At some point, we may have to question their sanity.

Appropriate that it follows the enema thread.

They understand that the right is heavily armed, don't they? Push a little too far and they may get more than they bargained for.
I'm not saying it will be ok, just that it could easily happen.

this could get reallyreally fugly...

re: #2 rawmuse

I'll be honest, I'm not seeing much difference between the two.

I prefer Julio.
I prefer Enrique.
I prefer spelling Iglesias with an I.

Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.

re: #5 AZfederalist

I'll be honest, I'm not seeing much difference between the two.

He needs a mental enema-stat.

re: #7 Hard Right

Scratch a liberal, find a fascist totalitarian.

/modified it for ya

re: #9 AZfederalist

/modified it for ya

Same thing, less goose stepping. :)

It's all esoteric and ethereal to them, in the meantime, Democrats have blood on their hands due to their incompetence to act on the energy issue. People are starving to death. Democrats dither. Terrorists plot. Liberals cower and threaten INDICTMENTS.

Are you certain that Matthew Iglesias is a policy expert?

I thought he was a singer (admitedly with a couple of hit tunes); this would explain his opinions.

re: #8 Hard Right

The conundrum will be into which orifice it should be placed.

re: #11 DistantThunder

It's all esoteric and ethereal to them, in the meantime, Democrats have blood on their hands due to their incompetence to act on the energy issue. People are starving to death. Democrats dither. Terrorists plot. Liberals cower and threaten INDICTMENTS.

Sometimes I call the left criminally insane for all the suffering they bring upon others.

What you mean, "President" Obama?

methinks perhaps the Lizards are preoccupied with enemas this evening...

Hey Yglesias getta life.

Man these guys are gonna be in a mean depression come November when McCain wins it.

and to be fair,nurses..

Liberal Fascism.

I Gotta get that book.

re: #16 joecitizen

methinks perhaps the Lizards are preoccupied with enemas this evening...

thats funny but no..

re: #15 Ojoe

What you mean, "President" Obama?

I was on Michelle Malkin's site and some of lefties (which are increasing in numbers) on her site think the race is over and Obama has won.
I like to think they are wrong. Their lamentations are music for my soul.

re: #14 Hard Right

Sometimes I call the left criminally insane for all the suffering they bring upon others.

Democrat schools abuse children
Democrat neighborhoods fester criminals.
Democrat governments ooze incompetence and corruption
Democrat administration will give us 911 PLUS

And, to top it off, they are filthy racists. You practically need a hazmat suit to discuss politics with them.

Meanwhile, I guess I hope President Obama uses his powers responsibly, but on some level I’m sort of rooting for massive abuses so the right can get what they’ve been asking for.

There is something dark and malignant in the heart and soul of this remark by Yglesias.

What I'm "asking for", Mathew, is for you and all your poseur suburban socialist pals to become adults for the first time in your pathetic lives. Will I be getting what I'm asking for? I won't hold my breath.

How does that saying go, "I'm rubber, you're glue..."?

re: #23 DistantThunder

Democrat schools abuse children
(mentally and sexually)

Democrat neighborhoods fester criminals.
(they are just lashing out against a racist white society-sarc!)

Democrat governments ooze incompetence and corruption
(because they are)

Democrat administration will give us 911 PLUS
(and then blame it on the Reps)

And, to top it off, they are filthy racists. You practically need a hazmat suit to discuss politics with them.

Yes, they are extremly occupied with race considering they say they aren't.

Another great Matthew Yglesias quote:

"And if we made gasoline more expensive through, say, higher gas taxes or a carbon tax then not only would we secure the public health, congestion, and environmental benefits of expensive gas but the government would have a good source of revenue with which to mitigate some of the consumer pain."

HT: Ace - "Yglesias took the day off from splitting atoms... with his mind to weigh in on economics"

re: #25 cicero05

What I'm "asking for", Mathew, is for you and all your poseur suburban socialist pals to become adults for the first time in your pathetic lives. Will I be getting what I'm asking for? I won't hold my breath.

Yup that will happen....right after monkeys fly out of their butts.

Would that be a monkey enema?
/

re: #10 Hard Right

Same thing, less goose stepping. :)

And no leather fetish either.

?

re: #28 Yankee Division Son

Another great Matthew Yglesias quote:

HT: Ace - "Yglesias took the day off from splitting atoms... with his mind to weigh in on economics"

He is a prime example of the victory of fantasy over reality.

