Everyone would have wondered how you were able to predict it.

I mean, four years ago, I would have been too ashamed to post such a prediction anywhere

To paraphrase DeVito’s Penguin, you must flaunt what others throw away. BOOKMARK THIS!!!11!!

I predict the next president of this great nation will be — no, wait. I won’t tell you. It will be my little surprise.

What’s just as astounding as the 2004->2009 reversal you mention, Brad, is the fact that the Repubs seem to have learned nothing from it. Half of those who remain loyal think the answer is to double down on Teh Crazy and the other half think the answer is to re-package the same old shit in a shiny new box (i.e “branding”).

Not that I’m complaining, mind you. They can FOAD as far as I’m concerned. America would fare much better with a different party as the Yang in our political duopoly. Its just weird to watch people so committed to self-destruction.

Yeah but who would have said GWB would last two terms asleep at the wheel as he was.
Billo would not take the cut in pay.

Who do I have to fuck to get a little forgiveness around here?

Jesus Goddamn Christ. My Esteemed Colleague pays top dollar to roll around a cheap hotel in a diaper and I’M the one who’s gotta resign?

Well, there’s a long weekend coming up — you know where to find me, Motherfuckers.

Well, at least your Esteemed Colleague took his used condoms with him when he left, you pig.

I like how Jon Schwartz said it a year ago:

It’s September 12, 2001. You’re sitting in front of a TV, watching footage of the World Trade Center collapse over and over and over again.

All of a sudden, someone from seven years in the future walks out of a tiny temporal vortex, and tells you: George W. Bush is going to fuck this up so badly that in 2008, the United States of America will likely elect as president a black man whose middle name is Hussein and whose father was Muslim. Oh, and he also admits he’s used cocaine.

I think it would have been easier to convince me of the reality of time travel. “No, no, I believe you really are from the future. But the other stuff, that’s CRAZY.”

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002260.html

As Chris Rock said, George Bush fucked up so badly he made it hard for a white man to be elected president.

Invent a time machine and go back to June 2005.

Buy long-dated puts on Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and every other part of the U.S. financial system.

Then when the shite finally is done hitting the fan, buy calls. Too big to fail…same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

To tell you the truth, I never expected that all of the nations of Latin America and even the U.S. would say “absolutely fucking-utely not” to a coup by U.S. trained Honduran death squad militarists. I really didn’t.

Of course, now that the Democrats have all this power, they should probably do something positive with it.

GAWD, you are too funny!

Two words: Bill Nelson (and I don’t mean the guitarist from BeBop Deluxe)

PS: I am really looking forward to my new senator Al Franken’s speeches from the senate floor. I don’t think we’ve ever had a senator who knows so well the value and power of snark. It will be beyootyful.

Bill Nelson couldn’t begin to carry Di-Fi’s bag full of dollar bills and corporate jock straps.

(I’m too tired to sift the flour for a better metaphor, but damn DiFi is aggravating the shit out of me.)

How about some Dead Kennedys.

Dianne Banker-Butt-licker Margaret Thatcher Feinstein. The Dragon Lady with no Heart

ITTDGY. Yes, Agreed. Di-Fi, Nelson…there are quite a few of them willing to throw this chance away.

Sanford: “There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn’t have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line.”

I wonder if that’s code talk for “It wasn’t really cheating if it was just a tugjob”?

A Different Matt said,

July 1, 2009 at 5:23

I like how Jon Schwartz said it a year ago:

I like how he said it too. In fact, I like it so much that I’ve been using a variation of it for quite some time on the few people I know who still half-heartedly defend George W. Bush.

“How bad did Republicans fuck up? America elected a liberal [campaign edition, at least] black guy with a Muslim name. That’s how bad.”

Hasn’t failed to shut them up yet.

I wonder if that’s code talk for “It wasn’t really cheating if it was just a tugjob”?

