NYT’s David Carr and weasel Bill Maher think most of America are stupid and have “low-sloping” foreheads”

I didn’t see this exchange live because I absolutely HATE Bill Maher and refuse to watch his show….I think he’s a pathetic lost soul…with a little evil thrown in.  I ran across this story on Real Clear Politics.  It left me speechless.  Please watch the video clip here (I can’t get the video embedded).  The two idiotic lefty elitists are yucking it up over what Chris Christie is doing in New Jersey and in the course of the conversation, Bill Maher says that states like Alabama and Kansas are stupid but he can’t understand why New Jersey (a smart state) allows Chris Christie to continue  moving the state to the right.  David Carr (of the New York Times) goes on to say that people from Kansas and Missouri have “low-sloping” foreheads.  I assume this means that they are stupid (I’ve never heard this phrase before).

Well, well….this is what we are dealing with in the 2012 election.  I was livid after watching the clip but then I started to laugh.  They are doing us a HUGE favor.  If these bozo’s continue saying things like this about the American people, it doesn’t matter who the GOP nominee is….people are going to vote against the left just because they are pissed off.  It’s a free GOP campaign ad.

So…

Wake up America. 

This is the left.

These are the progressives.

This is the Democratic Party.

Government shutdown 2011…will it happen?

It looks like no progress was made at  Obama’s meeting with Harry Reid and John Boehner.  I think that not many people got much sleep last night as everyone is scrambling to get some sort of budget passed to keep business going.
(Fox) Congressional aides worked through the night Wednesday after a high-stakes meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders failed to reach a deal on the federal budget.
Obama called the discussion “frank” and “constructive,” but did not articulate how the two sides would forge an agreement to keep the government running past the Friday deadline.
“If we are serious about getting something done we should be able to complete a deal, get it passed and avert a shutdown,” Obama told reporters in the White House briefing room.
A few minutes later outside the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner stood side by side to update reporters on the talks.
“We’re not there yet,” Reid said, but both sides were committed to hammering out a deal and keeping the government running.

“No one wants a shutdown,” Boehner said, adding there were “honest differences” and their staffs will work to get the budget issue resolved.

“We’ve narrowed the issues significantly,” Reid said.
The government already is operating on a short-term spending measure because Republicans and Democrats haven’t been able to agree on how deeply to cut and what to ax, and as a precaution, House Republicans are preparing to bring yet another stopgap budget bill to the floor Thursday to buy more time for negotiations on a long term bill.
The proposal would be the third short-term budget bill in two months. The prospect of voting on another stopgap has frustrated lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, some of whom have vowed to oppose one. But while dozens of GOP members defected the last time around, House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told Fox News he has enough GOP support to pass this bill without any Democrats. 
“We don’t need one Democratic vote,” he said.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said earlier Wednesday that he would be willing to help Republicans whip up support for a short-term spending plan. However, he also said he opposes the specific package that House Speaker John Boehner has been pushing — a one-week bill that would cut $12 billion, while also funding the military for the rest of the year. And Boehner said Wednesday that’s exactly the plan he wants to put on the floor. 
“I think this is the responsible thing to do,” Boehner said. “I would hope the Senate can pass it and the president would sign it into law.” 
It’s unclear whether the bill can indeed win enough support to avert a shutdown, or do anything to advance the broader negotiations over a half-year budget. Expectations have been changing by the minute in Washington as lawmakers try to craft a budget bill while at the same time jockeying for political advantage in the media, assigning blame in advance to the other side in case of a shutdown.
Meanwhile, the day-to-day functions of government — from running national parks to sending out tax refunds — were hanging in the balance. The administration and Congress have been preparing for the possibility of a partial shutdown, warning that a number of basic services would go on hiatus and that a shutdown could hurt the economy. 
Lawmakers appeared to be caught in a political perfect storm, with several simultaneous budget deals complicating negotiations over the rest of this year’s budget. Conservative lawmakers want to cut as much as possible now, to set the tone for talks over next year’s budget and spending for the rest of the decade. GOP Rep. Paul Ryan just introduced a plan to cut deficits by $4.4 trillion over 10 years. President Obama and Democrats, by contrast, want to use a “scalpel,” rather than an ax, to address the deficit. 
An upcoming vote on whether to raise the debt ceiling doesn’t make things any easier. 
With all this on the line, 2011 budget negotiations have been continually tested by the political rhetoric flying on both sides of the aisle. A White House aide said Wednesday there are “signs of progress” in the budget talks. But on the sidelines, lawmakers continued to hurl accusations at each other.
House Democrats convened a press conference at which they repeated the claim that the Tea Party is to blame for bringing Congress to the brink of a shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats have been trying to meet Republicans halfway, but the GOP has “refused to take yes for an answer.” 
Republicans earlier passed a bill out of the House to cut $61 billion from last year’s levels, and some lawmakers have continued to press for that level of spending cuts. Democrats have refused. 
Obama suggested Tuesday that he had no interest in signing another short-term measure just to keep the debate going. 
“We’ve already done that twice,” Obama said. “That is not a way to run a government.” 
However, he indicated he could support a very short-term budget bill if the framework for a budget for the rest of the year is in place. 

You don’t hear the LSM talking about the fact that the Democrats didn’t pass a budget last year.  It should be mandatory to pass a budget every year.  Why isn’t it?  We need to learn to live within our means.

Now vs. Then

Grassroots effort to build Robocop statue in Detroit proves, yet again, what individuals can do to rattle elected officials if they just employ their creativity (and get off their couches, put down their Pepsi)

Here’s an absurd attempt to build a Robocop statue in the ruined city of Detroit.
It’s absurd because Detroit is imploding, much like the house at the end of Poltergeist, being sucked into oblivion by the rot, corruption, and concerted impact of decades of solid Democrat and union control.  This is not a city that needs a new statue of anything.  It is a city that needs an enema that would clean every elected office of Democrats and replace them with people willing and able to make the tough fiscal choices that would salvage as much of Detroit as possible.  Since realistically we all know voters won’t ever deliver said enema because of the Democrats’ identity-and-race voter gerrymandering, Detroit as a civic entity is just DOOMED.
The Robocop movies were set in a futuristic Detroit that collapsed upon itself in rot and corruption, salvaged only by the privatization into a megacorporation-controlled police state with a cyborg crime-fighter at the forefront of law enforcement efforts.
While the City has no money to erect a Robocop statue, and private efforts to do so will most likely fail (as these grassroots efforts often do), it’s interesting pressure to put on the Mayor of Detroit and the other fools in charge of that city…because reminding people of Robocop is a very smart and creative guerilla political tactic.
It’s jarring people’s memories back to those Robocop movies, and the dystopian future they predicted for this falling-down-upon-itself city…a prediction that CAME TRUE.
Detroit, in real life, really does need a Robocop.
There’s now a grassroots effort to build a Robocop (statue) for Detroit.
The fumblers and bumblers in elected office in Detroit are in fact worse than their cinematic counterparts in the Robocop movies, because in truth there’s nothing left that can be done to save Detroit from a fate worse than the city suffered in those movies.
And all of this started because someone had a creative idea, took to Twitter and Facebook with it, and it’s catching on.