1 The recovery is happening, but it's happening too fast for your wingnut eyes to see, like a hummingbird flapping its wings.

2 Who's driving the car?

3

Stephen Hawking just said that man must emigrate into space to avert extinction of the human race.  I believe that if we sent all Democrats, Socialists, Communists and other statists into outer space, we'd be in pretty good shape here on Earth, and could turn things around.  (Of course, this might be a little difficult, what with Obama torpedo-ing the space program, and turning its remnants into a Madrasa.) 

4
After massive doses of Ex-lax failed to give him an erection, Reid concluded that he just hadn't taken enough.

5 If only Obama could be dictator... [*sigh*]

6
Correction for Gregg:

"The result is that it's even less likely that Dems will risk taking "another bite at this apple,"  "another brilliant failed Keynesian liberty-killing debt raising measure to fuck ordinary Americans up the poop chute"  as Josh puts it."

fixed.

7 Pointing out our failures makes it impossible for our failures to succeed!!!!eleventy!

8 yeah well Republicans are icky. Refute that if you dare!

9 I too have created a fantasy world, except in mine the Rev Wright tapes came out two weeks earlier and killed Obama's campaign, his wife left him afterwards and ran off with Jaleel White (Erkle), and Obama is now forced too beg Oreilly for TV time to talk about the New Black Panthers so he can hope to have Oreilly plug Dreams of My Father along with Factor coffee mugs.

10

I believe that if we sent all Democrats, Socialists, Communists and other statists into outer space, we'd be in pretty good shape here on Earth, and could turn things around. 

Where's the giant star goat when you need it?

11

Republicans have pursued a very deliberate strategy to feed public pessimism about Big Government's ability to lift us out of the doldrums

It's always the fault of the counterrevolutionary bourgeoise.  Time for mental hospitals, and camps, lots of camps.   This time it will work, Comrades! 

12 I should've taken my pants off entirely and used an armless, headless mannequin, then everyone would've understood.

13
Obama thinks he's clever.

The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

If you want to keep heading towards the cliff, you keep it in D.

If you want to go back to 4.5% unemployment...

14 all the money he and the Democrats have spent over the last year and a half was wasted

No that is not true.  That spending caused harm in too many ways to measure.

15 Oooooh, and my plan would've succeeded too, if it weren't for you pessimistic Rethuglicans! 

16

The Bucket represents our blindness to their Tyranny!

17
Why businesses are scared to death of the anti-business, anti-free market, anti-liberty, pro-tax and spend, pro-send-business-overseas-via-support-for-anti-competitive- won't-give-an-inch-unsustainable-UNIONS, Keynesian/Paul Krugman DEMOCRATS:


The truth, it burns.

18 liberal bloggers know what the answer is...more of the same!

Hell, its not just the bloggers, the bloggers are just repeating what the politicians are saying.

....that would have stimulated the economy far better than the ever predictable Democratic call for more spending did.

One of the main problems besides the fact that you can't spend your way out of a recession, was the fact that they spent, and are spending, the money on the wrong damn things. 

A very large portion of the money is going into the typical wish list of liberals socialists for more socialist programs that benefit few and only grow the government at the expense of private industry.

If you don't grown private industry you NEVER get out of the recession. That is what happened with FDR and why a recession became the "great depression".

Sadly the communists in charge now believe the propaganda of the communists from the 40s and the 50s regarding Saint Roosevelt.  Except for one thing; he did spend more money on capital projects.

19

_{all the money he and the Democrats have spent over the last year and a half was wasted}

They made a perfect 1/2 mile of Creekside Singletrack Handi-Cap accessible in Florence Montana. 

No. Shit.  Recovery.Gov sign and all.

20 The comments over there are something else, too-- hissing leftists seething that the non-stimulus Stimulus wasn't $1.3 trillion, blaming the evil Republican minority for tying the hands of every branch of government.  These people are so out-of-touch with the real world that November is going to trigger a wave of hari-kari amongst Washington Post readers who find their little world flipped upside down.

