Why, that’s madness. But, that’s also the current system status quo which some disillusioned and ill-informed individuals are fighting tooth-and-nail to preserve. All that talk about how Obama’s health care plan is a “job killer?” Yet paying the equivalence of a year’s worth of salary for each job somehow isn’t a job killer?

If the current health care system remains unchanged, then our country continues down an economically ruinous path. All of these cynical pessimists that are opposing the attempts to health care reform- and support the current towards for national economic ruin- are treasonous, plain and simple. Despite the undeniable fact that efforts need to be done, and we are looking at a comprehensive piece of legislation that deals with these issues in a systemic manner, these cynics keep braying about a “clean sheet of paper.” Consider how this extra $1,115 chokes the innovative efforts and the economic driving force of America’s small businesses- how will a “clean sheet of paper” help them? Consider the 45,000 unnecessary deaths that occur in this country this year due to the lack of health insurance, or health insurance that denies coverage. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to that? And consider the outrageous premium increases that occur each year- at least double-digits regardless of where you’re at, but in some locations reaching up to 39 and even 60 percent. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to those?

Boehner, Cantor, McConnell… I have an idea of what you can do with your “clean sheet of paper.” You better home you have a comprehensive health care plan that won’t refuse coverage of what procedures would be needed to take care of you afterwards!”

The capture of Adam Gadahn by Pakistani intelligence officers indicates that Pakistan is now a cooperating partner in the War on Terror, and not just giving us lip service as they accept billions of our tax dollars to provide the Taliban (and Osama bin Laden) safe haven inside its borders. How many al Qaeda were captured when Shrub was President? And remember all that harsh rhetoric of Obama’s regarding Pakistan that he was criticized for on the campaign trail? You know, the same rhetoric that supposedly showed how “inexperienced” he was to be President? (Meanwhile, his “experienced” rival can’t seem to remember if he is for or against cutting Medicare.) Well, it appears that such rhetoric has had an effect, as Pakistan is forced to work in partnership with the U.S. in the capture of al Qaeda residing within its borders.

But, as I said, as this reflects well on the Obama administration’s efforts to fight terrorism, it will be probably ignored by the media. The inevitable push back by the conservative media has all ready occurred. FOX News, the propaganda wing of the GOP, is claiming that a different associate of bin Laden’s was arrested in Karachi, with limited information available. (What did you expect? An acknowledgment of a job well done to the Obama administration?) I can’t wait for the inevitable post by that retard Sarah Palin’s Facebook writers suggesting that the capture of Gadahn makes our country ‘unsafe’.

When Governor Mitt Romney passes an individual mandate to ensure 98% of Massachusetts has health insurance = totally okay and acceptable, and worthy of Scott Brown voting in favor of.

When Obama proposes a similar individual mandate to ensure 98% of Americans have health insurance = a socialist tool of government take over of Medicare, which Scott Brown needs to cast a vote in opposition to.

I’m sorry, but that is sarah todded!

You just know that if Mitt Romney was currently President, he’d be pushing for an individual mandate to pass a similar health care system as they have in Massachusetts. I know it, you know it, we allknow it….

Don't You Just Love Satire?

CPAC has been described by the Washington Post as the “preeminent gathering of conservative activists,” and so I was eager to hear some of this mythical “conservative common sense” I keep hearing so much about, but yet see succeed in any manner. Unfortunately, with the conference now wrapped up, it appears that the amount of substance contributed at this conference could fit into a 140-character post on Twitter.

Nah, scratch that. Probably more like half a Tweet, 70 characters followed by a string of hashtags, such as: #obamasucks #nobama #wheresthebirthcertificate, etc. etc. You know, the extent of wit as provided by conservatives…

This lack of “conservative common sense” is unfortunate, as our country faces some incredibly pressing issues. Entitlement spending is approaching unsustainable levels; a non-existent manufacturing base has led to a lack of economic resiliency, resulting in increased borrowing from abroad simply to extend unemployment benefits; and middle-class families continue to face possible bankruptcy due to double-digit annual increases in health care premiums, resulting in a record level of spending on health care in 2009. As should be typically expected from conservatives, however, all of these issues were ignored during their “love-in” as instead it was decided that a better use of time would be to attack the Obama adminsitration and the Democrats who are actually attempting to confront the problems this country faces.

Obviously, the entire GOP mindset is that by ignoring problems, they’ll simply go away. (Which might explain the 200 House-passed bills that collect dust due to the efforts of the obstructionist Republican minority. After all, let’s not forget that Mitch McConnell said that the Senate Republicans “will not be offering a comprehensive” health care reform bill. In other words, the memo by the GOP to the middle class is: Double digit premium increases? Tough titties. Suck it.)

Basically, being a Senate Republican is the sweetest job in the world. What other jobs allows you to collect taxpayer-funded paychecks while doing absolutely nothing? (Actually, I guess they don’t do nothing. One of the required “actions” you have to take as a Senate Republican is to rail against those who receive federal funds while not working. Yes, this is me pointing out irony.) I bet Scott Brown felt like he won the lottery when he pulled off his improbable victory over Coakley last month- “The taxpayers are paying my salary for three years, and in exchange I don’t have to do a goddman thing? Sweet!”

