Whiskey Fire

Spite

Well today was certainly very exciting! And I suppose I am pleased with the outcome, on balance. The ACA is weak tea from a progressive perspective, but it is an improvement over the status quo.

Though my soul is nowhere near as unstain'd as that of Chris Bowers.

Seeing tea party types upset over the Supreme Court ruling doesn't bring me any joy. Millions of people got to keep their health insurance today, and that's what matters. Helping people is why I got into politics, and the few times when I can actually believe our work made a difference are the moments that bring real happiness.

Well, fair enough, and other incarnations of my personality might perhaps appreciate the sentiment. But not Thers. I have always said that I blog out of spite, so the Virgin Ben stuff is to me all kinds of wonderful. Fuck them and may they die choked on the blown spleens of their grandmothers.

But let us not fail to take note of the o'erarching idiocy. Today was a ghastly farce, frankly -- a Masque of the Dead Democracy. I agree with this completely.

Law is the only field of intellectual activity where anyone seriously says "they got it exactly right in the 18th century, case closed."

It is all my balls.

Questions, Answers

Ed Kilgore axes a question:

Eventually these questions will be asked, and I do wonder if Republicans are counting on ignorance and stupidity to an extraordinary degree in placing so much weight on this really dumb argument.

Begob that is a difficult pancake, a snorter of a conundrum.

Game Over, Man, Game Over

Ed Whelan screeches at E. J. Dionne, and it's all very drama like the climax of a noir film.

Further, far from “questioning President Obama’s decision,” Scalia is expressly agnostic on it, as language that Dionne quotes but doesn’t grasp (“The president has said that the new program is ‘the right thing to do’…. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so”) shows. Scalia’s point (which, again, Dionne quotes but doesn’t grasp) is that what matters is whether Arizona’s law conflicts with federal immigration law, not whether it conflicts with the Obama administration’s enforcement priorities. There may well be reasonable grounds for contesting this legal proposition, but Dionne’s contention that Scalia was being “blatantly political” in making it is woefully ill-informed.

When you're down to the "let's pretend to not understand sarcasm" defense, it's only because you don't know who, exactly, you need to blow.

Congratulations!

Dr. Dick makes it big as an Internet Commenter! His intemperate remarks in the LGM fever swamps have not gone unnoticed by our nation's Chief Guardians of Civil Discourse -- the fine folks over at World Net Daily, whose readers have apparently been sending Paul Campos some love letters:

On one of his own blogs, Campos allowed comments on the issue that included one that turned positively vicious.

On the Lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com, a commenter identified as “DrDick” wrote: “Our one hope now is that his increasing uncontrolled rage will trigger an aneurism (sic).”

Gracious!

Hmm, let's sample the comments WND allows, I'm sure we won't find any coarseness...

Here's a fellow with an interesting list of Enemies of America:

The academia, hollyweird, weird pop culture loons, left wing media, elite foreigners, blacks and communists;;America is fighting for her soul this November 2012 so get everyone you know to register and then vote for We the Peoples free nation.

And then the stuff not at all positively vicious:

Let 'em hop.  Over a cliff and right on down the highway to hell.

Lock and load looks like we need to be ready if Obama and the Progressives try to steal our election in November but more importantly cause so much civil untrest in the process that he declares marshall law possibly cancelling the election all together, I put nothing past this man.

OK the feds have failed in AZ... The state tried and was slapped down....
It is time people of AZ..... Time to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and defend your own boarder.....

just enforce existing immigration laws that are on the books in our constiution, like all government officials swore to uphold our constitution when they took office, they don't uphold our constitution, charge, convict, and execute for treason. After the first dozen executed, they'll get the message.

This campos genk, who pretends to be a professor, needs to get his mouth smashed, and his nose put on the other side of his face.  Justice Scalia said exactly what is wrong here and what the remedy should be.  Too bad we do not have more Scalia's on the Supreme Court.

This response to the last comment is my favorite, because of the closing sentiment:

I appreciate your sentiment and intensity; however, let us not stoop to the level of the liberal mindset by wishing/recommending/threatening physical violence upon them. It seems that that is endemic to the liberals in this country...WE should keep the discussion clear of such anger and "hate speech": it is patently obvious that liberals are incapable of so doing. Take the high road, my friend, and stay above the nastiness...for now.

BREAKING! Obama Forces Heartland American Taxpayers at Gunpoint to Pay for Layabout Minorities' Fishing Gear

In a shocking display of raw, unadulterated corruption and evil, wicked Government Bureaucrats are attepting to provide food to hungry elderly people.

More than one in seven Americans are on food stamps, but the federal government wants even more people to sign up for the safety net program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been running radio ads for the past four months encouraging those eligible to enroll. The campaign is targeted at the elderly, working poor, the unemployed and Hispanics....

Still, more than one in four Americans eligible for food stamps do not participate, according to USDA records.

And the rate is much lower among the the elderly and people just above the poverty line. Nearly two-thirds of folks in these categories aren't enrolled.

In one ad, an elderly woman is surprised to learn that her friend is on food stamps. The friend explains that now that she's retired and on a fixed income, the program "helps me eat right when money's tight."

Here are noises made by a semiliterate angry person who is Outraged by this Scandal.

