Bush Projection Syndrome

One of the more humerous political phenomenom happening in America these days is kind of a psychological coping mechanism being used by Republicans that can be called 'Bush Projection Syndrome'...

'Bush Projection Syndrome' is the way conservatives are projecting clear George W. Bush personality characteristics on the current president, Barack Obama. For example, I received this e-mail from a conservative, two time Bush voter this weekend...

Newsflash guys: George W. Bush was a dolt. A lazy, uninterested ignoramus. A puppet. An idiot. His IQ was really, really low. He took our nation down. He is, inarguably, if not the worst, then the second worst president in the history of the country.

God willing, it will be a very, very long time before we ever have a Commander in Chief nearly as disastrous as Bush was. Obama is nothing--nothing at all like Bush, they have 0 in common.

But whatever helps you feel better and enables you to sleep at night....

Ohio Government Worker Sends Racist Obama E-Mail

This woman should be fired immediately if for nothing else than being a complete and utter moron--

RAHMBO: Sunday's New York Times Profiles Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Consigliere

Mr. Emanuel, 49, starts his day shortly after 5 a.m., when he swims at the Y.M.C.A. and then hits the House gymnasium to pick up intelligence from colleagues from his days in Congress. At 7:30 a.m., he gathers top White House officials in his office and meets the full senior staff in the Roosevelt Room at 8:15 a.m. He then sees the president alone in the Oval Office for 10 minutes, a private session repeated at the end of each day.

Aides estimate he talks with 50 people a day by telephone and sends hundreds of e-mail messages. Phone calls often last a minute or two, just long enough to deliver a point or extract information. E-mail messages are often a word or two.

“It seems like he has a 72-hour day,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.

FULL STORY HERE

YouTube: Jon Stewart Reports on Glenn Beck's Operation

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GOP Cat Fight: Infidel Meghan McCain Bashes Coulter, Malkin

STORY HERE

Malkin and Coulter represent the Rush Limbaugh/Jihadist wing of the Republican party--you know the weirdos who carry loaded guns to presidential events, who don't understand what the word 'socialism' means, and who actually take Glenn Beck seriously...

Meghan McCain is emerging as a spokesperson for the Schwarzenegger/Crist/Huntsman moderate, centrist wing of the GOP--in other words the part of the party that has the only hope of ever carrying an electoral majority for Republicans...

Which, come to think of it, makes it even more mind boggling and moronic for her father to have picked Sarah Palin as his running mate last year...

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YouTube: Lunatic Protester at Obama Event: "We don’t need illegals. Send them home once. Send them home with a bullet in their head the second time."

YouTube: Chris Matthews Interviews Maniac Who Brought Loaded Gun to Obama Event

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Porn Industry Suffering

Yeah the day's of spending $35 plus to buy a porno movie are long over. So are even the days of paying $5 for a rental. Amazing that the top visited websites in America are free porn sites...

ALL RIPPER PORN COVERAGE HERE

These chicks need to find a new line of work...

One thing comes immediately to mind--

YouTube: Protesters at Senator Cardin of Maryland's Health Care Forum

It's much easier to be against something than to support something--especially something complicated that you really haven't taken the time to understand; and as you can see the health care 'debate' currently occuring in America is happening at a very, very low level...

The Impending Biden/Hillary Presidential Rivalry

Hillary Clinton made news yesterday by lashing out at a reporter who had the nerve to ask her what her hubby Bill Clinton thought about a foreign policy issue...

Joe Biden often makes news, albeit unintentionally, usually by planting his foot firmly into his mouth, as he did recently when speaking about Russia during an interview...

Make no mistake about it, these two are headed towards a political collision course in about 6 years time. No one's talking about it yet, but don't think for a second that it's not foremost on both of their minds when dealing with each other and each other's staffs.

There's an overwhelming likelihood that Obama (if he remains healthy) will be re-elected in 2012--a product of his extraordinary political talents, an improving economy, and a piss-poor Republican party.

2016, however, is up for grabs on the Democratic side, and the two front runners happen to be #1 and #2 in the current Obama administration.

Biden currently occupies the #1 seat, but as mentioned above he's gaffe prone and has got a hungry, ruthless Hillary hot on his heals...

