Does Obama WANT to Get Impeached?
...The White House may consider the unilateral amnesty a winning move on several different levels: it gets its policy goal; it satisfies an important part of its base; and if there is any serious move toward impeachment, it rallies the entirety of the Democratic base in a way we haven’t seen since 2008 and — assuming the politics of impeachment are bad for Republicans — drives the middle away from the GOP. An administration that is fast entering its dotage could consider this one of the few potential positive game-changers that it has direct control over — the Constitution and the rule of law be damned.Daily Caller:
Rep. Scalise Calls Out Obama: ‘First White House In History Trying To Start Narrative Of Impeachment’Glenn Beck:
“Who wants [impeachment]? The president does,” Beck argued. “Because then he’ll be able to say, ‘I demand justice.’ The birther thing is over, the Black thing is over. So now he needs to be able to call for justice.”Etc. etc. etc.
As I have chronicled, conservatives have been plotting Obama's impeachment since 2009, and it's only getting worse: Try Googling "impeach" and "Benghazi" and see what you get. But now they're peddling the story that it's Obama who's trying to get impeached, based on the fact that Democrats are fundraising off the threat of a new Republican Senate railroading the President.
It reminds me of what happened in the endgame of the Obama birth certificate fiasco -- remember the afterbirthers, and how they tried to tell the world that Obama had set them up by pretending to be from Kenya? For example, John Hinderaker of Power Line, May 2012:
We know for sure that Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, because it was announced in a local newspaper. But we also now know that for sixteen years, his literary agent circulated a bio that said he was born in Kenya. That statement must have come from Obama himself; or, at a bare minimum, it certainly was known to him. So: why? Why would Obama put it out that he was born in Kenya if he was actually born in Hawaii?
Over at PJ Media, CEO Roger Simon, a mystery writer by trade, put his mind to the puzzle and came up with an intriguing theory...I'll spare you -- the upshot, in this case as in all of them, was that their extensive birther self-embarrassments weren't really their fault. Something similar's happening here, except it's isn't just salve for their blistered egos this time: They're hoping citizens who are balking at voting in an impeachment tribunal this November may be convinced that Republicans would never do anything like that, it's just something the wily Democrats are making up.
I'd like to think the Republicans' record of running the federal government like a demolition derby would keep people from believing them, but they're champeen hustlers and Americans can be suckers for a hard sell. We'll see.
UPDATE: In comments, Shakezula: "Remember, the Republican battle cry is LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!"
Also, Neddy Merrill reminds us that less than a year before he started blaming Obama for impeaching himself, Glenn Beck was calling for his impeachment. Rich Lowry was hinting at the same thing just the other day -- for dealing with Obama's "constitutional deformation" of the Presidency, he said, "the Constitution equips [Congress] with its own tools to fight such battles, especially the power of the purse and impeachment." But Lowry took pains to preserve his plausible deniability with slippery language; since Beck's audience is mostly Alzheimer's sufferers and aphasics who don't remember what their Leader said from one day to the other, he didn't need to.
Shameless or shady, it's doesn't matter: Thus have the brethren promoted this bullshit into the mainstream. Probably in the middle of impeachment itself, they'll be sitting in the press box shaking their heads and going, "Wow, Obama's taking this thing further than I thought he would!"
UPDATE 2. Ha ha ha ha.
"I'd like to think the Republicans' record of running the federal government like a demolition derby would keep people from believing them"
ReplyDeleteYou're the reason why we can't have nice things like President MonsterTruck.
"They're hoping citizens who are balking at voting in an impeachment
ReplyDeletetribunal this November may be convinced that Republicans would never do
anything like that, it's just something the wily Democrats are making
up."
NOW who's playing 11-dimensional chess? Except how does this work? "No, we're not impeaching him--that's Democrat propaganda. Except, now that you mention it..." It would be nice if Lowry/Beck were right, that O's forces were jiu-jitsuing the lunatic wingnut strategy back at them. "Help! I'm being oppressed! Now we see the rabid partisanship inherent in the system!"
They're hoping citizens who are balking at voting in an impeachment
ReplyDeletetribunal this November may be convinced that Republicans would never do
anything like that, it's just something the wily Democrats are making
up.Yeah, well, that's going to be slightly harder than usual, unless they can get Sarah Palin to shut up about it. And I think Impeachfest will just be too irresistible a grift for her.
On the other hand, Joni Ernst already babbled about impeachment, yet the race to succeed Tom Harkin has turned into a dead heat. So maybe it's too much to hope that it would cause 1998 all over again.
Hey, I'm fascinated by the con, same as everyone else. But what are they selling and to whom? The brethren WANT him impeached. Who is this supposed to satisfy? Boenher is suing him, Congressmen have been prattling on about impeachment, so this attack about briar patches and what not is appealing to...? This handwringing is unbecoming of amoral idiots who explode like pintos in a fender bender. The 'necks in the tea party will NOT like being on the same side as the Usurper one little bit. Which, I know, is why the cynics are trying this tack. I just find it hilariously unpersuasive.
ReplyDeleteWho?
ReplyDeleteThe sensible centrists, silly. Dave Broder's ghost must be satiated, and that means BOTH SIDES DO IT.
It never mattered if it was even plausible before, and it doesn't matter now. Go read the WaPo, if you dare.
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If Obama had never been elected, there'd be no chance of him being impeached. He ran in not one but two elections, knowing that he might win. Obama's successful campaigns paved the way for impeachment. QE fucking D.
