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Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
You know, looking at this picture
….reminds me that Americans, and Pennsylvanians in particular, have a deep-seated antipathy toward Rick Santorum who lost two years before the Obamatsunami. He was the canary in the coalmine and, in those two years following his defeat, Republicans failed to recognize that their party had become slightly less popular than herpes.
The good news for Republicans is that (at this moment) they’re still more popular than sex with the dead so at least they have something to build o-…what?
Oh, too late.
But it’s the political numbers that are truly striking. Obama has a 66 percent approval rating, which is the highest this poll has recorded, while the GOP’s favorability is at 31 percent, the lowest the poll has recorded in 25 years of asking the question. Arguably more remarkable still is that, asked whether Obama or the GOP Congress would be more likely to make "the right decisions about the nation’s economy," respondents broke for Obama 63 percent to 20 percent.
Republicans: Still More Popular Than Slow Wasting Death!
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There’s clearly an age difference at work, but it’s fascinating that the GOP base went from the Santorum family (Duggaresque kids with matching dolls) to the Palin family (knocked-up snowbillies) as the embodiment of its core values in the space of two years.
And dear me, that “op-ed” is a piece of old, warmed-over slop. It’s as if Man-On-Dog still thinks it’s 2003, when he could get away with it.
He’s writing for Philadelphians. It’s yesterday there now!
Strangely enough, Philly voters were against Santorum in even higher percentages than those in central PA (the ‘tucky’ part of Pennsyltucky).
No, this column is about filling space on the editorial page and making the Inky owners and editors feel good about themselves. Lil’ Ricky is just phoning it in, as usual.
I wish the wingnuts would get it in their fat heads that foreigners don’t have to love us any more than we need to love them. Really, is it any simpler than that? France owes us a historical debt for WWI and II, but doesn’t really think about that when we do something they don’t like. Just like we didn’t always think about The Statue of Liberty being a French gift when we suggested that Josephine Baker should have worn more than bananas or that Marcel Marceau is kind of annoying, really. We rescued many Jews from concentration camps, but the Jews probably owe various communists even more thanks. I’m sure that line of thinking would go over very well at the next Heritage Foundation or whatever’s conference on US/Israeli relations.
Just face it, wingers: the world likes us when it does, doesn’t like us when it doesn’t, and we have to decide when that matters. World opinion is a good thing to be aware of, but sometimes it gets challenging when other countries don’t automatically see things our way. It gets hard, even. But blaming the French for putting French interests first and then whining about it only makes you seem petit.
Our little “rebellion” back in the eighteenth century gets crushed without the French intervention. We’d be playing soccer and cricket if it wasn’t for our Gallic buds.
Ah, yes, memories.
“Rick Santorum had only been in the senate for a few weeks when Bob Kerrey, then Senator from Nebraska, pegged him. “Santorum, that’s Latin for asshole.” It was probably the funniest line the grim Kerrey ever uttered and it was on the mark, too.” (my bold)
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair05012003.html
Hey, at least Republicanism isn’t contagious and apparently can be cured with large doses of fuck-ups (thank you, Dubya!), hard facts, and foreclosures. So in that sense, it’s a bit less unappealing than, say, the clap. Only a bit, mind you.
I think on Wednesday you should change the name of this blog for the day to TBagg. After all the material they’ve given you it’s the least you could do.
A grinning supporter of unprovoked war, an unfettered executive branch, and tax cuts for those who already possess 90% of the nation’s wealth pontificates on American values.
Next up: Pol Pot on education reform.
Ricky sees ol’ Newty out there sucking up media oxygen these days so now he wants a piece of that circus too. Neither seems to realize that the more people see of them, the more they know who’s responsible for the current shitstorm.
Keep it up! Hey Ricky, there’s a microphone and video camera over there; run!
Puravida, I just read the Counterpunch piece. It was flippin’ jaw-dropping. What an idiot!
Thanks
Rick Santorum – Sarah Palin with a penis. Or is Sara Palin Rick Santorum with a vagina? It’s all very confusing, especially when the tbaggin’ getsa a rollin’.
Well, if you think THAT’S jaw-dropping, well, let’s just say that Dan Savage pwns the whiney little man…
http://santorum.com/
And Bob Kerrey knows from assholes.
Meanwhile, in the latest example of Newtonian Politics’ third law (to every reactionary, there is an equal and opposite reaction), Americans find themselves warming up to “socialism”. Way to go, comrades!
That photo should be a warning poster against home schooling…
I’ve just gotten around to reading Nixonland, and am thinking that Santorum is hoping, hey, Nixon came back, why oh why can’t I? Well, because Nixon was smart, but hey, hope springs eternal.
I want a link to the poll showing that Americans prefer corpse-fuckers to Republicans.
I just want it handy, to show people.
Is it just me, or does the look on his wife’s face say “Kill me…. somebody… please!”
But blaming the French for putting French interests first and then whining about it only makes you seem petit.
FTW.
I’m thrilled the Republican Party has people like Betty Brown representin’. People like Betty will keep Democrats elected.
Man, I want this photo for a screen saver!
man, that picture still cracks me up
Thank you for knowing your history as so few of the Republican politicians do. If it wasn’t for the French and Lafayette things may have turned out quite differently. That’s why here in RI you find the Lafayette section of North Kingstown as well as several Lafayette Rd.s
The Repukes need to study a little more on the founding fathers, especially Jefferson. They definitely weren’t Christian fundies.
