Insty-Althouse narcissifest opens up black hole in time-space continuum
By David Neiwert Saturday Nov 08, 2008 6:02pmThe universe is turned inside out at Bloggingheads, beginning with Ann Althouse's declaration that Glenn Reynolds is the "greatest blogger of all time," after which the implosion becomes cataclysmic.
If you want to spare yourself the brain damage, here's the transcript:
Reynolds: I really do worry about Obama. I am concerned that he is going to be hit on by a whole bunch of interest groups who are going to demand a lot, and that he's going to have a hard time saying no. Paradoxically for him, I think, having the Republicans maintain enough seats to keep a filibuster is probably a good thing, I think it will probably give him a chance to resist some of these demands from his constituencies.
But I'm a little concerned. If he had run the kind of campaign that the early part of his campaign symbolized and that his really very nice acceptance speech last night symbolized, I would have felt better about him. There was a lot of sort of thuggish behavior toward critics and stuff, and the fundraising stuff, that I didn't like, and that kind of gave me a bad feeling about him. And we'll just have to see if that translates into an Obama administration now, or not. ...
Althouse: Well you know, I got the feeling -- this idea of standing up to the Democratic Congress was really important to me, but I didn't feel like McCain would do that. I felt like McCain had always been about reaching across the aisle and wanting the Democrats to love him. And I actually felt that, you know, once the national security interests became secondary, because I think we essentially won the war -- and I voted against Kerry in '04 because I thought he was going to lose the war for us, and that was the overwhelming issue then -- so once that wasn't the main issue, and it's about standing up to the Democratic Congress on all these various economic questions, and immigration issues and things like that, I felt that Obama would actually be the stronger man, that he would be able to be his own man, he wouldn't need to make overtures to the Democrats to get them to love him, that he would need to stand for something, and that his inclination is to stand for, uh, representing the interests of the country perhaps in a way he would define with his more coherent style of thinking. Whereas McCain just struck me as completely erratic on all kinds of issues other than national security. And his admission early on that he didn't know anything about economics -- I'm still actually more angry about that than anything else anybody said, practically.
The Stupid, It Burns.
As Blue Texan observes:
What neither of these idiots seem to understand:
US voters want the Republican Party, which took a beating in this week's general elections, to embrace progressiveness and work with Democratic president-elect Barack Obama to get America back on track, a poll showed Friday.
"By nearly three to one, voters think the Republicans should support Obama's policies," Robert Borosage, co-director of CAF told reporters.
Even among Republicans, nearly half -- 45 percent -- thought their party should work with the new Democratic Party president elect and help him bring about change.
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did it take for Althouse to come up with that?
Good one Andy K, yeah, that good old kaymart wine.
I think she's on the Limbaugh diet.
I don't think she knows the meaning of the word.
Eats instead of thinking, is my guess.
the plastic cup doesn't fool anyone
The republicans want democrats to reach across the isle but won't do so themselves.
They don't want dems to reach across the aisle, they want dems to fully capitulate. Period. There is no cooperation, there is only win and lose and they MUST win and anyone and everyone else must lose.
they seem rather anxious to "reach around' each other. I suppose there is some solace to be found in virtual mutual mental masturbation. We'll just never know what that solace is.
I think they are just being contentious for contentious sake with no rhyme or reason...just bitch, moan and tie things up so that nothing is accomplished, thus accomplishing their desired of no government for anything or anyone (unless you already have more than most people in a given state combined).
As in reach around... something they seem to be good at, off camera of course.
or they are pointless and without purpose,
destined to self destruct in an orgy of self hate and loathing.
Sounds good to me, let them eat themselves for four years
If he had run the kind of campaign that the early part of his campaign symbolized and that his really very nice acceptance speech last night symbolized, I would have felt better about him. There was a lot of sort of thuggish behavior toward critics and stuff, and the fundraising stuff, that I didn't like, and that kind of gave me a bad feeling about him. And we'll just have to see if that translates into an Obama administration now, or not. ...
Thuggish behavior toward critics? You mean when he answered lies with the truth? Fundraising stuff? You mean where he received so much money from small doners over the internet that it would have been just stupid to make any sort of deal on campaign spending? As if in the same situation McCain would have done anything different? Do these people understand they the Republicans lost in the Congress and the States and the Presidential elections? I read this paragraph 3 times and I still dont understand what he was getting at.
Well, if there was any thuggish behavior emanating from one of the campaigns ...
Is still there. The groups of theocrats who want to drive America back to the days before Clarence Darrow and the Monkey Trial? they'll vote against their own self interest even if they are starving, as long as their church's tell them to defend the sperms (or whatever level they now claim to be intelligent life).
Yes folks, The Moron Factor, those wonderful folk who shoot doctors at
family planning centers or hang out in front of clinics frightening and scaring young women. The same one who feel their marriages are threatened by a couple of women who would like the same rights and protections in their relationships as straight people get.
The republicans will have to shed that group of wingnuts before they can get their party back in order. That looks like it will take a long time to accomplish.
Sad innit?
who really gives a fuck what these two think.
Reynolds speaks in a kind of Palinesque style that bores
me stuporous instantaneously.
Althouse, seems to be stuck in the "standing up to the
Democratic Congress," rut. Say it one more time.
