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.

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[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.