Obama’s Best Week Ever

I don’t want to be as nutty as the MSNBC crew in their praise of Obama’s expedition into shitheel territory today, but really, he did very, very well.

At they very least, he put the teleprompter joke to rest forever.

I would absolutely like to see more of this, and not in a partisan way. I’d like to see the opposition get smarter for the next one, knowing as they do now that if they aren’t, they’ll get a well-deserved ass-kicking. Thoughts?

 

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opposition get smarter

smarter? they’re republicans

 
The Non-Lester The Giant Ape Memorial Barbecue
 

Yes, he’s great as long as he’s desperate. The rest of the week, I’d like to see this kind of action. Maybe he’s finally seen the light.

Yes, yes, that must be it.

 
The Non-Lester The Giant Ape Memorial Barbecue
 

Obama that is, not Hitler. Oh sorry, Godwin! Killed the thread.

 
 

I still love to say President Obama.

 
 

Bitch! How dare you kill the thread before my rare, one-off, once-in-a-blue-moon comment?!

 
 

I’d like the R’s to decide they’re part of “governing”. Wouldn’t that be cool?

 
 

By ‘smarter’ I mean, not braying that the ponies-and-rainbows-idea-we-proposed-to give-the-most-meager-cover-that-we’re-not-obstructionists is NOT BEING LISTENED TO!!!1!

A smarter opposition is not one that calls Obama a Marxist and wants to ‘deport’ him to Kenya and says the Nazis were really the founders of Mother Jones.

 
 

Anyway, this Q&A session was so full of win for Obama … check how the wingnuts are handling it, they’re in full retreat.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Finally, the guy who we saw on the campaign trail emerged. He went into the belly of the beast and, unlike that wuss Jonah (no, not teh Pantload), he tore the damn thing a new one and emerged without a particle of shit on his suit.

 
 

At they very least, he put the teleprompter joke to rest forever.

HA! Nope, sorry, but if Republicans and their fluffers had any connection to reality at all, that joke would have been inoperative after the debates last year. But these fucks have never let reality intrude upon their narratives before, and they won’t start now.

 
 

He went into the belly of the beast and, unlike that wuss Jonah (no, not teh Pantload), he tore the damn thing a new one and emerged without a particle of shit on his suit.

“Oo’s ‘at?”

“Dunno, must be a king.”

“Why?”

“‘E ‘asn’t got shit all over ‘im.”

 
 

Oh, yeah, about that.

OMG he kicked so much ass.

 
 

This is all well and good, and I’m constantly amazed that the “Pukes think that putting themselves into a public setting where they go mano a mano with Obama is going to do them any favors, but Obama has to also do the behind the scenes stuff that good presidents do, such as telling the fucking pussies in the Democratic caucus to pass the damn health care bill NOW.

 
 

it was sweet to see – more, please!

…altho i’m sure 15 million idiot dittoheads will believe rush when he tells them that obama was shamed into embarrased silence and admitted praying to mecca

 
 

At the very least this will be fuel for even more heads asploding across the land of Wingnutia. The supply of lulz is assured.

 
 

Sadly, the GOP, while a truly special kind of stupid, is smart enough not to fall for this again.

Which is a shame, because it’d be fanfuckingtastic for our democracy.

Given how the regular media folks (read: not cable) are editing it, though, the GOP is apparently coming off about eleventy bajillion times better than they should. So unless folks see the whole thing they won’t see what it really was.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

But these fucks have never let reality intrude upon their narratives before, and they won’t start now.

The best part of it was Fox Snooze’s decision to cut and run 20 minutes early.

 
 

a House Republican retreat

That’s a strange looking retreat.

 
 

I fucking hate the ‘Great Man’ theory of history … but this performance was as close as I’ve ever seen to one guy potentially shifting an entire socio-political dynamic … ‘gotcha’, 24-hour news cycle, etc.

 
 

I think they’ve repeated their demented caricatures him so often that they actually believed that that’s who he is, and it stunned them when he wasn’t.

I don’t go in for cult-of-personality stuff for the man, but he’s obviously not the cartoon monster they pretent he is.

 
 

telling the fucking pussies in the Democratic caucus to pass the damn health care bill NOW

(goes out to rent a rully rully ginormous PA system to beam this thought directly into the center of the capitol building)

 
 

Credit to the GOP for greenlighting the TV on this – even if they regret it now. The Dems haven’t had those balls.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I fucking hate the ‘Great Man’ theory of history …

Somebody say great men?

 
 

noen said:

At the very least this will be fuel for even more heads asploding across the land of Wingnutia. The supply of lulz is assured.

And at the worst, the narrative will be that he got owned, caught with a secret teleprompter imported from Kenya on a socialist-controlled airline fueled with terrorist jet fuel and which killed an entire platoon of aborted babies on landing …

which would soften it a bit, but that shit drives the right absolutely fucking bonkers.

Okay. More bonkers.

 
 

Jeez. I _used_ to know how to spell.

 
 

I don’t go in for cult-of-personality stuff for the man, but he’s obviously not the cartoon monster they pretent he is.

No, he’s not. He is, as he keeps reminding people, not an ideologue, but a pragmatic centrist (and people on both the left and the right need to process that, and deal with it). And when he gives speeches, or engages his opponents, he shows everyone that he has a great command of the issues, can think on his feet, and is not afraid to call people out for their bullshit.

