Malkin on Cavuto: 'Obstructionism is the new responsibility'
By David Neiwert Saturday Jan 24, 2009 9:30am
Michelle Malkin and Neil Cavuto seem to have trouble understanding that Robert Reich's stated (and eminently reasonable) desire to ensure that the jobs stimulus doesn't just primarily affect white males is not the same thing as suggesting that "white male construction workers need not apply". It simply means that more nonwhite/nonmale workers should be included.
It's a typical Malkin gambit, twisting sound progressive arguments into neat little reverse-racist strawmen. But Malkin, as we've come to expect, ultimately goes careering over a cliff by the end of the segment, echoing Rush Limbaugh's defiant call to obstructionism:
Malkin: [...] I think that acting like a lemming in Washington is not a demonstration of leadership. And if you want to call that obstructionism, fine. Let's do our own redefining. Obstructionism is the new responsibility, and we need more people like that in Washington to stand in the way, and say, 'What the hell are you doing? Are you crazy?'
And I've said before that this stimulus amounts to generational theft. Um, and I think that is the definition of leadership in Washington. Standing up and making sure that this money is not going to be stolen from the pockets of our children and our grandchildren.
Memo to Malkin: As Obama pointedly noted yesterday, he won. You and yours lost. You not only lost, you were thoroughly repudiated.
In other words, you don't get to do the "leadership" thing anymore. You had your turn, screwed it up like a monkey in a nuclear plant, and now you get to go sit back and let us have our turn. Sure, you can throw hissies and pout and call us socialists. It's what we've come to expect. It's as predictable as night and day -- and as relevant as the Jurassic Period.
I remember when the roles were reversed, particularly after 9/11. Democrats had no leadership role to speak of. In much of his first term, they generally threw their weight behind Bush and his programs in the spirit of national unity. Even the Bush tax cuts passed with some Democratic support. People like myself opposed him, and while I fully expected him to fail -- because his policies were predictably doomed to failure -- I did not wish for it or hope for it. Indeed, I fought his re-election precisely because I saw it coming and understood the consequences. And I was hardly alone.
But somehow, I am not surprised that when the shoe is on the other foot, ideology still trumps all for the Malkins of the world. They'd rather see the nation go up in flames than ever admit that Conservatives were wrong.
Of course, it's clear that Obama and the Democrats will welcome conservative input and ideas, because frankly sometimes they are right. If conservatives want to help get the nation out of this mess, they need to willing and able to offer constructive criticism as the loyal opposition ought. But they won't be calling the shots or setting the agenda, and they won't be leading.
Most likely, if they follow the thinking of their punditocracy, they'll just be obstructing. Which, you know, is pretty much what we've come to expect. It's also what dooms them to a downward spiral into complete irrelevance.
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looks like Cavuto passed gas, and Malkin got a big whiff...I thought she was banished to the far right wingnut dustbin of history. It's back? Can't something like that be deported for treason?
...the other way around, with Cavuto asking Malkin to light a match.
It's laughable that the conservatives are scolding the Democrats for playing like lemmings. Weren't liberals criticized for not following the Bush administration, even being called unAmerican for doing so? Now they're telling us not to follow the new administration and even hoping that it fails?
Dammit, 'Pubs! Dammit, Fox pundits! Stop flip-flopping!
I'm worried about this and not able to even joke about it today. Over the past two days I have had people I don't even know say negative things to me about Obama - including wishing him dead. These were the people from the very financial class that Bush has totally destroyed! The people who have no health care! I blame the likes of Fox news and Rush Limbaugh for this. They are fomenting hate in the stupid ignorant faction of our population. It's rather frightening. How could anybody want the new president and congress to fail at cleaning up the mess we are in??? It boggles the mind.
If something happens to Obama or one member of that family America will regret it.
(gri)malkin looks like she's trying to pass a jalapeno tinged dingleberry.
It burns!
malkin looks like she's doing a racial parody of herself.
It is rather reminicent of hissy-faced "yellow peril," of the Henry Brandon days (who starred in the serial The Drums of Fu Manchu).
