“3/4 of our check will go toward taxes”

LMAO

If you start to seriously believe your own side’s most ridiculous & laughable election propaganda you need help & treatment.

A long lie-down in a darkened room might help.

Did I say a word that sounded anything like your messianic nonsense?

No.
In fact I specifically made mention that such delusions were silly.

You can live in dread of a more normal spread of wealth across society if you like – like as if a return to the levels of wealth distribution which was the case under Nixon would be ‘Marxist’, to you guys….this merely proves the degree to which you guys have lost the plot.

No-one “feared” Sarah.

Wake up.

She was symptomatic of the laughing stock politics on the right in the USA had become (hostage to the forces of obvious unreason).
For shame.

DBG, Your messiah has arrived. Along with the angels to help him raise the taxes to high heaven and spread the wealth. They will not have any excuses after this administration. Maybe they will get as much done as they have the last two years, or maybe more. I cannot wait until four years from now and our country is prospering with health care, and security, and no global warming. It doesn’t matter that 3/4 of our check will go toward taxes. It is patriotic to pay taxes.
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!

Barney Franks?
What about him?
Is it that he’s gay or is it the support for medical marijuana or civil rights that you find so “damaging” – or maybe you mean (more topically) his refusal to go along with the removal of Congressional oversight of Fanny & Freddie?

Is that what you think we needed, less public scrutiny of the financial world?!

As best as I can see he and Ron Paul have stood out against the ‘flow’ in Washington and worked against the last financial orthodoxy.

In fact the latest misinformation, now wheeled out by those who have seen the almost entirely unregulated financial world that they pushed for collapse, is to blame what has happened on ‘sub-prime’ and the extension of private home ownership (which gives a bonus double bash at the least well off and their risky mortgages and you get to blame those – mostly Dem politicians – who supported the least well off and their attempt to gain their own home).

Sadly for this fairy tale sub-prime was not the root cause of the latest disaster, it caused last years bis problems actually
(which, though large, were such that they could have been gotten over as was usually the case with any ‘normal’ period of readjustment).

This years cataclysm is actually about ‘Credit Default Swaps’ which have gone completely out of control and are debts ‘worth’ multiples of the US economies total annual earnings.

They make sub-prime look like a drop in the ocean.

That’s why the global system is in danger of meltdown.

Or maybe it’s just that he’s a long serving Dem and therefore must also be responsible for so much that has gone wrong?

The people of Massachusetts certainly don’t seem to have a problem with him.

You see George, now that the ultra Reps are a busted flush, their supporters rush to label anyone who points the finger at the religious nutter element and ultra right-wingers as being full of “hate” or using “defence mechanisms” because of their “fear”.

LMAO

Contrary to your imaginings I am not in the slightest bit worked up.
Sorry to disappoint.

The only people that ought to be actually afraid are those who thought they were high on the hog forever.

US politics is, if we are lucky, about to adjust & realign.

Hopefully the extremists on the right (who preached unregulated markets come hell or high water) and their friends who imagine they know exactly what God wants will be told where to get off.
With luck they can go away & try to find another party to pervert and corrupt, they sure as hell have done their best to wreck the Rep party and make it unelectable.

BTW

I never once said or implied Palin was lacking in intelligence (being ill informed about certain matters does not define ones’ intelligence).
Your strawman, I believe.

Like many I found her qualifications laughably poor and her obvious religious bent highly dangerous in view of the job she might have had to do (especially with McCain being the age he is and having had the life he has).

Still, what do I care?
Obama won.
I’m pretty happy about that actually.

It doesn’t mean any of the big problems have vanished or it’s all milk & honey from now on but it is a signal that things have changed for the better (and will be seen as such around the world).
Happy days.

How about the damage the Barney Franks have done? You seem to overlook the important issues while focusing on the insignificant affairs of Sarah Palin…. Or perhaps they ARE significant.

You see, Dave, they call your behavior a defense mechanism. You’re allowing yourself to get so worked up about Sarah because you fear that she’s the competiton and would certainly stand a fighting chance.

And all the while you’ve got poor Erna, obviously offended, defending herself and fellow bloggers by attacking Palin’s intelligence (e.g. ill-informed).

Relief that the right-wing in US politics might finally begin to come to their senses is the primary emotion and a degree of sorrow that it should ever have got as it is.