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In the Bubble, Hermetically Sealed

Drudge is currently featuring this video of the President speaking in Ohio yesterday as his lead item, under the headline: The Panic of 2010. I don’t get it. I don’t see any panic there. Just a pretty good bit of campaign rhetoric. I mean, does Drudge actually think that Obama is panicking here? Or does he–or Breitbart, or whoever is running the show there–think that this will help convince his legion of readers, and my colleagues, that Obama is panicking? Or is he just locked into the Republican propaganda bubble, which has been working overtime this year…to rather bizarre effect. I mean, if the G.O.P. doesn’t take both houses of Congress–and no fewer than 75 additional seats in the House–it’ll be a letdown, right? I mean, given all the panic the President is flashing, anything less than a 20 seat majority in the House would constitute a defeat, right?

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  • http://gum0nshoe.wordpress.com gumOnShoe

    Joe the recipe is very simple: Stonewall, project, rely on deep seeded fears, lie only if you can get away with it because no “proof” exits, twist if you can’t lie, present half truths otherwise, and most importantly talk the most and talk loudly.

    Anyone who has ever disagreed with you (The Press) is automatically the enemy. Even if they agree with you once, you have to treat them as the enemy in case they ever disagree. Anyone who will faithfully tow the line, be it for money or pure belief you let go (fox, beck, talk radio, etc). You never directly mention them, you let them mention you. They’ll take care of themselves and show you the way.

    Rather than offering up real ideas that actually have downsides. Promise vague things that you might be able to fulfill, but make sure they have an enemy from the beginning so that if you don’t follow through you have someone to blame.

    If there is ever a topic you don’t wish to discuss, don’t discuss it. Redirect immediately. Talk about something, anything else, but preferentially how bad the government/economy/current administration is. If you’re likely to say something stupid, stop talking after getting a nomination to anyone in an unscripted setting.

    Whenever a financial backer or party member is accused of something wrong, immediately bring up the constitution, witch hunts, something your opponent did first, etc. It is either not that person’s fault or they actually aren’t doing anything wrong, after all you should be able to spend your money anyway you want, definition of property (lol, you can’t hire a hit man can you?)

    Anyhow, if Republicans pick up any seats they’ll still parrot falling democratic poll numbers, rising republican ones etc. You won’t be able to out spin Fox Spin, you don’t have enough parrots listening to you.

  • sasquatch08

    The “panic” their referring to is the fact that The President is laying out all sorts of fear mongering charges without and proof that any misdeeds are actually being done to “steal our democracy”. Let me get this straight: if someone chooses to vote against a Democrat they must be misguided, crazy, racist or all three.
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    It’s those dang voters out there who don’t like our policies stealing our dang democracy!
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    I don’t call that “panic” I call it “desperate mudslinging at a wall in the hopes that some sticks”.
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    Also, Joe: If Republicans win a 15 seat majority in Congress that would constitute a Democratic victory, right?

  • freeinpa

    JK:
    Reading your well article and the first response makes one wonder if the liberal blogosphere is becoming seriously oxygen deprived or being delusional is now a full time activity for the left.
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    “Joe the recipe is very simple: Stonewall, project, rely on deep seeded fears, lie”
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    You mean like call anyone who questions the President and his supporters a liar, a racist etc. Those deep seated fears. The looney left has been running with its typical media accomplices a campaign to paint the Tea Party as fringe, extremist and racist. It has and will fail because it is just part of the ongoing smear campaign of the left.
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    “Anyone who has ever disagreed with you (The Press) is automatically the enemy.”
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    See my prior paragraph. The only groups that have not (as least yet) been s,eared by the left may be the Girl Scouts and the Rotary Club. Every one is a special interest, every one is buying influence except our friends like AFL-CIO, SEIU, NEA, ACORN etc.
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    “Rather than offering up real ideas that actually have downsides.”