I know what you're talking about. Would have been classic if she held her hissy face all the way through the segment. Might have given her some credibility.
http://www.otrcat.com/z/terry.jpg
There is no point ever discussing whether a given tactic is right or wrong in itself. Despite the fact when arguing about it that is exactly what these people do. Bottom line, Repubs are always right, so any tactic they pursue is right. Dems are always wrong so any tactic they pursue is wrong. Even if its the same tactic.
a troll poster attacking yourself and Anney on another thread. Talk about wanting to kill people cuz the government says so. Yikes.
Gave me the creeps.
Just like children who ALWAYS think they are right, despite the facts staring at them in the face, they are completely unable to take any other view other then their own.
Well guess what, the adults are in charge now. You can go back to your sandbox now.
For all the kumbaya people out there, this is what you get. If you let evil deeds go unpunished, they will just keep happening.
If Obama let's all the bushies off scott free, the unethical behavior of the bush administration will just continue or just wait for its next opportunity to fester.
.........PROSECUTE GAWDDAMIT..............
I don't think prosecuting the Bush admin will stop stupid loudmouths from being stupid loudmouths. However I'm with you a 100% that it could stop the political heirs of the Bush presidency from trying something like it again in the future, just as members of the Bush admin were unpunished heirs of the Regan presidency.
I thought Regan was the name of the possessed girl in The Exorcist.
(gri)malkin looks like she's suffering the same social embarrassment.
Jesse shouldn't send the Mrs. out there like this to overreach.
It's so funny to hear Republicans talk about not wasting money but for 8 years all ok'd Bush/Cheney's request without one questioned ask.
Now that we're in a recession they have all these ideas that just ceme to them on election night. Even John Boehner of Ohio would rather the people of his State starve to death then allow Obama to help them. Mitch McConnell went along with Bush for the bailout for Wall Street but refuses to give a bailout to the people. Eric Cantor still thinks things are fine for other Americans and is willing to open a Pottersville just to make sure slave workers don't live in his rich area. Bush/Cheney are gone and McCain/Palin lost as the Republicans need to move on and get over it.
The double standard about spending money is one of the main reasons the right in this country has no teeth right now. Nothing they say about fiscal responsibility can be taken without laughing out loud. The liberal agenda can be pursued without a reasonable alternative. Obama should push it hard while this window is open, because it won't be open forever.
Enjoy the liberal spring.
She's also reemploying the myth of the lemmings who follow each other to leap to their deaths. What others does she still believe is true, and should that convince us to listen to her?
Additionally lemmings do tend to fall to their deaths due to the ocassional crumbling cliff which, metaphorically speaking, could be applied to our infrastructure.
It presupposes Obama's leadership MUST end in failure.
Interesting point. But were we old anti-booshers presupposing the failure of his leadership or his policies?
Now that we've been proven right about his policies it's speculative on Obama's.
The worst is when they speculate we'll be attacked, like they're actively encouraging terrorists to attack us, so they can be proven "right."
there will be other attacks, or a big attack again. There is no way around that. So, once again, these wingnuts would be partially correct, not knowing that they caused it.
Bushco and its shadow gov. friends were/are the terrorists. With so much evidence available, how can anyone still doubt it?
They had so much to gain and so little to lose from 9/11. I don't know the real story, but anyone who believes the official "explanation" and the Hollywood versions are delusional. Hopefully, some more of the truth will start to come out.
about boosh back in '99 and 2000, I had a bad feeling about him. The whole father/son oedipal thing was very troubling. But I had no idea how unbelievably HORRIBLE he would turn out to be. A heretofore unmatched combination arrogance, ignorance, incompetence, and insecurity. I didn't want him to fail; but given his track record of being a lifelong fuckup at his every endeavor, I had no confidence that given the chance, he would prove to be no better than he had already shown. Given his ideology, insecurity, and the people he surrounded himself with, the results were sadly predictable.