21

Once again, we (meaning us conservatives) are ahead of the curve, and so far in front of the Dims that they can't see our tail lights.

We do know exactly what needs to be done: we need real tax and regulatory relief, not empty rhetoric. We need real action in bringing down the debt, not bringing down the country. It's the private sector (from which all tax money flows) that needs a boost, not Washington lackeys.

Wanna see some real stimulus? Cut the corporate tax rates and roll back all regulation to around 1980 levels. Repeal the CRA along with this new banking bill. Throttle the EPA. Starve the regulatory beast and we'll see the private sector rebound.

Obamanomics isn't working by any metric or standard. They're just too stoopid to see it.

22 Greg Sargent, MFMer and JournoLister (BIRM)... 'nuff said.

23 Ace's true likeness revealed (Not Safe for Holding Down Stomach Contents):
http://tinyurl.com/275u8pd

24

_{The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "}

_{This is what got Thelma and Louise in trouble.  When the Car is parked on the edge of an abyss, 'R' is a pretty solid choice.}

25 pointing to the sputtering recovery as proof that the Dems underlying philosophy has been discredited.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out the propensity for fire to burn the living shit out of my hand when I hold it in one.

26

OT, This needs to be INVESTIGATED!

http://tinyurl.com/2vwfz44

27 Obamanomics isn't working by any metric or standard.

If the aim was to further cripple the country and give more control to the federal government, it seems to be working.

28 When the Car is parked on the edge of an abyss, 'R' is a pretty solid choice.

Yeah but the front wheels are floating in air and it's a front wheel drive car.

WAF.

29 The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

Who would want to go back in reverse to that horrid 5% unemployment we had under Bush instead of drive to that wonderful, unpredicted, and unexpected around 10% unemployment we have now?

30
Democrat policies and ideas will fail no matter what.  It's how to manipulate that failure and blame Booosh and evil Republicans that matters to Democrats.  Meanwhile, Americans are still scrood.

31 The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

Wait. I thought everyone was supposed to walk now or some shit. Make up your minds, you stupid demented fucktards.

32 The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

Yeah, but with the shitty 40-mile range on that ObamaMobile, you're not going to get very far with that 'D'.

33 Ever notice how you pa(R)k on a (D)riveway, but you (D)rive on a pa(R)kway?

34

Change is always good and forward is always better. 

Obama's a real intellectual moderate pragmatist.  I like the cut of his trousers.  What could be more nuanced and smart than blind faith in your betters who lead you? 

35
who wants to go back to soaring health care costs?

Obama fixed everything. Health care is now free!

36

Double down on government spending, bailouts, and all these other great programs. Really, Dems? Reaally?

Usually I have no doubt of the capacity of the Republicans to wander off message and screw up their responses to Democrat propaganda. And not much doubt about the ability of much of the country to be fooled. But if the Dems' platform is truly that what the country needs is more of the same Obama policies and attitude, that it just hasn't been given time to work?

Bring it on. 

37 Lemon Kitten@17,

That's one of the most damning things I've read. Ever. If only it could be put on a bumper sticker.

And that's no anecdote. It's an every employee sample of the working class with real numbers put to paper. Multiply that out by many tens of millions of times. If you mention Tax Freedom Day as the shortcut, everyone gets upset for a moment and thinks, "Well, what are you going to do?" If you read that spelled out business example, you start saying, "Damnit, I'm going to do something!"

Hello, GOP, if you're really going to become responsible and not Statist-Lite, you might want to start advertising examples like that to the public to make people realize just how much they're getting ripped off by government and how employers, their employers, are getting ripped off too on their behalf.

38

What makes this even worse is the perverse dynamic I noted above. Republicans have pursued a very deliberate strategy to feed public pessimism about Big Government's ability to lift us out of the doldrums

How dare the GOP capitalize on the overall pessimistic mood of the country! It's not at all fair that the rats in Pelosi's party be accountable for their craptastic economic misadventures!

39
America is truly fucked-over, the Obama-debt (our debt - thank you)
is in the trillions, and all he can do is make an "R & D" car joke?

We don't need a comedian-in-chief.

40 ...  As Obama was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Barack, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280 Interstate. Please be careful!"

"Hell," said Obama, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

41
who wants to go back to robust GDP and only ridiculous^* govt. spending?

^{*as opposed to the insane unsustainable govt spending we have now}

42
Who wants to back to the days when salt was legal?

43

Do I believe the Republicans have truly embraced fiscal discipline?

No, but they are probably about to witness a vivid demonstration of what happens when you ignore the will of the people when they are angry!  Maybe the lesson will stick.

44

_{This is what got Thelma and Louise in trouble.  When the Car is parked on the edge of an abyss, 'R' is a pretty solid choice.}

_{Yes, and while you're at it send those wimmin back to the kitchen!}

45 This is the basic problem with governing from what you might call a "woulda, coulda, shoulda" ideology. Democrats would rather reinforce failure than admit that their whole approach is wrong. It's a pattern with them going back for decades: their ideas are not wrong, they aver; it's simply the implementation that failed. If only this knob is tweaked a bit more, if that lever is pulled, then all will come right and the essential soundness of their social engineering made plain to all. It's nonsense, of course, but Democrats have so deeply invested themselves in this make-believe world of "social justice" and equal-outcomes that admitting failure at this point is unthinkable. It's gone past any real question of policy or social impact; it's about self-image and an ideology so deeply held it's more a religious belief than a political philosophy. I'm not sure that the Tea Party movement can reinvigorate the moribund GOP establisment enough to offer a compelling alternative, though. "We're less bad than Democrats!" isn't exactly a compelling call to arms. The "entitlement mentality" is deeply entrenched in America now, and any attempt to reverse it is going to require politicians with guts and brains both -- qualities sadly lacking in our candidates for a good long while.

46
#38 = Yeah - real numbers, real people.  It's truly scary what the elite democrat political class has done to damage this nation's ability to be free.
 The democrats are out to destroy our way of life.  No matter, they can run emotional TV ads filled with lies and bullshit and make republicans out to be the bad guys.  Hiding behind children, teachers unions and firefighters.

47  OT but......Hey good news!http://tinyurl.com/2da67z2

48 Hey Barry, your car will work fine without a (D)oor, but not without a (R)adiator.

49

It's a pattern with them going back for decades: their ideas are not wrong, they aver; it's simply the implementation that failed.

You're on the right track. It only failed because we didn't spend MORE money! Obstructionist in the Party of No hampered any recovery we would have seen under the greatness of Hussein Obama and the Democratic leadership!!

50 ...not ambitious enough... Who asks for a second blank check? If you haven't completely bankrupted the country yet, it's your own damned fault.

51

This Greg Sargent Journolist asswipe is living in a completely different reality. He's the one who said that republicans commenting on the fuckedupness of journolist was the real story. He followed that with a defense of the mosque at ground zero and now

and the failure to pass an ambitious enough stimulus has ensured that the Dem solution fell short of expectations

Yeah, asshole, you can't spend yourself out of an economic crisis? Who Knew? Certainly not dems!!! The republicans pointed it out---how dastardly!

What a complete idiot.

52 Meanwhile, cigs and beer are taxed like crazy...

53 I think the Dow is already pricing in the death of cap-and-tax, retention of at least some significant part of the Bush cap-gains tax cuts, Dem blood running ankle-deep in the streets and a GOP takeover of the House, and two years of blissful gridlock.

54

Obama is right about one thing.

Since the democrats took over congress 4 years ago unemployment went from 4.6% to 10.2%. The deficit went from $260 Billion to $1.6 Trillion.

Obama is right, they need to give back the keys.

They don't know how to drive!

55 Speaking of liberals detached from reality, here's a great piece on the massive disconnect between liberals' carbon-phobia and their support for mass Third-World immigration:

Why Won't Greenies Admit Immigration's Global Warming Impact?
Send it to all the Gaia-botherers you know.

