This may shock liberals, but Being Very Liberal is not in and of itself an accomplishment.

Screetching, calling those who oppose you "the enemy,"  and   fundamentally changing the country  is what Being Very Liberal is  all about.

But out here in the real world,   you're right, Ace.

"Unemployment is down to 11%"

Your Betters in the  MFM,  who know everything.

Reagan's presidency was a great success.  Obama's is not. Success tends to attract fans;

He won a second term!!!! His only measure of success is power over people. He is successfull to the hilt.

All Barry wants are political successes. The country can rot as long as he can push his agenda

The country is rotting as a result of his agenda. We just never hear about it.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at January 21, 2013 02:37 PM (Y5I9o)

--- Oh yes they fucking can win and probable will because a lot of people don't see any difference between the two parties.

I use to weep for my contry. Now I just sit back and shake my head waiting for the inevitable.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2013 02:42 PM (GFM2b)

Or they're his Hollywood buddies or other useful idiots who he'll take care of. But you'll never hear of that from the MFM

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at January 21, 2013 02:42 PM (R8hU

And the reason they don't is because the media constantly pushes this argument, and then promotes bits of story here and there that appear to confirm this argument.

As long as they have sole control over what gets on television, the Media (New York and Los Angeles Liberal Democrat Union Members) will continue helping Democrats win elections.

Bleat Me - Senseless!

Posted by: Magnolia at January 21, 2013 02:45 PM (GimeK)

If you can't extinguish a fire with a frontal assault, you have to light backfires to burn up it's fuel. 

We need to do everything we can to make financial problems worse for big government types both in and out of office.

Burn It Down.

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith Thinks Obama Can Be Reagan Absent Any Actual Accomplishments... For liberals, Obama's unabashed liberalism is enough.

Not so for non-liberals -- and by non-liberals, I don't just mean conservatives. I mean the great swathe of less political voters who aren't ideological enough to have strong opinions one way or the other, but who can tell the difference between a recession and an expansion.

So, contra the liberals, no, Obama's not Reagan yet.

This may shock liberals, but Being Very Liberal is not in and of itself an accomplishment. They themselves believe that it is an accomplishment -- a great deal of their own self-worth is based on who they vote for every two or four years -- but the rest of us think that accomplishments are different from mere beliefs and bleatings."

Some of your best paragraphs, ace. I also try to consistently divide the world into liberals and non-liberals because of this very liberal phenomenon of taking beliefs as accomplishments. If humans ever find the genetic basis of this phenomenon, I hope we non-liberals have the courage to eradicate those genes from the gene pool.

Eight years ago, the voices and future voices of conservatism were who exactly.   Now they are  Rubio, Rand Paul,  Ted Cruz, Paul  Ryan,  Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal,  Martinez, etc. 

While  I think the country as a whole  has  taken  a  step  back, true conservative leaders have risen up so maybe we are in better shape,  like Reagan rising from the disasterous political  defeat of Goldwater.

/Trying to  find  some hope to sustain me for the next 4 years.

That pantload speech will buy him another few months of pretending he's accomplishing things.

He's still just a community organizer.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 21, 2013 02:50 PM (gqT4g)

Yes, I am very pissed off about that too.  I find it hard to believe that anyone who has the slightest smidgeon of an idea about how politics works, could have said such things.  That was the loss of two Senate seats, and quite probably caused the larger election loss, and there was absolutely no reason for it.  They could have just shut up and been better off.

Matt Lauer has a net worth of $60 million.
Katie Couric has a net worth of $55 million.

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This surprises me, I would have though Couric would be way ahead.

@83

I'm with you here. I think O might be at a high water mark. Make him keep asking for debt deals every 3 months. Make the dems take votes they dont want to on energy. Divide them and conquer.

Lauer saves a lot of money on haircuts by doing it himself.

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I could have said the same thing about  Couric.

Please SMOD, wake me from this nightmare.

After this speech I can hardly wait to hear what he has to say in his State of the Union Speech...

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I think it customary that there is no SOTU  speech  during an inaugural  year.  But why should that stop the great orator from giving one.  

After this speech I can hardly wait to hear what he has to say in his State of the Union Speech... Oh that's right he'll just recycle this piece of crap more or less with a little more "It's the Republicans fault" thrown in for good measure...

I want to see him deliver  that speech to a nearly empty room, and see a lot of others upget and outwalk  when he starts his bullshit.

Posted by: Mike the Moose. at January 21, 2013 02:51 PM (0q2P7)

Something very like the Tea Party WAS forming during the Clinton Presidency. By 1994, people were fed up with Bill Clinton, and wanted his ass on a stick.  Political unrest was growing and people were becoming more confrontational about government and specifically about Clinton. Then that fucking idiot blew up the Federal building. 

Not only did the Shell Shocked Clinton and the Shell Shocked Media find their voice, it gave them the opportunity to paint all opposition to Government as tantamount to terrorism.  The forces that were building towards Clinton's ouster were set back and scattered to the winds, because no one wanted to be associated with what McVeigh had done. 

Had McVeigh done nothing, history might have been very different, and likely far better than it has turned out to be.

A bit hard when the media asks prolife candidates why they're so damn extreme, but never asks Obama why he voted 3 times to let infants suffocate to death in a soiled utility room.

We know the MFM will never axe  that question. I can't figure out why no candidate ever mentioned   it.

Aside from the fact that they're ball-less wonders.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 02:59 PM (LRFds)

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Free shit and no virtue.  We're ripe for the reaper.

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at January 21, 2013 03:00 PM (9+ccr)

They were obviously evil oil industry capitalsists. They deserved to die.

