When those on the left do it, they’re called Nazis.
When those on the right do it, they’re called patriots.
Hypocrisy ahoy!
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Missed this, but any excuse to talk about NAMBLA and the failed campaign of one Ken Blackwell again I’ll take. It was so much fun in 2006. Why Matt would remind us of his disastrous stint as “offi…cial cam…paign blo…gger” is beyond me, but he continues to do just that.
Matt finds some great video of Ted giving a speech that means precisely nothing. This has all been covered and was the final nail in both Matt’s coffin and his boss Blackwell back in 2006. I find this video much more meaningful:
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How does one know we are on the right track with healthcare reform? This
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Looking like today will be an historic day. Years of battles with obstructionist GOPers and recent intense months of continued obstruction and tea bagger insanity gives way to the passage of healthcare reform. Marcy Kaptur backs away from the Stupak bridge to announce she’s on board. John Larson says the votes are in hand. We’ll know this evening whether this was true. I’m hearing 217-214 in a stunning display of partisan obstructionism on the part of Republicans.
The good news is that our own John Boehner will be proved a spectacular failure in declaring the bill will “ruin our country”. A bold statement that will some day prove to be as ridiculous as we know it is.
Cantor and company continue to prey on the fear that they’ve stoked these many months. The only reason any American is “full of fear” about health care legislation is because goons like Cantor and his mouthpiece on Fox News Glenn Beck have been making sustained attempts to scare the living shit out of people about something that will ultimately benefit everyone…and most likely those they are pumping full of fear the most.
Shaping up to be a pretty historic day. We may just turn back the bastards afterall and get this done!
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This was necessary to jump on. Modern’s post earlier missed the real story here, maybe. I would have led with 70% and followed up with local taxes. So let me do just that.
I just got off the phone with Jeff Bell (nice guy) who wrote the article for Columbus Business First where Kasich is quoted as saying he and his team hope to have 70% of his government reform agenda figured out by November. You know. That month on the second day of which we’ll re-elect a governor or elect someone who has 70% of his plan figured out.
I wanted to be sure John Kasich actually said this out loud. It sounded like one of those inside words that accidentally popped out. Jeff confirmed to me that indeed John Kasich said this. Out loud. Let’s review:
Kasich said he and his team hope to have about 70 percent of their state government reform agenda figured out by November.
This is either the most brilliant piece of under-promising so as to over-deliver or it’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard a politician say this cycle. Seriously? You hope to unseat a Governor who has in your mind fucked the state up beyond all repair…buuuut…you only hope to be 70% sure of how to fix it if – and even when – you get elected?
Has anyone ever offered up a 70% plan? Much less a “Soon to be disclosed (we hope by the election) 70% plan”?
This guy is a piece of work! I bet they’re banking on nobody paying attention. Yeah, that must be it. Meantime we frame the debate that Kasich and his staff don’t expect to even have a complete plan until just before the election.
My guess is somewhere in an apartment in Virginia Jon Keeling (aka MC Tablescraps), carpetblogger extraordinaire is banging away working on getting to 50%! Go Jon go! Maybe he can make himself one of these:
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First the original, by Soundgarden:
Now the cover by Johnny Cash:
Verdict? Cash in a 2nd round knockout. The original is fantastic and defines Soundgarden in a large way. They were a great live band and Cornell is one of the best rock vocalists ever. Cash, however, does the near impossible and makes the song not only his own, but redefines it completely – and pulls it off to perfection.
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Ruh roh. Looks like ACORN may be getting $100 from my wingnut friend Joe C. We made a wager (I don’t forget these things – someone still owes me a bottle of bourbon from the 2008 Presidential…cough…Keeler…cough). The wager came after I made fun of those on the right getting lathered up by an article taking comments out of context to indicate (they thought) that Obama was leaving open the option of not running for re-election.
Joe C was very sure of it and even put $100 on it. Given to our favorite charity. I guess Joe could save us some time waiting and go ahead and take care of the $100 transaction. Do it all online. 
Ain’t looking good for old Joe:
President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Whoops.
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I was not the biggest Cash fan growing up. I bristled at anything remotely “country”. Dad was a big fan so I got a solid foundation on the basics. It wasn’t until his later years and his crossover to the rock side of the world that I gained more respect and began to pay more attention to him. I got to meet him once in the Nashville airport. Super nice and down to earth type. Smaller in stature than you’d think.
