Address my post my bail, libs!

Brad deLong:McMegan::Beatles:Monkees

God, she’s disgusting.

Really leaves me with an overly-musky sorta sour taste in my mouth. Too much of it, that is.

I pray for her eternal sole. Really – have you seen her shoes? Faaabulous!

When the inevitable OKC2, WOLVERINES!!!! occurs, she’ll no doubt blame a heretofore unheard of leftist cabal, in spite of all the evidence.

Facchinello! That rightard in NH was toting a poster with the same damn theme as the T-shirt McVeigh was wearing when he was arrested.

Is she appealing to the existence of a silent majority of non-crazy conservatives here? Uhm, Meg, we’ve done the polling and a majority of the Republican party believes the imposter from Kenya is trying to kill their grandmothers. The town hall loonies aren’t a misrepresentation. That’s your side.

Megan is just upset the bar is closing, it’s 2am and the ugly lights are on and she doesn’t want to believe she was making out with someone that disgusting all night.

I hope she faces some real problems some day.

I hope she experiences life without money some day.

Not to steal anyone’s thunder (as if that’ll happen) but I will refer you to something on the same subject.

And the noun is “loony,” not “loonie.” Dumb fucking English majors.

It’s the libs’ fault that people we’ve scared shitless w/ lies are confused, terrified & angry.

*pats pockets*

Where the fuck did I put that thunder?

…I think it’s been stolen! *gasp*

goddess, is Megan McMoron that stupid or is it the august heat? tomorrow I’ll be braving a public fair to stump for public option signatures. please, let mcmegan and her zombies stay the heck away. or I’m gonna roll up my factsheets and beat them into a death panel.

Democrats appear to think that blowing those people up into the totality of the movement will help them win the PR battle on healthcare. I suspect this will do more harm to the Democrats, and their ability to effectively deliver their message, than it will to the conservatives.

77 percent support public option.

I’d say something funny or witty, but sometimes teh stupid is just so … stupid.

“those hideous poor people with nazi placards are really democrats because my side knows there’s no money in demonstrating in this way and any way I’m on my honeymoon with dusky brown people bringing me drinks so f*k you”.

To me, the crazy thing about McAddled is that, as a writer *snerk*, she should support single payer- the freelancer’s best friend. She’s awfully sure of herself to think that she’ll be on the Atlantic’s payroll forever, or that the trust fund well will never dry up.

I refuse to read anything that McArdle writes, from this point forward, because she’s always fucking wrong about everything, and fucking stupid to boot. So I guess I’ll have to rely on the shorters from now on.

So, is she still fucking that astroturf guy? Inquiring minds don’t really give a shit, but it might be good for a laugh or two.

B-b-b-b-but, she was on NPR.

And they called her an expert.

Talking about health care.

She must be learned and important

….

Okay, typing that made me throw up a little bit.

Oh, and fuck MEEEEEgan in the spleen with an angry skunk.

She’s awfully sure of herself to think that she’ll be on the Atlantic’s payroll forever, or that the trust fund well will never dry up.

Wingnut welfare is a bottomless well, apparently, especially for semi-attractive women who spew ill-informed crap. Case in point:

http://jezebel.com/5342451/the-daily-show-betsy-mccaughey-provides-dramatic-interpretation-of-health-care-bill

I know she’s apparently been fired from her day job as shill for a medical products company, but she’s still collecting paychecks from these guys:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:NGJhnXoGxtYJ:www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dstaff_bio%26eid%3DMcCaBets+hudson+institute+mccaughey&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

From Wikipedia:
The Hudson Institute is an American, conservative, non-profit think tank founded in 1961, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.[2] It moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1984 and to Washington, D.C., in 2004.[3]
The Institute promotes public policy change in accordance with its stated values of a “commitment to free markets and individual responsibility, confidence in the power of technology to assist progress, respect for the importance of culture and religion in human affairs, and determination to preserve America’s national security.”[2]
The Capital Research Center, a conservative group that seeks to rank non-profits and documents their funding, allocates Hudson as a 7 on its ideological spectrum with 8 being “Free Market Right” and 1 “Radical Left.”[4]

…Critics question the institute’s position on many issues, such as their negative campaigning against organic farming, since they receive large sums of money from conventional food companies. The New York Times commented on Dennis Avery’s attacks on Organic farming: “The attack on organic food by a well-financed research organization suggests that, though organic food accounts for only 1 percent of food sales in the United States, the conventional food industry is worried.”[6]

Interestingly, Hudson doesn’t mind taking government welfare as well as corporate:

While many conservative think tanks eschew government funding, Hudson happily takes government contracts. The Capital Research Center (CRC) database lists Hudson as having received six grants between 1996 and 2002 totalling $731,914 (unadjusted for inflation). Five of the six grants were from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. (Neither the CRC database or Hudson’s annual report for those years provide details on what the grants were specifically for).

The Hudson Institute’s IRS Form 990 for the financial year ending on September 30, 2003 showed total revenue of $9.34 million, including over $146,000 in government grants.

Just like Betsy, ME-gan will be well provided for when the Atlantic gets tired of her.

MEEEEEgan

That’s a lot of extra “E’s”.

i’ve spent most of the week dealing with another nightmarish bureaucratic healthcare mess…and damn that public option can’t come soon enough.

megan is ridiculous. also.

