Wednesday Political Sausage

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“How to blow $6 billion on a tech project” – Sean Gallagher (Ars Technica)

Fantastic article. I’m just gonna leave this here.

“Krugthulu, Tunch, POTUS, And The Reagan Question” – Zandar (Balloon Juice)

I’m posting this for one reason, and one reason alone:

“Austerity for the Austerity god!  Tax Cuts for the Tax Cut throne!”

FOR THE EMPEROR!

“National Review’s Latest Contributor Hits the Racist, Misogynist, Islamophobe Trifecta” – ABL 2.0 (Balloon Juice)

Basically, this guy is the physical embodiment of the worst qualities of the modern Republican party. Which means he’ll be right at home at the National Review.

“The Curse of Political Purity” – Garry Wills (The New York Review of Books)

A response to Swifter’s post regarding Roberto Unger, one of President Obama’s former professors at Harvard Law School.

/drops the mic

“President Obama as ‘warrior-in-chief'” – Danny Schechter (Al-Jazeera)

“The big secret in Washington is that American capitalism needs Pentagon socialism to survive.”

“Warren Campaign: What’s Scott Brown Afraid Of?” – Eric Kleefeld (TPM)

Allow me to field this one.

Scott Brown is an intellectual lightweight with little to no grasp of the major issues facing the American middle class. He was swept into office in the leading edge of a wave election year, and is fighting for his political life way out of his weight class. He has nothing to gain by debating Elizabeth Warren, and everything to lose.

Best case scenario: he holds his own and comes out okay, but that’s not going to move the needle on his support.

Worst case scenario: Warren exposes him for the mouthbreather he is and whatever independent support he may have evaporates literally overnight.

Frankly, I’d rather see Elizabeth Warren debate a cardboard cutout of Scott Brown and just have one of her staffers play the appropriate sound bites whenever he’s asked a question. It’d be basically the same thing, and probably a lot more fun to watch.

For some additional background, here’s Scott Brown’s list of demands.

And in case you’re wondering, the Kennedy Institute rejected it.

“Romney Declines To Condemn His Campaign’s Organized Heckling” – Evan McMorris-Santoro (TPM)

Were I the President, I’d have volunteers dress is sackcloth and ashes and give them boxes of rotten produce and tell them to follow Romney around the country.

Which is probably a really good reason why I shouldn’t run for political office.

“BREAKING: Obama Asserts Executive Priviledge Over ‘Fast & Furious’ Documents” – Igor Volsky (ThinkProgress)

As previously mentioned, this is pure politics from Darrell Issa.

“You accused him of a cover-up for protecting documents that he was prohibited by law from producing.” – Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)

“Study: House Republicans Budget Would Raise Taxes On The Middle Class, Cut Them For Millionaires” – Pat Garofalo (ThinkProgress)

Someday, I’m going to get tired of posting articles like this. But, in the immortal words of Djimon Honsu as Juba in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” (one of my favorite movies):

“Not yet. Not yet.”

“Joe The Plumber: Gun Control Caused The Holocaust” – Annie-Rose Strasser (ThinkProgress)

I saw this yesterday and blew it off, because Joe The Plumber (whose real name is not Joe, nor is he a plumber) is a USDA Prime Grade-A moron, even more so than the mouthbreathing tin-foil hat people that comprise the Birther movement (which I also decline to cover), and thus giving him anything resembling oxygen via coverage makes my blood boil.

However, I added this today because somehow, a spokesperson for his campaign managed to make it WORSE.

How, might you ask, does someone make blaming gun control for the Holocaust (because we all know that Jews, Romanies, Homosexuals, the mentally ill, the disabled, etc. would have been armed to the teeth were it not for those pesky Nazis taking away their right to bear assault rifles and grenade launchers) worse? By comparing it to slavery:

Phil Christofanelli [said] “there’s nothing offensive” about the video and discussed how gun control may have led to slavery in the United States too….“Well, blacks weren’t allowed to own guns in the south, that’s a historical fact as well,” said Mr. Christofanelli. “So, it would seem that the argument would apply there as well.”

You know what the best argument against gun control is? That people like this are allowed to own guns and frequently own a lot of them, and if Joe The Plumber’s Professional Bag Of Hair can have a gun, I want one too.

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