- The government has failed to quickly reimburse car dealers for “cash for clunkers” sales, which is just another demonstration of why socializing medicine is such a terrible idea. [Washington Post]
- Facing increasingly strident Republican opposition on healthcare reform, Democrats have concluded, “Well fuck you then.” [New York Times]
- Former HP head Carly Fiorina has a very thin voting record, which could impede her own run for Senate — so she just needs to explain to the public that extremely wealthy businesspeople don’t need to vote, because they have these things called “lobbyists” who have actual influence with politicians. [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Afghanistan is holding a national election on Thursday, but will anybody turn out? Depends on how worried they are about suicide bombings and rocket attacks. [VOA News]
- Former Bush administration officials, take note: in Taiwan, heads do actually roll when the government offers an unacceptably slow response to a natural disaster. [AFP]
- Bad day in Baghdad — at least 75 people have been killed and 310 injured following a series of bombing and mortar attacks. [CNN]
Dems To Go It Alone?
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It’s nice to speculate that the Dems might finally realize that they have several majorities.
Why is it that failed creeps like Carly Fiorina that have been dismissed for bad judgement, poor values and incompetence are automatically deemed worthy of the time of day from main stream media?
Reading the papers and watching cable news is like living through one big horrible never ending episode of Lost.
[re=390237]meyotch[/re]: Even with majorities it would take the audacity of hope to believe they’ll manage to actually grow a pair and stand up and lead.
Heckuva job Hsai-ie!
[re=390240]Eric Cheney[/re]: The triumph of hope over experience? They do seem to manage it once in a while (2-3 times a century). Aren’t we overdue?
AHA!!!!!!1111
http://bit.ly/GklGQ
Carly halved HP’s stock value, now she wants to run for public office. She’s certainly a true follower of the George Bush “Fail Up” philosophy.
However, I’m kinda enjoying the snark opportunities the Lady Repugnant contenders are offering.
[re=390238]SlipperyDick[/re]: she looks perky, and a shitload of money.
These morons keep complaining about “government-funded,” or “taxpayer-funded,” or “tax-money-funded” health care programs. What the hell do they think Medicaid and Medicare are? And, by the way, many of these asshole protesters take full advantage of………..Medicaid and Medicare. Which indeed are, completely, government-funded, taxpayer-funded and tax-money-funded federal government health care programs.
These protesters are assholes, and they need to shut the hell up.
And they need to stop making racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic and childish, uninformed comments, and they need to stop hauling guns around in public.
What a bunch of morons!
Carly Fiorina is the corporate world’s Sarah Palin. It must seem a natural move to her to head into politics, especially now that Ms Palin has left office.
[re=390242]meyotch[/re]: On bad days I think that Barney Frank is the only Democrat. I sincerely hope you’re right though, and that we’re overdue.
If the delay in payments for clunkers is a reason for not having a government run health care plan then the Katrina fiasco is the grounds for sterilizing every member and distant relative of the Bush family.
[re=390238]SlipperyDick[/re]: Hey, watch the Lost insults! Feel free to insult anything and anyone else(except Barack and family).
If by go it alone you mean Barney Frank will be performing my colonoscopy then I am in.
[re=390247]Suds McKenzie[/re]: [re=390252]Terry[/re]: Can you imagine a Palin/Fiorina ticket? (shudders)
If the Democrats have finalyy arrived at the “Well, fuck you then” point of view, then we could truly be in for a golden 8 years.
I won’t really believe it, though, until I see some Republicans behind bars.
Sarah, we love you, put ‘Dems to go it alone?’, what is this, TPM? Shouldn’t it be more like ‘Dems plan to reimburse cash for clunkers obviously another example of Nazism’.
[re=390260]SlipperyDick[/re]: one of them needs a trip to Lens Crafters.
[re=390249]thefrontpage[/re]: Hell yeah!!!1! Except they’re “morans”. My personal fav’rite is Sarah. Any miserable asshole who actually scares old people with intentional lies is a real sucktard. Even if the olds in question are a bit gullible. Also.
[re=390249]thefrontpage[/re]:
Don’t forget VA healthcare and the lifetime disability for getting Barracks Wrist. Socialists!
The Republicans were never a problem, it’s the Corporocrats like Conrad and Baucus whose constituency seems to consist entirely of people in top hats, monocles, and who light cigars with $100 bills.
Note to Carly: Don’t shit where you plan to run for senate. Still plenty of pissed off (former) HP employees who feel they might owe you something for fucking up their company.
If the GOP were really smart, they’d dump Carly and hire someone from India for 1/10 the cost and the same result (lose.)
Hmmm… Dems go it alone… that means there will be a series of meetings culminating in the shooting deaths of most democratic congress members during the Dems’ traditional “Circular Firing Squad”
Dems go it alone? Ha ha ha ha ha! Invertebrate creatures are not the future of evolution. I’ll believe it when I don’t hear about 18,000 a year dying due to lack of access to health care.
Also, hey Carly, take your dumb name and go fail somewhere else. Electing women to the senate is no longer a novelty. These days you also need some accomplishments next to your name.
Somewhere, there’s an alternative universe where Chertoff, “Helluvajob Brownie”, Rummie, Condi and most of the rest of Bush administration disemboweled itself in shame after screwing up.
[re=390307]WadISay[/re]: In the movie Serenity, the assassin basically has an arrogant gov’t employee impale himself on a sword(well, he helps – a lot). He points out that there is no shame in this and that this is an honorable death- rather than waiting for someone to kill him in his sleep. Too bad, Josh Whedon doesn’t have more of a say in how we do things.
We’re relying on Dems to do something honorable and courageous? Just kill me now and harvest my organs.
“Rahm Emanuel … said the heated opposition was evidence that Republicans had made a political calculation to draw a line against any health care changes…”.
No shit, Sherlock.
I can’t wait to hear Carly’s catch phrase, resulting in tourettes from back-pedaling and regret, and finally ending with the inevitable finger-pointing about her failure.
I’ll avoid the Christmas rush and start hating her now.
HaHaHa car dealers. Now you know what it feels like to have to be at the mercy of someone who just might be trying to screw you. What happens when you send in your forms? Does some bureaucrat tell you they have to check with their manager while you sit and sweat? HaHaHa.
People are getting killed in Iraq? Hey, they’re not American soldiers, so that’s a plus. Get our boys out and send in the patriotic motherfuckers who put them there in the first place. Bill Kristol and Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz will have a wonderful time in their new beacon of democracy.
Why all the hate for Carly Fiorina? Don’t people who don’t vote deserve representation, too? What do you mean, “by definition, no”?
Down with this socialist government! They can’t even quickly deliver my free money.
That’s not a fair comparison Bush would have reacted faster if Chinese were in trouble too.
Carly Fiorina: She didn’t waste her vote, she won’t waste yours. BTW, is she still hot?
[re=390497]Paul Tardy[/re]: Only if you had a thing for fifty-ish substitute teachers back in the eighth grade. Pic in the SF Comical looks like she spent quite a lot of that severance from HP on botox and bad hair products.
[re=390641]Georgia Burning[/re]: And don’t mention that HP paid for facelift back in 1999…
Old Carly Stuff from the HP Parody site:
http://www.roundmountaingroup.com/kumquat/oneonone.htm
http://www.roundmountaingroup.com/kumquat/korner.htm
http://www.roundmountaingroup.com/kumquat/fidora.htm
About damn time.
Carly, got rid of 23,000 jobs when HP merged with Compaq and had a little spying controversy. Sounds like republican presidential timber.
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