Makes for very interesting watching for the next 7 years....

GOP Lunatic Brings Gun to Health Care Town Hall Meeting with Congresswoman

Ladies and Gentlemen: Introducing today's Republican party!

Scared yet??

Congress Orders $550 Million in New Airplanes for Themselves

Are you kidding me? I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this story...

Who on earth made this call? Talk about tone deaf, greedy, selfish, stupid, bad timing, hypocritical...idiotic...

After lambasting every Tom, Dick, and Harry CEO who ever flew on a corporate jet, Congress now orders themselves a half billion in new jets to take them around the globe on 'fact finding' trips?

This story has legs and will keep running and running and running and will piss off the American people towards Congress more than they already are--who thought that was possible?

Earth to Nancy Pelosi: clean this up...now!

YouTube: Angry White People Freak out at Town Hall Meeting

These people are pissed off not about health care, but about the fact that a black man is president...

Newsflash: Health Care Reform will Pass

With all the recent hubbub over health care reform--with Republican protestors breathlessly crying over America's slide into 'European style Socialism', and Obama's dropping poll numbers, one might be tempted into thinking that there was a chance that no reform legislation at all would pass--that the GOP might be successful in thwarting the Obama administration's top domestic objective and America would continue having a third world, banana republic sytle health care system.

If you thought that, please read this article from the New York Times describing an arcane Senate procedure that the massive Democratic majority there is threatening to use against the GOP that would virtually assure the passage of major health care reform...

So in fact the debate is over. Health care reform will happen in America. All that's left is the crying and noise that's coming from Republican obstructionists...

Goldman Sachs Wives Make Scene at Hamptons Charity Dinner

These women just seem lovely, don't they?

I always thought Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein's directive for employees to tone down their 'conspicuous spending' was like the scene in the movie Goodfellas where De Niro gets pissed off at all the crooks coming to the Christmas party decked out in expensive coats, new cars, etc. purchased with money from the Lufthansa heist...

Rothenberg: GOP Senate Prospects for 2010 Brighten

With Obama's popularity slipping, it no longer seems certain that the Republicans will lose additional seats in the 2010 midterm Senate elections, as this article from America's pre-eminent non-partisan political prognosticator Stu Rothenberg reports.

It's important to note that Rothenberg mentions nothing about the GOP actually improving their 60-40 minority, just that the bleeding may have stopped.

The smart money is that the GOP Senate deficit increases, to 61-39, or 62-38...something like that.

Coffee Shops Cut Back on Laptops and Electricity Use

This is a pretty funny story. It seems as if the days of free Internet and free electricity in coffee shops are coming to an end...

Droves of unemployed workers sipping dollar coffees taking up space while surfing the net, as it turns out, is not a particularly good business practice for shop owners...

Go figure!

For MSNBC and FOX News Heads, Business is Business

This is a great read on the current, really absurd rivalry going on between FOX News and MSNBC and their on-air personalities Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Bill O'Reilly...

It almost makes one want to watch CNN...

Prepping for Another Run: Romney Book due out in 2010

The worst kept secret in politics is that Mitt Romney will run for president again in 2012, as this article discusses; and he will most likely win the GOP nomination.

The guy's a smart dude and a proven successful business manager, so he's obviously weighed the pros and cons carefully and has come to the conclusion that it's better to pretty much keep running constantly for 4 years instead of taking down his campaign apparatus and maybe doing something in the private sector for a few years...

John Edwards tried that from 2004 to 2008 and it didn't work so well. Romney's problems certainly aren't his smarts, it's his image. I've labeled him Mitt 'Android' Romney, because the dude seems like a political robot along the lines of Al Gore. You know, if you cut him white stuff would come out of his skin instead of blood.

Sorry Mitt: you'll never be able to overcome that, and you are wasting your time and energy. You will never become president of the United States.

Murdoch Vows to Charge for News Websites

Boy, talk about a gamble...Rupert Murdoch is obviously the type of dude who does not like to miss his earnings numbers, which he did in somewhat humiliating fashion yesterday...