Looking to turn America into Mexico. Wonderful. Canada next? Leprosy of Politics.

Im getting the new Battlefield game in a few days. I might just turn off the news, play the thing until election day. Dont think I can put up with this dangerous pap for the rest of the year.

re: #23 DistantThunder

Democrat schools abuse children
Democrat neighborhoods fester criminals.
Democrat governments ooze incompetence and corruption
Democrat administration will give us 911 PLUS

I got to experience a vision of the socialist health care system last week. Here in Tucson, we have to have an emissions inspection performed at a state-run inspection station before we can get our plates renewed. I spent 30 minutes in line (forgot it was mid-month and last-minute folks were getting their cars taken care of). They had 3 lanes open, and only 3 lanes despite the line. The people who processed me were competent (except that the gas cap check lady broke the attachment of my captured cap and didn't tell me) and polite, but abrupt and exhibited no evidence of humanity during our interaction. Overall, the term "processed me" is the best description of this transaction, unlike doing business at a private commercial business where you are greeted with a smile and all of the little things that are evidence of human interaction. I drove away from this thinking that this will be what universal health care will be like: peremptory, "go there", "stand there", "don't touch that while we work on it", "you're done, move on". No smiles or other evidence of humanity as it will slow the processing of the other proles waiting for their turn at the limited resources and time available. Oh, and if they make a mistake, don't expect any information or notification.

/no thanks.

re: #31 pat

?

Jackboots, cavalry boots, Sam Brown belts, and leather trench coats for the secret police.

re: #33 pat

Looking to turn America into Mexico. Wonderful. Canada next? Leprosy of Politics.

It's for the good of the planet.

Hey loony leftists, ever hear the saying: "When America sneezes, the world catches cold"?
When you bring America down, the world will suffer. That's what you want and we know it. Gives you a chance to grab more power.

Payback, Justice, Karma

This really should be the end thread. An important subject, given that Obama may be an Eloquent Idiot. (TM Ted Kennedy)

re: #35 AZfederalist

I got to experience a vision of the socialist health care system last week. Here in Tucson, we have to have an emissions inspection performed at a state-run inspection station before we can get our plates renewed. I spent 30 minutes in line (forgot it was mid-month and last-minute folks were getting their cars taken care of). They had 3 lanes open, and only 3 lanes despite the line. The people who processed me were competent (except that the gas cap check lady broke the attachment of my captured cap and didn't tell me) and polite, but abrupt and exhibited no evidence of humanity during our interaction. Overall, the term "processed me" is the best description of this transaction, unlike doing business at a private commercial business where you are greeted with a smile and all of the little things that are evidence of human interaction. I drove away from this thinking that this will be what universal health care will be like: peremptory, "go there", "stand there", "don't touch that while we work on it", "you're done, move on". No smiles or other evidence of humanity as it will slow the processing of the other proles waiting for their turn at the limited resources and time available. Oh, and if they make a mistake, don't expect any information or notification.

/no thanks.

Interesting that you mention this because that is how it is in NJ inspection stations. Except we went last week, and no line. We wondered if it was a holiday. Usually wait time are posted, but this time - none. We drove right up, people were very polite and professional. While we waited in the wait area we saw a sign that revealed that the inspection stations had been privatized. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....then it all made sense.

We have to 'smog' our cars here in California as well. Watta scam. Poor people with older cars pay through the nose. And of course it brings in Billion$ for the state. I'm almost looking forward to electric cars just so I can watch the pinheads at the capitol go crazy trying to make up the loss to the treasury.

re: #41 Mr. E. Train

We have to 'smog' our cars here in California as well. Watta scam. Poor people with older cars pay through the nose. And of course it brings in Billion$ for the state. I'm almost looking forward to electric cars just so I can watch the pinheads at the capitol go crazy trying to make up the loss to the treasury.

Two words: Battery Inspection.

re: #35 AZfederalist

I got to experience a vision of the socialist health care system last week. Here in Tucson, we have to have an emissions inspection performed at a state-run inspection station before we can get our plates renewed. I spent 30 minutes in line (forgot it was mid-month and last-minute folks were getting their cars taken care of). They had 3 lanes open, and only 3 lanes despite the line. The people who processed me were competent (except that the gas cap check lady broke the attachment of my captured cap and didn't tell me) and polite, but abrupt and exhibited no evidence of humanity during our interaction. Overall, the term "processed me" is the best description of this transaction, unlike doing business at a private commercial business where you are greeted with a smile and all of the little things that are evidence of human interaction. I drove away from this thinking that this will be what universal health care will be like: peremptory, "go there", "stand there", "don't touch that while we work on it", "you're done, move on". No smiles or other evidence of humanity as it will slow the processing of the other proles waiting for their turn at the limited resources and time available. Oh, and if they make a mistake, don't expect any information or notification.

