I will pay anything for the drug that can remove all memory of Sarah Palin from my mind.
I dream about her. I woke up sweating today. This could happen for the next 9 years.
I have Palinitis.
Among the most sickening of Palin’s suggestions last night was that Obama plans to “increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.” Well, according to some excellent Yahoo analysis done this morning, that’s a flat-out lie: Obama plans to increase income for middle-income taxpayers by 5% by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan would only raise after tax income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent. For the poor, there’s added incentive to vote for Obama:
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
The only “American people” for whom Obama plans to raise payroll taxes are those with incomes over $250,000, and corporate taxes for businesses that make more than $250,000 a year. Do you know anyone in that category? I don’t.
The worst of it is, that these are the kind of details that aren’t going to persuade those who plan to vote for Palin regardless. Because they require an attention span. And a first-grade ability with math. And probably a penis, to understand.
Because that’s what the Republicans are implying: That women, to whom Palin is apparently going to appeal, can’t do basic math. That they’ll vote for a liar under political ethics investigation because she’s a mother. Because she has a vagina.
The trouble is I think I fancy the governess too. And I’m powerless to control it. Vote Thatcher! I mean, er, Palin! Vote Palin!
That drug offer still stands. I’m so weak.
This is the best quote I’ve read yet from a commenter on the interwebs..
“The degree to which my blue-collar, struggling, middle-class relatives have been duped into believing that the political party standing on their throats and pissing down their backs is the one they should support is *mind boggling* to me.”
It makes me feel less alone.
Republican middle-class and working-blass men and women have been voting against their own self-interest for a handful of elections now. Check out the book “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” for an excellent analysis of a sad phenom.
I just want to erase her fucking voice from my memory.
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
[…responsibilities… like…err.. racking up $20 Million in debt? sounds about as fucking responsible as not teaching teens about condoms.]
“the political party standing on their throats and pissing down their backs is the one they should support is *mind boggling* to me.”
During 2004, the Guardian in England instigated a letter-writing campaign to housewives in Kansas.
Pissy lefty Guardian readers got on their high-horses and told Kansas voters how important it was to vote for Kerry.
The Kansas voters responded accordingly, by voting for the party that pisses down their backs. And we have learned NOTHING, people.
Palin is inspiring.
like, i’m inspired to apply for things in which i am grossly unqualified.
magic gardens, here i come!
How is the government going to increase my income if I work for a company that pulls in 250K or more a year?
Those taxes would easliy pull in billions.
quiznos, here i come!
The whole thing is like a crazy mind-fuck nightmare in which my brother’s high school cheerleader girlfriend becomes a really bitchy but peppy President. Er, Vice and everything, but McCain looks like he could keel over any second.
Please make it stop – all I can picture when i hear her voice is “Anyone want a Nanaimo Bar? I made a big pan for the Church bake sale!”
A cocktail of 2 mg lorazepam twice a day, dosing Premarin until your breasts become sensitive, and hashish as needed.
If this concoction seems toxic, electroconvulsive therapy is still available from a small handful of practitioners at OHSU and at Oregon State Hospital.
It’s called marijuana. I used it all day, daily, for years and I can’t remember shit…
I lasted through about 3 minutes of her pandering hyperbole, thought about how her hair looked like a bantam hen was roosting on her head, turned off the TV. I’m no longer interested in anything the right has to say.
Oh please. Does anyone really think this train wreck of a VP pick is going to be anything more than a punchline to a bad joke by this time next year? Have some faith in Obama and his message. That is going to resonate far more with people of all types than McSame’s will.
McCain is really really old… I wonder what his statistical likelihood of him dieing in the 4 and 8 years are? Based on him being 72 (?) male, white and holding a highly stressful position.
What people who are republicans (yuck) should consider from their party now is, “Is a not so successful governor from a sparsely populated state have the qualifications to hold the office of presidency?”
The answer would be, no.
This is a really just a shine job move on McCains part. He is trying to fight the publicity and positive public image of Obama as “being a leader who can instigate change” (well as much as a politician can think about real change) . Really, it’s a low blow to the intellect of the American public to assume that she will garner votes because she is a women and a virtual unknown.
I’m hoping this time ago these sort of publicity moves don’t work.
Aaaaaargh!
and
Bleeeech!
There have been some interesting happenings in Yank politics in the past few years such as a President who routinely sleeps through Cabinet meetings, but this takes the cake. Can’t say I’ve seen anything this queer since Monty Python did those amusing election sketches with those bizarre candidates from “the Silly Party” and so on. Only, MCain and his people are not trying to be funny. It just sort of seems to come naturally.
Quite droll, eh, chap. Humourous in the extreme.
Next.
The logistics of standing on someone’s throat and pissing down their back at the same time confuse me.
Somehow McCain figured out the only way to get the conservative right to ask for equal treatment for women.
I throw up a little everytime I hear her talk and I am beyond insulted by all of this.
GO OBAMA GO!!!!
“The logistics of standing on someone’s throat and pissing down their back at the same time confuse me.”
Clearly, you’ve never been gang-banged.
I’m bumping up against $250k/yr but I’m voting for Obama anyway. Perhaps some of that tax money can go toward fixing our crumbling infrastructure and building North/South light rail so I can safely get back to my burb after getting a heat on at the next MFNW.
gripeboy, can I have $10,000 to make a movie about James Chasse’s death?
Go to Alienboy.org for more info.
No harm in asking.