After citing Atlas Shrugged yesterday, you would think that there would be nowhere to go but up for Andy McCarthy at the Corner. You would be wrong:
In the first segment of the Great One’s program last night, Mark highlighted this article by Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker, describing a clip, recently dug up by the Confederate Yankee site (the clip was also played by Mark), in which the FBI informant who infiltrated the Weather Underground described the terrorist group’s plan to exterminate 25 million Americans — the estimated number of incorrigible capitalists who would not take to Leftist “re-education” once Bill Ayers’ revolution occurred. It’s worth pausing over the monstrousness of it all.
The great one is Mark Levin. The others- well, you know them.
The downward spiral continues at the nation’s premier site for conservative thought. By this time next week, I fully expect McCarthy to be using graffiti he has read on stall doors in public bathrooms as a source for the revelation that after Obama receives the votes of tens of millions of Americans, he plans to murder them with Bill Ayers.
4tehlulz
At this point, we should be glad they’re not calling for hoarding fertilizer and diesel, cuz, well, you never know when you will need them.
Punchy
Isn’t Andy McCarthy a former US Attorney (assistant?)? Aren’t guys like these supposed to display at least of modicum of reason and logic, a functioning Bullshit Detector, and some sort of pride in their professional reputation.
Seriously, this guy probably isn’t in Mom’s basement with Cheetos and 7L of Mountain Dew, yet he pens stuff that make those Cheetos-stained clowns blush in embarrasment.
Joshua
I am not surprised they would say this. These are the same dumbasses that took the recent foiled "terrorist" plans seriously – the guys that planned to light an oil pipeline in New Jersey and blow up JFK airport, the guys that planned to blow up Sears Tower, and so forth? And then it turned out most of these guys were just a bunch of morons with neither the ability nor knowledge nor logistical skills to put their plan into action?
JK
"Alinski"?
They can’t even spell their Satan right.
Napoleon
@Punchy:
And Glenn Reynolds and Ann Althouse are law professors.
Balconesfault
Rachael Maddow has it right, I think – they’re no longer trying to win this election. They’re just out to seed as much crazy out there as they can, trying to make America ungovernable for Obama.
If you want to find anti-Americanism, I think we know where to look.
cleek
golly, with all that damning evidence, you’d think Ayers would have been convicted of a crime or two…
markg
I’ve only up to 10 million on my "to exterminate" list, but that’s just the people who’ve cut me off in traffic.
Zifnab
He was, in fact, brought up on charges. But the case was dismissed because it became apparent that the police were using absolutely insane extra-legal methods of collecting evidence against the man.
In short, Bill Ayers is a living testament to the GOP’s inability to convict admitted terrorists in a court of law because their own justice department and police units are just that fucking incompetent.
Atanarjuat
The most effective way to distract others from scrutinizing the disturbing issues on your side (ACORN, CRA, Ayers, Fannie Mae, etc.) is to self-righteously point to the few crazies among your opponent’s supporters.
Jackalope, set, and match.
C’mon, leftists, you can do better than that, right? Or perhaps this is all you’ve got?
Country First.
Josh Hueco
Dixie Deutschland Country First.
Cris v.3.1
I’m not sure what that means, but I like it. Makes me think of mythical desert animals playing tennis.
Montysano
As an interim stop before the graffiti thing, McCarthy could always reference some of the letters to the editor that are published in our local newspaper here in north Alabama. They contain lots of "Open your eyes, people!@" and "America needs to wake up!1!", as well as vaguely worded warnings about Supreme Kommander Hussein Obama X (which stop just short of hollering ni**er).
dmsilev
What the worthies at the NRO seem not to have considered is that by attempting to blow the whistle on Obama’s secret plan, they have moved themselves to the top of "the list". I urge the entire staff of The Corner to stock up on Cheetos, Mountain Dew, and ammo for their BB guns, and relocate off the grid for the next 8 years. Under no circumstances should they attempt to communicate with the outside world.
-dms
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Yes, getting elected president and then Blammapalooza is a well known terrorist trick.
It’s about time we put a stop to this abuse of our political system. Aren’t we tired of terrorists running for president?
Bathroom Graffiti
Fuck you. I’ll go up against Gun Counter Gomer and Crazy Pammy any day of the week.
