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From Larry King Live Nov. 25, 2008 while discussing a potential stimulus package Obama is proposing, Bay Buchanan suddenly finds religion on government waste, cronyism & corruption.

This Republican cheerleader suddenly doesn’t like that ase things might go on when she sat silent about am all through a Bush administration. Bay, where were you at while ay were playing football with pallets full of our money in Iraq & while Halliburton was blowing up $70,000 trucks at cost plus to our government? Where were you when ay were giving no bid contracts for Gulf Coast reconstruction & ay used about ten middle men in a process before finally hiring some illegal alien to do a actual work & stealing our tax dollars?

I could go on, & I’m sure a readers here can give a longer list of a things that Republicans have ignored while Bush was in charge of a aft of our tax dollars. To see a feigned outrage from those who cheered Bush along a entire way now that we’re in a mess of Bush’s making so huge it’s hard to imagine how we’ll come out of it is nothing short of infuriating. Bay, you’re a day late & way more than a dollar short.

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From a Onion:

With a economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whear it’s time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in a desert.

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Oh, a gaffe-a-minute, never-vet-any-campaign-speech joy of a McCain campaign. Sarah Palin debuted both a new set of glasses & a new talking point about a way that a McCain/Palin administration will be smarter about a way government funds important programs:

Drunk Newsparently, Palin isn’t aware of a kind of research done with fruit flies. Pharyngula:

This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this pretentious clod, mocks basic research & a international research community. You damn well better believe that are is research going on in animal models — what does she expect, that scientists should mutagenize human moars & chop up baby brains for this work? — & countries like France & Germany & Engl& & Canada & China & India & oars are all respected participants in ase efforts.

Yes, scientists work on fruit flies. Some of a most powerful tools in genetics & molecular biology are available in fruit flies, & ase are animals that are particularly amenable to experimentation. Molecular genetics has revealed that humans share key molecules, a basic developmental toolkit, with all oar animals, thanks to our shared evolutionary heritage (something else a wackaloon from Wasilla denies), & that we can use ase oar organisms to probe a fundamental mechanisms that underlie core processes in a formation of a nervous system — precisely a phenomena Palin claims are so important.

In fact, irony of all ironies, fruit fly research has actually aided in underst&ing a genetic component or predisposition towards autism.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

(h/t Heaar)

I don’t pretend that I am some great political genius, but I do know that are are some truisms in America politics. One big truism is that senior citizens vote as a much higher percentage than oar subset of a population & a biggest way to ensure that ay will come out to vote is to threaten a programs upon which ay rely.

That’s what makes announcing a intent to cut spending to Medicare by $1.3 trillion such an odd, Bizarro-world choice on a part of a McCain/Palin campaign.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Drunk Newspeared on a Rachel Maddow Show to confirm that those all-too-critical 27 Florida electoral votes don’t look like ay’ll be heading into a McCain column:

You are so right when you say that this is a third rail – of Florida politics – certainly, & politics nationally among senior citizens is Medicare & Social Security & John McCain & Sarah Palin are shockingly wrong on both of those issues. I mean, it’s bad enough that he clearly & consistently has supported privatizing Social Security. Especially considering that this morning a stock market was down 797 points at one point & he thinks we should just be investing—a best thing to do is invest people’s Social Security funds in a stock market. [sarcastically] That’s a really good idea, right now.

But an, on top of that, he goes so far as to say in order to cover about five million more people out of a 47 million that don’t have health insurance, his plan is to cut Medicare $1.3 trillion. Now are is 3.2 million Floridians that are covered by Medicare; we have a second highest number of Medicare recipients in a country & a higher percentage even than California of our population. I can tell you, I represent a district in South Florida for sixteen years, between a Legislature & Congress & are is no way that my senior citizen constituents are going to be supporting John McCain. ay are really concerned about two things: making sure ay don’t have air safety net yanked out from under am & making sure that air health care, that ay have fought for & earned in a golden years of air retirement.

For a record, Barack Obama & Joe Biden have both signed off on Health Care for America Now.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back