Markos Moulitsas ("Kos") founder of Daily Kos recently observed that his two year old daughter had reached a Republican stage in her development because the majority her vocabulary consisted of two words: "NO!" and "MINE!"
Indeed. At least Markos understands that his two year old will grow out of her stubborn and selfish phase.
But those of us who live in Republican run states do not have the luxury of believing in or hoping for the evolution of maturity where our childlike NO! and MINE! lawmakers are concerned.
According to a source cited over at Daily Kos Kay Bailey Hutchison will not give up her U.S. Senate seat while running for governor.
Oh what a stunning surprise. The architects of trickle down baloney and black magic misery give the President a failing grade. The liars ignored the fact that their grading is based on a discredited Wall Street Journal Survey.
These very same go-to bitches for the sound, solid and endless profit spewing machines of Enron, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, AIG and the Bank of America actually believe they can credibly weigh in on President Obama.
That alternative universe of theirs must have become an insane asylum during the W. years.
And the gates of the asylum swung open this week when the looney tunes marched out in full lock step support of its collective whackonomics.
Check out the right wing looney tunes shows over at Daily Kos.
These morons unashamedly got it wrong for over a decade. Why on earth would they get it right today? The same twisted and failed ideologies continue to underpin their whackonomic make believe.
Well, folks, another one of our Republican leaders in Washington has mortified the living daylights out of us. Again. This time John Culberson wins the Pendejos of the Day Award for mind numbing stupidity and childishness.
Yesterday Culberson threw a temper tantrum on national TV calling Nancy Pelosi a "Marie Antoinette" who had insisted upon riding through the poverty stricken streets of Paris in the finest and most expensive carriages while people starved.
For the record, the Pentagon approved military, private aircraft for House Speakers after 9/11.
Culberson, by the way, inserted $63.6 million for pork spending in the stimulus budget he vehmently rails against.
A photo-blogger over at DK posted a series of stunning photos of a recently erected tent city near his hometown of Sacramento California. Those residing in the tent city had lost their homes to foreclosure. The diarist, "Marc in CA" also included photos from the "Hoovervilles" of the Great Depression era of the 1930' and entitled his piece Bushvilles: The New Hoovervilles, rapidly expanding.
It's a special kind of stupid for a multinational corporation to be so stung by a comedian's commentary that they devote multiple platforms to deriding him.
Please pour yourselves a little glass of your preferred beverage of relaxation, get out the popcorn, if you like, sit back and enjoy the show.
First, the ground rules: Jackass awards are not exclusive to the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh or propagandists for right wing and conservative thought. A jackass is viewed as one who is either arrogant or stupid enough to believe he/she can get away with fooling, lying to and/or willfully misleading others. In other words, any person who holds a position of influence whether one is a politician, elected official, community, or business leader, and this includes all media pundits, anchors and spokespersons for all of the above, who arrogantly or stupidly insults the intelligence of those they do, or hope to influence, is a jackass.
A jackass is also one who refuses to accept or lies about certain realities such as:
The simplest explanation for why America's reality got so distorted is the economic imbalance that Barack Obama now wants to remedy with policies that his critics deride as "socialist" ("fascist" can't be far behind): the obscene widening of income inequality between the very rich and everyone else since the 1970s. "There is something wrong when we allow the playing field to be tilted so far in the favor of so few," the president said in his budget message. He was calling for fundamental fairness, not class warfare. America hasn't seen such gaping inequality since the Gilded Age and 1920s boom that preceded the Great Depression.
This inequity was compounded by Bush tax policy and by lawmakers and regulators of both parties who enabled and protected the banking scam artists who fled with their bonuses and left us holding the toxic remains. The fantasy of easy money at the top of the economic pyramid trickled down to the masses, who piled up debt by leveraging their homes much as their '20s predecessors once floated stock purchases "on margin." Our culture, meanwhile, painted halos over celebrity C.E.O.'s, turning the fundamentalist gospel of the market into a national religion that further accelerated the country's wholesale flight from reality.
Finally, a jackass is one who wants to revert to the same old failed and stupid policies that got us into this economic meltdown in the first place.
The news addicted have for some time had the habit of keeping CNBC on one of their monitors throughout the day; and those who follow news professionally will keep more than one of the channels they offer on multiple screens, so as to better track the activities of business markets around the world.
Many in the community of viewers are highly wealthy, highly influential...and likely the best demographic group available to advertisers anywhere outside of a polo match.
In an effort to tap into the wealth of the "polo crowd", Fox Business has launched its rhetorical yacht into the media ocean, and we'll compare the two channels today.