Little wonder this prized gravy train seems so appealing to Marco Rubio, the former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives who is challenging Governor Charlie Crist in the Florida douchebag, I mean Republican primary. Rubio has become a favorite of the foxbaggers, and was given a prominent speaking role at CPAC. I don’t really care who has the dubious honor of “winning” the Florida Republican primary, but Rubio’s campaign is making much use out of pictures of a hug between Governor Crist and President Obama at an event that happened last year, shortly after the passage of the Stimulus bill. This was also shortly after Florida’s budget deficit hit $6 billion, and the stimulus bill provided Florida with $4.7 billion, with $12 billion in stimulus funding coming to the state over the next three years. As the picture of Crist hugging Obama was snapped, I guarantee that Crist was thinking, “Thank you for saving my state.” Yet the crux of Marco Rubio’s case is: If he was Governor, he would have rejected the stimulus funds, and the state of Florida would even be more in debt. Because such a fool-hardy stance represents fiscal conservatism. Obviously, the economic morass that is currently California would be Rubio’s preferred alternative for Florida. Therefore, he should be supported for the Senate.

Yes, with such utter lack of logic exhibited in that argument, its little wonder that he’s a favorite of the foxbaggers.

So, despite such an utterly insane case to be a Senator, Rubio took the stage and shored up his support with his “base” by taking digs at Obama. “The best thing about the snowstorm is that Obama couldn’t set up a teleprompter to read his latest taxes,” said Rubio, referring to a President who still has yet to pass any tax package. In fact, as Nate Silver pointed out over at FiveThrityEight.com, President Obama has cut taxes for 98.6 percent- virtually all- Americans. This means, in simple terms, Barack Obama has cut more taxes for more Americans than Marco Rubio has. (But, you see, Republicans can’t win elections until they repeat “tax cuts” at least five hundred thousand times, and scare you into thinking that the President who cut your taxes is actually raising them…) And besides, Mr. Rubio, if the teleprompter didn’t work, what would have prevented the President from, oh I don’t know, reading off his hand?

That’s the other thing about being a Republican: the ability to benefit from the double standards you insist demanding onto others. Obama reads from a teleprompter, just like every other President before him the past few decades? Why, he should be mocked! But Sarah Palin needs to scribble “tax cuts “and “energy” on her hand to get her through an interview? Why, have you ever seen such a qualified candidate? Oh, and let’s dismiss talk of the Democrats possibly recruiting John Cougar Mellencamp to vie for Evan Bayh’s vacated Senate seat, as typical Democrat enchantment with the Hollywood elite and other entertainers. Not like Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of conservatism, who didn’t epitomize Hollywood elitism in the least bit. Not one bit.

Another example of this double standard can be revealed in Bill Moyer’s latest NOW episode on PBS, which detailed the effect “Angry Voters” will have in the 2010 mid-terms for incumbents. A lot of this anger uncovered by Moyer was directed from middle-class homeowners who, as a class, are perhaps the biggest benefits of government assistance in this country, yet are perhaps the whiniest about “government intrusion” as well. The government has long recognized the importance home ownership meant to this country, and implemented many policies to increase home ownership, from government-provided mortgages, to the ability to write mortgages off your taxes, to Obama’s mortgage assistance plan that prevents entire neighborhood property values from being destroyed- all which have benefited the bottom line of these homeowners. Yet, that won’t prevent these homeowners from complaining about “property taxes.” Hey, here’ a thought these homeowners can consider: Let’s follow California’s example and slash property taxes by 57 percent, as California did thirty years ago. And look at California now, currently flush with cash and not at all in danger of violating the mandates from the state constitution to fund basic services. I don’t mean to pick on the Golden State- which, after all, gave us both Nixon and Reagan- but anyone who repeats that tired and substantially incorrect talking point, “Tax cuts raise revenue” point out California and tell them, kindly, to shut the fuck up.

Oh lord, my diatribe against these conservative retards has gone on for so long, but I feel that I’ve barely scratched the surface. Let’s consider that CPAC also coincided with the attack on an IRS building by Joe Stack, a frustrated former computer engineer. I’m curious whose books they will find in Stack’s apartment, Glenn Beck’s or Mark Levin’s. Or, perhaps both? I mean, you’d have to be an idiot to claim that Stack’s anti-government posting on his website could be taken, “word-for-word” as being from Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama, right? Oh, wait…

But, finally, to cap the CPAC off in a high note, they had a 2012 presidential straw poll, testing which candidate has the conservative bona fides to challenge for the nomination in the next presidential election. Ron Paul won. The results were booed by the CPAC attendees. They booed their own frickin’ straw poll!

Yeah, its safe to say that similar to Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, “Conservative common sense” simply does not exist. Or it least no evidence of it was made apparent the past few days.

If this is the best that the other side has, Barack Obama will be re-elected. Easily.