Balconesfault
a) Few crazies? This isn’t Joes blog. This is the freaking spokesmag for the right in America. You know – William F. Buckley, founder, and all that?
b) ACORN – you mean the ACORN that McCain said We can see where demonizing registration of minorities works in your short term interest, but do you really think it’s a winner long term?
c) CRA – turns out that CRA mortgages weren’t nearly as problematic during the bubble burst as those made outside the program, that weren’t subject to the oversight measures that CRA had in place. Lose.
d) Ayers – lol. I guess that you didn’t notice this whole heap of crazy from McCarthy is about Ayers?
e) Fannie Mae – again, not by any measure the big problem during the mortgage collapse. Fannie Mae was actually a minor actor in the subprime crisis, which was largely fueled by private banks chasing profits by selling buyers on the idea that "housing prices would always go up". Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac had problems, but were more victims of a market fueled by bad actors in the private sector, than a driver for the bad acting.
Elvis Elvisberg
This guy used to be a US Attorney. And not even under Bush dJr.
It scares the crap out of me that people this gullible and irrational are in positions like that.
Bathroom Graffiti
Next to Gun Counter Gomer and Crazy Pam, I’m Hemingway.
DonkeyKong
Election night for the National Review clowns will look alot like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Laughing, screaming, melting, heads exploding, then the whole doughy pantload will be sucked up into the sky.
A sort of doughy pantload rapture if you will.
Then, if you look just right, little starbursts will cascade around the sky.
Xanthippas
In my mind I have contemplated exactly how many boats it would take to ship off to Iran the 28% of the country who still think Bush is doing a super job. Someone should pause to consider the monstrousness of this hoped-for ethnic cleansing on an unprecedented scale.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Um, no. They are real.
Quite, quite real.
Warning, the photo at the bottom of that last link is not for the faint of heart.
Xanthippas
LOL. If only.
Montysano
@Balconesfault:
Fannie & Freddie began to take on subprime business because they were losing market share to the unregulated mortgage brokers like Countrywide. But you are correct: they were a minor part of the problem.
Cris v.3.1
@DonkeyKong:
IT’S BEAUTIFUL
Comrade Stuck
For the coming Global Warming devastation of the worlds food supply, we will have to look for alternate forms of sustenance . And Capitalist’s IS people, usually nice and fat ones.
Josh Hueco
@ThymeZoneThePlumber:
Don’t forget about the basselope
Balconesfault
There’s also some serious opportunity for biomass conversion here.
SnarkyShark
Win
The Other Steve
Our local newspaper(startribune.com) allows online comments.
They’re starting to get hacktacular. Lot’s of references to Hitler and how the German people voted for Change in 1934 and so on.
I find it interesting. Wasn’t comparing Bush to Hitler considered in poor taste?
Paul L.
Approved by progressive hero William Mark Felt, Sr./Deep Throat.
I brought this up yesterday with a link to my favorite topic.
Jeff
Posted this in a late night thread yesterday, but seems related. From the Corner quoting Thomas Sowell:
I guess they never heard of the Lugar-Obama Initiative. These guys really need to hire a college student to teach them how to Google.
Gus
The drugs were much better and more readily available in those days.
Cris v.3.1
I think you meant "B. Hussein Obama"
The Other Steve
Whatever you do… Don’t watch!
Balconesfault
In this case, it’s downright brain-dead, considering that McCain-Palin is ALSO running on "Change".
I’m not sure which is more stupid – that charge, or the charge that "Hitler drew big rallies, Obama draws big rallies, therefore …"
Now, when someone brings me a politician who favors intensive usage of traditionalist patriotic symbiology, merging of religion and politics, demonization of liberals, promotion of the military, and promotion of corporate interests through state action … we can talk about Hitler comparisons.
SamFromUtah
@Balconesfault: Wasn’t comparing Bush to Hitler considered in poor taste?
No, it was considered TREASON and WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH?
Comrade Nixon Hailfire Palin
EX-TER-MIN-ATE. EX-TER-MIN-ATE.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
Via Sully:
Shorter Greenspan: "I’m a moron."
Josh Hueco
Shorter Alan Greenspan: It took me well into my eighties to figure out what most normal people do in their twenties, which is that real life is not an Ayn Rand novel.
Martin
Nobody is immune to the effects of untreated syphilis. Someone should cut a PSA to remind these guys to get their goats checked.
