February 2009

see the whole thing

(hat tip: Tom Tomorrow)

No wonder the wingnuts all swoon over “Joe the Plumber”. The phony war correspondent is an advocate of criminal acts:

Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.

See also the video.

Apparently, the wingnut fringe never stops to think that if you’re going to claim to be in favor of “law and order”, coming out in favor of murder might damage your credibility just a smidge.

Wow. Big Dog is just a laugh riot today…

You know what these people who stand around with their hands out need. It is a three letter word. J-O-B-S.

Oh, my aching sides…

Lying dipshit “Big Dog” whines:

The rich have had to pay tax rates of nearly 100% over certain periods of our history and that is just plain wrong.

Here’s the challenge, asshat: Prove it. Cite documentary evidence (not someone else making the same claim, but actual facts) that back up this claim. For purposes of this discussion^*, we’ll say that “the rich” must mean individuals, not businesses, and that an effective tax rate of 80% or more will qualify as “nearly 100%”.

Got facts, moron?

And now the suggestion, in response to this:

Rope, tree, liberal. Some assembly required.

Go fuck yourself with a broken beer bottle, imbecile. Eliminationist rhetoric like this proves one thing only: you are too fucking stupid to make a rational argument. If the best you can do is whimper that somebody ought to go kill someone for you (and we all know that you’re a limpdicked wimpass who couldn’t work up the cojones to say “Boo!” to a liberal in person), then you can take your asinine “thoughts”, fold ‘em five ways with the sharp edges exposed, and shove ‘em where the sun don’t shine.

Stay stupid, Dogmeat. It’s the only real talent you have.

^* Wait, what am I saying? Big Dog doesn’t believe in discussions. He deletes comments and trackbacks that lead to any facts that might contradict his fantasy world.

Paul Krugman:

…[K]nowing when a volcano is likely to erupt can save many lives; but there’s no private incentive to spend money on monitoring, since even people who didn’t contribute to maintaining the monitoring system can still benefit from the warning. So that’s the sort of activity that should be undertaken by government.

So what did Bobby Jindal choose to ridicule in this response to Obama last night? Volcano monitoring, of course.

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The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

(hat tip: Steve Benen)

Scott Malensek actually seems to believe that he can continue to post his idiotic lies and not get called on them.

In a snarky, fantasy-filled commentary on the speech given by President Obama last night, Malensek quotes the following passage:

Because when credit is available again, that young family can finally buy a new home. And then some company will hire workers to build it. And then those workers will have money to spend, and if they can get a loan too, maybe they’ll finally buy that car, or open their own business. Investors will return to the market, and American families will see their retirement secured once more. Slowly, but surely, confidence will return, and our economy will recover.

And then, cretin that he is, tries to palm off this whopper on his readers:

[I believe this is called TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS.]

Wrong, asshat.

“Trickle-down economics” and “trickle-down theory” are terms of political rhetoric that refer to the policy of providing tax cuts or other benefits to businesses and rich individuals, in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population… A major feature of these policies was the reduction of tax rates on capital gains, corporate income, and higher individual incomes, along with the reduction or elimination of various excise taxes.

“Trickle-down economics” is nothing more than a fancy name for the wingnut fixation on tax cuts as the cure for all economic ills. Scott Malensek’s bare-faced attempt to conflate the recovery plan with the hoary old policies of the past is intellectual dishonesty of the most egregious sort — but it is just what we’ve come to expect from this lying imbecile.

Please go right on spreading lies, Scottie. It seem that that is the only talent you have.

Anne Leary, the “BackyardConservative”, can’t resist a blatant lie about the speech given by President Obama last night:

…I did have to snort when he said something about curing cancer. Dennis Byrne in his column today suggested he might as well promise that — and he did.

Um… nope:

Our recovery plan will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, bring down costs, ensure privacy, and save lives. It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.

Nothing in Obama’s speech promised a cure for cancer. He did state that the recovery plan would fund research into a cure, with the hope that such a breakthrough would come sooner rather than later.

Stop lying to your readers, Anne.

Shorter Stogie:

• Having nothing at all intelligent to say, I’m going to pretend to myself that goofing off with Photoshop is the same thing as making coherent arguments. Wheeeee!

  ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

I apologize to Devilstower for copying this whole, but there’s just no way to excerpt it, and it’s too good not to bring to your attention:

Read all the instructions carefully before selecting your answer:

One of these things is not proper management of the nation’s finances. Select from the examples provided.

Example A
Breaking into the Federal Reserve, taking out pallets loaded with hundred dollar bills, loading them onto C-140 transport planes, shipping them to Iraq, and handing them out indiscriminately in pizza boxes stuffed with money.

Example B
Cutting the deficit by two thirds after allowing a tax break that was written as a temporary measure to expire.

Final instruction. Choose as if you’re a Republican.

Is there a flavor of humanity that is stupider than Republican?