/no thanks.

I always thought they looked like they wanted their souls back. That's how unhappy they look.

re: #22 Hard Right

Some of their optimism comes from 'polls', but a secret ballot is quite different from answering a question put to you by another live person.

re: #44 Ojoe

Some of their optimism comes from 'polls', but a secret ballot is quite different from answering a question put to you by another live person.

Well, we know they only see what they want to. Polls that show otherwise are ignored.
Me, I don't believe polls at all.

Amassing power to perform massive abuse upon one's labeled enemies is a sure sign of a mental illness. In the Soviet Union it was called Stalin.

re: #47 ploome hineni

One other thing: The motivations are different. Customers waiting in line are not a problem -- if they come up a penny short or screw up a charge -- That is death to them. So, they move deliberately and slowly to avoid the chance of making a mistake. The customers? Their time is free and if they wait 5 or 45 minutes matters not a whit to the worker -- the fear of coming up short, that fills their lives with dread.

/at least at the post offices we have to use.

re: #48 AZfederalist

One other thing: The motivations are different. Customers waiting in line are not a problem -- if they come up a penny short or screw up a charge -- That is death to them. So, they move deliberately and slowly to avoid the chance of making a mistake. The customers? Their time is free and if they wait 5 or 45 minutes matters not a whit to the worker -- the fear of coming up short, that fills their lives with dread.

/at least at the post offices we have to use.

That I would believe.

re: #28 Yankee Division Son

Another great Matthew Yglesias quote:

HT: Ace - "Yglesias took the day off from splitting atoms... with his mind to weigh in on economics"

I made a post about Hitler and the Romantic nihilist impulse yesterday. I still stand by the notion that a real fascist is a man who is ultimately happy to Watch It All Burn.

A person who wants to see others suffer to vindicate his own mad ideas about the way the world should be, and yet he likely calls himself "Progressive". Think about that for a bit.

re: #50 Pawn of the Oppressor

I made a post about Hitler and the Romantic nihilist impulse yesterday. I still stand by the notion that a real fascist is a man who is ultimately happy to Watch It All Burn.

A person who wants to see others suffer to vindicate his own mad ideas about the way the world should be, and yet he likely calls himself "Progressive". Think about that for a bit.

I don't call them progessives. I have many names for them....few are nice. ;)

I wonder if Yglesias has bought his prayer rug and started growing out his beard yet. Otherwise, he will be in for some massive abuse if Obama is elected.

re: #51 Hard Right

I don't call them progessives. I have many names for them....few are nice. ;)

I said "f-ck you" at the screen when I read what he said today. I think there was a round-up of Dem reactions to the telecom bill immunity deal at either WSJ or one of the blogs in the spinoff links, and when I got to this guy Iglesiwhatever's little bit about wishing non-leftists ill, that's precisely what I said, out loud, to my monitor. It was knee-jerk, and mean, but I stand by it.

I hope you can see this, Matthew, you ignorant slut, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.

.|..

I'll be waiting here if you want to come get a piece of me... But I know you won't, because you're a pathetic coward.

re: #52 Purple Prose

I wonder if Yglesias has bought his prayer rug and started growing out his beard yet. Otherwise, he will be in for some massive abuse if Obama is elected.

He will gladly wear a burka and behave as one of their women.

Obama Uber Alles?

re: #49 Hard Right

That I would believe.

Wanna freak 'em out?

Shop anywhere retail. Say your check-out amount is $12.72. Give the checker three 5's and 2 pennies.

Watch 'em panic!

re: #56 LeePro

Wanna freak 'em out?

Shop anywhere retail. Say your check-out amount is $12.72. Give the checker three 5's and 2 pennies.

Watch 'em panic!

Brought to you by the public school system.

Your tax dollars at work completely wasted.

Post Office. Customer Hell.

re: #56 LeePro

Shop anywhere retail. Say your check-out amount is $12.72. Give the checker three 5's and 2 pennies.

Watch 'em panic!

Nah. Dey jus type in wha you give dem an the 'puter will tell'em wha da change spoda be.

Your tax dollars at work courtesy of Intel.

re: #59 Drill_Thrawl

Nah. Dey jus type in wha you give dem an the 'puter will tell'em wha da change spoda be.

Your tax dollars at work courtesy of Intel.

Fo Shizzle.

Meanwhile, I guess I hope President Obama uses his powers responsibly, but on some level I’m sort of rooting for massive abuses so the right can get what they’ve been asking for.

Note he employed 'President' here, and Obama has NOT been elected yet!

And how many times have MSM addressed President Bush just simply as George Bush or just Bush?

Very seldom have I noticed President Bush being addressed properly as President Bush....

It is as if they are still not recognizing his being elected fair and square, the second time he got BOTH the popular votes and the electoral votes!

Morons are plenty. And this jerk writes for Atlantic Monthly? I am disappointed at Atlantic Monthly. The same publication that has Christopher Hitchens and Robert Kaplan on its authors' list. Creepy!

From an American perspective, you are whatever you want to be. If you want to claim to be Arabic, black, believer in human sacrifices or whatever, it will be accepted because that's what you want to be labeled as. So if BHO claims to be Christian it will be accepted.

From a Muslim/Islamic perspective, things are not so easy.

Who is a muslim?

1- Someone who recites the shahada.

Quote:

"Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

[Link: select.nytimes.com...]

The Islamic call to prayer is the sahada and by reciting it, muslims would consider him a muslim. BTW, how would he know the sahada in Arabic unless he studied in koranic school in Indonesia and only muslims can take those koranic classes in Indonesian schools? How come the website says he has "never" been a muslim? But I digress.

2- Someone who's father was muslim (even if only nominally).

Check. for Obama. Both his biological and adoptive were muslim (although nominal).

BHO has caused his own problems by being either ignorant or misleading about his Islamic heritage. What he should do is admit that under an Islamic view of the world, he would be consider a muslim. Then say that although he acknowledges that such perspective exists, he rejects it and defend the rights of all human beings to determine their own beliefs irrespective of their heritage. A good show in support of apostates would go a long way in gaining admiration of human right advocates in Muslim countries. Something along the lines of JFK in Berlin but applied in defense of apostates in the Muslim world who face unbelievable odds against them: "I am also an apotate" would go a long way to eliminate the "smear".

re: #41 Mr. E. Train

We have to 'smog' our cars here in California as well. Watta scam. Poor people with older cars pay through the nose. And of course it brings in Billion$ for the state. I'm almost looking forward to electric cars just so I can watch the pinheads at the capitol go crazy trying to make up the loss to the treasury.

But as DistantThunder posted about New Jersey, the inspection stations in California are private, and you don't get the enema (giggle) that you get at the CA Department of Motor Vehicles.

As for the rest of what you wrote, I agree. With the state budget shortfall, I'm sure we'll be seeing more "revenue enhancement."

re: #64 CapitalistTool

But as DistantThunder posted about New Jersey, the inspection stations in California are private, and you don't get the enema (giggle) that you get at the CA Department of Motor Vehicles.

As for the rest of what you wrote, I agree. With the state budget shortfall, I'm sure we'll be seeing more "revenue enhancement."

Either way, our exhaust port is involved.

re: #63 nacazo

Obama's presidency will be a disaster of enormous proportions

I don't seriously think we have to worry about Obama.
No Democrat has ever gone into June without an edge among women and won. Even the most twisted polls are showing McCain neck and neck for women's votes, and men reliably vote Republican.

Absent some really inspired dirty tricks, Obama is probably already toast. Go to your polling place and pull the lever for McCain- it's important, but mostly because you'll get to be part of a landslide victory. Better yet, you'll get to tell the grandkids how you were there when we started taking our country back from whiners, losers, and leftover remnants of failed political systems.

I foresee a November of Obama sitting in the ashcan of history, right next to his Weatherman friends and all their terror-sympathizing buddies. I just hope those chunks of the Berlin Wall under them have some pokey bits sticking up.

Dave

re: #53 Pawn of the Oppressor
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I never thought I'd find anything worth voting for in John McCain.

That was until I got better acquainted with Barack Obama's supporters.

Shit - anyone other than him. Not because of Obama particularly - just to wipe the smug grim off his devotees faces.

re: #46 Idle Drifter

Amassing power to perform massive abuse upon one's labeled enemies is a sure sign of a mental illness. In the Soviet Union it was called Stalin.

