I have no idea who in the hell John Andrews is.
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I know only that he publishes the occasional burst of stupidity on the intellectual Chernobyl that is the TownHall.com opinion page. His latest masterwork, "When Will Atlas Shrug?" sets a standard for inanity that may not soon be equalled. His title indicates his penchant for asking questions shortly before providing really, really bad answers. With a wary eye and a heavy heart we begin.
What is the breaking point?
The Breaking Point is a 1950 film based on Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not. It stars John Garfield and Wallace Ford.
Where will the resistance form?
According to Red Dawn, it starts in Colorado. Remember this. It becomes relevant later in the column.
Heavy questions, but unavoidable in the current political climate. The productive members of society can only be pushed so far, some say.
"That's a great quote, who said that?"
"Some."
How far can productive people be pushed? Let's ask Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Or the heads of all the airlines (OK, they were railroads in the novel) who have leaned on the Federal Bankruptcy courts to stay alive in the past eight years. Or the Big Three. Come on, don't walk away. This is fun.
What they envision is not defiance of law or a reversal of the election.
That's big of them.
It is people's growing disengagement from a new economic order that punishes effort and rewards envy – the creepy future that Barack Obama and the Democrats intend for us.
If you want to learn more about this creeeeeeeeeepy fuuuuuuuuuture, send 10 Bazooka Joe wrappers and an SASE to:
John Andrews, Curator of the Future
Tar Paper Shack Filled with Mail Bomb Parts #17b
Aryan Nations, Idaho 70065
Columnist Michelle Malkin calls that withdrawal, "going Galt."
"I wonder if the term originated with her. In fact, it didn't. If I even bothered to Google it, I would have caught this."
Malkin was the first speaker when several hundred Coloradans gathered for a free-market leadership conference in Colorado Springs on March 6-7.
Wow, that sounds PRODUCTIVE! A forty-eight hour circle jerk echo chamber attended by a broad sample of Colorado Springs' most promising future Federal Courthouse bombers! Maybe the first step in going Galt is to waste one's time at shit like this.
Her reference was to John Galt, the individualist hero of Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged." She told of seeing a placard at the Denver protest rally for Obama's stimulus bill signing that warned: "Atlas will shrug."
Said sign was held by a 36 year-old assistant manager at the Lidz kiosk in the Greeley Mall. He likes to think of himself as "Atlas" when he's crying himself to sleep in his efficiency under a dangerously teetering mountain of discarded Hot Pockets boxes.
So what, you ask. So in human behavior, incentives matter. People are choosers, not automatons.
I think if anyone is going to lecture us on behaving like automatons (sic) it should definitely be Objectivists. And/or hardcore Rand fans. They aren't even slightly cult-like or apt to parrot the views of The Leader. They don't rigidly adhere to a dogma and blink in unison.
Of course in the 1950s, when Rand was writing her epic about a slow-spreading spontaneous strike among Americans fed up with big government, tomorrow supposedly belonged to New Soviet Man.
This fallacy of hindsight exists only in the minds of fourth rate conservative columnists. It becomes slightly more true every time they need it to prove a point.
Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II, the three champions of freedom who would prove otherwise, weren't yet heard of.
That was so awesome when they teamed up to defeat Communism! And Magneto! It's kind of amazing that the greatest sustained period of prosperity in the history of this nation was during the New Deal era yet those Presidents made no contribution to the inevitable implosion of the Soviet system. Hard to believe, but true.
But we're now told that 2008, with its routine recession and its celebrity election, showed freedom is untrustworthy after all.
You are told that at lunatic conferences at the airport Radisson in Colorado Springs at which Michelle Malkin is the keynote speaker.
The novel — with John Galt as capitalist superman and Dagny Taggart, Ayn Rand's alter ego, as railroad tycoon — may not be great literature.
It's not that it isn't great literature, John. It's that it is horrendous literature, literature written in some other language and translated into English with a free online translator. When something is A) a book and B) 1000 pages long, I'd say "bad literature" is a pretty significant shortcoming.
But its message of radical self-reliance has inspired millions across the decades.