It’s code talk for “I’m desperately hoping that nobody notices I was criminally derelict in my duty as governor. That’s why I can’t stop talking about the sexy bits, knowing the American press as I do. If they ever start talking about my dereliction of duty [yeah, right!], I’ll just take all my clothes off and sing a torch song about my Argentine lover”.

Dianne Banker-Butt-licker Margaret Thatcher Feinstein. The Dragon Lady with no Heart

Thunder, you win two whole internets and a cheesecake for digging up that gem.

Hanx, and Good Night.
~

Brandi said,

Sanford: “There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn’t have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line.”

I wonder if that’s code talk for “It wasn’t really cheating if it was just a tugjob”?

Mark Sanford is a member of The Family, known for it’s pedophile and child prostitution rings. They have no lines. They are completely and utterly amoral and believe that if you are anointed of God you can literally do no wrong. My guess is the only line he crossed was getting caught.

(Of course, now that the Democrats have all this power, they should probably do something positive with it. Because as we’ve seen over the past four years, American opinion can change extraordinarily quickly. And there’s no way I’m going to be able to deal with President Jeb Bush and Senator Bill O’Reilly in 2012 if I don’t have a public health care plan to choose from. Just sayin’.)

I agree, no need to pussy foot around conservative sensitivities. I say get out all the lib legislation at once, buckshot style, so their outrage will be confused and ephermeral. People are ok with change because why the fuck not. At least if public opinion changes, we would have left behind environmental safegards, working class financial safegaurds, health care reform that only hurts insurance companies, and a foreign policy that benefits people other that government contractors. Repubs always leave behind richer rich people and wars.

The Dems have to pass as much legislation as they can now while they have the supmaj senate, house, and admin. Even if we lose one of those branches Repubs won’t gain enough to reverse the legislation. I say go for broke. Fuck the polls; fuck 2012.

Mark Sanford is a member of The Family, known for it’s pedophile and child prostitution rings.

Oh?

Funny thing is, after reading this post, I DID invent a time machine and went back in time to June 2005, but while I was there I accidentally stepped on a butterfly, and…

…well, you might want to look out your window.

I mean, four years ago, I would have been too ashamed to post such a prediction anywhere, even if I were anonymously trolling over at Red State.

Bringing it up today will still get you banned over there.

there are quite a few of them willing to throw this chance away.

Not so much throw it away as not let it get a foothold. As several folks here mentioned the other day, the pants are off the whole “caving to Republicans” thing. They’re driven by the same whip, toward the same end. I suspect that for more than a few, having the whole ball of wax to play with is bane more than boon. Now they need to come up with whole new sets of excuses for why they are legislating contrary to the principals of those who elected them. Banker-Butt-licker, indeed.

meh.

—————-

PENIS.

Not only is this off-topic … but I’m not sure if there’s any topic it wouldn’t be “off” … TIME CUBE meets Mayan-apocolyptic surrealism, with a Tina Fey cameo thrown in at no extra charge?

You betcha!

jim — wow — just wow…

It’s the last paragraph that gets my attention there Brad.

God, I wish I could believe something like that could happen.

My heart is like, yea, that would be so cool and my head is all like , no fuckin way dood.

jim,

holy. fucking. crap.

You can’t make that kind of crazy up. It takes years of fermentation. That gets a bookmark in my “omgwtfbbq” folder.

Fffffuuuuuuuuuu…….

My fav,

‘Bingo!’, naturally, was my immediate reaction.

Naturally.

RB:
“Oh?”

Jesus plus Nothing
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525

Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington, Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends of the organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer to themselves as “the Family.” The Family is, in its own words, an “invisible” association, though its membership has always consisted mostly of public men. Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as “members,” as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.). Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains a closely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards, collects no official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or its activities.

The Family is a Christian neofascist group:

What would you say made King David a good guy?” He was giggling, not from nervousness but from barely containable delight.

“Faith?” Beau said. “His faith was so strong?”