My  lenten resolution is to avoid  all  Obama  speeches.  Wait the SOTU is on the Tuesday before lent.  Doh.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at January 21, 2013 02:59 PM (X11b6)

I wouldn't even attend. It's long past time for us to stop showing this bastard the slightest degree of respect. 

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at January 21, 2013 02:59 PM (X11b6)

I wouldn't even attend. It's long past time for us to stop showing this bastard the slightest degree of respect. 

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at January 21, 2013 03:04 PM (9+ccr

Go all-out and swing by Chick-fil-a for a Hate shake.

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at January 21, 2013 03:04 PM (9+ccr

Go all-out and swing by Chick-fil-a for a Hate shake.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 03:01 PM (bb5+k)

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Bill and Hill were elected  long before the bombing.  This nation was well on it's way, bombing or not, to be at the point we find ourselves now.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 03:01 PM (bb5+k)

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Bill and Hill were elected  long before the bombing.  This nation was well on it's way, bombing or not, to be at the point we find ourselves now.

Posted by: Lauren at January 21, 2013 02:59 PM (wsGWu)

And anyone with the slightest clue about Liberal Media already knows this.  The appropriate response to Liberal Media asking such questions is to quietly stand up, walk over to them deliberately, and then try to knock some teeth down their throat.

They want to be an enemy agent? Treat them like a fucking enemy agent!!!!!! 

Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 21, 2013 03:03 PM (Cm5S0)

You know what I remember? I remember you sucking Obama's dick in the third debate. Hope it tasted nearly a billion $ worth of good you pussy.

No successes?

Whaddya mean, no successes.

I succeeded in getting this nation's Credit Rating downgraded.

I succeeded in ramming ZeroCare® down your throats, and preying on the need for a few simple reforms to establish total control of your lives.

I succeeded in crippling the economy even further, by burdening the energy sector with even more regulations.

I succeeded in hiding how many people are really unemployed.

I succeeded in demonizing those fuckin Tea Party people, so badly that the idiots in Congress are afraid to do what they were sent there to do.

So you see?

I've succeeded in doing a lot!

You guys are being a little too Eeyore. Toonces is not polling well, his gun control bullshit--an appeal to stupid moms--is falling on its face. The GOP, while failing to make any headway on spending, is at least highlighting where the problem lies. Second terms are notoriously lackluster.

I got a less-than-awful feeling about this. Now what we do with the leftover damage, just glad I don't have to fix it.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:01 PM (LRFds)

I vote for a punch in the mouth to the enemy media agent.  Give the rest of them reason to pause when next they think to try such a trick.  I'm serious people, it's past time we started getting violent with Media people.  They need to be very afraid of us. 

Think about it. A few media ass kickings earlier might have saved many deaths (from economic collapse) later.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 21, 2013 03:08 PM (f9c2L)

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Buying a gun is the easy part.  Buying a gun that  fires cheap and accessable ammo may be a problem.

Posted by: Dark Ages at January 21, 2013 03:09 PM (+kznc)

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Posted by: Dan at January 21, 2013 03:11 PM (/7gN/)

And that is why you need feel no guilt about fucking them like the cheap, idiot whores they are. No guilt.

Pork Party 2014. Because all America should send billions of dollars to Texas. Anyone who votes to send tens of billions to Texas is my guy/gal. Rock on rapers of the US. You are only giving the idiots what they voted for.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 21, 2013 03:16 PM (mSxBj)

We have many attractive end-of-the-world options. Give us a call at 1-800-BIGBANG today!

Posted by: Soona at January 21, 2013 03:06 PM (hBvAX)

Clinton was "defaulted" (He wasn't elected. Ross Perot split the majority. Clinton just had the highest plurality of the stupid.) not "elected" in 1992.  In 1994, the Republicans kicked the dog shit out of the Democrats, and were about to seriously hurt Bill Clinton, and possibly impeach and remove him. 

In 1995, just as they were flexing their muscles, the Republicans had to face media accusations of extremism and hate after McVeigh blew up the Federal building.  What started out as a wining coalition intent upon confronting excesses of governance, ended up being attacked incessantly from all sources of the Media.  Clinton recovered his voice, and went on to beat Bob Dole in the Presidential election of 1996.

182 Is there a best case scenario for the next four years? What?

The Dems and King Squirty keep talking about 'gun control'...and they get their asses handed to them in 2014.

Even BJ Clinton is warning them to stop talking about gun control.

He saw what happened to him, in 1994.

Will they listen?

I doubt it.

Clinton served his purpose in the election, so they can go back to ignoring him now.

Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 02:34 PM (53z96)

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How many people  of the non-moron variety  will ever acknowledge that?

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 03:18 PM (bb5+k)

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C'mon!  It was Bob "Punk  You With Boredom" Dole. 

Although, it's another example of letting the RNC pick our candidate.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 21, 2013 03:20 PM (0It32)

Yep, just like a military campaign. The took Brownsville with outside funding from communists. Then went the bk bond debt route to run up debt, then expanded their foothold to neighboring counties with promises of frees shit.

In 1994, the Republicans kicked the dog shit out of the Democrats, and were about to seriously hurt Bill Clinton, and possibly impeach and remove him.

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What for?  Waco?   It  is  hard  to tell  how things would have turned out  had  OkCity never happened.  But it  is  a  great  question  to  ponder. 

At  least  Gingrich  was  able to get clinton to pivot back to the center.   All the press focus' on is how the public blamed the GOP for the shutdown.  Though there was no huge electoral  loss for it.  No word on the balanced budget and welfare reform that also resulted from it.

Is there a best case scenario for the next four years? What?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at January 21, 2013 03:16 PM (mSxBj)

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Part of the Bill of Rights may still exist.

