Pretty sure my next band and/or fantasy baseball team is going to be named the Rumbly-Tumbly Pupperoos.

The “lesser of two evils” is still the LESSER of two evils. I know Al Gore is fat, but does anybody really think he would have started the illegal Iraq war? Or given all those tax cuts to the rich? No? Then all those fucking Naderites in swing states should have voted for him. Period. End of fucking discussion. And now they should vote for the centrist Obama because Mitt. Okay? Jesus! How many times do we have to go over this?

My personal faves are “The Fluffy Bunny Bund” and “Dykes on Bikes.”

i’ve been to Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land and on high wind days, fecal snow from whoville descends upon it …

Along with John Roger’s description of Ayn Rand and Tolkein, this piece remains the best example of why the Internet is kicking print media’s ass.

I’m seriously thinking of forming a panel to determine the composition of a committee to propose an outline for a very sternly worded letter to you. We feel we are within our rights to perhaps let you know that we might possibly be aggreived with your sentiments.

Except that Dykes on Bikes is a real thing. Like the Pink Pistols, but with motorcycles instead of guns.

Glad I got to this thread early before they unhook the velvet rope and the rabble from next door comes pouring into our wonderful little corner dive bar. Anyway, I have no time today to mull on the myriad ways Obama has failed/is failing/will fail me over the last/next four years.

I’m cracking open the first beer at roughly 5 pm, and will begin mulling the actual-real-life-failing-me that Michael Vick and Andy Reid will bestow upon me once again this evening on Monday Night Football.

Now, does Jill Stein have a quick release and can she throw an accurate down and out? If so, I may check back.

I originally added Dykes On Bikes because I know some ladies who belong to it and thought they would enjoy being included.

Because I’m a giver… I give and I give.

Do me a favor TBogg: Assuming Obama wins (a fairly safe assumption) and assuming we “come to the aid” of Israel shortly thereafter in another ill-conceived war (another fairly safe assumption); please be consistent and support that glorious war. Tell everyone who opposes it to “grow the fuck up” and suck it up. You can then sound like one of the spineless democrats who supported Bush’s adventures. And need I remind you that there were an awful lot of them.

Absolutely, and we know this because it would only be in Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land that the Giants would bring home two World Series championships in the space of three years.

Hey. Waitaminute.

I do SO live there!!!

Only if you promise to remind us each and every day how much better America would have been under Mitt Romney.

Deal?

What do you mean? I’m an Ohioan for Jill Stein. First Ohio, then the nation. There are literally billions of us, as you probably know considering how much you focus on this grave threat. Our Dykes on Bikes contingency alone will crush Obama.

I am sixty-five years old. I’ve voted in every presidential election for which I was eligible.

I have never voted for anyone whom I wished to be president.

I’m literally sick of it. It makes me nauseous.

I’m not going to do it again.

Hey, I’m pretty sure that’s the fat lady warming up. Praise the lord!

Ahhh, been waiting for this Golden Oldie!
And, bless his heart, smilingdog is on it like a dog on a bone, naturally.
Let the games begin!

Right, I should be so irresponsible a citizen to guarantee the election of a man who finds torture a good thing, would be more than happy to go into Iran, possibly BEFORE the Israelis because he’s surrounded by W’s neocons, will lie with ease and no shame and doesn’t give a shit about me and my welfare because I’m a member of the great unwashed 47%. Yeah, thanks, but I’m not suicidal nor am I irresponsible, illogical or STUPID. Jill Stein cannot stop Romney or the people who will literally blow the Middle East to smithereens that will have consequences for possibly hundreds of years. I refuse to have the hellscape this man could create on my conscience. But mostly, since I’m female, I am not willing to sacrifice the lives of American women for a dumb protest.

This should be the end of the argument. If only.

Oh yeah–17 posts and nobody mentioned dronz! yet?

Color me shocked.

Let’s hope there’s not enough “Ohioans for Jill Stein” to decide the election in favor of the candidate who tried to bullshit Ohio with a story about how Jeep is going to move all their production to China.

If that happens, I’m pretty sure that the Rumbly-Tumbly Pupperoos will show up at your front door carrying torches and pitchforks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTTqDGPEeg

What do you mean? I’m an Ohioan for Jill Stein. First Ohio, then the nation. There are literally billions of us, as you probably know considering how much you focus on this grave threat. Our Dykes on Bikes contingency alone will crush Obama.

