Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Party of No

"...You can’t reason with people who are not reasonable. You just can’t.

This nonsense, literally non-sense, is a disturbing symptom of a much larger sickness – one that expresses itself in a hundred different ways, from Holocaust denial to climate change denial to creationism to seeing commies lurking in every shadow to the belief that you can actually turn an enemy into a friendly democracy if you just drop enough ordinance on them. 

There’s a reason, a damned good reason, why these people are called The Party of No.

It’s because they have institutionalized pessimism.

More, they’ve turned it into a reflex; If Obama is for it, they’re automatically against it. Q.E.D.
And this reflexive pessimism, this reflexive denial, taints everything...."

http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/02/preemptive-pessimism-isnt-plan.html

Friday, February 15, 2013

Georgia Rep. Paul Broun has decided to run for Senate

"...his inability to craft any paragraph longer than one sentence. It's like a very angry children's book. It's like crackpot haiku. Damn it, Georgia, teach your legislators how to write—even crazy voters deserve better than this...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/14/1186938/-Paul-Broun-wants-to-be-a-senator-because-Obama-s-a-Marxist-Leninist-who-rules-with-iron-fist