I Hate To Say I Told You So

Show of hands, how many folks still think it was some kind of a stroke of brilliance to let Joe LIEberman extort his gavel from the Democratic caucus leaders?

Somebody? Anybody?

Buehler?

I Blame Our Educational System

Man this teabagger video is tough to watch. On the one hand its infuriating the kind of ignorant shit they are saying about President Obama and his legislative agenda. But on the other hand I have to admit that on a certain level I felt sorry for some of these people. When the interviewer near the end starts explaining to them about some of the things that are completely wrong about you can almost see a lightbulb going on over their head. Some of these people have genuinely been brain washed and either don't know how or haven't bothered to look up information on their own and instead simply rely on FoxNews and other right wing sources. If we could just get some of these people in a room and give them unbiased sources of the truth I would bet you that many of them would be ashamed of themselves. But the climate in our country right now is such that its almost impossible to reach these people because the sit in their houses behind closed doors and truly believe that the worst places to look for the truth are the only places that are telling the truth.

Excuse me while I get some aspirin.



(h/t O Dub)

Saw You Coming From A Mile Away

The wingnuts aided and abetted if not led by FoxNews had become apoplectic about the number of "czars" in the Obama administration. Setting aside the facts that Republican President President Richard Nixon was the first one to come up with the word czar to describe one of his advisor, that George W. Bush had 47 so called "czars", that the people who are called "czars" really have official titles that don't include that word, that the media largely are the ones who describes people as czars instead of their official titles, and that more than a few of the people the right wingers describe as czars have been confirmed by the Senate, other than that they might actually have a point. Of course because the wingnuts are shrieking about this bullshit, the mainstream media feels they have to cover it. Well White House Spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was fully prepared for this line of questioning.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs fired back at GOP critics of White House czars on Wednesday.

Gibbs said GOP “silence was deafening” on the issue of czars during former President George W. Bush's administration.

Republicans didn’t raise the issue, he said, when Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) pushed a Y2K czar or when Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) called for a manufacturing czar.

“You've read Sen. Bennett was pushing for a Y2K czar that he didn't think was powerful enough,” Gibbs said. “You've seen Lamar Alexander call for a manufacturing czar."

He also brought up the name of Randall Tobias, a Bush administration deputy secretary of State and “abstinence czar” who resigned after it was discovered his name was on a prostitution-services call list.

“You know, somebody referred to in the Bush administration as the abstinence czar was on the D.C. Madam's list,” Gibbs said. “Now, did that violate the Constitution, or simply offend our sensibilities?”

Gibby FTW!

(h/t Benen)