Atanarjuat
@Balconesfault – Every single one of those issues that you so handily trivialize are, indeed, still being debated among serious thinkers. If ACORN, for example, were just a "gotcha! McCain backed it, too!" non-event, then why would the FBI be involved in investigating the voter fraud registrations in multiple states? The whole thing stinks like week-old roadkill, and it’s not quite the partisan allegation you’re making it out to be.
I’m agreeing with everyone that the wheels are coming off the National Review clown car. Andy McCarthy has his foot firmly planted on the gas pedal as the whole conspiracy-riddled vehicle is speeding straight into a brick wall. You’ll get no counter-argument from me.
But being concerned with the escape of a few loonies from the Arkham Asylum, so to speak, doesn’t mean that there’s not a staggering amount of corruption in Gotham City, and your cargo cult leader, Nobama, is inarguably the Kingpin running the whole criminal enterprise.
Country First.
Gus
Wow, so Ayers is promoted to adviser for Obama? This is getting sad. Funny, but sad.
Cris v.3.1
@Atanarjuat:
Dude, Kingpin is from Spider-Man. Gotham City’s crime boss was Boss Rupert Thorne.
Rage all you want about Ayers and ACORN, but get your comic book metaphors straight please.
Veeshir
I still love this place. Nobody does crazy like you guys.
Balconesfault
Sorry … but until the stench of the hyper-politicized Bush Justice Department is washed from Washington, an FBI investigation of a political matter carries as much persuasive weight as a right-wing chain e-mail.
And guess what – using the term "Nobama" puts you in the glove box on that National Review Clown Car. Have a good time going off the cliff…
b. hussein canuckistani (comrade)
Well, there’s the Republican justice system for you – guilty because an informant said so.
boonagain
few???????
Notorious P.A.T.
Bush’s base would hate it in Iran. Iran is a country where the will of the majority is thwarted by a highly-militarized, religious fundamentalist regime concerned only with its own survival. Unlike America now, of course.
Mary
You’ve picked out some of McCarthy’s most bizarre ramblings, but I think the one that was really most revealing was from a little further back. After the first debate, he had frothed over McCain not making it clear that Obama was a terrorist sympathizer (you either are one or you’re not, was his point, leaving an interesting question as to how he views bombing civilians in their homes as an exercise of, not war, but occupation police powers, and disappearing children, etc.)
But in the next day or so, he did, well, not actually a 180, but maybe a 360 to the 10th power and after dizzily taking to the keyboard he brought forth his new theory that the problem wasn’t so much being a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer (Kissinger no doubt drew a breath of relief). The real problem, much bigger than being a terrorist, was being a "leftist."
And that pretty much set the scene for the subsequent Bachman and other meltdowns. BC his piffle made it pretty clear that he really doesn’t view Bin Laden, a terrorist but not a liberal, as being nearly the same threat as "leftists."
That’s eyeopening, from a former AUSA who handled terrorism cases. Providing health care as a right is worse than being a terrorist?? He dwells over a 1951 Douglas opinion stating that communism in this nation was crippled as a political force and points to — well, what? The big ol communist party here now? Nope, that they found some communist spies after the opinion, so Douglas must have been wrong.
And then he goes to further explain just how frightening "the left" will be. After all, it has anti-war and civil rights advocates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine that. Yep, the real threat isn’t good ol conservative fundamentalist terrorists like al-Qaeda and abortion clinic bombers etc. – it’s Quakers against the war.
Feel the fear:
Wow -civil rights coalitions might be rebuilt – RUN!!!!!!!
Yes, we know Lassie, but we’re leaving Timmy in the well. While he slowly wastes away, at least we’ll know that he won’t have to face a world filled with civil rights and antiwar coalitions. Now go see Aunt Sarah, she’s got a little surprise for you before Uncle Mitt straps you to his hood.
It’s really no big wonder that you hear the kind of stuff you hear from Bachman and Palin when someone who has had the training and experience and support of a McCarthy is having an online emotional breakdown. If he’s the smart, trained, experienced guy in the room, all you can hope for now is that the walls of that room are nicely padded.
Tsulagi
Hey, there’s no recession and certainly not depression in stupid. It’s a growth industry. If you could securitize the stupid in the nation’s premier sites for conservative thought like NRO and RedState, I’d buy.
jp2
Peak wingnut still on the rise! It’s a consistent bull market.
KCinDC
I liked the Corner messages yesterday about various Conservapedia Browns making fraudulent campaign donations on the Obama and McCain sites in order to show that Obama accepted fraudulent campaign donations (because the site didn’t immediately reject them).
