Sunday, September 20, 2009

What our goal wasn't for 7 long years

"... And we are gonna see how this is fitting what, I think, is our core goal. Which is to go after the folks who killed the 3,000 Americans during 9/11, and who are still plotting to kill us, al Qaeda. How do we dismantle them, disrupt them, destroy them."
It's very easy to predict the wingnut response to President Obama's statement on Afghanistan. "Our goal and President Bush's goal was to destroy those 'who killed the 3,000 Americans' too". And to all of us who actually paid attention over the last eight years the very simple and unfortunately correct response to that is;
no it wasn't idiots, you weren't even close!

You sat back on your stupid asses and supported sending 150,000 American troops to a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 while your ignorant commander in chief deployed 5,000 troops to the country that did.

I sat and listened to John Boehner and Lindsay Graham on Meet the Press after Obama's interview. Those two fools have the audacity to question Obama's policy in Afghanistan? Are you fucking kidding me? Both of those revisionist punks had their heads buried in George Bush's ass in our foolish invasion and 6 1/2 year occupation of Iraq and our shameful neglect of what our 'goal' should have been all along; al-Qaeda.

Like Boehner and Graham, the vast majority of wingnuts who ignorantly supported going to Iraq are the reason we haven't already 'destroyed' those 'who killed the 3,000 Americans'.

They have been the problem and a distraction up to this point. So they have absolutely no credibility going forward. The adults will take it from here.

It could have been about the ratings
Obama skipped out on "the highly-rated Fox News Sunday?" ... Uh sorry, not so much Chrissy

The facts: [Chrissy]Wallace hosts, and has hosted for years, the perennial Sunday morning news show loser. Fox News Sunday pretty much gets lapped by the rest of network field. It's not even close.

I'm personally very happy that Barack Obama ignored Fox this morning. And I know it wasn't because of Chris Wallace's Fox News Sunday being dead last among Sunday morning talking head shows. Of course he did it because they're a bunch of pathetic America-haters who find no shame in lying more times than not. All clear thinking and knowledgeable people have figured that out.

But it sure is nice to know that most Americans have wised-up on which network to go to for their Sunday morning news. And besides, that little whiny-ass Wallace is just too typical of your everyday wingnut so why should President Obama waste anymore of his time?

But who knows? It really could have been about Fox News Sunday's dead last ratings. But I hope not.

The CBO said that three months ago

The $1,761 Cap & Trade Lie

"Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year”

How do you herd sheople? First you release erroneous and previously debunked data from a rightwing corporatist 'think tank' and pretend they're a legitimate source that's non-partisan. Then the rightwing media picks it up as "breaking news" and the next thing you know 30% of the most ignorant and gullible among us believe it without doing any thinking on their own. They just line up and head back to the pen. Or to a tea party.

For those of us who believe facts are important we get our data from reliable, trustworthy and hopefully non-partisan news sources. The 'nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office' (CBO), released another report on Cap and Trade just this past Thursday that clearly states that the cost they estimate it will be is 1/11th of that ridiculously inflated lie, or $160 a year per household.

That's slightly lower than the $175 they told your stupid asses three months ago. Shut up, get a fucking clue and stop regurgitating bullshit from pathological liars!

*The exposure of this new wingnut lie is more eloquently laid-out over at Think Progress.