Fox News today ran a segment castigating Lincoln Chafee for referring to the tree outside the Rhode Island statehouse as a “holiday tree” rather than a “Christmas tree”.
Thirteen minutes later, they ran a segment called “Fox & Friends First’s Holiday Wish List”.
The position of Asian Americans in the political spectrum is rather complicated. For example, all the Vietnamese Americans I know are Republicans. Most South Asian Americans I know are Democrats, but almost all the doctors are Republicans and engineers also can lean Republican.
An Indian guy I work with has foreign policy ideas encapsulated thus: “Turn the Middle East to glass.”
Gotta wonder if the person who paid for him to get the tatoo in the first place was a democract setting him up for a long term head fuck.
Probably belongs in the vote suppression thread or an “Evil Republican Idea of the Day” thread.
Eh, I’ve been hearing that since…the Iran Hostage Crisis in the late 1970’s. I daresay there were people saying “Nuke them back to the stone age” ten minutes after nukes were invented.
Along with “Radioactive oil still burns just as well.”
Or even “A child could have done it. An imbecile. A trained monkey!”
The media passes on the Republican’s BS without comment: Michael Grunwald: Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It:
It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same reporters spent the last year dutifully passing along Republican complaints that Obama had no plan. It’s even more amazing to see them pass along Republican outrage that Obama isn’t cutting Medicare enough, in the same matter-of-fact tone they used during the campaign to pass along Republican outrage that Obama was cutting Medicare.
This isn’t just cognitive dissonance. It’s irresponsible reporting. Mainstream media outlets don’t want to look partisan, so they ignore the BS…. I’m old enough to remember when Republicans insisted that anyone who said they wanted to cut Medicare was a demagogue, because I’m more than three weeks old.
I’ve written a lot about the GOP’s defiance of reality–its denial of climate science, its simultaneous denunciations of Medicare cuts and government health care, its insistence that debt-exploding tax cuts will somehow reduce the debt—so I often get accused of partisanship. But it’s simply a fact that Republicans controlled Washington during the fiscally irresponsible era when President Clinton’s budget surpluses were transformed into the trillion-dollar deficit that President Bush bequeathed to President Obama… the fiscal cliff was created in response to GOP threats to force the U.S. government to default…. The press can’t figure out how to weave those facts into the current narrative without sounding like it’s taking sides, so it simply pretends that yesterday never happened. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/12/michael-grunwald-is-shrill-why-oh-why-cant-we-have-a-better-press-corps-weblogging.html
So Republicans were outraged that Obama cut payments to doctors in Medicare during the campaign and now Boehner is outraged that Obama’s proposal doesn’t cut Medicare enough. But while Republicans say they are gung-ho on entitlement reform they won’t put forth, you know, actual proposals. They want Obama to do that. “There’s a standoff, and the staff hasn’t gotten anywhere. Rob Nabors [the White House negotiator], has been saying: ‘This is what we want on revenues on the down payment. What’s you guys’ ask on the entitlement side?’ And they keep looking back at us and saying: ‘We want you to come up with that and pitch us.’ That’s not going to happen.” Be a man Boehner. Obama has put his proposal on the table. Now give him yours. You are just making conservatives look like weasels.
To be fair, making the current crop of conservatives look like weasels isn’t real hard.
But think about the hacks. Why won’t anybody think about the hacks? Tom Cole is being forced to make a jackass out of himself on national television. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said Sunday Republicans do not need to put forward a counter offer to President Obama’s debt deal proposal. Cole was responding to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who made the rounds on the Sunday shows calling on Republicans to put forward their own plan debt-reduction plan.
“I don’t think we need to put a formal proposal out on the table,” Cole said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Speaker [John Boehner] has already said revenue is on the table. He has got an idea about how to get there in terms of not raises rates, but finding it in other ways through tax code reform. I think that makes a lot of sense, and that’s a doable thing, but beyond that, you know, we’ll wait and see how the negotiations go.”
So Boehner has an “Idea” but not a “Proposal”. Gotcha. The problem is “Ideas” can’t be evaluated by the experts at the CBO: you can only do that with proposals. Also, I have 12 dozen ponies to sell you. There’s an idea. And OBTW: how can you negotiate without, you know, a position?
Hey! What the hell did a weasel ever do to you?
Well, weasels look a lot like weasels.
I think it’s hysterical that the Republicans are complaining about this being Obama’s old plan. The president just got re-elected. If this is his old plan, something he was known to be in favor of before the election, the voters have signaled their approval of it in the most direct and inarguable means possible in a democracy. Hooray for the old plan, it’s what the people want.
The central policy of the Obama admin appears to be health care. I have no real argument with that, he is very likely right. To get even the niggling progress we got, he had to make a deal, and a gamble. Obama and the Pubbies both knew that such reform was likely to start out unpopular. The Pubbie gambled they could keep it unpopular long enough to kill it before it became effective, and people could get used to the benefits. Which is why so much of the really good stuff in HCR is put off until 2014, that was the price the Pubbies demanded.
Its looking like the Pubbies lost that bet. Obama probably won’t be able to make a lot of headway for anything more, but the Pubbies won’t be able to muster enough power to overturn it. They thought they were going to win this last election by so much, they could pull it out by the roots and stomp on it. Oopsy-daisy.
In fairness, “How about you go fuck yourself?” is, in fact, a proposal.
Meet Father John Morris. He’s a Catholic priest and regular Fox News contributor who says things like Christians should be “willing to die” to stop the Obama administration from providing birth control to women.
Even he thinks the “War on Christmas” is a bunch of nothing, though.
By 2015 a lot of people are going to say that you’ll have to pry my health care from my cold dead fingers. In 2016 the Pubbies will say they were always for it. And right after the election they’ll complain how the Dems unfairly gave people healthcare as a bribe.
Petraeus devotion to his wife was the show stopper for former general’s candidacy. [Insert rimshot here].
Not that this surprises me, but thanks to Murdoch and Ailes poisoning the GOP well, this goes a long way in explaining why the Republicans couldn’t field a viable candidate for president.
Pfft. Petraeus had a heterosexual affair. Totally un-Republican.