will this debt ceiling nonsense finally be the end of obama?

now will people finally realize that he wanted to cut the social safety net for the poorest, the oldest, the most vulnerable, the ones who don't give millions to campaigns all this time?  will they realize that this outcome was exactly his plan, his idea, his fucking wet dream?  probably not, because people like abl on  balloon juice are not capable of independent thought.

joe walsh: ass clown of the day

what a fucking scumbag.  this douchenozzle owes tons of money in child support.  hypocrite anyone?  asshole anyone?

granderson, what the hell?

did somebody spike his juice box between innings?

remember when dennis miller didn't suck in every single possible manner?

the pixies.  hank rollins.  carson's last night was hilarious.  miller actually tried a little; he hadn't completely given in to the easy money of brainless corporate private events and relentless ass-licking toadiness.

more matthew sweet and robert quine and sara lee on bass.  chubby american power pop, motherfrakkers.

barack obama, meet jeffery st. clair

jesus, this one's gonna leave a mark.  jeffrey st. clair pisses all over barack obama in today's counterpunch.  very nicely done; as i've said before, many of our better humans have had enough with big bad barack.

and i don't mean simpleton pumas, no-quarter-giving racist assholes, or crazy fucktard teabaggers.

matthew sweet and robert quine

this is one of the top car stereo tracks and albums of all time.  quine's playing is inspired; he seems to like these songs.

send stupid lawyers, stupid guns and stupid money

the zombie stupid, it never really dies.  today on lawyers, guns & money you get the absolute most brainless establishment democrat analysis in the history of the universe: nader cost al gore the 2000 presidential election.  i mean, i get the motivation.  their guy sucked so bad that he lost to a political novice and an absolute fucking retard.  well, of course, he didn't really lose, but he was such a pussy that he refused to meet hardball politics with like force.  regardless, he was as great a tool of the political establishment as bush, just not as much of a fucking moron but much more of a pussy.  was gore gonna appoint great supreme court justices?  has obama?

but the naive dum-dums on l,g&m really don't care about any of that.   they just want to bitch about ralph nader, a man who, oddly enough, has actually done something to make the united states a better place to live.  who voted for nader in florida?  did nader take more votes from gore than he got gore?  did he take more votes from gore than he took from bush?  it's clear that the l,g&m boys are not up to playing in the reality-based community, but instead want to be whiny little bitches complaining about the bad, bad man who had the temerity to run for president and ran a strong and smart campaign up until the polls closed, unlike their guy who ran a shitty campaign, made a thousand inexcusable mistakes--joe lieberman, joe fucking lieberman!!--and was too much of a coward to claim the election victory he actually won anyway.

fuck them.

counterpunched

counterpunch is getting up a good head of steam on obama these days.  many of these writers were never obama fluffers, but the indignation is getting yummy as the better among us start speaking out.

easiest question of the day

why didn't obama take mcconnell's clean debt limit deal?  he didn't want to.  he wants to be the bastard that destroys the new deal.

obama will be the biggest political failure ever, worse than w bush

bush destroyed the republican party.  obama will wind up fucking up the country even worse.  what a douchebag.

norway, meet tim mcveigh

right-wing christians are the most dangerous terrorists in the world and have been for decades.

wonder if alberto contador will be interviewing doctors now

he needs to get the magic back.  wonder how clean the 2011 race really was, and how paranoid the riders were of doping control in the post-lance era?

contador beats on schlecks; cadel waits and wins

good for cadel.  smart race.  he's the world's littlest australian, but he rode a good race and kicked ass when he needed to.  never let the schlecks get an insurmountable advantage.  nicely done.

pretty good first 10 minutes from ed shultz tonight

he got rolling pretty well on the 'fuck you obama' message regarding social security and medicare/medicaid cuts vs. tax cuts and wars and wall street bailouts.  good for him.  if he's not careful, he'll be on current tv soon.

olbermann was lots of fun with cenk uygur tonight

cenk made his case pretty well.  establishment media is the key.  that is exactly what it always has been.  no place for anything that's not fully on the side of the establishment.

schlecks dispatch contador

au revoir, alberto.  a schleck ended his race today.  now, will evans end the schlecks tomorrow?  who's gonna be up for a 40k tt on saturday?

panic on the streets of london...

well, washington and new york, anyway.  if a panic causes obama to go with a clean quickie debt limit increase right at the deadline and deprives him of his heart's desire to destroy social security and medicare/medicaid, then we should get a big honking cookie for mcconnell and cantor and all those other incompetent republican assholes for fucking up obama's grand plans.

the gang of six

spineless bastards, all.  warner, durbin, conrad should feel free to go fuck themselves.  chambliss and coburn are a couple of the worst americans who ever lived.  we are a diseased and hateful culture that has such men as our elected representatives.