56 The stimulus built a $100,000 berm within view of my house. For those of you who do not know what that is, it is a dirt hill with 3 bushes, a small tree and a big rock. I could have done it for $100. Jobs created, 0. Money wasted, $100,000. Oh, and all the middle school is now solar paneled. Whoohoo.

57

_{Oh, and all the middle school is now solar paneled. Whoohoo.}

When Standardized Test Scores go down, we can now blame the Weather!

 

58 It's always the same with the progressives/liberals.  Castro's Cuba would have worked if not for the evil U.S. embargo.  Zimbabwe would be fine if not for white capitolist farmers.  Chavez' Venezuela would be utopia if not for Western capitolist nations and their evil conspiracies.  Heck, the old U.S.S.R. would have given us paradise on earth if only their true vision would have been allowed to come to fruition without the cock-blocking Cold War.

59 Oh, and all the middle school is now solar paneled. Whoohoo. Posted by: dagny at August 09, 2010 02:38 PM

Well, Dags, the solar panels will pay off. If they aren't damaged, allowed to get too dirty or simply fail. That's if a new, super-duper middle school isn't built and the panels junked.

It'll only take 50 years. Or so.

60 Obviously, Journolist is still alive in some fashion, as the meme was expounded upon by our favorite No-Ball laureate, The Krugster:  http://tinyurl.com/39avu6y

Now this is douchebaggery at its finest:

How did we get to this point? ItÂ’s the logical consequence of three decades of antigovernment rhetoric, rhetoric that has convinced many voters that a dollar collected in taxes is always a dollar wasted, that the public sector canÂ’t do anything right.

61

In today's "How Did Obama Directly Fuck Over Big Fat Meanie's File": 

Gates To Shut Down JFCOM

This is pure payback for The Cooch's lawsuit against ObamaCare and Lets Get Illegals To the Polls! Campaign.  

62 that the public sector canÂ’t do anything right.

He doesn't list any examples of things the government has done right, has he?

63 from #17 link

"...When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. Bottom line: Governments impose a 33% surtax on Sally's job each year.

Because my company has been conscripted by the government and forced to serve as a tax collector, we have lost control of a big chunk of our cost structure. Tax increases, whether cloaked as changes in unemployment or disability insurance, Medicare increases or in any other form can dramatically alter our financial situation. With government spending and deficits growing as fast as they have been, you know that more tax increases are coming—for my company, and even for Sally too.

Companies have also been pressed into serving as providers of health insurance. In a saner world, health insurance would be something that individuals buy for themselves and their families, just as they do with auto insurance. Now, adding to the insanity, there is ObamaCare."

the joys of big government.  Hey democrats, we obviously need more!

64
rortr said:
Since the democrats took over congress 4 years ago unemployment went from 4.6% to 10.2%. The deficit went from $260 Billion to $1.6 Trillion.

Obama is right, they need to give back the keys.

They don't know how to drive!

and yet, we never seem to hear elite Journolist democrat media bubble dwellers comment on that fact.

65 In today's "How Did Obama Directly Fuck Over Big Fat Meanie's File"

Oh, look, the Obama administration is directly destroying more jobs.

66 #50
Its the old liberal canard:
"Real communism. . .never been tried."

(IE not, "Communism has been a dismal failure every single time its ever been tried everywhere since its inception").

67 When I get tired I hand the keys to Nan

68

and yet, we never seem to hear elite Journolist democrat media bubble dwellers comment on that fact.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 09, 2010 02:54 PM (0fzsA)

That's a given, the sad part is that we don't see republican candidates or their supporters commenting on that fact. We should be driving it everyday.

69

Would somebody please put a stake through the heart of John Maynard Keynes once and for all?

70 Liberals do not change their opinions because they are not opinions, they are tenets of a religious faith.  It is why their ideas are as set in stone as Muslims, and the same reason prevents them from ever admitting they were wrong.  To their minds, they simply AREN'T wrong, something unexpected happened to keep their plans from working the way they should have.

71 68 No, no. You don't understand. It wasn't done right. If it had been done correctly, then it would be perfect. The entire globe would exist in a perfect utopia, the seas would recede, the flowers would bloom, the air would clear and people would work and live and laugh and love because when they live perfect lives they are happy with not achieving anything. Silly.

72 Why Won't Greenies Admit Immigration's Global Warming Impact?
Send it to all the Gaia-botherers you know.

Posted by: the peanut gallery at August 09, 2010 02:37 PM (NurK6)

 

Because Greenies' plan is not for millions of additional illegal inhabitants to achieve a higher standard of living, it's to collapse the U.S. social and economic systems and bring the average American standard of living (and associated carbon output) in line with that of third-world countries.

73

The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

When your intended audience is the same one that bought "if the glove don't fit, ya gots to acquit" because it just sounded so right, this kind of kindergarten-level propaganda can be highly effective.

74 The entire globe would exist in a perfect utopia How many tens of millions in the 20th century were murdered on that bloody altar of the "perfect utopia"? "Perfect utopia" to one is a "perfect nightmare" to another (look at the misery the Norks live in). One thing I've noticed as I've grown older is that liberals really cannot answer the "And then what?" question. They know little about the past and think little of the future; they live only in the present, and think of their own petty issues and desires as eternal verities. They are children, in short, with all the temporary passions and limited horizons of children. I'm often struck by how the liberal definition of happiness is not freedom to achieve, but rather freedom from discomfort. A liberal views a citizen rather as we would a newborn baby: if your didie isn't wet or beshitted, and you've had your morning feeding, what do you have to bitch about? Achievement discomfits liberals because it reminds them that there always will be winners and losers in the great game of life -- it's a property of reality.

75

The president joked that "when you're in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.' " If you want to go backward, "you put it in 'R.' "

When your intended audience is the same one that bought "if the glove don't fit, ya gots to acquit" because it just sounded so right, this kind of kindergarten-level propaganda can be highly effective.

Posted by: Cicero at August 09, 2010 03:12 PM (QKKT0)

More to the point: which do you think most people would rather do, go back to the economic situation of 2006 (just before the D took over Congress) or forward to the Obama/Pelosi/Reid policies in overdrive?

76

That disgraced Yosi Sargent (or spelled Sergant sometimes) from leaked NEA tape, has nothing to do with this Greg Sargent, is there?

77 So the Democrat message now is, "Stay the course."

78 I Won -- is going to be Obama's "Mission Accomplished"

79 What I can not stand is the constant desire for some people to want to control other people. I understand the theory put forth by Bastiat that human nature makes people want to take the easy way out and let other people "provide for them" but this is not the only thing the liberals want.

Not only do they want their daily bread provided by some endless source, but they also want to regulate the shit out of everything.

I can't help but go back to that old definition/saying that they are scared that somewhere out there someone is having a good time and they just can not stand that.

I mean, how else could they accuse people of being evil just because they want to leave you alone and want to be left alone?

80

Re: the link from Lemon Kitten @17 -

The simple solution for a lot of employers is to hire illegal aliens. None of the regulatory burden they get when hiring a citizen, and if business drops off and they need to reduce expenses, they can lay off the illegals without jumping through all the EEOC hoops and having their unemployment insurance premiums skyrocket.

It's almost like it was planned that way. 

81

These people are not liberals; they are socialists, communists even, perhaps even fascists.  Time to start calling them for what they really are.

I've had enough of their debasement of language.

82 An infinite series...but is it countably infinite? I suspect not.

83

Vic,

This desire to control other people is indeed frustrating, but what really makes me crazy is that it isn't enough to control you. It's their incessant and unending moral preening and assumed superiority, projection, and hypocrisy.

If someone wants to tell us they feel that a group of elites should run and control pretty much all the levers of the country and make no bones about it, we can disagree and have a debate. But when they call us an evil racists or (non AoS) morons for having the temerity to have another philosophy, well...where do you go?

84

@Monty: "They are children, in short, with all the temporary passions and limited horizons of children."

