Archive for the ‘Fuck The Middle-Class’ Category
Snake World
This is Daisy, who is, as you can see, blessed with great physical beauty. She’s even got matching beauty moles. She is somewhat vain in consequence. I tell both my dogs that they’re smart girls, good girls, beautiful girls. But with Daisy, it is definitely the latter that resonates. She takes in the sun like [...]
February 12, 2012
· 
Betty Cracker · 
72 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, General Stupidity, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Rampaging Honey Badger Mars Sparsely Attended Pro-Walker Rally
WAUWATOSA, WI (January 21, 2012) – A giant, mutant honey badger disrupted a rally organized to show support for embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, charging into the small gathering and slightly injuring at least one attendee. The unusually large carnivore, estimated to weigh 15 tons, struck without warning, terrorizing the fives of Wisconsinites who had [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 123 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2010, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Kochsuckers, Open Thread, Politics
Yes We Can-Can
Charles Krauthammer is mad enough to stomp bunnies, a man consumed with the type of bitterness that can only come from being thwarted by putative allies when a cherished goal is in sight. Things were going so well. With an assist from elderly social conservatives in patriot drag,* the GOP had successfully rebranded the economic [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 154 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Election 2010, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Kochsuckers, Media, Politics, Schadenfreude, Sociopaths, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The teabagger's apprentice, Vouchercare
To Russia With Love
Mitt Romney wants you to know he is entitled to his half a billion, and if you think there is a problem with the current concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny, tiny minority of sociopaths, well to fucking Russia with you: Let me tell you something. America is a great nation, because [...]
January 19, 2012
· John Cole · 65 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
A Novel Approach to Profit
This is pretty rich: Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments. The novel approach would have the funds arguing in the European Court of Human Rights that [...]
January 19, 2012
· John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
Wingers Hate Evil Fat Cats? The Zombie Lie That Just Won’t Die
If Nate Silver is right about the New Hampshire outcome—he’s saying Romney 38.5%, Paul 18.6%, Huntsman 17.0%, Santorum 12.3%, Gingrich 11.5%, Perry 1.2%—then it will turn out that capitalism-bashing did absolutely no harm to Mitt Romney, and that the two guys who sound most like Democrats in attacking Romney’s business record will have finished fourth [...]
January 10, 2012
· SteveM · 205 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
In most presidential campaigns that I can remember, at least one candidate talked a lot about how he spent a lot of time in a Bieber-forsaken hell hole like like Scraton, PA or Hope, Arkansas or a Vietnamese POW camp or whatever mill-town John Edwards grew up in, where people didn’t have any money or [...]
January 6, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 39 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
What Mitt Romney’s Free Market Looks Like
Via Greg Sargent, this Reuters piece is a must read: The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City’s Worldwide Grinding Systems steel mill. Gaping up at the cranes that swung 10-foot cast iron buckets through the air. Jumping at the thunder from the melt [...]
January 6, 2012
· John Cole · 83 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Republican Venality, Sociopaths
Department of Predictions
From this morning’s Toledo Blade: Investment from resurgent American automakers made big news in 2011, with General Motors and Chrysler announcing multiple large projects in Toledo and northwest Ohio that together total nearly $1 billion and should create or help preserve almost 3,400 jobs. Promise for the future of manufacturing in northwest Ohio was one [...]
January 1, 2012
· Kay · 89 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
The Cost Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Steve Benen is most likely correct when he notes the GOP “negotiators” in the Senate side of the payroll tax cut fight starting next month have no intention of extending the cut at all. Senators Crapo, Barrasso and especially Jon Kyl being involved means the Republicans are signaling that they are okay with destroying any [...]
December 31, 2011
· Zandar · 21 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, DC Press Corpse, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Math Demands It
In The Business Of Giving You The Business
Kind of a depressing WaPo piece here about America’s House of Not So Commons and politics increasingly being a rich person’s game: Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity. [...]
December 27, 2011
· Zandar · 115 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Our Failed Political Establishment, We Are All Mayans Now
What are the odds of overtime play…
The Republicans Leadership of the House (well at least the Orange One) have decided to cave on their latest hostage taking excursion. That means that on Friday morning, Boehner will ask fellow Republican House members to support President Obama’s position on the payroll tax cut extension by unanimous consent. If all goes according to plan, [...]
December 22, 2011
· Dennis G. · 77 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Crazification Factor, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Open Thread
The comedic stylings of Pravda on the Potomac
It’s funny because it assumes that the weeping Orange one was ever in control of anything. Claiming that any establishment Republican is in charge of the Republican Party is a beltway in-joke that can be told over and over again. Every Conservative “leader” is just a mini-Danton living in fear of the moment when the [...]
December 20, 2011
· Dennis G. · 37 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Open Thread
Suffer Little Children
Good post by Steven Taylor over at OTB and Rick Santorum’s odd morality: Having said that (and hopefully have forestalled comments along those lines), Santorum does keep saying things that I think a substantial portion of the population believes. To wit: he frequently makes moral claims that paint the picture of a universe in which [...]
December 6, 2011
· John Cole · 62 Comments
Posted in: Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Religion, Sociopaths
RIP, USPS
The Post Office didn’t die, it was murdered: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep your postman from delivering that Mad Men DVD you’ve been waiting for. But legacy labor costs and the disruptive force of the Internet? Yeah, that’ll do it. Today, the Postal Service announced roughly $3 billion [...]
December 6, 2011
· John Cole · 117 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor
