Losing It

Honey, I Shrunk The Spitzer:
"Reaction Formation is when an individual's behavior or actions are the exact opposite of what he feels at his core (or possibly unconscious) level. In Spitzer's case, it means that the corruption fighter in his core was -- or needed to be -- corrupt. The more corrupt he was, or felt he was, the more he had to fight corruption in others -- and fight it with a tenacity and ruthlessness that was fueled in fact, by his own failings. Classically, he even denounced and went after prostitution rings -- kind of like a priest railing against sin and then taking a boy to bed. The outward purity and rigidity is a defense mechanism that helps him to feel better about his inner needs.

Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior (as opposed to a full-fledged obsessive-compulsive disorder) is the attempt to control internal chaos or obsessive thoughts. In Spitzer's case, he might have been trying to control his apparent sexual needs -- and, maybe more importantly, his need to push the limits into dangerous territory. By focusing on control or perfectionism, the individual offsets or distracts from the unconscious danger. So, by behaving in a strict, ordered, manner (always wearing white shirts, for instance), the Governor appeared to be the opposite of what, internally, he really was."

Middle Aged Conservatives Should Be Exposed At Birth

Steve King, Republican Congressman: Al-Qaida Will Be "Dancing In The Streets" If "Hussein" Obama Wins:

He represents the quivering pile of conservative Americans who fear and hate. He speaks the words that catch in their throat and he leads them in their quest for respite. They never get it. He is a fake. He sells their weakness back to them. They are ill-served.

Dead Ahead

Hey, what's to eat?: This is not good. The bees are in crises around the world - heading directly toward a gigantic failure in agriculture. We can't eat tuna without poisoning ourselves, and now the salmon are facing total collapse. Thank goodness we've got good leadership. Dick Cheney's plan is to die. George Bush's plan is to trust Dick. And the rest of us are trying to figure out why the waiter can't bring us any food. Yep, this is not good.

Mother Tucker Will Never Die !

He'll be back for another round of butterball wisdom and dark vanity from the soul of an old tot:

He's not going anywhere. To my utter dismay I find that a lot of women find him attractive - enough so that they would rather him not be cancelled. Well ladies, you get it both ways: boohoo and don't worry. He's gone only for a minute, retooling his hair and his trans-fat waistline, ready to pounce back into your living room with another round of butterball wisdom and dark vanity from the soul of an old tot. Translation: he gets a new show and tries yet again to disprove Victor Hugo's claim that, "one cannot resist an idea whose time has come."

As long as there are no great minds in the public view, rodents like this guy will continue to get face time with the American citizenry.

Such be the republic at the moment.

Obama Will Absorb McCain

This Is Not A Gamble; It's The Armed Prayer Of A Rich Nation: "“Very early in this campaign, I said I would meet not just with our friends but also with our enemies, not just with leaders we like but leaders we don't,” Obama said. “Washington, when I said this, they said, 'Oh, you can't do that.' I said, 'Watch me; I will.'”"

This will mean that he must be uniquely great, and I am voting that he is..

John McCain's "Very Weird Behavior"

"Blonde's For McCain" campaign hits snag: "Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum comments: 'Look, there's no two ways about it it: this is very weird behavior. If there were really no story here, McCain wouldn't be avoiding reporters. He'd be yukking it up and insisting to a sympathetic press corps that he was the subject of a comically thin hit job from the Times. Instead he's acting almost like a caricature of a guilty man. What's going on here?'"

"Over the parapet; life, romance!" - Robert Service

"Bombs away !" - John McCain

McCain's from another era, when doing it for "Country A" was enough of a reason to kill.

NOW is Then, Left Out Too Long

Women's Rights Head Kicked in the Balls by a Bunch of Kennedys: "In a rant that was described as greater-than-scathing, the head of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women ripped into Sen. Ted Kennedy on Monday for "betraying" woman by not endorsing Sen. Hillary Clinton."

Uh oh. Remember, this is the wacko portion of the history of an organization. The official title of her statement is: "Psychological Gang Bang of Hillary is Proof We Need a Woman President."

I respect her right to be a jerk, but remember, "history loves company."

A Thetan is a Thespian After Its Money is Removed

...and a Californian is Someone That's Been Dumped by a Venusian: In Scientology, "When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body – they go to a "landing station" on the planet Venus, where the thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life. The Venusians take the thetan, "capsule" it, and send it back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California. Says Hubbard, "If you can get out of that, and through that, and wander around through the cities and find some girl who looks like she is going to get married or have a baby or something like that, you're all set. And if you can find the maternity ward to a hospital or something, you're OK. And you just eventually just pick up a baby..."

"...All matter, energy, space, and time exists solely because thetans agree that it exists." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Well, of course that all makes perfect sense.

Obama Knows; Bush Blows

Bush Did What Obama Recommended Because It Was A Smart Move: Barack Obama set the agenda: "But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. ... If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we will.'"

And Bush did act - just the way he said he wouldn't, but just the way that Obama recommended.

You know why?

Because Obama has his head screwed on correctly, and that's a big plus.

The Republican Ass Problem

Glenn Beck: I Drink The Blood Of Small People Who Are Different Than Me

It's heartening to know that even when we are off having a great time with our friends and family, Beck's ass is doing our work for us, making him conscious of his painful anus every stinking minute of his very low life.

Now that's what I call swell.

Ramses the Next

Hillary "might as well be promoting choral singing in the face of Beatlemania."