Quite the opposite maybe. Though of course many, including me, were put off by the blatant illegitimacy of his election, I think we all hoped for the best, but we got the worst.
Where as here you have Malkin and Rushbo, saying actively or by inference that Obama must fail or they want Obama to fail, even before he's really done anything, merely because they disagree with is ideology.
for that word from the North American Lemming Anti-Defamation League.
Best of luck to you as you carry on your brave, though lonely, crusade.
Worthless mind numbing idiots. If it weren't for people like this we wouldn't be in this financial situation to begin with.
Maybe the democrats should change the rules to remove the filibuster.........How can they be allowed on TV, come on man, dam. Really don't know what to say, that girl is crap actually the bottom of the barrel when it comes to fascist moron voices of the day.
Just for Michelle Malkin and other reichwing propagandists.
Speaking of which...
Q: Why did George Bush sit behind Barack Obama at the inauguration?
A: All them folks got shoes, man!
Malkin or Coulter, hard to say who's got a higher entertainment value.
The mixture of fascination and disgust that is kind of like watching scat videos..........ummm, so I've been told.
Are you talking fecalphilia scat or Mel Torme?
There was an article in the New Times of Phoenix a couple of years ago in regards to an annual "picnic" by white supremacist groups here in Arizona. The reporter was allowed into the event so as the group could show their softer side (especially with all the government agents swarming around). The reporter noted that a 16 year old Hispanic male walked up to the entrance and boldly (plus in all honesty) stated, "I support white power and would like to join up".
This is how Michell Malkin comes off. She hates the fact that she is of mixed race and supports "white power", even if it means that she will never truly be accepted by that "white power", just tolerated as a useful mouthpiece.
Nobody with any brains or any slight bit of intelligence listens to these ignorant Reslug assholes after constantly crying and drinking their kool-aid out of the toilet.
There's a difference?
Ask Judge Harry Stone.
Malkin and crew are going to give themselves a headache with their stupidity. The only things they know are tax cuts and reverse racism whatever that means. anyway i say let them wallow in their own failed policies and expect, as rush limbaugh says, " for us to bend over backwards and have their way with them". You lost repubs you are no longer the in control party. we will listen but people rejected your tax cuts rejected your fear rejected your panic rejected your means of law. No if you want to help you bend over and try to wiggle in a policy change or two but you dont get to dictate any longer
People keep saying President Obama needs to realize it's pointless to reach out to such people, but I would say so to harry reid and nancy pelosi.
Sorry. Can't help it.
Also, I feel like these wingnut ranters are obsolete. They're out of place in this new world. I hope it's new enough that that stays true.
Actually, I would call it careering, as in (gri)malkin is careering to be the next Tokyo Rose.
look it up. I did, just to be able to show you, but I already knew:
ca·reered, ca·reer·ing, ca·reers
To move or run at full speed; rush.
Sorry. Can't help it. :P
Thanks, misskitty. Don't people look things up in the dictionary just to make sure before they try to correct other people?
left over from my reading days. It's nice to take it out and walk it around from time to time.
And you are most welcome! As a pedant, I naturally love to nitpick.
Don't chimps nitpick for breakfast?
Hard to watch that twisted bitch do her best to pull bull shit out of her ass. I didn't hear Reich say any of this crap. He did say he didn't want to see it ALL going to white construction workers. You can interpret that as these two dumb asses spin it, or you can take it for what Reich was actually saying.
Propaganda network at work. Glad nobody but the brain dead watch them anyway.
"And I've said before that this stimulus amounts to generational theft. Um, and I think that is the definition of leadership in Washington. Standing up and making sure that this money is not going to be stolen from the pockets of our children and our grandchildren."
- Michelle Malkin.
The trillions of dollars in debt run up by Reagan and Dubya as a result of their wildly irresponsible borrow-and-spend policies were somehow NOT 'generational theft'? I guess, in Malkin's hate crazed, cross-eyed view of things, running up debt to stimulate the U.S./global economy is irresponsible, while running up far, far more debt, for the cynical purpose of perpetuating Conservative rule through 'have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too' tax policies, is all fine and dandy.