Rupert, I've got 'news' for you: people have gotten way to used to getting their information for free on the Internet, and your plan to charge for access to your websites will fail miserably.

You are probably too old to realize this, though. Hopefully younger executives in your company will pull the plug on this terrible plan...

YouTube: Lee Stranahan to America's Wingnuts--Slow Down!

Investment Banks Targeted in Madoff Scandal

Let's see, $65 billion vanishes into thin air in the biggest thievery in world history and one dude goes to jail?

You've got to be kidding me!

Anyone with even the most remote knowledge of finance and money knows that several, probably dozens of people were either in on this scam or knew something was wrong....

As this article illustrates--attorney's are targeting the fat targets of investment banks to get some of their clients money back...

YouTube: Putin as Rambo

He's setting the stage to run again for the Russian presidency in 2012 and serve for another decade by showing everyone what a virile, young, stud he is...

Book: Obama Faces 30 Death Threats a Day

Am I the only one terrified of President Obama getting assassinated?

There are so many people with guns in this country, and so many angry, disgruntled, wacko racists...

Needless to say this article did nothing to allay my fears--indeed it exponentially increased them.

If the unthinkable did happen, it would immediately lead to the darkest days in the history of the Republic--a veritable tipping point involving horrible racist violence and anarchy...

The United States Secret Service has the most important job in the world.

Birthers, Deathers, and Truthers

We are living in a really, really weird era in American political history where bizarre conspiracy theories are becoming increasingly accepted by people in the mainstream frustrated by their decreasing lots in life during this brutal recession and searching for a greater meaning.

I would like to focus on three here--two which are piping hot and in the news right now, and another another one that's nearly a decade old now but keeps growing. The fact that any rational person could actually believe any contain even a morsel of truth is, well....really weird.

1. "Birthers"--Discussed in an earlier blog post on this page, these largely innately racist white Americans just can't accept the fact that a black man is their Commander in Chief--it's too much of a shock to them. To fight this bitter reality they have signed on to the birther movement which espouses the completely, 100% debunked theory that President Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or something and therefore was illegitimately elected, and is not really the president. Well ok then...
2. "Deathers"--Perhaps an even more bizarre lot are the new "Deathers". In a desperate effort to halt American health care reform, right wing lunatic groups are spreading the rumor that under Obama's plan, old people will be forcibly euthanized by the government. Makes complete sense to me!
3. "Truthers"--These are the folks who believe September 11 was a government engineered plot--either by the American government or the Israeli government or both. They point to how the buildings collapsed, the types of people who were present in the buildings at the time of the events, etc. as proof positive that it was all pre-planned by 'those in the know'. Sign me up!

The cold truth is that dumb, uneducated people are most likely to fall for these absurd notions hook, line, and sinker.

Unfortunately, we can these days never underestimate the power of the American people to, well, be really dumb....Around 62 million people voted for George W. Bush's reelection in 2004.

YouTube: Juan Williams of FOX News Slams Glenn Beck of FOX News

Frank Rich: America's Pre-Eminent Editorialist

Having read every single Sunday editorial that the New York Times' Frank Rich has written over the past several years, I can confidently say he has never, ever written anything that is less than completely spectacular.

The man is simply a superb writer: insightful, clear, often biting and humorous--Rich sets the bar for the other millions of us wanna-be's on the political writing circuit.

Please treat yourself to this Sunday's piece on the Obama/Gates/Crowley racism arrest furor that erupted last week after Obama called the arrest 'stupid' in a press conference....

It's a Frank Rich piece. You won't be disappointed.

Colin Powell Endorses Michael Bloomberg

These two guys represent the future of the Republican party. Indeed, it would be a formidable presidential ticket...

Coulter Breaks with Fellow Right Wing Freaks--Criticizes Birthers

In a very unexpected move, right wing nutball Ann Coulter has broken with her fringe base and criticized the Obama birther movement--the crazed racist lunatics who believe Obama was not born in America and therefore is an illegitimate president....

This should give you an idea of how nuts these people are...

YouTube: Kristol calls Obama "Arrogant"

Kristol has often stirred the GOP's drink over the past 20 years--he was both the driving intellectual force behind the successful effort to kill Hillarycare in 1992 and the frightineningly successful neocon organized puppeteeering Bush Jr. into invading Iraq. Here's he's testing on FOX News a new right wing strategy to take down Obama...