brian ross on the o'reilly show

fuck him.  nobody who cares about basic decency would ever go on the fucking o'reilly fucking factor.  fuck o'reilly, too.

obama had a clean debt limit solution

he did not take it.  when will people understand that he wants to cut social security.  he wants to cut medicare/medicaid.  he's a multi-millionaire and a sociopath, like so many other of these assholes in washington.

if he had wanted to raise the debt limit without needing to harm older and poorer americans, that douchebag mcconnell gave him an easy way.  he did not want it.  he wants to hurt millions of americans--or at least doesn't give a flying fuck if his imbecilic policies harm or kill the most vulnerable.

the clock is ticking at current tv

i know olbermann doesn't think so, but his novelty will turn into an unwatched pumpkin if he doesn't get some more tv over there on the current tv network.  spitzer.  uygur.  there's a couple of good ones.  get them booked, even if they have non-competes they probably don't mention current tv since olbermann's contract didn't either.  sign 'em, make the announcements, and then figure out what sort of schedule you can build.  something's better than the nothing they got going now over on current tv.  the good things about spitzer and uygur have been their reluctance to join in the relentless obama fluffing of the village idiots.  olbermann should be able to do something with that...actually begin to build a counter-counter narrative.

is cenk uygur out at msnbc?

he was riding obama pretty hard, so his reluctance to join in the lawrence o'donnell-led fluffing probably put him in the doghouse.  no problem as along as keith olbermann and current tv pick him up.  he'd be fine over there, and the quicker olbermann get's some more actual content over there, the better off he is.

thomas voeckler is a tough son of a bitch

good for him.  he's riding hard and smart.  with the schlecks not ready to command the race and contador not up to his previous drug-induced dominance, it could be a cadel evans vs. thomas voeckler time trial for the win.  voeckler probably wouldn't be up to that, but if evans runs the alps as an exercise in covering the schlecks and contador, and if voeckler can hang with that style of anti-racing, well then who knows what he can do in a relatively short individual tt.

rebekah brooks needs a haircut

maybe she's gonna get one soon.

new mekons song! 'space in your face' really rocks!!

pitchfork had an announcement last month regarding the new mekons album ancient & modern along with an mp3 of the new song 'space in your face'.  the song is great!  you never know what the mekons'll come up with, but damn this sounds fucking awesome.  if they take that show out on the road with plenty of drinkin' and rockin', it will be fucking epic.

super hat tip to the mekons blog at club mekon.

angry black lady, meet susie madrak

now this is what the reality-based community looks like, susie madrak at crooks and liars.  she is a wonderful antidote to the vile and pathetic obama fluffing of lawrence o'donnell and angry black ladies.

relentless obama fluffing does have its fans

this obama fluffing idiocy from balloon juice is priceless.  the smug tone, the purposeful ignorance of history and reality, the mostly smarmy and pointless comments, the love of the the lame and soft lawrence o'donnell, it's all too precious.

let's face it: obama could kill and dismember angry black lady's family, then eat them while she watched, and she would still refuse to believe that her beloved barack obama was a murderous, psychotic cannibal.

lawrence o'donnell is a relentless obama fluffer

he was soooo smug about obama's genius and mcconnell's cowardice and capitulation, but what a tool he turned out to be.

it should have been obvious to everyone who was not busy deep-throating obama that deep cuts and pain for the little people were in the plans all along.  obama wants to be the man who cuts social security and medicare/medicaid.  he's a worse democratic president than clinton.  that's saying something.

cowboys and aliens

cowboys and aliens should have been the best movie ever made.

james bond, han solo, that guy from those movies, the chick from that house show, directed by iron man's valet and with music by kitchens of distinction i would guess.

probably not gonna work out that way, though.  pg-13 for one.  that's a promise of shit.

fwiw, starship troopers should have been the best movie ever made, too.

did mitch mcconnell just save us from barack obama?

it is well understood that mitch mcconnell is a fucking moron, but he may have just saved america from barack obama's desire to destroy social security and medicare/medicaid.  holy shit.

debt ceiling is an excuse to cut social security and medicare/medicaid

these negotiations didn't ever happen before.  there's no need for them now, except that obama wants an excuse to address entitlements.   why the more observant of the democrats in congress don't tell him to fuck himself is a mystery.  the new deal was their baby and they're letting obama drown it for grover norquist.

the debt ceiling negotiations are unnecessary

the 'negotiations' are an excuse for the repubs and dems to work together to cut social security and medicare/medicaid.

there were no 'negotiations' when that fuckhead bush was president.

now that we have a democratic president keen on cutting social programs, it's the perfect storm.  those assholes in both parties get to put on a retarded puppet show and pretend the debt and deficit is a huge new problem while they chase their shared goal of destroying the social safety net born in the new deal.

