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Whatever, douche!

...is fucking awesome!

Where's the other one of you scumbags?

My, sho is quiet 'round here without them Jaybees...

LOL, Scott, I wasn't trolling I swear! I make this shit up, I don't know - I was just tossing it out ....LOL!!!!! and that's a cartoon pic of what I suspect he looks like, not an actual representation of a "sack of fuck"... ROTFLMAO, he's too chicken shit to let anyone know his real name or picture. Probably doesn't even climb, all he does around here is argue politics. Funny stuff..."sack of fuck" heh heh..! Jbot should use that as his sig line! So in other words what you're saying is, you like bukkake?

Ja, vee must zilence zeez dissenters!

Given the seeming bipartisan consensus in favor of austerity in the quotes above, S&P's credibility looks totally irrelevant.

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I am beginning to wonder if he really is the lesser of two evils...

And then there's another hypothesis. Probably more accurate.

The point is not that Obama would ever get "everything he wanted" but that you craft a vision, build popular support around narratives that tell your side of the story, and start the bargaining process by asking for far more than you'd ever think you'd get. It's exactly what the GOP has been doing with with wild success (Paul Ryan plan, balanced budget amendment, etc.). Where's Obama's jobs plan? Where's the demand stimulus plan to boost growth? Make some proposals, engage in some brinksmanship of your own, and take the fight to your opponent instead of getting led around by your ass and/or getting left flatfooted time after time by a faction that's literally willing to crash the economy to get what it wants. If ever it was the time for bold action...

So gone.

You missed me, didn't you?

Obama could and should have been high pressure, full court press, media blitzkreig, "community organizing" on this (and other related issues) since day one. He's allowed the parameters of debate to be set by the Republicans on point after point after point, start negotiations from a self-imposed position of weakness, and then begin "compromising" again and again and again. It's fucking retarded! How many times have we seen this?

...and those chips ain't chocolate! Thanks Obama. Will Krugman be on your economic advisory team in '12? Doubtful.

Is this link something I need to read or can I just find a one-star review of it on Amazon and pass judgement accordingly?

First, for me, the significance of point 2 is that this man's actions are the logical end result of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-tolerant propositions being put forward by mainstream conservative politicians, commentators, and academics. Relatedly, how exactly does one espouse these views (which, correct me if I'm wrong, you have) and prescribe policies based on them without constraining speech, political expression, and the interchange of ideas? In the wake of this event and others like it, it appears that people like yourself have as much work to do among your own (increasingly mainstream) fringe as you claim moderate Islamic clerics do. Calling something an abhorrent tragedy, invoking an unrelated fear (state power), then moving on ain't really gonna cut it.

Well, we already got Peter's take: "it's funny". So mostly I'm just waiting for Fairweather to exhume the Unabomber case. Or for Jay_B's reaction through the lens of 'renegade history'.

The Knights Templar shit is a sideshow.

And when the "cultists" represent a significant portion of the mainstream? Apart from this guy's actions, it seems there's little he said or wrote that would be unfamiliar or 'extreme' in daily American discourse. The besieged, 'clash of civilizations' mentality, anti-Muslim, anti-multiculturalist, anti-left stance of this wacko is actually bread and butter, even around here.

As much as I'd love to join the pile-up on Pee-pee, at least he's willing to acknowledge the danger the American Right poses to this country.

Wall Street Journal Whoopsie. This op-ed was hurriedly withdrawn. All too familiar, even in the pages of Spray...

Not funny.

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