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 Washingtons budget hawks want to decimate the federal workforce to shrink the deficit. It will have the opposite effect.
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March 15, 2010
WHEN A CREATIVE IMAGINATION FAILS.... It's impressive, in an odd sort of way, when conservative bloggers "connect the dots" in ways reasonable people might not. Today, for example, a prominent far-right blog called Big Government had an item questioning a bracelet White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wore during his Sunday show appearances yesterday.
The Big Government blogger concedes that he might be "making too much out of nothing," but added that it's "possible" that Gibbs was "sending a signal to Stern, ala Clinton and Lewinsky." Back here in Grown-Up Land, Gibbs explained that he wears the bracelet in support for a friend's nine-year-old daughter, who is fighting cancer. It's not a "signal" to a union leader; it's not about lawmakers needing to be "shown the Chicago way." It's about support for a sick child. If Gibbs wants to let Andy Stern know how the health care debate is going, I suspect he'd just pick up the phone. Secret codes and messages on television are not only fanciful, they're wholly unnecessary. What the right lacks in accuracy and reason they make up for in creativity. —Steve Benen 5:10 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (22)
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Creativity? Paranoia seems to fit better. Posted by: ComradeAnon on March 15, 2010 at 5:13 PM | PERMALINKThis is what comes from looking for signs and symbols from God to run your daily life. You see meaning in everything. Subject-object relation disorder I think is the term. Posted by: Kurt on March 15, 2010 at 5:21 PM | PERMALINKnow if the numbnutz at bigbullshit.com discovered that gibbs' and stern's marble kitchen countertops were both purple they might be on to something.... Posted by: dj spellchecka on March 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM | PERMALINKI wonder what the tinfoil on Big Government's head is a signal for. Posted by: martin on March 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM | PERMALINKThese guys are the ones who wear a tin-foil kilt around their butts, because... well, you know... Posted by: MattF on March 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM | PERMALINKHA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Man, those guys are idiotic. And delusional. Purple, i.e., the ROYAL purple? OMG it's a signal that Obama is going to crown himself King! Posted by: FlipYrWhig on March 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM | PERMALINKand you know that if the Reps controlled the house, there WOULD be an investigation... "Bracelet-Gate" led by Dan Burton. Posted by: mike reilly on March 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM | PERMALINKY'know, this could have just as easily been a symbol of solidarity for Iraq's recent elections. Purple-stained fingers and all that. Of course, that would be making an assumption that doesn't support an existing anti-Obama worldview and we can't have that. Posted by: Greg Saunders on March 15, 2010 at 5:32 PM | PERMALINKA quick rundown of colors Democrats can't wear: Red: too communist I guess that covers it, Democrats will have to go naked now. Democrats will have to go naked now. Too hippie. :P Posted by: FlipYrWhig on March 15, 2010 at 5:35 PM | PERMALINKA simple case of projection. In Conservative circles, one must neccessarily be ashamed of ones supporters and hide them from view. That's why the "Family" tries to deny any connection to "C" street and it's "member" disavow knowing anything about anything or anyone. That's why all the Dick Armey style "grassroots" organizattions associated with the Tea Party refuse to disclose their donors. That's why Dick Cheney's energy policy meetings were held behind closed doors and he fought to have the visitor logs classified. Nothing is ever done above board in the full light. Contrast that with Democratic organizations and donors. Posted by: Winkandanod on March 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM | PERMALINKWhenever a leading far right blog has an item that seems bug shit crazy I assume it's a code to liberals looking for evidence of their bug-shit craziness that they are, indeed, bug-shit crazy. One of the few conspiracy theories that doesn't seem so far fetched. Posted by: slappy magoo on March 15, 2010 at 5:53 PM | PERMALINKSo according to this far-right steaming pile of gelatinous howler-monkey excrement pretending to be a "blog", supporting a kid with cancer is now anti-American. Hunting child-haters: it ought to be an Olympic sport.... Posted by: S. Waybright on March 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM | PERMALINKIn a creative response, very indirectly of course, the WH should put out a poster of Obama, rakishly posed in gangster threads, toting a machine gun. The caption reads, 'The Chicago-Style is thick'. Posted by: Michael7843853 on March 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM | PERMALINKAt this point it can hardly be overlooked any longer . The pitiful lack of cowbell , and the complete censoring of the sweet sweet malkin moments . You sure this isn't a signal to the TeleTubby that carries a purple purse? What the right lacks in accuracy and reason they make up for in creativity. No, creativity requires intelligence. Corrected post: "What the right lacks in accuracy and reason they make up for in stupidity." Posted by: TCinLA on March 15, 2010 at 6:52 PM | PERMALINKMan, that's something a schizophrenic would come up with. Maybe a little Haldol would ease the Right's psychotic symptoms. Posted by: itstrue on March 15, 2010 at 6:58 PM | PERMALINKLook, when your entire political agenda depends on using dog whistles and code words, you have to assume your opponent does likewise. Signs and portents everwyhere... Posted by: Bernard Gilroy on March 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM | PERMALINKMy dear Mr. moonlight, That would be the inflatable purple TeleTubby with the red purse and lifelike orifices that John Ensign keeps in his office. Posted by: S. Waybright on March 15, 2010 at 11:23 PM | PERMALINKPost a comment
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