Shanti shanti shanti indeed

especially Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Pat Toomey, and Rand Paul

Oh, it really hurts when you run them all into one sentence like that.

SIX YEARS we are going to be stuck with these loons.

“Nothing, I think, can encapsulate Obama’s arrogance, or his profound alienation from ordinary Americans…”

Is this a disjunctive ‘or’?

I don’t get this.

The poster has neglected to activate his alerts. Its causing mutterings in the ranks. Time to read them the Riot Act.

Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies.
God save the King.

The Riot Act, 1715

It’s hard to out-parody reality these days.

This post was bad, even for cut-rate punditry. Next to the economy, Obama’s “profound alienation from ordinary Americans” is but a candle to the sun.

Damn. I forgot about the economy.

From the Klavan @ 10:

Which brings us back to the midterm election, which may also be the beginning of a narrow escape indeed — a narrow escape from a leftist culture that has sought for 40 years to people and shape our imaginations with Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bears, Big Babies and sissified men; an escape from race-baiters and gender warriors who have sought to take away our pride in our heroic cowboy past and replace it with a droning litany of our all-too-human sins; an escape from an intellectual and political elite who have attempted to destroy our Space Age optimism by selling us environmental hysteria, guilt and fear.

Now that’s some grade-A punditry right there. Though when I think of Klavan, I think not so much of Toy Story 3 as of Jackass 3-D.

And remember that bow to the Chinese guy? What abominable arrogance! The left knows no bounds. Rein ’em in, Sharron, Rand, Christine, et al, and put ’em back in their places…

I remember an episode of the Simpsons where Homer attempts to attract customers to the bowling alley by shouting loudly and firing a shotgun randomly into the air. Of course, in the cartoon people start running away from him in sheer terror. Clearly another case of Matt Groening and all profoundly misjudging the tastes of Real ‘Merkuns in advertising.

Obama’s Hindu-Muslimism is just a strategy for bringing Communism back to America and forcing a One World Government upon us with New Black Panther helicopters.

So your boyfriend turned out to be a loser. Don’t blame us; dump him already.

It’s only Ashanti in old Shanti town.

No possible improvement on this. Thread closed.

Thank Blue-eyed Jesus that we will finally be ruled by humble men and women like Joe Miller and Linda McMahon. Salts of the earth who have already measured the drapes and kicked the groins in Washington that need measuring/kicking.

For if nothing else has defined the modern GOP it is their lack of arrogance. Remember Barton’s humble apology to BP? Or Bachmann’s apology for not being able to impeach Obama?

I got here from Balloon Juice and I will be back. This is some grade A snark and you can never have enough of that. Especially in these teatard times.

I think I have just seen the moment when Obama PROVED he is a Muslim because ONLY a Muslim would celibate a Hindu festival. It is FACT that just like the special relationship between Muslims and Atheists , Muslims and Hindus are co-travelers untied in their common goal of destroying FREEDOM. The proof for this is written large in India and Pakistan. Right now as we speak our secret Muslim President is conspiring with Hindus and Atheists to destroy the United States and impose Shari Law!

Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies.
God save the King.

The Riot Act, 1715

When I was a kid growing up in Bermuda, this was actually read out on Front Street in Hamilton during a strike by dock workers. Some official backed up by the local constabulary read it from an antique-looking scroll. There was a front page pic in the Royal Gazette.

Let freedom ring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDRA3XFfDr4

I wonder if it is possible to apply those same teacher assessment tools that are advocated by the right wing, to all of those rightwing legislators (merit pay increase for good assessments, immediate firing for bad ones). If the nation goes from bad to worse, then the legislators would be fired? Oh, wait. That won’t work at all. Congress is immune from self-assessments.

He came in here and he chanted in the place—and it’s not his place.

“The judgment is harsher in Washington,” says The Post’s Broder. “We don’t like being lighted to.”

If the cheeseheads get rid of Feingold, I will no longer be amused by the Packers or their fans.