ReplyDeleteThey're just preparing the ground so they can use the same excuse produced by every frat boy who ever got caught with his dick in a roofied high school student: "I didn't want to! They made me do it!"
ReplyDeleteLowry, Beck, Althouse, Reynolds: they're not even willing to hate the President honestly, to just step up and say they can't stand the thought of his black ass in the Oval Office. They've been kissing up and kicking down for so long they can't even figure out how to take a stand, but want to weasel and grovel and hang the responsibility for their hate on somebody--anybody--else.
Mind you, no elected Republican, Republican candidate or responsible commentator from the right is suggesting impeachment.
ReplyDeleteAs Roy has pointed out elsewhere perhaps Jenny might want a word with Trent Franks.
As to these responsible commentators on the right, well, I think they're all sharing a cab home, but maybe we can ask them in the morning.
I feel like I have a decent tolerance for stupid, but I had to close out of Rubin's piece after the first paragraph.
ReplyDelete"Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! This high-flying, stunt-filled, nitro-fueled administration is gonna MAKE YOU SCREAM for action on several bills now pending in the house!"
ReplyDeleteYeah. Ha-ha. Those silly Rightwingers with their CYA fairytales.
ReplyDeleteBut they will impeach him anyway. Because in their eyes, no Democrat can ever be a legitimate president.
We can laugh at them all we want, but there are waaaaaaaaaaaay too many voters who still think the housing crash was all liberals' fault, and that there's gotta be something to all this Fox News stuff.
Achieving the highest office of a country with a millions-strong racist nihilist lunatic fringe.
ReplyDeleteIs that a high crime or a misdemeanor?
According to the top rated comment to Lowry's post, drawing Republicans into impeachment is "Pure Alinsky." It's all a trap so that, even if in the short term Republicans regain the Senate, this just allows Warren or whoever to run as an outsider against a Republican congress in 2016. The prize is demographic change in favor of statism and an acceptance of strong-man government. Long term, the plan is even more devious and illogical but I'll spare you the details*.
ReplyDeleteThe next commenter agrees wholeheartedly:
Some of us knew this was the agenda in 2007. We were denigrated as conspiracy theorists, racists, John Birchers, or dreaded neocons.
So conservatives may seem to have been plotting Obama's impeachment since 2009, but apparently it started years before that as a leftist strategy.
I find it strange that this is the first I'm hearing about this Master Plan. I have to ask: Is there some reason you guys are leaving me out of the loop or am I just being paranoid?
*Worth reading for the lunacy, or if you like feeling depressed. The whole comment thread is a nutfest.
Ayup, this is just more of the "your face hurt my fist" routine for which the brethren are rightly well-known. They have been dancing around impeachment for years now, bringing it out whenever the Blah-in-Chief irritated them, but, now, we're supposed believe that it's the Dems who have engineered all this talk of impeachment as a reverse-jujitsu election move, which, one has to admit, has no small amount of chutzpah to it, especially since the endless Benghazi and IRS/tea party non-profits hearings have been intended to set the stage for articles of impeachment whenever the Repugs in the House think the optimum time has come to spring it on the Prez.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes this even funnier is that this is the party that has already determined that impeachment is now the hammer in their toolbox--only their toolbox--that they're going to use for exclusively political purposes. Thus having perverted the purpose of the impeachment clause once for political effect, very much against the will of the public, they now claim ownership of it so exclusively that they're indignant that Dems are even mentioning it in a defensive context, and therefore, hey, I know, it's all their fault!
Very Machiavellian, if Machiavelli were into absinthe and Qaalude shooters.
That's pretty much most sane people's limit.
ReplyDeleteI would guess Rubin is just parsing "suggesting" as finely as possible, since there has been intermittent shrieking about it ever since the day after the Nov., 2008, election, not to mention barely-restrained lip-smacking at the prospect weekly, if not daily, ever since Obama invoked the War Powers Act when not asking Congress first for permission to do stupid things in Libya.
ReplyDeleteOr, perhaps she meant that no right-winger was suggesting impeachment at that very second she was writing the sentence. At any rate, this is typical loopy Rubin, who, one hastens to add, has never had much of grip on the truth.
See: "My mother-in-law is the meanest, most miserable ... sweetest little old lady on this earth."
ReplyDelete"You gotta pay for a whole vote, but YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE PRIMARRRRYYYYY"
ReplyDeleteAn announcement that "Impeachment is not an option" would thwart the entire devilishly-clever Obama plan, but for some reason it does not seem to be possible.
ReplyDeleteThat wily Kenyan, always forcing the righties to do what they're determined to do anyway. Is there any perfidy he is incapable of?
ReplyDeleteWe're leaving you out of the loop since Liberalism demands that a boy spill another's blood before the age of ten to prove their loyalty to Alinsky.
ReplyDeleteSorry, kiddo, you missed out.
Palin was ridin' that hobby horse just this past weekend. But, I can't for the life of me imagine that they think they can make a surprise out of it, since just about every right-wing wanker, in Congress and out, has uttered the "I" word more than once in the last six years, if only to imply that Obama's biggest crime was presidentin' while black.
ReplyDeleteThe other big difference between then and now is that they spent six solid years stalking Clinton, and the moment they had something, anything, they pounced. Republicans this time around have been looking for every gotcha moment they can, but with Darrell Issa running that sideshow, it's sporadic, rather than relentless, and even though the right-wing Wurlitzer has been doing its best to drum up public outrage, the result has been yawns. Some Tea Partiers had to wait a while for IRS non-profit approval? Pfft. Issa just isn't Ken Starr, and there's no comparable Arkansas Project behind this effort.
