Late Night

Rock on.

Sunday Night

enjoy

THAT MAN CUT YOUR MEDICARE

I know we mostly can't count on the press to highlight the contradictions, but I wonder if any of the Republican voters who probably were genuinely worried about their Medicare will notice that the Republican demand is that Obama cut Medicare.

Because You're A Stupid Git

The worst man in England.

George Osborne admitted it was taking longer for Britain to recover from the financial crisis than he hoped today amid warnings that the Government would miss its key economic targets..

Regular Reminder

Official DC is obsessed with solving fake future problems that they can't actually solve. This Congress cannot tie the hands of future Congresses. Nothing done today can prevent more tax cuts, more unpaid for wars, and more free money for banksters in the future.

Of course they're not really obsessed with solving fake problems, they're obsessed with using fake problems to steal the Social Security money.

Poor People Must Suffer

For Villagers, tax increases on rich people are worse than Hitler and Very Serious Politicians are the ones who want old people to go bankrupt and die.

Shorter Everybody

We must replace this economy killing deficit reduction plan with an economy killing deficit reduction plan.

Morning Thread

Very Late Night Thread

My Turn

I think it's fair (and what am I if not fair) to take this paragraph with several grains of salt, as it's the reporter's wording of things other people said, but if close to being an accurate reflection...

By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.

Elsewhere in the article someone discusses the family's commitment to public service. Argh. This isn't about Romney, just this conceit that being a member of Congress, or a governor, or the fucking president, is about "public service." There are public servants, like the teachers everybody dumps on these days, but people with high paying cushy jobs which virtually guarantee them a lifetime of future even cushier even more high paying jobs are hardly making some sort of sacrifice for good.

Evening Thread

Have some Talking Heads.

Afternoon Thread

Italian market time.

"Trade Barbs"

A Washington Post headline tells me "Obama, Boehner trade barbs on 'fiscal cliff'." This raises a very important question. Why were there no barbs during the election? We had our gaffes. We had our zingers. But no barbs!!!

Capitalists

Or, rather, free markets.  

Overnight

Rock through the night.

Overnight Thread

Enjoy

Friday Cat Thread

Friday Book Club

Early reviews of the Midnight's Children movie are not very good, but the book is worth reading. I never managed to get through any other book by Rushdie, though I did try a couple, but there's something special about that one.

More Like This Please

Some leftover turkee for Michael Grunwald.

It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same reporters spent the last year dutifully passing along Republican complaints that Obama had no plan. It’s even more amazing to see them pass along Republican outrage that Obama isn’t cutting Medicare enough, in the same matter-of-fact tone they used during the campaign to pass along Republican outrage that Obama was cutting Medicare.

Conservatives Is Weird

One thing I've learned over the years is that conservatives think we're like bizarro versions of them on some issues. They like low taxes, so they think we like high taxes. They like (or imagine they like) small government, they think we like big government. When, you know, we just think there's some stuff the government needs to do and we need to figure out how to pay for it.