Seriously, the current situation isn't going to last for four years, but I can't predict when it will fall apart.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at January 21, 2013 03:23 PM (0q2P7)

Thugs with guns are good enough to cow the populations where they've disarmed the average folks. Kind of brings a whole new slant to all the unofficial armories being built, no?

208 you flood TX with Mexican immigrants and give them the vote and TX will be blue. That the plan

Rick Perry should post signs...en Es-pan-yo...that all new citizens automatically owe $52,800.00 to the US Federales.

Is it over yet? I just want to go to sleep and wake up tomorrow.....A sad day for America.....:/

I'd prefer to wake up in four years and discover that TFG had been impeached, we'd had special elections that  booted all the Leftards out of Congress,   we're enjoying a robust GDP growth of 9%, UE   was down to 5%,    the Mexican border was  sealed up tight, Iran had been nuked and  islam was on the run, gas   was $1.75/gal and groceries were half  the price they are  today.

And  there was a    President Perry  being inaugurated.

@213

I prefer "No representation without taxation."

Deny the vote to welfare droogs.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:25 PM (LRFds)

The only viable recourse with an extremist Communist in the White House. But don't expect leadership on this option to come from the Republican Party. That's a no-go. For the Republicans to spearhead that movement is laughable.

<i>Is there a best case scenario for the next four years?</i>

Deficit - $2T

Debt - $22T

Gas - $11/ga

Healthcare - $2000/mo

Home - underwater

Employment - not currently

Chinese overlords - welcome

Posted by: thunderb at January 21, 2013 03:27 PM (Dnbau)

Parasitic overgrowth is not a problem until it reaches a certain critical mass. Ask Colorado.

The twin brothers predicted to a national TV audience Sunday that Republicans will lose their iron grip on Texas — that within two presidential election cycles, the currently "red" state will shift from a GOP stronghold to being dominated by Democrats.

On CBS' "Face the Nation," the prominent Texas Democrats also said that President Barack Obama and Congress should tackle the economy, education, immigration reform and gun laws this year.

"It's changing. It's going to become a "purple state" then a "blue state" because of the demographics, because of the population from folks coming from outside Texas," Julian Castro said.

Joaquin Castro agreed, but added that "it's going to take a lot of work from Democrats to lay the infrastructure for change — we are very busy working on that now."

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As a Texan,  this  is a  big  fear.  And I'm sure it will happen somewhat.  States never stay the same, particularly ones that are growing as fast as Texas.  But I don't think it inevitable.  Yes, people are moving to Texas from blue states, but many are cultural republicans  (as many  liberals will choose to live in blue cities) or  business owners (natural republicans). 

Further,  Texas  government  is structurally   different in that it meets once every other year.   With  no income tax, it makes it harder to prioritize spending.   Texas  also  has a love for using its natural  resources, and hard to see that changing anytime soon.   Meaning, environmentalists will have a hard time making inroads.

So Texas will likely  stay  red for a while, particularly so long as Democrats are the party of  the environmentalists.

I'm  not too  worried  about the Castro's.   They strike me as being  lightweight.   I'll  take  Ted Cruz agains them any day.

Posted by: angler at January 21, 2013 03:26 PM (SwjAj)

erot voters gave us Clinton.  Bush was a class one piece of shit, but compared to Clinton he was a knight in shining armor.

Perot was\is a loon.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:29 PM (LRFds)

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 21, 2013 03:20 PM (0It32)

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It's happened before.  Even OK was solidly dem for a long time.  If there will ever be a  lone-standing red state, it'll probably be OK. 

Posted by: beachout at January 21, 2013 03:31 PM (LpQbZ)

This is just Rawls (Mostly as interpreted by Daniels) twisted into...well crap.

Daniels always saw "Freedom" as equivalent to opportunities.  So if luck conspires against me and prevents me from say...becoming a doctor, I have lost opportunity (and thus freedom.)

And so, he believed that we should (as a community/grovernment) provide resources to ensure everyone had equal opportunity (and thus freedom.)

He was a "smart idiot." Smart in that he defends his position well.  Idiot in that he never understood that to accomplish that you had to restrict other people's freedoms even more (i.e. through taxes.)

Freedom to fail is never considered in his theory (just as Rawls couldn't accept that people aren't always granted equal skill in all things.)

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 21, 2013 03:28 PM (evdj2)

Perot voters are more to blame than are Clinton voters, who cannot help but be stupid fuckwits.  Perot voters threw away the only possibility of keeping Clinton (Lying, Draft dodging, corrupt, communist sleezeball) out of office. 

George HW Bush deserved to lose, but the country sure as hell didn't deserve to get asshole Clinton.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:29 PM (LRFds)

Texas is already so far gone, Perry has to throw a bone to a dream act thingy. With the Feds actively supporting illegal immigration, it is already over but the fat lady singing. If cons don't move south we will all hand separately.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 21, 2013 03:32 PM (0It32)

She is. Julian is rumored to have some corruption issues involving some contractors. Also, a bit light in the loafers perhaps.

As long as Texas conservatives take the present for granted, as long as they fail to get down on the ground and infiltrate the immigrant community, as long as they just chuckle about deep-blue enclaves, etc., etc., the Castro brothers' predictions will come true.

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I don't  think  that is true.   Texas  conservatives  do fight.   I  don't   think the Castro's  prediction  is  going to come true for quite a while.  There will be pockets of blue - the Valley and  Austin, but that's about it.

252...Even OK was solidly dem for a long time. If there will ever be a lone-standing red state, it'll probably be OK.

Yep, Soona.