If they do pull the trigger, though, they know that the results will be the same--it's a virtual impossibility to get a two-thirds vote in the Senate, even if the Repugs win a Senate majority in November, and they don't even get Holy Joe leading the charge in the Senate this time, either.
Last time, it was all about fucking up Gore's chances in 2000 and that worked--Gore definitely distanced himself from Clinton (for all his faults and fuckups, still an accomplished campaigner), and choosing Holy Joe as a running mate was very much an admission that the morality issue had influenced his campaign (and it might have been the kiss of death with a lot of voters).
This time? How does a manufactured Republican impeachment of Obama affect Biden? Or Clinton? Or any other contender? Much of the public will think, "they did it just because they could."
Straw-Man, likes walks on the beach, red herrings and Shifting Goalposts, seeks like-minded True Scotsman.
ReplyDelete"Some of us knew this was the agenda in 2007. We were denigrated as
ReplyDeleteconspiracy theorists, racists, John Birchers, or dreaded neocons."
If they did that, they wouldn't know who to scream, "appeaser!" at, would they?
ReplyDeleteWhat a riot. But this plan only works if, once the President has impeached himself for our sins, he holds a press conference wherein he looks impishly into the camera, raises his hand to his head, gives his fore-noggin a couple slow taps with his index finger while intoning, deliberately:
ReplyDelete"Pure. Alinsky."
Remember, the Republican battle cry is LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!
ReplyDeleteBitches and darkies are always askin' for it. It is up to the white man to decide if he will be provoked into administering a well-deserved rape/assault/murder.
If someone does hop on the Impeachment-Go-Round it will be Obama's fault because he persisted in arrogantly acting like he was the President. If sanity prevails (barely) and no one goes all of the way, it will prove Republicans are gentle and tolerant and we're all a bunch of ingrates if we don't vote for 'em.
Either way, you can expect "1,001 Reasons Obama Deserved Impeachment" to remain in the NeoCon top 10 for the next few decades, although it might slip into the top 40s if HRC winds up in the White House.
SUNDAY!! U.S. Amphetamine Speedway!!
ReplyDelete"Fucking bitch was just asking for it. I didn't want to hit her, but she made me do it. And she knew she'd get sympathy from everyone, too. Fucking bitch."
ReplyDeleteIs this what the organ grinders are trying to say to their monkeys?
If the wingnuts are gonna get their undies twisted over the question of whether Obama wants to be thrown in the impeachment patch, or whether he is tricking them into not throwing him into the impeachment patch, or whether…etc. ad naseum…they may as well drink the Iocaine liquor now and get it over without the post-mortem embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteAh, that explains the current strategy of maybe-yes / maybe-no Full Metal Dithering... they're trying to build up their immunity to Iocaine, in a matter of weeks rather than years.
ReplyDeleteThe ones who read farther are lost...utterly lost.
ReplyDeleteI envision Boehner et al standing under a large circus banner screaming IMPEACHMENT, with hats that say IMPEACHMENT, and beer Mugs in cozies that say "IMPEACH! HIC!" in T shirts that say "I'm With Impeachment, Stupid!" And whipping off the cap and dropping the beer in time to intone, solemnly, to the waiting journalists "This entire Impeachment Circus was dreamed up by the President to disguise his lowered poll numbers. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Republican Party has always offered the President nothing but the hand of friendship."
ReplyDeleteHe does not look like that. He looks like a textbook illustration of a Juvenile Neanderthal.
ReplyDeleteIts more like a kid who breaks a lamp on purpose and then shrieks "look what you made me do!"
ReplyDeleteRepublicans used to just have contempt for science and scientists. They have moved beyond that now. For modern conservatives, knowledge and learning are evidence of serious character defects. Earning advanced degrees in science is a moral failing, as far as conservatives are concerned.
ReplyDeleteAll this handwringing over whether or not Obama really wants to be impeached is just the polite fiction they're telling themselves so that they don't have to see their dreams of Obama tearily exiling himself back to Kenya in a tour-de-force triumph of conservative jurisprudence turn into a weeks-long sideshow of hundreds of spittle-spraying junior representatives all trying to shout the same conspiracy theory at one bewildered staffer. They want the delirious anticipation without the inevitable letdown.
ReplyDeleteWould it surprise anyone if "luring the Congress into impeaching him" is one of the charges when he's impeached? And the evidence will be that impeachment has begun. Talk about Executive Overreach!
ReplyDeleteSo they've been threatening it for the last six years, but Obama's press secretary mentions it once and now it's his idea? He must have used that famous time travel and brainwaves to go back and lure them in.
ReplyDeleteLess than a year ago Beck was calling for impeachment, "...I personally am calling for the impeachment of the president of the United States."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-beck-i-personally-am-calling-for-the-impeachment-of-the-president-of-the-united-states/
But what are they selling and to whom? The brethren WANT him impeached. Who is this supposed to satisfy?
ReplyDeleteGood question. For the Base it must be like a strip tease where the dancer has been on the stage for years, she's up to her knees in money but she is still peeling off the first glove. But so long as they keep throwing money she'll keep working on that glove. If they stop throwing money, she'll walk off, the next act will come on and she'll start rolling down a stocking.
But writing about something that hasn't happened must be a great gig if you're a lazy jackass.
Good grief, his vest is a brief but icky trip through the right wings' inflamed psyche.