Beyond the well understood stupidity of Malkin and destructive msm talking heads, I've got a problem with Reich's "solution".
Our problem in the u.s. is the idea that MINORITIES get the perks and the rest of us can go to hell. As a white female single parent let me tell you I don't know what it is like to receive a leg up of ANY kind.
Our PROBLEM is chopping people up into "special" wah-wah groups instead of including EVERYONE.
Europe has long ago understood that EVERYONE is uplifted and not a single group is isolated for PITY PROJECTS goddam it! Special minorities are an endless open maw in need of supply...why can't we simply do the obvious thing, put away the tissues and be as ONE in dignity and importance?
I never became a feminist, I never hated men or carried a banner for the clitoris, the skin color or the country of origin. For once why can't we all rise together! Obama's message is that we are not a bag of pitiable sob stories we are the SAME. Distribute the money equally.
Distribute limited money equally to both the well-off who don't need it so much, and to the not so well-off who do?
That ISN'T what I said. I am talking about fair distribution. I just haven't complained until now.
As a country we've got it wrong.
I'm in a fairly similar position. But I only have to worry about myself, no kids, unless I come home one day and there's a letter from the Springer show.
I seem to fall into the over-educated/underemployed set. And as little as I make, when I do my taxes the IRS claims I owe them.
Meanwhile, the City of Dallas can't afford enough teachers, can't afford to give them raises, are delinquent in raising steps to our Fire Department and Police, closures of libraries and public pools, and miracles of miracles can suddenly afford $1,000,000.00 a year for additional police protection for where the boosh's will live.
H'yeah. So long as we're pitted us against them we may not notice someone's living off all those pensions that tanked 50% of their value. Our money went somewhere for sure, national ponzi scheme is only part of the story.
We are a people. Of whom 95% just got a well-engineered shafting well outside the realm of minority interests. Get what I mean?
I should also mention that this is probably like the Supreme Court case that I can't recall the full name of, but part of it was Pena, and was in the 90's. The law was that federal contracts required contractors to hire a certain percentage of minority sub-contractors, and the Rehnquist Court over-threw this requirement.
The playing field has changed dramatically since then.
OK, I'll say it (hating to discuss personal wah poor me and am not in that frame of mind).
Added to the mix I directly experience reverse discrimination. Certain minorities are no longer minorities yet think and demand like minorities. Like children outgrow their bottles we need to get ourselves up-to-date and get crisp about it.
I am raising my kids without support of any kind. I know what it's like to put a quarter in the newspaper dispenser and take out all the coupons for diapers in the whole stack, trade cans of food in to buy gas for my car. I have learned quite well that in america a head of household like myself come last.
Yet I don't wallow in self-pity, receive ZIP and expect even less in terms of what I face every day. Obama or no, still expect nothing therefore will not be disappointed.
I would agree there's professional victimization claimants like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but think of it this way. Minority businesses aren't allowed to discriminate either, so that might provide good and profitable work for someone such as yourself. And minority percentages also have helped female self-employed and operated businesses flourish, again, another potential source for gainful employment.
So instead of falling for an Us-Against-Them schema, we have to learn to adapt to the new environment to serve our needs.
I am self-employed. However, minority businesses are clubs I have the good sense not to approach THAT. I know for a fact blacks are a helluva lot more open to warmhearted inclusiveness than say south of the border immigrants...to them I am and shall always be the outsider (not that I wish to crash that psychologically gated community). Us against them mentality serves them well and keeps people like myself as some sort of obstacle to be overcome...because I am 'caucasian' (a refreshing word).
Wish I could return to canada where there is 400 years of family history. I feel canadian. I don't chronically compare myself to others as an excuse for my failures.
Construction workers have been on a downward spiral of employment for the last year, you f*cking dolt Cavuto. They lost there jobs first, leading to less income to buy silicon valley products. When you can barely afford to eat and heat the house, luxuries like a new computer or cell phone become unimportant. This leads to decreased sales, leading to these companies laying off workers themselves. By putting construction workers back to work, they have disposable income again to spend on the only thing we still make in this country: software.
