Tuesday, July 28, 2009

That's not the . . . change . . . America . . . can . . . believed in!

Obviously nobody has explained to Matt Taibbi that we must continue to elect more and better Democrats. It is true that they have "a political majority in congress and a popular president armed with oodles of political capital and backed by the overwhelming sentiment of perhaps 150 million Americans," but this is really immaterial. Our first goal has got to be 100% Democratic appointees on the Supreme Court, unanimous control of the House and Senate, majority control of every state legislature, a majority lock on at least 2/3 of county council and executive seats nationwide, the mayoralties of all American cities with populations exceeding 50,000, and a congressional seat for the District of Columbia. Once accomplished, we can turn our eyes on the change we need.

15 comments:

Mr.Fundamental said...

KEEP VOTING I THINK IT'S WORKING!

AlanSmithee said...

Butbutbut...ANYBODY BUT BUSH!

Anonymous said...

Don't tell me I bought this Obama t-shirt for nothing.

Phillip Allen said...

Anonymous, if you are contrite/ashamed/disgusted, just wear it inside out. A t-shirt is a t-shirt, after all.

Mr.Fundamental said...

the wind takes all flags, and a bike can be cleaned with any ole rag.

Anonymous said...

Can we end the federal government now, please

Anonymous said...

What you cynics overlook is how Joe Biden is making Ukraine American. That's about 50 million new free people right there.
-- sglover

pasquin said...

Communists have it all right: one party rule removes all the arguing.

SteveB said...

Well, we've lost the Public Option and the Employer Mandate, be we get to keep the part that forces us all to buy insurance.

Half a loaf is better than none, you know.

hv said...

MoBetta Democrats!

Anonymous said...

Need to find a new bakery

Jay said...

I tend to choose Democrats over Republicans, in the same way that I tend to choose a bullet in the thigh over one through a lung.

AlanSmithee said...

So you must have been surprised when they shot you in the liver.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps they've shot us in the brain, and this is all some kind of coma-dream?

Josh said...

Hey everyone, check out my blog. I read the news then get mad at it.

wwww.joshfulton.blogspot.com

Government gives GM, Ford, Chrysler $2.4 billion to research electric batteries, then asks, "Can I give you anything else?"

Giving a $2.4 billion subsidy to Ford, Chrysler and GM to research and test electric batteries is like giving a subsidy to the person who robbed you to help you find your stuff. "It must be around here somewhere." The truth of the matter is that GM had this technology for years, produced electric cars with it, then suppressed it. This was all in the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I mean, maybe we should be asking "Who Killed the American Memory?"

Not only has this technology been suppressed, but companies that have tried to make headway with electric cars have found artificial obstacles placed in their way. Zenn Motors, a company that already makes fully electric cars, has reported barely being able to get their cars on the road in their native Canada due to government intervention. Eestor, a company working on what many think is a revolutionary energy storage device, operates with a mere fraction of the budget offered to any one of these companies just in this subsidy. Why not offer this money to companies like Eestor, or to researchers at a university? You know, people who haven't deliberately suppressed this technology.

So, why now? Why has this all come to the forefront? Well, amazingly, Texaco's patents on the battery technology expire in 2015. (GM sold the battery patents to Texaco. Smart thing to do, huh? Sell an oil company your patent on an electric battery.) So, with their last dying breaths, Detroit has reached up and tried to squeeze our neck for another $2.4 billion.

All of these bailouts, all of these subsidies are too much. We are letting these inefficient, corrupt companies get larger and larger on our backs, on our hard work, not to mention the fact that we pay interest on every cent we lend them. It makes no sense. Maybe next time these companies try to reach up and strangle us, we'll say, "I think I remember this from somewhere."