The Dems here are afraid to even use the word 'Democrat' when they are running for office.

Sneaky fuckers.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:33 PM (l86i3)

Well, he's not an American (not even a birther statement), just like Bill Ayers is not an American. He's a cancer, the enemy. An oppressor, he's Oliver fucking Cromwell, another opportunist fanatic from an earlier age.

Posted by: SH at January 21, 2013 03:36 PM (gmeXX)

Another factor is that immigration from Mexico seems to have stalled significantly. I haven't had a decent yard guy in years.

But then, why would you cross in Texas when Cali gives you more free shit? Also, assuming that net migration is down (it is) then the extrapolation from the 2000 census the Castros are using will be wrong.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:33 PM (l86i3)

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You're not alone, OSP.  I feel the same way.   It's why I will consider it a total waste of money to go to those regions where most of those people reside.  And that includes CO.  I used to love going to CO.

The Castros remind me a lot of Henry Cisneros.  Supposed to be the bright light of the Dems, from San Antonio, photo ops with Clinton when he was running for President and President.  Wasn't he made Sec of Labor?  Then, sick kid, crazy wife going to voodoo type faith healers, and rumors of affairs out of control.  I get more of a smarmy vibe off of them than I did Cisneros.

Perhaps they will self-destruct.  But will anyone care?  The public is not that shocked by scandal anymore

Posted by: tubal at January 21, 2013 03:33 PM (BoE3Z)

Yep. They take over a fiscal sane town. Run up the bond debt, and move on to destory the next town. Locusts in accurate. Financial locusts. And they can't be stopped because humans suck, and they are dumbasses.

277 268 Well,I hated Bill Clinton but that was more do to immaturity.

I still hate that sonuvabitch.

Politics turned into 'war' with his 'War Room'...and he single-handedly led us into the coarsening of our culture.

Clinton is the one who made 'shameless lying' into an art form, that is practiced today by the likes of the DNCmedia and the King Zero regime.

Posted by: Jollyroger at January 21, 2013 03:39 PM (t06LC)

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Wasn't it in the  AoS morning news updates that had an article that said by 2015 (?) caucasians will be in the minority in CA? 

Posted by: SH at January 21, 2013 03:36 PM (gmeXX)

Wishful thinking. Explain the creeping Blue of the counties bordering Mexico.

Posted by: tubal at January 21, 2013 03:37 PM (BoE3Z)

I do not know if he's an American. (And I have researched this quite extensively.) What I do know is that he is not a "natural born citizen" in the manner that the founders understood it.  

But nobody cares about following constitutional requirements anymore.

@288

Yeah I see that. I don't think either of them is particularly bright. They happen to benefit from the fact that SA is mostly hispanic with the suburbs predominately white. There is really no other reason to give a SA mayor an interview on national tv. Wedged in pop. between Phoenix and San Diego, who cares? 

182 Is there a best case scenario for the next four years? 

I'm just hoping for cable TV in the gulags.

I mean the great swathe of less political voters who aren't ideological enough to have strong opinions one way or the other, but who can tell the difference between a recession and an expansion.

I think the last Presidential election has already proved that statement wrong. There is a "great swathe" of people who have no political views, or any view beyond themselves, who not only voted for him, but also praised him for the great job he was doing fixing the country.

Posted by: Invictus at January 21, 2013 03:44 PM (OQpzc)

Been there? Theyve always been like that too since the 40's. Hell, most of Texas was blue then.

In some of those counties, english is not the first language. Of course, they are low population as well with a few border citites. I do a lot of work there in the oilfield.

Wishful thinking. Explain the creeping Blue of the counties bordering Mexico.

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Not  every  part of the state is going to be red.  There  are  pockets  of  blue in Texas.   But I'm not overly worried  about a  state  takeover at this  point.   Partly because Texas conservatives do fight and don't take things for granted as the previous  poster warned.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:39 PM (l86i3)

I hated him with a blue purple passion from hell.  Even so, he was still better than this guy we have now.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:45 PM (LRFds)

You were early. I never expected them to take over Texas, but I never thought the imperial government would betray the border this totally. I've no where else to run unless I leave the states for El Salvador, but I'd still have to go to war now that the US funded gangs are nearly in charge of there. We are losing and we refuse to even fight.

"Is there a best case scenario for the next four years? What?

Total economic collapse followed by mass civil unrest that amongst chaos, starvation, attempts at a police state, unchecked crime and violence, and death, leads to the solidarity of the freedom movement which rises again from the ashes of a fallen nation to re-constitute itself as a free nation once again."

-OR...on the bright side:

We continue  drowning  in slow motion for another century until  we're so ground down that we give up and our  children and grandkids cannot be distinguished from  today's North Korean drones.

...and we will worship  our  leaders for their greatness, generosity, wisdom, and strength in granting  us our "freedom" to fuck whatever we want (consequence free),  have  a choice between chicken *or* vegetarian rations, and to have 250 HDTV channels with all the latest reality programming.   

WaPo says Barky's second term will be over sooner than we think, that he has about a year and a half to get things done before the 2014 midterms make congress go into election mode.

They said that like it was a bad thing.  Ha.

Posted by: steevy at January 21, 2013 03:45 PM (9XBK2)

I don't think he pissed it away.  I think the OK City thing drained away a lot of passion for changing the government. The political will evaporated in that explosion.  The Media and Clinton certainly took advantage of it by demonizing anyone who argued the government was too big.

Any "anti-government" talk was linked to OKC  fanatics.

@330

My first thought. Best part is, in most of the wilds no one will screw with you because there is no one to screw with you.

