Right from the horse’s ass

Posted on August 17, 2011 by myiq2xu (D)

Thereisnospoonupmyass:

Krugman is almost always right. I was annoyed with him during the primary because he I thought he was inadvertently helping Clinton, who I *knew* was a neoliberal shill. But he was right about Obama. I hoped otherwise, but I was wrong.

And still Mr. Atkins insists on inflicting his opinions on others. I don’t know about you, but if I was that wrong about a matter of such importance, I would be ashamed to shoot my mouth off in public again.

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17 Responses

  1. angienc, on August 17, 2011 at 11:58 pm said:

    The first trait of Obots: they have no shame.

  2. myiq2xu, on August 18, 2011 at 12:07 am said:

    From Digby:

    I wrote earlier about President Obama comparing negotiating with the congress to negotiating with his wife by babbling something about her buying dresses and him keeping his golf clubs. But I missed this one:

    “Everybody cannot get 100 percent of what they want. Now, for those of you who are married, there is an analogy here. I basically let Michelle have 90 percent of what she wants. But, at a certain point, I have to draw the line and say, ‘Give me my little 10 percent.’ ”

    Yikes.

  3. DandyTiger, on August 18, 2011 at 12:19 am said:

    And tomorrow he’ll be right back to the same Obot shit. After all, where else are you going to go…

  4. DandyTiger, on August 18, 2011 at 12:30 am said:

    Ruh roh:

  5. Dario, on August 18, 2011 at 1:31 am said:

    Metaphorically Deaf

    by digby

    I heard this the other day and wasn’t going to say anything because, well, there’s no point in jumping on everything. But it turns out that this is part of the stump speech — he said it again today — and that’s a problem:

    “If we’re willing to do something in a balanced way–making some tough choices in terms of spending cuts, but also raising some revenue from folks who’ve done very well, even in a tough economy–then we can get control of our debt and deficit and we can start still investing in things like education and basic research and infrastructure that are going to make sure that our future is bright. It’s not that complicated, but it does require everybody being willing to make some compromises.

    “I was in Holland, Michigan, the other day and I said, “I don’t know about how things work in your house, but in my house if I said, ‘You know, Michelle, honey, we got to cut back, so we’re going to have you stop shopping completely–you can’t buy shoes, you can’t buy dresses–but I’m keeping my golf clubs’–you know, that wouldn’t go over so well.”

    Where to begin. First of all, once again, he’s not actually talking about a “balanced approach.” If he were he’d be proposing to tax the living hell out of corporations and wealthy individuals, not asking for some token tip money in exchange for cutting a big hole in the safety net. It’s not “shared sacrifice” to ask wealthy people to give up money they will not even miss in exchange for asking 65 year olds to wait an additional two years before qualifying for Medicare. In some cases, that’s going to be the difference between life and death. Telling people they have to give up any part of the only real form of security they have in their old age when they can no longer work, in order to get millionaires to pay what they paid in taxes only a decade ago, is not “balanced.”

    Be that as it may, we have a Democratic president selling the idea that it’s a big “sacrifice” for the wealthiest people to pay their fair share of taxes and I guess there’s no going back. But what can we say about that horrible analogy between his marriage and his dealings with congress?

    more at link

    • myiq2xu, on August 18, 2011 at 1:40 am said:

      Comment at Hullaballoo:

      Down to blameing the wife these days. Well that’s why a man gets married. Ya can’t blame everything on the government.

      • angienc, on August 18, 2011 at 1:49 am said:

        Ah, but there is also this comment at Hullaballo:

        Where is he getting his advice from? He’s got the worst political strategy team in the history of the world. They looked great in 2008 because pretty much anyone could have beaten Bush the country was so bad off. Their great achievement was outdoing Hillary. And Obama had his vote and position on the Iraq war to thank for that, and probably his natural birth as a male rather than a female.

        The only thing he got right was his throw away line that *probably* his having a penis. Every single fucking thing else is wrong. I mean seriously with the “his vote . . .on the Iraq war?” These morons really think Obama was in the US Senate then & actually voted on the resolution (not WAR for the LAST FUCKING TIME!) and they are allowed to vote!

        There really should be a test.

        • Forrest Gump, on August 18, 2011 at 1:54 am said:

          My mama said “stupid is as stupid does.” Boy, them Obots sure are stupid!

        • Mary, on August 18, 2011 at 6:38 am said:

          Digby herself fed them that crap about Obama’s vote on the Iraq War. It was part of the narrative in the fight against Hillary, and her commenters bought it.

          All that, while Digby bitches about “narratives” and “memes,” while she played the very same game herself. True story.

    • Three Wickets, on August 18, 2011 at 3:22 am said:

      If you cut medicare and social security in the short-term, you are cutting the biggest and highest-multiple spending stimulus going. Would be suicidal to take that demand out of the economy right now. Any entitlement reform has to wait. He needs to focus on keeping the economy from falling into a sinkhole now. A big priority should be gutting and restructuring the toxic mortgage assets at the banks. Most bondholders and creditors have yet to take big hits because they’ve been partly bailed out. If you want to talk about austerity this is where it should begin, at the top, with bankers taking more haircuts on these bad mortgage assets.

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