Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. Is it Tuesday already? The week passes fast when you’re having fun! Share what’s on your mind.
John Cole called this “A Modern Parable:”
A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, then looks at the teabagger and says “Watch out for that union guy—he wants a piece of your cookie!”
Republicans may be lousy at math but they really do understand human nature. For many years they’ve successfully deployed the politics of resentment. Pitting middle class public workers against other middle class workers (like in Wisconsin) is a classic example. We are all supposed to be resentful and not rest until union benefits are as crummy as ours.
So that’s where we are. A first lady campaigning against obesity and in favor of breast feeding is now the target of all-out war from the right. I imagine that if she were taking on illiteracy, teenage drug use, or planting flowers, the Republican Party would suddenly find itself opposed to reading, defending Mexican drug cartels, and in favor of vacant lots. And yet we’re supposed to take these people seriously.
It’s sad what Obama derangement syndrome will do to your mind. I think it would be fun if Obama would start doing some reverse psychology on them – like saying he wants to cut taxes on the rich only – to see if the ODS sufferers come out against tax cuts for the rich.
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Provided they ever get back to me, I’m going to ask the tea party guy I interview what he thinks of that parable.
Republicans recycle an old idea: the foam coffee cup
The beginning of this article on how the repubs are rolling back the greener solution implemented by the Democrats:
Republicans really are into just fucking shit up. Pissing off dirty hippies is an end in itself.
I wanted to save you guys/gals at DL the trouble of putting up a post about Obama breaking another campaign pledge.
It’s getting sort of unnerving (imo) that he is getting away with resigning the patriot act and now this type of retaliation on whistleblowers when during his campaign he said he would do the opposite.
“Barely a whisper from many “liberal” bloggers or the Liberal MSM.”
I found reading that on a blog ironic. That’s all.
Obama’s campaign wasn’t big on civil liberties. I knew that going in.
Can we fill those foam coffee cups with Delaware fish, and warm it up in the microwave?
Thanks for stopping by Jason! Point taken, and I’ve updated the original post
Jimmy Fallon:
Put down whatever you are drinking before you read this bit of Christianist Crazy:
The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.
Too funny.
In his defense, he was thinking about the Constitution while he worked it.
When reached for comment, Satan remarked, “id love to be able to take credit for this, but I’ve been busy advising Scott Walker.”
What a man does in the privacy of his van parked next to a playground while looking at children play when he is not using his bullhorn to yell at people for being sinners, is his own business.
You are on a roll, Jason!
His parishoners blame God for making toddlers so sexy.
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Something the GOP doesn’t want to cut:
Government sponsorships and taxbreaks for NASCAR
They *don’t* want to cut sponsorships paid for by the Government or the tax breaks for freakin’ NASCAR.