Maybe if you left your studio for more than just your daily commute to and from work, or if you had an ounce of common sense, you'd be able to piece together the simple picture, you jackass...
The Rethugs are party-building. And if a little obstructionism and purely partisan efforting to make America fail should get into the mix, hey, sorry 'bout that.
[Deleted. What the hell are you thinking, posting that here? This is not Stormfront. Never mind; "Not much" is probably the answer-Sitemonitor]
can't make that woman 'appear' anything. She's fugly. [Deleted. The end-Sitemonitor]
Are you as creeped out as I am at how lovey-dovey this brother & sister team look at each other?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87XQKCXfFjQ
the sequel.
by the emcee at one of their appearances as "The First Couple Of Utah".
Once WKRP in Cincinatti had some records left on the radiator, so that as one of them said "Donny was stuck on Marie."
My take on all this talk about obstructionism is a way to rally the mouthy 28% or so to support Cornyn and Spector in their efforts to get Holder to promise beforehand that he will not prosecute anyone in the former Bush administration.
However, Spector and Cornyn are walking on thin ice and can be, if proven, be accused of corruption and graft.
It is against the LAW to make deals like that. The penalty can be jail and forfiture of their Senate seats.
sorry. I know you are serious.
digby spells punditocracy "punditocrisy"
imho, her's is correct.
and Malkin is the new "My Pet Goat' - or so she appears.
have a resemblance to one of GW's popup books. Always popping up.
I have popup books.
They're called Barely Legal magazines.
did good in finally giving credit to limbaugh and mentioning his name.
the talk radio monopoly enables twits like malkin and cavuto with its coordinated UNCONTESTED repetition. dems need to paint the GOP with limbaugh's face every chance they get- the GOP is nothing without talk radio and dems nneed to start paying attention to it. call complain boycott when they get racist or lie about progressive representatives and causes. other wise we're not getting their backs at the ground source for their attacks- the local limbaugh radio station.
As for jobs for white construction workers, I hate to say she has a bit point. Illeagals are undercutting prices and taking jobs from taxpaying Americans everywhere.
Minority-owned businesses do need a hand getting a bigger slice of the pie, but those that aren't employing U.S. taxpayers should be charged with treason and deported [Deleted. Don't advocate violence on our site-Sitemonitor]
gueuzeman- contractor almost out of work, I'm shovel ready
Most employers of illegals, are white bread Americans.
Why are minority-owned business the ones that need to "watch out?"
is dependent on 25-35% of workers making less that a living wage. Early in our history, it was slavery. The last 30+ years have been an all-out conservative assault on employees and the middle class. As Thom Hartmann has suggested, illegal EMPLOYERS, not employees should be targeted for enforcement. Any employer who KNOWINGLY hires an illegal, should receive a 1 year prison sentence and $100,000 fine for each illegal worker. There would be an exodus of people from this country and stability would return to the job market.
Admin- sorry, forgot I'm not at the daily rotten. Point taken.
Tyler- yes, lots of whites hiring illeagals, and should also be deported.
I'm not anti immigrant, but as a business owner that pays taxes, workers comp, and provides health insurance, I can't compete against these fly by nights, nor should I have to.
Private money construction jobs aren't held to the same standards as public money, and plenty of "white" contractors paying their legal employees minimum wage and no benefits. These employers are no better in my opinion.
Most employers hiring illegals, especially in construction, are established companies who pay the taxes, etc. on their illegal employees who never file for rebates or collect on the benefits. They are subsidizing you and the rest of us. What you cannot compete with is the substandard wages they pay those illegals.
"economic genius" Alan Greenspan once testified to Congress that one of his primary goals at the Fed was to create a certain level of "wage insecurity" (read scared to ask for a raise) because of his Chicago school of Business philosophy that equates inflation with worker salaries. The cons love to demonize those "illegal aliens" but in truth put in place policies that draw in more immigration. They get a two-fer: Workers willing to take much lower salaries, and a convenient punching bag to camouflage their anti-worker policies.
