I was just poking around Twitter, and found the following gem from Captain America writer Ed Brubaker:
Listening to Republicans talk about how to save the economy is like listening to Ted Bundy talk about how to save lives.
Holy sh**, that totally made my day.
Awesome ad from Americans United for Change. Not sure when or where it is running:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ml16zGPy8[/youtube]
Blue Fields of Indiana pointed me to this little ditty about a man who is suspected of going on a rampage killing two people and critically wounded three others in Florida. What makes this rampage a little more of interest than your run-of-the-mill rampages was his reasons.
Neighbor Crystal Lynn says “he did come up to me one time and asked me if I was ready for the revolution to begin and if I had any immigrant in my house to get them out.”
The victims were foreign nationals who appear to have been working in the U.S. legally.
Blue Fielder writes:
This is why I encourage everyone to go read Dave Neiwert’s “Eliminationism in America” series. We need to be able to identify this kind of hatred, and we need to be ready to stamp it out. We need to drop the pearl-clutching talk about the rights of those who encourage violence, and we need to start making these people responsible for what they start.
Now, I haven’t read the entire series, but I feel that this is something that we will be discussing more in the future here at Delaware Liberal.
Note: I did not come across this story because of Blue Fields of Indiana’s link back to Jason330’s post on Hannity’s dumbass poll. It was just happenstance.
First we learned that Jindal’s I was one of Katrina’s heros story was a sham, and now there’s this.
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president’s economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as unnecessary pork on national television Tuesday night…
… Jindal on Tuesday delivered the official Republican Party response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress. He criticized the stimulus package passed by the Democratic-majority in Congress and the president and noted examples of projects that he found objectionable.
“While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending,” Jindal said. “It includes … $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a ‘magnetic levitation’ line from Las Vegas to Disneyland.”
Louisiana’s transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service.
Asked for comment Friday about the Jindal stance on the federal rail money, the governor’s Chief of Staff Timmy Teepell said he does not think the Las Vegas to Anaheim line is a good use of taxpayer money. He did not address the Louisiana proposal.
Never mind. I forgot. It’s only pork when it’s a Democrat idea. On the plus side, Jindal is supplying the fix for Palin withdrawal.
I did drive a Corvair that belonged to my sister and the negative comments by Ralph Nader were so much hokum.
The next time you almost accidentally take Art Downs seriously, just remember this is a guy who thinks, “Psssh, Corvair? Totally safe. My sister had one and nobody died.”
Discuss.
Does the Republican child holding the sign get the double entendre? Let us hope not.
Xstyker makes sense out of all of this:
They want to put their balls on us. That’s the new Republican agenda. Do you want jobs or nuts in your face? That’s pretty much the choice voters are faced with. How’s that working for them?
If the GOP were a car it would be a
Yugo
Gremlin
Pacer
Mustang (aka Spider)
Or pick your own
The Nazi’s people car
Rumors have it that Congressman Mike Castle may be scheduled to make an appearance in Delaware this Monday. Bet you it has something to do with quarters. When we get a time and location, you’ll all be the first to know.
Special thanks to Redwaterlily’s Ramblings for the image.
He gets it, he really gets it.
In today’s radio address, Pres. Obama has made it crystal clear that he will take on the lobbyists in the health care industry, the financial industry, and the oil industry to enact genuine reform.
“The system we have now might work for the powerful and well-connected interests that have run Washington for far too long,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly radio and video address. “But I don’t. I work for the American people.”
He said his ambitious budget plan, unveiled Thursday, will help millions of Americans, but only if Congress overcomes resistance from deep-pocket lobbies.
“I know these steps won’t sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they’re gearing up for a fight,” Mr. Obama said, using tough-guy language reminiscent of his predecessor, George W. Bush. “My message to them is this: So am I.”
If that isn’t change we can believe in, El Somnambulo doesn’t know what is.
It is precisely the kind of gauntlet that Jack Markell will have to lay down to enact real reform in Delaware. Only by driving a stake through the heart of the corrupt and rotting Delaware Way will Delaware ever realize its potential. Fortunately, Jack has a role model in the White House.
Unstable Isotope tipped us off to this bit of news:
President Barack Obama’s former nominee to become commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, steered taxpayer money to his home state’s redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an Associated Press investigation found.
We all thought Gregg was Party First, turns out he was just Me First.
And today, as President Obama was outlining the thing that so many of us wanted for so many years, I missed most of the announcement to finish a deadline document. If you missed it too, here is the video of the complete address:
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For as much pain and anger this entire piece of our history caused so many of us, you can’t help but be pleased that President Obama struck such a balanced and grateful tone in this. No blame or recitation of the crazyness, just thanks to the people who did the work and how this ends. I’m not all that happy with the 19 month (rather than the campaign 16 month) timeline for drawdown, but was very glad to see a real end date — December 2011. This is going to leave alot of us who wanted these forces home sooner rather than later, but acknowledging the Status of Forces end date I hope makes the Iraqis really believe that we will truly leave, and be confident that work to build their institutions and defense mechanisms will mean that they will finally be their own government.
We are in for some in-fighting amongst Dems who wanted more home and wanted them home more quickly than this. I want the same thing. But today, I am just delighted that we are no longer fighting over ending this thing — but over when.
If Republicans put half the creativity and energy into governing that they put into Machiavellian politicking, we’d all be in trouble.
Web/shmeb.
Newspapers would not be dying if they simply did their e’ffing job over the past 10 years.
There is still an audience for actual reporting. For lazy PR operations that endlessly shill for craven politicians and the highest bidding corporations?……not so much.