Further to Bridgit Gread’s excellent post demolishing the wingnuts’ desperate and infantile claim that the current financial crisis in the US is the Democrats’ fault, we have the Tardosphere’s most courageous defender of free speech, KG, indulging in some more shameless obfuscation:

The left — those wholly responsible for the subprime crisis — are complaining on every outlet that they “had a deal” that would have passed into law to allow the rescue of the financial industry but for the intercession of John McCain.
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KG, who appears never to have hatched an original idea, is quoting here from fellow right-wing initialism GW of Wolf Howling, who helpfully illustrates his own execrable post with the following diagram:

Cute. But like so many wingtards, GW neglects to tell the whole story.

Here’s the second diagram from the educational Economix 4 Cockhedz series, which illustrates how free-market capitalists can socialise their losses when their avarice catches up with them (and the people they’ve exploited) and everything goes to shit:

See? Let no one say we’re not all about balance here at GrodsCorp.

UPDATE: The $US700 billion ($840 billion) “bailout” package has been approved. I hope you swallowed, free-market capitalism.

If it smells like a fish…

Posted by Bridgit Gread on Saturday 30 August 2008, 11:28 am
Categories: Politics, Them crazy...  Tags: Tags: , , ,

Meet Sarah Palin, possibly the next vice-president of the United States, the fish that John McCain didn’t reject.

Just 44 and governor of that behemoth state Alaska for only 20 months, Palin is so grossly inexperienced she makes previous VP candidates Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle seem like elder statesmen. But she’s the ideal policy foil for McCain’s timid conservatism. Palin is fiercely pro-life and has churned out five kids of her own; she’s against same-sex marriage and rights for gay partners; and she supports the teaching of creationism in schools. She’s a lifelong member of the NRA and in her spare time loves to go out killing things. Her views on climate-change are flakey (apparently in Sarah’s world it might not be a man-made event) and she vehemently opposed the federal government’s listing of polar bears as an endangered species. Probably because she wants to go a-drilling in Alaska’s protected wilderness reserves (it may come as no surprise that hubby works for ’big oil’).

McCain’s choice of Palin might prove to be a masterstroke, snapping up hardline conservatives and disillusioned female Hillary voters in one fell swoop. Or it might eventually be shown up for what it really is: optimistic, opportunistic tokenism, making use of an inexperienced and probably incompetent second-tier politician.

UPDATE

MK, the Internet Right’s own Beaver Cleaver, has pants-swelling conniptions over Palin’s nomination. “She definitely has my vote, too bad I can’t vote” says Matty, somewhat paradoxically.



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