Wishful thinking. Explain the creeping Blue of the counties bordering Mexico

-- Been that way far as long as I can remember and will continue.

Posted by: Jollyroger at January 21, 2013 03:46 PM (t06LC)

As a matter of fact I have. I felt like a minority. Did you know Brownsville was the first city in Texas to have a plastic bag ban? That's not mexican socialism, that is American commie.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:47 PM (l86i3)

And he will use it like Hitler used the Reichstag fire. It's something I worry about.

Whatta ya mean you didn't like His Highness' soaring rhetoric?

It was good for me.  And everybody around was giving me plenty of room.

Posted by: wheatie at January 21, 2013 03:37 PM (fH4X9)

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When we turned red, it was quick.  And I give all the credit to cleaning up and reforming the state election board. 

I'm really surprised that states haven't taken our example of how to operate fair elections.  Pride, unions, and laziness I guess.

Which was another reason this state is doing  so well considering.  Right to Work laws.

msn's home page's headline on the speech:

a post partisan preezy spoke of putting aside partisan differences and governing on the principles on which our nation was founded.

"If  the  MFM  says  it,  it  must  be  true!"  -  thought  bubble over the head  of  a  LIV.

Posted by: Invictus at January 21, 2013 03:53 PM (OQpzc)

I go to the courthouse in Zavala County quite a bit. I noticed some books are missing from the deed records. Turns out in the 70's LaRaza took over teh courthouse and stole the books. They also ran the county in the ground, and I believe that it is the only county in the state to have gone bankrupt. Believe it or not, they have actually tilted right since then. (Not all the way, but its a pretty low bar)

Gotta enjoy that its the only place I've been where the McDonald's helpfully reminds people that courtesy cups are for water only. In english and spanish.

The only things that Clinton did that were...'good for the country'...were things that the Republicans in Congress forced him to do.

He was good at taking credit for all those things that he fought tooth-and-nail against.

Clinton actively engaged in 'outsourcing' jobs to other countries.

He sent Ron Brown on taxpayer provided junkets, all around the world...to encourage US companies to move their operations there.

Clinton kicked off the Housing Bubble, by encouraging banks to make subprime loans.

And since Citibank got sued by the JEF on behalf of Acorn...the banks were scared shitless not to make loans to people who couldn't afford them.

Clinton weakened our military...calling it the "Post Cold War Savings"...and led to us having to strengthen it, fast, after 9/11.

Whenever you have to get something done...fast...it always costs more.

Which led to increasing the deficit in the Bush years.

People tend to forget what a shitbird Clinton was.

Posted by: Jones in CO at January 21, 2013 03:52 PM (8sCoq)

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You haven't seen the game yet?  Hey, I'll go with the Ravens +6 for a K.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a Flaming Moe at January 21, 2013 03:56 PM (ZKzrr)

Go look at all the events of 1973 and tell me you wouldn't have been building a bomb shelter. The fact that the Dems wanted to just surrender to the commies is an indication that they are commies. Reagan bought us some time, but we fucked it up.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:47 PM (l86i3)"

I have no doubts about it. 

They'll never admit it, but  by their words and actions  they're literally goading people into thinking about  the unthinkable.  They know that someone sooner or later will  lose control and do something stupid.  Then they can crank the ratchet down even tighter.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

It's the  distilled essence of evil.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 03:49 PM (LRFds)

Yup. The Demographics of this nation has changed for the worse.  I blame the fact that people get so much of their news and entertainment from Television, and have so much less life experience from which to draw. 

Television not only misinforms us regarding the actual news, it creates false memories of fake people's lives and how bad behavior is devoid of bad consequences.

Television has become a national drug and a national poison.

Posted by: tubal at January 21, 2013 03:51 PM (BoE3Z)

The Tea Party was harmed by our own side, the Republicans, who went along with the Democrats in using propoganda to marginalize them.  If the Republicans had stood up for the Sarah Palin's of our party, we probably would not be in the position we are in.  Working with the opposition to kill off a popular part of your party is never a good idea.  Unless you want to lose.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 04:04 PM (bb5+k)

It didn't do it to me and I ate my dinner as a kid on a TV tray.  Its just a medium of entertainment.  But as with drugs, interaction with other mediums may cause an adverse reaction.   The news media is the drug that when mixed with anything causes bad side effects.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 21, 2013 03:50 PM (SY2Kh)

Seems to be your go-to line for anything you regard as unworthy of interest. 

I recall you slinging the "Conspiracy nut" accusation at anyone that wanted to see an actual birth certificate, despite the fact that the Jug Eared Fuck's own biography on his publisher's web page claimed that he was born in Kenya, and had so claimed for something like 15 years. 

Yeah, anyone who wanted to question the asshole's credentials was a "conspiracy nut."

@392

Ah, the plot of the original Tim Burton Batman.

2. The Hispanic population in Texas is more conservative than elsewhere.

I'd give you that mexicans who choose Texas over California are willing to work, but they will still vote Dem by the second generation. Because whores and welfare. It takes a saint, or an American to turn down free money.

385 OT, but Joan Rivers has declared Michelle's bangs to be a fashion "don't". But if this gets mentioned on her E! program I'll be shocked.

Those aren't bangs...they're a merkin.

You can put a merkin on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a Flaming Moe at January 21, 2013 04:06 PM (ZKzrr)

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The ME got messy when the colonials decided to unass the region.   I'm sure there's many  Europeans who are seeing that leaving those regions was a big mistake.  There was at least  some semblance of civilization when they were there.

