And I'm not talking about the movie. We've moved into the Twilight Zone. It happened on 9/11.
Michelle Malkin, the stormy petrel of conservative lunacy, already has drawn the distinction between the people "who sign the back of the paychecks and the people who sign the front." If you can treat someone's salary like a welfare check, and then sell that nonsense to the American people, then we're well on our way back to having to poach our meals from the forests of the Duke.
Charlie Pierce
If your paycheck has less than 6 figures, it's already being treated like a welfare check by the people signing it.
Running Willard Romney in the aftermath of what happened in 2008 and 2009 makes as much sense as running Gordon Liddy for president in 1976 would have made. On the face of it, it's laughable. It is so comically dissonant with the primary source of the country's difficulties that it borders on parody.
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As I repeat, over and over again, to the point where my friends are now ducking into the Charles River to avoid me, WE ALL KNOW WHO THE REAL THIEVES ARE! We all know where they work, and we all know pretty much what they did. And we are all quite goddamn aware that the greasy bastards are still freaking doing it, while the Masters of our financial universe cluck mournfully and tell us that we all have to tighten our belts for the coming decades of austerity lest we go over "fiscal cliff."
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We went over the cliff in 2008 and 2009 while [Ben Bernancke was] bailing out the banks and the administration was signing off on paltry settlements that kept Bob Rubin's pals out of the Big House.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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