But he needs some legislative victories, and he need the Democrats and congress to understand that, and give him those. Otherwise the grand experiment goes down in flames, and the teabaggers help to destroy what’s left of this dysfunctional mishegas.

 
 

Spot on, commie atheist … really well said.

 
 

Fox cut away from this thing and is ignoring its existence. That’s about all you need to prove he destroyed.

 
 

Put the telepromter jokes to rest? Please. Since when has the reality of the situation ever dissuaded conservatives from their talking points. These are people that defend the speaking abilities of GWB and Sarah Palin as not only being coherent, but inspirational.

Don’t expect Republicans to give up their delusional fact free paranoid worldview any time soon. It may not be much of an ideology, but it works for them all too frequently.

 
 

Can you imagine what would have happened if Dumya had tried this with the Democrats? (Or, as that one rude bitch kept calling it, “the Democrat party?”)

 
 

D. Aristophanes said, “By ’smarter’ I mean, not braying that the ponies-and-rainbows-idea-we-proposed-to give-the-most-meager-cover-that-we’re-not-obstructionists is NOT BEING LISTENED TO!!!1!”

I thought Colbert addressed their ‘solutions’ with the amount of mockery it deserved in his own SOTU the other night.

 
 

I fucking hate the ‘Great Man’ theory of history … but this performance was as close as I’ve ever seen to one guy potentially shifting an entire socio-political dynamic … ‘gotcha’, 24-hour news cycle, etc.

Fine for us, we follow this stuff.

 
 

So? I mean seriously how does this change anything? It might do so if you actually clung to the absurd idea that Obama is some kind of progressive. If he were he could have proved so through action – all kinds of action he doesn’t need any Republican (or other Democrat for that matter) long since. As it stands, this was a brilliant move that’s going to get most liberals – the kind that swoon over rhetoric ’cause they aren’t really affected by the actual policies – off his back so he can fuck the rest of us over even more. No thanks.

 
 

I’d like to see the opposition get smarter for the next one, knowing as they do now that if they aren’t, they’ll get a well-deserved ass-kicking.

Except that they and their supporters barely know the difference between an ass-kicking and a hole in the ground-kicking. 🙁

 
 

“I’d like to see the opposition get smarter for the next one…”
And I’d like to see a new pony in my backyard for my birthday!

 
The Non-Lester The Giant Ape Memorial Barbecue
 

What I’m hoping — and hope can suck my rumpled bag, incidentally — is that these fuckers, POTUS included in the general pejorative, were trying out a couple of post-Massachusetts-asspounding strategeries: first, they floated the spending freeze. Tack hard right, gather the truck-loving stray lambs back into the fold, and so forth. But the base went entirely, unexpectedly apeshit, tearing the wainscoting off the walls in a manner unlamblike and revealing that a tack rightward was going to cost them the majority in short order.

So they tried tonight’s junket instead, which was to have Obama play to his greatest strength in a situation where the Repubicans are weakest: face-to-face improvisation. Obama predictably and happily put shit in their pants, which I’m sure has warmed the cockholes of many a progressive’s heart. Cockles, sorry.

While this is the worst kind of cynical triangulating principle-free bullshit, as long as Team Obammy take away the right message, which is DO WHAT WE COMMONERS ELECTED YOU TO FRIGGIN DO, it’s a win all around and I’m happy as a particularly good-natured clam.

Let’s call it intense, bitter cynicism seasoned with a pragmatic dash of unicorn lint.

 
 

Will it change wingnut minds or get them to drop their dumbass opinions? No, why would they stop now? And, really, who cares. I think what matters is how many average folks see this, and how many of them start thinking as a result “Gee, Obama is really blindingly more intelligent and rational than his opponents. Maybe I should support him more.”

 
 

Oh, and yes, it should go without saying that I hope the Republicans do this again and again. You’ll get ‘im next time, boyos! He was this close to admitting he was born in Kenya, by way of a Satanic ritual conducted by Bill Ayers!

 
 

“he could have proved so through action”

You must be new to the colonies. Here we do things a bit different and the system is deliberately set up to make it near impossible to get much done. This is considered a feature as it is what kept the last fuckwad to occupy the white house from doing what he really wanted to do.

“No thanks.”

Not even after a rousing chorus of the Internationale? The Central Committee has noticed your wanning enthusiasm Comrade.

 
 

christian h. – dude, the hot chicks are all dancing on the tables, you’re kind of bringing everybody down, pal …

 
 

So? I mean seriously how does this change anything? It might do so if you actually clung to the absurd idea that Obama is some kind of progressive.

He wasn’t talking to you or any other more-progressive-than-thou types. He was talking to the vast majority of people in the country who are not as he put it “idealogues”.

And seriously, I’m not aware of anyone here – any of the regulars, anyway – who ever had the idea that Obama was a progressive. I think we’ve all been pretty clear on the fact that he’s a centrist from the get-go. And like it or not, a pragmatic centrist at this point in history is not only the best we were likely to get, it’s also what will allow more actually progressive policies to be enacted than if we had all voted for President McGovern.

After the crazy bullshit that has constituted our politics over the past 20 years, having rational leadership that speaks to us (and others) as if we are sentient adults can’t be considered anything other than WIN.

 
 

Can you imagine what would have happened if Dumya had tried this with the Democrats?

Absolutely nothing. Unless Stephen Colbert had been in the audience.

