The Distress Signal

Senator Bernie Sanders

Thanks, Bernie.

Now one of the things that we’re going to see going on is that while we struggle with a record breaking deficit and a large national debt; caused by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, caused by tax breaks for the wealthy, caused by an unpaid for medicare part D prescription drug program, caused by the wall-street bailout; driving up the deficit, driving up the national debt.

Then some people can say, Oh my goodness, we got all of those expenses, and then we got to give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, but we want to balance the budget. Ghee, how are we going to do that?

Well obviously we know how they are going to do that. We’re going to cut back on healthcare, we’re going to cut back on education, we’re going to cut back on childcare, we’re going to cut back on pelt programs. We just don’t have enough money for working families and their needs. We’re going to cut back on food stamps, we surly are not going to expand unemployment compensation. We got a higher priority, Mr. President, we have got to, got to, got to, give tax breaks to billionaires. That’s what this whole place is about isn’t it? They fund the campaigns they get what’s due them.

JackTard of the Week

Bob Beckel, democratic strategist and all around master of nuance, in an appearance on Fox News recently, had this to say about Julian Assange:

A dead man can’t leak stuff. This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so…there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.

For not quite being able to grasp how treason works, particularly that one has to actually be a citizen of a nation before they can betray it, and for publicly urging the murder of someone, Bob Beckel earns our JackTard of the Week award. Thanks for playing Bob!

Lieberman for President

I feel bad for all our friends at the State Department and USAID who have been “banned” by their employers from accessing the WikiLeaks site, both at work and on their own home computers.

Essentially, the Federal Government’s logic is that because these cables haven’t officially been declassified, reading them would be breaking the law.

OK

Well, I guess that’s that. I’m glad the Government is looking out for us. I especially appreciate the efforts by our leaders, like Senator Joseph Lieberman, who feel that the nations best interests are served by essentially covering our ears and singing the national anthem really loud so we can’t hear anything. Just pretend like it didn’t happen, that’ll work.

I appreciate Lieberman so much that I think he should have another go at running for the White House. In fact, I’d like to help him get started. So here you go Joe, see ya in 2012: http://liebermanforpresident.org