Tom Junod at Esquire summed up this whole past week on Wednesday morning:
I am watching Mike Huckabee on Fox.
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He is declaring that two years after being pronounced dead, the Republicans are back — and he’s comparing their resurgence to Twilight, or The Night of the Living Dead.
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That is, to a vampire movie, and a movie about flesh-eating ghouls.
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Thanks, Huck.
Seems quite accurate to me! On the other hand, I owe somebody here thanks for drawing the Noisettes to my attention:
Yutsano
The sun still rose. And Dino’s political career is finally over. Plus we don’t elect another Senator here until 2014, when our dear lesbyterian millionaire is up again. She’ll cakewalk.
freelancer
Okay, so just so we’re paying attention. If they’re gonna initiate the metaphor, they have to eat the whole narrative.
The GOP is the braindead, brain eating horde and the Dems are the last vestiges of reason and humanity struggling to continue our desperate existence. Got it.
I know who I’m rooting for.
asiangrrlMN
I think I would prefer actual vampires and zombies to the current GOP.
suzanne
@asiangrrlMN: To paraphrase my girl Whitney, hell to the yes.
(I really need to teach my iPhone how to say “hell”. It keeps autocorrecting to “he’ll”. God, how plebeian.)
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.
NobodySpecial
The only reason he references NotLD is because the black guy gets shot at the end by law enforcement.
Yutsano
@freelancer:
Whoever makes the better mojito?
EDIT: This is weird. My time changed on my computer but not on my cell phone.
Karen
It’s ironic that he uses the comparison to zombie movies because I’ve often felt that the GOP/Teanuts and their followers are zombies. They will repeat the same thing over and over and even if you show they’re lying, they just repeat it.
Ugh.
piratedan
well its for certain that the Republicans can certainly use…. “more brains”…. just sayin’. Although I will say that their leadership is pretty damn sneaky smart, some of that rank and file…. hoo boy.
Linda Featheringill
Some lady was knocking on my door at 4:00 a.m. looking for her boyfriend. Wrong house.
That persuaded the animals that they were hungry. I fed them a bit and they all eagerly ate. It hasn’t been that long since the last meal. Honestly.
But now, I’m awake. Yuck.
Yutsano
@Linda Featheringill: Welcome to the night shift. We usually only nibble and we try to be at least mildly entertaining.
Linda Featheringill
BTW, the time on the comments hasn’t converted to the new time. Or maybe I am commenting in the future? I like that idea.
Linda Featheringill
I was reading about Obama’s trip to India, etc.
Do you think the current crop of office holders will conform to the rule of not criticizing the President when he is out of the country? I wouldn’t put much money on it to bet either way.
freelancer
@Yutsano:
I’ll never be beat, maybe I’m too fast for you.
Yutsano
@Linda Featheringill: Considering they’ve criticized every trip he’s taken so far, yeah not holding my breath for the new ducks to act civil.
Restrung
@Linda Featheringill:
Shitwits slammed Nancy Pelosi for doing that when she went to Syria and put a thing on her head.
It’s 90% kill the Democrat. Then they might tell the truth later.
Linda Featheringill
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/story?docId=1376-LBCEHJ0D9L3501-3IBGJ0M8Q6QMVMUCGIRP21L7J3
In WaPo, a rather gossipy article that is openly talking about deflation. The location is Japan.
I suppose that is Obama’s fault, too.
PeakVT
Oh, goodie, an extra hour to surf and do sudoku tonight.
I really need to move back into a SFH so I can make noise whenever I’m awake, which tends to be erratic.
Restrung
@Linda Featheringill:
Yes, lets hear again about how politics stops at the waters’ edge. These ruthless politickers couldn’t get enough of that when Cheney and Bush were jacking us for their favored few. it’s only funny if someone gets hurted.
Linda Featheringill
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704366704575598443920302492.html?KEYWORDS=deflation
And Bernanke defends actions of the Fed to counter “ebbing price pressures” in the US.
These guys don’t really speak English, do they?
Linda Featheringill
Sleepiness has returned. Maybe I can get a couple of hours before I have to face the day.
I wish everyone a very nice day.
Art Decko
@Linda Featheringill: I’ll have to see if Japan’s deflation has an effect on the Rachada entertainment district here in Bangkok favored by Japanese businessmen. Citizen investigative journalism never sleeps.
Thanks to BJ for reminding me about US daylight savings time. I am now 15 hours ahead of Seattle. And a shoutout to QA over at GOS inviting me to post here.
El Cid
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a mature Republican who wants to work with the administration where cooperation is possible.
If Barack Obama is willing to go ahead and utterly destroy Iran as a nation-state, Graham is willing to support him.
I’m sure he will find plenty of support among a variety of Democrats.
I love this shit about how if the US decides out of the blue to blow Iran up as much as we did Iraq, this will let the Iranians ‘take back’ their country. No, they’ll all climb out of the rubble, hate the US with a passion shared by the rest of the world and the survivors of the ensuing chaos would be governed by either a meth-amped version of their current Islamic fundamentalist regime, or Iraqi-civil-war style regional fights between rival fundamentalist warlords.