I agree with your take on things. That's what I've observed also. Employers are well aware that, while you can get away with ignoring the INS and the labor laws, you should NEVER, EVER fuck with the IRS.
Yet while they're subsidizing our taxes and social security through non-collection of benefits, they're taking up property causing greater quantity demand and decreasing quantity supply, thus increasing costs of buying or renting a home for everyone. This can lead to new construction, but as we have just seen this often results in real estate bubbles and shoddily made homes, often built by crews of minimally trained day laborers.
Meanwhile we're educating their kids. Let's say some illegal immigrants and most of us have x sized houses. That means we pay the same property taxes. Even if they live in a rental unit of some kind, property taxes are generally built into the rents. Now, say they a larger number of kids of school age in their homes than the average. That means even there by paying the same amount, but increasing their demand on the institution, they are costing the rest of us.
Additionally, they are adding up the cost of health care, like so many of the rest of us may lack health insurance. They don't get the necessary preventative care, and end up crowding into hospital emergency rooms, where the costs are passed on to the rest of the city. The city has no choice but to absorb it with no help from the Federal government. This is happening at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Some cities refuse to even have emergency rooms for this reason. So a city that does have ER's gets their influx, increasing their costs even more.
Should add that most or all of those hiring illegals are Republicans and in the construction industry include many of the countries largest firms. It came out a few years ago that many or most of the contractors working on the Katrina reconstruction were routinely hiring large numbers of illegals.
Meanwhile in my area, and probably others, people were complaining that the Katrina victims should stop whining and get a job, but what job?
Small businesses need to watch out. We're all in that boat and the white bread undertone is destructive and not the point anymore.
All of this is deeply complex and god-almighty quit the fucking pity party.
DrDick- well said
Crazytown- no pity party, yes it's very complex. My accountant is suffering as well but .... umm, is there some type of onliine accounting service in India? Perhaps I should use them and stop paying my local guy that is an asset to my community.
I'm buying only new York State beer these days, while I can still afford to.
I thought the whole FAUX/GOP cadre were all about labelling those who did not go along the President during a time of "war" as being anti-American.
And here they are, in a time of "war" claiming that the American thing to do is to "go against the president."
The sad part is that there are millions of hicks who take these idiots seriously... ugh.
There has to be a point in which people like Malkin need to be me with a loud and clear intonation of "JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP..."
Malkin is using the lie that this money isn't available until 2010. She bases this on the false claim from a CBO report that doesn't exsist according to TPM.
There is a National Association for of Advancement White People btw.
It's called The US Congress.
Actually you're right and wrong.
There is a National Association for the Advancement of White People
But it's run by David Duke, former KKK Granddragon, and perennial gadfly republican candidate for Congress.
"Generational theft"? Oh...Malkin must be referring to the three trillion (or so) bucks that the country will end up forking out for the Iraq invasion that Bush, etal lied us into. No? Oh, maybe some other transfer of dollars from the federal treasury into the pockets of Bush and his cronies. Plenty of poison to pick from (forgive the alliteration).
I hate to waste my breath on diseased, lower life-forms like Malkin, but we are compelled to remain vigilant against them. If we don't, they will gain ground. These creeps are not going away. That should be quite crystal clear by now...
The last 2 election cycles have beat that bitch down, though her eyes are still crossed.
But ... But .... But....!! Conservatism cannot fail! It is magic ponies and sparkles and shit!1!!1!
Delusional morons blindly following a failed ideology over a cliff. Have at it, darlings. Try as you might to rebuild the GOP, you are relegated to the shit pile of history unless you abandon "conservatism.
And Republicanism is the new irrelevance.
