Let me be perfectly clear here.  REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT TO SUPPORT ANY POLICIES THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION COMES UP WITH, even when those policies are ones that they actually supported before.  They only believe in obstruction, and obstinance. There is no bi-partisanship.  There is only hypocrisy.

Watch Rachel Maddow eviscerate GOP members of congress for taking credit for stimulus funds– that they not only voted against– but blasted as “terrible for the country.”

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Karl Rove.  Watch it:

Funny. I could have sworn The Great Communicator Ronald Reagan said this:

To understand the State of the Union, we must look not only at where we are and where we’re going but where we’ve been. The situation at this time last year was truly ominous. [...]

First, we must understand what’s happening at the moment to the economy. Our current problems are not the product of the recovery program that’s only just now getting under way, as some would have you believe; they are the inheritance of decades of tax and tax, and spend and spend. [...]

The only alternative being offered to this economic program is a return to the policies that gave us a trillion-dollar debt, runaway inflation, runaway interest rates and unemployment.

And this is from that paragon of conservative virtue, no less.

I don’t even think these people are even trying any more. Surely they have internet access right? I do.  I found that quote in 30 seconds.

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Ghoulish science + ObamaCare= health hazard, July 24, 2009

I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this post.  It inspired me to cleave deeply through a lot of bullshit, written by anyone who feels the need to write bullshit.  Granted I put myself in that category sometimes, but at least I can qualify my actions.  People like Michelle Malkin cannot.  You see, it’s in her best interest to spread the most egregious lies and distortions, and pass them off as truth.  Her reputation is made by fear-mongering, so why not engage in it at a high level?  Enough about that, let’s get into the meat of Ms. Malkin’s rant:

Gulp. It’s precisely the Obama administration’s view of sound “science” that should send chills down patients’ spines. Case in point: The president’s prestigious science czar John Holdren refuses to answer questions about his radical, published work on population control over the last 30 years.

Last week, I called the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to press Holdren on his views about forced abortions and mass sterilizations; his purported disavowal of Ecoscience, the 1977 book he co-authored with population control zealots Paul and Anne Ehrlich; and his continued embrace of forced-abortion advocate and eugenics guru Harrison Brown, whom he credits with inspiring him to become a scientist.

After investigative bloggers and this column reprinted extensive excerpts from Ecoscience, which mused openly about putting sterilants in the water supply to make women infertile and engineering society by taking away babies from undesirables and subjecting them to government-mandated abortions, the White House issued a statement from Holdren last week denying he embraced those proposals. The Ehrlichs challenged critics to read their and Holdren’s more recent research and works….

Wow.  Really heady stuff there right?  I took it upon myself to write a piece back in August, rebutting Ms. Malkin’s ridiculous assumptions about Mr. Holdren– and his scientific philosophy– using actual facts, and not wild, loopy theories.  I was only to happy to do it.  Ms. Malkin truly disgusts me.

This post was a favorite of mine not for its contents or the author’s political acumen, but for the pure inspiration I derived from it.  It made me truly focus, and more determined to expose frauds passing themselves off as honest journalists.  Thank you Ms. Malkin.  I look forward to your work in the year 2010.

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Courtesy of the kooks at WorldNetDaily.  It is the holiday season right?  Surely they could find something good to say right?  Merry Christmas anyway kooks…er, I mean WND.

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September 2009:

Lieberman is either lying, or he’s purposely torpedoing this legislation. Either way, his legislative death should be replete with ravenous bees, and honey from counties in America that have the most uninsured Americans.

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This is Sarah Palin from my post on Friday.

Below is Sarah Palin immediately afterwards:

Who is advising her, Chancellor Palpatine?  The funny part in that update is the “many on the left” thing.  There didn’t seem to be many people on the left questioning the parentage of baby Trig.  Perhaps a few loony Alaskan bloggers I suppose.  Try comparing that to the ALMOST 60% OF REPUBLICANS, who believe the president is Kenyan.  Not a good comparison governor, and not a fair question.  Not by a long shot.

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The dusty, antiquated walls of the Washington Times.  Someone tell me what’s wrong with this picture?  Why would a mainstream newspaper display this?

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Fox News really needs to find new copy editors.