ReplyDeleteGoing by everything I've seen, Joni Ernst is an amazing colossal idiot straight from the Sarah Palin mold, repeating phrases she barely understands for just as long as necessary.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great analogy but I think its more like the stripper is down to her last pasty and begins shouting "don't you get it? If I take it off the cops will come and arrest all of you! Its a plot! A PLOT! For your sake I refuse to drop that last pasty." She's picking up the money as fast as she can and looking for the exits before the crowd starts rioting, but she's hoping for a return engagement so she also doesn't want to disapoint them too much.
ReplyDeleteI have to subtract a few points because there are no leather patches on his elbows.
ReplyDeleteI think the rumor that Obama is secretely building a 3 billion dollar retreat, deep in the Kenyan Jungle/High on the Mau Escarpment or somewhere nefarious, anyway, could get a couple of thousand wingnutbux if sold to the right outlet. I'm clearing my decks to write the precis right now.
ReplyDeleteOnly because the artist walked out when they started gabbling about patches made from vegan leather.
ReplyDeleteOMG this goes even farther back then I thought! Check this out:
ReplyDelete1. He was "born" in Hawaii.
2. Poi is a famous Hawaiian dish.
3. His mother often took him to the beach.
Connect the dots :
BEACH MAMA POI = IMPEACH OBAMA
If you think this is farfetched then you know nothing about the power of Alinksy or you are a libtard, in which case you are probably about to employ Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #5: Ridicule. So I will be on the lookout for Ridicule words since you have no arguments to defeat my logic.
I'm beginning to wonder if Conservatives ever actually existed at all... ever. Iraq war? The military equivalent of the Moon landing, staged so that George Soros could take advantage of turbulent currency markets. G.W. Bush? A caricature of what people are afraid a Republican president would look like if we were ever tempted to vote for one. Reagan? The "conservative" who raised taxes, even though he called them "user fees" and used them to prop up the military industrial complex, even though we KNOW that the MI Complex is liberal. The plot goes all the way back to both Hitler AND Stalin, who were creations of the Liebrul Media to scare real Americans into voting for Franklin Traitor To His Class Roosevelt, who, fueled by rage at his polio, conspired to make America as crippled as he was. God... it's all so clear now...
ReplyDeleteThis is too damn good.
ReplyDeleteWorse yet, he did so even though his betters very clearly stated they did not want him to run for office. And has he once apologized for his brazen acts of disobedience?
ReplyDeleteI thought Pure Alinsky was a key ingredient in old Hamm's beer.
ReplyDelete♪ From the land of sky-blue waters... (waters...)
♫ Comes the Pure Alinsky. Comes the Pure Alinsky. Hamms!♫
We are the Unsullied!
ReplyDeleteWell FUCK. Now I have to let go of my personal dislike of NdgT.
ReplyDeleteIf Ric Ocasek and Cousin It had a child...
ReplyDeleteIt's like reading The King in Yellow.
ReplyDeleteIs t she also a colonel in the national guard?
ReplyDeleteFull metal dither would be the name of my one man band if i could agree with myself to form it.
ReplyDeleteGoing by everything I've seen, Joni Ernst is an amazing colossal idiot straight from the Sarah Palin mold
ReplyDeleteIdiotic like a fox. She called for Obama's impeachment while before the faithful, then said, "Oh, dear me, that would be a bit far" when it got out. Which apparently worked. And again, right now she's neck-and-neck to replace the mostly solidly liberal Harkin in the Senate. Some of it's down to the fact that Bruce Braley is apparently sufficiently incompetent to think that a statewide race in Iowa would be just like campaigning in its first Congressional district. It's early yet, I suppose, and I'm hoping that Harkin will work hard for his desired replacement, but damnation, we really didn't need another blue seat to become a toss-up this cycle.
I'm actually pretty sure that the Republican elites are trying to convince the Republican idiots that they (the idiots) don't really want to see Obama impeached because it's what Obama wants you to do.
ReplyDeleteThey're trying to reverse psychology their base into shutting up for a while because they remember how well the whole "impeachment" thing went with Clinton and they really, really, really do NOT want to be reminding everyone about how nice they felt about Bill Clinton what with Hillary Clinton sizing up to be the nominee in 2016.
I want to take that allusion home with me.
ReplyDeleteLieutenant colonel, but yes. If she were a Democrat, we could vilify and smear shit all over her service. But since she's a Republican, that just shows what a patriotic real American she is ... one who has spoken favorably of nullification.
ReplyDeleteI mean, she was supposedly one of the more moderate candidates in the primary. And by moderate, I mean: repeal the ACA (natch), implement a flat tax, privatize Social Security, abolish the federal minimum wage, declare opposition to the 2014 Farm Bill ... DECLARE OPPOSITION TO PASSING A FARM BILL. IN IOWA. AS A CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE. AND NOT BE LOSING BY DOUBLE DIGITS. Jeebus, people, Chuck Grassley and Steve King aren't making me ashamed enough to be from Iowa?
It is.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how the artist justifies all those political emblems depicted on that vest. Okay, the Darwin Fish is appropriate, but from what I've seen, Dr. Tyson usually finds a way to sidestep most political issues, particularly partisan ones.
"This is good news for John McCain."
ReplyDeleteAlso Old Style Beer. With Alinskying Krausening.
ReplyDeleteNothing pisses me off more than the impeachment thing.
ReplyDeleteObviously, both parties agree that it would be ludicrous to impeach the President over little things like ordering the execution of an American citizen without trial, or presiding over a massive, illegal effort to spy on American citizens, or violating the war powers act.