His cover of Soundgarden’s Rusty Cage solidified me as a fan. Bloody brilliant. One of the best re-tellings of a song of all time. Will try to feature that in a revived version of Friday Night Music Fights (and I think Cash will win).
Friend recently sent me a copy of American VI and though a somber album, it is true genius. Pure Cash.
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Finding GOP hypocrisy and political grandstanding is about as tough as finding melting snow outside today.
At first, the Dem HCR proposals were too damned long:
Now they’re too damned short:
“The White House’s ‘plan’ consists of an 11-page outline, which has not been scored by the Congressional Budget Office or posted online as legislative text. So they want to reorganize one-sixth of the United States’ economy with a document shorter than a comic book, and they’re complaining that they can’t find our plan on their own website? C’mon,”
You’ll note John says in the above video that Republicans have “better ideas” and that they’d be “talking about them over the next week”? Was this it? Seriously? A one page bullet point list that surely wasn’t “scored by the CBO”? LOL
Of course Boehner (and the original TPM article) fails to note that the 11 page White House plan “builds off of the legislation that passed the Senate and improves on it by bridging key differences between the House and the Senate as well as by incorporating Republican provisions that strengthen the proposal“.
These are improvements that incorporate Republican provisions you idiot. What an embarrassment this asshat of a clown Boehner is to the state of Ohio. Disingenuous little orange bastard.
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Jon Stewart again shreds the Beckster:
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Been on a two week gauntlet of business travel, but feel I need to comment on this old story about Pat Tiberi being a stimulus hypocrite (among the parade of recent GOP stimulus hypocrites outed lately).
Pat’s my Congressman. Dude pretty much knows how to lay low, go along to get along, and is generally considered a GOP patsy kind of guy. Did it surprise me to hear that while railing against the stimulus bill Pat was also writing letters trying to score some cash for his district? Not one bit. He’ll most likely get away with it too. Voters in the 12th are your typical eyes glazed over GOP does no wrong idiot sycophants. They’ll buy the claptrap put out by his campaign that while Pat “didn’t support the stimulus bill, but when it comes down to parts of the bill that are actually going to support jobs, he’s going to come down on the side of supporting businesses and Ohio jobs”.
Seriously. They’ll buy that shit.
One thing though. When you have the biggest progressive mouthpiece in the state along with one of the biggest wingnut bloggers in the state both calling you out as a hypocrite, you might just have problems.
That said, given the nature of the district and Pat’s lay low nature I don’t expect OH-12 to be competitive at all. Pat’s going to have to take a walk on the Appalachian Trail to lose his cushy job in DC.
I’m just glad that Tiberi’s staff conceded that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created jobs! 37% of the stimulus ($288B) went to “tax relief”. I’m sure Tiberi agrees with this part of the stimulus as well. I bet if we add up all the job saving/creation and tax relief that Congressman Tiberi might even agree with the majority of the bill he voted against! Developing…
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I’m not sure if this is an endorsement, but a reader forwards some photos taken of Matt Naugle at the Cordray announcement last week:
I love this last shot of one wingnut standing alone. He either farted or they figured out who he was. LOL
You may remember that Matt was also spotted at an Obama campaign rally in Columbus a couple years ago.
I think if the GOP wants spotters on the ground that they should pick less conspicuous folks. That meat-head is instantly recognizable. Of course, if Matt really is starting to lean left, then we should welcome him with open arms. Sometimes your most fervent critic can end up being your biggest fan. It looks like Rich may indeed have a new big fan.
Of course, it’s not the only time Naugle was spotted at a Democratic event. This post is pretty much one big excuse for me to post this again:
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Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. He was 77.
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Again, apparently completely unaware of the concept of irony, Sarah Palin gives a speech in which she criticizes President Obama for using a teleprompter and reads crib notes off her hand! LOL
So.
Great.
Sarah Palin is a blogging gift that keeps on giving. I can’t wait to get to interview more supporters. My guess is the next craze will be to get Sarah to sign the palms of supporter’s hands. They, like her, are completely and totally unaware in general.
PS: My other choice for headline was “Sarah Palin gives Nashville a handjob”
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The Who as we’d like to remember them. Not whatever it was we saw during the Super Bowl:
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