Well, the Communist Manifesto has certainly inspired many millions more. So if popularity is the criteria for judging the merits of written work – and it isn't – Atlas comes in far behind Marx, The Grapes of Wrath, and Everybody Poops, which has inspired untold billions to poop.
And as a Coloradan, I like it that the story is set right here. "We can't lose Colorado. It's our last hope," says a Taggart employee at the start. A Rocky Mountain valley is the retreat from which Galt triumphs at the end.
HOLY SHIT! IT'S RED DAWN!
Retreat attendees…weren't about to unplug Galt-style from daily life in protest against wind power, national health care, and charity-choking taxes. But they took seriously the disincentive effects against wealth creation and social comity in these and other collectivist proposals. We should too.
*hits floor*
(there is a 72 hour gap in the entry at this point while Ed is administered smelling salts and various creams and lotions)
Read that amazing paragraph again to make sure it exists. To summarize: these bedwetters who won't shut the fuck up about "going Galt" for the past three weeks not only A) aren't productive but B) have no plans to actually do anything except sit around and talk about it before heading back to work at the screen door factory. So this is essentially the biggest exercise in autofellatio since…well, everything these people do follows the same all talk, no action pattern.
As ever more people ride in the wagon and fewer are left to pull it, there will come a breaking point.
Well, there are probably fewer people pulling it because millions upon millions of people are out of work thanks to two decades of policies intended to enrich the select few at the expense of everyone else.
But definitely also because Chad from Topeka has recognized that there is a disincentive for him to work any harder at his maintenance job.
Crowding taxation onto the highest earners and debt onto our kids, as President Obama proposes, invites collapse.
The kind of collapse one might see if, hypothetically, a president spent 8 years and $1.5 trillion cutting taxes and leaving future generations to pay the bill. John Andrews, you're not very good at this. Refuting you is about as challenging as reading from the Twilight series. That's a good analogy, in fact. Both Twilight and this column are challenging inasmuch as they are so terrible that I have to threaten myself with bodily harm to make myself keep reading.
Ignoring the constitution at will, as statists and the spending lobby do, breeds contempt.
It did, hence the 2006/2008 elections, hence the reason you are writing this inane horseshit and (presumably) getting paid for it.
Ruin must result.
It did. Score another one for John!
Did the USA learn nothing from the USSR's implosion, wondered Vladimir Putin recently.
So we're taking advice from Putin now. What, was Mugabe busy? Couldn't find a copy of the collected works of Pol Pot? How about we learn something from the collapse of our own economy rather than taking GaltLessons from the Soviet straw man?
Cold War victory taught us the power of ideas. The East crumbled when the West asserted the superiority of liberty, wakened by thinkers like Hayek with his expose of the road to serfdom and Bastiat with his ridicule of "everyone seeking to live at the expense of everyone else."
Yep, that is what brought the Cold War to an end. B-52 Stratofortresses carpet-bombed the Warsaw Pact nations with copies of Hayek wrapped in American flags. Those who weren't killed by falling books said "Holy shit! This is brilliant!", overthrew their governments, bought Weber grills, and joined the John Birch Society.
Also influential was Rand with her capitalist commandos.
I asked the Capitalist Commandos for an autographed photo. It wasn't autographed, but they did send this:
And just so we're clear, he's crediting Ayn Rand for helping to end the Cold War. Just so we're clear.
Galt and Taggart's crusade was idea-powered.
No, it was fictional. Not quite the same thing.
With moral truth they defeated the lies of something for nothing and freedom through coercion. Not even the government office of Morale Conditioner, censoring radio, could stop their entrepreneurial comeback.
What a stirring fictional lesson. The rest of us will rely on a similar energy and spirit to get through this while you useless drags on society sit around conference rooms jerking each other off.
Their strike against the redistributionist guilt trip was fiction. But we can shrug it off for real. The Tea Party movement is a symptom.
Here is a photo of the Teabagging event in New York City, population 11 million:
The only movement of which this reminds me is a bowel movement. Here is the raucous crowd, a pleasant mix of toothless hillbillies and well-armed sociopaths, in Rochester (aka "God's Asshole"):
I don't mean to be crass, but…perhaps these people should consider going jogging rather than going Galt.