 
The Non-Lester The Giant Ape Memorial Barbecue
 

I shaved my balls for this?

 
 

I thought the line (paraphrased) “I presented a HCR proposal that was similar to what Bob Dole offered in the ’90’s and you all characterise it as the next Bolshevick revolution.” was full of win.

 
 

I love you guys! (ridin’ the high, baby, livin’ the dream)

 
 

http://www.redstate.com/achance/2010/01/29/reorganizing-government-take-out-the-trash/#comment-2911

This is prompted by a discussion I had with Vassar and others yesterday. Some of it will be familiar to those of you who’ve read my stuff over the years. So, I’m sporting another excerpt from “Red on Blue.” Have a taste and let me have your comments and criticism.

When you take office, somebody who gave or raised money for you is going to tell you that you need to keep the government running smoothly, so you can’t do anything too drastic. The person who told you that is some sort of lobbyist or player that you think is your friend, or at least your contributor. That advice is for their benefit, not yours!

After allowing yourself a moment to shed a tear for the lost hopes, dreams, girlfriends, boats, and houses, fire everyone in the government that you have a colorable legal right to fire, and maybe a few more just to show that you can – you, the courts, or God can sort it out later. Do it within ten seconds of your hand coming off the Bible. You got that earlier advice because that lobbyist or player had a relationship with those people that he does not want to lose. That is not your relationship, and you might want to question your relationship with the person who gave you that advice.

 
 

… and now I’m crashing back down. Thanks, Art! Yer a pal

 
 

http://www.redstate.com/achance/2010/01/29/reorganizing-government-take-out-the-trash/#comment-2911

The very hardest thing you could do is to stop government from running. You could fire every politically appointed director, commissioner, or whatever, and nobody would know the difference; the government would just keep on doing what it does. Behind every one of those political appointees that someone wants you to keep is a career bureaucrat that actually does all the work. You only need a political appointee in the places that you want to make a change of direction. The rest of government can just run itself, and it will do so indefinitely.

A few of the political appointees from the prior administration will have supported you. Keep them – at least for a while, but it’s a lot like marrying a woman that was screwing around on her husband when she hooked up with you – are you sure what she’s doing tonight? Some of the appointees are relatively apolitical subject matter experts; fire them all and hire back any that are any good – after they kiss the ring. Let the rest of them lose their houses. Political appointments are not career jobs, and anyone who bought a half-million dollar house based on their earnings from a political job deserves what happens to them. The Democrats will bleat and wail. The day you fire them, they will have starving babies and mommies with cancer on the 6 pm news, but these days the news cycle is 24 hours or less, and everyone will get over it.

 
 

http://www.redstate.com/achance/2010/01/29/reorganizing-government-take-out-the-trash/#comment-2911

The only exception to the “fire them all at once” rule is the potential poster children. If there are some appointee level employees that behaved badly enough, keep them on and fire them for cause; prosecute them if the situation warrants it. Even if they resign on their own accord, hunt them down and prosecute them. Generally, the way to get rid of the prior administration’s appointees is to demand their resignation upon your assumption of office. You just tell them you are going to do things differently and they don’t fit into your plans. Generally, the rule is “any reason, no reason, but not an illegal reason.” The distinguishing characteristics of true appointees are that they are not selected competitively and cannot appeal dismissal; they are as close to “at will” or “serve at the pleasure” employees as you get in government. But they are not that “at will;” in most states, if you state a cause, you had better be able to prove it has a basis in fact. If you can identify a truly corrupt one, don’t honor him or her by just demanding the resignation; fire him for cause and make smoke and noise doing it. By corrupt, I mean true lying and stealing that Joe Sixpack can identify with, not esoteric policy stuff or bureaucratic rule breaking. If you really have the evidence, hope he sues you for wrongful discharge. This is all just to make a statement and to improve the morale and productivity of the survivors.

 
 

From the transcript:

“the component parts of this thing are pretty similar to what Howard Baker, Bob Dole, and Tom Daschle proposed at the beginning of this debate last year. Now, you may not agree with Bob Dole and Howard Baker, and certainly you don’t agree with Tom Daschle on much, but that’s not a radical bunch.”
But if you were to listen to the debate — and frankly, how some of you went after this bill, you’d think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot!”

 
 

Republicans have never been willing to do the necessary housecleaning, unlike Democrats. You can be certain that if the Democrats return to power in your government, anyone who even might have thought like a Republican, even merit system employees merely following orders, will be out on their ear. They do it every time, they do it ruthlessly, and nobody ever says a word since Democrats are good people. Republican reluctance is based both on the perception that mass firing would be disruptive and an unwillingness to take the bad press. This conventional wisdom is wrong on both counts. The government will run just fine without appointees for a while. As to the bad press, you do not have a choice; you are going to get bad press whether you keep some of them or fire them all, so get your money’s worth. It is like coming home late; once you are late enough for your wife to be mad, she’s not going to be much madder a couple hours later and making up might even be better.