Obviously, it would be ridiculous to talk about impeaching the President over little things like that.
On the other hand, his use of EPA regulation is really controversial!
Seriously, the President has seized the power to have citizens executed without trial, and one party is pissed off about signing statements, and the other is arguing that it would be ridiculous to talk about impeaching him for any reason whatsoever.
Impeachment, I love you!
ReplyDelete----
It's over, Impeachment, you're making me look bad!
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Awww, Impeachment....I can't stay mad at you!
Excuse me, but have you personally inspected the original, signed and notarized medical records that diagnose FDR with polio?
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY!
Wheels within wheels...
This comment made me GROW A PENIS.
ReplyDeleteProbably in the middle of impeachment itself, they'll be sitting in the
ReplyDeletepress box shaking their heads and going, "Wow, Obama's taking this thing
further than I thought he would!"
They'll probably paint it as a further sign of his administration's chaotic incompetence. "Democratic sources say that the President's push to look like he was going to be impeached was meant to stay at the level of a threat, but Obama proved unwilling to sit down with House Republican leaders and work out a deal to avoid the articles actually being filed."
He didn't mean himself personally, it was the Royal "I".
ReplyDeleteAnother clever ruse! If he doesn't really support Obama's GLBT Feminist Wind Power Peace Earth Sun ... [squints] Light bulb? Agenda, then why is he a black scientist who believes in evolution rather than creationism??
ReplyDeleteReally, I'm sure there are people who can speak to this more eloquently, but this takes their habit of imbuing one person with all of their bugbears a bit further than normal. The only thing missing are a church being bulldozed by stick-figure hippies and a man fucking a turtle.
Concern trolling noted. But one reason why you apply a Constitutional remedy called "impeachment" is precisely because the dominant political sensibility has been offended. If drone attacks don't offend that sensibility, then you're pissing in the wind. But then that's why we're having this discussion in the first place! Right-wingers whip themselves into a frenzy over one thing or another, realize there's no ground beneath them, smile sheepishly, and then do the next best thing: blame Obama for embarrassing them.
ReplyDeleteWhich is what left-wing purity trolls do in their own special way.
"But so long as they keep throwing money she'll keep working on that glove."
ReplyDeleteOr she'll start her own pay-TV network. ;)
Is there NO END to the liberal false-flag ops?
ReplyDelete"CEO Roger Simon, a mystery writer by trade, put his mind to the puzzle and came up with an intriguing theory..."
ReplyDeleteThat's some rough trade.
Clerk: This little guy writes mysteries under the name of Roger el-Simon.
Lisa Simpson: How can a hamster write mysteries?
Clerk: Well, he blames Obama first, then he writes backward.
Cannot...breathe...
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not just the pundits. I think this pattern: hateful statements, followed by explanation of why the person who wrote/said them isn't hateful (racist/sexist/homophobic), or their hate is justified and it's not their fault, or everybody hates and that doesn't make them a bad person, accounts for roughly 97% of online comments. Althouse et al are just representatives speaking for the paste-eating masses who don't realize that openly dropping the N-word will (in some cases) prevent them from becoming paid pundits.
ReplyDeleteOr he pulled them off to Ivory-Tower-splain the idea of a saddle-shaped Universe to a Young Earth Geocentrist.
ReplyDeleteOh...a neckbeard.
ReplyDeleteImpeach me
ReplyDeleteImpeach me my friend
Impeach me
It's not us it's all him
Whenever there's a Democrat in the White House, the Republicans become the kid who flips over the Candy Land board because he lost. They don't accept any Democratic president as legitimate, and they will always threaten impeachment. For them to claim that they have nothing to do with the impeachment talk is absurd.
ReplyDeleteBut, Boehner is nothing if not ballsy. This is the guy who claims that the Republicans have been working really hard on passing a jobs bill, but the Democrats and Obama won't let them. He's just a straight up liar, but the media refuses to call him on it.
Organ grinders never spank their monkeys, name notwithstanding.
ReplyDeleteUnskewed poll dancing?
ReplyDeleteWheels within wheels, man!
ReplyDeleteWell Tyson recently did speak about the need for equal opportunities and greater diversity in science (as well as racism) so I'm surprised he wasn't caricatured as a Black Panther.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=035lOhkNbkM
The con is for the people who aren't really paying attention. Also David Gregory.
ReplyDeleteIf science, history and the educated are right, that means they are wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's tortile all the way down.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if Obama didn't insist on being so black, the republicans wouldn't be forced to be so racist.
ReplyDeleteI missed that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link!
"This whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president's own
ReplyDeletestaff and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill. Why? Because they are
trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's
election," Boehner told reporters Tuesday morning. "We have no plans to
impeach the president. We have no future plans."
[A PARALLEL WORLD I WISH I LIVED IN]
"Why wouldn't your future majority whip take impeachment off the table two days ago on Fox?"
"Uh ... Democrats!"
"Well, then, why have the architects of your lawsuit declared that its failure would leave no alternative to impeachment?"
"White House scam!"
"For that matter, given that a majority of Republicans polled want the President impeached, why are you going against the wishes of your own party?"
"Lawless dictator!"
"Okay, folks, let's laugh derisively on our way out to file stories calling this bozo on his flagrant bullshit."
[THE SORT OF WORLD I ACTUALLY LIVE IN]
"Okay, everyone, let's go mindlessly regurgitate the Speaker's assertions as if they were fact. If we're feeling generous, we can stick in 'Some Democrats dispute this' at the end."
"Proudly brewed using the Cloward-Piven process, for ideological purity!"
ReplyDeleteAnd now for something completely different! Seriously, this is the world we are living in now ---
ReplyDeleteMr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
Mr. Praline: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
Mr. Praline: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...
(owner hits the cage)
Owner: There, he moved!
Mr. Praline: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!
Owner: I never!!
Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
Owner: I never, never did anything...
Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up! Norwegian Blues stun easily, major.
Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
"its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk."
ReplyDeleteMine too.
"Worse yet, he did so even though his betters very clearly stated they
ReplyDeletedid not want him to run for office."
God... you mean Hillary is in on it too?
The Republican Party has always offered the President nothing but the hand of friendship."
ReplyDeleteYou mean the backhand of friendship.
there's no comparable Arkansas Project behind this effort.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard a blowjob called that before.
This one would give a severed nipple without flinching to this comment.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I can't get a response from Andy McCarthy. Why did he support Obama with that execrable book?*
ReplyDelete*Seriously, it's hard to be a grifter in today's Party. First, there are a lot of people working your side of the street and, secondly, being at odds with Reality is hard. Occasionally, word will come above at the Ministry of Truth that the entire narrative has changed. Your Kilmeade's and Doocy's aren't smart enough to remember what their producers were telling them an hour ago, let alone two weeks ago. Meanwhile, Andy McCarthy was in the middle of a book tour about our war with Eastasia when word came that we've actually always been at war with Eurasia. It would upset a man with a conscience, so Andy will probably be okay.
Yesterday's GOP war crime is today's radar blip.
ReplyDeletePurity troll is one of my favorite phrases.
Hey you, how dare you remember we used to be against this thing??
It's O.K. NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
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That is actually a lot more logical than most of the other impeachment arguments the Far Right is floating in the marketplace of ideas...
ReplyDeleteRead a story in my local fishwrap today. Some drunk guy accidently runs over and kills his wife. After blowing a .155 he says to the cops, "This is really going to hurt my business. It's just turning the corner!"
ReplyDeleteCan we even be certain that anyone by the name of Millard Fillmore served as President? What kind of name is Millard?! After all, who wrote the history books, huh? It's all a piece of liberal fiction...!
ReplyDeleteI'll regret this, I know, but here's a thought: assume for the sake of argument, just for a moment, that they're completely right. The President is manipulating the GOP into impeaching him for reasons yet to be explained, and all this talk of impeachment from the last 5 1/2 years has been part of his nefarious plan.
ReplyDeleteBut NOW, now they see through his evil scheme, recognize his machinations for what they are. They know now that impeachment is what he wants, what he's been working toward for years, it's only going to make him more popular, more powerful. Strike him down now and he will only become more powerful than they can imagine.
So, wouldn't the smart thing to do now be to, you know, NOT impeach him? I mean, if you see a rake on the ground, you aren't obligated to step on it.
self-severed? that was on another show, man...
ReplyDeleteAnd so the snake swallows itself.
ReplyDeletePresident Biden is ready for his closeup.
ReplyDeleteYou lucky big-bad-bald-bastard, getting to wait to spill another's blood until you were 10. When i grew up, back in the last century, it was by 5 and you had to make the spill go uphill, both ways
ReplyDeleteYou would think, being the party that nominated an actual movie actor for president, that Republicans would be aware of devices that record both pictures and sound, and that can then play the recordings again at a later date.
ReplyDeleteDamn it, this article is not online. I'd hate to see someone at the library see me picking up a copy of National Review.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's behind a paywall on their site, but a helpful soul reposted the text here:
ReplyDeletehttp://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=74549&start=0
It's near the bottom of the page.
He's still smarter than them even when drunk
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7jOcEtmWY
or stoned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUi7C7QgNXE
"It's your own fault. You knew we were idiots."
ReplyDeleteThere's no way I can compete with that.
ReplyDeleteAt one point I seriously, legitimately thought that executing your country's citizens without trial on the basis of secret evidence was a, to coin a phrase, "red line" that Democrats wouldn't cross.
ReplyDeleteI feel quite the fool.
What would Obama (Or any president) have to do to warrant impeachment, I wonder?
Post-Clinton, it seems nearly everybody has come to view impeachment not as a way to hold a President accountable to the law, but as a risky Republican political strategy to influence elections.
That is a bad, bad thing, I think.
A meta-impeachment? How delightfully postmodern!
ReplyDeleteThat hurts my head if I think about it too long...
ReplyDeleteWell, she's sure to attract the looneytunes vote, so, at the very least, you'll have a pretty good gauge of how many of your fellow citizens are flying low and running on fumes.
ReplyDeleteIf she gets more than 40% of the vote, you might think about moving, for your own safety.
I want the man fucking a turtle sticker.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want the man to be Ben Domenech.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the characterization of the caricature, I also see that they've also introduced a little of Adam Clayton Powell to his visage, just to keep the scary black man meme processing in the wingnutz' heads.
ReplyDelete"Why don't they let ME sit at the cool kids' table?"
ReplyDeleteI think the answer to that has always been, "you're working for National Review, that's why."
"The black thing is over...."
ReplyDeleteWait just a minute there. Obama is no longer black? Wtf, Glenn Beck? Is this some code word for some nonsense that I missed?
Not to prejudge or anything, but any bets on this guy thinking Ronnie Raygun was the best President evah?
ReplyDeleteI'm just imagining a perennially sodden John Boehner mumbling, "fucking time travel. How does it work now?"