The only part of this I actually look forward to is that the Republicans win. Okay, now, reduce the unemployment rate. It’s what’s known as a short leash.
Government shutdown before February 28th. Who’s with me? Who’s bloody with me?

naive@24: “The Incredibles” Randian? Uh, wasn’t Syndrome the most Galt-like character? And look what happened to him…

I want the government up and running, so that it can fulfill its legitimate function—impeaching the President for his failure to produce a legitimate birth certificate.

Oh, bo-ring. Where’s your imagination, Professor?

I’ve got $100 bucks that says the casus belli will be a coke and malt liquor party in the Oval Office, with Bill Ayers, the New Black Panthers, ACORN, and a special appearance by the ghost of Saul Alinsky. And every time Obama did a line of blow, all the others yelled “Allahu akbar” (except Michelle, who stuck with “Kill whitey” because she’s old school).

It’s all on video. Andrew Breitbart knows someone who knows someone who’s seen the tape and can vouch for its authenticity. That’s all I can say for now…but all will be revealed in due course.

If the cheeseheads get rid of Feingold, I will no longer be amused by the Packers or their fans.

Feingold’s remarkably sanguine about it. I mean, he could have easily lost his last two elections, but for weak opposition candidates and stronger fundraising.

It was a good run. (Though I can’t be the only one thinking, damn, why couldn’t it have been Potted Herb Kohl up this time around? Of the two…)

As a cheesehead expatriate, though, I solemnly acknowledge and with temerity support your decision to not laugh at my headgear.

me: What am I missing?
“Irony, this time mixed with a deep and bitter despair.”

I should have known that, as I’m familiar with your writing, but it whooshed me this time, and I was seriously confused and wondering what I should be seeing in the ceremony that I didn’t because I’ve always liked the insight you’ve given me.

“Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Pat Toomey, and Rand Paul…”

This study is just in time.

Hey Michael Berube I checked out your blog and found this entry, dating back to Sunday, 10:18 August 08, 1993 , entitled Head. Wall.

We finally have a Democrat in the White House, and guess what happens? His economic recovery plan runs up against a solid wall of batshit insane Republican opposition and then is left to twist in the wind by some asshole “centrist” Democratic senator from Nebraska. Damn, I hope this nonsense never happens again.

“finally have a Democrat in the White House”, “economic recovery plan” versus “bat-shit insane Republican opposition”, stymied by “asshole “centrist” Democratic senator”. It looks like we’ve all seen this movie before.

Looks like your “hope” that “this nonsense never happens again” is looking pretty forlorn though. I’m guessing the bitterly sarcastic tone of your most recent post is on account of the Ground-Hog day experience you are now having.

I shared my taxi last week with a mustard magnate from Mumbai. He pointed out that it was cheaper to ship the mustard seeds halfway around the world, to be blended and spiced by people who would never eat a beef hamburger, than for Obama to share a Big Mac with Bill Clinton
– from my upcoming book, “the Mustard is Flat”

I can’t really understand Berube’s posts, nor his comments. In his most recent book, he expressed a certain enthusiasm for Obama. Does he still feel that way? I hesitate to ask for fear of reading something so arch that it will make my teeth hurt.

Michael Bérubé @ #42 said:

Not me! I want the government up and running, so that it can fulfill its legitimate function—impeaching the President for his failure to produce a legitimate birth certificate.

Now here we should be getting down to brass tacks and running a book on the odds of a government shut-down, on the assumption that the REPs win control of the HoR. Not an expert on US constitutional law but my understanding is that this gives them the power to refuse appropriation bills, which means that Uncle Sam can’t cut any cheques to pay its clients, employees or dependents.

My bet is that the REPs will certainly threaten to go ballistic, but they will blink because both their voter base and donor elite are dependent on government business.

No doubt the Tea Party will use the threat of government shut-down as a bargaining chip in order to extract legislative concessions from Obama, particularly repeal of health and financial reform regulation. But they would have to be a lot crazier than they look to attack the economic interests of both their voter base and doner elite.