    Actually that was the Demo plan ideas with huge downsides, ignore them and force it down regardless of the desires of the people.
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    “Whenever a financial backer or party member is accused of something wrong, immediately bring up the constitution, witch hunts, something your opponent did first, etc.”
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    Apparently hypocrisy has no leaning to liberals nor does the constitution that little piece of paper that they have been shredding for over 40 years. But being accused is one thing,m in parlance its called a smear, when you have evidence then complain otherwise its just liberal whining.
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    And JK, its not just Drudge calling it a panic, your pal Chris Tingles offered a similar response. Some Dems are throwing out a route for November in the hopes if they keep one House- they crow about a Republican failure. It will be difficult but I am sure you will shovel a big pile of manure that the “most successful Congress” that loses the House and tightens up the Senate is somehow a victory for the Dems. But other than complaining did you actually have a point?
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  • apr2563

    Joe, I am more interested in this story about Germany’s Chancellor Merkel and her declaration that multi-culturism has failed and Muslims must embrace Christian values.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101017/wl_afp/germanymuslimreligionimmigration
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    I am more interested in France’s recent crackdown on Gypsies and its intolerance of Muslim veils (wonder what they feel about nun’s habits.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jUfudegXGm7RqQuC172YNzVa3cuQD9IRI3903?docId=D9IRI3903
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    Merkel excludes Muslim values and does not include Judaism in her call for values. Christianity must reign.
    France knows that Gypsies were also victims of the Holocaust.
    This increase in Europe and America of demonizing others and fealty to one set of values is very disturbing.
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    Is anyone making the connection? We know bad economies always bring out the extremes but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the consequences

  • nflfoghorn

    The minority party almost always gains seats – largely because media want to explore at least one alternative to the governing party. This time it’s particularly galling since the Tea Partiers/GOP don’t offer many alternative solutions. They’ve said NO all the way til now, simply interested in getting elected and nothing else.
    If the GOP’s the Coyote and you ever catch the Road Runner – and the Road Runner’s ten times your size – then what do you do?

  • apr2563

    http://www.americablog.com/2010/10/disturbing-new-poll-out-of-germany.html
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    Read this poll from Germany. It is a little disturbing.

  • kevin

    You want to talk about a politician in a bubble? How about Joe Miller needing bodyguards to keep reporters away from him at a public event at a public school?
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    The video is out now, and it’s a must see:
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    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_10/026188.php
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    Tell me one more time how your candidates with their hired goons handcuffing reporters are really fighting for freedom, teatards.

  • freeinpa

    “media want to explore at least one alternative to the governing party”
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    Yeah its ther media that wants it. That explains the constant barrage of anti-Tea Party stories with unsubstantiated accusations, smears of Republicans funders without proof and continuous negative stories about conservatives with out basis. Notice how its pretty much fact free barrage aimed at conservatives from the media.
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    What is happening is Dems ran as centrists wit conservative values in 2008 and governed like left loons for 2 years and the people has had enough and even the media can’t help.

  • http://gum0nshoe.wordpress.com gumOnShoe

    I rest my case.

  • freeinpa

    “fealty to one set of values”
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    fealty to more than one set of values leads to chaos. And if you find it problematic that Merkel wants those immigrants in Germany to better assimilate and learn the language it is you that is disturbed not Merkel.

    As typical of liberals you cheer people with values that run counter to a culture and expect the entire culture to change but expect nothing of those who benefit from it. I love liberals who claim to love a country but hates and despises everything it does.

  • freeinpa

    He could have just sent a DVD

  • earljr1

    Good old Joe, working overtime to provide a “cushion” for the impending democratic defeat. ANY gain by the Republicans will be victory, Joe, as it takes us one step further in the repudiation of progressive politics. Democrats are fully aware of the magnitude of anger being expressed by the American public and are trying to distance themselves from a whole series of serious missteps committed by this inept administration. Taking the American people for granted leads the parade, arrogancy and disdain for public opinion, follow close behind. No, democrats, we are not “stealing your democracy”, we are simply trying to restore sanity in our Federal government.

  • freeinpa

    I guess when you can’t defend a position its best to take your ball and go home.

  • kevin

    You should probably put him in handcuffs too. Put all the journalists in handcuffs, because they hate your freedom.