You need a good lawyer for taking out the trash. In states where the Attorney General is elected, AG stands for Almost Governor, and he or she is not necessarily your friend. If the AG is appointed, you are probably safe with her advice. If you’re not sure, get a good lawyer, one who actually knows employment law, in your kitchen cabinet. Many states that have had long time Democrat dominance have lots and lots of jobs that look like political appointees but are not. There is a line of U. S. Supreme Court law, interestingly mostly out of Chicago, that says that if the employee is not in a policy making position, they do not serve at the pleasure no matter what your state law may say. Make sure that your reach does not exceed your grasp because the lawsuits can be expensive and embarrassing when you fire some clerk because the job was ostensibly appointed – Democrats can get away with things that you cannot. The trick here is to put the job under the merit system, assuming you have one, and if the person does not meet the qualifications for the merit system job, they hit the street. Sell it as reform; you are reducing the number of appointees. It will take your first year to sort all this out, but the process will not make the headlines after the first one or two.

 
 

After you find that good lawyer, you need some people to help you run this thing you just took over. You’re going to have one Helluva time finding them. It does not matter whether you are the President or a Governor looking to appoint a Cabinet, a Commissioner or Secretary looking for directors or department heads, or a director or section chief just looking for good help, you are going to have a very hard time finding good people to run or work in a government agency. First, the money stinks, so you are not likely to be able to recruit from the business world. Second, most of the ideas that make you successful in business doom you to failure in government. Third, you cannot recruit from academia because they are almost all lefties who hate you, besides, they can’t do anything anyway – those who can, do; those who can’t teach. This old saw is especially true in Law, Political Science, and Public Administration. And fourth, there is a Helluva lot of scrutiny of people in high places, especially of Republicans. Most of us reaching this level of power are Boomers and we have pasts – an affair here, a joint or a line there, a DWI somewhere. You can hire those people, but they have to give it up on the spot; no “I didn’t inhale” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman” for Republicans. The correct Republican answer if you’re asked if you ever smoked dope – and you did – is, “Hell yes and I’m disgusted by somebody who was such a hypocrite that he pretended to inhale.” You just cannot do that sort of thing anymore and you can bet nobody is going to fish your car and dead secretary out of a river and pretend it didn’t happen. You have to be straight up about it all – just don’t go around volunteering information. You will get some grief for 24 hours and then it will be old news. If you try to evade or dissemble, it will go on forever. If your appointee has a past, he or she had better be totally honest about it and totally straight now or life will be Hell.

 
 

Republican success in legislative bodies in recent times gives a new executive some former legislators and legislative staffers to draw on, but you and they will learn quickly enough that being a member of the legislative branch is not much of a training ground for the executive branch. You are left with those PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS for Republicans. They will hang you from the masthead of every paper in the state. James Carville had it right when he said, “you spend the election f**king your enemies and the transition f**king your friends.” Mostly, you are better off without friends.

 
 

Art dude, ya need some new material. Your shit is getting stale.

 
 

A special category of friends is lawyers. You will find lawyers who have gravitated to the Party or to you personally. The first question you should ask is, “why aren’t they making so much money in private practice that they wouldn’t be interested in government work?” If you have satisfied yourself PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS think like real people, and that can get you in real trouble.

 
 

If you follow my advice and fire everyone in political appointments from the prior administration, there are going to be what looks like a whole bunch of jobs vacant and some supporters who want jobs. Today’s typical Republican supporter and voter are so antigovernment that they believe, with some justification, that any damned fool can run any government agency better than it is being run. That may be true at the policy level in a Blue or near-Blue state, and it is certainly true even down into the bureaucracy in a doughnut city or one of the big longtime union and Democrat dominated cities. The Party and your supporters are going to give you Hell, but you cannot put people in jobs who don’t know the job – you’re better off leaving it vacant and letting the ‘crats just keep on keeping on. A lot of the positions are unnecessary sinecures for Democrats anyway, so eliminate them. Every campaign lives or dies by the people who do the political grunt work, but licking stamps, putting up signs, working the phones, or raising a little money really does not qualify someone to run a major agency, no matter how much the people who do that sort of work might think it does. Just look at what happened to President Bush for putting the former counsel of a horse breeding association in charge of FEMA. I’m sure his connections and his Republican credentials were impeccable, but he damn well didn’t have the qualifications and experience to run a major federal agency. FEMA and the Katrina response probably would have looked just as bad no matter who was running it, but the questionable appointment just made the Director and the President into a spectacularly good target. There are jobs you can put the 22 year old son of a major supporter in, but they shouldn’t be responsible for anything. There are plenty of “positions” in government to hire the people you just have to hire into, just make sure these people understand that they don’t have a job other than looking good and that you’ll fire them if they cause the slightest upset. Tell them to think of it as a job shadowing opportunity. And tell them not to even think of telling the ‘crats what to do. If they have a problem with what the ‘crats are doing, they tell you or your appointee above them and let somebody competent deal with it.

 
 

Goddamn Art, you can’t even troll properly.

 
 

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Looks like time for some ban-hammer action.

 
 

Is this guy going to copy and paste every shit thing he’s ever written? Hey Art, do you know any good poop jokes?

 
 

Look! I can use buttons on tha intertrons!

 
 

And then there is the bureaucracy. I am not talking about the appointee level. Remember, you fired all of them as soon as your hand came off the Bible. The upper level of the merit system bureaucracy – the people who didn’t get their jobs at a cocktail party – is mostly competent and mostly apolitical. They are relatively affluent PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS a right-thinking person comes along and reminds them of who they are, they will blow up the bridge if asked.

This is your greatest asset. The government will keep on keeping on. The roads will be maintained, the laws will be enforced, the welfare checks will go out, and the paychecks will cash no matter what you do. Make it clear to them that they are free to do their jobs even if their boss just got fired. Odds are they didn’t PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS going to be appreciative of a better paycheck.

