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Disasters and trickle down economics

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John Cole writes about the broken crane in NYC:

For those of you living in a cave or in one of the areas hit by power outages, the media has continued to run footage of the broken many ton crane dangling from the top of luxury condos in Manhattan… It’s basically the perfect metaphor for trickle down economics and the last three decades. A couple hundred tons of metal death will possibly rain down on the lessers on the ground, the city and taxpayers will have to clean up, and the owners of the $90 million dollar condo will be front and center on the NY Times talking about their “disaster.”

Biden’s outrageous comments inject RACE into the election!

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Source: stfuhypocrisy

John Cole mocks the pseudo rightwing outrage over the supposedly “new ugly tone” from Democrats:

But what really upsets the “reasonable” Republicans and libertarians is the fact that for once, Democrats are fighting back. For years as a Republican I would just laugh as we beat down Democrats and they never did anything. Well, they’ve learned, fortunately, and are fighting back, and now we have folks getting the vapors, worrying about “tone.” Fuck, it’s not like Obama and team put a fucking crosshair over Gabby Giffords head and had machine gun rallies. But my favorite bit of bullshit is this outright goddamned lie from James Joyner, which he uses as evidence of the new negative tone:

Now, though, we’ve got the Obama administration signing off on an ad insinuating that Mitt Romney killed a woman and the vice president refusing to back away from the suggestion that Romney wants to put black people back in chains. So, yeah, I’d say it’s worse than four or eight years ago.

First off, if that woman had health insurance that had not been robbed by the vulture capitalists at Bain, led by Mitt Romney, she might still be alive. But I’ll pass that off as debatable. The latter part, though, is unmitigated bullshit:

the vice president refusing to back away from the suggestion that Romney wants to put black people back in chains.

Joyner is lying. Biden never said Romney wants to put black people in chains. Period. That is not what Biden said. Here is the actual quote:

Specifically, the vice president said to the Danville, Virginia, crowd that the House GOP budget, partly written by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., gives an indication of the Republican presidential ticket’s values.

“We got a real clear picture of what they all value,” Biden said. “Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

[...] What Biden said was completely true. They want an unfettered Wall Street, an unrestricted and unregulated business sector, they want tort reform, and they want you all unable to respond to their excesses. That is the Republican vision. End of story.

Dave Weigel highlights The Dumbest Question Anyone Was Asked Today by Fox News’ White House correspondent Ed Henry: “Let’s just settle it, once and for all, all of this speculation — this is the ticket, Obama/Biden?” 

“What’s “all of this speculation?” If you watch the earlier parts of the briefing, you learn that the speculation comes from Sarah Palin and John McCain, neither of whom are Democrats with particular interest or influence in the process of nominating a Democratic veep. In 2008, there was considerable (and even then, overblown) buzz about angry Democratic delegates who wanted Hillary Clinton to be the veep nominee. There is none of that now. We know because any story like that would rise with rocket speed to the top of the cable news pile. Henry was asking about “speculation” that does not exist in any meaningful form, and allowing that the speculation was kicked off because the vice president said something that no elected Democrats have taken issue with.

“One of the strange paradoxes of political journalism is that the televised presser with the president’s spokesman — probably the most prominent and prestigious regular briefing there is — lends itself to imbecilic showboating that you’d laugh out of the room in any lesser context.”

Joe Biden in Danville, VA

team-joebama : ”now realize that this crowd is called “largely black” as in “Biden told a largely black crowd the GOP economic policies would put them in chains”

“but you rarely see anybody saying “Romney told a largely white crowd”—you know because his shit is largely white—“that Obama needs to go back to Chicago and blah blah welfare blah blah un-American.”

“I’m so mad that even this good looking motherfucker can’t distract me from it.” 

Metaphors and Fox-News-coordinated outrageous outrage. Is it any wonder that no Democrat, or any other average person, is upset by what Joe Biden said?

Inside the mind of a rightwing nutjob: James Taranto

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John Cole posted the following and, rightly, tells James Taranto to go fuck himself:

“James Taranto, the WSJ rightwing nutjob whose job is the Best of the Web feature, which invariably means reposting whatever Glenn Reynolds or the halfwits at NRO write every day:

“He is, of course, referring to the reports that a number of men used their bodies to shield their loved ones during the Aurora massacre. Most of us thought of this as a noble and amazing sacrifice… You know who got to make the decision whether their lives were worth it, Taranto? The three heroes who ate bullets saving their loved ones, not some fat scumbag neocon filth sitting comfortably with a glass of bourbon while wanking on twitter from the comfort of a wingback chair in Manhattan.”

What John Cole said. And when Cole tells Taranto to go fuck himself, I think we can all understand that’s probably an accurate description of Taranto’s entire relationship history. The Wall Street Journal must be very proud to have this guy on board.

Before you know it

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Truth:

So, I guess my message to you in 2012 is the following- let your kids stay up late and spend time with you even if you hate the fucking Chipmunk movie, give your pets too many treats, drink that extra beer and eat that extra scoop of ice cream, always tell mom and your wife you love them, always pet your dog when you can, always give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt, try everything new you can and repeat everything you love as often as you can even when it is bad for you, and live hard, fast, and full throttle and don’t you fucking dare apologize for it. It will be over before you know it.

— John Cole | Where Did It Go?

Admitting you were wrong about #OccupyWallStreet, or reasons I love John Cole

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“So yeah, I’m looking back at my snide post where I called the vanguard of this “trustafarians,” and once again, I feel like an idiot. This may still fizzle out without any real change, but right now, it seems to be building, and the reason it is is because a small group of people went out there and publicly voiced their displeasure with the shit I’ve been sitting on my fat ass writing dyspeptic posts about for the last year, but not really doing a god damned thing to enact change. Yeah, it was some jackasses with a drum circle, and no, they didn’t have a point by point plan or coherent media strategy like some anal retentive douchebags like me were demanding. But they went out there and did something, and it seems to be working. Let’s hope it keeps growing.” — The More This Happens — John Cole admits he was wrong about #OccupyWallStreet

He’s always honest plus he’s a great dad to his two dogs and cat. And he cooks all the time. Marry me!

Sounds like Eric Cantor got a time-out from the principal today

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John Cole explains why Cantor saw one thing while EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM SAW SOMETHING ELSE:

There is a reason Cantor saw this:

President Barack Obama “abruptly” walked out of today’s White House meeting with legislative leaders on the federal deficit, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters.

And everyone else saw this:

Democrats offered a different characterization of the meeting and that exchange, though House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told The Hill that the “gravity of the challenge” that confronts negotiators “was weighing certainly on the president.”

[...] “He stayed for two and a half hours and listened to what members had to say. It was his meeting and the meeting had come to an end,” she said.

“The president could not have been more gracious. I have never seen a president spend so much time with the leadership of Congress day in and day out, respectful of their concerns,” Pelosi added.

[...] “Obama was concluding the meeting giving the closing remarks and talking about meeting tomorrow, Cantor interrupted him and raised for the third time doing a short-term, and Obama shut him down,” the aide said. “Cantor was playing the role he’s been playing throughout this whole thing – being not productive.”

The reason the “YOU LIE” Republicans see things differently and simply can not control themselves around this President? Uppity.

Heh.

I ♥ John Cole’s description of Anthony Weiner …

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… appearing on Fox News the day after his ‘lost it all over the Republicans‘ video:

John Cole:

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Apparently the video …was not the end of things, as Weiner went on Fox news this morning, whipped out his ginormous penis, and proceeded to repeatedly slap Peter King in the face with it.

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Hah. yes.

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