Video- Kristol accuses Obama administration of "reluctance ... to take seriously" the "terror conspiracy" against U.S.

Jeebus, other than the President ripping out the terrorists jugular with his hands, they're just not going to be happy enough. Via Media Matters.

Bill Kristol: GOP Should Repeal Obamacare Before Public Gets To Like It

By GottaLaff

Bill Kristol's track record is so fantastically fantastic, we should all be hanging onto every single word he utters.

Why, here are some now!

Luckily, key parts of Obamacare — especially the subsidies — don’t go into effect until 2014. So what Republicans have to do is to make the 2010 and the 2012 elections referenda on Obamacare, win those elections, and then repeal Obamacare.

Yes, thanks to Greg Sargent, we see that...

... he’s urging Republicans to hurry up and repeal it before Americans decide they like the fact that government’s defending their interests.

This reminds me of the misleading meme about polls reflecting America's dislike of the health care bill... but oops! Once they were polled on each component, it got great reviews.

Is it any wonder Kristol's the go-to guy... for self-annulling, unsound commentary?

VIDEO: Kristol meth

By GottaLaff

Via Think Progress:




How nice that Mr. Liz is comfortable. Too bad about the rest of us, huh?

But on to William K...

Apparently, you can be a ClusterFox punditiot without having to do any homework on the subject at hand.

Who does he think he is, Sarah McDimWitty? What a meth.

Video- Kristol laughingly "agrees" with Obama that "he's been doing all kinds of crazy stuff that risks destroying America"

Via Media Matters.

KristolFail

By GottaLaff



Think Progress has a piece up about a possible neocon resurgence, but this passage stood out like a throbbingly sore thumb:

According to Newsweek, neocons, other Republicans, and even his own late father have criticized him:

“He would rather take an interesting wrong position than a dull correct one,” says a longtime neocon who did not want to be named because the two are friendly. Several people who know Kristol describe his Palin boosterism—his very public campaign to persuade John McCain to put her on the Republican ticket—as a schoolboy-like infatuation, sparked when a Weekly Standard cruise docked in Juneau. [...] “Bill’s a very close friend of mine, but he does an awful lot of things just to get publicity,” says one prominent Republican who also did not want to be named for fear of offending Kristol. [...]

Even his father had his qualms. “My poor son has got it wrong again,” he sometimes lamented to an old family friend.

And again... and again... and again.

Video- Kristol sees Obama's Nobel speech as pretext for attacking Iran

What's that saying? If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail? Idiots.

Video- Liz Cheney jokes about her dad Dick running for President in 2012

Via Think Progress.

Video- Kristol: No trial for Hasan, 'They should just go ahead and convict him and put him to death'

Bill's been around long enough, you think he'd know how these things work.

Video- Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol Discuss President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

There is only one word for her, and it's one I don't usually like to use. Thanks to FDL for the vid.

Video- Bill Kristol: I'm 'Amused' By America's 2016 Olympics Bid Defeat

Whoa, him and his buddies all seem mightily amused, go figger.

The Daily Show- Bill Kristol admits "the government can run a first class health care system"

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Joke of the Day

UPDATED with the extended version, let me know if this one works okay.

Really, watch Kristol's face, he just doesnt' get it.

Quote of the Day

Asshat division. They cannot win.

"My advice, for what it's worth: Resist the temptation. This is no time to pull punches. Go for the kill."

-- William Kristol, a key strategist in the defeat of the Clinton health care reform effort in 1993, arguing in the Weekly Standard that "with Obamacare on the ropes, there will be a temptation for opponents to let up on their criticism, and to try to appear constructive, or at least responsible."

What Booman says-

We have the votes in our caucus to pass the pure form of this bill, which hews closely to Obama's campaign promise, but we have many nervous or compromised members who need coaxing. If you have never advocated for anything else in your life, now is the time to change that. The next two weeks will not only determine whether or not we get a good health care bill passed, but they will have a huge impact on whether Obama is a successful president or not. So, please, get involved and find out what you can do to help.

Lots of good ideas on what we can do here and here.

VIDEO-- Bill Kristol: I Was Wrong To Blame Obama For Stock Market Declines

By GottaLaff



Bill Kristol was ::gasp!:: wrong about something, and is, wait for it... admitting it? Zut alors! Where are my smelling salts? Quick, someone get me to a fainting couch...

Indeed, a key talking point of the right-wing in late 2008 and the early part of 2009 was that the significant decline in the stock market was evidence that Obama’s approach to economic recovery was already failing. [...] Kristol argued that Obama’s failure to base his entire economic agenda on ensuring day-to-day gains in the markets on Wall Street demonstrated he had already failed at governing:

So the stock market drops over 25 percent since Election Day, almost 20 percent since Inauguration — and Barack Obama tells the American people at his press conference Tuesday not to “spend all your time worrying about that.” [...]

The stock market is about real money, about the real livelihoods of real. … I’m told almost every theme in Obama’s speech last Tuesday night was focus-group tested–and the speech played pretty well politically. But the markets weren’t impressed. Isn’t it time for Obama and his team to get up the nerve to stop playing politics and to govern?