 
 

After you take out the trash, you will not have much political level management around. Your true friends and loyalists will give you enough people PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS PRAY TO SATAN LORD OF HELL AND PRINCE OF DARKNESS change of direction. For now, that is all you can expect. Now you have to make a government that a Republican can actually run.

 
 

Disemvoweling seems like it might be a little harsh for a cut & paster. But surely something is needed.

Maybe just replace all the “e”s with smiley faces?

 
 

“I can look you in the eye and tell you we have not been obstructionists,” Representative Jason Chaffetz, a freshman from Utah, told [Obama].

That’s because you have no conscience, Jason Sociopath from Utah.

 
 

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Wow, Art, what happens if we play it backwards?

 
 

Hey, who the fuck is challenging my title of Lord of Hell and Prince of Darkness?

 
 

The true Art Chance reveals himself. I can’t say that I’m that surprised.

 
 

“Wow, Art, what happens if we play it backwards?”

Jesus riding on a magic pony silly.

 
 

We were not able in the Murkowski administration to reorganize the whole government this way; the lobbyists won that one, but we did organize all our human resources administration this way to prototype it. The internal opposition was significant but the reorganization has been successful in the main, though its future is uncertain in the Palin/Parnell administration. Governor Palin kept the reorganized system in place, but the assault continues. It certainly saved us money and helped ensure that employees were actually qualified for the job to which they were appointed and paid appropriately. Under the old system, fifteen different departments were paying employees fifteen different ways for the same work – almost always wrong and almost always too much. We had tremendous competence problems with people who were once under department authority and are now under central authority and supervised by people who know something. When the departments bitched about mistakes, we just told them we didn’t give them lobotomies when we brought them over. Your objective should be to absolutely control the money, the people, and the procurement. Even if you are forced to deal with an elected head of a functional group, if you control his money, hiring, and buying, you control him. If he’s not a friend of yours, he is not going to like the feeling.

 
 

Art Chance – Cloven Feet … the almost anagram proves the point.

 
 

Who is Louis Cipher D.?

 
 

Good Lord (Satan) … he is going to spam me under the table … sorry folks, going to bed, can’t keep up with the union-busta from alaska

 
 

Every government entity needs money, people, and stuff. Move the control of the money, people, and stuff to the highest organizational level where there still is commonality. If your government has central administration – finance, personnel, and procurement – under the chief executive or in its own department under an appointed head, this is fairly easy to do. Just sharpen your pencil, redraw the organization charts, rewrite the delegations, and give some orders. If your government has these functions under an elected head, e.g., an elected secretary of state, it is much more problematic, especially if you are not friends. I have never had to deal with it, since most Western states have powerful central governments. But even with an elected administrative head, you are the governor or mayor and he isn’t; use some muscle.

Most governments do everything in at least triplicate. There is a governor or mayor’s budget office, and each department has a budget office, and each division of the department has a budget office, and so on for accounting, people, and procurement. None of the subordinate ones add value, but each of them is dedicated to hiding what it is doing from all the levels above it. Move it as close to the top and to someone loyal to you as you can. Only where there is a truly unique function should it be allowed any independent control of money, people, or stuff. And then audit everything it does. I’m not being paranoid; I just know government. Well yes, I am paranoid; the question is, am I paranoid enough?

 
 

Watch Angel Heart, gm.

 
 

Is this a Malfunctioning Art Chance Robot parody or a new alternative to disemvoweling? Or is Art just cranking up the Slayer while he trolls tonight?

 
 

Art Chance = CANCER HAT.

 
 

Louis Cipher -> Lucifer

 
 

FM – excellent anagramatical takedown of our pal art

 
 

I WISH Don’t Tread ON Me would Come back. His Posts were A lot Funnier than This guy’s.

 
 

Art Chance also ranks fairly high on the ACNE CHART. And, too.

 
 

From BBC News:

Why do people often vote against their own interests?

Political scientist Dr David Runciman looks at why is there often such deep opposition to reforms that appear to be of obvious benefit to voters.

Last year, in a series of “town-hall meetings” across the country, Americans got the chance to debate President Obama’s proposed healthcare reforms. What happened was an explosion of rage and barely suppressed violence. Polling evidence suggests that the numbers who think the reforms go too far are nearly matched by those who think they do not go far enough.

But it is striking that the people who most dislike the whole idea of healthcare reform – the ones who think it is socialist, godless, a step on the road to a police state – are often the ones it seems designed to help. In Texas, where barely two-thirds of the population have full health insurance and over a fifth of all children have no cover at all, opposition to the legislation is currently running at 87%.

Anger

Instead, to many of those who lose out under the existing system, reform still seems like the ultimate betrayal.

Why are so many American voters enraged by attempts to change a horribly inefficient system that leaves them with premiums they often cannot afford? Why are they manning the barricades to defend insurance companies that routinely deny claims and cancel policies?

It might be tempting to put the whole thing down to what the historian Richard Hofstadter back in the 1960s called “the paranoid style” of American politics, in which God, guns and race get mixed into a toxic stew of resentment at anything coming out of Washington.

But that would be a mistake. If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best.

There is nothing voters hate more than having things explained to them as though they were idiots. As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing. And that makes anything as complex or as messy as healthcare reform a very hard sell…

“It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.”