  • freeinpa

    Liberal reporters don;t get hand cuffs. They get straight jackets like you need. Liberalism is the major cause of mental disorders

  • kevin

    I guess when you can’t defend a position it’s best to take your ball and go home.

  • apr2563

    What a bunch of skinheaded, brownshirt thugs.
    That Joe Miller sure believes in the constitution, especially that 1st amendment.
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    This from the man who hates government so much he
    has accepted medicaid for his family, took agricultural subsidies, encouraged his wife to take unemployment benefits, had a low income hunting and fishing license while getting a $400,000 mortgage and have a %85,000 income.
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    http://www.themudflats.net/2010/09/28/joe-miller-and-moosegate-the-tale-of-an-indigent-ivy-league-attorney/
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    He just doesn’t want to answer questions about his hypocrisy.

  • apr2563

    It is Merkel’s insistence on the supremacy of “Christian” values and if you don’t get that, I have a history lesson to share.
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    And get off the broken record that liberals don’t love their country. It is so 50s.

  • earljr1

    I have a number of physician friends in Germany and all of them feel this stance by Merkel is long overdue. It is a sentiment supported by an overwhelming majority of the German people and therein lies your problem, april. Progressives are quite willing to circumvent the majority to meet their agenda and yet you wonder why your brand of politics is so out of favor. I can assure you, this sentiment is not just symptomatic to Germany, it is shared by France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and most of western Europe. Your sanctimonious hand wringing is simply indicative of just how out of touch with reality you and your fellow progressives are.

  • apr2563

    earljr: Are allll of the doctors you know in Germany Christians? Do they believe Jews and people of other religious persuasions must adopt Christian values?
    A majority of Germans believed in another leader’s call to superiority. Didn’t turn out to well.
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    By the way, couldn’t you have just said acquaintances in Germany rather than your usual DOCTORS meme?
    After all Mengela was a doctor. What do you suppose his opinion would be?

  • earljr1

    Talk about hypocrisy, kevin, you win the prize! How many tantrums have you thrown over your perception of “right wing” journalism? How many times have you and your fellow progressives taken Joe to task and accused him of being a “blue dog democrat”? He unfailingly endorses democrats over republicans and this little piece of biased reporting is further evidence supporting that well documented fact.

  • apr2563

    earljr1: Anyone who reads Drudge and then writes an opinion about his site is not a liberal. A true liberal would not bother with the little gnat known as Drudge.

  • shepherdwong

    No, democrats, we are not “stealing your democracy”, we are simply trying to restore sanity in our Federal government.
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    You mean like a couple more disastrous, unwinnable wars, some budget-busting tax cuts to benefit the ubber-rich, some more deregulation until another financial industry meltdown or BP oil spill, more unconstitutional spying programs and jailing US citizens without charge, more corruption of every agency of government with partisan political operatives in Justice and science deniers at EPA, outting some more covert CIA operatives, putting a few more corporatist extremist hacks on the Supreme Court…etc., etc. That kind of sanity? No thanks.

  • earljr1

    Physicians are usually EXCELLENT barometers for public sentiment, april. Our patients show no reticence in expressing themselves and we are trained to be good listeners and astute observers. The Germans are sick and tired of compromising with Muslim fanatics….either adapt to our ways, or go back to where you originated. I know this breaks your bleeding, liberal heart, but it is high time you started facing reality.

  • earljr1

    Okay, sheperd, let us spend, spend, spend our way to bankruptcy. Let us continue to ignore the will of the American people, let us continue circumventing the Constitution and by all means, let us dismantle our health care system and force feed Americans a BIG dose of good, old fashioned socialism. No thanks and guess what? The majority of Americans agree with me!

  • shepherdwong

    You’re delusional. Get help soon.

  • certifiablylazy

    Actually Jr., I’d say that the majority of American’s don’t actually understand all of these various issues in any detail to fully comprehend the situation this nation faces, regardless of ideological preference. Neither party has shown a willingness to put this country and it’s citizens first in the last 30 years. Both parties are selling our country’s soul to the Scrooge McDuck’s and Montgomery Burns’ of the corporate world.