“Yeah.” David nodded as if he hadn’t heard that before. “Hey, you know what’s interesting about King David?” From the blank stares of the others I could see that they did not. Many didn’t even carry a Hebrew Bible, preferring a slim volume of just the New Testament Gospels and Epistles and, from the Old, Psalms. Others had the whole book, but the gold gilt on the pages of the first two thirds remained undisturbed. “King David,” David Coe went on, “liked to do really, really bad things.” He chuckled. “Here’s this guy who slept with another man’s wife—Bathsheba, right?—and then basically murders her husband. And this guy is one of our heroes.” David shook his head. “I mean, Jiminy Christmas, God likes this guy! What,” he said, “is that all about?”

The answer, we discovered, was that King David had been “chosen.” To illustrate this point David Coe turned to Beau. “Beau, let’s say I hear you raped three little girls. And now here you are at Ivanwald. What would I think of you, Beau?”

Beau shrank into the cushions. “Probably that I’m pretty bad?”

“No, Beau. I wouldn’t. Because I’m not here to judge you. That’s not my job. I’m here for only one thing.”

“Jesus?” Beau said. David smiled and winked.

You can do anything:

“Isn’t that great?” David said. “That’s the way everything in life happens. If you’re a person known to be around Jesus, you can go and do anything. And that’s who you guys are. When you leave here, you’re not only going to know the value of Jesus, you’re going to know the people who rule the world. It’s about vision. ‘Get your vision straight, then relate.’ Talk to the people who rule the world, and help them obey.

Sanford is a member of The family

Killing the Buddha

After ignoring the most politically influential religious group in Washington for decades, the Washington Post is going big with the revelation that randy Republicans Mark Sanford and John Ensign both sought spiritual solace in the C Street House of the Family, aka the Fellowship.

Jeff Sharlet

“‘We were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao. And I would say, ‘Isn’t there a problem with that?’ And they seemed perplexed by the question. Hitler’s genocide wasn’t really an issue for them. It was the strength that he emulated,” said Sharlet. . . ‘They’re notoriously secretive,’ Sharlet said. ‘In fact, they jokingly call themselves the Christian Mafia. Which becomes less of a joke when you realize that they really are dedicated to being what they call an invisible organization.'”

I believe I may have confused “The Family” with “The Family International” so maybe not the child abuse so much, though I wouldn’t be surprised.

Hillary Clinton is also a member.

It’s code talk for “I’m desperately hoping that nobody notices I was criminally derelict in my duty as governor. That’s why I can’t stop talking about the sexy bits, knowing the American press as I do. If they ever start talking about my dereliction of duty [yeah, right!], I’ll just take all my clothes off and sing a torch song about my Argentine lover”.

Exactly right. For fuck’s sake, it happened during hurricane season. Evidently the Republicans these days feel that the primary job of a governor is to try and get elected to office or get a talk radio show trying.

I believe I may have confused “The Family” with “The Family International” so maybe not the child abuse so much, though I wouldn’t be surprised.

To be fair, given the right’s tendency to project everything it does and feels vaguely uncomfortable with, a Christianist kulturkampf organization from the late 80s trafficking children to have sex with Satanic pedophiles would make a certain kind of sense.

It’s the last paragraph that gets my attention there Brad.

God, I wish I could believe something like that could happen.

My heart is like, yea, that would be so cool and my head is all like , no fuckin way dood.

Obama is more than capable of making it happen. The strategy so far seems to be letting the insurance-industry catspaws’ exhaust/make asses of themselves and then getting things done in a single big push after.

I am pretty fucking irate that single-payer isn’t being debated, though. American healthcare fucks over everyone to the exclusive benefit of a specific financial industry, and its main adaptive strategies for keeping that awful state of affairs is being a good member of Your Team and carefully debating the issue only with fucking cranks.

Democrats should be quick to remember that it wasn’t all that long ago that the Dems seemed dead in the water and the “permanent Republican majority” seemed like an inescapable curse.

Things swung one way quite quickly. Its foolish to assume they can’t just as easily swing back.

Well, except for the fact that since the GOP has alienated every minority, they’d now need something like 66% of the white vote to regain the presidency.

