Quote-O'-The-Day- Stupak edition

By GottaLaff

Just heard Bart Stupak say this on MSNBC:

"We're well past 216... This bill is gonna go through."

He also said something about having the votes before the deal was struck on abortion.

Now STFU.

VIDEO: Why David Gregory should not be hosting Meet the Press

By GottaLaff

C & L's Heather opines as I would. Please go read her rant. I'll simply remind you of who currently hosts Meet the Press, and why NBC made such an egregiously misguided choice:

Attaboy, David. Show us how objective you are. Give us a little peekaroony at what great judgment you have. Let us in on your profound insights.

Iraq war v. health care reform.

Illegal war that murdered thousands v. a plan to save millions.

Bush v. Obama.

Gregory v. true and accurate reporting.

Puh-leeze.

Is Michele Bachmann drinking? "We really need to sober up"

By GottaLaff

Michele Bachmann tries to blame President Obama for the "decline in America", and ends up sounding like a drunk with low self esteem:

"I think we are all going to need a self-esteem course or two after that litany and we can't blame anyone for feeling despondent in the midst of all that," Bachmann quipped. [...]

"We are looking at serious long-term damage to the economy and the well being of our people. We really need to sober up…the only people with the power to change this very bad diagnosis is President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Harry Reid"...

Even her attempted smack downs are one big epic fail.

For more Bachmann inspiration, read the rest of her diatribe here.

Palin's latest: Mr. President: Please Try, "I'm Listening, People," Instead of "Listen Up, People!"

By GottaLaff

I knew I wasn't done posting for the evening, I just knew it. I felt it in my bones. I had that sneaky little Barbie McLipSchmutz aura haunting my subconscious the way the smell of rancid soup haunts the hallways of old apartment buildings.

I bring you Fakey McGhostWriter:

We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.

Isn't she presh the way she completely ignored 2001-2008? Isn't that just like her... and the Tea Baggers who think like her?

Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!”

Psst! Know why, Fakey? Because between no-nothings like you and the inept media that refuse to do anything but misrepresent/ignore the facts, nobody's listening.

This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies.

No. Not really. Not entirely. Not when he's constantly being drowned out by "Death panels!" and "Grandma's gonna die!" and "Socialist!"

We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.

Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results.

This from the person who eats political strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and between-meal snacks.

The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.

Real leaders who care about America realize that free market stuff doesn't work. Real leaders who care about America don't lie. Or quit before their term is up. Or toss out bucketful after bucketful of hypocrisy (see: lobbyists, undue influence). Or lie.

Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs.

Want more? Your entire campaign was financed and shaped by lobbyists.

Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.

Um, Fakey? The bills were posted on the InterWebs for you to read. Besides, after hashing through every detail for months, thanks to your party's obstructionist tactics, everyone in the universe could have read them at their leisure during all the stalling.

Twice.

Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies.

Hey! I know! Let's play "Remember When...?" Remember when you had that jet and then you lied about selling it on eBay? Remember the Bridge to Nowhere? Remember all your own corporate cronies who loaded everything with so much pork, they could have replaced Porky Pig as the "Th-th-that's all, folks" mascot? Remember how it takes awhile for a stimulus package to take effect? Remember when you ran for vice president and lost?

I just threw that last one in for fun.

Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.

Yes. Yes, we're still waiting for a lot of things. Know why? Because it's only been one year!

More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate.

I already covered that.

Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?

Sounds like a 2012 candidate to me. Your thoughts?

Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.

And we ask that you shut your pie hole, genius. Here's why: Because you have failed in every possible way, including ignoring the press, refusing to answer anything but friendly, softball questions, and have yet to listen to the American people when they let you know loudly and clearly that they did not want you anywhere near the White House.

Look who's giving whom advice.

To quote your own blog entry, "Please Try, "I'm Listening, People," Instead of "Listen Up, People!"

VIDEO: Chris Matthews tells Rep. Alan Grayson: You don't represent the "real world of Congress"

By GottaLaff



Tweety needs to take a breath:

[U]nlike Chris Matthews, Grayson is also a member of Congress and has a vote.

VIDEO- Hardball: Rep. Grayson tells Cheney to 'STFU'

By GottaLaff

In my last post, I couldn't resist making a crack about Chris Matthews' apparent oblivion to the well-known acronym STFU (at about 4:00 in the clip below).

Here is the video of that and more:

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Grayson does it again:

Cheney also accused Obama of giving "aid and comfort to the enemy."

Grayson recalled that it was the Bush administration who was close to the Saudi royal family.

"I remember Bush Junior kissing Prince Abdullah on the cheek, and then holding his hand for an extended period of time," Grayson snapped. "Maybe if he'd let him get to second base, then gasoline would be a dollar a gallon."

Dickless McHeartStent, STFU.

VIDEO- Hardball: Ron Reagan slams Ron Christie on "comfort and aid to enemy" remarks

By GottaLaff

Watch as sparks fly in this episode of "Ron Christie is a Cheeeeney Tool". Won't you join us?

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Come on, Tweety, you really didn't know what "STFU" was? (That was from a different interview, one with Alan Grayson, but I couldn't resist throwing it in)

By the way, Ron, thank you. Christie needed a good bitch slap.

Time to deflate Sarah Palin

By GottaLaff

Someone is getting a lit-tle too "puffed up". Poor Barbie McLipSchmutz! It must get tiring, what with all that patting herself on the back while simultaneously straining to peer over her ghost writer's shoulder to catch sight of what the next Facebook post says:

Still riding high from her intervention in the NY-23 special election race, Sarah Palin responds to allegations that she also tried to push independent Chris Daggett out of the New Jersey gubernatorial race:

"So, to the good people of New Jersey, please know that Daggett's claims are false. I've never even suggested he should drop out of the race. But, come to think of it..."

Judge To Orly Taitz: Why Shouldn't I Fine You $10K?

By GottaLaff

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Oh yes, 'tis true. And it's documented right here.

Paddy's video post of MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan smacking Her Taitziness down here.

More details on the story of Judge Clay Land v. Orly Taitz here.

VIDEO: Dana Milbank jokes that Hillary Clinton should drink ‘mad bitch’ beer

By GottaLaff

I was not at all unhappy when he stopped being a Countdown punditiot. Justifiably (at 2:35):

Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza regularly do a political commentary video series called “Mouthpiece Theater.”

Wow. Self-consciously "Aren't we witty" delivery much?

Obama Is Eligible For His Job. He is a natural born U.S. citizen. Okay? Okay.

By GottaLaff

Ambinder puts this ridiculous birth certificate controversy to rest... again:

Well, his birth certificate is valid, for one thing; it's survived scrutiny and has been sanctioned as valid by the legal authority empowered to sanction such things. A conspiracy to cover this up is -- would be -- preposterous.

A thinner version of the claim holds that Obama is a citizen, but not a natural born or naturalized citizen and this constitutionally ineligible. This claim rests on a fairly tendentious argument about Obama's father and mother. Obama Sr., wasn't a citizen; therefore, his son could not have been born to two U.S. citizens; to be a naturalized citizen, both parents have to be U.S. citizens. Also: the law requires citizen-parents to have spent a certain length of time in the state; Obama's mother was a woman of the world.

But the two-citizen parent rule, which is no longer in effect, applied to people born outside the U.S. Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii, a U.S. state since 1959; (had he been born earlier, it wouldn't matter -- U.S. law granted natural born citizenship to every Hawaiian born after 1900.)

Now -- the 14th amendment is fairly clear on the subject:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

A further objection: to be "natural born," as the constitution requires, is to be born on U.S. soil (check) to two citizen parents (x mark.) Again -- that claim has no basis in federal law, Supreme Court precedent, or English common law.

To all those desperate souls who can't stand the notion of a President Barack Hussein Obama, you're plum out of luck. He won by a landslide, he has a mandate, and he is an honest-to-goodness U.S. citizen who easily qualifies for the position.

We're done now.

VIDEO: Anti-war veterans deploy 4,171 toy soldiers at gas station

By GottaLaff

Deeeee-lish, especially on the heels of this.

This video is from IVAW.org, posted Nov. 11, 2008.

In a daring guerrilla raid earlier this fall, members of the Los Angeles chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) infiltrated a local gas station to deploy a battalion of 4171 toy soldiers, together with a sign reading, "Price of Gas: 4171 U.S. Soldiers."

The project was initiated by designer Andrew Wilcox, who served as art director, and photographer and former marine Jonas Lara. According to Wilcox, it also involved "6 Iraq War Veterans who wish to remain anonymous." [...]

[T]he video is also gaining notice from right-wing sites, one of which suggested caustically, "These wannabe jihadists are members of the moonbat cult Iraq Veterans Against the War. Here they put their military skills to use as best they are able by arranging toy soldiers in front of gas pumps to express their dog-eared and cretinous motto, No War for Oil. Good thing these clowns aren't over in Iraq, where they could get themselves and (more importantly) real soldiers hurt."

Um, they were in Iraq, you "clowns". That's what "Iraq Veterans" means. How's about you?

Quote-O'-The-Day: Bill Clinton edition

By GottaLaff

Another "oy" moment:

"Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?"

-- Bill Clinton, quoted by The Hill, evidently still fighting the Democratic primary election. He quickly backpedaled, saying "This has nothing to do with what's going on now."

P. U. M. A.