ReplyDelete[the Johnsons load their guns and point them at Bart. Bart then points his own pistol at his head]
ReplyDeleteBart:
[low voice]
Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!
John Boehner:
Hold it, men. He's not bluffing.
Glenn Beck:
Listen to him, men. He's just crazy enough to do it!
Obama:
[low voice]
Drop it! Or I swear I'll blow this nigger's head all over this town!
Obama:
[high-pitched voice]
Oh, lo'dy, lo'd, he's desp'it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!
[Teabaggers drop their guns. Obama jams the gun into his neck and drags himself through the crowd towards the station]
Sarah Palin:
Isn't anybody going to help that poor man?
Glenn Beck:
Hush, Sarah! That's a sure way to get him killed!
Obama:
[high-pitched voice]
Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!
Obama:
[low voice]
Shut up!
[Obama places his hand over his own mouth, then drags himself through the door into his office]
Obama:
Ooh, baby, you are so talented!
[looks into the camera]
Obama:
And they are so *dumb*!
How do you get the video to pop up?
ReplyDeletenevermind
ReplyDeleteDoesn't pop up for you? Or are you asking how to do it? If how, just embed the link in the text with _a href="youtube address.xxx"> text _/a> hypertext instruction (where _ is < ) and Disqus embeds it automatically.
ReplyDeleteFranklin Traitor To His Class Roosevelt, who, fueled by rage at his
ReplyDeletepolio, conspired to make America as crippled and dependent as he was.
This will be A Meme on wingnut websites within a day. Unless that's where you found it...
Hell, I didn't even know that was a thing...
ReplyDeleteI never thought that anyone would care about "executing a fellow citizen"--why? Because the government executes citizens all the time (in prison) and has always operated with impunity abroad. I never expect to see a president impeached for this because the entirety of the Republican and Democratic legislature who would be responsible for impeaching him agree with what he is doing and if they didn't they have a legislative remedy should they choose to use it and should they choose to think it was a serious matter.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they don't use a legislative remedy--and executives have been reigned in before--then what is the point of impeaching a given president--a Democratic one, say or the first African American one? He will simply be replaced with another person, one of our elites, who believes that drone strikes on enemies (whether domestic or foreign) are justified. Meanwhile the other political and policy issues that one side or the other are fighting for will be either hampered or advanced.
America is an imperialist nation with a faint underlay of democracy. As voters and individuals we have very limited power and astonishment, shock, virtuous repugnance and ranting on blogs about purity are actual not among those powers. I mean: they are among our talents but they are not particularly powerful. You can vote for a party or a candidate. And you can support progressive policies. But impeaching your own party/candidate in the middle of his term simply throws your party into disarray and benefits the other party. Rand Paul and John Boehner might impeach Obama over anything from drone strikes on al Awaki to peeing in the Oval Office Bathroom but the only change that will come as a result will be to benefit the more jingoistic, crazy, anti science, corporatist, and anti female/racist Republican party. Drone strikes on muslims won't end. But the Oval Office Potty will certainly be rendered pure for Republican Assess.
Thanks, Buddy!
ReplyDeleteWow! So many people here share my interests!
ReplyDeleteIf she gets more than 40% of the vote, you might think about moving, for your own safety.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm "from" Iowa in the sense of place of birth, not present place of residence. My parents currently live there, though (in a district that's currently fairly solidly D despite their own Foxification). And with an invulnerable incumbent retiring, it was never going to be a 60-40 blowout or better. I mean, by that logic, I should think of moving out of the US for my own safety, since not even Ted Cruz would get less than 40% of the vote ... Okay, point taken.
Well, at least Rich Lowry orgasmed. And that was just when she first walked on the stage clad in a deep-sea diving suit!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like that ‘hilarious’ schoolyard-bully schtick about how the victim should stop hitting the bully’s fists with his face.
ReplyDeleteThe classics never get old. Or funny.
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This shows you how effectively Republicans have reframed and redefined the world. Matt Taibi found back in 2004 that many "low information" voters had no idea that Social Security or Medicare were government programs. Today, we've reached a point where farmers--fucking farmers, fer Christ sake--have no idea that government farm subsidy checks come from the government.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Foxification. Rhymes with calcification. And gentrification. And acidification. And edification. Man, you're wide open for some some lyrics with that one.
ReplyDeleteFunny how this happens after we've been hammered for years about how nobody needs to study music and literature anymore, but rather math and science 'cause even the kids in Estonia do better on those subjects than American kids. Whatever happened to that argument? You'd think these people would idolize somebody like Tyson, except for the fact that he's basically told them they're idiots.
ReplyDelete"Don't throw me in that briar patch!"
ReplyDeleteAh, well, this is one of those contradictions that smart people acknowledge, morons don't even recognize and even the brighter-than-average conservative (yeah, I know, on an unbiased scale of one to ten...) mistakenly believes he can successfully ignore, because nattering on about science and math is only really useful when trying to convince elderly Fox New watchers that public school teachers are worthless.
ReplyDeleteSUNDAY!
ReplyDeleteFunny Cars!
That fucking tool spent something like 3 days on twitter tweeting a different Obama "failure" or "illegality" every 30 minutes and crowing about how he was jacking it instead of, you know, working. I trolled him every time I saw one of his moronic tweets, with stuff like, "hey Trent, glad to see you've solved all your constituents' problems and have time to jack it on twitter."
ReplyDeleteSilly. America has always killed whoever it likes, foreign or domestic. And never made any secret about it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you mean in novels or something?
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Yes...most of their ideas ARE "floaters."