If the Teabagging "movement" is a symptom of anything, it's a symptom of how stupid these people are to gather in one place so the ATF and FBI can photograph the people they'll be busting in the next few years for hoarding ammonium nitrate.
Colorado may again play a role.
What do you call a state with a Democratic Governor, two Democratic Senators, a Democratic majority in both chambers of the State Legislature, and a 5-2 Democratic edge in House seats? If you're John Andrews, which is to say if you are retarded, you call it GROUND FUCKIN' ZERO for the new conservative revolution, baby!
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I am becoming more and more convinced that right-wing columns are all written as parodies by bored sociology grad students and a supercomputer which has attained the intellectual capacity of cattle and, therefore, Republicans.
Jeffrey Kramer says:
A top marginal rate of 36%=freedom, justice, prosperity, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and unlimited power from static electricity;
A top marginal rate of 39.6%=tyranny, the exploitation of the noble Producers by the worthless Moochers, communism and (worst of all) wind power.
I have written an elegant proof that this follows ineluctably from "a=a," but unfortunately the margins of this comment box are not wide enough for me to write it out here.
Rob says:
but….i love the leader!
Jim says:
Tell ya what. Give all your money and all the money of your "correct thinking" friends to the downtrodden to improve their social position. Sell all your possessions so that you will become an equal with the masses. Encourage everyone to do so. Then everyone will be equal – we will all have nothing. Good plan there buddy, real good. And by golly, it solves global warming too.
Aside from personal attacks on the author of the article, there are no facts or factual basis for any of the drivel you publish.
Must be nice, getting paid to write horseshit. Now, run along and go cry into your $4 a cup coffee, take calls on your Blackberry, get into your Beemer, as all these things reinforce your own self-importance.
Your mom must be proud of you. It's a rule, she has to be; unless of course she has common sense and can cut through all of your self-aggrandizing bullshit; whereupon she is probably wondering why she didn't smack some common sense into you as a child.
Geo says:
You have a really nice nazi kind of 1984 thing going on here. Keep it up.
Greg Heilers says:
What a great way to open the morning with a chuckle! The column's author must do his share in keeping the "adult diaper" industry alive and well, with all of the liberal bed-wetting he seems to engage in.
Tim C. says:
Like every other liberal, you cannot make a point without profanity, bodily function quips and masturbation references (very professional and great literature). You did leave out the Nazi comparisons, congratulations.
Nobody takes you seriuosly with so much childish angst. Enjoy your two remaining years in control of Congress and the four years of the White House.
totalkaosdave says:
I guess it's hard to understand the premise of the book if you've NEVER been a producer, tax payer, free…
Jim Fricke says:
hard to believe you can read an article and write a thousand words while missing the point entirely.
Talk about being taken seriously !
Who are you again?
Matthew says:
It's only 9:30 in the morning and already there are already five objectivists whining about this post! I'm betting that we'll break fifty by the end of the day. We all know objectivists have nothing better to do all day than look around on the internet for people who are making fun of them.
SW says:
The townhall article was pointless.
The only factual point made in the entire article was "Malkin was the first speaker when several hundred Coloradans gathered for a free-market leadership conference in Colorado Springs on March 6-7. "
The rest of the article is opinion poorly presented.
With that said, this response makes no point at all, is all opinion, and is a waste of web space and bandwidth.
Kelly says:
DUDE….You got some serious issues…Not since Theodore Kaczynski have I read such rambling garabage. Not a single valid point was made….Sheeezzzeeee!
Jim says:
Name calling. You lose.
Jonathan says:
Jeff Kramer – you need to learn learn what marginal rates are.
To the author – I'm as right wing a person as anyone else. I found this article very stimulating and entertaining. We need smarter people writing right wing articles, and the action you have taken here might lead to squeezing the good stuff out of the pimple, so to speak.
comrade x says:
Like dogs, creatures of a right wing bent feel safer when they howl in packs.