These people are tools, nimrods, dorks, etc.
Just because you can blog does not mean you should and definitely
does not mean that your opinion matters to anyone other than you.
I actually agree, except that it does provide some brief moments of amusement to see the right that has been so wrong for so long wrap itself up in little curlicues trying to rationalize their utter repudiation to themselves.
You must continue to treat us like adults even though we pee-pee and/or go ka-ka in our pants on a regular basis.
and i laughed harder at that then i did the movie
guess what guys...we won the war
i guess that means the troops can come home tomorrow
btw, obama has already pissed off the iranians with his choice of rahm and his rather quiet statements about them stopping to fund terrorists and not making a nuke
guess he is doing a good job
"and it's about standing up to the Democratic Congress on all these various economic questions, and immigration issues and things like that,"
It doesn't matter how good the idea it must be fought against, these jerks deserve each other.
is going to pursue her libel suit against those nasty left wing blogs that quoted verbatim her remarks on her own blog.
Is there anything you don't know or remember??
(bowing at your feet)
You scare me sometimes.
As a general rule which e-mail do you think is more suitable for sending pictures to, work or private?
Work pooh poohs too much bandwith.
I just wish I could remember what I ate for breakfast this morning.
Don't eat...then you don't have to feel like you're having those blond (or senior) moments. Works for me since I can never remember either. :D
discussing some election on Neptune that I didn't hear about? Surely they can't think they're discussing what happened in America on Tuesday!
There is a tendency on C&L to beat ourselves up about these crackpots. Here's one thing we learned, they can pour out as much verbal bullshit they like. WE WON.
David, PLEASE use your spell-checker. You misspelled "Teh."
The results of that polling that "Even among Republicans, nearly half -- 45 percent -- thought their party should work with the new Democratic Party president elect and help him bring about change" needs to be hammered home - all day, all the time for the right wing punditry (and anyone else who doesn't believe it) to get it - if I were a guest on Hannity it would be the first thing out of my mouth. They are obstructionists to what the American people are trying to make clear to them - we want change! Of course "the base" doesn't care but I wonder if those seeking re-election anytime soon do? hmmm.
The Prophet Palin.
Basically, what's left of it will merge with the end-timers, the snake-handlers, militiamen, neo-Nazis and survivalists and advocate for a theocracy. When they are laughed out of the elections in 2010, they will reform as a terrorist organization of Christian suicide bombers pledged to take back America for white Christendom.
...is such an idiot. I've never heard or read anything from her that struck me as even remotely intelligent. I've watched a number of bloggingheads clips and I'm convinced that most bloggers have nothing insightful to say. Like the MSM and their pundits, the Internet is peopled largely by egos rather than intellects.
Everybody talking, and nobody listening. I agree.
Science Saturday with Johnson and the other guy is always fun, though.
Only explanation I can see that would explain their love fest.
Other than they both wallow in mediocrity. What a waste of bandwidth.
Then he surely must think it would have been "a good thing" if the Democrats had maintained enough seats to keep a fillibuster during the Bush administration years. These dumbkopfs who moan and wail about the Democrats possibly being in the very same position the Republicans were in for the last 8 years is ludicrous.
Is this yet another deleted scene from John Water's "Pink Flamingos"?
these two are obviously morans, why waste time and precious cyberspace on them?
"morons".
no, morans
is worth a thousand laughs. Thanks!
...so what?
So the yet-unwon war was the most important issue for Althouse in 2004, but the still-as-yet-unwon war is not the most important issue in 2008?
Ann Althouse being a minor twit shouldn't come as a surprise. Recall her exchange with Garance Franke-Ruta about feminism and the photo of Bill Clinton with a group of young people. If you want to get your blood up, watch it.
And, Bloggingheads is great.
How could we win a war with Iraq, when war was never declared, the causus beli was non-existant WMD's, and our guy--Ahmed Chalabi--lost the presidential election, so there's now a Shia government making nice nice with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinijad?
There is a majority of Americans, myself included, who are sick to death of the acrimony between the sides. We have come so close to just hacking each other up for real it really isn't funny. It is also true that there are large numbers of people in both parties who have much better manners than the louts that cause the acrimony.
So while the more balanced people work to put forth a better financial plan, which by definition must repair education, health care, housing, transportation, and ecology; you must understand that there are some who possess talents to come against the acrimonious and forestall them.
When you see your fellow patriots confront these people, you have GOT TO UNDERSTAND we are bridging the forge to allow you to do your work.
If we went away these people would run all over you. They only understand the hand held high in their faces saying, "NOT THIS TIME! NOT THIS COUNTRY! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE"
Nice polite people are no match for bullies. They never have been and they never will be. Somebody has got to fight the bullies.
And with the help of people like Crooks and Liars and many other very good sites that expose and argue with bullies, you patriots behind us can do your work. Because we have got your back.
It would be nice if once in a while the nice, polite, well dressed, polished people would reach out to the bully fighters and thank us. Donations to our favorite sites would achieve that admirably.
I don't know who either of these "bloggers" are, but from a first viewing and listening, and I could only make it through the first 30 seconds, i would say they're both a complete waste of bandwidth. Kind of a simultaneous ego-stroking, yes?
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