Dude the fuckin’ thing is, dude, you cocksuckers don’t understand that yeah 60 seats or whatever but you know there are a lot of ins and outs and whatnot to this fucking shit and I mean we’ll do something maybe but right now you should all shut the fuck up and keep voting and giving money. By the way cocksucking fags–still not getting married. But keep voting for us okay dudes? Love ya mean it.

I have severly overestimated the number of Sadly, No! posters who give one-tenth of a flying fuck about Rahm Emmanuel.

Oh, and does anybody know of a good facial cleanser? I seem to have egg yolk everywhere.

Obama is more than capable of making it happen. The strategy so far seems to be letting the insurance-industry catspaws’ exhaust/make asses of themselves and then getting things done in a single big push after.

I think you’re supposed to say “Bookmark this!” after a statement like that.

I have severely overestimated the number of Sadly, No! posters who give one-tenth of a flying fuck about Rahm Emmanuel.

Who’s Rahm Emmanuel again?

Invent a time machine and go back to June 2005. Make bets with people that in four years’ time we’ll have a black Democratic president with the middle name “Hussein.” Then up the ante by predicting that the Democrats will have 60 seats in the Senate. Then top if off by betting that one of those seats will belong to Al Franken.

You could have made even bigger money betting on a woman governor of Alaska being on the national ticket for the GOP.

Given that Republicans generally run about thirty years behind Democrats in progressivism, and it was 1984 when we ran a woman for Veep, they’re starting to catch up!

Kid, Tempra paint is not supposed to form a chitinous shell.

Obama is more than capable of making it happen. The strategy so far seems to be letting the insurance-industry catspaws’ exhaust/make asses of themselves and then getting things done in a single big push after.

I think you’re supposed to say “Bookmark this!” after a statement like that.

He gets shit he wants to do done, and his MO has always been rope-a-dope stuff. Won him both elections. The problem has been getting him to want to do things, not getting him to get them taken care of.

The problem has been getting him to want to do things, not getting him to get them taken care of.

I’m not sure this is something he’s against or ambivalent about.

My thinking has been he’s been waiting for a Franken victory before he made a major push on healthcare. There’s no guarantee he can command 60 Democrats, particularly when you factor in people like Specter and Jon Tester, but up till now, the sense I’ve gotten is he played a waiting game.

I’m not sure this is something he’s against or ambivalent about.

There’s no evidence he personally wants anything to do with DADT, but he’s pathologically overcautious, and deliberately glacial even when he’s dealing with something instead of putting it off.

He gets shit he wants to do done, and his MO has always been rope-a-dope stuff.

Well, since we’re on the topic of Obama’s “MO”, I’d say it’s the same as every other successful American politician:

1) Identify what the most powerful interests want
2) Give it to them

What should we do about health care? I know, let’s get the guys from Kaiser and Humana together, and see what they’re willing to accept.

The Banks? Well, I’m sure the boys at Goldman-Sachs have some good ideas on that one.

Climate change? Oh, I’m sure Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will be able to work something out with the coal-state Dems and the nuclear industry, so no need to get my hands dirty on that one.

Look back on Obama’s entire life and career, and find me ONE example where he’s dared to challenge a powerful political or economic interest. It’s just not what he does. Not his “MO”, as you might say.

The only bad thing about Senator Al Franken is that it may tempt Janeane Garofalo to run, and ever since Scientology got its hooks in her, I don’t trust her.

ittdgy:
Best DKs song EVAR!!!!!

Weapons grade “OMFG!!!”, Jim. “Art Bell” level wackismo!

Her many epithets included ‘Scarlet Lady’ – the proverbial ‘lady in red’. In the biblical context, the ‘Whore of Babylon’.

So THAT’s what that sappy song is about!

Mayan Palingenesis

So what? A former Monty Python member is getting together with Phil Collins to tour Central America?

She resigned because Mayan Palingenesis can’t possibly happen now: Ed McMayan’s dead.