Posted by: tubal at January 21, 2013 03:51PM (BoE3Z)

And whatever you replace it with will quickly be a damaged brand so long as the Media is run by Liberal Democrats from New York and Los Angeles.  Sarah Palin is a damaged brand for a reason. Because those evil fuckers will viciously and repeatedly attack with lies and insinuations, ANYONE who challenges their narrative.

Till we have a Media Air force to compete with theirs, we cannot win this conflict.  

@400

I agree with that. Most have no f'n clue what the positions are, they just vote D. I would point you to the slowing demographics. If you wanted it to go negative, all you'd have to do is tie welfare to work. No more making babies as a full time job.

@409

And yet, here I am. Talking to my cyberfriends. Ever wonder if I am real or a simulation? 101101101001001 lol!

Posted by: polynikes at January 21, 2013 04:09 PM (m2CN7)

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The  devil's mix came with leftist tv, movies, coupled  with  warped  K thru grad school  public  marxist indoctrination  centers.  Falsely known as public education.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a Flaming Moe at January 21, 2013 04:17 PM (ZKzrr)

He probably just watched Zoolander and is trying to stay on their good side.

"Our local Rush Limbaugh, Tom Bauerle, has been calling for a peaceful *divorce* since the morning of Sept. 7th, complete with playing old Rebel fight songs on his radio show.

And I am in DEEP blue New Yorkistan."

IMO, the D-Word is the key.

Divorce is an accepted and cherished  institution on the Left.  They understand it.  They've lived it.  Calling it a National Divorce could be  the one and only way to keep us from eventually spilling  each other's blood again.

Keep the word Secession back in the 1860's.

Posted by: Soona at January 21, 2013 04:17 PM (hBvAX)

It was the schools that did us in. A republic requires virtue. Our society is bankrupt here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 21, 2013 04:02 PM (UOM4

Did his chauffeur tell him how much he drives a day?

Posted by: Soona at January 21, 2013 04:17 PM (hBvAX)

I agree with the mix but remember, Hollywood has always been leftist.  And at one time Communist.

After all this shit and nowing I have four more yers of this,

Guess whose sooooo happy they still have a vocidon scrpit today

With reffils

Ill give y a hint

DIMENSTIONS

I have never hated an American President before. I have never hated half of my fellow citizens. I do now.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 03:33 PM (l86i3)

Ditto

Hate isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the whole situation. 1441 days to go, and each one will bring a fresh Hell.

He also noted that the Obamas seem to understand that the fashion industry is a driving force in the U.S. economy and that its lobby is a powerful one. They don't treat fashion frivolously, he observed.

But Collins said he was a bit surprised the public doesn't pay much attention to the president's wardrobe. He joked that Obama should perhaps try one of Browne's signature shrunken suits -- the ones that show a man's ankles.

Oh, how I wish TFG would wear a stupid hipster suit.  Perfect!

Posted by: wheatie at January 21, 2013 03:58 PM (fH4X9)

I had forgotten none of the things you mentioned, and I'm glad you brought them up to remind others what a horrible piece of shit Clinton was, and you didn't even get into the part about him giving American Missile technology to the Chinese, and halting the mining of Anthracite coal in Utah, and taking foreign bribe money, etc.

Posted by: Mike the Moose. at January 21, 2013 03:59 PM (0q2P7)

I've said that for years.  Mutually Assured Destruction only works on non-Religious fanatics. 

Posted by: CAC at January 21, 2013 04:20 PM (aYKjq

Here we go again...

Posted by: Rev dr E buzz at January 21, 2013 04:20 PM (raGXo)

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I think that's why  the old repubs are constantly losing the congressional battles.  They value "process" more than they  do the Constitution.

426...IMO, the D-Word is the key.

 

Divorce is an accepted and cherished institution on the Left. They understand it. They've lived it. Calling it a National Divorce could be the one and only way to keep us from eventually spilling each other's blood again.

 

Keep the word Secession back in the 1860's.
 

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I like that concept....'We want a Divorce!'

But how do we avoid 'losing the house' and getting put in jail for non-payment of child support?

Posted by: Jaws at January 21, 2013 04:02 PM (4I3Uo)

I think Rush Limbaugh proffered the theory that they are intentionally goading people into overstepping so that they can use an incident to increase and consolidate their power.  They are hoping for an OKC like event. 

It has also been suggested that if they can't push someone into it, they will do it themselves and blame it on the opposition, aka "the Reichstag fire."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 21, 2013 04:23 PM (UOM4

again?

Wait did thsi day happen before

Posted by: polynikes at January 21, 2013 04:20 PM (m2CN7)

There were always a lot of lefties in Hollywood but back in the day there were a number of conservatives like John Wayne, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper etc. who were anti-commies. And a number of studio bosses (minus the Warner Bros.) weren't big on leftist movies or messages. You have none of that today. Now it's pure, unopposed liberalism

Oh I despised Clinton and still do.  What's different is I didn't quite despise the people who voted for him like I do those that voted for Obama. 

And I dislike Clinton and Obama for different reasons.  Clinton is a sneaky, narcissistic pyschopath savant and Obama is an American hating narcissistic socialist racist victim dumbass.

Posted by: EC at January 21, 2013 04:05 PM (GQ8sn)

I encourage everyone to do anything they can to deprive American Liberal film makers of any possible revenue.  

Posted by: 80sBaby at January 21, 2013 04:27 PM (YjDyJ)

boils the blood. Already have a social infrastructure, but lets destroy that for some promises wished up out of the ether.

Ether sounds promising right now.

Posted by: LiarsLiein NYC at January 21, 2013 04:05 PM (cxl8k)

I agree. There are a bunch of Republican operatives who need a good ass beating.  I encourage everyone to punch them in the face should you ever encounter them.

Schmidt and Wallace come to mind.