…when Megan McArdle predicts something will happen, you can be assured that the precise opposite is fixing to come down the pike. So lay back and relax … we’re about to get the government option.

I’m playing it safe, and waiting until William the Bloody Legacy Faileth Upwards agrees with her. Then, celebratory dancing will commence, and it will be fabulous.

Oh, and my first FYWP, sent on behalf of my iPhone.

Did all the suckers whose iPhones don’t work here wait outside all night for them like Megatron did?

Chattering once again about McAddled, and and still no love for The ExileD?

Couldn’t tell ya; this was the first time WP ever optimized my iPhone experience.

Chattering once again about McAddled, and and still no love for The ExileD?

Hey, we love it, we love it to pieces.

What I don’t love is that, regarding Freedomworks, I only find 28 Yahoo results for Dick Armey’s Dick Army.

The town hall loonies aren’t a misrepresentation. That’s your side.

That’s gotta sting, or it would if herself paid any attention to facts instead of doing stuff like assuming insurance rates must have dropped since she last checked ten years ago because it’s been all free-market and stuff.

A couple of my obnoxious coworkers at a job I had long ago played a game where each of them was captain of a “team”. The team didn’t do anything, they just sort of belonged to the captain. The only move in the game was to assign people to the other captain’s team, and the point was to stick him with the most embarrassing people. So you’d see these guys out having a smoke when (e.g.) some wheezing bizdork with a bad combover would come lurching by, and whichever captain saw him first would say “YOUR TEAM!” and the other would swear at him.

Politics in the U.S. have become basically that game, only the embarrassing people are all choosing their own team and Cap’n Limbaugh is proud of it.

DocAmazing said,
Brad deLong:McMegan::Beatles:Monkees

Hey! That’s not fair! The Monkees may have been a media construction, but they had good song writers and performed well. I’d suggest something like:

Brad deLong:McMegan::Beatles:Milli Vanilli
or
Brad deLong:McMegan::Beatles:Ashlee Simpson

The ExileD is worth reading just for the e-mail reply to Amanda Carpenter regarding the piece El Cid Mentioned:)

O/T Found this yesterday and thought it would interest you El Cid.

On the subject of gLibertarians:

To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. And yet (to quote the most vociferous of radical libertarians, Professor Murray Rothbard) there is nothing un-libertarian about “organization, hierarchy, wage-work, granting of funds by libertarian millionaires, and a libertarian party.” Indeed. That is why libertarianism is just conservatism with a rationalist/positivist veneer.

Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press, and Sunday-school platitudinizing that there is no free lunch — this from fat cats who have usually ingested a lot of them. In 1980 a rare exception appeared in a book review published in the Libertarian Review by Professor John Hospers, the Libertarian Party elder state’s-man who flunked out of the Electoral College in 1972. Here was a spirited defense of work by a college professor who didn’t have to do any. To demonstrate that his arguments were thoroughly conservative, it is enough to show that they agreed in all essentials with Marxism-Leninism.

Hospers thought he could justify wage-labor, factory discipline and hierarchic management by noting that they’re imposed in Leninist regimes as well as under capitalism. Would he accept the same argument for the necessity of repressive sex and drug laws? Like other libertarians, Hospers is uneasy — hence his gratuitous red-baiting — because libertarianism and Leninism are as different as Coke and Pepsi when it comes to consecrating class society and the source of its power, work. Only upon the firm foundation of factory fascism and office oligarchy do libertarians and Leninists dare to debate the trivial issues dividing them. Toss in the mainstream conservatives who feel just the same and we end up with a veritable trilateralism of pro-work ideology seasoned to taste.

Hospers, who never has to, sees nothing demeaning in taking orders from bosses, for “how else could a large scale factory be organized?” In other words, “wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself.” Hospers again? No, Frederick Engels! Marx agreed: “Go and run one of the Barcelona factories without direction, that is to say, without authority!” (Which is just what the Catalan workers did in 1936, while their anarcho-syndicalist leaders temporized and cut deals with the government.) “Someone,” says Hospers, “has to make decisions and” — here’s the kicker — “someone else has to implement them.” Why? His precursor Lenin likewise endorsed “individual dictatorial powers” to assure “absolute and strict unity of will.” “But how can strict unity of will be ensured? By thousands subordinating their will to the will of one.” What’s needed to make industrialism work is “iron discipline while at work, with unquestioning obedience to the will of a single person, the soviet leader, while at work.” Arbeit macht frei!

Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, “one can at least change jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job — just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

The Libertarian As Conservative, Bob Black

FYWP! just in case

Perhaps we can put McMegan on the last train to Clarksville … and make sure it crashes into a gorge when the eeeeeeevil gubmint fails to repair the bridge.

Megan is just pissy because people were asking her boy toy difficult questions over at Andrew Sullivan’s place.

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Megan is just upset the bar is closing, it’s 2am and the ugly lights are on and she doesn’t want to believe she was making out with someone that disgusting all night.

HA! It’s kind of hard to live your entire life as a “walk of shame”.

Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, “one can at least change jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job — just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

Hey, with employment based health insurance, it’s not even feasible for a lot of people to change jobs. Yeah, you’re now a serf on the MegaloCorps demense. Of course, this is the reason glibertarians are so dead-set against a public option.