Edited For More Phony Outrage

Sean Hannity edits Obama's speech just to help him get another hour of his career.

These guys can't even whine without having to first distort reality.

What A Fool Believes

Miss Cocktail Dress continues to prove her irrelevancy.

Republican's To The Rescue!!!11!!

"One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. 

Like the time I took the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel 

for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they 

called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, 

which was the style at the time..."

In the time that it takes for Abe Simpson to get through a story and with almost as much substance and relevance, the GOP rolls out it's awesomest alternative budget ever.

Children, Part Eleventyhundred - The Indulgening

Telepromptergate - the wingnuts current best and brightest attempt at journamalism, notwithstanding Photoshopgate, Birthcertifigate, Terroristfistbumpgate, Nojacketintheovalofficegate, DVDgate. etc. etc. etcgate.

So, to stay on top of this ever so big story, John Aravosis asks the important question: "What kind of moron uses a teleprompter?"


End of story (if only).

Adding: Oh what the heck. This bit of perspective from David Letterman merely serves to punctuate the point.

Gee, sorry, I'm all out of tissue. Hey, I know. Why don't you just act like a grown-up?

A reply from TBogg to the wingnut whiners*:

"On behalf of those of us who watched an asleep-at-the-wheel president oversee a relatively large terrorist attack on our shores precipitating an invasion of a country with no ties to that terrorist attack at a cost of $600 billion and counting, 4000 military lives and counting, warrantless eavesdropping, torture, diminished standing in the world, epic incompetence while a great American city was destroyed, a surplus turned upside down and turned into a massive deficit, a war on science and the environment, and stocking various departments of the government with graduates of Jesus Rode A Dinosaur University .... consider us unsympathetic."

Or, as Jack Sparrow would say...

*I prefer to call them snivelers.

Rush's Greatest Hits

The many lows of the high moral compass of the Republican party.

Another Layer Off The Stinking Onion

In the Bush administration, it appears Freedom was just another word for "something we don't want you to have":

In perhaps the most surprising assertion, the Oct. 23, 2001, memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror.

The President of the United States takes an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" not to dismantle it, which is exactly what Bush tried to do.

Logic Bored

Digby observes CPAC putting it in reverse and swerving into the ideological ditch. It's nice to see the right not getting why they lost the last two elections and just continuing the things that got them where they are today.

Please take extra time to enjoy the words of Charles Pierce in the Update at the bottom of Digby's post.

"No. You're idiots and your mothers are embarrassed by every single one of you.
...

These are people who never learned that a sneer is not logic and that a string of adjectives is not an argument. All that matters is Pissing Off The Liberals."

I think we all know someone who fits that description.

I have not seen such a thorough a dismissal of the petulant right since this classic.

Eruptile Disfunction

Meet the GOP's next Reagan.

Awesome.

or as TBogg put it:

"Bobby Jindal's presidential aspirations blew up tonight like a cheap condom on the end of a fire hose."

Good Godwin Ms. Malkin

With friends like this, who needs enemas?

Adding - Some may argue the highly principled™ "they did it first" argument.  

In fact I would argue that the highly principled™ have been doing it for years.  

Or my name isn't Ernst Zundel.

What A Fool Believes

Well here we are again.
You know, one needs to do no more than wait a few days after most right wing attacks on Liberal policy to check their in box and find that the attacks are the usual bunch of bull pulled not from their vast knowledge on any particular subject but rather from the vast recesses of their hind region.

Case in point: Betsy McCaughey.
She writes an article attacking Obama's plans for health care. An article so full of holes it can be used to strain the pasta I cooked for a delicious spaghetti and meatballs dinner I made from a recipe my beloved mother shared with me.

Oh yeah, Betsy is a real piece of compromised work. Only a right wing lemming conditioned to gobble up anything that fits his narrow ill informed world view would swallow her argument hook line and sinker and then go about spreading her lies online without first checking for accuracy. But then again, accuracy has never been a driving principle behind rightwing ideology.


As I always say of people like that: "He knows everything, but that's all he knows."

Responsible retraction in 3, 2, 1, infinity....

It's A Wonderful Life

Wollcott's thoughts on the inauguration.

Funny 'Cause It's True Dept.: "As my wife mentioned, Dick Cheney in his wheelchair really is the spitting image of Lionel Barrymore's despot banker in It's a Wonderful Life."

Suitable For Viewing

Fun times:
I watched the inauguration of President Obama on our big screen tv and the departure of ex-president Bush on our small one.

Cheers

Barack Hussein Obama is President.

I'm just sayin'

What Bob Herbert Said

I'd say this about sums it up nicely.