I got cariied away by liars.

Seduced

Joe and Gene Show Redux

This morning I direct your attention to articles by the only group more confused about the Tea Party movement than the Republican Party; asshat liberals.  First, Joe Conason.  Of all the hacks who made a living defending President Bill Clinton's every fart and burp, Conason was among the most shameless.    He managed to go eight years without writing a single paragraph that could survive a rudimentary fact-check.  Here he is, toady, on Salon. “ How will Republicans, and in particular Washington's’s neoconservative Republicans, cope with libertarian-leaning Rand Paul as their party’s Senate nominee in Kentucky? Having denounced the son of Ron as a kooky isolationist only days ago, their responses to his victory have ranged from sugarcoating to stunned silence. Now they just want to hold that seat. ” Just fine Joe.  But, who are these neoconservative Republicans, Joe?  Mitch McConnell?   That's what the Tea-party is about you clod; America first, not a political party.  The only difference between today's elected Democrats and Republicans is not all Republicans are shameless liars.  And no Republican is a socialist, Marxist, Maoist, Obamunists, nor any other kind of  ideologue-ist.  Gah! If Conason had a peer when it came to apologizing for the Clintons, it was Gene Lyons, a co-author with Conason of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.  Take it away Gene. “ One minor mystery of the Obama administration is whether the president has actually believed that the nation's most intractable problems could be solved by the wonder-working power of bipartisanship and the emollient balm of his personality. He wouldn't be the first politician whose ego convinced him he could sweet-talk his bitterest opponents. ” That's the lede from his Salon article, No, GOP, you can't have the car keys back;  your warning to have a vomit bag at the ready.   Salon, by the way,  is the interweb's version of HBO;  giving face time to Bill Maher types who are otherwise unemployable.  Lyons continues with a paean to the greatest job creationist since Michael Dukakis pulled off the "Massachusetts Miracle."     “ It's a fact. Should current growth persist, the U.S. economy will gain roughly 1.7 million jobs this year. From 2001 through 2008, the Bush economy generated about 1 million. ” Let's forget that the Administrations "job creation" numbers are rife with this sort of fraud “ Recovery.gov also shows 2,893.9 jobs created with $194,537,372 in stimulus funding in New Hampshire’s 00 congressional district. But, there is no such thing. ” Or that Moody's estimates that offering tax breaks to businesses that hire new employees,  creates jobs at a cost of ... $43,000 a pop!  Let's forget that George Bush inherited Bill Clinton's dot.com recession, and turned it around with tax cuts.  No, let's see if four years hence Obama's bone crushing taxes a-coming yield anywhere near a million net jobs created (and government jobs don't count).  Any bets?   Marcus  Aurelius Miller