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For the second time in a week, Fox News lies and cheats.  Watch the weak apology below:

Why don’t they start pumping in fake crowd noise too?

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This madness has got to stop.

There are lies...

Sarah Palin:

“Our nation is facing great challenges, but I’m optimistic — and I know there is a way forward,” she writes. “Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession. He showed us how to get out of one.”

Speaking on Sean Hannity’s radio show, Palin said that “some on the left, that lamestream media, they’re contradicting what I wrote in the book.”

Hannity jumped in to ask, “did you say lamestream media?”

“Yeah, lamestream,” Palin responded. “They are contradicting those facts that I laid out regarding what Reagan had to say.”

“Anyways, it’s been nonsense to hear some of the criticism of that principle there, and that is what history shows us is what Ronald Reagan did was put American back on the right path,” she continued. “We need to emulate that.”

“We need to repeat that instead of going back to the 1930s and think that some growth of government, New Deal spending is going to get us out of a recession,” she said. “It is, of course, going to cause greater problems.”

And there is truth…

From PolitiFact:

– Long-term unemployment. Many economists believe that long-term unemployment is more worrisome than short-term unemployment, because the longer someone goes without a job, the harder it is to get back into the work force, and, in turn, the harder it is for the economy as a whole to move forward. And there’s a lot more long-term unemployment now than there was during the early 1980s.

In 1982, the final year of the Reagan recession, short-term unemployment — that is, joblessness lasting less than five weeks — hovered around 3.7 million. That’s not much different than the 3.3 million or so short-term unemployed we’ve seen so far during 2009.

The picture is quite different for long-term unemployment, which is defined as 27 weeks or more without a job. In 1982, the number of people who were unemployed for the long term ranged from 1.2 million to 2.6 million. It’s far worse today, with numbers ranging from 2.6 million to 5.6 million. In fact, in October 2009, the average duration of someone being unemployed reached 26.9 months — the longest on record.

VERDICT: Much worse under Obama.

– Personal income. Personal income actually rose during the Reagan recession (up 28 percent over the full three years and up 7 percent during the second of the two dips). During the Obama recession, personal income has fallen by about 1 percent over the two years.

VERDICT: Worse under Obama.

– Industrial production. Industrial production means somewhat less these days, in postindustrial America, but it’s still a useful barometer for economic activity. Under the Reagan recession, industrial production fell by 9 percent over the double-dip recession and 8.6 percent during the second dip alone. By contrast, industrial production has shrunk during the Obama recession by 12 percent.

VERDICT: Worse under Obama.

– The stock market. Economists disagree about the merits of including the stock market as a factor when gauging recessions, but with many more Americans invested in stocks now than 30 years ago, a downturn in stock values can have both tangible and psychological effects.

As it happens, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose during the Reagan recession and has plunged during Obama’s. It climbed by 19 percent during the full, double-dip recession and rose by 9 percent during the second dip alone. By contrast, the Dow has fallen 22 percent during the current recession.

VERDICT: Worse under Obama.

– Housing prices. The Reagan recession may have been bad for unemployment, but it was good for real estate. Over the double-dip recession, house prices rose by 11.4 percent. During the second dip, the rise was smaller — 2.2 percent — but still in positive territory. To be fair, that was in an era of much higher inflation. Still, during the Obama recession, house prices have fallen 5.7 percent, a decline much faster than prices as a whole. And the experience of seeing one’s house value plunge only adds to the psychological wallop.

VERDICT: Much worse under Obama.

– Foreclosures. The comparisons for foreclosures aren’t exactly apples-to-apples due to changes in the housing and mortgage markets. But foreclosures are definitely up. The rate of active foreclosures in the fourth quarters of 1980, 1981 and 1981 ranged from 0.38 percent to 0.67 percent. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the rate was 3.3 percent, and in the second quarter of 2009, it rose again to 4.3 percent.

VERDICT: Much worse under Obama.

If she’s going to insult every news source that has the nerve to dispute her claims, then she shouldn’t open her mouth. Calling the media “lamestream,” is childish and silly, and it doesn’t befit a potential presidential candidate.  Sarah Palin has adopted this “rogue” persona to completely disavow herself of any accountability for anything she says or does. She needs to grow up. She couldn’t run a dishwasher, let alone the United States of America. Very sad.

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