I've lived long enough now to see many an administration come and go,but I have never seen it as partisan as it is now.While Bush is largely responsible for this,the worst of ideological actors is Limbaugh who got this dung ball rolling long ago.I've been thinking lately about how he and his imitators like Malkin etc lie with impunity on a daily basis and are never called upon to retract/apologize for said lies.What I'd really love to see is some of the Democratic top brass start demanding that Limbaugh put up or shut up.They need to find a way to finally expose this liar to his admirers as the slimy money grubbing self serving and obviously unpatriotic pig that he is.When he tells a whopper-demand he prove it:immediately and consistently.
Asshole meet shitforbrains
It is perfectly reasonable, in fact, responsible for a political group to fight for it's position. I and most of the country think her position is wrong but I remember when I thought our side should be obstructionist. Most of Bill Clinton's presidency was saying no to the GOP. Fortunately, we have the numbers to win against the GOP now.
It is not, however, reasonable to lie, make shit up, cheat, and game the system in the process. If you cannot support your position with facts and logic, you have no place in the public discourse (yes I am looking at you Michelle, Ann, and Rush).
It is one thing to have a position, it is another to argue that you have the county's best interests at heart when you are lying to our faces and then expect us to believe you.
More precisely, if we are going to live in a better country we must discard all false information in order to do so.
Why the 9000 recently laid off tech workers are less likely to get new jobs than unemployed unskilled workers. I am also wondering if they would be hired in an economy grinding to a halt because no one has a job. Too, i am wondering how much more expensive and time consuming it would be to create jobs for people who would already be employed in a robust economy than it would be to create jobs for so many more who are so much more desperate for work. And finally how employing a few outweighs employing the vast majority of the unemployed.
These people create false dichotomies and fear whenever they think they can get away with it.
...Malkin's just afraid she'll be the one laid off and forced to paint bridges. Don't chip a nail, hon!
are very well paid. It's a very dangerous and physically demanding job. She wouldn't last until the first coffee break.
Someone who gets it. Everyone's unemployment is relevant! When are we going to quit separating ourselves in terms of groups. It is so wired into our psyches it's worse than teaching a grandmother to suck an egg. GOD!
Before y'all think I'm schitzo in my approach to minority help in government programs versus the burdens of illegal immigration, the key word is illegal.
Exactly. The key word is illeagal.
And despite the republicans like boosh trying talking big about reforming naturalization, it's really more in their interest to keep the illegal immigrants in their illegal status, hence their worth.
That aberrant freak suggested we return to getting in line like people have for the last oh, 200+ years and earn legal status.
Or is one country who refuses to take care of their own have the propriety to parasite off another until the death of the host?
I suppose when one commands as little attention as Michelle Malkin does you're forced into a situation where you find it necessary to say whatever insane bull shit will get you the most bang for your buck.
Kind of like when Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that he supports Obama but he doesn't support his policies.
All it took was the election of a Democratic President and suddenly ideas like "supporting the troops without supporting their mission" becomes fully understandable to the proctors of right wing hate indoctrination.
Actually it's quite amusing watching these nut bags come unglued.
in the last eight years has been Cheney and the NEO-Cons leading the Republican majority around by their NOSE RINGS. Thank God WE put a stop to that.
Obama was dead-on when he said "I won."
He should have added, "Now sit down and shut up."
as we hear so oft repeated in 00 and 04, "We won (in their case stole)get over it".
Has she posted peoples personal information for her minions since someone released hers? I wonder if that stopped her....
kick Malkin RIGHT IN THE ASS after a good running start?
;)
Judging by her expression I would daresay guess you were successful.
My thoughts exactly.. What really bothers me is how easily these two get under my skin and cause that kind of reaction. It must be because I feel like my nation has been under the influence of and ruined by complete idiots for the past eight years. Now that that is over, do I even have an excuse?
sure are a couple of unattractive bitches.
Malkunt is half right - we are BORROWING from future generations - IN ORDER TO INVEST in our generation AND future generations - to try to "kick start" this economy and get it moving again.
The "free market" has failed us and these loony wingnuts keep trotting out the tired and disproved "cut taxes and the free market will fix the economy itself" bull shit.
