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We know the economy is bad. We also know that President Obama's policies will lengthen and prolong the recession. But, we think we can blame the Republicans for it. And we've stoked so much hate for Republicans, we think we can coast through the next couple of election cycles even with a bad economy. We look at Michigan, where voters re-elected Jennifer Granholm, and New Jersey, where Democrats have a monopoly on state power despite recession, corruption, and tax increases... and those are our models.

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency’. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency’ became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.” — Herbert Hoover

Just sayin'...

But I thought we wouldn't have to worry about mortgages and filling the gas tank with The One at the helm. Isn't he the one we've been waiting for, who will cause the oceans to recede and the earth to heal?

Being a Messiah isn't what it used to be.

Are they both standing up?

I used to love back when Rush Limbaugh had his TV show, and whenever he showed clips of Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhh speaking, they'd only show the top of his head!!

LMAO!

If I were the guy on the right, I'd check that Reich isn't picking his pocket with his other hand.

Just sayin'.

Say what you will about Robert Reich, but wasn't he great in 'Elf?'

This is so transparent. Now that "O" is in, it's going to be two...three...four...five years before a recovery. Right. Like anyone in five years will remember that.

By then, Komrad "O" and the team he is bringing in will have reworked America into an unrecognizable socialist third-world slum. (Also, read Dick Morris' latest email column on how Bush sold us down the river this month.)

By the way, what's with the penchant for picking on someone's physical appearance here? Like that matters. I don't care if Reich is short (I'm five six...want to make fun of me? Try it to my face, assholes). So what if Madelaine Albright and Helen Thomas are not exactly attractive? That's sophomoric name calling. We are better than that...aren't we?

Me? Make fun of someone's physical appearance? that's unpossible!.

Everybody at same time or another makes fun of someone else. Some just think it, some voice it. Akin to calling Obama 'Komrad"O".

This has got to be a Clintonista plot.

Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff,
John Podesta as Transition Chief,
Eric Holder as Atty Gen,
Robert Reich on the Transition Team,
and (maybe) Shillary as Secretary of State

Something tells me that, instead of Jimmy Carter's second term, this could be Bubba's third term.

Ok I'll bite. Are you saying you can't see the pics?

Who's the Russian? Maybe he can give us some pointers on how to live under socialism & not starve or go nuts....

Hey Anon (2:50 pm), I think the Daily Kos has gotten to your reasoning skills.

Hammering someone on policy and politics (like the insult above, directed at you) is different than saying "Look at that short, ugly fat guy". But I guess libs don't understand that.

But criticize someone gay...or black...or Moslem...or Hispanic...or Asian...THEN, by God, it's RACISM (even if it had nothing to do with race).

Yeah, the only way liberals know how to criticize the right is with personal insults and smears. (Which is why I'm giving V some jazz here. You're WAY wittier than that.) What pisses me off is they won't admit it!

Is that Russian? -- or Greek?

Guess it doesn't matter. Greeks are just as adept at surviving life in a socialist "workers paradise"

"Pictures for some reason (it only at me so are not displayed?"

it's russian and this is the best translation i can find.

he that guy from wild, wild west?

ТС: ++

The more things CHANGE, the more they stay the same.

пожалуйста используйте английскую язык на английской доске.

Continuing the theme of walking down the electorate's expectations of Obama, here we have a super-sappy AP piece talking our expectations down, reminding us that it was Bush's momemental mismanagement of everything that caused the crisis, and promising us that Obama will create millions upon billions of good new jobs, building solar panels and bridges and stuff. And Obama really, really cares about us and our problems and won't negotiate when it comes to making our lives better, or something

July 13, 2008, Barack Obama: "We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools; not throwing our hands up and walking away from them."

November 21, 2008: Barack Obama throws up his hands and walks away from the public schools.

The 4th REICH is about to begin.

I have been reincarnated as Robert Reich. The irony is rather delicious.

Its no accident Robert Reich was born June 1946 - about a year after I offed myself in my bunker.

Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff,
John Podesta as Transition Chief,
Eric Holder as Atty Gen,
Robert Reich on the Transition Team,
and (maybe) Shillary as Secretary of State
If this current cast of characters didn't already exist, it would have been necessary for Ayn Rand to invent them for one of her novels. It also follows the plot of Atlas Shrugs fairly closely. In the novel, the lead antagonist promotes his own 'new deal', a sort of economic stasis where no one could be hired, fired or promoted. Naturally the downturn turned into a Greater Depression.