[...] Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Republicans in Congress all got on board. The question now is whether or not Kristol’s conservative brethren will follow his lead and issue a correction.

Will InSannity, Boss, or any of the Rushpublic punditiots follow suit? I doubt it. Will a retraction about Le Burger de Dijon be far behind? Jamais. Not on votre life.

Sunday Round Up- Kristol wants more Cheney, Huckabee wants more Rove, and Perino thinks Repubs are uniters…

Via Jed L.

VIDEO: What Obama's right-wing dinner partners are saying today

By GottaLaff

"Yesterday, he met with the liberal columnists. And they had a pleasant hour in the conference room in his office. They got some coffee in some styrofoam cups. We had a pleasant dinner at George’s house, and they had some coffee from the machine in the office."

Yesterday, I posted about P.E. Obama's impending dinner date with some of the rightiest of the righties. If this were a dating show featuring a Palin documentary filmmaker, we'd see who bonded, who was rejected, who got humiliated, and who might get a call back. Instead, all we get are a few sketchy descriptions from participants whose reliability is dubious at best.

Here's a video of Charles Krauthammer with his two (non)cents.

Above, we see Bill Kristol being all Bill Kristol-y, so pop a Tums and get the Pepto Bismol out.

And finally, boffo reviews galore from Larry Kudlow. He makes it sound as if a second date were in their future [insert wolf whistle and heavy panting here]:

Larry Kudlow, who attended the right-wing dinner, said: "I was very impressed. He's a nice guy, terribly smart, well-informed, great smile. He just really engaged. He said he likes to know the arguments on all sides."

No word yet from George Will, Peggy Noonan, Paul Gigot, or David Brooks. I'm sure they were swept off their two right feet and are converting to Progressivism as we speak.

Poster Boy Bill

By GottaLaff

Obamicon Me taken to a whole new level

Remember Obamicon Me? Where you can make your own Shepard Fairey poster? I have a feeling the site crashed due to the inappropriate nature of the above effort.

H/t: Eve

Obama dines with George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, Bill Kristol

By GottaLaff

Wowzers, President-elect Obama is even braver than Batman, Superman, and Spidey all rolled into one!

He's dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist George Will with the Post's Charles Krauthammer and the New York Times's David Brooks and William Kristol. All three wrote, at times, both kind and scathing things about Obama, though Kristol in particular pushed sharp attack lines against him in the waning days of the race.

I hope he got his rabies shots first.

And here the righties thought he'd be a weak leader... At the very least, this proves he has a strong stomach.

Worst Prediction of the Year

Man, and as it turns out, Kristol was in my neck of the woods and I didn't even know. I would have baked a pie.... Via Taegan.

Foreign Policy picks the ten worst predictions of the last year. Here's the winner:

"If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she's going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then... Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now."

-- William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006

Related- Media Matters wants you to vote on Most Inane Punditry of the 2008 presidential campaign. I picked-

Cokie Roberts on Obama's vacation: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state," but it looks "foreign, exotic"

IWRC* Palin 2012? Gramm-pa McCain's advisor is speechless

By GottaLaff

Via DKos. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry:

Via CNN:

Blitzer: Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if - if - she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure going ahead to 2012. She was asked, what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday - do you simply go back to Alaska - Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her - and Palin said this, and I'll read it to you verbatim according to an ABC transcript:

Absolutely not. I think that if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender, I think that some of the political shots that we've taken - that that would bring this whole - and I'm not doing this for naught."

And that's a direct quote from Sarah Palin.

Dana Bash follows up with a Republican official's reaction:

Blitzer: Any reaction yet, Dana, from this blunt statement that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?

Bash: I just got off the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it's fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a "huh" on the other end of the phone. I mean, this is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially a future national run. Certainly she is being urged to be a lot of people inside the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an if, and people inside the McCain campaign - they do not want ANY discussion that has in "if" in front of it six days before the election.

Hear that? It's the sound of the Republican party splitting in half like a cracked coconut: Those who think IWRC* is a $100,000-packaged disaster on one side, and those (including Bill Kristol and Brent Bozell) who think she's the doggone awesomest ever, blaming Gramm-pa McCain for everything-- even her illiteracy and ethics lapses, on the other.

Here's more on the calculated Pygmalionesque plans for her future presidency:

To create a Palin movement, Bonjean recommends, she should go back to Alaska, because she must remain an outsider. Plus, Palin should use the National Governors Association as Bill Clinton did, to "showcase his skills and make connections." Bonjean says Palin should own the energy issue, traveling the world to meet foreign leaders and establish relationships.

"All of which would set her up for a run on the 2012 ticket," he writes, which leaves open the question — for president, or this time just a better vice presidential candidate? Palin is no doubt a star, and no doubt making plans for her future.

Or, she could join Sam the Erstwhile Plumbing Imposter and start a garage band.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?"

Note from Paddy- Now, with video!!!

Bill Kristol Dooms McCain

Oh please, oh please, oh please. Officially only the second post that even peripherally had to do with sports. Via Oliver.