455 447 Wheatie,

 

accept that we will have to take a big % of the debt, and they will demand we sign a piece of paper guaranteeing their safety.

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I would rather do what the Banks do...and buy it at a discount.

Like, 50¢ on the dollar.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 21, 2013 04:29 PM (UOM4

R

Posted by: steevy at January 21, 2013 04:29 PM (9XBK2)

He should have pushed that commie c*cksucker Burt Lancaster out the nearest window

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 04:26 PM (bb5+k)

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I don't think the "Reichtag fire" will be a single event, but a series of events.  Newtown is the kindling.   They're using it to start bigger fires.

There will be several of these events.   All they have to do is wait.....and goad.

Posted by: polynikes at January 21, 2013 04:09 PM (m2CN7)

But your experience overlooks the fact that not all people share the same degree of susceptibility to drugs.  What was a harmless dosage to you, likely caused a fatal liberal dominated world view in others.

Some people can handle fake reality and deal accordingly. Others can't.  Their votes count anyway.

"Buthow do we avoid'losing the house' and getting put in jail for non-payment of child support? "

Those little bastards ain't mine.  Here's some DNA,  Barky.

My wife and I  are willing to walk away from our  paid for house and sign over  our  Social Security "accounts" for a real opportunity to start over in a truly free country.  Hell, my forefathers walked away from their European shitholes  a century or more ago with nothing.   The only difference is that they actually had somewhere to go.  We'd have to carve it out of the present clusterfuck.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 04:34 PM (bb5+k)

And then there are those who driftin in a series of alternate realities.

461...And a number of studio bosses (minus the Warner Bros.) weren't big on leftist movies or messages. You have none of that today. Now it's pure, unopposed liberalism

Actually, the two original Warner Bros...the older ones...who were responsible for pioneering the 'talkies'...were quite conservative.

It was their worthless younger brother, playboy Jack Warner, who stabbed the oldest brother in the back and took over the studio...who was the big liberal.

Posted by: DiogenesLamp at January 21, 2013 04:30 PM (bb5+k)

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I'll keep it  local.  Hollowpoint comes to mind. 

beating up on labor, in the grand tradition of pols in service of Wall Street and Big Corporate

I bet the retard doesn't even see the irony in his choice of words. 

The Tea Party was harmed by our own side, the
Republicans, who went along with the Democrats in using propoganda to  marginalize them. If the Republicans had stood up for the Sarah Palin's  of our party, we probably would not be in the position we are in.  Working with the opposition to kill off a popular part of your party is  never a good idea. Unless you want to lose.

Posted by: LiarsLiein NYC at January 21, 2013 04:05 PM (cxl8k)

If only all the NYC republicans learned this lesson...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 21, 2013 04:35 PM (QKKT0)

Newton is already beginning to die down. All the left needs is another nut to try something that happens about twice a year on average. Then the calls will start up again. Conservatives should get out in front and start saying what will help and why these measures won't. But, I don't think they are that smart.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 21, 2013 04:16 PM (SY2Kh)

And there you go again.  Ad Hominem is your Modus operandi. 

Time and time again, I point out that one guy lying and 50 state election officials not doing their job, does not constitute a conspiracy, and your little silly ass comes back with "Space Aliens in Area 51" or some other childish bullshit.

Posted by: CAC at January 21, 2013 04:35 PM (aYKjq)

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*runs to find tin-foil hat*

Posted by: polynikes at January 21, 2013 04:39 PM (m2CN7)

Don't interrupt an ignorant fuck when he's pissing in his canteen.

Posted by: BlueStateRepub at January 21, 2013 04:10 PM (7ObY1)

Posted by: wiserbud at January 21, 2013 04:37 PM (gCa4h)

sorry wiser my post was not directed at you.  I was defending the act of watching TV today.   Some have contended that it has brainwashed our kids.  I say that TV alone has not done that.  Only in combination with the real culprit, MSM,  has TV become arguably harmful.

#510

Tin is worthless.

You need a Praseodymium

513511 Pee has electrolytes.

Who are we to question Bear Grylls' beverage of choice?

Posted by: steevy at January 21, 2013 04:24 PM (9XBK2)

Had the media hammered that shit, he would have been hammered shit.

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith Thinks Obama Can Be Reagan Absent Any Actual Accomplishments...

Why not?  He was awarded the Nobel Price Prize absent any actual accomplishments.

520...So who is the real enemy? I say the leftist media.

Yep. That's who my seething hatred is for.

They have made a mockery of freedom of speech...and turned it into 'freedom to lie'.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at January 21, 2013 04:25 PM (C8mVl)

Joan Rivers said one of the funniest things I can remember.  When asked about some Actress who wanted to adopt an African child, but was concerned about keeping the child in contact with his cultural heritage, Joan Rivers said:

" Lock him in a hot room and throw in a jar of flies!  "

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 04:25 PM (l86i3)

Something like 50 of Clintons friends and associates died under mysterious circumstances.  Look up Clinton Dead pool or some such, and you can see how many weird deaths occurred in relation to Bill Clinton and Co.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 21, 2013 04:52 PM (Nfpnr)

Again you are talking about movies made in the 40's.   Over 70 years ago.  Look at the Academy awards over the last 50 years. 

No, the Left won't get Michigan in a splitup. Michigan has been banging out some really fine, anti-SCOAMF laws lately.

Can we at least give them Detroit?

Posted by: wheatie at January 21, 2013 04:35 PM (fH4X9)

Sounds about right.

So if the left is ultimately successful, and all is destroyed, what follows?

