Sunday Morning Comin’ Down

Vocabulary Monday. I hope you studied, because this will count for 1/3 of your final grade.

If there was a standout performance yesterday, it came from MTP's David Gregory.

In a typical exchange, the bantling Gregory settled ever deeper into his job of “Meet the Press” scatomancer by tossing out readings from the Very Conservative Wall Street Journal…

This is what the Journal wrote: "What's worrying about the plunge in equities ... especially in the last week since Mr. Obama released his radical budget, is that it has come amid the unveiling of the president's policy agenda…

…and then boldly turned the floor over to Very Conservative Newt Gingrich for his "response".

As insight-producing as asking Bonnie how she feels about Clyde.

Newt notes that the problems are so bad -- “We've not seen anything like this level of testing in 80 years.“ -- that the Dean of Political Smash-N-Grab advises that “we need to stop and take a deep breath and say this is not politics as usual, this is not games as usual”.

After which he expends much of his energy stomping bangtail through the rest of the discussion out leaving a wide stripe of guaniferous “Gingrich Politics As Usual” behind him --

The Obama’s budget is a “war against people making more than $250K"

The Obama’s budget will be horribly destructive. The “Smoot-Hawley” of this cycle.

Obama is anti-business,

Obama is anti-success.

The “Bush/Obama spending cycle…”

“…the tone of this administration has, in fact, helped freeze capital in a significant way.”

“…they haven't decided if their number one job is get economic growth, or their number one job is redistribute America.”

“…as long as Rahm Emanuel's there, he's sort of the Haldeman of this administration.” (For those of you too young to remember, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman was Richard Nixon’s thug chief of staff who went to prison for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in support of Nixon’s massive, criminal war on the U.S. constitution.)

All while the damoiseau Gregory sat smirking like a fur galericulated lump of stupid, occasionally interrupting with an “Mm-hmm” or “All right.”

Think I'm exaggerating?

Randomly snipped and unfairly arranged from yesterday's "Meet The Press" transcript:

MR. GREGORY: Yeah.
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MR. GREGORY: Right.
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MR. GREGORY: To be fair, though, they're saying that a lot of that--the tax increases occur by 2011
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MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
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MR. GREGORY: Yes.
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MR. GREGORY: Mr. Speaker, yeah.
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MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
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MR. GREGORY: All right.
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Later, Gregory handed the only discussion of Rush Limbaugh over to Newt for a virtually uninterrupted jag about how AWFUL is was that the White House had cynically invented the Limbaugh thing out of whole cloth, and opining that asking about Limbaugh’s influence over the GOP was like asking about Chris Matthews’ influence over the Democrats.

Of course, Matthews was not the keynote at the premier Liberal event during one of Liberalism's most pivotal years, was he?

Matthews’ doesn’t command armies of activists, voters and dollars.

Matthews hasn’t been on every day, every week for 24 years booming out the Liberal agenda on AM radio into every corn crib and barber shop across the every inch of the South, Midwest and West.

Matthews was never dubbed the “Majority Maker” by a Democratic Congress the way Limbaugh was anointed “Lord of the Pig People” by Gingrich and the 1994 Republican Congress.

All of which Gregory knows full well, but never bothered to ask Newt about.

Instead they lapsed into several minutes of coy, giggly “Who wants to be the President?” natter.

And why?

Because Gregory is a fop.


Flashing wildly across the rest glirinous offerings at the Mouse Circus, I learned 19 fun facts:

1. The UAW apparently sucks and is to blame for everything back to the fall of Saigon.

2. “All of this can’t be done at once!” Which is weird, because I distinctly remember these same people saying that we could fight simultaneous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ira, Syria, Lebanon and nine other places – and go the Mars, bitches! – and fuck the cost, if we just had the “will” to do so.

But now we can’t be trying to fix the plumbing AND the wiring at the same time, for Gosh sake!

3. Did I mention the UAW sucks?

4. After eight years of borrowing from our kids to underwrite failed wars, tax cuts for the rich and the radical deregulation of everything, suddenly Republicans are concerned that “We’re gonna put debt on out kids!”

5. If only we had more tax cuts…

6. The Employee Free Choice Act will doom us all.

7. Anders points out that the reason the final five were able to make the journey from Earth as they did was that they didn’t have jump technology. They traveled at “subluminal” speeds, but fast enough so that they aged very slowly relative to everyone else.

8. So maybe Adama and the fleet found Earth…but too soon. They need to head back for it, but at relativistic speeds and not using jump technology, so by the time the return a second time, the radiation will have dissipated.

9. All earmarks are evil. Except mine.

10. Obama is "talking the economy into the tank."

11. Twitter goes unmentioned.

12. John Boehner calls for “a spending freeze".

13. David Fucking Brooks say that calls for a spending freeze in the depths of our economic heart attack are “insane”. I case you hadn’t noticed, David Fucking Brooks is slooowly crab-walking his way from the head table towards the exit of the Big Tent, hoping like hell that the motion detectors don’t pick up his gradual egress. David Fucking Brooks also draped his napkin over the back of his chair at the head table of the Big Tent just in case he finds, after he gets out on the street, no one is interested in hiring middle-aged white guys with nothing on their résumé but twenty years of “Conservative Apologist”.

14. Well, no one but Fred Hiatt.

15. And, yes, John “Fountains of Wan” Boehner is the House Republican Minority Leader, and not the duck-walking, Speedo-wearing guy who monopolizes the good tanning bed at “Bally's” and yells at the youngster at front desk about all the damned quadragenarians and their damn hippity hop music.

16. Richard Shelby's thinks we should "close" the banks instead of "nationalizing" them because I presume it smacks of Socialism and “Better Debt Than Red!” Or something. No word on where he stands on bleeding banks with leeches. And, yes, “Cunnel” Richard Shelby is an honest-to-goodness United States Senator,

and not the old guy who monopolizes the recumbent bike at the “Y” and yells at those damned gabby ladies on “The View”. Such is the state of the Union.

17. If some unknown force gave Kara Thrace a brand new Viper, why can’t it give Adama a brand, new Galactica? Huh?

18. When David Fucking Brooks says:

“Our normal fear turned into terror. The house is burning down around us. And of he’s talking about 20 years from now that’s just weird.”

he means,

“Holy fuck! My neighbors just went under. Ok, quit screwing around with health care, Barack, and save my 401K right now!”

19. Chris Matthews described Limbaugh as a “human vat of vitriol” who sells “anger like a weapon”. And while I might quibble about the word “human” …