  • apr2563

    earljr: You never answer the “Jewish problem”.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “You mean like call anyone who questions the President and his supporters a liar, a racist etc.”
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    This is coming from somebody who said that the black community was racist since their approval of the president did not change between 2008 and 2010.
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    This is coming from somebody who calls every political opponent here a loser and failure at life.
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    This is coming from a person who calls Democrats liars since health care reform does not impose slavery upon doctors who want to retire or leave the business, insurers who wish to leave the health care business or resurrect doctors who die. So far, outside of insurance companies leaving health insurance since the government can not impose slavery, doctors who leave medicine or retire, also, since the government can not impose slavery and doctors who die since the government has not been able to resurrect the dead the statement “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor and if you like your insurer you can keep your insurer” has been oath quality true. But, you love the “LIAR”. I can imagine a Tea Partier walks into a restaurant and says “I would like the chilly cheeseburger, please” with the waitress responding “I am sorry, we’re all out of chilly.” and the Tea Partier screaming out “YOU LIED! YOU LIAR! Your menu says that you have Chilly Cheeseburgers, but now you say I can’t have one! YOU LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!”
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    You, Freakinpa, are the most classic of all of demonizing the opposition.
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    Since you call supporting the policies of the president or finding them less offensive than the policies proposed by the Republicans (the later being the primary POV – most here are much more liberal than this president) is racist, you should be the last one to talk about who is making nasty accusations and personal attacks.
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    Look at what I have written and notice that I have stated exclusively facts, not personal insults. Now I know the drill, even if I earn four times as much as you did this year, you will call me a failure at life and even though I am a button down jacket and tie businessman, you will compare me to a fictional hippie stoner from a 1970s TV show. Why? Because you, Freakinpa, are not capable of dialog.You’re classic of Drudge’s audience.

  • apr2563

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/joe-miller-on-securing-the-border-if-east-germany-could-we-could-video.php
    To help you understand Miller’s response to a reporters questions, you might consider he thinks the East Germans did a spiffy job controling their border.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Sasquach,
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    It is not the voters who he is being critical of. It is the fact that through ad campaigns of unknown origin all with a political agenda with the goal to mislead the voters with false information which is an attack on democracy.
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    If I believed the 2004 remark that John Kerry wanted terrorists to win, well, I would have, obviously, voted for Bush. Since I, myself, was better informed and knew that Kerry simply wanted a time table to withdrawal from Iraq, I did not believe the propaganda.
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    I believe the president is very clear in his statement that private agendas completely out of tune with the national interest have dominated the airwaves and it is how far these ads mislead people which is a threat to democracy.

  • earljr1

    There is no “Jewish” problem in Germany, april, one of my physician friends is a Jew and she endorses the Merkel statement, saying it was “long overdue”. You would LOVE to make this anti-semitic, I know, but nothing could be further from the truth!

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Values:
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    1) Be honest with everybody: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindi… everybody believes in this.
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    2) Be loyal to your spouse – all of the above.
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    3) Take good care of your children – all of the above.
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    4) Be compassionate to everybody and be willing to give to those in need – all of the above.
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    5) Don’t eat pork – Jews and Muslims only.
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    6) Don’t drink any alcohol at all – Mormons, Muslims and some evangelical Christians.
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    7) Wear a cross around your neck – Christians only (not mandatory, of course).
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    8) Wear a crucifix – Catholics only (also not mandatory).
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    9) Women cover their head in a house of worship – Muslims and pre-Vatican II Catholics.
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    10) Men cover their head in a house of worship – Jewish only.
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    11) Women cover their head when outside of the home even when not at a house of worship – Muslims only.
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    So, what “values” are so radically different unless Merkel means that Muslims should scarf down pork sausage and beer?
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    How different are Muslims outside of their house of worship?
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    Well, since a huge percent in America (and probably Germany, too) renege on the no alcohol part sometimes, outside of wearing crosses and eating pork sausage, there is no difference worth talking about.
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    It’s moronic.