— /just-fucking-with-you-guys-now/

FIFY

Yay! This is a seasonal favorite, kinda like that article Art Buchwald dusted off every Thanksgiving.

On the other hand, if any of you Tea Party right wing neocons are thinking of staying home tomorrow because Romney has betrayed everything you believe in, stay forever young.

Thanks, T! You are like the Jon Stewart of the intertoobz, only funnier.

I gotta say, I’m really looking forward to voting tomorrow. I considered early voting, but there is something about the ritual of that first Tuesday in November. Luckily, I’m not in Florida where I hope that ex-con Rick Scott gets pummelled (by, as they say over at Wonkette, voters).

And to Smilingdog, honey, hold onto that bitterness. You can entertain us here four more years.

Do me a favor smilingdog, if Mitt Romney wins and women are forced to bear the child of their rapist, are back in dark little rooms, have to get the permission of their employers in order to control the size of their families, have to follow the laws passed by religious maniacs…you will stand up and applaud. And then explain yourself to a roomful of women. This is very serious business with huge consequences. Knock it off, bub.

Honestly, we can barely get 50.1% of the US population to vote for Obama. Do they seriously think that, even if Jill Stein were a serious candidate and that there was a serious third party, that more than that would vote for her? We’d be more likely to end up with Ross Perot. Then what? Where are their unicorns and rainbows and puppies?

As a card-carrying member of both the Fluffy Bunny Bund and Dikes on Bikes (men’s auxiliary), I demand some pudding pops before I cast my vote.

Since we’re digging up TBogg classics, why not repost “Take the Cannoli”. That one pretty much nails it to the core (much like this Mumia Sweatshirt classic).

Since you are an “Ohioan for Jill Stein” why does your ISP say San Luis Obispo? Was there a tectonic shift that I missed?

An Ohioan for Jill Stein, eh?

Any idea when exactly you reality avoiders are going to work on your third party dreams before Election Day? If Dr Jill Stein or even St Ralph were elected, what then? How would either of them be able to govern the most powerful human enterprise in the history of the world? Where is their political caucus? Who can they work with in Congress?

Tell you what, if the collective You who never learned that we already decided on the game, now shut up and take your position wanted to actually make a difference, you will be meeting within a week of the Most Disappointing Election EVAR to build a local green or libertarian or rumbly-tumbly pupperoos party. You will be fielding candidates for your municipal elections and maybe even the 2014 midterms. And by doing that, you have a chance to hold people accountable. But backing a candidate no one has heard of for the top job with zero experience or chance of success is a tantrum, not a strategy.

It’s been 12 years since Bush v Gore: what has Nader or anyone who argues that both parties are the same done to build a party that addresses that?

But if you support Stein, shouldn’t you vote for Obama? I mean HE’S A SOCIALIST!!! That’s even further to the Left than Pierce’s fencing buddy.

Obama has just been waiting until he gets re-elected to confiscate all the guns, ban the burning of coal, impose sharia law AND taxpayer funded abortions. And that’s just January 21st!

Seriously, it’s been on all one of the news networks.

Purity trolling needs moar purity. So, rather than vote for any lesser evils or validating any political parties (it works best if you spit on the plosive p’s), I will vote for myself to be president. I will never let myself down or break any promises to myself except maybe that one about giving up alcohol. I can’t give anyone sparkle ponies but I won’t use drones and I would like to ban high fructose corn syrup and Alabama. Now, the hard part will be selecting a cabinet because, you know, no one else is pure enough and I’ll be busy being president. Also please, no one else vote for me because I don’t want my purity tainted by your lesser purity. Write your own goddamned name in, or the Dali Lhama’s, and I’ll see you at Romney’s victory party.

I pretty much agree with you with a couple of exceptions; Hubert Humphrey and Bill Clinton.

George McGovern says hi, and he’s going to kick your ass across heaven if you ever get there.

Agree with Obama’s vision or his discrete, tactical decisions on various points — or not — one thing he has always had right: it’s not up to him just but up to us. Election day is about choosing between the lesser of evils, and that’s all it ever is, has been, will be. Political change is built between elections by people doing hard, often tedious work of various kinds, some of it within political parties, much of it in other venues. Collective endeavors.