So the author doesn't think Ayn Rand's " philosophy" amounts to much. Oh, too baaad.
Objectivism, libertarianism, or what ever the hell you want to call it will always be the rich white boy's attempt at revolution. And will never get anywhere because of it.
Now piss off before I club you whiners to death with Volume 1 of Das Kapital.
Ed says:
This is what happened when one's site is linked on the discussion forum of Boortz.com.
Jeremy says:
So all the "Galts" showed up here to complain about your name-calling from a site that calls you a "liberal bedwetter"?
Ed says:
That is even better than the comment (many years ago on the old G&T) accusing me of being a racist and closing by calling me a "typical dumb spic."
J. A. Baker says:
I feel compelled to note the delicious irony of notorious bedwetter Neal "Rarin' Aryan" Boortz calling you a "liberal bedwetter."
Mike says:
Ed, confess: did you post this entry from your blackberry? While driving around in your BMW?
Joe Blow says:
Wow, there are a pair of minutes I'll never get back.
Jeffrey Kramer says:
Jonathan: I'm certainly willing to be corrected, but I can find numerous places where "marginal tax rate" is defined as or used equivalently to "the tax rate on the last dollar."
Akes says:
Ed
Whats the matter can't take it when well informed and individual thinkers from Boortz and other well informed Americans call you out.
"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
R.C. says:
"Club…to death with vol. 1 of Das Kapital?"
Not likely to work, friend. Because they're independent adults, rather than sheepish children, most right-wingers own fire-extinguishers, tire-patch kits, bottled water, duct tape…and firearms. (And other related items, naturally: All the things a self-reliant adult is obligated to have and be able to use.)
In short: Don't bring a third-rate economic fantasy to a gunfight.
Ayn Rand was a limited woman. Her genius, if that's the word, was limited to recognizing the irrationality of not openly acknowledging objective facts regardless of social pressures, the morality of enlightened self-interest (though she failed to adequately define "enlightened"), the moral obligation to defend and exercise individual freedom, and the effects of incentives on business owners.
All these are good things about which to have clear insight, and she did, so that's great as far as it goes. She was myopic in other areas, sadly, but everyone has their limits.
The truth is that Republicans haven't done a good job with the economy because they persisted in trying to compromise with economic leftists in order to score better with centrists. Thus, their economic policies were a mix of success and failure.
But the current government — by which I mean the apparently clueless Obama White House and the outrageously doctrinaire San-Fran lefties in Congress led by Pelosi and Reid — will do far worse, and will likely cripple the U.S. economically for years to come. After all, their economic policies will be unmixed: They'll be pure hokum of the type that gave such lackluster economies to France and Austria and Argentina and Bolivia and Hungary.
It is not, then, that the GOP did a particularly good job. On the rather rare occasions when Bush & the GOP Congresspersons pursued conservative or libertarian economic initiatives, they were stymied by liberal Republicans (e.g. Specter, who's still hanging on, and Chafee, who's long gone) who denied them the majorities needed to do anything constructive or useful. On the economic front, the impact of the center-right GOP years is mostly neutral.
But the current government will produce only counterproductive and harmful policies. Even neutral is far better.
Mr./Ms. "Gin and Tacos" doesn't understand marginal incentives and their impact, and thus is blissfully innocent in these matters. But this is the norm for the wild-eyed left, isn't it? Look at the screed, after all: No style, no wit, no attempt to address whether the planned economic policy changes might be sufficient disincentive to work as to encourage those with the option to reduce their staff, their productivity, their investments.
No, just ad hominems and flippancy. C.S.Lewis' "Screwtape" said it correctly about this kind of attempt at humor: It deadens, rather than engages, the intellect, by naming something in a jocular or dismissive tone: Pretending a clever joke or valid criticism has already been stated, so as to avoid the intellectual effort of stating it.
But "Gin and Tacos" is forced to "argue" in that manner, by lacking the resources to argue in any other.
(Don't blame her/him; really it's public schools who're to blame.)
Jeffrey Kramer says:
(The more substantial mistake I made was using "36%" for the current top rate when it should have been "35%".)
