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Mediahohoho
06/08/09

In reply to Obama Not Being Trotsky in Disguise: Good or Bad?
The triumph of capitalism over democracy pretty much happened over the past 30 years, kicked off by Ronald Reagan and continued by every administration since. I wasn't naive enough to think that Obama could reverse the trend, which really hit full steam under GW Bush, but I didn't think he would embrace it so completely. But, hey, Paul Volcker, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner--these guys are all in on the scam.

Would that Obama's agenda were liberal. It's not. It's corporatist. They've won, they own us, and we're all fucked.
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Mediahohoho
06/08/09

@Mediahohoho:

But it's handy, naive and meaningless shorthand to call it "socialist," pretty much bandied about by people who don't have the first fucking clue what socialism is.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
06/08/09

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POP! Goes the Bama:

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MrInBetween
06/08/09

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Matt Bai annoys me, too, and I know why: He's the show-offy prick who always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, and he never is.
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Helman
06/08/09

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"Very left leaning agenda"? What planet are you from? (See, e.g., [www.swamppolitics.com])
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momof3wildkids
06/08/09

@Helman: If you are implying he is a middle of the road kind of guy like Clinton, I think you are mistaken.

I'm not rooting for his failure like some other conservatives as our country cannot afford for him to be wrong. But middle of the road? Please.
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Helman
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids: I didn't mean to imply it. I meant to assert it as fact.
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momof3wildkids
06/08/09

I cannot believe I am saying this, but I yearn for the days when all we (ok, I) worried about is a big fat splooge on some Gap dress that belonged to an intern. Sigh.
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Helman
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids: I have a serious question for you: why do you read/post on Gawker? Is the notion to educate the heathens? Because I think you are spitting in the wind, you know?
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momof3wildkids
06/08/09

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I think you have your stealth socialist. US now has significant ownership in banks, auto industry, insurance, etc.. Other than dropping the ball on gays in the military (which should totes be allowed, btw), what promised socialist scheme has Obama failed to do in his short time in office?
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daveyjonesisdead
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids: Well, we kinda took over the banks when Bush was president, but whatever. What I like about Obama is how he created the conditions that caused the banks and automakers to fail so that they would desperately need federal money. Ingenious!

Or was that Bush? Whatever.
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onebadclam
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids: I still don't have a pony.
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momof3wildkids
06/08/09

@daveyjonesisdead: Hey, I voted for the great Hope because who could vote for Palin being a heartbeat away? Not me.

I am just pointing out that this man has accomplished a fair bit of his very left leaning agenda in short order.

Bush created this economic disaster on his own? He was a lousy President but he had a lot of help from Congress.
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Helman
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids:"Very left leaning agenda"? What planet are you from? (See, e.g., [www.swamppolitics.com])
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Iceland Spar
06/08/09

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So if you read the Washington Times, we've elected Marx but if you read the New York Times, we've elected Hayek. Glad we're all coming together in these post-partisan days.
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Cheap Shot
06/08/09

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I meant that for I Love New Jersey assclown.
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Cheap Shot
06/08/09

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I hope a truck flattens you on your way back to Jersey you worthless fuck..
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BadUncle
06/08/09

@Cheap Shot: His wit couldn't be flatter.
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HiredGoons
06/08/09

@BadUncle: twat + wit = twit.
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Gabriel Snyder
06/08/09

@Cheap Shot: Remember what I said about the no-wishing-bodily-harm rule. Cut that shit out.
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johnny_carsick
06/08/09

@Gabriel Snyder: i wish him irreperable psychic harm. is that okaysies?
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johnny_carsick
06/08/09

@johnny_carsick: i mean, beyond what he's already obviously experienced.
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momof3wildkids
06/08/09

@HiredGoons: twat + wittier= twitter?
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onebadclam
06/08/09

@HiredGoons: Conversely: twit - wit = twat.

Somebody check my math here.
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Cheap Shot
06/08/09

@Gabriel Snyder: Okay rule maker, I wish that he would simply vanish.
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HiredGoons
06/08/09

@momof3wildkids: concurs.
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I Love New Jersey
06/08/09

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More like Al Capone in disguise.
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Perhaps Not
06/08/09

@I Love New Jersey: Of course! Because Al Capone gave money to his worthless cronies and started insane fights with people who hadn't attacked him out of paranoia and fear, just like Obama!

Wait, not Obama, the other guy. Bush. That was him.
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BookishLookish
03/02/09

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I hope that little bear tried to bite him in the crotch.
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ADismalScience
03/02/09

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I kind of like the tax holiday idea. The Fed can borrow more cheaply than average Americans and most non-rich (the "bottom 95%") would use the cut to liquefy debt. Seems like a decent swap to me - it's a direct way of doing what a bank stimulus is supposed to do. Combine that with insured deposits and you can let the banks fail.

The truly rich 5% would either spend the cash or invest it with the surviving banks in the surviving industries. I don't know if that produces the magical land of wind turbines and switchgrass or whatever it is politicians are saying while scientists hang their heads today. But hey, if we're all just going to take wild shots in the dark and accuse each other of pork barreling...
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Jill7
03/02/09

@ADismalScience: So what you're saying is, if Nadya Suleman is supporting herself and her 14 kids "on student loans," why can't the federal government do the same thing? It's weirdly brilliant, in a Bernie Madoff-Tom Petters-Carlos Ponzi way.
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ADismalScience
03/02/09

@Jill7:

I'm saying you essentially swap consumer debt for Federal debt. I mean, we all still pay, but at lower rates.
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flossy
03/02/09

In reply to The Amnesiac Newt Comeback Tour Begins
I actually think Obama chose door #3: Sit back, go about his business and watch to see if Newt Gingrich is really stupid enough step in and attempt to prevent a corpulent, pill-popping shock-jock from siccing his legions of mouth-breathing, sad-sack followers upon the assorted minstrels and clowns that constitute elected GOP leadership.
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Baroness
03/02/09

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His air control plan is a doozy: magical space satellites will allow them to axe 7,000 air-controller jobs and increase air traffic over busy vectors. Why do Republicans hate safety so much?
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flossy
03/02/09

@Baroness: Safety protocols are for Communists and if baby Jesus had wanted us to fly he would have given us wings, also, such as.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
03/02/09

@Baroness: It costs money, and since not everyone benefits from it (i.e., only people on airplanes, or directly beneath them), then not everyone should have to pay for it.
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Rasselas
03/02/09

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Poor Knut. The insane helmet-headed American is making him nervous.
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Astigmatism
03/02/09

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The Amnesiac Newt Comeback Tour played the Warfield last September. Place was fucking craaazy. They had to shut down the venue for 10 minutes in the middle of the set because the band refused to play a venue with union labor.
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