Looks like Sullivan isn’t the only one impressed with the “seriousness” of Ryan’s budget:
In other Palin news, it appears that Bristol Palin, who is uniquely unqualified to speak about teen pregnancy prevention issues (any one of the billion women across the planet who managed to not get pregnant as a teen would be more qualified), made a ton of money with her nonprofit. For her “labor,” she pulled in $265k, while they gave out 35k to teen pregnancy clinics. That’s probably how she was able to pay 172k in cash for a house in the Galtian paradise of Arizona. Just like average working people do every day when they buy their house with cash.
Why do I mention this? Because at $265 large, on top of all the other speakers fees and what else she “earned” last year, Bristol will be rewarded with a large tax cut under the very serious Ryan roadmap, Bristol will have a lot more money to not spend on condoms, while some poor working bastard will pay higher taxes and get kicked out of his health insurance because ACA was repealed and he has a precondition or can’t afford it on the meager vouchers he was given. The way God and serious people would want it.
Steeplejack
She makes $265K and gives out $35K to the nonprofit’s cause? That is truly disgusting.
BGinCHI
The word “serious,” as you and Doug have predicted, used twice in one twit.
Talking points well distributed.
Prolly fucking Luntz.
OzoneR
Mark Halperin’s got something to say
Read more: thepage.time.com/2011/04/05/we-can-only-guess/#ixzz1IhGr02Yl
What helped Clinton enormously in 1995 was that the Daily News ran that cover liking Newt Gingrich to a cranky baby. We don’t have that luck this time around.
geg6
Well, between Bristol Palin and MTV, teen pregnancy looks like a nice lucrative career path for the young girls that the Candies Foundation is reaching out to, so it looks like they’re successful in their mission. So Bristol’s salary was a good investment.
Oh. Wait.
Nevermind.
/Emily Littella
General Stuck
The wingnuts may be taking away about everything that people have come to expect from government services, but they have left us with enough to mock for a year, maybe two.
If anyone needs to teach the public to stop worrying, and learn to understand and love their libtard free stuff, just call Paul Ryan and he will move that Overton Window leftward for for near nothing.
Mark S.
Somebody’s not getting a good score from Charity Navigator.
Who the hell pays her to speak about, well, any fucking thing under the sun. I think I’d rather listen to a talk from Levi.
jo6pac
The best part of non-earning one is the group that give her the money only paid out under 30,000.00 to groups that do something other than steal from the poor.
JGabriel
@BGinCHI:
Do we know that Luntz fucks? I mean…
On second thought, I don’t really wanna speculate about Luntz’s sex life. I just don’t wanna go … OH GOD NO I JUST GOT THE VISUAL!
AAAAAHHHHGHGHGHG!
.
dmsilev
@OzoneR: Does Halperin always refer to Halperin in the third person?
If so, it’s just one more entry in the long list of reasons why Halperin needs to be publicly and repeatedly slapped in the face with a large wet fish.
dms
BGinCHI
@JGabriel: Adjective, not verb.
Jesus Christ, doesn’t anybody swear anymore?
For fuck’s sake.
Spaghetti Lee
Jesus, I’m going to lose my fucking mind. “Serious” this. “Tough-minded” that. Yeah, real tough minded to propose cuts that neither you nor anyone in your sphere of influence will ever, ever have to deal with, because you’ll be on Charlie Koch’s teats until you die, Ryan, you douche.
His district is only R+1. Can’t we get someone to knock the sucker and his snake oil out of Washington? Tim Cullen or Robert Wirch, maybe?
El Cid
If I said that ‘our nation’s future depends on our cleaning up our budget crisis, and we finally have to cross that line and admit we have to cut our entitlements that we just can’t pay for in the same way anymore, and we need to aim about $10 trillion worth of cuts in the next 6 years,’ would I suddenly become a ‘serious’ person for such trend-floaters as Sullivan?
