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Idiot Hurricane

“I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over.”

— Rashid Khalidi, on being smeared as a PLO mouthpiece and anti-Semite by the McCain campaign [via Washington Post]

See Also: Keep Celebrating the Crazy, Why We Do Not Need a Republican Party, The Last Ride on the Straight Talk Express By Mike Whitney, A Conservative’s View of an Unfortunate Election, and Jews Went Heavily for Hamas-Endorsed Obama.

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They Did The Mash

Paul Krugman on the Monster Years:

What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.

And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were, in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”

See Also: Leaving Palinism Behind, Two Paths To Reform, Spreading leprosy and joy wherever they go…, Young Republicans Push Internet Organizing Priority, A Farewell To Arms, The Great Repudiation: Why voters have had enough of conservative rule, Right-Wingers Seething over Election Outcome, What a Difference Four Years Makes, and Neocon Bunker Hunker.

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My Country, Right or Wrong

“My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” – Carl Schurz

5 Year Old Secret Communists

“Because he knows that his economic theories don’t work, he’s been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately, he’s called me a socialist for wanting to rollback the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten.”

— Barack Obama, Campaigning in Raleigh, North Carolina

See Also: The Economist Endorses Obama, Trashes McCain, The Real McCain, Election Day 2008 Whine and Sheesh Party, A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Everyone, Krauthammer: Obama + Pelosi + Reid + Frank =ECONOMIC DANGER FOR AMERICA, Obama’s American Socialism: Decades In The Making, Video: Barack Obama ridicules John McCain on Socialism charges, Communist Barack Hussein Obama indoctrinates underage Aryan children with hypnotic black liberation terrorist fist jabs of Socialism, Socialism at Work…Obama style, Proof of Obama’s Socialism, What’s wrong with redistributing the wealth?, Socialism watch: How progressive do we have to get?, and Socialism is the New Black.

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Seriously, Fuck This Bailout…

In point of fact, the dirty little secret of the banking industry is that it has no intention of using the money to make new loans. But this executive was the first insider who’s been indiscreet enough to say it within earshot of a journalist.

(He didn’t mean to, of course, but I obtained the call-in number and listened to a recording.)

“Twenty-five billion dollars is obviously going to help the folks who are struggling more than Chase,” he began. “What we do think it will help us do is perhaps be a little bit more active on the acquisition side or opportunistic side for some banks who are still struggling. And I would not assume that we are done on the acquisition side just because of the Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns mergers. I think there are going to be some great opportunities for us to grow in this environment, and I think we have an opportunity to use that $25 billion in that way and obviously depending on whether recession turns into depression or what happens in the future, you know, we have that as a backstop.”

~Excerpt From NY Times Article: “So When Will Banks Give Loans” Spoken by an unnamed JP Morgan Chase Bank Executive

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