  • kevin

    How many tantrums have you thrown over your perception of “right wing” journalism?
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    Tantrums? Plenty. How many times have I stood by when Democratic politicians have their hired thugs manhandle and handcuff right wing journalists? Let’s see … nothing really comes to mind.
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    It’s all “they did it too” with you a$$holes, isn’t it. That’s all you have. For all the complaining conservatives do about how liberals are such moral relativists, you all seem to be the ones with no fixed sense of morals.
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    It’s OK for skinheads in suits to rough up the media because liberals say mean things about Fox News. It’s OK to deny Muslims their religious rights here because Christians aren’t treated well in Saudi Arabia. It’s OK to torture and abuse prisoners because the terrorists are thugs. And on and on and on. You have no moral compass, just a needle that spins wildly to whatever position you and your third-grade colleagues think might p!ss off liberals.
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    This is wrong, and the fact that you don’t have the basic common decency to speak out against it speaks volumes about how low you’ve sunk.

  • kevin

    The majority of Americans agree with me!
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    No, they don’t. Obama is far more popular than his conservative rivals, Democrats poll better than Republicans on the issues, and even on HCR the public is evenly split on whether they like it or not — but the “anti” forces are one-fifth people who wanted the government to do more of what you stupidly call “socialism” and not less.
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    Stomp your feet all you want, the majority of Americans are nothing like you. Thank God.
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    Why don’t you go pretend to be a doctor now and let the grown ups talk? I promise one of us will pipe up with your usual contributions of “Demmycrats are just as bad as us!” and “socialized medicine will eat your children!” so you can rest assured your always valued contributions here will be fully represented.

  • kbanginmotown

    “It is a sentiment supported by an overwhelming majority of the German people.”
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    Had we listened to the “overwhelming majority” of the American People of the Southern States, African-Americans would still be sitting in the back of the bus, no?

  • earljr1

    Why don’t you stamp your feet and throw a tantrum, little kevie. You are quite good at it. We will gauge just how popular your brand of politics is, come Nov, 2nd. and I think the message will be extraordinarily clear…..America rejects progressive politics and the encroachment of socialism. It only took you two years to really screw things up, so get out of the sand box and let the big boys and girls fix things…you have proven your incompetence beyond ANY measure of doubt!

  • earljr1

    Little kevie feeling some angst? It sure seems that way. Two weeks and the clock is ticking…..63% of Americans feel our country is headed in the WRONG direction and just who might be at the helm? Record indebtedness, millions of jobs lost, record unemployment, low morale, clueless decisions and democrats denouncing their own brethren….the ship is sinking, little kevie, time to go to the lifeboat now. Women and children will be evacuated first.

  • shepherdwong

    It only took you two years to really screw things up, so get out of the sand box and let the big boys and girls fix things…you have proven your incompetence beyond ANY measure of doubt!
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    Espousing the idea that things got really screwed up only in the past two years makes me think you’re probably one of those raging alcoholic surgeons mental health care professionals are so familiar with. If not, you really are insane.

  • hippooath

    “come Nov, 2nd. and I think the message will be extraordinarily clear…..America rejects progressive politics and the encroachment of socialism. It only took you two years to really screw things up, so get out of the sand box and let the big boys and girls fix things…you have proven your incompetence beyond ANY measure of doubt!”
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    I very seriously doubt that you’re a doctor of any kind. If you think that the mess we’re in (that have improved but not not nearly enough) happened in these past 2 years.
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    There’s absolutely no imperical data that shows that. And if you’re a doctor imperical data is pretty much a prerequisite for the job. If you lack that I wouldn’t want you to treat me for anything including warts. I would NOT trust someone with such a dillusional understanding of the events we’re in. There’s plenty of blame in there for the democratic party but your historical revisionism is just idiotic.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “Record indebtedness…”
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    Not in terms of GDP and much of that is thanks to your man, dubbya.
    “..millions of jobs lost..” with the cascade starting with your man, dubbya.
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    “..record unemployment..” not compared to the Great Depression and not as bad as it would have been without the stimulus package.
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    “…low morale..” which happens with every economic downturn.
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    “..clueless decisions…” I am not even going to ask about what that means since you are, probably going to rant and rave for pages on HCR with “YOU LIED!” at random intervals.
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    “..and democrats denouncing their own brethren….” Yeah and that only happens on days of the week ending in Y.
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    Earl, it may be a Republican victory on the way, but, unless, by accident, the Republicans do something to help the economy, they’ll just be lambs for the slaughter in 2012 since the party in power in congress loses every time the economy goes down or fails to pick up. Two years of Republican lead stagnation will be the death warrant for the far right wing dominating the Republican party today.
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    If I only loved the Democratic Party as you only love the Republican Party, I would be thrilled to see the Republicans win this time to lead on to their own defeat, but, since I love America, I wouldn’t want to see what Beohner has in store for this contract on America.

  • hippooath

    Rightwingers will circle the wagons because they’re ‘real americans’. Thats why they can complain and b!tch how we’re always so mean and call them names or we’re not letting them express themselves, yet this forum is full of their p!ss and Vinegar. I’ve yet to find one single right that they’re denied but they’re pretty much okay about denying others their rights. I mean, they’re socialists right?
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    If private rent-a-cops handcuffing anyone (regardless of your political opinion) doesn’t send chills down your spine you probably don’t know sh!t about the constitution you always drag through the street like a abused carcass.

  • http://derekg.wordpress.com/ Derek

    I think it is safe to describe Drudge as a propagandist, dressed up as a news reporter.

  • earljr1

    You are a perfect example of the the blind leading the blind, hippo. You are also in denial. Progressive politics is yesterday’s news and totally failed to deliver on any of its many, many promises. Go back to your fantasy land and slumber for another 40 years…there is NO free ride in the real world and shame on you and your cohorts for telling people otherwise. Change you can believe in….what an absolute crock!

  • liberalmeltdown

    Well Joe, he isn’t out there bragging about his bills that were shoved down our throats. The polls don’t look good Joe, so Obama is panicking. He tried selling more of his BS and nobody’s buying it. We now know who Barry Obama is. Unfortunately, most had to learn the hard way. But, everyday we see the apprentice president in action, or what poses for action: A stump speech, and don’t ask him any tough questions.
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    The community organizer routine has gotten old. When you are the power, it’s impossible to act like you are one of the little people.

  • herby002

    apr,

    More Teapublicans rewriting history, or just ignorant of it:

    The East German Wall was to keep people IN the workers’ paradise, not to keep “illegal immigrants OUT. When the wall that Mr. Miller pines for came down, there was an avalanche of people rushing OUT.

  • apr2563

    earljr: Are you saying they are good little Germans and follow their leader? You really don’t get how offensive it is to demand a particular religion’s values to be followed unthinkingly by your country?
    Which Christian values will they be required to follow? Who is going to decide if a person’s values are sufficiently Christian?
    Also, come on. It stretches our imaginations to picture you as a doctor. Now you have doctor friends in Germany. One is Jewish? Really?

  • apr2563

    herby: I know. That is one of the reasons his admiration for the Berlin Wall is so funny. I guess if he gets power, we shouldn’t plan any trips out of the country.

  • liberalmeltdown

    I can’t wait for for more psychological analysis of the American public from the community organizer in chief.
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    Didn’t he go to law school? Hmm… maybe if we could see his transcripts we could see all the psych classes that he must have taken as electives, no?
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    “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”
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    Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”
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    “You can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this,” Obama said, referring to the economy. “One is to pull back, retrench and respond to your fears by pushing away challenges, looking backwards. Another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward. And that’s what this election is about.”
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    Dear Barry, we aren’t scared, well unless somehow you would manage to be re-elected, we are pissed off Barry.
    You don’t your a$$ from a hole in the ground. You are one of the worst lying politicians that the US has ever seen, put into office by a press that is ideologically in lock step with your agenda. They still just love you. So, we don’t ever listen to their thinly veiled opinions anymore. That’s why Fox News kills all the other cable news channels. We aren’t scared, are you?

  • http://derekg.wordpress.com/ Derek

    I beg to differ but the incoherent rantings from you and the other angry conservatives on this forum prove you are terrified of Obama. Unfortunately, we never get any rational explanations as to why, just the angry rantings of those living in fear.