Needless to say, Lawrence O’Donnel was co-hosting and of course tore him a new asshole. And who wouldn’t!?

THIESSEN: You‘ve got to think back to the period after 9/11. We didn‘t even know who hit us. This program is why we did not have another 9/11 after the attack and it‘s just vital.

JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC HOST: Lawrence O‘Donnell—

O‘DONNELL: Well, you‘re lying about the west coast thing. That‘s been covered very clearly. But you actually—you as a former speechwriter in the White House, you took an oath of office when you took that job, that you might or might not remember. You actually publish a book that says that the president of the United States, on its title, the president is inviting the next attack. Isn‘t it true that the president you worked for invited the first attack—

THIESSEN: Lawrence, that‘s ridiculous.

O‘DONNELL: — by having no idea what was going on with al-Qaeda? You just admitted —

THIESSEN: All right. Please.

O‘DONNELL: — that when you were hit on 9/11, you just said, we didn‘t know who hit us.

THIESSEN: Here‘s the record, Lawrence.

O‘DONNELL: You said we didn‘t know who hit us. You were told who was going to hit you before we were hit on 9/11. And your administration invited the first attack for which you should live in shame.

As remarkable as it is that Mr. Thiessen considers it a defense that Mr. Bush did not know who hit us in the period after 9/11, he is lying. Thanks to traditional intelligence gathering, which Mr. Bush ignored—Mr. Bush knew who hit us very early after 9/11, in fact, he knew on 9/11.

At 3:00 in the afternoon, CIA Director George Tenet told Mr. Bush it was virtually certain that Osama bin Laden were responsible. Bin Laden‘s location at that time believed to have been near Kandahar, and could also have been determined by Mr. Bush on 9/11 if he had read the “Boston Globe” that day.

Any lingering doubts about how partisanship skews Mr. Thiessen‘s view of national security, here‘s an article he wrote this week for “Foreign Policy,” “Barack Obama is killing too many terrorists by his use of drone missions.” Imagine the reaction of a Democratic White House veteran had asked whether Mr. Bush was quote, “killing too many bad guys”?

This level of idiocy takes your breath away, that his theory is, if we could somehow capture them and torture them and talk to them, we‘d be much better off than just actually killing them. We haven‘t invented the drone yet that captures them, we invented the drone that kills them very effectively. And the ones that we are not killing, we are putting on the run with those drones, they are—that puts them out of the zone where they can be doing planning. They have to spend a great deal of their day thinking about how they‘re going to survive. And this moron thinks, no, we should take the pressure off them and somehow have them walking to our arms so we can interrogate them.

But then to even suggest that we did not know who hit us on 9/11, except we would have if we had a torture program in place, is probably one of the most ludicrous things anybody has ever said. First of all, thanks for admitting the Bush administration didn’t care about Al-Qaida in the first place to even have a program. But even if there was, who was in custody to torture. Who does Theissen think we should have been interrogating? Even if it was legal? And even still, if Bush had Osama Bin Laden in custody before the attacks on 9/11 all they would have asked him about was Iraq. Who was going to ask “When are you guys flying planes into the World Trade Center?”

However, the most important thing to remember here is, we knew exactly who hit us. The National Security Council was in the Situation Room on 9/11 before the 2nd plane hit and they knew exactly who it was. Not only that, there was a certain memo released a month earlier that very clearly stated that “Osama Bin Laden Determined to Strike inside the US“.

How is it not hypocrisy to write a book and claim “Barak Obama is inviting the next attack,” when Bush not only invited the previous attacks, he took everyone off watch.

Furthermore, how is Obama “inviting the next attack?” If anything, when it comes the war on Al-Qaeda, Obama’s record is nonpareil and has far surpassed Bush’s. Al-Qaeda is being pursued with a vigor like it has never been seen before. Obama has eliminated 12 of their top 20 people. Obama has taken out 100 of their associates. Obama has sent them all underground. They are, in fact, not able to do anything remotely like they were in the past. Despite whatever fantasy world Dick Cheney and Mark Theissen live in, Al-Qaeda is on the run.

It’s one thing to criticize; it’s another thing to distort, fabricate and completely rewrite history.

By every indication, this means that the more and more Sarah Palin is in the public eye, the less and less likely she will ever become President. I mean, lower approval ratings than Hillary Clinton ever had? And how many votes did Hillary get in her quest for the Presidency?

Do you hear that sound? That would be the rational people in the Untied States breathing a collective sigh of relief. I’d really like to make an effort to quit mentioning her, but just like every other great political joke, it would simply be too hard to stop mocking her all together…

Responding to President Obama’s request to have a health-care summit and hash out legislation that combines preferred ideas from both sides of the ONLY if the President agrees to their demand to withdraw the legislation passed by both the House and the Senate off the table, along with the possible threat of reconciliation?

Yeah, that’s pretty much throwing off any and all pretense of attempting bipartisanship, at least from the GOP side.

Not sure if the GOP is worried about becoming irrelevant due to their political posturing and amandnat refusal to address the pressing needs our country faces. For some reason, I doubt it.