John says:
What would you expect? Neal Boortz's website has become Central Command for the bleating, whining new-age-neocons: Those who subscribe to the Neocon ideology but are too lazy and too lacking in actual influence to do anything with it, so they just complain all day.
Another prominent feature of the new-age-neocon is the startling ability to talk an impressive amount of trash while not actually accomplishing anything, and ignoring any context or facts of reality that degrade their position: Case in point, deriding an opinionated editorial about an opinionated editorial as lacking facts or being biased: The original article possessed no facts either, and was full of lopsided editorial with no neutral merit. But because it espouses their preferred position, deriding it is suddenly biased and wrong. Note also their constant use of slanted, biased slander and name-calling — this doesn't jive with their message of faux-indignance about the very same activities. To a new-age-neocon, anything they or those they idolize says is immune to scrutiny of any form, even when blatantly coated in a rich smothering of irony.
Also prevalent in the new-age-neocon rhetorical model is the use of broad, sweeping generalizations that cannot possibly be supported as true, and yet are bluntly stated with no sense of irony, played totally straight. Observe phrases prefixed with "ALL liberals", and other such completely baseless and unsupportable nonsense. The new-age-neocon is a product of the extremely effective brainwashing methods employed by right-wing talk radio and Rupert Murdoch's television networks, a faithful and loyal dog that is oblivious to the notion that they are the cancer that is killing modern political discourse in the United States by simply slandering the opposing viewpoint carte-blanche.
It is a sad, sad day when real Conservatives, people who are capable of holding open debate about a political topic without resulting to such childish, sub-human behavior, must share the same side of the spectrum with them.
Jeffrey Kramer says:
So, to revise:
A top income tax bracket of 35%=freedom, justice, prosperity, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and unlimited power from static electricity;
A top income tax bracket of 39.6%=tyranny, the exploitation of the noble Producers by the worthless Moochers, destitution, the sub-human communism that prevails in hellholes like France and (worst of all) wind power.
Mike says:
Jeffrey Kramer,
He's probably going to retort that the marginal tax rate is not just the federal tax on the last dollar, but the total taxes paid – sales tax, gas tax, state tax, dividend tax, etc. So not just your 36%! More like more than half!
This is very predictable. If it is worth it, you should respond that the state taxes are capped (so highly regressive, not progressive), and that dividend and securities tax rates are more generally are less than income tax. So that the final total rates are very flat. I can dig up this data if that troll comes back.
Re: "Mr./Ms. “Gin and Tacos” doesn’t understand marginal incentives and their impact, and thus is blissfully innocent in these matters."
To the libertarians worried about marginal rates on the highest earners, please explain the 20th century economic history in light of this chart:
http://business.theatlantic.com/500%20tax%20rates%20over%20time.jpg
John says:
Note also the delicious irony of the new-age-neocon's "individual group-think", a tragic phenomenon wherein, through the aforementioned brainwashing process, they have been taught to believe that they are independently-thinking people while going through their carefully-trained motions as a group. Note the previous post where "Akes" plays up their own "individual thinking" ability while behaving, in every sense, like the well-trained dog they are — bleating right in line with the rest of the sheep, exactly as commanded by their local neocon master (in this case, Boortz).
Worthy of an honorable mention is the knee-jerk response, again very much like any well-trained dog that lashes out at any perceived intrusion upon the ideological holy ground without any thought, a Pavlovian, trained response — to wit, dismissing the entirety of the site's 1300+ pages without so much as viewing them, because the most readily accessible one dared to posit that blind parroting of Ayn Rand is unbecoming of supposed humans.
ladiesbane says:
The FJM treatment, being an inside joke form, is going to fly over the heads of many. And a lot of sarcasm presupposes agreement from the audience, so the confusion is unsurprising.
But Randites are just as delusional as bleeding heart liberals, hard-core John Birchers / libertarians / Luddites (and other people I'm related to.) (Please, won't someone start whining about the gold standard? Any gold bugs out there?)