Yeah assholes? And when it doesn't will YOU be willing to part with YOUR MILLIONS to help tens or hundreds of miliions of suffering Americans?!
Of course not, so PLEASE just fuck back off under the rocks from which you all crawled out from.
The REAL SICK AND DISGUSTING THING is that these people get RICH misguiding enough ignorant and gullible Americans - to essentially influence them to vote against their best interests. If they convinced enough of these misguided ignorant Americans to vote for their candidates they WOULD, "metaphorically", drive this entire country over a cliff.
Apparently we have enough sane people on TV and on the internet to counter these evil lunatics - but I STILL think we are just as entitled to public radio airwaves as they are and we need a law to balance things out there - to point out their lies every time they tell one.
SOMEONE ought to start a radio show that simply disproves everything Limbaugh said the day before - THAT could be a great show!
The republicans do not understand what
repudiated means. They sold the country
down the road for 6 years while they
were in power. Now they are having a sudden
"epiphany" of fiscal responsibility. Just
whenthe country needs economic help. My
prediction here is that they will obstruct
Obama's legislation in the Senate. In March
Capital pension funds will fail per geab and
we will be in a protracted recession for
years. The republicans will be held responsible
and will be a voice in the minority for decades
to come, possibly never rebounding and being
replaced by a new wave of independents.
once a malkin, always a malkin.`
Shakespeare, Coriolanus:
From the Shakespeare Dictionary:
Why do these hacks get air time? It never ceases to amaze me.
Malkin is a bowel obstruction!
She can have her hate and eat it too!
I look forward to 8 years of watching this particular minority of thugs spin their wheels. That is, if their shows survive. They've fucked their own asses on SO many levels (which is all they have left anyway).
Well that would certainly explain her expression.
Please conservatives, please listen to these jackals. It was at their urging you did all the stupid shit that put my party in the White House. BTW, Malkin and Cavuto don't have to get re-elected. So obstructionism? YEAH, go for it! The mid-term elecion will clear another 15 conservatives out of Congress like the diarhhea they are.
I love these GOP fuck-ups also because just two weeks ago anyone who was doing what they advise was a Bush-hater, and a traitor.
No two republican beliefs ever result in a standard.
"I'm so impoverished I can hardly rub two republicans together"
It is time to put away childish things. Can we start with these two?
Is she some kind of amrican-asian that we tortured into the necon philosophy? I mean where did she crawl out from under?
How sad, the freeze frame captures the hatefulness on the faces of Malkin and Cavuto very well. And the self-hatred on the part of Malkin, no less, mind you.
I found this information over at Mind Matters and it seems to fit the mental condition of Malkin, Beck, Limbaugh et.al.
Snip…
Perhaps the single academic study most germane to the present election is the 1999 psychology paper by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." The two Cornell psychologists began with the following assumptions.
• Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
• Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
• Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.
Snip… The article's conclusion should be posted as a caveat under every political speech of those seeking office. And it should serve as the epitaph for the Bush administration: "People who lack the knowledge or wisdom to perform well are often unaware of this fact. That is, the same incompetence that leads them to make wrong choices also deprives them of the savvy necessary to recognize competence, be it their own or anyone else's."
snip… From this article… http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2008/10/0...
And this one… http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/10/the_ce...
In the most striking cases, a patient may be paralysed, amnesic or even blind, but be completely unaware of the fact.
In these cases, we think that the brain damage has impaired our ability to have insight into our own mental functioning, but these studies suggest that we're actually not very good at this to start with.
Link to one of the many studies in the area.
—Vaughan
Or…Anosognosia is a condition that can occur after serious brain injury where the patient is unaware of their disability.( I have a hunch some of our Republican congresscritters may be suffering from this condition…I’m just saying…) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia
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Well that would certainly explain me.
she's had her 15 minutes and there's nothing to see here so let's keep moving. may she rot in non-obscurity along with ann coulter. please not more reference to either of the self-serving beatches.
Why is there still so much energy given to these fundamentally powerless has-beens? Habit?
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