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Better Call Saul!


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(crossposted at driftglass blog)

One of the predictable and hilarious side-effects of the Big Conservative Project to Destroy American has been that even the most proficient cookers and dealers of wingnut meth have started snorting/ shooting/ smoking/ pontificating their own product.


And the results aren’t pretty.


Not

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Pretty

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At

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All

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Which why the Rightcould not survive for a single day as a cohesive political and cultural force without their Very Serious Centrist enablers in the mainstream media. Because when you have fucked up as radically, frequently and publicly as Conservatives have, you don’t need a public defender: you need a god damn, battle-hardened, professional dissembler whose lies come fast and easy, in Very Reasonable tones, nested one inside the next inside the next like an infinite series of Russian puzzle dolls.

You need a top-shelf, C-class, muthafuckin’artistewho can get caught red-handed (or baboon-assed) shitting himself in the village square at high noon, and by 12:05 can completely change the subject to a new and excitingly different lie altogether.



Fromjust about the only readable scrap of the WaPo still standing (emphasis added):

The Morning Plum: The false equivalence pundits are part of the problem
Posted by Greg Sargent on February 26, 2013 at 9:12 am


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We’re now seeing a third technique appear: Acknowledge that Republicans are the uncompromising party, but assert that it’s ultimately on the President to figure out a way to either force Republicans to drop their intransigence or to otherwise “lead” them out if it.
Case in point: David Brooks. Last week Brooks waswidely criticized for a “pox on both house” column in which he based his entire argument on the falsehood that Obama has no plan. Brooks repented for his error, andtoday he offers a good faith effort to describe what he’d like Obama to do to change things. It boils down to this:
My dream Obama wouldn’t be just one gladiator in the zero-sum budget wars. He’d transform the sequester fight by changing the categories that undergird it. He’d possess the primary ingredient of political greatness: imagination. The great presidents, like Teddy Roosevelt, see situations differently. They ask different questions. History pivots around their terms.
I’ll leave it to you to decide whether the prescriptions Brooks offers would really change the current dynamic, but at bottom, the suggestion that it’s all on the president to figure out a way to persuade Republicans to drop their intransigence is still a dodge. The idea that the President can necessarily bend Congress to his will is indeed a “dream.” It doesn’t reckon with the most fundamental question at the heart of all of this: What if there isnothing whatsoever that can be done by the president or anyone else to break the GOP out of its no-compromising stance? This isn’t an unreasonable reading of the situation; it’s what Republicans themselves have confirmed, publicly and on the record — they willnot concede a penny in new revenues, no matter what. And if this is the case — if the fundamental problem is that Republicans really do prefer the sequester to any compromise — isn’t it incumbent on commentators to explain this clearly and forthrightly to their readers?
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When your business is cooking the wingnut meth that powers the Big Conservative Project to Destroy American, you don’t want a criminal lawyer.



You want acriminallawyer.

5 thoughts on “Better Call Saul!”

  1. Yeh, if President Obama would just get “creative” and “think outside the box,” I’m sure Louie Golmert and Michelle Bachmann will come around, along with the other Teabag fucks in the House.
    David Brooks gets paid an assload of money for this fairy tale shit.

  2. It’s the utter lack of institutional memory that really frustrates me. Obama — and Clinton — pretty much implemented the Repug agenda. Health care reform, welfare “reform,” and financial deregulation are more or less straight conservative blue print…at least until conservatives went full metal bugfuck insane wingnut.
    Jimmy Carter wasn’t all that liberal either. Didn’t he deregulate the trucking industry, and, with Ted Kennedy, the airlines? Carter also increased military spending for three of the four years of his administration, and I think the single year he didn’t was both due to the draw down from Vietnam AND the fact that they were governing under the Ford budget proposals.
    You’d think a free press that took itself seriously would point that out…but instead they get all in a huff when the President won’t let them tag along on a golf weekend…when they’re not engaged in serious discussions about how often and how effectively he shoots skeet.
    Sigh.

  4. “You’d think a free press that took itself seriously would point that out.”
    Oh, the press takes itself seriously enough. It’s its readership that it does not take seriously — you know, the readership that prefers tax hikes on the wealthy to more spending cuts.

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