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***= Unless you count September 11, 2001, which we in the Republican party no longer acknowledge as a date on the calendar. In fact, when we in the Republican party need emergency help via telephone, we don't even use the numbers 9-1-1.
We have the hired help dial it up.
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On the other hand, Coulter's comment would just be par of the course on any given Tuesday in that gal's life if she hadn't fallen back on the, "of course, I wouldn't have made my racially charged comment were I an actual racist" defense, which is the surest sign I know of that the person in question is, actually, a big fat racist.
By the way, it's Ann Coulter, 48.
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I'd say what Dana Perino said is pretty effing awful, but I doubt she said it thinking "9/11 didn't happen on Bush's watch." I'm pretty sure she knows it did. Forgetting is just sloppy, but Ann Coulter is just blatantly racist and awful and should have her human card revoked.
11/25/09
I've heard wingnuts (many of whom I will be seeing in the next 24 hours; hi Mom & Dad!) say many a time about how Bush "kept us safe" for 8 years or some similar platitude. No Bushy, you didn't.
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So both white and black women can be stupid. Guess it really isn't racist but sexism.
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And frankly, I think Coulter would be offended if people DIDN'T find her statement outrageous. She could have easily just said that she found Water dumb; she brought the racial angle in for the controversy it would cause. Now I just got off of work and have to deal with wingnuts all day tomorrow, so where is the damn booze....
11/25/09
But yea, Coulter added the whole piece about affirmative action so we'd be talking about her now. Doesn't make Waters any less of a tool though.
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In his interview with Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart managed to say to his face that he finds his beliefs "wrong and abhorrent", yet he couldn't once ask Dana Perino a substantive question, let alone any question without giggling or fluttering his eyelashes?
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I know, blasphemy.
Even though Lyndon B. Johnson was a jackass and dug us deeper into Vietnam because of his jackassery, I will always have a soft spot for him for the Great Society, especially the fact that a n-bomb dropping good ole boy from Texas could be the president who did the most to advance the cause of civil rights in this country.
Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat thinking Obama will turn out to be a Kennedy (not assasinated, please Lord 'cause I don't think this country would survive him getting killed) and we'll need Lyndon B. Johnson aka Hillary Clinton to fix crap. (Okay, maybe not her.)
11/20/09
And it worked perfectly. So there's something for democrats to be proud of, I suppose.
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Yep, as LBJ predicted: the civil rights act cost the Dems the South for a generation. Or two. Or three. Good to know those Republican strongholds are there, though. Right?
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I guess Kennedy and Obama have some things in common (youth, wives, hope) but Kennedy was a poser from the very beginning. He turned the White House into a brothel and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Obama is the real deal.
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@Kakapo: et voila! This is what you call "ironic"...
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#tips
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But that FDR meme/analogy/point your friends must think is super strong is even weaker than you'd think. FDR didn't inherit his office with massive deficits - he was able to take them on to fund World War II. Considering there continued to be recessions throughout the New Deal until WWII wiped out the world's manufacturing base and population of working-age males in foreign, competing countries, the Keynesian approach is hardly ratified by FDR's enduring influence on American monetary policy.
Of course, you're tired of hearing this argument, so let's just gleefully watch the dollar collapse a few years and see where it gets us. Okay? Then we can declare this stupid referendum over and start dealing with the unpleasant realities of a depleted planet with nearly 7 billion hungry humans on it.
11/20/09
And Keynes did not urge governments to just run endless deficits. He said governments should build up surpluses when economic growth was strong and then use government spending to spur demand when the economy is stagnant.
11/20/09
Agreed in principle, but it's a matter of timing, don't you think? Massive long term deficits will kill us, but the government had to run up massive short term deficits in order to prevent the economy from completely and utterly disappearing into the abyss, which was money well-spent even if it did postpone the comeuppance that a few asshole finance people so richly deserve.
If federal largesse is the one leg propping up the economy at the moment, it seems incredibly counterproductive to kick that leg out in the name of fiscal responsibility before the private sector has come back strong enough, wouldn't you say? We committed (half-heartedly, I'm sad to admit) to a Keynesian approach with the stimulus. Since we have already spent or are committed to spending that money, don't we owe it to ourselves to let that program play out? Any drastic deficit-reduction measures we take will have the opposite effect of the stimulus, making those many billions of dollars a total waste (ironically, this would be supremely fiscally irresponsible).
Besides, some of our current deficit will disappear simply as a result of higher tax revenues and expiring stimulus spending once the economy picks back up in earnest anyway, no?