@momof3wildkids: "As a former community service worker, three-term Senator from Rhode Island and convicted felon, I know what I'm talking about."
Remind me why this lying troll hasn't been executed yet?
@ADismalScience: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Thanks so much for clarifying my really muddy locutions. I mean, it was so obvious that when I wrote "I have a lot of confidence in the healing power of a strong economy" what I actually meant to say was "short-run economic growth spurt that lends political power to the Obama administration is worth more than long-term, sustainable initiatives."
I can't imagine how the words came out so wrong.
@ADismalScience: See, I was sort of with you until you say "the Republicans have a point." The only point the Republicans have is to obstruct as much as possible and then (ahem) point an accusing finger at Obama in 2010.
I have a lot of confidence in the healing power of a strong economy, which is to say that I am willing to believe that whatever hypothetical damage done down the road by "certain of the budget items" will be negligible in comparison to the current and long-term benefits of the package as a whole.
@ADismalScience: You should either learn to say what you mean in the first place, clearly and without the disingenuous use of buzzwords, or else to stand by what you say without backpedalling. Otherwise you tend to give people the impression that you have no real moral core and that the only thing that matters to you is the scoring of cheap rhetorical points.
Now, try to understand my point. During an emergency, an imperfect plan is probably better than no plan at all.
@LatestBy: A process perhaps new to Gawker, though a classic elsewhere in popular culture: dissibilanting.
@Nemesisesq:
To use another analogy the Market is like a dog, some times it loves you some times it bites you, but if you trest it right and apply to right rules it will be loyal to you. Basically the economic crisis is Akin to putting you dinner on the floor walking away and expecting the dog not to eat it.
Okay, Gawker is dead, I get it.
Richard, please let me know where you're going next, because I like how you write.
@ADismalScience: "Pork" is an urban myth and you know it. As a percentage of the total proposed spending of the stimulus package, its negligible, like a percent or two, peanuts, less than sales tax.
Go ahead, enumerate all the gazillions in the package that could be saved by cutting "pork." Don't forget the multimillion dollar overhead projector.
There is more to government than talking points, though admittedly after suffering through eight years of an administration that could barely manage to remember the correct order of its talking points, that point is easy enough to overlook.
I may be wrong, and please do stop me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Pareene posted this same piece four or five times a day every day since the election?
Dude, you're staring to make Maureen Dowd seem deep by comparison. Sing a new song, or at least come up with a song that has two or more notes.
@Richard:
Do you see him
On the hill at Gettysburg
'Neath that great triumphal arc?
If you see him as he's trampling through the grapes of wrath,
Stand up and snark, snark, snark!
@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): I think it's counterintuitive to go to a Studio 54 party dressed as "The Guy Who Never Was Admitted to Studio 54."
Now, if the theme of the party had been "The Best Man at My 1982 Wedding Was a Gay Dental Technician," Morgan would have it aced.
"No, actually she and and the board are about equally stiff."
This reminds me: the next time I invent source quotes, I will be sure to make something up that sounds more believable than "He looked just as natural with a bong in his hands as he does swimming in the pool. He was the gold medal winner of bong hits."
Then he started slipping, telling AP this year his sexuality had some "gray areas."
"Well, actually the area in question was mostly Gunmetal, with accents of Balboa Mist."
This should should be called "Minstrel Mansion." And Tyra should be
required to introduce it while tap-dancing and munching watermelon.
This thing looks like that thing.
In prison, it's important to be sure the hair below your waist is always looking its best.
Actual unretouched photograph of Richard Lawson.
Women go for a man who knows his way around the tipping point.
"How 'bout this? 'Killing Puppies -- It Doesn't Bother Me' ...
That's me, Frank Noland, and I LIKE dead puppies! Frankly, I'm totally
in favor of using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced
busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your
puppies! Give me a call, won't you? The lines are open."