Just think of all the poorer citizen-voters in Red States who rely on farm subsidies, Medicare and Social Security to supplement their income. Not to mention the richer citizen-donors in Blue States who depend on military procurement and financial bail-outs to keep them in the Rich Lists. They will all squeal like stuck pigs if the Tea Party turn off the Big Government tap.

So we will see a repeat of 1994, with the “jobless recovery” bringing in a long tail of REP radicals who talk a good game on shrinking government but will back down on the shut-down when their carriage on the gravy train looks like being unhitched.

Whats left of the REP establishment will step in at the last minute to impose adult supervision on the Tea Party radicals. Just the way GH Bush’s intervention stayed GW Bush’s hand on the eve of Iraq-attack…hmmm, that part of my prediction may need a little work.

Toomey, Kirk and Buck all look pretty likely. Fuck’s sake.

…not to mention we’ve not even got to Angle yet.

And fuck, I forgot about the narrow race in Washington; that’s going to smart if Murray loses, although I’m slightly more optimistic about that.

And it’s now 47.6-47.1 to Bennet.

Satire officially dies, 11.00PM GMT 2 November 2010, as Rand Paul becomes the US Senator from Kentucky.

Satire died a horrible death a long, long time ago (Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize); I’m not really sure what you think you’ve been reading since.

Hey, but, anyway, not to worry, as the Democrats will point out that all this indicates that they hadn’t moved far enough to the right, and that they have learned that lesson. As opposed to the lesson they would have learned had they done better, which was that moving to the right was a success, and that they should continue in that direction.

Hey, but, anyway, not to worry, as the Democrats Very Serious People Evan Bayh will point out that all this indicates that they hadn’t moved far enough to the right, …

And it looks like Bennett pulls it out!

Cool, now we can have dueling congressional investigations, one on whether Obama is a sekrit Hindu and one on whether he’s a sekrit Musim!

Mr. I is the galtish one.

“Helping people for free” was Galt’s watchword after all.

The movie couldn’t afford to make him too galtish

Okay, so it’s NOT Randian. When you’re sharing interpretations with Big Hollywood writers you know you’re on the wrong track.

Think about the last tableau of the film, when the family is geared up to take on the Underminer;—they are gonna have a blast doing what they do best and saving the city is just a fortunate side-effect.

This is important because there really is an Underminer and we fortunately have the superheroes in place to stop him.

It’s not an either/or thing: galt or not-galt.

Is that what Rand would say? Look, the qualities of these characters that make them “super” are human qualities: it’s not an accident that shy girl gets a force-field and invisibility, or that baby-who-could-grow-up-to-be-anything has the power to turn into anything. If you and AO Scott are unwilling to make the “allegorical backflip” that a slightly oafish but good and noble guy might be portrayed as “strong” then you’re likely to miss the fact that by working together as a family – trying to figure out a particularly complicated remote control (Scott obviously misses that) – they find a way to demonstrate the attributes that make them special. Attributes that you probably possess in some way, otherwise the film wouldn’t be nearly as resonant. Not that I discount the idea that you might have some real superpower.

I assume this post is supposed to be a tea-bagger parody, because this is way,WAY too wacky to be for real.

That said, I wasn’t invited to a Dawali celebration this year. If you’ve never enjoyed this holiday, you’re missing out!

Just curious what Diwali gifts you all are giving to your masters and your slaves this year? Other than the election, that is.

At least you’ll be married to Megan. I knew I shoulda stuck with ‘Red’.

Now Michael you are being unfair to the Teapartiers. His arrogance and foreigness would not have been a problem if he had punched a few more hippies. I personally think his healthcare plan was centrist enough, since although I call myself a centrist I do come from Britain, and I’m not crazy, but I will defend the proposition that he should have disowned Nancy Pelosi and said mean things about Paul Krugman and condemned the left-wing blogosphere. Had he done so he would have connected with real Americans who spend their free time discoursing on the madness of Paul Krugman and not lost the House.