You can listen to the audio version of Turkeys Voting for Christmas streaming from the BBC.

Or you can just yell incoherently at the patio back wall about how you ain’t gonna let them damn commie nazis tell YOU why yer damn health insurance keeps goin’ up, by GOD!

 
 

Oh look, it’s Art of the Dancing Badgers, again. Yawn.

Obama pwning the Republicans will move the needle exactly zero. The majority of constituents, the low information ones, will only vaguely be aware that anything happened at all. The newspaper readers will look at the Times or Post and get the message that they had a debate and came out more-or-less even.

The twenty percenters of the teabagging persuasion will think the R’s pwned Obama no matter what the evidence. The base (that’s us) will know he kicked their asses but we’re already on his side (as much as anybody is).

Sadly, this won’t change a thing.

 
 

“Watch Angel Heart, gm.”

I did 25 years ago. So I take it that he is now just a broken down slab of meat also.

 
 

My killfile, let me show you it.

 
 

Sshh, I think Art has gone to bed. Nobody wake him.

 
 

Now you have an idea of what to do, then there’s the doing of it. First, you do not need a damned consensus; you got one when you or your boss got elected. As soon as you say anything about reorganization, somebody is going to tell you that you’ve got to get a bunch of ‘crats together and get “buy in” from them. ‘Crats are amazingly clear-headed when they have a gun to their heads, and I’ve almost never seen one make a bad decision when given all the relevant information. Tell them that their world is going to be a certain way tomorrow and the only choice they have is whether to be in it or not. You will have your “buy in.”

Governor Murkowski wholeheartedly adopted two reorganization initiatives early on; human resources centralization and information technology centralization. We called it “integration,” since centralization had acquired a hot button political connotation in the Hickel administration. Planning for the HR integration was done by a select, loyal few by dark of night. The players, including a bunch of Knowles’ holdover directors, were brought into the Governor’s Conference Room, told how it was going to be, and told they were on the program or out of the game. That reorganization is now ancient history; there’s still a certain amount of backbiting, but no one would dare openly oppose it. On the other hand, a holdover director convinced the powers that be that they needed a consultant to “facilitate” a “consensus” amongst all the “stakeholders” and “customers” in the IT integration. They are still talking about IT integration and, if there is any change at all, IT is even more decentralized today than when we took office.

 
 

gocart, you jinxed it.

 
 

Can I just say that it’s offensive to post an entire article in comments? I don;’t give a fuck whether you’re a liberal trying to call attention to what an asshole Eric Erickson is, or if you’re a fucking spambot troll, but spamming an entire article is both offensive AND potential copyright violation, asshat.

 
 

“gocart, you jinxed it.”

Sorry.

 
 

Now, when you’ve drunk up that cheap-ass bottle of wine, and your spouse asks you if there’s anything else in the fridge to drink, you really should NOT say,

“Well, there’s that bottle of champagne that XXXX gave us as a gift for the holidays. But that’s too good to drink that tonight, we really shouldn’t open it.”

I mean, you should NOT mention it.

Vieux Cliquot is pretty good.

 
 

Generally, I am against banning people who I disagree with. In this case Art Chance is being a dick. I would use the “dinner party rule.” If someone was acting like Art Chance at your party, would you show him the door? I say yes.

 
 

g, should you drink it without telling her? Is that the correct answer?

 
 

Umm…. it’s pretty good.

 
 

So all is good except, ” I mean, you should NOT mention it.” This is cental to my point.

 
 

WWGMD?*

*What would Governor Murkowski drink?

 
 

The President bitch-slapped with ease yesterday. I hope there is more bitchslappery to come.

 
 

He went into the belly of the beast
Recipes plz. New ways with sweetmeats!

Incidentally, what are the words you least want to hear from your loved one, when the two of you are away on a bush-walk in the middle of the back-blocks, and you end up being the only occupants of a tramping hut?

My entry: “I’m thinking of doing something with that broomstick”.

 
 

They’re proving Obama’s point that they care more about scoring points than governing.

I would LOVE an American version of Prime Minister’s Questions.

 
 

Tony Blair was brilliant at that, btw, and very fun to watch, even if he did turn out to be an establishment cobag with his tongue up Bush Jr.’s tuchus.

 
 

For about an hour there I forgot the GOP house reps. were all white. /tweety

 
 

Obama has got to throw “bipartisanship” out the window. Anyone who thinks he can deal rationally with the cesspool of human filth called the Republican party has got a screw loose himself.

 
 

I’ve always wondered why more Dems didn’t go straight into the lion’s den, bypassing the FOX talking heads for a true heart-to-heart with folks?

 
 

I looked in at Faux Gnus to see how they are handling it. They are ignoring it for the most part but there is a short article that simply implies that Obama showed up, tried to paint the Republicans as obstructionists, ignored their ideas, drove up the deficit and went home. Then there is another article saying Obama was “hammered by Republicans” on the deficit and they’ve managed to convince him to act. So yeah, within a week the wingnuts will be calling yesterdays meeting a huuuuge success and they will, once again, believe their own BS.

 
 

the teleprompter joke to rest forever

Hardly. It was patent bullshit in the first place. It will never die.

 
 

Jon Stewart made a teleprompter joke the other day. Yesterday’s performance may not entirely kill the joke, but it sequesters it back with only the most rabid wingnuts.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

I think this event works because it forced the Republicans to actually debate policy in a civil manner – Obama had the advantage in each exchange as the guy on the podium, and could knock down nonsense. Also, Republican ideas are just terrible, and so any time Democrats have a chance to show that, Republicans look bad.