Food Stamp President Wants Even More People On Food Stamps

What he wants is more people dependent on the Central Government, owing their allegiance to Obama and the Democrats, as opposed to finding ways to get the economy moving so that people have the money to purchase food on their own with government help

And here is another semiliterate angry person. As always, enjoy the comments, because that's where the dogs bark when they hear the whistle:

Very classy, President Dole. Why don’t you change the name to “Kool Stamps”, since you’re blatantly shilling to older blacks? A private sector enterprise would be pilloried for pitching an insidious, addictive product like this to a targeted ethnic or racial group.

You must be painfully aware that many older blacks are not as enthused with your Preeziness as their fool children and grandchildren are. That’s why the “We’ve Got Your Back” ad sounds like a ’70′s Malt Liquor commercial.

Or:

Recently went into my local grocery store.. In the line ahead of me was a young hispanic who could barely speak english.. He was adorned with a heavy gold chain around his neck with a large gold coin at its end.. He also wore a heavy gold bracelet and diamond earrings.. The suit he wore looked to have costed 1,000 dollars.. He had two carts.. The first filled with formula, baby food, cereal, juices, etc.. He paid for these items using WIC.. The next cart was filled with steak, lobster, soda, candy, etc.. He paid for these with a SNAP (food stamp) card..

Or:

Very often, persons ahead of me in the grocery line will split their purchases to buy stamp allowed foods, and non stamp allowed foods such as cigarettes, wine and fishing gear. The government is not subsidizing a healthy diet, it is just spreading the wealth

I like the "fishing gear" bit the best.

This isn't nutpicking. It is the true voice of the American right.

Great National Questions of My Adult Lifetime

Here are the Great National Questions of My Adult Lifetime.

* Are wars against countries that haven't attacked us justified?

* Is torture OK?

* Is firing a lot of working people in a nasty recession smart?

* Should women have access to contraception if they pay insurance for it?

* Do law abiding Americans deserve equal rights if we dislike who they want to have sex with?

* Are scientists more qualified than non-scientists to discuss science?

* Why shouldn't the people who caused a recession still be in charge of the entire financial system?

* The deficit is the most serious issue of our time, but more war, turn on the spigot! (Not a question, but fuck.)

* Are the Senate filibuster and a clownshow Supreme Court really sufficient veto points in our system of American Exceptionalism to prevent the enactment of center-right reforms proposed by a Democratic administration?

* Is CNN too socialist?

* Why did public employee unions deliberately use their gravy-train pension plans agreed upon forty years ago to cause the housing bubble that exploded in 2008?

* Why is the MSM not exploring Kenyan Musselman Socialism?

* Why are we badmouthing drone strikes?

* Why do we let poor people and minorities vote, anyhow?

FUCK. Add your own, redsnouts.

Whoops, forgot this:

* Why is the entire rest of the Free World with sensibe healthcare basically under the Iron Heel of Toalitarianism, except how they're not?

Whiskey! Democracy! Fuck Me!

Golly. It sure is a mystery why whenever them fuzzy l'il foreigners get the right to vote, they totally forget that the True Meaning of Democracy is "voting however American shithead politicians demand they vote."

MAS. This is also wonderful. Power Tools!

Let’s hope that the Obama administration doesn’t follow the Jimmy Carter playbook for dealing with revolutions in strategically vital Islamic nations.

Once upon a time, way back ten years ago, we had to invade a strategically vital Islamic nation to Create Democracy. Now we need to maybe consider attacking a strategically vital Islamic nation because of Democracy.

Hooray!

Power Tools explicitly informs us that the best thing we can do for the peoples of Strategically Vital Islamic Nations is to maintain proxy military dictatorships.

Truly, they hate us for Our Freedoms.

Saturday Night Bambi Movie

 

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Things You Learn from Townhall

FDR was really a 21st-century Republican because he knew that Jesus loves war.

Assholes

Assholes.

No mention in the story of how the influx of workers will help American citizens find work.

No mention in NewsBusters about why being an asshole in regards to children isn't shitty.

Assholes.

The timing of the interview coincides with the Fortnight of Freedom the Catholic bishops have encouraged, starting Thursday, taking us through Independence Day. It is about prayer and fasting and educating. It is an ecumenical opportunity to get serious about the defense of this first freedom.

It is about the Catholic Church wanting a mulligan for breaking the law because centuries of made-up shit magically make preposterous misogyny OK.

And this is fun:

But they can grasp the fact that Catholic understanding of sexuality is part of a wider ethic, the same ethic underlying the Church’s witness on the death penalty or poverty or euthanasia.

Yeah, I can remember the Catholic Bishops going to the mattresses for opposing the death penalty like they just did for pretending not to understand the concept of "health insurance."

Assholes.

Also, assholes. It's all wonderful, but I liked this bit especially:

Still to come is an amendment on another egregious practice that lets some 15 states automatically enroll families for food stamps if they get federal home-heating subsidies. Some states mail heating subsidy checks of as little as $1 a month so families can qualify for federal food stamp benefits of as much as $130 a month.

HOLY SHIT STARVING FAMILIES GET $130 A MONTH.

For fifty bucks you could mulch 'em.

Fucking assholes.