nice job, obama.

pavement must pay for the weezer ad on the tour de france telecast

pavement, they who must never be forgiven for weezer, should be made to pay in a most terrible manner for the izod ads on the tour de france broadcast on versus.  the song sucks, the ad is pinnacle of douchebaggery and fuck weezer and rivers' stupid glasses.

also too: joe jackson

newer:

wiser:

the laughs from joe jackson and the band are priceless.  that's what a classic is like 25 years later.  we should all be so lucky.

also, too: fuck you, sandy

see the nice boys, dancing in pairs

joe jackson vs. elvis costello?

joe jackson in a knockout.    this is a truly astounding pop song, one of my all-time faves.

fuck 'alison', whoever the hell she was.

good day for jeter

too bad kay will have the call that yes & the yankees use for the next 40 or so years.

obama has a huge well of mindless support

reading some of the democratic blogs is an amazing experience.  i think the reflexive racist assholes like no quarter or the confluence are pretty transparent and harmless.  puma idiots who would otherwise be rock-ribbed establishment center-right mainstream democrats except that obama had the temerity to be a black center-right wall street tool.  well, than can't have that cuz they hates them the negro, so bye-bye barack.

what's more amazing are the almost mindlessly snarky fools like balloon juice.  it's like they have never ever ever heard of a trial balloon, and of course that wonderful wonderful barack obama would never be a gutless weasel or come out and enthusiastically support some pretty hard right wing  positions like cutting social security or medicaid or an individual health insurance mandate.

fuck you, hippies and your freakouts.  obama's cool.  he'd never turn out to be a right wing hack.

the stains on the heartland can never be removed

a little the the for michele bachmann and barack obama.

spitzer fired; olbermann should scoop him up

even the liberal cnn fired eliot spitzer!  hard to believe that the network who employs the idiotic fox and friends refugee 'terrorist fist jab' e.d. hill could not keep somewhat liberal and not totally idiotic eliot spitzer on the air.  what a shock!

well, keith olbermann should scoop him up for a show on the current tv network.  spitzer and gore probably have some funny shit to talk about.

she's so young

the pursuit of happiness.

classic canadian power pop, you motherfrakkers!

is obama going to destroy social security over this bullshit debt ceiling?

of course he is.

it was the plan all along.  he wants to be the ultimate centrist conciliator douchebag, and he will destroy social security and the the lives of millions of americans with his grand bargain with these horrible asshole republicans in order to win that execrable distinction. 

why isn't the president using his airtime and stupid twitter event to push for higher social security benefits with a lower eligibility age and greater eligibility for medicare?  not because it would be politically problematic given the current political climate.  fuck no, he's not pushing for anything to ameliorate the vast redistribution of wealth upwards in this country over the past 40 years because he doesn't give a flying fuck about anybody except his ruling-class masters and those in other income classes dumb enough to vote for him.

he wants to be president, and he will do whatever his overlords want while lying just well-enough to the american people in public in order to keep enough of the dimmer democratic voters on the reservation.  after that it's business as usual: all-out class warfare against 85% of the population with government serving only the most wealthy.

john stossel vs. art laffer

it was a clash of the titanic mental midgets on fox news at different times this afternoon.  who's the bigger asshole: john stossel or art laffer?  i don't think you can choose between them.  they are both either so fucking ignorant or such colossal liars that either one is a first-division candidate for biggest fuckhead ever on tee vee.

nancy grace is an idiot

she is one scary and stupid bitch.

when geraldo rivera sounds like the voice of reason, you know you are truly in a fucked up world.

falling skies jumps the alien shark without grace

falling skies got even dumber last night.  the saying-grace scene was just about the most vile and inane thing i've seen on tee vee.  i know that's a tough call, and there a gazillion things tied for first in a dumbest-thing-ever-on-tv contest, but fucking ay.  if any aliens out there ever figger out how to cross the distance between stars and decide to invade our planet, that will skull fuck jesus and the rest of the super-duper friends invisible sky heroes to death right then and there.  anybody attempting to say grace like that moron did in the show last night probably would have been skull fucked as well. 

let's be clear: you can't have aliens and jeebus.  as soon as we get invaded by space aliens, we finally have the last proof that religion is for idiots.

dave alvin 4th of july

this is the original, awesome dave alvin country version of the song, with an original video from way back when.  dave alvin, american treasure.  i'm partial to the rockin' x version, too.

start making that dave alvin movie starring timothy olyphant while john doe is still alive to play john doe in it!

i'm eagerly awaiting the dave alvin movie starring timothy olyphant

as dave alvin.  gonna be freeking awesome.  so somebody get right on that please.

hey baby, it's the fourth of july