The merest chance for us to be a greater generation than we are; to be a surpassing nation, is just too alluring; just too gorgeous, for us not to embrace this incredible opportunity. With Obama there is a feeling in one's soul that there is indeed a chance for American excellence in this new century.

Tucker Carlson, Ethical Oaf

The Butterball That Enabled The Meathead : "In 1999, during the 2000 Republican Presidential primary race, Tucker Carlson interviewed Bush, then Governor of Texas, for Talk magazine. Carlson reported that Bush mocked soon-to-be-executed Texas death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker and "cursed like a sailor."

Bush's communications director Karen Hughes publicly disputed this claim. Asked by Salon about the response to his article on Bush, Carlson characterized it as "very, very hostile. The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with. Then I heard that (on the campaign bus, Bush communications director) Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard — that I watched her hear — she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane. I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness." - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is surely my favorite anecdote involving Tucker Carlson, though it truly irks me to contribute to any effort to humanize this viper.

The Ass Delivers The Shit

Rush Limbaugh, Anal Poisoner: "A source close to Limbaugh says the right-wing gadfly was merely using a 'time-honored' synonym for 'brown-nosing.' But if you Google the term ['anal poisoning"], the only people who seem to be using it are proprietors of porn sites."

Someday, when the money wall collapses and the truth oozes forth, Limbaugh will finally have the tomb he deserves.

Housing Meltdown

Wipeout !! To Hit Retiring Boomers Hard: "Home prices could sink an additional 25% over the next two or three years, returning values to their 2000 levels in inflation-adjusted terms. That's even with the Federal Reserve's half-percentage-point rate cut on Jan. 30.

While a 25% decline is unprecedented in modern times, some economists are beginning to talk about it. 'We now see potential for another 25% to 30% downside over the next two years,' says David A. Rosenberg, North American economist for Merrill Lynch (MER), who until recently had expected a much smaller slide."

This sucks muddy rocks big time !

Coulter Finds New Map To Be All Over

Ann's Plan -"I Will Campaign for Hillary If It’s McCain": "'If you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or a D after his name...If he's our candidate, then Hillary's going to be our girl, Sean, cause she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that.'"

Another tortured staccato burst from the Annster.

"A President Like My Father"

Caroline Kennedy: "For the first time, I believe I have found the man": "Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible."

..."As parents, we have a responsibility to help our children to believe in themselves and in their power to shape their future. Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility."

..."I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

I'm down with Caroline's every word. She is so right. As "The New York Observer" said, Obama is "transformative".

Ted Kennedy Invented the V-2 !!!!

Jonah Goldberg to Base! Under Attack by Commie-Nazis!: "Here's the Goldberg Thesis:

Liberals are like Fascists because Fascists told people to do things and so do Liberals. The End."

This rodent's thinking process is a very messy and wholly unordinary procedure akin to masturbation. It's not really very dangerous - I mean, nobody dies, but nothing ever goes very well either. Of course there's no proof of this, except for his own words.

Chrisball - No Strikes, No Balls

Chris Matthews Bends Over For The Paycheck; Meanders, Eventually Apologizes: About Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews recently stated on MSNBC's Morning Joe program that, "The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."

A clammy, amazingly harsh and judgmental stab - a near psychiatric example of one individual's furious, unhealthy need to spew bile at Hillary Clinton.

Then, in the words of fictitious observers, "the phone rang; the money was mentioned, camera access was mentioned, and all the hallway doors slammed shut but for two: Fix-It and Unknown.

Bobbin' an weavin' like a squirming piglet angling for his spot at the teats, he acted quickly to remove anything in the way of his access to the money and the fame."

"On the particular point, if I'd said the only reason John McCain has come so far is that he got shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the enemy, I'd be brutally ignoring the courage and guts he showed in bearing up under his captivity. Saying that Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now that it comes across just as nasty. Worse yet, just as dismissive.

Finally, if anyone doesn't know this, I love politics. I love politicians. I like and respect people with the guts to put their name, their very being out there for public approval so that they can lead our country. And that goes for Hillary and Barack and John and all the rest who are willing to fight to take on the toughest job in the world."

Upton Sinclair offered more than a hunch, saying, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

The Anti-Chrisball Vote

Speaking From Chris Matthews' Ass:

"The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."

"They’re blaming Chris Matthews":

"PAT BUCHANAN: This is an astonishing development. Look, the pollsters were dead wrong. They were predicting 7-8 to a dozen points for Obama. The press was dead wrong. We had virtually canonized Obama and said he had been born in Bethlehem and now you’ve got a race where Hillary Clinton is running three or four points ahead of this fella. Something has happened. There is a hidden vote here somewhere, or my guess is this: The New Hampshire voters said, look, the press has been telling us Obama’s the second coming. We don’t think so. The press has been telling us she’s gone, and the women came out and said, no, she’s not. What New Hampshire did was stand up and body slam the national establishment, the press corp., the pollsters, the whole bunch that came in here as well as Barack Obama’s folks who must be in a state of shock tonight.

RACHEL MADDOW: Pat, I will tell you that on the influential -perhaps influential on the left — Web site, talking points memo today, do you want to know who they’re blaming for women voters breaking for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama? Who they’re blaming for this late showing for Hillary Clinton? They’re blaming Chris Matthews. People are citing specifically Chris not only for his own views but also as a symbol for what the mainstream media…

MATTHEWS: What Web site?

MADDOW: Talkingpointsmemo.com."

Donna Brazile Pissed at Bill

...And For Good Reason: "I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn't take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It's time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It's an insult. And I will tell you, as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing."