special muppet's Comments (766)

“My views of Republicans have been shaped through the trauma of the beginning of the 21st century, a new century that we all hoped would usher in a new age of peace and prosperity.

You and your Republican party made sure that this didn't happen, and we spent the first three years wondering if WWIII was about to start. We then watched as Republicans silenced the debate on climate change, alienated all our friends and allies, and made our country an object of hatred around the world. Then the next few years we spent waiting for the inevitable financial meltdown thanks to gross mismanagement of the economy.

I'm not ready to forgive Republicans for any of this yet.”

“Cutting off the nose to spite the face... smart move.”

“Bigotry against Republicans?

Come on! You can't change your skin color. You can't change your sexual orientation or gender. But you can change your political affiliation in an instant.

Being a Republican is not something you were born with. You made a choice to support an irrational and damaging political ideology. It's not bigotry to criticize a Republican for his lack of vision, greed, belligerence, intolerance, fear-mongering, small-mindedness and xenophobia. It's an absolute necessity.”

“The Republican party is not what it was. This is not Eisenhower's Republican party, nor Lincoln's. Today's Republican party serves the interests of corporations against the interests of the people, it stands in the way of equality and social justice, and it is anti-science. It is essentially a religious nationalist party, which is fundamentally unable to engage in today's complex issues because of its rigid black and white ideology. It is the party of incompetence, irrationality, xenophobia, greed, and belligerence.

Am I wrong?”

“LOL”

“If you are not at least one of the following:

1. White
2. Straight
3. The CEO of a large corporation
4. A gun nut
5. A creationist

Then you have no business supporting the GOP.”

“How can you possibly trust the judgment of a gay man who identifies with the current Republican party? I think the party has made its position pretty clear lately how they feel about gays, or anyone who doesn't fit their narrow definition of what an "American" is.”

“I've switched to Ubuntu... and I'll never go back. It runs faster than Windows, looks better, comes with all the applications I need as standard, and it's free. Why pay lots of money for an inferior product?”

“Instead of handouts, how about providing free cooking classes to all citizens? Surely, if the poor were taught how to cook rice, beans, meat and vegetables they would eat well and save money.

I'm positive that the cause of hunger in the US has far more to do with our convenience food culture than anything else. Our Mexican neighbors eat better than us, despite our best efforts to export our unhealthy processed foods and corn syrup enriched products, and the average wage in Mexico is just 7 dollars a day.

Mexicans still know how to turn staple food stuffs into tasty meals to feed a large family. Americans simply don't know how. They need to be shown.”

“1.5 billion potential viewers / readers / suckers, Rupert.

Ker-ching!”

“If Obama proposed throwing water on a burning child, there would be 40 Senators who would oppose it on the grounds that it would lead to a government take-over on charitable giving. There would be five or six senators on the Democratic side who would threaten to join the Republican filibuster unless the water used in the dousing of the child were the bottled water of their major campaign donors.

Fox News would be handing out effigies of the burning child made-up as the Joker, while Glen Beck would be crying about how this child burning is an inevitable consequence of Obama's Marxist policies.

Meanwhile the child would burn to death, and everyone would blame Obama.

Welcome to America!”

“"Dear God... Who in the world did you elect?"

A guy who believes in the constitution and doing things by the book, basically.

That's why he doesn't just use his God given "war powers" to sign into law just about anything he wants, unlike his predecessor.

It can be pretty frustrating to have a guy like that having to schmooze with the kind of low life Republicans who wouldn't vote to throw water on a burning child if Obama had thought of it first.

One tends to think that if Obama would just take the easy path, and steamroller his ideas over congress for the good of the the people, how much better things might be.

But they wouldn't be really, because it would be the Republican way of doing things. The best thing about Obama, is that every criticism of him from the right is absolute, certifiable BS. The filthiest, most treacherous lies of an inbred and dysfunctional mind that it is possible to have.

At least that makes me feel slightly better about myself, if not my country.”

“Hey. Top marks for pointing out the bleeding obvious.

Unfortunately, the rational majority have little choice but to stay relatively silent while the ignorant but vocal minority hijack the debate.

You see, they have jobs and families to feed, clothe and school... while the right-wing good for nothings have finally found a reason for getting up in the morning.”

“By far the most annoying commercial I've seen recently is one that has been showing on CNN International for several months from the Colombian tourist board...

"You run a risk of being carried away by festive spirits..."

Like WTF?”

“I bet these lobbyists sleep like babies. Their sole purpose in life is to steer a bum deal for the people and line the pockets of their clients at the expense of everyone else. Doesn't matter whether it's healthcare, food, oil, or arms. It's about scr3wing you and me to make rich people richer.

The great thing about food, as far as they're concerned, is that it's practically impossible to prove a health problem is caused by any one food product, or that minute quantities of carcinogens and heavy metals in the food the industry serves us pose any long term risk.

It's getting to the point that the only way to be sure is to avoid any kind of processed food. Easier said than done.”

“Forget Microsoft, Forget Apple. The future is Ubuntu... and it's absolutely free.”

“Well that was fairly civil... I guess we're at that point where we are supposed to applaud people for disagreeing in a civil manner.

Kind of funny though how the piece was interlaced with religious iconography and sentiments about love and harmony that are the antithesis of every Republican waking moment. A few dinosaur pics wouldn't have gone amiss.”

“Republicans fail to understand that to be a leader, you have to have people willing to follow you. Otherwise, it doesn't matter how strong or powerful you are, you aren't a leader. You're just a bully.

Under Bush, under Republican misrule, world leadership was lost. No one wanted to follow someone as inarticulate and arrogant as Bush and his cabal.

That loss of trust will take more than a few months to recover from. But it is abundantly clear that Obama is as well liked around the world as Bush was despised.

When you consider how profound this change is, when you really take stock at the thousands of millions of people whose attitude to the US has changed as a result of Obama being elected as POTUS, then this award is well deserved.”

“I want America to have a single payer public healthcare system.

However, in the words of the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want.

In lieu of what I want I'll willingly accept anything that is marginally better than the current system... a system which is absolute cr@p by any standard.

I'd rather have a penny in the bank than be poked in the eye with a sharp stick, as it were.”

“On the one hand I admire Chavez for doing so much for the poor of Venezuela... there's no doubt that when he first came to power, the enormous wealth of Venezuelan resources was bypassing the majority of Venezuelans for the empowerment of the few.

But since then, Chavez has aligned himself with the worst of the worst. Ahmajinedad and Mugabe to name but two. How can one have faith in the good intentions of someone who calls people like these friends?

Clearly, Chavez is not what he may appear to be. If he were to have come out and say that the Iranian government stole the election, or that Mugabe had driven his country into poverty by unjustly persecuting whites, then I'd still be on his side.

But the fact is that he's another one of those ideologues who ruins everything by not being truthful.”

“I bet those pizza shop owners wish the US had a public health system.”

“Obama has done exactly the right thing.

He's let congress work on a healthcare plan (or several of them) and allow a long debate on the issue. This is in contrast to what Bill and Hilary did in the 90s.

Now, that every possible argument for and against has been heard, and opponents of healthcare reform have been allowed to make themselves look foolish, Obama can now start steering this in a direction to get some meaningful outcome.

There's a lot of good stuff in Max Baucus's plan. It doesn't have the public option that liberals including myself want, but it will still change healthcare in the US for the better. At least you'll be able to buy a health insurance plan and not have to worry about whether it will actually cover you when you need it, and without bankrupting you. That's a 100000% improvement on the existing system.

Getting the public option would be the icing on the cake. It would literally transform US healthcare, bringing costs down while taking us slowly but inevitably towards universal coverage. Maybe we won't get that from this president, but that's not his fault. It's not his fault that there are practically no moderate Republicans left in the Senate who might have voted for reform.”

“Tax cuts for the rich will solve it.”

“Surely, whether this was intentionally started or not is moot. Wildfires happen. And they seem to be happening a lot more in recent years. Surely, since you know that they are going to happen, you should have some kind of plan to stop them.”

“Right-wingers are offended? Then we must be on the right track.

What do right-wingers get offended by? Practically anything that smacks of common sense and decency.”