Which is why the whole thing was a mistake for them. Obama should try to do another such event at least once a year, and try to make it a tradition, but I don’t think the Republicans will do it again unless Obama goads them and calls them chickenshit.

As for Bush doing it, it would have still been a Democratic victory for the same reason: Republican policies don’t work, and 100 Democrats politely shooting Bush’s bad ideas to shit would be bad for him. He’d resort to cutesy but not funny nicknames, and lots of other evasion, and it would be clear the man had no mastery of the issues. Which is why it would never happen.

 
 

The right hasn’t paid attention. Obama shines in town hall type settings. They didn’t have a chance of catching or embarrassing him. They made a major strategic mistake which they won’t repeat.

 
The Non-Lester The Giant Ape Memorial Barbecue
 

Obama shines in town hall type settings.
And after his term is over, he’ll be shining at the train station — shoes, that is. CODED RACISM!!!11!!

 
 

CODED RACISM!!!11!!

Your code doesn’t work. I could still decipher it.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

I’m assuming a pretty small percentage of We The People actually watched the whole thing, and that those who did are overwhelmingly pro-reason and anti-bullshit. A lot more people will see highlights via the name-brand news purveyors, who will devote, what, 2 or 3 minutes to actual footage and then explain what happened according to their own particular profit-driven bent. The biggest bummer about this from my perspective is not that too few people will see the best bitch-slapping moments (“bolshevik plot,” “that’s not true and you know it’s not true,” etc.) but that very few will get the most important take-away, gleaned only by watching the whole thing: Obama answered their questions. Every single one. He let them speechify and nonsensicate and teablather to their hearts’ content and then, without taking any notes, he managed to respond to each and every question asked or implied at any point in each of those long, weepy strings of butthurt. He didn’t duck anything, and he went out of his way to pick up every dangling challenge and answer it.

Sorry to ramble, but I found that impressive.

 
 

While I agree that the teabaggers and fox news (but I’m being redundant there) won’t change their views because of this, perhaps the real target of this was the village itself. Hard to say how this plays there, since those people are all sociopaths, but maybe something changes for the better.

 
 

Sorry to be such a downer, but I still haven’t seen any explanation as to why this does anything more than make us feel better for having witnessed the Republican wankers shown up. (Which is good to see, I’m the first to admit.) I’m sure no-one here thought Obama is particularly progressive, but isn’t the conclusion to draw that we need to force him – not trust him – to do the right thing? And all I see as a result of this foray of his is liberals demobilizing. Not good.

As for not being crazy – fair enough. So now it’s a non-crazy president allowing the assassination of US citizens (etc. pp.). That’s better… how?

 
 

“Republicans have never been willing to do the necessary housecleaning, unlike Democrats. You can be certain that if the Democrats return to power in your government, anyone who even might have thought like a Republican, even merit system employees merely following orders, will be out on their ear. They do it every time, they do it ruthlessly, and nobody ever says a word since Democrats are good people”

Bull shit.

Reagan fired everyone from the Carter White House within days of taking office. It was Clinton who decided to keep members of the Reagan/Bush White House onboard after his election (and was damned with a house full of leaks for having done the decent thing).

As for the general subject of the thread, I approve of Obama finally taking the gloves off. Don’t expect the conservative media to react at all. I checked the John Birch website – sorry, PJM – this morning, and there wasn’t a thing up about BHO v. GOP (hell, there wasn’t even much in the mainstream media). However, still very cool – did he really say “I proposed the same HCR as Bob Dole and you all are calling it the next Bolshevik revolution?”

 
 

Okay maybe I’m just miffed because Obama dissed the Bolshevik revolution. Damn Menshevik.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

I still haven’t seen any explanation as to why this does anything more than make us feel better for having witnessed the Republican wankers shown up.

I’ll give it a try.
Look, it was one Q&A. It’s not going to change the world all by itself. What it does, however, is give anyone who chooses to look at it a glimpse of what could happen if government became an exercise in problem solving rather than an exercise in gamesmanship. That’s why I’m personally less interested in the bitch-slappin’ goodness of the event and more interested in the fact that questions were asked (some of them illogical, disingenuous, poorly premised, yes, but still questions) and that those questions were treated with respect and honestly answered. Anyone who watched the whole thing saw that it’s possible not only to disagree respectfully but also to correct mistakes/falsehoods respectfully.

I might have a different (more hopeful) take on all of this in part because I teach college freshman English — so I spend a good chunk of every day trying to help complacent non-thinkers become logical, ethical readers, thinkers and writers. I think Friday’s Q&A is a tool I can use in that endeavor. And it’s nice, at long last, to have a video of something more recent than MLK that I can use as an example of “ur doin it rite.” That is all.

 
 

But don’t you think that the only logical lesson in this is that the Republicans need to: 1) move further to the right, 2) accept more Jesus into their hearts (the warrior Jesus version), 3) know less, 4) be even dumber but more righteously indignant, and 5) push more moderates and outsiders from their ranks?

There are probably more lessons but I think this is a good start. I can only see this as a win for the Republicans.

