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So... tell your humble editor.  What do you want to see more of on Left Take?  Humor?  Activism?  Debate?  Merciless mocking of Sarah Palin?

Discuss.  

(Update: Shout out to rememberancientweb as well, who diaried this first)

Well, I suppose it was inevitable.  Where there are teabaggers, there's gotta be a hand job.

This a video from the teabagger convention, where she was the queen teabagger.  Or keynoter. Something like that.

Check it out:

Okay, now look at the close-up shot from AP:

Seriously?  THIS is the person that John McCain thought should be one tenuous heartbeat away from the presidency?  THIS is the person that teabaggers everywhere are looking to for a leader in 2012?  

Wow. So much stupidity, so little time...

(Hat tip to Eileen B over at Daily Kos for this)

Sarah Palin... now outraged by... Sarah Palin.

( - promoted by leftake)

An interesting story and graph that shows us where we would be without Bush's policies and spending.

I harp on this periodically with folks and thought this was a simple and elegant way to get the picture.

REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Deficits People Hate Comes From Bush's Wars And Bush's Tax Cuts

Vincent Fernando
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government's future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government's horrific projected deficits on the current administration.

Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America's deficit problems are mostly the result of American wars abroad and the Bush era tax cuts -- things the current administration didn't implement. At the same time the current administration is being pressed not to raise taxes and not to be weak militarily.

Some of the most hated spending topics such as TARP, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and economic stimulus, are actually a tiny contributor in comparison to war and Bush tax cuts. Especially over the long-haul out to 2019 as shown below.

You don't have to agree with everything the current administration does, but democracy isn't an effective form of government when voters are blind to the real cause behind the effects they criticize:

The Economist: "This is something Barack Obama has been at pains to point out, as Republicans have attacked him as a profligate spender and runner of deficits. Most of today's borrowing
, he has said, is attributable to factors beyond his control. He is essentially pointing people to charts like the one at right. That's a damning chart. It implicates a lot of people, including some of the same Congressional
Democrats who are now joining Republicans in assailing the president for budgeted deficits, but who voted for the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Politically, this is a pretty important chart."

Greetings from your humble editor, here in Washington, DC. Our nation's capital. The one that's about to get THIRTY inches of snow.

Holy crap.

Who else is snowbound? Tell us your story.

Gees, do ANY of their photos stay up for more than 5 minutes after posting???

Well, we assume not, but... he is, "blocking votes on nominees to be the top Intelligence officers at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security as well as the number three civilian at the Pentagon."

Oh, and at least he's got a good reason for it -- he's doing it to win pork projects for his home state.

So... you connect the dots.

Then again, screw it, we'll connect them for you -- THIS JACKASS IS PUTTING AMERICAN SECURITY AT RISK, AND HE'S DOING IT FOR THE SAME PORK HE BITCHES AND MOANS ABOUT WHEN OTHER SENATORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

Senator Richard Shelby. Or, "Dick" as we prefer to call him.

 

You know, sometimes Republicans are stupid. Sometimes they are really stupid. And sometimes... they just take stupidity "to an 11."

Case in point, these nuggest from a Research 2000 poll of Republicans. See Daily Kos for full results.

(Note: Commentary below this point is from Kos, not me).

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OBAMA and AMERICA

Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?

Yes 39
No 32
Not Sure 29

For what? Who the heck knows. Who needs high crimes or misdemeanors when...

Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?

Yes 63
No 21
Not Sure 16

That's the power of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, after one year of relentlessly claiming Obama is the second coming of Lenin ... and Hitler!

Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, or not?

Yes 42
No 36
Not Sure 22

We still have over a half of Republicans who don't think Obama was born in the US or think it's a matter open to debate. 

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See Daily Kos for full results.

It'd be cool if "700 Club" and "Fight Club" merged.

I'd love to see Pat Robertson punch himself in the face.

Discuss.

(Promoted, given Rush's latest comments about Obama and Harvard Law School (see http://johnkwilson.dailykos.com/) - promoted by leftake)

Discuss.

Now this is pretty cool. You may recall that "theek" was the winner for the Joe Lieberman caption contest a few weeks back.

Well, he has graciously requested that we donate the $20.10 to Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) in his name, for the relief effort in Haiti.

We're happy to do this, and salute Theek for his class, and are going to match it ourselves. 

Click here, if you want to make a donation as well, and you're in the US.  Click here if you're not in the US.

 

What are you reading these days? Books, that is.

Go ahead - discuss, recommend, etc. Let's see what the Left Take community is up to.

Hysterical (though be warned, it's pretty harsh. Definitely not G-Rated)

Hat tip to The Green Workplace

We have a winner! No one got 10 four ratings (though some got close), so your humble fearless leader/editor is going to go all "super-delegate", and push this one over the top:

 

 

 

"Folks, I'm what's referred to in the general population as a 'douche-bag!'"

 

Thanks and $20.10 to Left Taker, "Rondarvt" (click here to read the other entries)

(Hmmm... no idea why the video code is now pulling something else, but... I'll update it. - promoted by leftake)