Weekend Afternoon Open Thread
- Top Ten Reasons Why Are We Leaving the Republican Party. My favorite reason is :
8) Constant whining about religious persecution got on our last goddamned nerve.
Some of the additions in the comments are worthy — but I’m sure you guys can come up with more.
- One of the few reasons I regret not having TV — Colin Powell is on Face the Nation tomorrow to answer his wingnut critics. Please, General Powell — be sure to bring a case of 40-sized cans of whoop-ass for these fools.
- At the risk of stepping on Bulo’s turf today, I’ve been listening to Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band — a Dub reimagining of the Beatle’s Sgt Pepper record. This has been playing most of the day as I’ve been working around the house and it is really fun: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx7Akt3Sd58[/youtube]
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11) Because keeping track of who I’m supposed to be afraid of was getting tiring.
What gender gap?
The RNC put up a video ad called “Democrats Galore” which depicted Pelosi as “Pussy Galore” from James Bond. They withdrew the video after complaints.
12) Because all of the political and economic theories that I held so dear turned out to be complete bullshit when put into practice.
Easy Star has a good Radiohead dub too.
Ten Reasons Not To Be A Democrat-
1. Nancy Pelosi
2. Harry Reid
3. Arlen Specter
4. Closing Gitmo with no plan.
5. Increased taxes.
6. Record Budget Deficits
7. Stimulus Bill which is a failure.
8. Record Government Hiring.
9. Hope and Change which is really rhetoric but no policy.
10. Anti Business, anti freedom and anti capitalism.
Mike Protack
Mr. Shallow Bench is back with a lame attempt at “Communications”.
So I add reason #13 for Why They Are Leaving the Republican Party:
Mike Protack, Posterboy for the Shallow Bench
Thanks VC! I am downloading that — I’ve liked Dub Side of the Moon for a while….
After that comment (#5) you have to wonder what is Protact’s next move. Wearing a sandwich board around Rodney Square that reads “I am an idiot!” ?
Pushing a shopping cart full of dirty blankets through Elsmere down Kirkwood Highway?
The future is full of possibilities.
Mike,
Fact: Taxes went down for 95% of Americans. The tax cuts were included in the stimulus bill and went into effect April 1st.
And by the way, the tax cuts total $282 billion over two years. In Bush’s first two years his tax cuts amounted to $174 billion.
Just the facts Mike.
I suppose you don’t care too much about the $10.8 trillion budget deficit Bush ran up during his presidency. Republicans never care about debt or future payments when they’re in power, as the last four GOP presidents all ran up HUGE debt and increased he size of governement (Bush, Bush REAGAN and Nixon.)
Besides the tax break, the stimulus bill had money to rebuild our roads instead of bomb Iraq, green energy jobs to build a future on and $200 billion to keep the states solvent. The stimulus bill was anything but a failure.
I’ll take the passage of the stimulus package, the stem cell bill, a recovering economy, long overdue new fuel efficiency standards, three dead pirates, responsible environmental policy including reversing Bush’s policy of allowing strip mining waste to be thrown in Americas freshwater, a supreme court justice or two (lets hope three), signing laws to expand children’s health insurance, and the pay equity act for women. Not bad, well, especially compared to Bush,
The others aren’t even worth commenting on.
This is hilarious. The nuts at World Nut Daily are asking for donation to put up billboards in cities saying “Where Is The Birth Certificate?” I’m all for them wasting money on this. Will anyone know what the heck the BB is even referring to?
“Fact: Taxes went down for 95% of Americans. The tax cuts were included in the stimulus bill and went into effect April 1st.”
Come now, folks.
95% of people don’t pay taxes. In fact, a full 50% of the citizenry now pay no income taxes. Obama’s 95% was a huge direct transfer of wealth from people who work to people who don’t, through “refundable tax credits,” which are simply welfare payments.
You can come back with the standard “it’s about time the wealth was transferred in the other direction” or whatever it is you say, but no more with the 95% tax cut garbage.
Ah, once again the wingnut fantasy that payroll tax isn’t really tax. Every working person pays payroll tax. I know Republicans like to pretend that the only tax that exists is income tax, probably because Reagan gave us the greatest tax increase in history.
At least FSP didn’t argue that taxes went up, when in fact they did not, which was the point.
FACT: Taxes went down under Obama and a dem congress for millions of middle class Americans and the total tax dollar amount is larger then George Bush’s tax cut.
Good enough for you?
“Every working person pays payroll tax.”
Did only people who pay payroll tax get a “tax cut?”
(Hint: I know the answer.)
And just like with GWB taxes have gone up. They may not have gone up yet, but the purchase has been made and the bill’s coming due.
Oh, now we’re talking about the future, non-existent tax increases. My bad. I didn’t realize we were talking hypotheticals.