Even if all I presented as backup was a few X-Y charts showing the bars growing higher into the future and an average of how many dollars of the projected future national debt, which let’s say I’ll announce to be 10X that of now, each working American would owe?
Never mind, I know the answer.
MikeJ
@OzoneR: 0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/_/7/newt_baby.jpg
Suffern ACE
Back to the crap. Who is donating money to this charity to enrich the Palin family fortune? Isn’t this a tax write-off disguised as graft (or vice versa)? Imagine how much less generous the Galtians would be if they were free from the burden of taxation. Why, they wouldn’t need lawyers to mock the idea of charity, that is for sure.
JPL
I hate to say this but if Sullivan went without health insurance for one day, he would change his tune. It’s the I got mine the rest of you are lazy idiots.
MikeJ
OT, but that bastion of credibility, Newsmax, Have a hed “‘Filthy, Dirty’ Tricks Alleged in Pivotal Wisconsin Election”
Guess that means the good guys are going to win if they’re preëmptively whining.
El Cid
Anyone here mention the super-reasonable David Brooks’ hard-on for the Ryan plan?
The final release:
I’m so excited for us to begin to see Medicare as the new HSA with a government grant.
Of course, since there will be budget problems in the future, we’ll finally have the opportunity to cut out that nasty $15,000 per year dole to replace Medicare that we useless parasites are expecting the nanny-state to hand us.
I can’t wait for the plan’s summary to be handed out at the Applebee’s salad bar.
Via Digby. Sorry if I just missed an earlier mention. Not much internet access today, nor slower points at work.
arguingwithsignposts
@El Cid:
Worst slash-fic evah!
It seems very familiar, like some sort of mumble-mumble ramming down throats mumble-mumble thing. Anyone help me out here?
MikeBoyScout
We’re very serious
So very serious . . .
Will someone please sponsor me as a spokes person for temperance? Am going to drink 2 serious bottles of
whinewine tonight, and I’ll gladly tell you tomorrow you never should.General Stuck
Maybe Ryan is embracing Obama’s package after all.
El Cid
@General Stuck: He got tired of it being rammed down his throat?
MikeJ
@MikeBoyScout: If you just get stinking drunk and sleep in a gutter people may think, “at least he’s a bad example.”
Palin got knocked up, went on Dancing With the Stars and bought a house with cash. Hardly a morality tale there. “Don’t wind up like me, kids!”
JPL
@General Stuck: Nah..it’s hard work coming up with all those tax cuts for the top one percent.
sherifffruitfly
Clearly the only reasonable thing for us to do is blame Obama.
JPL
I’m a serious, courageous, truthful person and I have a question. Can one use the voucher for a burial plot and cut out the middle man?
Elizabelle
He’s grasped something with both hands.
Biden speaking now on Obama/Biden/Messina OFA call. First up: they announced DWasserman Schultz as new DNC chair and highlighted that she’s a breast cancer survivor.
Forgot that. She’ll be an even better first responder.
Asshole
Why isn’t the IRS auditing a non-profit that pays a disqualified person 9 times what it actually provides in benefits to the community?
Non-profit tax status has been revoked for a Hell of a lot less of an excess benefit than that.
Asshole
Why isn’t the IRS auditing a non-profit that pays a disqualified person 9 times what it actually provides in benefits to the community?
Non-profit tax status has been revoked for a Hell of a lot less of an excess benefit than that.
Jethro Troll
Goatse?
Elizabelle
@El Cid:
Did they use as many rape metaphors during Clinton’s term? Maybe …
Asshole
Grr, sorry for the double post. Computer hiccup.
JPL
@Elizabelle: do you have a link?
Elizabelle
for JPL: link to OFA call. Obama on now.
barackobama.com/livestream/campaign-2012-kickoff-call
JPL
@Elizabelle: thanks
Nylund
The GOP wants to remove the government guarantee that old people will have health insurance so that people like David Brooks can keep their tax cut. Plain and simple.