But at least finally this will teach the Muslim world that terrorism is ineffective and it will all decline and not threaten us any more. And it will make our task in remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan forever so much easier.
This is a weak, unjust world, but if there were any shred of international law worth a shit, the US would face a complete worldwide economic embargo if it starts to go blow the fuck out of another nation in another instance of aggression.
I really don’t know if anyone would do anything if the US carried out Graham’s manly, masturbatory fantasies. I don’t see any other nation doing anything but bitching and moaning and passing some UN General Assembly complaint, and I sure as hell don’t think that any protests here would be completely tame and utterly without impact.
And the Republicans would still hate Obama with a passion.
El Cid
@Linda Featheringill: ‘night
stuckinred
Where ARE you people that going to bed now???
Thlayli
The Noisettes have certainly evolved from their early sound.
Art Decko
@stuckinred: Three more hours and its beddy bye time in Bangkok.
AB
@Linda Featheringill: Not that it matters much, but why do we not criticize the President when he’s out of the country?
@stuckinred: I’m in Japan as an exchange student :3.
stuckinred
Well it’s up an at em in Georgia! These Noisettes is bad.
stuckinred
@AB: Is Japan the bleak wasteland depicted in, gasp, the MAINSTREAMMEDIA???
Steeplejack
Balloon Juice server clock not reset to Standard Time?
ETA: No. Thread farkling detailed in last night’s rant will occur when someone resets the clock.
gene108
@suzanne:
We can’t have that. If we did, our kids will forever think creationism isn’t science, global warming is a BFD, and would probably vote straight Democratic.
gene108
@Steeplejack: Maybe the server got moved to Nova Scotia or somewhere over the Atlantic…
gene108
Why are sports fans so fickle?
When a team has a good win, they declare they are going to win it all and bad things the team did, but still somehow won, never happened and when the team has a bad loss, they want to fire the coaching staff, blow up the roster and rebuild from scratch.
I’m a sports fan. I’ve done this roller coaster ride of emotions. It still doesn’t make sense.
Omnes Omnibus
@AB:
Tradition, based on the idea that, while we may argue about things internally, the country speaks with one voice to the world. It is similar to the situation in the Godfather where Vito slaps Sonny for indicating disagreement within the family while at the Sollozzo meeting.
Guster
Your welcome!
I’m a little in love with Shingai.
PIGL
Yet another reason I lurk here constantly, is the discovery of the coolest tunes.
On behalf of those of who can longer read NME or Trouser Press or No Depression, or whatever it you kids read these days, thanks to all y’all for passing on the Noisettes,
bemused
I’m just catching up on last night’s threads. Good stuff. I love the diverse mix of posters, topics and comments. A real melting pot although I’m told that’s unamerican now.
Why do republicans hate trains and love their cars? They’re masters of the road in a car and it’s great fun to force those commie bicyclists off their highways.
Pelosi is a kickass leader and female which is extremely threatening to rightwingers esp old white guys. Former Majority Leader Tom Delay is now on trial in Texas. If Pelosi was on trial in her state with the same charges, msm would be spending hours daily on the story. Tom Delay…crickets.
Cheryl from Maryland
Anyone else find it close to impossible to read a newspaper this week? Except for the sports.
Linda Featheringill
@AB:
Don’t know when it started but the Repubs liked to throw that up during the Bush years.
JPL
@Linda Featheringill: During the Bush years you could not criticize the President on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays………either. just because
wazmo
@Yutsano:
Sometimes the local tower’s timesource doesn’t get updated all that quickly. When I got up this morning the time was still showing as daylight time-about a half-hour later it flipped back to standard time.
Steeplejack
@gene108:
I’m sure the Balloon Juice server is in a secure and undisclosed location.
JPL
@Cheryl from Maryland: No papers, no network news and I link to MSNBC for the sports..lol.
Sunday morning talk shows are off limit also,too.
El Cid
@Linda Featheringill: No, the rule is that Democrats and liberals can say nothing critical of a Republican President when he’s out of the country, and they cannot criticize conservative US policies or Republican politicians when they themselves are abroad, else it becomes clear that they are horrible America-hating traitors.
gene108
@Cheryl from Maryland: Yes. I extend that to all news, from T.V. to radio.
joe from Lowell
Cool.
It’s like an update of Phil Spector’s Soul + Wall of Sound formulation, adding guitar noise.
Meet The Republicans
How about ‘Night of the Dying Living’, Huck?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVrAv2D1H0I
xian
the old expression is “politics stops at the water’s edge” and it has more to do with having a unified nonpartisan or bi-partisan foreign policy, regardless of domestic disputes, than with not speaking ill of the president when she’s abroad.
Tom Hamill
If you like the Noisettes, I have a feeling you are going to *love* Janelle Monae. Archandroid is awesome.
Dr. WUW
“They had this look in their eyes, totally cold, animal. I think they were young Republicans.” [Buffy the Movie, 1992. Spoken by survivor of vampire attack at dance in gym.]
MaximusNYC
To be fair to Huckabee, John Kerry compared Harry Reid to Dracula the other day.