I like to think of Dems looking for a “savior” model as the product of the Republican propaganda machine, but a lot of the comments here make me rethink that. There are no “saviors” in politics and never will be. It’s up to us. (Or think of it this way: God helps those who help themselves — and one another.)

Ahem, amen.

I don’t think there are billions of you. And I wonder why you’re bothering to vote for Jill Stein. You could just vote for Wreck It Ralph again and it would make about the same amount of difference.

The only problem is that the Good Witch Glinda voice unconsciously doing the voiceover in my head is suddenly replaced by Bill Cosby for two words. Quite a shock, I’ll tell you.

A gay friend of mine here in Slowvannah once went to San Francisco. She’s a BIG girl, about 6′, and she drove teams of draft horses on carriage tours here and had no trouble at all unhitching them, taking them behind a building in an alley a lane (sorry, we’re WAY to classy to have alleys here) and getting giving them a dose of correction if they were acting up. Dykes on Bikes scared her…

November 5th 2012 Temperature map:

http://www.usairnet.com/weather/maps/current/current-temperature/

all ‘saviors’ lead to the road to masada (not a hope/crosby movie) … the banality of voting will become über superlative banality once we can finally recognize that not only are corporations entitled to personhood status, but money, yes beautiful fungible money, is also entitled all the rights and privileges accorded to personhood … one buck, one vote … which of course means, the fed, the irs, et al. are looking to be in pretty fat catbird seat shape in the coming years … it would be ever so awesome for the government coffers to become the moloch voter presence that swallowed the electorate … jj abrams could do the movie

I have not heard a single advertisement for any “Green” party candidates for any office; although there is apparently one running for office in my district, ever!! Not a single “Green” supporter has knocked on my door. I haven’t seen a single yard sign anywhere for a “Green” candidate, no voter registrations, nothing!

When you “Greens” decide to take elections seriously maybe you’ll get some fucking respect. Until then you are children whining about having to eat your vegetables.

“sure the repub will defend DOMA and gut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and start a war with Iran. But the Democrat isn’t lefty enough for me. I hope you understand”

“”sure the repub will defend DOMA and gut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and start a war with Iran. But the Repub will cut my taxes. I hope you understand.”

in both cases, it’s all about ME ME ME!

I’ll see your golden oldie and raise you this.

I also think he would have paid serious attention to the Bin Laden plans to attack in the United States memo.

Just got back from a secret meeting of Ohioans for Jill Stein. We thought we had everyone fooled into believing that there were only 14 of us and we were entirely inconsequential. We would’ve succeeded if it wasn’t for TBogg’s endless meddling posts uncovering our plot. I guess there’s nothing left to do but vote for Roseanne Barr.
P.S. San Luis Obispo? I just keep a little place there so I can be closer to you and Mitt Romney.

Fear in America.

As I like to point out, in 2000 Buchanan took from Bush one-sixth of the votes that Nader took from Gore.

The Tea Party started out as a genuine third party, one capable of damaging the GOP’s electoral chances. Various Republican billionaire types rushed to set up a ‘honey pot’ known as the Tea Party Express and installed Dick Armey at its head. This group offered gobs of money to prospective candidates – but only if they agreed to back the Republican Party platform. The original Tea Party cried foul, but it was too late: their party had for all practical purposes been reabsorbed back into the GOP.

+1

30 million living, breathing Americans will be stripped of their health-care if you don’t vote Obama.

If you don’t vote Obama, you are a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole.

Sorry Susan of Texas, but that’s who you are.

Dude, this why my love for you is pure and real. Every week, when you show me Shakira’s ass, I’m thinkin’ about you, dude. I’m thinkin’ about you.

What are you referring to, please? What did Susan do/say? I must be out of the loop.

So you really think it was a good thing that Jimmy Carter — who was taking the first steps to get us transitioned from fossil fuels to solar and wind — lost to Ronald Reagan, the pawn of the Texas oil men, in 1980?

Do you dare imagine how different our lives would be now if Jimmy Carter had won in 1980?

A few smart people have pointed out that elections have consequences and we do not elect anyone for President by popular vote. Lesser of two evils is still the lesser. And when you consider the evil that fuck Romney will do there is no contest. Jill Stein, shit, you asses should vote for Jack Rabbit. He promised to do all that Jill did and then some. And he is not squirrely.

Votes don’t matter to some people you know. They have purity rings.

What have they done? Ummm nothing? But I have it on good rumor that this time, this time they are gonna meet on the day after tommorow at local Mickey Ds all over the this great land to put the plan in motion for 2016. You can count on it. ( I think.)

Chris Rock:

“If you vote against Obama because he can’t get stuff done, it’s kind of like saying ” This guy can’t cure cancer. I’m gonna vote for cancer.”

I laugh every time I read this post. This post really belongs on the FDL FP tonight and tomorrow. Also, IMHO I think Smiling Dog is snarking.

Also to state what should be the obvious. More than a presidential election is taking place now — and takes place every year. Those “down slate” races, including local school boards or mayors, state reps, US reps, and so forth. Don’t like the choices given you by the party closest to your goals? Stop treating that party as a sugar daddy that offers you up choices like those a kid at Halloween stares at in the bowl full of Reese’s peanut butter cups and Skittles (hey, but I like mint paddies!). Get involved in your local party committee, stuff like that. (It’s not hard to do — just showing up, you’d be amazed.)
It’s called citizenship.
There are other, equally important and legitimate routes, too — not just legitimate but often more effective. You can start an organic farm (or support it in other ways) or work for decriminalizing pot or for gay marriage or whatever, either as alternatives to political party action or in addition to it. The point is, please don’t dismiss the role of elective action. Somewhere in all of this, voting, politics: it plays a huge role. It’s where our “commonwealth” is most evident, where we most fully come together, in governing. (I’m about to wax Charlie Pearce….) Gotta go to bed: Elizabeth Warren work in the morning.

Fired.up, ready to.gp.

I vote for the people I want to be president, and I don’t regret my votes if they lose.

Me, too. (I didn’t go to bed when I saw Barack was ready to go with his speech, which made my point, exactly).

THANK YOU, TBOGG.

You can’t know how many twatters have chosen NOW to complain about Obama, when NOW is NOT THE TIME.

I mean, DUH!

Have these people not seen and heard Rmoney? Do they not appreciate how much worse it could be?

to which I add, as the wife of a 65+ man (white man, no less), I should have noticed that p!

Sadly, none of those candidates live in Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land either and if by some miracle were able to be President, would be facing the same nightmarish bullshit Obama does every day. And probably more death threats funded by the corporate thugs that control your country.

I hated Nader in 2000 because he got 97,000 votes in Florida. Had it not been for Ralph Nader in 2000, all those Jewish butterfly-ballots cast for Pat Buchanan would have been an amusing day-after sidebar on A27, running next to the jump of the mainbar day-after on how Gore pulled it out despite conducting such a shitty campaign. If you still think those votes split evenly between Bush and Gore you’re not just delusional, you also have cognitive problems.
I don’t hate Ralph Nader now — to the extent that I think of him at all — because he “pointed out” all those things I already know. I hate him now because his legacy of the dilettante candidate as disruptive political force is still alive; and, nearly as important, because he said something nice about Sarah Palin. I really hate that he did that.

It’s how the world looks when you wear Red State Specs™. (And the last panel is a special shoutout to tanbark, apparently…)

The digg commenter has a very legitimate list of grievances, I share many of them. My personal opinion is that the President’s failure to pursue some of these issues is part of the reason this election is such a struggle.

Here’s the bottom line for me. Do I always(or often) get to vote for my ideal candidate? Hardly. When I do get a chance, it’s in the early primaries. Because I tend to be an idealist, my preferred candidates often don’t get very far. I continue to participate and vote, even for candidates I did not initially support. What may be called the lesser of evils may also be called making the best choice at this time.

I have great respect for the right of anyone to withhold their vote or cast a protest vote, it’s part of the bargain if you respect universal voting rights. I think that, as citizens, we have a responsibility to be involved at some level. If you don’t do outright activism, the minimum responsibility is to pay attention and vote for whatever balance between your own interests and the interests of the country seems right to you. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain with any credibility.

The other major consideration is that it is not just an election for federal offices. As a California voter, I have a long list of initiatives to consider, along with all the other state and local issues represented on the ballot. These down ballot issues and elections have their own importance, in that they effect every day life. It’s important who the local sheriff, county DA, city council, and school board members are, along with a myriad of other locally elected positions. They’re important because they have a big influence on the quality of life in the community, and some are likely to move on to higher office. Most, if not all, the Republican state and local election officials trying to suppress votes started out a lower local elected position.

So even if you don’t vote for any major party candidate for president, please take the time to know the issues(pay attention)and vote the rest of the ballot with care.

Selah

If you still think those votes split evenly between Bush and Gore you’re not just delusional, you also have cognitive problems.

True dat. Twelve times as many registered Florida Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader. I know that inconvenient truth won’t slow down the Two Minutes of Hate, even twelve years later, but it does have relevance now.

If this election is thrown (and it doesn’t look like it will be, praise the FSM), it will not be by the several dozen Portlandians and Park Slopeheads voting against Teh Dronz, it will be the hundreds of thousands of butthurt dingbats and crackers who voted Obama in ’08 but jumped to Romney because….well, fuck if I can tell. And fuck if I’ve seen anyone even bother to try to talk any of those perfidious bastards out of their tree, or even flick them any richly deserved shit. Whatever and ever, amen.

But I guess it’s easier to continue obsessing over a statistically insignificant number of purists, than the metric fuckton of assholes who are jumping directly to the other side for a mishmash of incoherent excuses. I suppose Nader can at least take heart in the fact that the intarnetz will burn him in effigy every four years long after he’s dead, rather than address the greater, more systemic problem right in front of them.

It’s probably hopeless, but I hope we could at *least* agree that the Democrats who voted for Bush didn’t like Gore because he was too *liberal* for them, or too *something.* I would also hope we could agree that the Democrats who voted for Nader voted for Nader because Gore wasn’t liberal *enough.* I have respect for you Heywood, quite a bit of it, but this is exactly the point where the leave-Ralph-alone argument goes straight off the rails. Every time. It’s just daft to think that Gore and Bush lost exactly half those 97,000 votes each and Florida was decided by a handful of conservative Democrats stupid enough to buy Bush’s bullshit, or anti-Semitic enough to vote against Lieberman. Or whatever reason they used to rationalize their stupidity.

It’s probably hopeless, but I hope we could at *least* agree that the Democrats who voted for Bush didn’t like Gore because he was too *liberal* for them, or too *something.*

Sure, and the (far fewer) registered Democrats who went for Thanksralph! also felt Gore was too “something”. It’s sort of like saying that if your aunt had balls, she’d be your uncle.

Here’s the thing, I’ll go ahead and bullet-point this for you:
How many (registered Democratic) voters are actually projected to bolt for Thanksjill!, or Thanksroseanne! versus how many to jump for Mittford? How many in swing states? Any numbers? Anyone? Bueller? Funny how there never seem to be any actual numbers in these plaints. I wonder why that is.

The continued obsession with the Thanksralphers, as it did back in, um, the year 2000, gives the fine folks who actually run the corporate donor pelf wing of the Democratic Party from examining their own electoral shortcomings and actually doing something about anything. After all, DFHs have no money, so there’s nothing to be gained for money people in a money game to expend energy in persuading people, as opposed to merely jabbering at them like they’re utopian retards.

There are plenty more Democratic voters going GOP than third party. Where is the strident butthurt over that statistically larger phenomenon, the anger at chickens voting directly for Colonel Sanders, as opposed to, say, Der Wienerschnitzel?

It’s been 12 years since Nader. I mean, Jesus H. Christ. You think Saint Bill Clinton didn’t get in without fucking Ross Perot? Shit happens. This inability to move on is endemic to Democratic party politics in particular. As bugshit as the Republitards have gotten, they don’t pick scabs a decade or so down the road. Let it go, you’ll live longer. Or face the other non-Nader factors as to why Gore lost, and fucking well do something about them already, instead of assuming that the solution is to tack further right.
By the way, it’s never hopeless, if you mean arguing with me on a point. I’m always willing to listen and engage. I love to argue this stuff out, as long as everyone’s intellectually honest about things. But you have to be willing as well; for one, it’s not healthy to continue to obsess over a tragically-flawed candidate from over a decade ago, and for another, without some real numbers as to how many people are planning to vote for Jill Stein or Roseanne Barr or whoever, there is no argument — you absolutely need to concentrate your energy on convincing the gibbering Demo retards voting for Rmoney that he’ll cut thier throats. Sparkle-pony japery is just whistling past the graveyard.

Sorry about the poor formatting, I assumed it would bullet-point and space properly.