  • kevin

    If not, you really are insane.
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    He’s not a doctor. No one that f*cking stupid could’ve made it through med school.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Meltdown,
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    Among the sane, the most frightening thing we have had to face since the end of the cold war is unemployment and the humiliation of lacking the income to support ourselves and our family.
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    In my own life I have never been mugged, beaten up, shot at, had explosives go off near me, had anybody try and kill me, been robbed or any of those movie-like frightening things happen to me, but, I have been unemployed before and it is sickening.
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    That is a real and justified fear.
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    If you don’t find the idea of unemployment frightening, then you are a complete idiot.
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    If you, instead, fear that the president’s middle name will bring terrorists to Texas and jihadists to Jackson Hole, you are just plain lost.
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    You, like all of the right wing posters who love that phrase, fail to follow through with substance to “YOU LIED!”. In the English language that means there must have been something that the person said which was intentionally deceptive. Nearly all of us on both sides are disappointed with how the stimulus package delivered so little net results even if it had a large gross result. Not accomplishing a goal is not the same thing as lying.
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    Of course, “You didn’t accomplish your goal” is not a rallying cry that gathers the same adrenalin rush for the Tea Republicans. Worse yet, it would, with logical thinking, tell you that the president should have proposed far more infrastructure repairs in the stimulus package.

  • freeinpa

    “This is coming from somebody who calls every political opponent here a loser and failure at life.”
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    No just you and it also happens to be true despite your feeble attempts at sounding relevant with your tortuous tomes. Oh and don’t forget you are also a burden on society

  • freeinpa

    “What a bunch of skinheaded, brownshirt thugs”
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    Finally an accurate description of the knuckle dragging unions that endorse and fund the left wing nuts of Team Dnnkey

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “Oh and don’t forget you are also a burden on society.”
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    Just like I said, nothing but random insults.
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    If a few things fall into place, I may pay more in taxes this year than you’ve earned this year, but, you still like to say that “burden to society” thing.
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    I’ll remember when my taxes get sent to your state for farm subsidies in your area what a burden I am to you.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “”What a bunch of skinheaded, brownshirt thugs”
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    Finally an accurate description of the knuckle dragging unions that endorse and fund the left wing nuts of Team Dnnkey”
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    Oh, you mean the SEIU, the same “thugs” who I, on my first day of work at the Prudential Center single handedly held down a group of sixty of?
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    Your two choices are as follow:
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    I have tougher than an entire squad of Green Berets.
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    Or
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    The SEIU are about as dangerous as your grandmother and it is the far right who are prone to violence and intimidation far, far more often than anybody in the center or on the left.
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    Here’s a hint: two years after I was at the Pru working security I was medically disqualified for the Army JAG Corps.

  • earljr1

    You do not wear jealousy well, little kevie…it shows us all just how insecure you are.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “You do not wear jealousy well, little kevie…it shows us all just how insecure you are.”
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    Yeah, I’m sure when Kevin was a little boy, like all of us, he dreamed of spending all day online as a pathological liar inventing dumb things and saying that we are doctors.
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    Pure jealousy. Professional wingnut troll was right on my list of favorite jobs right after septic tank cleaner and homeless panhandler.

  • earljr1

    And it REALLY stretches our imagination to envision you as a teacher, april. A broken down old socialist, espousing the “only one view point is permissible” dogma so endeared by the far left. I shudder to think how many children were damaged by your socialist rhetoric.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    You’ve got to love Earl’s advanced debating abilities:
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    ” It stretches our imaginations to picture you as a doctor.

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    “And it REALLY stretches our imagination to envision you as a teacher, april…”
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    Take the other person’s argument, add the word “REALLY” in capital letters and… you know, Earl, you might almost be as qualified to be a doctor as Christine O’Donnell is qualified to be a Senator.
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    Masterful debater you are, Earl.
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    Fess up, Earl. You’re not a doctor. Your not a Physician’s assistant. You’re not a nurse. You might be an EMT, but I doubt it. You don’t know any doctors on a first name basis much less many around the world.

  • arartteacher

    !Shepherdwong you’re absolutely right it is amazing how fast people forget who got us in this mess THE REPUBLICANS

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