Your GOP and DOP approval numbers don’t add up.
Just ask Senator Spector.
Who is leading his opponent from the rear.
that was funny. i think the readers voted on that. Rick “santorum” Santorum.
Read that article yesterday. also an article by Liza Goitien. Santorum’s sucked soooo bad by comparison.
what an asshole. so many Chinese names are one syllable names. don’t they have any polacks down in TX? that would totally freak her out.
Ah, the last rantings of Rick ‘man on dog’ Santorum…..As soon as the fifth copy of his understanding of Islam book sells in 2067 he can retire to his rightful place in the new scum layer on the pond in front of chimpy’s pig farm in crawford…
Sanitorium’s daughter wasn’t the only cryin that night. David Brooks was sad for the poor people who were now gonna be poorer without Ricky Dicky Schlock in the Senate.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610310001
One of the most ridiculous articles written in recent times. So bad it’s worthy of Bobo’s termination in my opinion, but of course we know Brooks exists to advance Repub politicians and ideology, so he probably got a raise from the NYTimes after that laugher.
Republicans: Still More Popular Than Slow Wasting Death!
currently tied with flesh-eating disease
Thanks for that! Never heard it before. Who woulda thunk?
I didn’t realize Paula Poundstone was related to Man-on-Dog. She also looks pretty forlorn in the back there…
Santorum’s credo: teabaggum ergo est
I’d like for Santorum to simply admit that he was wrong or is capable of being wrong.
I won’t hold my breath.
Tbogg, that pict…eeech. Did you have to? Ocular rinse needed.
Agreed. That’s brilliant!
If that’s a Santorum child, help them. Looks like something out of a Hichcock movie.
Nearly two and a half years later, and that pictures still gets me, even though I feel bad for the kids on several levels.
Santorum didn’t lose because he was conservative. Congressman Joe Pitts got swept back into office last November, despite a close correspondence between his voting record and his surname.
Santorum had three basic problems.
One is that he was the senator from WalMart. He flew around the state in the WalMart corporate jet, and he promoted legislation that would enrich the Walton family. Perhaps that would have been OK if he was an Arkansawyer, but promoting an out-of-state business didn’t play well in Pennsylvania.
A second problem is that he moved his family out of state. If you want to run for Pennsylvania’s senate seat, you really ought to be a Pennsylvania resident.
The other problem he had was Bob Casey, his opponent. Bob’s father had been an exceptionally popular governor, and Bob has done nothing to tarnish the family reputation. He appears to be fairly intelligent, have fairly good common sense, seems to be fairly honest, and is fairly personable. Santorum might have a high IQ, but he is elitist, lacks common sense, and appears to be too slick to be trustworthy. Even I could have run against Santorum and won – and putting ME into the Senate would be a REALLY bad idea.
Santorum didn’t lose because he was conservative.
Agreed. Santorum lost because he is a douchebag.
Just think of it as yet another Republican entry in the Goya living recreation project. A couple of years ago I thought the Bushes had it locked up, but since then the Palins and these Santorums have shown me.
Photo reminds me of a family portrait of the Goebbels.
This is the funniest thread I’ve read in a looong time. And for here, that’s really saying something !
Bravo all !
You know that and I know that, but there is a whole fundy industry devoted to revising Founding Father characteristics in order to pound them into the fundy Jello mold. My fundy sister told me all about what fab Christian fundies the FF’s were, she had written “proof”; I didn’t check to see if the imprint was Regnery or not, but did I really need to?
I love the picture of his young son in this “Whuuh?!?! People think my dad’s an asshole?!?!?” He looks like he’s been wrapped in a cocoon for so long that this comes as a real revelation.
There must be a God, because He lets Rick Santorum keep talking so that TBogg and Wonkette have an excuse to keep running this photo.
This photo is the Guernica of Wingnut.
I will never be able to see it too much.
Thanks TBogg.
I am frankly TOTALLY embarrassed by Americans. Not only is is Rick dumb, what have we heard the past 6 years? “France is EVIL for not sending their citizens into a meat grinder.” OK, I know I don’t read every blog, but I’ve never seen anyone “reveal” that, if not for France, maybe America wouldn’t have won the Revolutionary War. Yes, kids, France sided with us (and sent troops!) against England.
So, let’s turn “France … owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans” around to “America owes its freedom to the sacrifices of the French.”
Almost every day, I see the GOP plan of dumbing down America.
I wonder if we could be even more accurate. Does anyone really think that Louis XVI was gung ho to see the establishment of a new democracy, or that we landed in Normandy to save the French? I guess the argument between the British and American war planners was based on the fact that Churchill wanted to save the Italians, Croatians, or other “soft-underbelly” dwellers first, whereas Roosevelt was a stubborn Francophile. In the Pacific, apparently, our first selfless priority was to save the Guadalcanalians.
I can’t stop looking at that photo! I’m looking at each of the faces and wondering what is going on in that household.
I hope those kids are going to turn out OK. The outlook doesn’t look good.
Mrs. Santorum definitely rules that roost under the guise that Rick is the master of the household. Wait, thats how it is in my house too! nevermind . . .
One of the greatest bitch-slapping of an incumbent in US History ny his “flock”. Santorum started the campaign 16 pts down, spent 5 million dollars, and lost by 17. Hoohaha.
I’m surprised the GOP didn’t require “Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher” to change his name.
Oh wait, they did.