The anarcho-libertarian New Frontiersmen out there are still relying on the System to grade their beef, keep DuPont out of their drinking water, and keep their air moderately clean. Taxes do this, and you rely on the system for your groceries, health, and safety. Unless you are off the grid in BFE, Montana (hi, Mom!), and not reading this, you are relying to some extent on things pooled tax money makes possible, such as ROADS. So please don't portray the Ayn Rand money-lust as some pure form of higher thinking and evolved consciousness.
I agree with Thatcher when she says that the problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. But the grocer's daughter said that before she witnessed the rich gang-rape the middle class, pull funds for education (starting the cycle of stupid teachers and unteachable students), pull funds for health (because the rich don't eat at places where the short-order cook has TB or hep), and otherwise use gangsterism to make self-serving laws to get even wealthier. Are they happy with the results? Please note that the wealthy folk who have been sliding their big money to Dubai are not panting over Ayn Rand; in her day, it was just the other way around.
Does John Galt shop at Wal-Mart?
And why aren't all you bootstraps-pullers rich already?
RepairmanJack says:
Wow Ed, you've got a bad case of the whining drivel liberal bedwetter disease. At least your parents gave you a good start, to bad you f'd it up. Some day if you ever pry yourself away from your radical leftwing cronies at the university, you can crawl back to mom and dad, relearn the greatness of Ronald Reagan and learn to live again.
You will probably even sing from the old spiritual "I was blind but now I see."
Jeffrey Kramer says:
Also, Obama will take away our duct tape.
Ed says:
Wow! Is repairman jack related to Joe the Plumber? Tito the Builder?
I like how you androids aren't even creative enough to think of your own namecalling insults and have to keep using the one Boortz spoon-fed you.
And how the fuck is a "repairman" a producer? You're the bottom rung of the economy.
John says:
Behold, the companion to Neocon Bingo: the new-age-neocon (and to an extent, regular-old-neocon) drinking game!
For every use of "liberal" as an epithet: 1 shot.
For every use of "liberal bedwetter": 2 shots.
For every use of "drivel" or "rag" in reference to text: 1 shot.
For any combination of "liberal" and "drivel" or "rag": 2 shots.
Play at home, kids! Watch these glorious "independent thinkers" prove their individuality by parroting the exact same phrases.
Uncle Omar says:
John Andrews was the Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives until a combination of factors undid his mightiness. First, the Democratic Party became the majority in the State House. Then, because at one point a majority of Colorado voters fell for Newt's Contract with America and enacted term limits, Mr Andrews could no longer be a State Representative and became a part time columnist for the Denver Post and a full-time "fellow" of a conservative "think tank" located in Golden, Colorado. Hence he has plenty of time to pontificate especially as he is being paid handsomely to do so. Were he a true "producer" he would have gone into business, invented Rearden Metal, and become rich. Since he is a professional gasbag, that is a gasbag who is paid to spew gas, he produces nothing. Hence, his threat to "go Galt" is. like most, a mirage.
Charles Giacometti says:
What the hell is a Boortz? Sounds like the noise I make when I lift one cheek and let out some air.
ed says:
OK, so make with the shruggin; go Galt already. Nobody's stopping you. Stop all your awesome producin and go go go!
Amy Alkon's Right Nut says:
If even one – just one – of those drama queens at Boortz's cesspit makes over $250K a year, much less produces anything, I'll lick Limbaugh's taint.
Peggy says:
Aww, Ed! Did you start a petting zoo for trolls? Or did you just realize that this would be an awesome thing to read while drinking Jameson to celebrate our collective fake Irish heritage?
Either way, I had fun. I hope it's ok that I borrowed your Beemer to go out and get some $4 liberal coffee to help me sober up. I scratched the fender a little but don't worry: it's the red one, not the yellow one.
Jeffrey Kramer says:
A Modest Netiquette Proposal:
Your interlocutor writes:
I believe Obama's tax and stimulus legislation, both separately and together, violate certain core economic principles necessary to sustained and healthy growth. For example…
The proper response is:
I believe the principles you mention are being applied too dogmatically, and that historical experience shows this to be the case. For example…
Your interlocutor writes:
Tremble, you parasitical commie Obamabots, for The Day approaches, the great and terrible day of the coming of John Galt's teabaggers!
