Thank goodness

Rick Santorum is out of office and able to devote all of his "considerable" energies to being a professional talking head:

Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum attacked the media and "smart people" for not being on the side of conservatives in a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday. 

"We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side."

Yes, hard to believe the "smart" people oppose a party that has a membership of Rick Santorums in it.

Another breath, another lie

At the annual "All Mighty Cavalcade of Assholes for (using) Jesus" Paul Ryan continued to violate his least favorite Commandment (btw he loves coveting):

Yes, and before that he was a Congressional Staffer, so his whole career...in government.

So I guess it was just another day.

Funny

How all these right-wing operatives and assholes who've been making cracks about Obama and teleprompters seem to want to push the theme of how awesome a debater the same guy is so as to lower expectations for Romney.

But somehow this seems par for the course.

Boy, this whole Bibi thing is really hurting Obama

It's a disaster!

President Barack Obama is closing extending his lead with Jewish voters, leading among registered voters 70-25 percent according to unreleased Gallup daily tracking poll data .

The data, obtained through a Democratic source, shows Obama up from leading 64-29 in polling this spring — and on par with his 2008 performance at this point when he led 69-25 over John McCain in Gallup polling. The data is drawn from tracking polls taken between July 1 and September 10th.

Polling more accurate than the way the above was written.

Presidential Material

Glad to find out Mitt Romney doesn't know the capital of Libya, nor take the time to figure out how "time" works, but can follow the adventures of Snooki.

And "Gene Hackman" should play me in the movie?

How old do you think you are?   He's the same age as Clint Eastwood.

Not to mention, he's the most human of actors -- and you are, uh, not.

That whole "ally" thing

Naturally, people have missed the point of Obama's rather ambivalent treatment of the Egyptian government by saying they were neither an ally nor enemy -- contrasted to how he treated the government of Libya.

Well, the fact of the matter is the Libyan government immediately condemned and took action to arrest people (granted it may have "round up the usual suspects" aspect).  Egypt's government on the other hand did neither.

Until Obama spoke to the Egyptian President when the latter got wind of the interview.

The Least Interesting Man in the World

The People demand to know

When is David Brooks gonna write his next paean to what poor white people he's never met REALLY think.

Today's piece is, as usual, a tired peace of re-hashed excrement that others have already turned out in equally stupid portions -- but it will not cut it.

I've been waiting to write ... HERE COMES HONEY BOBO for weeks!!!!

Ah now I know

What really pissed off the right-wing assholes about this whole deal.

Eighteen months into the office he reupholstered the two chairs in his sitting area. (“The chairs were kind of greasy. I was starting to think, Folks are going to start talking about us.”) Then he swapped out the antique coffee table for a contemporary one, and the bust of Winston Churchill lent to Bush by Tony Blair...

Wait for it, the righties conveniently never mention this part

...for one of Martin Luther King Jr.

Quadrupling down

Apparently the Romney Campaign just lives in a different reality than even they have lived in.

Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.

“There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation,” Richard Williamson, a top Romney foreign policy adviser, said in an interview. “For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated.”

So says a man who served in an Administration which saw Pentagon itself attacked -- or perhaps he has ignored all bumper-stickers and forgotten?

Oh this will end well

A man whose eloquence will clearly inspire

Oh boy, who wouldn't look forward to four years of this?

"What a tragedy, to lose such a wonderful, wonderful, uh...wonderful people that have been so wonderful."

"The Ship will float more evenly with bigger holes"

Well thank goodness "austerity" continues to work it's magic.

Unemployment in Greece is going from bad to worse, as official figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Thursday showed a 44 percent increase in the number of jobless in this year’s second quarter compared to the same period in 2011.

Naturally, this requires more "austerity"!

The crisis engulfing Greece has deepened after two of the governing coalition parties resisted demands from Brussels for 50,000 public sector job cuts, and unions called a general strike for later this month.

Surely we need that same "budget-cutting" magic on these shores.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

This is a ridiculous question

But from Charles Pierce we get the scientific poll that answers the real important question of the day:

In case you were wondering who would REALLY end up apologizing to whom.

No shit

Like many of you, I suppose, I got an email this morning from "Beyonce Knowles" entitled "I Don't Usually Email You".

Um, no crap there Beyonce.   You may keep emailing me if you'd like, of course, and if you happen to run into Scarlet Johanssen, Halle Berry, Natalie Portman, or Eva Longoria they are free to email me as well. 

But really shouldn't we keep this just to Chatroulette.com as we have all these months?

It's hard to believe one can be too egotistical and craven to be President

After all, just running for it takes one hell of a lot of self-belief and arrogance (but only the black guy gets called out for it, amazingly).   But even amongst the rich history of narcissism and opportunism of presidential candidates and Presidents (LBJ, Nixon, Polk, etc.) Romney may take the cake:

One Republican official advising Romney's campaign on foreign policy and national security issues painted a picture of a Romney campaign more focused on ensuring Romney's evening statement made it into morning news stories than on waiting for details about what had happened.

This official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering Romney's campaign, said that as word of violence spread, campaign aides late Tuesday watched tweets coming out of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that were criticizing the filmmaker rather than condemning the attackers, and saw an opportunity to criticize Obama .

Romney, like most projectionists, is at his most hypocritical when repeating his mantra -- "America's the greatest, I'll never apologize for America" etc. Here he is ACTIVELY hoping for disaster so as to score political points for himself.

That's sort of like Thomas Dewey, FDR's opponent in the 1944 election rooting for D-Day to end badly, which criticizing the Omaha beach landings while they were occurring and encountering difficulty...which Thomas Dewey most certainly did not do.

It's plain that the No. 1 epidemic of "Concern Troll"

In the punditry isn't wars, or taxes, or social issues.

It's unions exercising their right to strike.  And it is ALWAYS against labor...absolutely every...fucking...time.

It's like every pundit turns into Richard Cohen.

Dream Scenario

For any candidate really, is to see headlines like this:

How badly did Romney botch response to Libya attack?

Holographic Reagan would have been classy

Or something.

In April 1980, President Carter ordered a raid to attempt to free the American hostages in Tehran...it failed spectacularly and tragically.

How'd Reagan react?

Reagan told a Los Angeles press conference, "This is a difficult day for all of us Americans. . . . It is time for us . . . to stand united. It is a day for quiet reflection . . . when words should be few and confined essentially to our prayers."

I am obviously not a Reagan fan, but that is how a competent politician does it.

That's about right

 (Pat Oliphant via GoComics.com)

Swallow that foot.

...earlier this evening the Times ran a story entitled “Behind Romney’s Decision to Attack Obama on Libya.” The byline was David Sanger and Ashley Parker. The big news out of the story was that Romney himself had been the driver of last night’s decision making.

I'm used to self-immolations during primary season, but now for two straight elections a major candidate has destroyed themselves through their own stupidity and delusion. Fortunately it has been the Republicans.