To paraphrase Beck in his letter to the Fauxnewshians 43; 19-22, Move closer to the center of your true nature and furthest away from the wickedness of the political center-to-moderate right in order to gain the rewards of the true Kingdom of the Divine Lord of the Political Power in order to rule the Chosen Nation in justice and without the fear of self awareness or knowledge. The purest magistrate is closest in spirit to the know-nothingest of the gathered multitudes with the loudest voice and the greatest testimony of entitlement and who have great anger and righteousness and who are empowered by your reactions to their demands.

 
Blart Chintz, Esq,, Debonair Man-About-Town
 

Amoebae have never been willing to do the necessary housecleaning, unlike mitochondria. You can be certain that if the mitochondria return to power in your gall-bladder, anyone who even might have thought like an amoeba, even immune-system cells merely following genetic codings, will be out on their nuclei. They do it every time, they do it ruthlessly, and nobody ever says a word since mitochondria are good organelles. Amoebic reluctance is based both on the commandment from the ghost of Henny Youngman that mass excretion would be disruptive and an unwillingness to take the bad pants at half-price, even if the vendor offers to throw in a haute couture blouse wholesale. This defecational wisdom is wrong on both gonads. The prolapsed anus of a senile warthog will run just fine without enzymes for a while. As to the bad odor, you do not have a choice; you are going to get bad press whether you keep some of them or fire them all, so get your nostril’s worth. It is like coming late; once you are late enough for your nazi dominatrix overseer to be mad, she’s not going to be much madder a couple of weeks later and being strung up & beaten by her with a hardcover edition of Going Rogue while being forced to watch a loop of THE HALF HOUR NEWS HOUR in hi-def might even be better.

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Most governments do everything in teal, beige or some other delicate pastel. There is a governor or mayor’s blumpkin-dispensing office, and each department has a crusty-gym-sock office, and each division of the department has a Komodo Dragon office, and so on for imaginary friends, mole-people, and princes of mystical realms. None of the subordinate ones add chutney, but each of them is dedicated to regurgitating what it is eating from all the Ur-levels above it. Move your PENIS as close to the top of the pops and to someone diagonal to you as you can. Only where there is a truly unique protoplasmic Kermit The Frog should it be allowed any independent control of imaginary friends, mole-people, and princes of mystical realms . And then mimic everything it does. I’m not being spheroid; I just know gooseberries. Well yes, I am spheroid; the question is, am I spheroid enough?

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Now you have an idea of what to do, i.e., that voodoo that you do so well – but then there’s the doing of it. First, you do not need a damned PENIS; you got one when you or your Cylon Overlord got elected. As soon as you say anything about micturation, somebody is going to tell you that you’ve got to get a bunch of Mecha-My-Little-Ponies™ together and get “fresh stool samples” from them. Mecha-My-Little-Ponies™ are amazingly clear-headed when they have a PENIS to their heads, and I’ve almost never seen one make a bad POOPY when given all the relevant crunchy granola. Tell them that their stall is going to be a certain way tomorrow and the only choice they have is whether to be open to necrobestiality or not. You will have your “fresh stool sample.”

 
 

He may have them over a barrel as to doing this crazy thing again – unless they like looking like supreme jamtarts … but you can bet your Bippy that after this they’re not going to let any fucking cameras roll while it happens, or any tape-recorders for that matter – period.

“January 29, 2010 – NEVAR FORGAET!”

 
 

A few possible positives.

First, yeah, okay, he worked them like a rented mule. I won’t deny myself a partisan SCOREBOARD!

But more than that, he was a commanding presence– there was only one President in the room and it was all him. At a time when basically everyone is worried about our major social institutions crumbling to dust, it helps to turn down the panic– and to increase the possibility for real change– when the guy in charge actually looks like he knows what he’s talking about.

Second, it was notable because it was something we rarely see: something new in political coverage. Our political communication forms have become so rote and predictable, so artificial and gamed from every angle that no one with an active brain would ever want to pay attention. There is no army of pundits and spinners an strategists (yet) who have mastered this form, so it was refreshingly candid.

I hold out a tiny hope that the excitement (and the ratings) that yesterday provided, will push people– especially the press– to expect this sort of direct back-and-forth between a public figure and their harshest critics. If that happens, even a little bit, it will substantially change the course of American politics for the better. The whole Bush/Palin model of speaking only before hand-picked crowds of worshipers and sitting down with only friendly news outlets who lob softballs will be substantially reversed. That’s fucking change I can believe in, right there.

 
 

There is nothing voters hate more than having things explained to them as though they were idiots.

But what if they are idiots?

 
 

Obama was good, wasn’t he? Sorta makes you wish he’d been doing things like this all along, doesn’t it?

 
 

Hear, hear! I like a two-party system. But not when one of those two parties is a bunch of booger-eating morons who expect to get what they want just because they want it.

 
 

While I like the ‘concept’ of bi-partisan government, the reality is that everytime President Obama extends his hand, the GOP refuseniks spit in it.

Until that time they actually choose to seriously engage in the process, Obama would be better served to move along the legislative process leaving gooper obstructionists (and DINO Dems) by the wayside.

He seems to have the political capital and overall support of the citizenry, so to do otherwise means that he did not really have these items on his agenda in the first place (certainly a possibility).

 
 

Eh, look what happened when socialist majority government tried to enact REAL reform … Franco took over.

These right-wing nutjobs are all talk right now. REAL change … well, I’d rather muddle along than have my brains blown out all at once. At least with the status quo I can fantasize about moving to France.

 
 

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