The proper response is:
I fart in your general direction.
Daniel says:
It would be a shame if The Producers left society. It is one of the great Broadway plays.
Daniel says:
I come from a pretty liberal family and we do in fact own fire extinguishers and tools to help fix cars and whatnot. R.C. Cola apparently believes that only good ole Republicans have the means to fix basic day to day problems. All of us commune-living hippie liberals saunt around in our own filth and ignore grease fires.
Aldorossi says:
Point of personal privilege:
With all due respect, Rochester is not "God's Asshole". Rochester gave us The North Star, Susan B Anthony, Louise Slaughter, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
The two dozen doofuses (doofii?) tea bagging each other on the Genesee carpooled in from the top of some drumlin in Wayne County.
Thank you.
Ed says:
Also, please note that Boortz is such a dumb hack that he had to steal the "bedwetter" insult he applied to me (and all of his retarded followers also adopted, having never had an original thought in their lives) is stolen from my post. You know, the one he was linking to.
I can picture them drooling on themselves as they brush the Cheetos off their keyboard and cut-and-paste their responses. It's just priceless.
John says:
In fairness to Boortz, he didn't get the "bedwetter" insult from your post — it's just the exact same insult he's been using for a decade plus. It really is the only one he and his flock of sheep know.
Frisco Kid says:
I prostate myself before this incredibly funny post. Prostrate, sorry.
Batocchio says:
Ed, you deserve a better quality troll. (Funny, I've been making that comment on quite a few blogs recently…)
JumP says:
You stupid fucking moron.
Twisted_Colour says:
Horses for courses…
Red Ryder's Quiver says:
I pray for the demise of Watermelons such as yourself. When that fails, I will encourage Lil Beaver to take you down the path where the locals pitch their tents.
Michael says:
Oh, everybody seems to have their panties in a twist.
blogenfreude says:
I will repeat myself: the conservative movement is now composed solely of sociopaths, the home-schooled, and the clinically insane. QED.
Charles Giacometti says:
So did anyone explain what a Boortz is? It really does sound like German slang for a fart.
Jonathan says:
Amy Alkon's Right Nut: I make well over $250k a year, and I listen to Boortz.
Ironically enough, my job is licking Rush Limbaugh's taint, and I'd rather not have the competition, so please do not follow through with your proposal.
Nick says:
WOLVERINES!
Amy Alkon's Right Nut says:
Hmmm… so, Jonathan… I presume the job includes comprehensive health benefits? In addition to a too-low-at-any-price salary?
cerb says:
"WOLVERINES!"
Best comment thus far.
karen marie says:
i am so sick of reading crap about these morons and their randian vapors. but this was a lot of fun. the last line my favorite part.
thanks!
Mark says:
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Sigh. I'll never understand the right-wing.
Get Going Galt already, the rest of us have work to do.
Jonathan says:
Amy Alkon's Right Nut: No… no health benefits except from what you reap out of the antibiotic elements of the cheese between the gray bush and dingleberries. I find the salary more than covers any adverse health effects that I experience. That is of course, until Obama decided that I make too much money and wants to take half of it away.
Ed says:
See, that's the kind of delusional reasoning that makes this debate fruitless.
The top marginal bracket was 35%. Now it's 39.6%. So what you mean is, Bush wanted to take 4% less of your money. Stop phrasing it like your taxes were zero and now they're 50%. Which is to say, stop being an idiot.
Emily says:
Ed, despite the fact that I think marriage is a relic of a patriarchal system that perpetuates all manner of exploitation, both in and out of the home, I just have to ask: Will you marry me?
Batocchio says:
Ed, yes, although it's not even 4%, since we're talking about the marginal rate, and not total income. Your main point still stands.
Patrick says:
I thought the phrasing "Going Galt" was actually in the book. It was coined by Ayn Rand. WTF? Not that I like Ayn Rand, but even total tools deserve proper attribution.