Raw naked power.  It's what they've wanted all along.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 21, 2013 04:52 PM (Nfpnr)

Also I can name a dozen or more overtly American and pro family/ religion movies made in last decade.  It doesn't mean that Hollywood has not been on the left for the past 50 years.  I can't believe I have to argue that point on this site.  

Posted by: Soona at January 21, 2013 04:37 PM (hBvAX)

Is there some way I can contact you?  I would like to talk at length.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 21, 2013 04:45 PM (l86i3)

Yes.  They need to be beaten down into a bloody pulp, then we need to burn that with gasoline. 

The media (Liberal Democrats disguised as reporters and entertainers) are the enablers of Liberal governance.   They keep distorting the truth in such a way as to make the good guys look evil, and the evil guys look good.

Till we come up with an effort to kneecap them, we are not going to win.  Conservatives have to create alternative and popular alternatives to liberal news and entertainment.  We can't just talk at people, we have to inform them while we entertain them.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at January 21, 2013 04:48 PM (C8mVl)

Since America can now be addressed only through television, they are in fact denying conservatives the ability to speak to the American people because they refuse to grant us access to the only means of doing so.

The Left Censors our speech.  We should not tolerate it.

So if the left is ultimately successful, and all is destroyed, what follows?Posted by: irongrampa at January 21, 2013 04:53 PM (SAMxH)

I have a book you might want to read.

I guess  I  was wrong when I said that Americans Don't Serf.

Apparently they do.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 21, 2013 04:49 PM (o1kXv)

Should right/left differences become untenable and irreconcilable, I strongly doubt a split-up would occur along state boundaries. Just as Lincoln said regarding the pro-slavery/abolitionist divisions during the first (and hopefully only) Civil War, we'll be all one thing or all another. Further, I doubt your divorce analogy holds up, either. You act as if there would be two adults in the room, calmly discussing division of property. Ever been divorced yourself? Amicable divorces are the stuff of myth and legend: often talked about but never seen or experienced firsthand.

Ace, Obama has accomplished a lot, it's just not stuff you think highly of.

The FSA, on the other hand, thinks he has done a lot. They like the part about getting to stay on parents health plan until 26. They like the student loan credit. They like unemployment forever - or at least until you can roll on to SS disability, which is (apparently) easier than ever to qualify for. They like Obama phones. They like expanded Medicare and CHiP. They like the millions upon billions upon trillions of slush fund money, out there rolling around for the agencies to blow on crap we don't need (but that the well-connected have figured out how to tap into).  They like how easy Obama has made it for low- to no-information individuals to get on the dole (I heard a commercial on how to get on CHiP and how to get an Obama phone just on my drive in to work). They hear they're getting free health care and free contraception (whether they understand that "free" means "paid for by somebody, just maybe not you" is anyone's guess).

Even those who aren't actively a part of the FSA THINK that Obama has done a lot. They think he has defeated a bunch of evil conservatives who would GASP demand that they take responsibility for their actions and pay their own way. The last thing an Obama voter wants is for some conservative - like their PARENTS, for heaven's sake - to tell them that they are not behaving morally - or worse, make them feel guilty or bad about themselves. A few are under the impression that Obama has saved them from "greedy corporations," whatever that means.

What I see that Obama has done is convert "envy" from one of the seven deadly sins into a governing philosophy. Now that the leader of the free world has told the masses that it's not only OK to covet what the top of the heap has, and not only that it's not their fault that they don't have all the same things, but that what the top of the heap has belongs to everybody ("you didn't build that"), I think he's fundamentally changed the American psyche in a way that's probably not fixable. Genie, bottle, you know the rest.

571 sven

All it will take is someone on the right who's "cool" and who connects with people. I thought Romney actually had that ability, based on stories from people who actually know him. What he didn't have was someone to help him find his way around the media directly to the American people (I'm looking at you, sucky campaign staffers).

Frankly it's going to take someone younger and more technologically savvy.  Rubio springs to mind as someone who can actually connect with people; I heard him on Levin's show years ago and was impressed at how easygoing he seemed. Ryan, on the other hand, looked like a deer in the headlights during the debates. I could have done better than that.

Kasich used to be able to talk to people on camera, but I haven't seen him "perform" in a while. Don't know enough about Rand Paul to speculate.

Oh and Michael J. Fox is the most beloved guy on TV - a kid who is a financial whiz, making money. Second most beloved? Probably Charles In Charge, a guy working his way through school (not taking out student loans). Working, being responsible, being moral, not taking crap that isn't yours, not expecting other people to pay your way ... all themes of the TV shows I watched in the 1980's (with the notable exception of Fantasy Island, which I watched every other Saturday night during a 3 year babysitting gig, which was about getting Mr. Roarke to give you free sh*t; and Dallas, which involved one lying, cheating jackhole that you loved to hate. Bobby, on the other hand, worked for everything.).

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 21, 2013 04:52 PM (Nfpnr)

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Hell, you couldn't make  'Blazing Saddles' today.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 05:23 PM (LRFds)

Not happy at all with the way things are going, thanks, but I don't play out detailed post-apocalyptic scenarios in my head, either. Truth is, the country has endured bad presidents before without resorting to bloodshed and civil war. We'll (almost certainly) weather this administration, as well. Without shooting each other.

History plays out the way it plays out. Lots of people try to predict it beforehand. Few get it right.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 21, 2013 04:52 PM (Nfpnr)

For fucks sakes, 'Its a Wonderful Life' could have easily have been named 'It Takes A Village'.

Hollywood has never done us any favors.

What is the belly aching about?  The fools who told us Romney was the ideal candidate caused this.  Those who stand for nothing will shallow anything.  So open wide you clowns.

This is what you desired and worked for.