It's also a sure sign of a dictatorship. Note how many liberals salivate over the idea of prosecuting Bush after he steps down from office. A changing of the guard without bloodshed or recrimination is one of the genius elements of the liberal democracy. If you want to see what taking revenge on your political enemies looks like, just take a look at most any African country. That is our fate if liberals get their wish.

I hope President Obama uses his powers responsibly

I must have fallen through a wormhole in the Space-Time continuum.
I could have sworn that we are still in June and that the election
for President isn't until November. So Obama won ? God help you all.

No. 41:

Re: "I'm almost looking forward to electric cars just so I can watch the pinheads at the capitol go crazy trying to make up the loss to the treasury."

Pay-per-mile charges, uploaded directly to the state DOT from your car's black box. You get an e-mail on the first of the month telling you to pay up.

I guess I hope President Obama uses his powers responsibly,

Not quite sure about that “uses his powers responsibly” thing, are we?
This guy has just shown how communism always finds its way to tyranny.
Many people who defend communism will try to tell me that it has only failed because the people (Stalin, Mao, Lenin) just didn't do it right. I try to point out to that because communism cannot allow decent the default is always tyranny. I usually have to make this point after said commie had praised the legacies of Stalin, Mao, or Lenin

oh sorry I ment Dissent, silly me.

But if you think about it communism doesn't like decent ether,

" ... so we shouldn’t be surprised that [Matthew Yglesias] turns out to be a little Hitler himself."

We already know the modern left (and liberal) has its roots in fascism. The notion they somehow stand for "progressive" policies has been shown to be the fraud it always was. Today, where is most anti-Semitism concentrated? In the left. Take a look at DailyKOS, HuffPo, and any of the liberal blogs. They've simply found some new terms, like "Zionism", behind which to mask their hatred. And they hate the right with an equally murderous passion, now.

All the modern left has done is make Orwell an even greater prophet.

So, what is the solution?

re: #20 Mr. E. Train

Liberal Fascism.

I Gotta get that book.

Good luck finding it. All the leftwing bookstores wont set it out. It touches a nerve or something.

It is NOT about Obama Vs McCain. It IS about who will stop Pelosie and Reid.

What I fear is that the inexperienced Obama will be a rubber stamp for Pelosie and Reid's excessivly liberal politics and policies.

"Policy Expert" seems to be a very loosely applied credential today, if this character is so referenced.

Mao and Stalin were also "policy experts" insofar as their bizarre economic and social experiments with their societies led to millions of deaths. Almost forgot, Lenin too.

Mattie should form his own little commune and put his theories into practice. He could call it "Schmucktown".

re: #78 donbmcd

It is NOT about Obama Vs McCain. It IS about who will stop Pelosie and Reid.

What I fear is that the inexperienced Obama will be a rubber stamp for Pelosie and Reid's excessivly liberal politics and policies.

A pompous fool rubber-stamping two blithering idiots. George Soros must be salivating.

re: #69 uptight

I never thought I'd find anything worth voting for in John McCain.

That was until I got better acquainted with Barack Obama's supporters.

Shit - anyone other than him. Not because of Obama particularly - just to wipe the smug grim off his devotees faces.

Actually, it was the "Winnie the Pooh" foreign policy idea that made me a McCain voter.

Not necessarily a McCain supporter, mind you, as he's as much "Big Government" as any Democrat, but an Obama Presidency would be a disaster of Carter-esque proportions.

As the great Ronald Reagan once said...

If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.

There just aren't very many liberals in the all-volunteer army. Or among law-abiding gun owners...

More proof leftards are rally sick and demented.

Little Matthew sounds like your typical whining, foot stomping little shit as found on Daily Kos. Only they would hope for more bad to enhance their feelings of revenge.

#67 dave fitz 6/21/08 1:05:24 am

I'm with you. I don't see an Obama presidency ever happening. Just remember last election about this time "President Kerry" was a foregone conclusion in the MSM. At the time of the Donk convention (featuring Mikey Moore) the donks were declaring victory already. All they had to do was to show up we were told. The donks pulled out all the stops, and Kerry was still beaten decisively.

We can look forward to MSM articles about how racist America really is and how America wasn't ready for a black president ad nauseum in the immediate aftermath of the election. Its a win/win situation for the libz because if they lose, which they will, they have their next 4 years of bitching pre-positioned. The same thing would have held true if Hillary had prevailed.

However, we won't here how Obama was rejected because of his leftism.