Jolting Joe & The War on XMas

And to continue the ongoing report on Joe Lieberman’s role as the “Republican Posterboy” is a report from Salon called Jolting Joe. The second paragraph really hits the nail on the head: “Lieberman is now seen as the most important Democratic apologist for the White House, a man who shores up what little credibility the president has left, while undermining his own party and refusing to own up to the debacle Iraq has become. Increasingly, people in his own party want to take him down. As the 2006 midterms approach, some major Democratic funders, despite their dream of reclaiming at least one house of Congress, are prepared to spend a lot of money and energy defeating one of their own.”

Interestingly enough, both MoveOn and Democracy for America (an organization created by Howard Dean’s brother) said they would consider funding opponents to Joe in the 2006 election. And you know what? Good. Even though that could be construed as an attempt by Howard Dean to remove someone from his party, he should. And perhaps overtly, because Lieberman has done far more bad for the Democratic party than good recently (and I personally blame him for the lose of the 2000 election).

By the way, my favorite quote in the article came from independent Lowell Weicker: “Both parties are at fault,” Weicker says. “You have the idiotic policy of the Bush administration, which brought us into this war in a disingenuous way, and then you have a bunch of Democrats sitting around agreeing with what happened, or semi-agreeing, or failing to stand up and get counted. So why would I want to be a Democrat? Their silence has been as devastating as Bush’s policy. I’ll stay right where I am.” Nothing rings more true to me, and there seems to be no reason to support either parties unless you are one for the lesser of two evils argument.

By the way, check out this DumpJoe website, and this equally sweet picture:

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann named Bill O’Reilly “Worst Person in the World,” based on false O’Reilly claims that a Texas school district and the township of Saginaw, Michigan, enforced bans against red and green clothing during the holiday season.

PS. I still hate Bill O’Reilly. And I hate him here and here, ‘”No Spin Zone” provides different spin on everyone else’s spin by using Bill O’Reilly’s spin’.

Let’s all get consumed by anxiety

As a stead-fast believer in an alarmist, paranoid mentality, the record US trade deficit should send me (and you) into all-time high worrying about immigrants, cheap electronics, and other such things that ‘took our jobs’. But as an economist, it doesn’t matter (or does it) because the US is moving from the industrial/good production sector to the financial/services sector. Confuse you? Too bad.

In other news, Russia is still doing a good job of messing up it’s former Soviet Union states. Not that this is to be surprised — most of these countries are somewhat third/second world and little comprehension of democratic processes. It is not to be forgotten that the Soviet Union only collapsed 14 years ago too.

And the ‘what world do we live in now’ news articles of the day, Bob Dylan will host an XM radio program. No, this is not a joke, and yes, the words ‘sell out’ should be forming in your lips. Second, check out this article about kids using powerpoint to sway parents on gifts. This would require the usual jab about consumerism and the state of American affairs… but at this point, I can’t even be forced to care.

the war on christmas ctd.

Worth a view. Let us all continue the War on Christmas, as God intended.

Mr. Lieberman, A Republican Posterboy

Fuck You, Joe Lieberman. Why is this guy even a Democrat? His biggest issue in his sixteen year career in the Senate was getting the V-Chip installed onto televisions so kids have to figure out new creative ways to access violence and pornography. Way to go, Joe. And his latest political posturing (can you say 2008 presidential election) has been to support George Bush. It’s a nice gamble to think that things will perk up in Iraq and Bush’s approval ratings will grow by 2008, but guess what? It’s wormy losers like you that make the Democratic party a spineless, ineffective entity. And thanks, by the way, for ruining the 2000 election in the first place. You really helped out the ticket.

You are not going to become president because a) there are 40-odd states in America not in New England or named New York or California b) you are a transparent opportunist piece of dirt c) You belong in a lepor colony.

PS. I still hate Bill O’Reilly.

It’s our world now, Johnny Boy

Isn’t it interesting that in the middle of a series of letters and written memories on John Lennon (this being the 25th anniversary of his assassination), there are ads for McDonalds?

Guess you lost, and now all we have is your legacy. And legacy’s don’t do much but appear on Top 100 shows and have their memories rewritten by Hollywood.