Comrade Darkness
@Montysano:
Big Picture has been beating these myths down I remember when welfare queens were "responsible" for the Savings and Loan debacle too. Man, no effort to blame the brown and powerless is too absurd for the right.
83% of subprime mortgages were issued by institutions with NO requirement to meet CRA. They issued the loans (any loans) because they could collateralize them with bogus ratings. The real acronyms to lay blame on are CDO and CDS, but those are products from rich white guys in charge of large financial institutions, so they can’t possible be at fault or responsible for anything.
JGabriel
John Cole:
I don’t know, John. As the good folks at Sadly, No! noted the other day, it’s pretty hard to get any lower once you’ve voiced support for Francisco Franco.
Instead, perhaps we should think of The National Review in a more Heraclitean manner, that we never step in the same river twice.
In the case of The National Review, think of it not as the water spiraling down the toilet, but as the spiral itself. The piss and shit that flow through it are ever-changing, yet the gyre (unlike that of Yeats’s "The Second Coming") is static; it never widens or narrows, never rises or descends. It sits there, ever churning, in the junction between between porcelain and pipe, between civilization and sewage.
Therefore it’s direction is both irrelevant and non-existent. Rather than complain – as if surprised by the recalcitrant stillness of an immovable object – that "The downward spiral continues…", would it not be better to recognize that "The spiralling continues…" without regard for motion?
The National Review is a shit vortex, it’s place forever static, like the unchanging flow of Herclitus’s river.
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The Moar You Know
Line forms on your left for kool-aid, to the right for your tinfoil hat.
srv
In the Lodi trial, they convicted a guy based on testimony from an informant. Said informant also testified that no less than Al Zawahiri (OBL’s main squeeze), was traipsing around the CA central valley in the late 90’s recruiting.
He also got six-figures for his ‘informing’.
Comrade Darkness
"And I was pwned."
Too bad he’s too old to kick ass back, I honestly think he’d do it if he could. He just wasted 60 years of his life promoting criminals to greater wealth, and now knows it.
David Hunt
Okay, the answer that treats that as a serious question:
In many cases, the Feds got the evidence for those investigations from ACORN. There’s a lot of states where voter registration organization are required to turn in every registration form (which are indiviually numberd) they get, even if they’re an obvious fraud. They are, instead, supposed to separate those registrations and flag then for attention of relevant authorities. This prevents the partisan operations from weeding out registrations from the opposing party and simply destroying them, setting up voters for their opponents to show up at the poles on election day to discover that they aren’t really registered.
ACORN is required by law to turn in bogus registrations (separtately and properly flagged), and that’s what they do. They also, as a matter of policy, fire anyone that’s turning in that crap to them and will often turn them into the authorities. If someone wanted to talk about ACORN placing better controls on their hiring practices for employees that actualy go out and collect registrations, that’s a conversation that has serious merit. However, I’m sorry but a vast voter fraud conspiracy has less fact backing up than the 9/11 Truthers.
greynoldsct00
I learn new stuff on this blog every day…great debate, factoids…it’s a win-win
demimondian
All our base belong to you!
greynoldsct00
OMFG! My co-workers think I’ve completely lost it. Hilarious!!
srv
I, for one, never thought Magical Unity meant a combination of Nationalist Socialist Nazism, Marxism and Islamofascism into one congruent philosophy. What I would give for Al Maviva to appear and do a treatise on that.
How about a new word for the new right: BIRDZILLAISM
Comrade Darkness
And technically, it would be voter *registration* fraud in any event. Which, by the way only a republican organization has ever been convicted of, by throwing away the democratic registrations, rather than turning them in, as required.
Vote fraud is something entirely different, and must involve attempting to sway an election through manipulating votes (not registrations). If you look back at the cases even Bush’s pressured DoJ had to throw out, such as in Arizona, you can see that they could never meet that metric.
What gets me is all this garment rending by republicans over empowerment when systematic bias is left unfixed. Broken and old equipment in underserved districts (read democrat) are perfectly fine, as are confusing ballots that don’t match the republican district next door (florida) as is altering the software on the machines in the week before the election (georgia, but that got them a republican governor for the first time in decades so, that can’t be fraud). If the republicans were serious, they’d rail against all problems with voting, but most of the problems are to their benefit, thus proving they don’t actually give a crap about running an accurate vote and this acorn nonsense is all hypocritical bullhocky. As usual.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
@Comrade Darkness:
CD: I totally agree that the darkies-brought-down-the-global-financial-system meme is absurd. But I did read somewhere that F&F did expand their subprime business because they were losing market share to the non-CRA mortgage brokers. I’ll see if I can find a link.