Off topic, but I’m watching Craig Ferguson right now, and Sarah Shahi is just smokin’. Sweet fanny Moses, she’s amazingly hot, I’m pressing my loins up against the flat-screen as I type this, which is pretty tricky when you think about it. In the words of the great poet Brian Griffin, I would wreck that chick.

30 million living, breathing Americans will be stripped of their health-care if you don’t vote Obama.

If you don’t vote Obama, you are a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole.

Sorry Susan of Texas, but that’s who you are.

This is interesting because I live in a very red state and my vote or lack of vote would change absolutely nothing. (Speaking only of the presidential election, of course.)

So the truth is that I would not be depriving anyone of anything. The other truth is that I have always said that it’s necessary to vote for Obama over Romeny. I think we all know how I feel about the economic elite.

So I’m not a “a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole” because I refuse to vote for Obama or tell other people to not vote for Obama. I’m a “a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole” because I criticize Obama. Because I want people to elect him and then pressure him to not cut Social Security. (Which affects 40 million Americans.) Because I believe Obama when he says he wants a grand bargain and that he will get it.

So in truth, I am a “a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole” because I say the exact same thing as Obama. He will cut Social Security. So it seems that you are calling Obama a “a foot-wide, shit-smeared asshole.”

And we all know what happens to people who criticize Obama.

If the criticisms are based on valid points of evidence then please continue.

But most of the criticisms I’ve seen boil down to Obama failing to be enough of a “Magical Dictator”.

One of the items in the Bowles-Simpson plan is a reduction in the annual cost-of-living adjustment of roughly 0.3 percentage points. This would be accomplished by using a different index that, by design, would show a lower measured rate of inflation. It is important to recognize that this is an annual cut that would accumulate over time. After a retiree has been receiving benefits for ten years, the cut would be 3.0 percent; after 20 years. it would be 6 percent. If a typical retiree lives long enough to get benefits for 20, years the average benefit cut over their years of retirement would be 3 percent.

This is the most immediate cut in Social Security in the Bowles-Simpson plan, but it is not the only one. The plan also would gradually raise the age at which retirees receive full benefits to 69. It also phases in a reduction in benefits for workers whose earnings averaged more than $40,000 a year over their working lifetime.

When President Obama indicates his support for the Bowles-Simpson plan, he is indicating his support for all of these measures. Of course, he is not required to accept the plan in its entirety, but if he does oppose the cuts that the plan imposes on Social Security, it would be reasonable to expect him to state this explicitly.

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Last month in Virginia, Joe Biden said in the strongest possible terms that there will be no cuts to Social Security in a second Obama administration. He repeated the statement with the additional line that, “I guarantee it.” This would seem to be a pretty clear contradiction of President Obama’s support for Bowles-Simpson.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/11578-does-president-obama-want-to-cut-social-security-by-3-percent

A lot of it also seems to be that, “Obama didn’t get out Iraq fast enough, and didn’t throw Bush and Cheney into prison like he should have!” The other is, “he is not treating mass murderers masquerading as religious zealots kindly enough and he stopped using B-52s and the 82nd Airborne in favor of drones!”

Ya know, the Sparkle Pony bullshit.

The criticism I see is that he added troops to Afghanistan– the surge. And that he is killing civilians while claiming they are enemy combatants. And that the use of drones creates an atmosphere of terror in Pakistan and will inevitably lead to blow-back. And of course he refused to prosecute the Bush Administration for their illegal actions or the bankers for their wholesale theft and illegality. I don’t think any of that is bullshit although others disagree.

More than anything though I worry about our economic future. The incredible rise in poverty, the starvation of state budgets, the too-small stimulus. We cannot replace housing as a driver of the economy. 70% of our economy is consumer spending and wages are falling. For a long time they stagnated–now they are actually falling. Low paying part time jobs replaced good jobs. And everyone who predicted this economic deterioration is promising it will get even worse within a few years.

The right abdicated any responsibility for their actions and the actions of their leaders. We should not do the same. I thought we were better than that.

I will never understand why, in some circles, one can punch a hippie and automatically be right.

I mean, if you’re a Republican, just be a fucking Republican. If not, have some goddamn sympathy for people who haven’t given up on this country and/or don’t have other options.

This is my all-time favorite blog post. Thanks for bringing it back.