JCT
@El Cid: The NYT comments for that piece nearly melted the server apparently. Quite possibly one of the most inane “articles” old Bobo has ever written. Admittedly I only got halfway through before I was overwhelmed by nausea. What an asshole.
Roger Moore
I wouldn’t say that Bristol is uniquely unqualified to talk about teen pregnancy; it’s not as if she’s the only girl her age to have a baby.
Elizabelle
Interesting comment by Pres. Obama, winding down conf call, about working hard and:
“If we’re doing the right thing, eventually it’s going to be good politics.”
Sobering.
Gin & Tonic
OT, but CNN is reporting that the Transocean guys who got the “safety” bonuses are donating them to a fund for the families of the 11 guys who were killed when their rig blew up. Apparently some people can still feel shame.
Gin & Tonic
@Gin & Tonic: Right, so there’s an open thread one fucking minute after I post this. Grrr.
darkmatter
@Jethro Troll: We should only be so lucky.
OzoneR
@efgoldman:
Do the cables want him? As we’ve discussed, they’re too busy jerking off to Paul Ryan.
Duncan Dönitz (formerly Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
$265,000 to herself and $35,000 to the “non-profit”? Shit, the I.R.S. needs to get on this fast. I feel like such an idiot: I run my own little non-profit, and I don’t earn anything for myself. If only I’d known that I should be using it as a scam to fleece people and get rich, all while stiffing my purported cause.
Fuck. How do these sleazebags live with themselves? I mean, really? How fucking psychopathic do you have to be to live this way and not feel driven to kill yourself from the shame?
Arundel
Someone somewhere today said: “Who the fuck died and made Paul Ryan king again?”. It’s a very good question! Considering the overwhelming coverage and sage nodding by the media of his “serious” proposal. Because proposals like single-payer and taxing the superrich a tiny bit more is something only laughing stoned hippies in clown suits would say, amirite? Honking their silly horns! Ugh, fuck these people, hijacking the word “serious” like that, twisting it to mean something not inherent in its actual meaning.
(And, am I the only one who confuses Paul Ryan with Rand Paul sometimes? They’re both reprehensible, I’ve just been scatterbrained about that. Not anymore.)
Dave C
Apparently “fuck the disadvantaged” is now a serious and courageous fiscal plan. I am really starting to hate these fuckers.
Ruckus
@Duncan Dönitz (formerly Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
They are
terminatorsconservatives, they feel no shame, no remorse, no empathy and they will not stop until they win or you are dead.asiangrrlMN
Well, I must say, I proudly take credit for costing her one speaking gig and $20,000*.
*A mere drop in the bucket for her, of course, but still. I’m a Republican now, so I have no qualms about claiming credit where it’s not due.
Hermione Granger-Weasley
Palin/Ryan 2012!
Hermione Granger-Weasley
@Ruckus: dude. They are Death Eaters.
SFAW
Most of us know that Paul Ryan doesn’t wear a dead muskrat for a hairpiece.
Of course, this only applies when they have a serious picture of the serious Budget Committee Chairman who is not bound by House rules re: budget meetings etc. etc. When no picture is provided, we need to check the rhetoric to see if the speaker is whining about the payments he receives from Medicare, etc.
Comrade Mary
Reading the Think Progress link, it looks as if Palin’s not running the charity. She’s just the ridiculously overpaid spokesmother, with Candie’s being the corporate entity deciding to give a piddly $35,000 to charity. So it’s not quite outright fraud on Palin’s part, just moral blindness, hypocrisy and greed.
Ash Can
@Steeplejack: Hell, I’m surprised the charity got that much.
@El Cid: NOT GAY
El Cid
@Elizabelle:
Metaphors? No. They accused him of rape. They skipped right past the metaphors.
And that was the mainstream.
That era’s TeaTard fringe discussed the “Clinton Body Count” in which the Clinton duo had killed dozens of people somehow in their way, partly to protect their massive narco-trafficking operation.