Public Libraries and Other Evil Socialist Entities

It's been my experience that 95% of the general American public don't understand what the often maligned, political hot-button word 'Socialism' means.

That number leaps up to approximately 99.999% of registered all Republicans and Libertarians...

Fueled by the right wing echo chamber of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc.--to these people, Socialism is indifferent to Communism and one step ahead of Fascism.

Logic be damned, these folks are economic experts: Socialism bad, Capitalism good! No socialized health care! Even if I have no health care coverage and can't afford a doctor!! Now let me go vote for George W. Bush!!

I've found, however, that when confronted with the most remedial of every day facts, such as that our public libraries, public parks system, interstate highway system, fire departments, police departments, public school systems....post offices are all quintessentially government run socialist enterprises--these same experts become flummoxed and dumbfounded.

So, the next time you throw around the terms 'Socialism' and 'Capitalism' and the 'Free Market'...actually take 5 seconds to actually ponder what you are trying to say.

It might improve the quality of the current public debate.

Obama Backtracks on "Stupid" Police Comment

Ok, we all realize that President Obama is not perfect--he's just really, really....really good.

He clearly made an error when calling the Cambridge Police Department 'stupid' in their handling of prominent black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest a few days ago during his prime time news conference two nights ago.

He quickly realized he made an error and as this story reports, has moved to minimize the political fallout.

Again, note the stark contrast to former president George Bush, Jr. who was as stubborn as a mule and would never admit to making an error--seeing that as being 'un-macho' or 'un-leader' like.

Obama should have not said the Cambridge Police Department acted 'stupidly', he should have used the word 'inappropriately'. He realizes he made a mistake.

Case closed. Let's move on.

Obama Off Base Criticizing Police Officer

Keep in mind when dealing with issues of race and the police in the United States of America, you are dealing with an explosive topic...

Still, Obama was way off base during last night's press conference when he labeled the actions of the Cambridge Police Department "stupid" with regards to their arresting of prominent Harvard black professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

I don't care who Gates is, you don't yell at a police officer and call them racist. If you do so and are told to stop, and you continue to do so, then you deserve to be arrested.

It's called the law, and it's called how we keep things calm in a supposedly orderly society. Police officers have a difficult enough job without the President of the United States taking shots at them in front of the entire nation.

Poor show, Mr. President....

Obama Looked Tired Last Night

If you missed Obama's prime time news conference last night on health care reform, you can be forgiven: it's the summer time and there's quite a bit going on. You can catch the first part of it here...

He looked really tired and wasn't as enthusiastically positive as he usually is. To me, this is a good thing: it indicates that he's involved himself in the heavy lifting of the incredibly long, complex, and difficult negotiations with Congress regarding health care, and is working tirelessly at an enormously difficult project.

Major health care reform has been on the agenda of pretty much every president for the last 50 years, mind you, and none have been able to successfully navigate the political mind fields present to get it done...

What a refreshing change from the presidency of George W. Bush. W would brag that he never got to bed past 10pm every night, and the guy clearly was a lazy, disinterested figure who'd rather watch a Rangers game or Howdy Doody or whatever than get involved with the development of complex laws aimed at improving the lives of Americans.

Health care reform will eventually get passed. And the American people will credit President Obama when it does.

Change, truly, has arrived.

YouTube: Freak Glenn Beck Brings Loaded Gun to The Movies

The Birther Movement

America is currently mired in its' worst economic slump since the Great Depression, is fighting two simultaneous wars in the Middle East, is in the middle of an incredibly important debate on completely overhauling its massive health care system, and the national unemployment rate is hovering near 10% and going up every month...

You would think nearly every citizen would be focused on one of the above major issues and how it affects both them and their country.

Alas, sadly, for the lunatic right wing xenophobe, the red state American ignoramus (and there are millions of them), this could not be further from the truth--

What floats their boat, what keeps them up at night, what they harass their elected officials about, is the question of whether President Obama was born in America or not.

