a liar, or just plain stupider than a lavatory plunger?

[realthog]

I report, you decide. Well, in fact, it's Harper's Weekly that reports:

The House and Senate reached agreement on a $789 billion economic-stimulus plan, which President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law despite a lack of support from Republicans. "When Roosevelt did this," said Representative Steve Austria (R., Ohio), "he put our country into a Great Depression. That's just history."

Um, no, Rep. Austria. It's not.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Isn't this just amazing, these new talking points? Their entire strategy now is to obstruct and sabotage anything and everything that is being done, to make everything so very bad that people will cry out for tyranny. They think this is A Plan, and an Excellent Plan to boot. They aren't even trying to hide it. They really believe they in charge.

Off this topic, however, is a book someone sent Vaquero that might be of interest in your science projects: Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics (2007) by Edward T. Haslam. The publisher is something called TrineDay. Vaquero loves conspiracy books. This one is disappointing because so much of the actual material is factually correct, which he knows himself. Whether the conclusions are, though, is something else. But it got him through some very slow subway commutes to office in LI City.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the book tip, C. I don't have the time left before the (already multiply extended) deadline to add yet another to the reading list, but I'll note it for the next vol . . .

"to make everything so very bad that people will cry out for tyranny"

Unfortunately for their Machiavellian schemes, all they're succeeding in doing is making GOP support plummet; meanwhile support for Obama is up around the 68-75% mark, depending on the poll you choose -- a remarkable figure given that it's not that many weeks ago he got just 53% of the vote.

One could simply cackle and watch the fuckwits of the GOP doom their party for at least a generation, but it's not good for the country to be without a "loyal opposition". All governments, even the ones I support, require an effective, intelligent opposition to hone their ideas and keep them on course -- rather in the same way that even the best of authors need a competent editor, even if that editor changes not a comma. We all need some kind of a sounding board or we're likely to do silly things.

Well, all except me, of course.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply hurt, Sirrah, deeply, deeply, that you'd leave me out of the likelihood of ever doing a silly thing.

That's. All.

Rally round the knichts that say nicht!

Love, C.