November 2010

Shorter Rude News

• Bill O’Reilly suggested that Dana Milbank should be beheaded. Since we agree with him, we have suddenly decided that O’Reilly is not responsible for anything he says. This was all Milbank’s fault.

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

Digby:

Republicans are adamant that the economy desperately need to give millionaires low taxes, lest they stop buying ancient art and taking foreign vacations, but unemployed people spending money on bread and rent is unaffordable and unnecessary. Keynesianism for chumps.

Hey you!

Yeah, you! The teabagger who’s screaming at the top of your pasty little lungs about “repealing Obamacare”!

This is the world you want us all to live in:

Alisa Wilson, 37, died Friday at 8:50 p.m. after a lengthy battle with an undisclosed liver disease, said her father, Eric Wilson.

“Her liver was gone,” Wilson said. “There was no more left. She needed that transplant two weeks ago.”

In her final days, the Wilsons desperately reached out to the media and health-law attorneys to get her approved for a transplant.

Over the summer, she was turned down several times by her insurer, a Medicaid reform HMO run by Sunshine State Health.

The family switched her to traditional “fee-for-service” Medicaid because the local transplant center at Mayo Clinic Florida doesn’t typically accept Medicaid HMOs.

Like many Medicaid recipients in Duval County, Wilson was required to join a private plan as part of a Gov. Jeb Bush-era experimental overhaul of the program.

(emphasis mine)

Yeah, asshole. That’s what you are trying to do to the rest of us: condemn us all to live in a world where private insurers — for-profit corporations — decide whether we get life-saving transplants and other medical procedures.

Be careful what you wish for, morons.

(hat tip: ThinkProgress)

Adam Serwer:

[C]onservatives deploy racially tinged rhetoric against liberal policy priorities and Democratic politicians, and that Obama being president has a lot to do with these arguments being used. Rush Limbaugh wouldn’t be comparing him to gang members if he weren’t black.

Jon Perr has posted a handy guide to the 10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts.

1. Dismal Economic Growth


2. A Decade of Budget Deficits


3. Red Ink as Far as the Eye Can See


4. Disastrous Job Creation


5. Declining Incomes


6. Increasing Poverty


7. A Massive Windfall for the Wealthy


8. Record Income Inequality


9. A Sagging Stock Market


10. Jeopardizing Future Economic Growth

Sadly, the United States is chockablock with idiots like this woman. Even sadder, they are allowed out on the streets and into voting booths.

Digby:

The fact is that the Republicans are not just irresponsible stewards of the economy, they are at the moment, totally batshit insane.

Has anyone noticed that the same right-wing zealots who see nothing at all wrong with instituting racial profiling at airports (allegedly to keep us safe from “them”) are clutching their pearls and screaming their silly heads off about the TSA scanners and pat-downs?

Doesn’t it seem like there is no “security measure” the right isn’t all in favor of — until it inconveniences white folk?