Wailing Into The Void

More befuddlement from Grandpa.

Write something like this in your movie review:

Robert Downey, Jr.’s performance is nearly on par with what Heath Ledger did as the Joker.

Joe Lieberman just got a little more creepy in my book, using the punchline to an oft repeated joke about rape to tell us how we should respond to McCain’s dopey Paris Hilton ad.

This time he botches some important facts on his supposed strong subject, Iraq. I’m sure it’s only a coincidence that his botched version of the story seems to serve him better than the generally accepted historical record.

The U.S. economic decline. Peter D. Schiff explains:

The United States has really been living in a fool’s paradise, or a phony economy, probably for more than 20 years. But our economy has been growing and getting bigger and bigger. We have been able to convince the world to lend us money and to provide us with goods that we don’t produce and that we can’t afford to pay for with exports. And it has gotten to the point now where the problem is so big, especially since the real-estate bubble. We’ve now borrowed so much money from abroad. Our trade deficits are now very big, and our industrial base and our infrastructure have been allowed to decay for so long, that we are now at a point that we can only survive as an economy thanks to the charity of the rest of the world. They have provided us with all the goods that we can no longer produce because we lack the industrial capacity. And they have to lend us the money because we don’t have any savings anymore.

This is ridiculous. How we can name a place designed to handle shit after a President with a proven inability to handle shit? It doesn’t make sense, people.

Rep.  Steve King (R-IA) asks Scott McClellan why he wants to hurt us with so much truth.

ARG has Obama up 49-44 in the Sunshine State.

No, according to Brad Delong.

Conservatism is the practical principle that the pieces of furniture you have that suit and are comfortable should not be thrown away. And conservatism is a rhetorical mode of justification–effective on those who respect authority. But it isn’t a philosophy.

O Dubya, dear Dubya, how do I distance myself from thee?