You brought up another great point: the failure of the bond rating system. Bond raters are supposed to be the most conservative, cautious entities in the financial world. When they started awarding AAA and BBB ratings to piles of toxic crap, the last best safeguard was gone.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
@Comrade Darkness:
This photo tells the story.
Mayur
You guys are kidding about Greenspan, right?
As far as I’m concerned, these are just crocodile tears. Man isn’t stupid, or experiencing a crisis of conscience, or anything. He’s just "admitting an error" in order to sound like he might have been just a teensy bit wrong, rather than having promoted the interests of the rich (his peeps) and the Republicans (his peeps) at the expense of most of America.
ksmiami
I will pay any Balloon juicer with connections $1000 bucks to replace the regular brownies at NRO with spiked Colorado Blue reefer brownies. They need a chill the fuck out moment – badly.
PeakVT
I like this one farther down on the Corner page:
Unleashing Fred [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Thompson works his magic to get out the vote.
Comrade Darkness
Hence the silliness of making them a private entity, with all the rights to lobby congress, while still allowing the implicit taxpayer backing to remain in place. Fannie and Freddie should have been left as government entities at best. Then they would not have been lobbying, for one thing, and it would have been easier for someone higher up (assuming an administration that cared about corruption, which this one did not, but assuming) to put the brakes on, because there would have been a chain of command above them, not just shareholders.
Fannie and Freddie are failures that entire phd theses will be dedicated too. Half-ass privatization of anything bigger than a lemonade stand is doomed. You can’t use freemarket principles to modify the behavior of a government entity. You simply end up with a sinkhole that neither makes money nor serves the public. They should take those two out behind the shed and put ’em out of everyone’s misery.
The Moar You Know
I don’t. He knew damn well what this would lead to. He spent all of Clinton’s terms bitching about deficits and fiscal responsibility, then turned right around and endorsed Bush and the Republicans’ 5 trillion dollar deficit spending.
He felt compelled to place party over country.
He hoped he’d be dead before the shit hit the fan. No such luck.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
@Comrade Darkness:
Caring about corruption is one thing, and obviously BushCo did not. But as the CDS market ballooned geometrically to $60T, you’d have to think that, somewhere around 2004-2005, red warning lights began to flash. Where was Bush, Paulson, Bernanke, Cox, et al? Simply asleep at the wheel? Such incompetence and irresponsibility is mind boggling.
Then I bust out my tinfoil hat and think: was this allowed to happen?
Mary
Where was Bush, Paulson, Bernanke, Cox, et al? Simply asleep at the wheel?
Nope. Hoping to make it out of office before the wheels came off, so it would be the next President’s problem. Cox and Paulson in particular didn’t want to have their roles in changing the leverage rules for Goldman & Co to get a look while they were still there. Bush has always planned on leaving all the messes he created for "the next guy" to clean up – it’s been a lifetime pattern. So with the continued occupation of Iraq with no UN mandate or SOFA in place; with a national debt that had doubled in his term – doubled from the placeholder of all terms preceding his; with social security and medicare and medicaid in tailspins; with no decent infrastructure approach for most of a decade now; with GITMO a complete and total mess (Britain’s high court pretty much calling the US torturers and Millibrand an aidor and abettor in the last couple of days and inviting journalists to have them reconsider their former rulings on secrecy); unconstitutional surveillance and torture programs still in legal flux; and on and on
Bush has been waiting for the next "daddy"’ to show up and just hand everything off to him, and Paulson and Cox where hoping for the same. They knew what they had in place, but partisan politics and Bush’s unitary Executive approach not only wouldn’t allow them to address it, but also gave them the cover they really wanted to try to just get out and leave the disaster they had created to hit on someone else’s watch. Then they could be paid commentators on FOX, tsk tsking it all
Balconesfault
Also – remember that this was all a huge profit-making opportunity. I’ll swear up and down that the primary function of Bush’s big tax cuts was to eliminate the possibility of balancing the budget so that huge amounts of money could be funnelled to specific pockets.
