MILWAUKEE — A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
The only negatives are that they didn't do this sooner, and that the administration is constantly contradicting this message with deficit fear mongering and tax cut stupidity.
No clue how permanent the damage from the other BS was, but if people only talked about this type of stuff between now and the election I'd be very happy.
A diary that spent most of the day on the Dailykos rec list:
"Dear President Obama"??
Let me get this straight. The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has found an issue that will resonate with the American public: DON'T CUT SOCIAL SECURITY. Fantastic.
Now, who is it that wants to cut or even eliminate Social Security altogether? THE REPUBLICANS. We all know that.
So how does the CPC choose to proceed with this issue? They write a letter to PRESIDENT FLIPPING OBAMA pleading with him not to cut Social Security! I mean, how clusterfuckian is that?!
. . .
Guys, for chrissakes, don't imply that Democrats want to cut Social Security! Don't write letters to Democrats! Get out there and tell the nation that REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY! And you don't even have to lie – because they really do!!
Look, I know Alan Simpson is ostensibly working for the White House on this and it bothers you, but for piss sakes, it's election season! Tell America that REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY! And keep saying it over and over and over again!
Flawless logic.
So the fact President Obama doesn't want to cut Social Security is self evident, even though he appointed a commission stacked with people who want to cut social security.
"Alan Simspon is ostensibly working with the white house". The White House appointed Simpson as the Co-chair of the committee, and has not fired him after he has made his disdain for social security quite clear
The real villain here is obviously the people talking about the Obama Administration's flirting with Social Security cuts, not the Administration's actions themselves. It's election season after all.
That diary had enough positive votes to stay voted the recommended list all day. Fucking depressing.
In the time he doesn't spend as a Kenny Loggins impersonator, Bozell gets angry about things he perceives as "liberal" in the media, which to him can mean anything from being too truthful to not being bigoted enough. In this case means using four letter words:
The pop-music world is turning into a caricature of shamelessness, childishness and even spoiled-brattiness. To get attention quickly, some pop stars will try absolutely anything. The soul singer Cee-Lo Green has a new album coming out. How's this for art: His first desperate single is titled "F—- You."
The shock value is already working. A video was posted Aug. 19, and within four days, it had grabbed 1.4 million views on YouTube — another sign that YouTube is not a safe website for children.
I'm not sure if anyone has breached Bozell's purity bubble in the last 10 years, but at some point he's going to realize that there are a worse things for kids on the internet than a few mean words on youtube.
Green's producer, Bruno Mars, told MTV the whole production was "a dream session come true ... Everyone was just putting their minds together and (we came) up with one of our favorite tracks we've ever done. Cee-Lo came in and we started singing it for him. And he's just, 'I love that, man. That's beautiful.'"
This scenario of allegedly unfolding genius dodges the little reality that the supposed high concept is just a musical middle finger. The singer is cursing out his ex-girlfriend, who apparently left him for a richer man. The fact that the song is catchy and bright only heightens the offense. It's a Motown melody inserted into a manure pile. But, as usual, the Wanna Be Hip critics love it, even with that manure attached. The Wall Street Journal cooed it "may be the best rock and pop single of the year."
Even his precious Wall Street Journal isn't sacred of four letter words? The Horror!
Just a few years ago, we could be certain that a song this stuffed with profanity would never be aired on the radio.
And just think, only a few decades ago, people like this "Ceelo" wouldn't have been allowed to vote! Ahhh, there's nothing like reminiscing about the good old days.
Team Cee-Lo claims they're going to prepare a radio edit called "Forget You" to avoid alienating too many station managers. How thoughtful. But that only raises the obvious question: Why not call it "Forget You" from the very beginning? The answer is the calculation that millions of teenagers will buy the original dirty version as the official version and put it on their iPods. Any radio edit is just a lame Band-Aid for a pus-filled boil.
Wait, why doesn't the radio edit make him happy? Isn't that everything he wanted? You already have BIG GOVERNMENT *fartz* censoring songs for you, isn't that the goal?
And even more concerning, can a band-aid be lame? Is a lame band-aid somehow less suited for a puss filled boil than a normal band aid? Why would you even talk about a puss filled boil in the first place? That's gross, and it deeply offends me.
This is not the first time pop stars have played games with the F-bomb. A few years ago, Britney Spears offered a single very thinly disguised as "If U Seek Amy." Spears boasted, "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy," which only made sense if it was obscene.
And now, you Brent Bozell, have forced your readers to say "fuck" out loud. For shame.
The British chanteuse Lily Allen offered her own "F—- You" song last year, but it wasn't a big hit here, with its 25 gratuitous F-bombs. It was only a gold record in France, Australia and Belgium. Right there on YouTube, you can see a video of Allen singing her brightly toned song with its ugly, profane chorus — "F—- you, f—- you very, very much" — live on French television. The audience claps and claps. Once again, the future beams out at us.
So if you weren't already convinced that Bozell spends his days furiously masturbating to youtube videos that use the word fuck, that last paragraph pretty much seals it.
RALEIGH, N.C.—The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.
Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson's comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam veterans, even though decades of research has failed to find more than a possible link between the defoliant Agent Orange and diabetes.
"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.
Let's repeat that last quote, just to emphasize how appalling it is:
"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess,"
He thinks our veterans are burdens because of their medical costs... costs that stem from injuries they sustained serving our country.
Fucking unreal.
So Obama was clearly too in love with Simpsons' social security cutting fantasies to fire him the first time around, but what about now?
Does he also agree that disabled veterans have it too good and are hurting our country?
Hey Barack, he speaks for you and he speaks for your administration.
Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: "I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. ... Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing." He adds that any stimulus was "unlikely to fill" the hole the financial meltdown created.
Yeah, that's just not true.
There were plenty of people who thought the stimulus was too small (even some in your own administration!)
You just put the people who didn't think we needed a big stimulus in charge of making that decision. You chose to hire the same idiots whose ideology ran the economy into the ground, and (stunningly) they were wrong. Again.
