Digby gets it right once again.

The 2 most important graphs:

"Confidence? You'd be a fool to have confidence in the future. According to all of our most sagacious national commentators, the best case scenario is that our political leaders get past their minor differences on the scope of the cutting and come together to destroy the safety net. If they don't, well ... apparently it will be very, very bad.

Uncertainty? Average people don't have uncertainty. As far as they are concerned they're screwed no matter what happens. Our leadership demands that people buy into the silly notion that giving up their personal financial security is a patriotic duty and that high unemployment and underwater mortgages are niggling little problems that will be solved by putting more of their "skin in the game."

My questions are simple:

How long can we hold on?
How long are we expected to hold on? 
Or are we expected to just fold and go away silently?
What does our government think is going to happen?


Someone stated the other day that it took 12 years to get over the depression. So, we learned those lessons, how to fix the economy, so why do we have to spend another 12 years doing it again? Are we really that stupid?
And the answer seems to be yes, we are just that stupid.
All that highfaluting Ivy league education our betters have, shot to hell. What a fucking waste.

The New World Order

We have to not only block this asshole Ryan's plan to kill old people. And I don't mean over 100 yrs old. I mean 55 and older. Talk about your death panels. Talk about healthcare rationing. As always the things that conservatives yell about the loudest are exactly the things they want to do to everyone other than themselves. We have to defeat these assholes. And they are ASSHOLES.
I am ashamed that people like Ryan actually get elected in this country in the 21st century. What's more the largest group of people that voted for him are the ones to be the most affected.

I used to think we were better than this. I'm not so sure about that any more. Hell, I am sure. We aren't better, we suck as a people. We have one of the largest economies in the world. California by itself is in the top ten economies. And all we can afford to do is to kill people. We supposedly can't feed ourselves, house ourselves, provide health care but we sure as fuck can kill people. It's what we do. We are the 24/7 death and destruction country. That's what we do. We kill other people. Up to now. And because it costs so much to do it to others we are now going to save money and do it here. Conservatives are trying to have our government do what it does best right here at home. Not with bullets or bombs but with selfishness and greed.


Kevin Drum. Short and to the point.

You don't know how glad I am not to have kids that would have to live in this kind of a world.

Preemptive Whatever

Digby and her reader Sleon made some great points here: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/bush-doctrine-of-torture-by-digby.html

I know that this has been said before but I'm just wondering - if one were to accept the premise that "preemptive war" is OK against other nations wouldn't it logically follow if taken to the end of that path, that the concept of preemptive action is then OK against citizens of say, this country? One might call it a "war on drugs" or a "war on poverty". Who the combatants are is only then a matter of semantics and how they are treated is of no concern. After all they are combatants, not people. So the point of the above link is that torture is OK follows not just for foreign countries but anyone who does not agree.

Maybe there really was an axis of evil, we were just looking in the wrong direction. After all the first thing magicians learn is misdirection.