Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Sunday Morning Comin’ Down


The “If your gonna be running a buncha programs all at once, you’re gonna need a Rahm upgrade” edition.

Since arm-breaker Rahm Emanuel was spotted this weekend at the Mouse Circus more often than Cialis and Exxon commercials combined, here’s the skinny on the selection of the Congressman from Illinois’ 5th district as President-Elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff.

See, years ago when the Christopaths kicked reason and compromise out of the Party of God , some of us came to the conclusion that trying to reason with Bush Regime Dead-Enders and the 48 million throwbacks who voted on November 4th to put them back into power is ridiculous.

That trying to enlist these cultural arsonists in fixing what they’ve spent 25 years burning to the ground is laughable.

Hope is great. Collegiality is great. I’m all for them.

But should the wretched whelplings of Jefferson Davis decide to get uppity, you're gonna need a sonofabitch standing ready

with Plan B (Not work safe).

Over on “Fox News Sunday” Chris Wallace asked:
"Liberal Economist Paul Krugman says the Progressive Agenda won. Do you agree?"
driftglass: You mean "Nobel Prize winning" economist, right?

Then came the long and painful "Whither Wingnttia?" section, in which Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Eric Cantor, R-Va played Republican Buck Buck; packing their pockets with lies and jumping desperately onto Reality's back, trying to make it collapse.

Wallace: Wasn't this a realigning election?

Buck Buck number one coming!

Cantor: This was not some kind of shift towards some European-style Socialist stinky-cheese faggy gummint. It was a massive distrust of gummint, which fucks up everything. Its not about left versus right; its about right versus wrong. And the only make Jebus happy is to cut gummint, cut taxes and suck harder on Reagan's dick.

Buck Buck number two coming!

Pence: This was not a progressive or liberal victory.

Wallace: Yeah, but Obama actually stood for some things.

Buck Buck number three coming!

Pence: This was not victory for liberalism. This was a victory for Barack Obama. Besides, Rich Lowry said that most people don’t embrace a European-style Socialist stinky-cheese faggy gummint.

driftglass: And who could doubt a sober and levelheaded assessment of what Murrica wants by Rich "Lil' Starbursts" Lowry?

Wallace: You said your job is to oppose, dismantle and defeat the Liberal agenda. Doesn’t sound very bipartisan to me?

Pence: Our job is to oppose. Mindlessly and reflexively oppose anything Democrats ever try to do until the end of time.

Wallace: OK, but look at these numbers. You are having your ass handed to you everywhere.

Buck Buck number four coming!

Cantor: Yes, the numbers are startling. We have to have a vision. Barack Obama hip-mo-tized the Murrican people! Also he used Teh Internets. We will have to use computers more and start using cooler words.

Wallace: But John McSame ran on exactly those issues. And he got beaten with a hammer. People ain’t buying what you're selling. I don't this was all about the charm of Barack Obama.

Buck Buck number five coming!

Pence: The people voted for change, but change must be built on the time-honored traditions of Reaganism and scaring the crap out of white trash gas-sippers.

Later, Brit Hume explained that now is not the time for the Republican Party to re-invent itself. If Obama tries to drag the country too far to the Left it will be unpopular and it will fail. Liberals don’t call themselves “Liberals”. They call themselves Progressives. Liberalism is still a political philosophy that dare not speak its name.

This is a center-right country.

Wallace to Kristol: So, your friend, Sarah Palin. Stupid or brain-damaged?

Kristol: Reporters shouldn’t print stuff that hasn’t been attributed or verified.

Says the Clown Prince of the “Some People Say…”

network.

Shorter Republican self-diagnosis:

If we dress up our Prime Directive with better gerunds and CGI so it sounds more changey--

-- everything will work out fine.

Good luck with that.

On ”The Chris Matthews Show”, Matthews explained that:
"Bush and Clinton both had “name” problems. Clinton had “Monica” and Bush had “Katrina”.
and in doing so, offhandedly encapsulates why having an utterly, amoral, horse race-driven trivia machine instead of an actual, y'know, media, is a bad idea.

Here we see the core moral-idiot-savant nature of the pundit classes; that they cannot comprehend the difference between the climactic faux crisis at the end of years of wingnut-ginned-up scandals, and a real, national catastrophe at the hands of bandits and monsters.

Later, David Fucking Brooks explains that: "Bush is a lot smarter than people think he is."

Shorter David Fucking Brooks: "Buck Buck number six coming!"

