I’m sure you’ve heard the Commander-in-Thief took his woman out on a date the other night…

The fact that this son of a whore didn’t pay for that bullshit himself tells you everything you need to know about him.*

*To the inevitable comment from the Faithful:  Yes, I realize other Presidents have probably done similar…but not after bleating so very publicly that “we’re all going to have to make some sacrifices.”  Fucking hypocrite can officially blow it out his ass.

The headline of The Washington Times editorial is:

BLANKLEY: Obama lied; the economy died

No big government, says The Empty Suit, no earmarks.  Well, we’ve all seen just how jam-packed the OhStimulateMeNowYesYESSSSS!! bill is with the latter, and we’ve all seen precisely how Baron Harkonnen-esque these Libtards expect government to get during their tenure.  They’re like children in a candy shop, fatass and cavities be damned!

I think of my (few) liberal friends, and I really, REALLY want to ask them what they think of their Savior now, but I don’t…because I know that will be a friendship-ending conversation.  My incredulity at their naiveté - their wide-eyed, stiff-nippled complicity in the raping of our country, our children’s future – will transform, Megatron-stylee, into scathing contempt and possibly physical violence.  

The question of the hour is What Are We Going To Do About This?  Some insist the problem is self-correcting…and I wish them a fine time entertaining the Secret Service.  

Contact our Congresspeople?  Fat lot of good that does you when their standard answer is “not my problem.”  

March in the streets?  Well, you know, we have jobs – jobs that pay for our mortgages, thank you – and it is hard to leave them to travel to wherever they’re marching.  So not many people show up, the media under-reports it as an added bonus, and we all think there’s not enough others out there who are as outraged, as Fucking Pissed Off, as we are…

So what then?  What do we do??  Because I’m ready for any bright idea you might be saving for a rainy day.

The Christident speaks:

n a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Tuesday to discuss the $819-billion economic stimulus bill, President Obama suggested that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal failed because it was too small, Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who attended the meeting, told CNSNews.com.
 
“FDR’s initial steps did actually work,” Obama said at the meeting, according to King. Obama went on to say, “Then he [FDR] pulled back towards a balanced budget, and then what you had was a recession within a depression. Then World War II came along and was the biggest stimulus plan ever.”

Dear 52s,

You’ve elected a fucking moron.  

That makes you what?  

You guessed it, fucking morons, too.

Love, 

LG

Jesus Christ on a Three-Legged Ice-Skating Mule.

GMAC, the automobile financing company, said Tuesday morning that it would immediately resume financing to a wider range of car buyers, a day after the Treasury Department injected billions of dollars into the lender.

As Stephen says, this is the very fucking thing that got you all in this mess to begin with, so why don’t you do us all a favor, pull your heads out of your asses, and run your business like an actual goddamned business for a change, instead of some fucking government-subsidised rent-a-wreck.

But we neeeeeed to boost sales!

Ok, and when those high-risk customers default on their loans AGAIN?

Who cares?  The government will be there with another handout, whee!

Out. Of. The. Boat.

Now just where does this Todd J. Zywicki fella get off using actual LOGIC??

 While Washington tries to arrange a bailout, the Detroit Three auto makers and their union, the United Auto Workers, keep insisting that bankruptcy would be the kiss of death. Not so: a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing will likely result in a stronger domestic industry.

…

General Motors looks like a financially failed rather than an economically failed enterprise — in need of reorganization not liquidation. It needs to shed labor contracts, retirement contracts, and modernize its distribution systems by closing many dealerships. This will give rise to many current and future liabilities that may be worked out in bankruptcy. It may need new management as well. Bankruptcy provides an opportunity to do all that. Consumers have little to fear. Reorganization will pare the weakest dealers while strengthening those who remain.

Seriously, who is allowing this subversive claptrap to go to print?  Off with their heads!

Mister Liberty Girl pinged in from work to ask what in the fiery depths of Abaddon did pay raises for federal judges have to to with the socialization of our nation’s auto industry bullshit bailout plan?  So I looked it up.

If the $14 billion bailout plan for U.S. automakers passes, it will help more than just Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Federal judges would get a pay raise, as well.

Do note the phrasing there.  ”HELPING” is what they’re doing up there. 

Odd, feels an awful lot like ass-raping.

Oh, but it’s all necessary and shit!

Under ethics legislation enacted almost two decades ago, members of Congress get a cost of living raise automatically, but they have to vote to give judges an identical raise. Because the spending bill covering U.S. courts has not passed, the step is necessary if judges are going to get their COLA.

Except that it’s not:

If the pay measure fails to go through this year, judges are likely to get the increase as one of the first pieces of business next year.

So, my pretties…Harry Fuck-You-In-The-Ass Reid, who “insisted” this go into the package, did so for which of the following reasons?

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We’re being emotionally manipulated, people.  AGAIN.  If the [R]s succeed in killing this fuckstupid bailout (prayintagad), they will be (figuratively) dragged behind the Media Pickup Truck.  AGAIN.  

I will remind you – AGAIN – that this is a capitalist society we live in.  If these companies can’t play then they need to be broken up and sold off for parts.  Just like their shitty products.

Mister Liberty Girl told me of this as we were walking into the local IHOP after a long evening of stimulating the goddamned economy, and I swear I nearly threw up a meal I hadn’t even eaten yet.

Bartow Ford alone, Robles said, employs more than 180. There are 149 Ford dealerships in the state, employing nearly 12,000. Additionally, Ford, which also owns Lincoln and Mercury, does business with 78 different suppliers in the state, Robles said.

“Ford, Lincoln and Mercury dealers have a significant economic impact in this community. Polk County depends on the sales tax revenue generated every year,” Robles said.

Beyond sales tax and the employment of thousands, communities also rely on the philanthropic donations of Ford, Robles said.

“The decision on the bridge loan affects each and every one of us in some way,” Robles said.

Yes, my 39 readers, that’s the owners of local car dealerships holding press conferences to point out to all us rubes how horrible the honest death of their untenable business would be.  I wonder what kind of a “stimulus package” they’ve been promised by corporate for these party tricks.

Son, I KNOW how the shuttering of Ford would affect me…I’d just keep buying Hondas, kthx.

I tell you, there’s nothing quite so confidence-inspiring as hearing vague statements from your government regarding assloads of money.

In any case, the Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee also weighed in Sunday on television and said: “I don’t know what the number is going to be, but it’s going to be a big number. It has to be. The point is to, kind of, get people back on track and startle the thing into submission.”

What thing?  Russia?  The Boogeyman?  His boss?

Oh sorry, he’s not The Thing, he’s That One.  My mistake.

Seriously, “startle the thing into submission”?  What the fuck does that even mean?  If they won’t even admit what caused the issue (federally-mandated high-risk mortgages) then how can they have any hope of fixing it?

Every time I hear tell of yet another bailout for yet another corporation I grind a little more enamel off my molars.  This is not how a capitalist society functions.  If your business cannot make good decisions and remain solvent then tough shit, down you go.  

But I am remiss…we’re in the enlightened age now, the Age of Aquarius The Messiah, when the State has it’s eyes and dick in everything and we the people are its faithful servants.  And don’t you fuckin’ forget it either.

Jiminy Freakin’ Christmas.  You know if there’s anyone who you would hope would know the fucking meaning of the concept of “capitalism” it would be a guy who makes eleventy billion a year and is himself an actual Chief Executive Officer of a fucking corporation.  But noooo.

The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation’s capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy.

As said taxpayer, my response is this:  Go. Straight.  To.  Hell.  

I didn’t really have a goddamned choice about the fucking 5 trillion bailout – well, other than to send my Congress Creatures scathing emails, calling into doubt both their ancestry and future prospects should they back such horseshit – and I probably don’t have a fucking choice about this either, but I’m going to keep emailing my Congress Creatures until they Get The Point.  

If American car companies can not figure out the magic, sooper-sekrit formula for remaining profitable, then fuck ‘em.  Down they go.  I’m all for consumption of domestic goods, but I’ve driven a Honda for the last five years BECAUSE IT’S A BETTER MADE PRODUCT.

Do you wonder, O Private Jet Riding CEOs, how to make yourselves profitable again?  Would you like moi, the ever so humble Liberty Girl, to enlighten you?

BREAK THE BACKS OF THE UNIONS AND KICK THEM OUT OF TOWN.

They were necessary at one time – when dying by fire in a ramshackle building due to shitty working conditions was a daily risk – but they are not freaking necessary any longer.  They’re professional extortionists at this point and honestly should be treated as such.

Oh, and here’s another problem:

Wagoner’s private jet trip to Washington cost his ailing company an estimated $20,000 roundtrip. In comparison, seats on Northwest Airlines flight 2364 from Detroit to Washington were going online for $288 coach and $837 first class.

*stare*  

“Reduce costs??  Feh, that’s for amateurs like Dell and Ingram.”  It’s like these people flunked basic high school economics, yet they’re running billion million thousand dollar industries, failing spectacularly at it, and attempting to manipulate us, THAT’S YOU AND ME FOR THOSE PLAYING ALONG AT HOME, into paying for it.

“We want to continue the vital role we’ve played for Americans for the past 100 years, but we can’t do it alone,” Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee.

Times change.  Grifters never do.

(Via Ace)

Boy, Mister Liberty Girl is PISSED tonight.  He’s got supercilious co-workers continually trumpeting the rise of their Messiah.  He’s got vagrants accosting him in the parking lot of his downtown (read: shitty part of town attempting to be revitalized) office for cigarettes and handouts.  His beloved stock market is settling down to its new home in the nearest dive bar toilet, hanging out with all the peanut-studded floaters.  And Paulson, or Bernanke, or whoever the fuck it is actually in charge of this goddamned circus, has single-handedly, in the past five months, added one-third to the total debt our beloved country has incurred IN ITS ENTIRE EXISTENCE.

That’s right, partygoers…of the 15 trillion dollar debt existing, these dishonest, corrupt, scheming disgraces to their mothers AND grandmothers have added 5 trillion to it.  That’s not just money out of our pockets, that’s money our children’s frigging GRANDCHILDREN will be paying back.  

We are being screwed, and we didn’t even get dinner first.