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And to think people will keep voting Republican BECAUSE they won't pay out unemployment benefits. Such compassion!

Why aren't conservatives called out for this type of shameful and hateful trickery?

One more article on Terry Savage, the financial "expert" who deems it useful to yell at little girls.

I seriously can't get over this whole thing. Where do these Rethugs get off screaming at kids and using their freedom to take away the liberties of others?

*They* actually believe they are in the right to do so. Sad, ain't it?

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek headline from Wonkette on a story I've been following the past week. First off, the sarcasm.

Now the actual odious story where the author is positively giddy about yelling out of her chauffered car at three little girls.

She even has at least one supporter, one very quick to inject some racism into the argument. Idiot.

As for the rest of the internet, there's a fairly uniform attack on the "compassionate" conservative financial nitwit.

I love this one, that calls the article a breathtakingly moronic diatribe, which really is the best explanation I've read.

And here's another good one.

This one is great the comments.

I like this commentary which accurately points out that Savage's column - and gleeful anger - is given out for free as well.

I'd take the lemonade.

Here's my favorite comment from the above Wonkette article:

"These are suburban kids - they have no idea that anything costs money. They've had the welfare of their stable, 2 income households their whole lives. Plus, that lemonade (made with filtered water, organic lemons and raw turbinado sugar in a reusable no bad plastic cup) would probably cost $6 a glass if they ran the numbers.

Now, find the kids in a shitty apartment complex running a drink operation, and they'll know the cost (35 cents for a packet of "grape drink" mix, diluted twice the suggested amount with water from a hose and a dollar or so to the kid who swiped his mom's collection of plastic bar cups). Then add a dumbass adult surcharge on top to get up to a buck or two. 5 bucks if they add some codeine syrup. These are the real entrepeneurs of America, people. Kids who know exactly how fucked the world is and take it on its own terms."

Paul Krugman points out the sick thought pattern that conservatives consider rational: that the unemployed want to sit at home collecting 60% of their former pay.

Bob Cesca tackles the issue as well, including this quote by Atrios:

Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good.

It's all very depressing.

Republicans, until proven otherwise, are vile, evil elitist bastards who care nothing about their fellow Americans in need.

Everything you need to know about the celebration of ignorance that is conservative thought is in this odious commentary.

Sure, Republicans have never seen a war they didn't like (well, except for any forms of genocide on non-whites) and they love giving $35 billion or so to oil companies, etc. but "wasting money" on libraries? That's horrible!

For what it's worth, here's the rebuttal from the Chicago Public Library Commissioner.

Funny from Oliver

Seriously Kalifornia? You're considering replacing The Last Action Hero with someone who drove a major tech company into the ground?

Then again, Republicans gleefully voted from Bush the Lesser, who never saw a company (or country) he couldn't bankrupt.

You probably should have to be literate in at least one language in order to vote, but the GOP proves that isn't the case.

Conservatives LOVE to talk about getting the government out of the economy and "letting the market decide".

That is, until something goes wrong. As much as the GOP bitches about bailouts, it was a Republican president who pushed for them, and a lot of GOP backers used federal dough to prop up their mortgage houses and banks.

Right now, there is a move to increase a liability ceiling for companies that create environmental disasters. Oh great! The government will hold business accountable for their actions. No protections for the free market, right?

Is the GOP leading the charge on this? No. They are fighting tooth-and-nail against it.

Apparently, they DO want government protection for business. And literally, when dumb business moves land on our shores, they want the American taxpayer to pay for it.

The derivatives market in a nutshell:

Leave it to FAUXNews to blame the poor for our lack of tax revenues. Um, guess not enough "trickled down" for them to pull a profit?

Why is it that conservatives - and some liberals to be sure - think that screwing our kids out of an education is the first thing they should do to balance budgets?

And why do they think they are going anybody a favor by doing so?

Can't they see the long term damage to our nation?

Only the source is surprising. Here is a Forbes article pointing out that the Tea Bagging Treason crowd doesn't have a clue about how taxes work in this country.

I mean, when freaking Forbes is calling you out as dangerous, misinformed dolts, you pretty much are. These guys, while doctrinally fair, aren't ever getting confused as liberals.

If you are anti-tax, have your facts dead wrong, and are getting mocked by conservative economists, you can take it to the bank that, yes, you're a moron.

Things could be a lot better in our economy if we'd worked on fixing the health care system sooner. All rational people, even a few grudging Republicans, will acknowledge that. But for damn sure things are gonna get worse if we keep pretending Republicans have valid points and do nothing.

Another graphical cost representation follows concerning how little we get for what we spend compared to other nations:

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops -- dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter.

Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that.

Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero.

City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won't pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.

- From a January 31st story on the problems about to come to fruition in Colorado Springs

This is what happens in the Capital of Conservatism when you stop caring for your fellow man and hoard your earnings all to yourself.

The notion of community, of nation, of common purpose and security is gone when it comes to the Talibangelicals. The lights are on at Focus on the Family, but the streets of Colorado Springs are about to get that much more dangerous because of these "me first" pseudo-christians.

Screw 'em. I hope they get what they deserve for poisoning our politics and bringing our nation to it's knees.

Juan Cole has a great idea. Sadly it is one the greedy bastards who brought our economy to it's knees will never accept. His plan? Have the banks who are paying our $47 billion in bonuses to their scumbags as thanks for screwing everyone over given just 10% of it over to the Haiti earthquake relief effort.

Granted, these are the assholes who gave out bonuses FOR FAILURE and then are giving out bonuses for making a profit BECAUSE WE BAILED THEM OUT! That is at least two years of bonuses for either failing or succeeding because someone else kept your asses employed.

I'd be surprised if we saw a hundredth of a percent of all that money go to help anyone other than the GOP. Greedy, soulless cretins.