JABbering Stooge

Whoops! Sorry. Wrong one. Here we go.

Waukesha, WI

Bethlehem, PA

I’m sure you can see how I could confuse the two. It’s getting harder to tell them apart.

Holy crap, Randi Rhodes has been en fuego regarding the Angry Right’s™ ACORN Derangement Syndrome! I hope someone caught the audio!

Fire in the Night

• America-hating super-secret double-probation Muslim Manchurian Candidate B. Hussein Osama personally ordered William Ayers to fluoridate my family’s water supply rape my dog bomb my house when he was just eight years old.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Dow drops below 9,000 in afternoon trading, according to MSNBC.

Hateful words have consequences, Caribou Barbie.

* With apologies to Jack Cafferty.

Wow. Even perennial Republican cheerleader Joe Klein is disgusted with McCain’s swiftboating efforts. If a Republican has lost Joe Klein, he’s lost the electorate.

Overall, I think Obama did well in last night’s debate. However, I think that it would’ve helped him if he could’ve responded to McCain’s rhetoric on universal health care in this way. He should’ve told the story of Nataline Sarkisyan, and then concluded with this line:

John McCain believes that a CIGNA accountant knows better than your doctor what medical care you need.

Short, pithy, sound-bite friendly, and tells an inconvenient truth about the governing philosophy of conservatives. It’s perfect!

John McPenguin, the latest viral video to hit hte* Internetz:

* I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™ ‘Hte’ is the new ‘teh.’

Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

— Paul Weyrich, Dallas, Fall 1980

The stench of flop sweat is sinking in heavily on the right. Even after their heinous, un-American, hypocritical smears of Obama’s character, the dog-whistle stirring up of lynch mobs in Clearwater, Florida, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Jacksonville, Florida, and the obsessive-compulsive lying about Obama’s associations by a nationally-syndicated propagandist, Obama still maintains a nearly insurmountable lead in both the national and state-by-state polls. If these trends continue, Obama will be the next Commander-in-Chief come November 4.

Here’s the race as it stands now:

Hence, the concerted effort by wingnuts in recent days to whip up ACORN Derangement Syndrome among their hate-filled lemmings. it’s depressing and disgusting, but sadly, hardly surprising.

Fortunately for the reality-based community, dday ably calls bullshit on the whole sordid mess.

Lynne Cheney has a rather skewed Overton Window.*

* Cf. See also this post at Corrente.