All 17 "Swing" Voters Deeply Impressed

by White House's "reasonableness"

From "The Hill":

Obama is winning on debt debate, but there’s no room for moral victories
By Sam Youngman - 07/13/11

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On Monday, television networks cut into “The Price is Right” and “The View” to show Obama’s press conference.

The White House hopes independent swing voters watching at home, who like most Americans are not following the back-and-forth of the debt-ceiling debate, saw a president willing to take on his party’s sacred cows. They also hope these voters buy Obama’s message that it is Republicans who are not being statesmen.
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Some quotes --

Mr. Tab U. Larasa, Gropeton, FL

"I don't follow politics in any way, but it seems to me that splitting the difference between two positions I do not understand is always the best thing to do."

Mrs. Blanche Slate. Stinkvale, MN

"Oh. oh, oh. The partisan bickering on both sides! It makes my head all itchy. Make it stop!"

Miss Ida Know, Rocktop, IN

"Politics is too much thinky. Blaming everybody the same makes me feel smart."

Mr. Notta Damcloo, Numb-on-Clature, England

"I have many opinions that are based on stuff I overheard when I was six. "

Mrs. Jesswanna B. Popular, Clownposse, TN

"Too loud. Too loud. Barack Obama talks like a really nice man."

Mrs. Bunny Dunning-Kruger, Wilmette, IL

"I like commonsense solutions that don't involve a lot of math. Math is scary and never leads to anything good."

Mr. O. Blivious Dolt, Cowtip, MI

"Burreck who? Oh, you mean that Kenyan fella? Really? Is he still the President? Wasn't there an election or something?"

Meanwhile at the New York Times, the Shrill One dumps a pot of cold "fuck you" into the adjoining cubicle. Some snips:

Do You Believe in Magic?

OK, David Brooks has what amounts to a reply. I don’t want to get into a tit for tat. But I do want to take on the claim that believing that simple actions can bring big improvements in the economy amounts to belief in magic.
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Stroking your chin and saying, well, I don’t believe in magical solutions because experience shows that raising growth is hard sounds serious, but it’s actually silly.
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But haven’t we tried a huge fiscal expansion? No, we haven’t.
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Rejecting all that may sound judicious, but it’s actually an act of intellectual amnesia.

Of course, when intellectual amnesia is all you have left...

...My Name is Ozymandias

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And that specific, mutagenic strain of "Wingnut Doublethink" -- the training of an entire generation of Conservatives to mindlessly attack!attack!attack! the "Left" while holding themselves willfully and belligerently ignorant of what their Movement is really doing and who is really running it -- is, in the end, Ronald Reagan's most potent and vile political legacy: Strategic Forgettery.

Because however much one may agree with some of the Conservative Expat crowd over specific issues such as same sex marriage and marijuana legalization, as long as they cling to their own, obsessive Strategic Forgettery, they will always be fools and clowns and chumps. Because as long as they depend on their own Big Conservative Lie to tuck them in at night and tell them that they're good little Reaganites, they cede any pretense of occupying any moral high ground from which to render judgment on the Palinites and the Beckians.

The homunculi who are left inside the Big Tent Batshit Thunderdome are either stupid, evil or nuts...or some cocktail of all three. And if the trend lines of the last 30 years have proven anything, it's that Conservatives are such willing collaborators in their own brainwashing that neither the Expats or the Palnites and their Elite Enablers are capable of retaining any political inconvenient fact longer than 13 seconds (or, in the case of the Palinites, reacting to anything other than what Rupert and Rush tell them to be angry about this time.)

There is absolutely nothing left sifting around inside their mushy, angry skulls except that sparkly aluminum sand that good people at Ohio Arts use to make the Etch-a-Sketch.

Shake-shake-shake...and Ronald Reagan never sold weapons to terrorists, funded an illegal war, raised taxes four times, or left behind the largest deficit in American history up until that time.

Shake-shake-shake...and Bush the Elder never hired Lee Atwater.

Shake-shake-shake...and what Southern Strategy?

Shake-shake-shake...and George W. Bush is the Greatest President Ever, you filthy, Liberal traitors!
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...there is no limit to how big a fool you can make of yourself in the New York Times.