've already started), but they'll continue to reap the benefits of the permanent mobilization that the demagogues are providing at the moment. This relationship will continue to congeal and will intensify around elections (as we've already seen). I'm looking forward to it.

The wrong signals being that we're not going to continue to let out of control deregulation, tax cuts for the rich, rampant militarism, etc. run the country off the cliff and that instead we're going to start seeing what we can do to provide some health care for folks, work together with allies, and use some of the wealth that people are generating to improve the country instead of sending frat-boy pricks off on a coke binge? Those signals? Thanks for trying to forge a "new" message here, Jay, but no thanks. On the bigger picture front, thanks too for confirming that our Republic is effectively held hostage by, and that your grand vision for politics consists entirely of political representatives being sock puppets for Capital.

Yeah, what we need is a little "hair o' the dog", eh?

GOP moving to the left?

The smartest thing the GOP ever did was lose the 2008 election.

Duh-yessam, Imma thinkin' ah shoulda uh voted fer Bob Barr. Duh-yep!

That's change I can believe in!! Yes we can! At least the "left" is capable of self-criticism. We should pull up some of your Mission Accomplished/Pro-Sarah Palin posts. Now those are funny!!!

"Ardi" would be qualified to criticize the Palins.

...is on the rise: New book deal, the First Dude quit his day job, Bristol's no longer breastfeeding Trig (Levi is another story). It will be fun to watch another rightwing celebrity-ideologue on the rise at the same time anyone with any brains left in the conservative movement tries desperately to extricate the party from Reagan's Faustian pact with the armed religious wackos that constitute its base. More importantly, they'll be trying to figure out how to spin the inevitable abandonment of the no-tax, dereg, privatization schemes that make up its core policy prescription in the face of problems that demand its exact opposite. That is, of course, if the party actually does find itself in power and intends to do anything beyond jumping up and down like a red-butt monkey screaming incoherently or declaring war on its own people.

ivan is about as offensive as a human being can get. there's hope for you i'm sure oprah will be able to dry whatever tears she sheds over what some loser-honkey wrote on a climbing website about her off quite quickly w/ one of the ben franklin century notes she uses to also wipe her ass with can billionares actually get offended, or do they staff that out? hey, at least i didn't point out that oprah's nose is much bigger! This reminds me of a joke. It's surely one of the more offensive but it is the most insightful I know of in terms of understanding the white-supremacist "mind" and defines precisely the psychological wage associated with whiteness in America. Q: What do you call a black person with a PhD? A: N***** Welcome to the club Ivan.

And apparently your faux indignation doesn't extend beyond mock-whitey jokes. I'm catching on to you now.

Fuck you, asshole.

Purchasing decision explained. Min 1:10 [video:youtube]

Hard to know which is tackier: the matching gun set or that carpet. Goddamn son, with all the stems and seeds embedded in that thing this post belongs in the LEGALIZE thread!