When there’s a balanced budget, like at the end of Clinton’s term, opportunities for graft dry up, because nobody wants to approve the $10 billion here or $10 billion there that throws the budget out of whack.
When you’re running a structural $400 billion deficit, suddenly $10 billion here or $10 billion there barely qualify as noise.
And back to Greenspan:
Per the neocons, there is bad deficit spending (social programs, government infrastructure and services) and good deficit spending (war, privatization boondoggles). Greenspan has always warned against the former … not so much about the latter.
binzinerator
And how. And any of youse out there in B-J land, don’t pat him any on the back for his admitting he made a boo-boo. He admitted to ‘finding a flaw’, which is about like admitting he forgot to carry the ones in another wise sound calculation. Fucking liar.
The bubble Greenspan blew was instrumental in keeping Bush in the White House in 2004. The housing bubble gave cover to what was an otherwise dismal economy. There were some people who saw it was hollowed out underneath, that most of americans were actually losing ground and Bush did get called on it. But the WH always responded with "The economy’s fine! Look at those housing numbers! Most americans are getting wealthier. The Ownership Society works! So STFU."
Even so, Bush barely won in 2004. Without the bubble people would have seen Bushonomics for what it was. People would see the emperor had no clothes.
I believe if it wasn’t for Greenspan’s continued blowing of the bubble, Bush would have lost. The war was a big issue but as we have seen a tanking economy matters more to most Americans (Remember ‘It’s the economy, Stupid’? It’s what destroyed Bush senior’s chance at a second term. Rove certainly remembered.)
The expanding bubble kept Bush in the White House, and Bush and Greenspan knew it.
binzinerator
I will say that someone in Greenspan’s position would recognize the warning lights in 2003.
And I am saying yes this was allowed to happen.
I do believe the short-term reasons for doing so changed, but overall it was always for domestic political gain or to avoid domestic political losses. Plus, all their friends were getting rich, and that meant big contributions.
2002 — need recovery after 9/11 (came right on the heels of dotcom bust too)
2003-2004 — Battle for the WH in a very tight race so no fucking way
2005-2006 — warning signs are on fire, economists on the outside are reading the signs, the smell of smoke is impossible to hide, people on the inside are alarmed BUT NOTHING IS DONE because there’s the congress the goopers are desperate to keep control of!
post 2006 election — Now it doesn’t matter, but it’s too late. They conjured a tiger, rode on it’s back and now they can’t hop off without being shredded.
2007 to pres: Bob the Builder would say: ‘Can we fix it?’ ‘No we’re fucked!’ Strategy is now to kick the can down the road and hope to dump everything into the next guy’s lap. With this strategy the worse is for the better. They know they’ll get some of the rotary impeller-powered excrement on them, but if they get lucky most of the shit splatters on Obama and the Dems. As a consolation they realize a bankrupted US government is Norquist’s wet dream come true; there will be little money left to pay for any pesky progressive initiatives for the incoming Obama if he should win.
binzinerator
"the smell of smoke is impossible to hide"
I mean it was impossible to hide to economists on the outside. The public got the snow job (I won’t cite this; too numerous, just google) and the outsider experts who smelled the smoke were told they were imagining things. The public snow job lasted right up to September 15, with McCain’s famous ‘sound fundamentals’.
binzinerator
@Balconesfault
Government cannot create wealth but it can (and does) redistribute it.
The New Deal was a massive wealth redistribution system that benefited the middle class and the needy. Bushonomics is another massive wealth redistribution system, only it is one that benefits the wealthy.
Just like your bad deficit spending/good deficit spending analogy, ‘spreading the wealth around’ is bad (Socialism!) only when it doesn’t get spread disproportionately into the pockets of the wealthy.
dj spellchecka
i’m just tryin’ to do the math here with that room full of ayers’ buddies…. there were what?? around 50 folks this informant spied on??? and they were gonna off 25 million capitalists??? how, pray tell, were they gonna do that exactly?? inquiring minds need to know……
Mnemosyne
Of course, only about 33% of the German people voted for Hitler in the first place. He was put into power by an incredibly deluded group of German conservatives who thought he would run the country into the ground and they could bring back the aristocracy.
Oops.
mclaren
Heavens no. Obama only plans to murder the white men. The white women, he’ll keep as his personal harem.
I think we actually heard this one from the wacko right… As John Cole has remarked, today’s Republican Party makes satire impossible.