The Khmer Rouge was essentially the equivalent of the Bloods running the country, without any of the attendant Git Rich or Die Tryin' mentality.  Just the Die Tryin' part. 

85

We are at 10% unemployment by the U3 statistic, which drops people from the data set after they have been unemployed for too long. The U6 rate, which counts the long-term unemployed, is stuck around around 17%: 

http://tinyurl.com/yeg3hd6

 

 

86

Uh, I hate to keep repeating this but it is true.

2006 was tha last republican budget. Unemployment was 4.6 and the deficit was 167 billion. Then Democrats took majorities and the budget writing. They made unemployment start to rise in 2007. In 2008 they doubled the budget. In 2009 Bush never even SAW the budget because democrats were afraid of the voters seeing it and did not vote on it until after the election (Just like this year!)

Now we find ourselves in the last half of the fourth year of democrat control of the budget and the deficit os more than 10 times the last republican budget and real unemployment is 18%.

The democrats did not inherit this economy: they built it all by themselves.

And dont' forget the Cummunity ReInvestment Act that caused the housing bubble and crashed the economy.

87

After the largest government spending spree in history, and the failure of this spending to substantially aid in the economy's recovery, it seems liberals/socialists now are saying "if only we could spend more money then everything would work out as we had hoped..."  When I hear this argument I imagine going to a liberal for advise on how to get rid of a headache, and they say the best way to do it is to put your head under water.  (So, you try it - hey, it must work, Keynes and Paul Krugman said so...  Just as you are about to pass out, you pull your head up, gasping for air - your head now pounding, and the liberal explains to you that the only problem is that you didn't stay under long enough!  These true believers will push their "cure" until the patient is killed, unfortunately. 

 

88

"The public doesn't focus on the details..."

If they did we wouldn't have had a Dem supermajority and things would be better less bad now.

89 Do the Republicans ever learn?
The Republicans got into trouble with spending in the late 90's when their leadership, specifically Tom DeLay, decided that in order to permanently entrench the GOP in Congress they had to spread the wealth around to their donors and hacks. Around this time Bill Kristol was announcing that,"You know, Big Gov is here to stay, get used to it and get on the gravy train."

 4-6 years after they took over Congress, the establishment in the GOP and Neo Con circles began to ignore the people that 'brought them to the dance'-me and all of the people that believed that the GOP meant and believed what they were saying to us.

And in all honesty, I began to ignore them about the same time because there was only so much they could do with Clinton and they had already done a lot (not nearly enough). They increased discretionary spending and raised money for their campaigns and by the time the '06 election came around, a lot of the '94 Republicans were no longer in Congress or had been co-opted. Throw in to the mix that Bush appointed a sputtering basket case to be his press secretary (Scott McClelland) and the GOP finally paid the price for their Beltway arrogance. 

And here we are again 16 years and at least $20,000 Billion later. Yet again the Republicans and the people are on the same page only this time the people are ahead of the GOP. GOP insiders don't appreciate the little people messing around in their fiefdom but they can certainly work with the enthusiasm.

We should start working on making them go away because if the Tea Party/Paul Ryan/Sarah Palin faction doesn't take control of the GOP before 2012, nothing will change. The Beltway GOPers will gladly sell out again, count on it. The Tea Party should make sure they don't get the chance and that is going to be my primary focus.

90

No worries, the 2011 tax increases will spark investment and hiring. Everything will be fine and we will be creating 500,000 jobs a month.

 

91 I contribute to sarahpac because I don't trust the RNC after they foisted McCain on us without a vote.

92 They are just wanting to launder more money thru unions who will return it as campaign cash.

93 I'm not going to defend the GOP's record during the Bush administration when it comes to spending. I will. Most of what the Bush administration spent on (and borrowed for) were for things you get a return on, would get re-financed on repeatedly by satisfied creditors (as opposed to maxing the credit line on the take-off-from-work, casino-binge equivalent that was porkulus) and would have something to show for years (Numero Uno- being left alone, especially by dead terrorists). See also #90.

94 How to get to ?

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