ReplyDeleteWe were denigrated as conspiracy theorists, racists, John Birchers, or dreaded neocons.It's the "denigrated" that leaves me wondering about the Poe status of this comment.
ReplyDeleteThere are people in the background of Brueghel paintings looking smarter and less slack-jawed than Cooke.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Joe the Sorta Plumber was on their side.
ReplyDeleteThat comment is wearing no mask.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what it is about Obama that causes wingnuts to associate him with Uncle Remus stories.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party has always offered the President nothing but the hand of friendship.I was doing nothing, just minding my own business, when these dudes knocked me down, tied me up and sawed my hand off.
ReplyDeletePart of the problem stems from their persistent belief that Once Upon a Time everyone worshiped Capitalist Bigot Jesus. And one of the things that happened in this mythical time is the mythical All-White, All-Straight, All-Male corps of science and medical professionals worked to make life better (at least for those who could afford it) and maintain the current social order.
ReplyDeleteBut then, through the aberration of affirmative + action/feminsm *white + guilt/(counter-culture [marxist]) * skree, people like Tyson were allowed into the exclusive club. (Needless to say his admission also kept a WSM out of the club.)
So what they're after is a population that can build a better car engine, develop new cancer treatments and perform surgery, but is the right sort of person and who doesn't ask questions or try to rock the boat.
In short, more whining for the unpossible followed by whining when they don't get it. But they think that literature and arts are part of the problem, so they're trying to get rid of that. Left to their own devices they'll start on the sciences, but hopefully doctors will have found some sort of treatment well before then.
Maher: "They hate you because you're smarter than they are and you're black."
ReplyDelete"Paging Amity Shlaes. Amity Shlaes to the Caucasian Courtesy Phone."
ReplyDeleteThis is why they're flush with success.
ReplyDeleteCan't say that the tortoise looks like it's enjoying it, but what do I know about tortoises? Or the boys who love them, for that matter?
ReplyDeleteNo mask? No mask?
ReplyDeleteSo what they're after is a population that can build a better car
ReplyDeleteengine,
While being fucking ignoramuses about thermodynamics.**
develop new cancer treatments
While being fucking ignoramuses about biology, or indeed the scientific method in general.
and perform surgery
Unregulated surgery against a backdrop of "tort reform," performed by gibbering theocratic fuckwits like Paul Broun or Tom Coburn.
I mean, seriously, when I started studying science in college, it was fairly easy to be politically conservative as well, especially since there was a minor outbreak of "penis science / electrons are a social construct" tomfoolery at the time. Ever since, I've watched more and more collleagues throw up their hands in disgust, because despite their own conservative leanings, they've seen the GOP become more hysterically hostile to science. Now it's the conservatives who deny the existence of objective physical reality. Of course a spoiled little National Review asswipe is at least as learned as an actual astrophysicist, because it's all made up anyway.
**(Having TA'd physics for engineering students, I'd say that this would be true anyway, but my experience was probably not representative.)
Well, you see, the character being thrown into the briar patch is Br'er Rabbit. And just as rabbits sneak into gardens where they don't belong in order to steal hardworking folks' fruits and vegetables, Obama sneaked into an elected office where he didn't belong in order to steal hardworking folks' tax dollars and healthcare.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the tar baby represents his War on Coal.
Thing is (and this could also be a reply to bill), petty-minded totalitarian stoat rapists can't stand the idea that they aren't the bestest and the brightest.
ReplyDeleteThey've always disliked and distrusted people who are in any way, better. Usually they'll tolerate people who are, provided they or their talents are at the disposal of and of use to the PMTSTR.
So bring on the better cars and improved medical treatments, but keep your mouth shut and don't leave your lab, egghead. In short - they're an exalted form of servant, but a servant nonetheless.
What's special about this period of time (and it has happened before) is the intense, reflexive hostility to expertise. So you get people like Cooke saying "Hur hur, Tyson is a nerdy nerd." You get Alito solemnly informing us that it doesn't matter if HL is wrong about whether certain methods of birth control act as abortions, they just have to believe!
I'm sure it is linked to their belief that they're no longer the dominant form of homo sapiens. That's something your PMTSTR doesn't like.
And where is this atrocity located? MASSACHUSETTS. And what is Massachusetts known for?
ReplyDeleteExactly!
Elitist education.
Kennedys.
Provincetown.
Destroying marriage and America and civilization and Jesus by letting people with matching genitals get married.
That isn't a statue, it is a warning that everyone ignored!
I'm sure it is linked to their belief that they're no longer the
ReplyDeletedominant form of homo sapiens. That's something your PMTSTR doesn't
like.
Cue that old SNL bit "The Hominids," with Steve Martin and Bill Murray.
Likewise, however much I'd prefer my bein' tired and squawked out were due to a prolonged shag.
ReplyDeleteOne peculiar mango harvested from Cooke's article is this: "These are the people who insisted... that, despite all information to the contrary, Attorney General Ashcroft had covered up the Spirit of Justice statue at the Department of Justice because he was a prude." So evidently there is some standing wingnut explanation for that looney-tune Ashcroft installing a burka over Justice that would somehow make some kind of sense to presumably sane people, and I would like to know what that explanation could be.
ReplyDeleteSo would I.
ReplyDeleteI remember at the time Ashcroft saying that he didn't like to be photographed in front of the statue. Perhaps he was offended at some pun on the word "boob" that was published somewhere. I don't know.
Welcome to the brotherhood, sister! Now let's see how big it is.
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