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

that they cannot comprehend the difference between the climactic faux crisis at the end of years of wingnut-ginned-up scandals, and a real, national catastrophe at the hands of bandits and monsters.

Yep. Maureen Dowd has the worst case of this moral affliction I have ever seen, as I point out here:

http://physioprof.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/open-letter-to-rahm-emanuel/

Malacandra said...

Buck-buck? Now it's the GOP's turn to be the horse.

And some people say... that Barack Obama is the baddest buck-buck breaker in the world.

Hey-hey-hey!!!

BTW, here's what it's like to have a President that the world can actually respect.

Anonymous said...

Bush is a lot smarter than people think he is.

I'm having trouble figuring out in my own mind how much 'a lot smarter' means when used in relation to GW Bush.

I'm coming up with 'still not very smart'

Anonymous said...

My 83 year-old father is dying from tumors not only in his lungs, but in his brain.

These pundits sound exactly like him when talking about the future of the Republican party.

My father has tumors. What's their excuse?

Ducky's here said...

Why do you hate David Fucking Brooks so much more than the other media mouth breathers?

Anonymous said...

Between your wonderful politics and posting Doctor Who here and "White Light/White Heat" on Crooks and Liars, I am simply going to have to have your children. :)

Rehctaw said...

Bush is a lot smarter than people think he is.

pwapvt said... I'm having trouble figuring out in my own mind how much 'a lot smarter' means when used in relation to GW Bush.
I'm coming up with 'still not very smart'


He would obviously have to be a helluva lot smarter than he LOOKS. He looks dumber than a boxcar full of stupid.

I've stepped on smarter slugs `n bugs.

This is still merely a distraction from the latest con in a long procession of cons. They are still squatting on the lion's share of defining what the Obama Presidency is to be. They've been redefining shit to be shinola for so long without being called out as blowholes and gasbags that it's like breathing for them.

Unless/until their plug is pulled, they will find face time w/ the 24/7/365 media enablers. Unless/until liberals, -whether they are in the closet or proudly out- stand up and say what they mean and mean what they say without equivocation, leaving zero room for interpretation, the phuqtards will provide translations of their own. Up will remain down, lies will remain truth, war will remain peace...

driftglass said...

Malacandra,
Love to play tackle :-)

Ducky's here,
Because I believe David Fucking Brooks and a few others like him actually know better. They peddle poison for money, knowing damned well that it's poison.

Yoko's TARDIS,
Well I don't enter my Pon Far phase for awhile yet....

Anonymous said...

i can't wait for next sunday's installment now that the numbers are out and they show, unequivocally, that a majority of the population believes that democratic control of all three branches is a GOOD thing, democrats have a high favorability rating, republicans very poor.

how many more nails do we need?

i know, i know -- when did facts ever get in the way of the hardly-ever-right?

but this latest release of numbers leaves me looking forward to this sunday's mouse circus.

Myrtle June said...

Buck Buck..... no shit, man. They started that crap when Ohio went for Obama. "Center-right"..... omfg.... Will someone of these people with the microphones please just tell these assholes that THEIR "center-right" is fucking waaaaaaaaaaaay over near the edge of their flat earth! It has no relation to CENTER, the real CENTER, at all. We have to go hard left for awhile to get back to that CENTER!!! They are trying to firmly establish the edge-of-flat-earth as the generally understood CENTER. And it just isn't. Gaaaaaagh. Reality needs buck back hard and throw them all off the edge of their sacred flat earth. Fuckers.

Cirze said...

Everyone not rightarded knows where the right, left and center reside, Myrtle June, and you are correctamundo as usual.

Dg - oh mighty one - please lead the movement to abolish the Sunday Mouse Circus and replace it with responsible news programs - reporting on issues like, oh (what the hell I'll take a stab at it), what the cost of empire really is, how people will be hurt by the coming Depression, how much Paulson's backers will make from the taxpayer bailout (payoff to Cheney/Bush contributors), etc. I grew up watching what I took for the accurate news on Sundays and would love to be able to turn the TV on once again on Sundays (and, what the hey, maybe even weekday nights!).

This we could get behind en masse.

Nice one!

Suzan

roxtar said...

"Bush is a lot smarter than people think he is."

Well, he'd almost have to be, wouldn't he?

Anonymous said...

just calling in to say that when I'm out doing Sunday morning devotions at Our Lady of Bogey Hills, I give thanks that you are there, covering the Sunday morning programing, so I don't have to.