These freaks ignore the certified birth certificate shown in the picture to the right from the state of Hawaii. These freaks don't listen to facts or logic. These freaks listen to Rush Limbaugh all day and Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity at night, who reinforce their fantasies to enhance their television and radio ratings...

They live in a parallel universe, a Twilight Zone made up of their own Alice in Wonderland racism and hatred.

These freaks have a name. They are called 'birthers'. And they are a disgrace to their country....

Pawlenty Readies for Big Time

Tim Pawlenty for all intensive purposes is already running for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

As this article discusses, he's begun formalizing this by networking with the types of big money Republican donors and fundraisers that will be critical to the eventual success or failure of his presidential ambitions.

Pawlenty is certainly for real, and barring any meltdown or skeleton in the closet type revelation ala Mark Sanford, he will be there at the end of the nominating process along with Mitt 'Android' Romney.

The smart money at this early point is clearly still with Romney--if for nothing else he came in second last time around and he's filthy rich. But Pawlenty's political star is on the rise--in real time.

USA Freak: Car Dealer Offers Free AK-47 with Purchase of New Truck

This would fall into Minor Ripper's "News From Red State America" category, except that Missouri went blue and voted for Obama in 2008.

I can guarantee you that this particular Missouri citizen didn't pull the lever for Obama, though....

The guy also most likely believes that Obama isn't an American citizen, and also probably doesn't own a passport, either.

Alas, I digress.

Do you think he actually is aware that AK-47's are manufactured in Russia, not America? Probably not...

No wonder the rest of the world thinks Americans are gun toting nut balls. Red necks are not only stupid, they're dangerous and a menace to society....

YouTube: Glen Beck Goes on Convulsing, Bizarre Rant Over Obama Health Care Plan

Question for Americans: do you trust this man or Barack Obama?

Joe the Plumber Agrees with Meghan McCain: I am an idiot.

It's hard to believe that just one year ago, this guy was front and center of the American political debate after being thrust there by a desperate McCain campaign.

You might have thought the campaign would have done a second or two of a background check on Joe, and they then might have realized the guy can't walk and chew gum at the same time, and is also a homophobe racist.

But no, this was the same merry band of Keystone Cops that chose Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate...

SEE VIDEO OF JOE THE PLUMBER SPEAKING YESTERDAY AT A 'TEA PARTY' IN SOUTH CAROLINA HERE!!

A block of ice has a higher IQ than Joe the Plumber.

GOP Strategist Kristol: Republicans Should "Go for the kill" on Health Care Reform

William "horse's ass" Kristol was formerly Dan Quayle's Chief of Staff. That fact alone should tell you about all you need to know about this guy.

Unfortunately, he still commands a loyal following due to his frequent appearances on Fox 'news', and he is widely regarded as having provided the main intellectual reasoning and rationale for the neocons to persuade George "Puppet" Bush Jr. to invade Iraq.

Now he's resurfaced with constructive advice for the Republican party as the country grapples with the subject of health car reform...

One final data point on Kristol. He was/is a huge Sarah Palin supporter--

New Iphone App Helps You Score Weed

These Iphones certainly are pretty cool. California's seriously considering legalizing weed and then taxing the hell out of it to help the state out of its current financial mess...

The potential market for legalized ganja in America is tremendous, and the businesses who are up and running and positioned well for its eventual legalization--the overwhelming majority of which are currently located in the state of California, stand to make a killing....

How many states will eventually legalize weed and how many newly minted marijuana millionaires will be created in the United States?

Dowd and Rich Chronicle Dying GOP in Sunday New York Times Editorials

Below are two fantastic, must read editorials on the decaying into extinction before our very own eyes Republican party. The takeaways for me are the following:

1. The days of white male dominance in American politics are over. (FRANK RICH EDITORIAL)
2. If a politician or a political party runs on a platform of ethics, honesty, and ambiguous 'family values--they better practice what they preach or voters will punish them....(MAUREEN DOWD EDITORIAL)

YouTube: Cronkite Announces JFK's Death to Nation

Cronkite's announcement of JFK's death in 1963: the way he takes off his glasses, viewed live by nearly the entire country....Arguably the seminal moment in a young nation's history....