So it wasn't 28 years of laissez-faire economics, cheered on by Reagan's ideological army, that dug American capitalism into the hole it's now currently in. The truth is, it's all Obama's fault. It was all an evil conspiracy he brewed up in 1980, when he was 19 years old.

I'll buy that for a dollar!

You know, I've long had a nagging suspicion that Bush and co. are actually extremist socialists who are committed to this strategy. But this is more because I just can't believe they're actually committed to what they're committed to.

I didn't realize my conspiracy theory had a name, though. Maybe I'll have to start going to conventions or something.

Always accuse your opponent of what you're doing. I think I'll call it Banjo's Law: When one hears the Neo-cons accusing liberals of something nefarious, one's suspicions that this describes a current neo-con strategy should rise substantially.

By the way, it's generally known as "starving the beast" when conservatives employ the described strategy -- management by crisis. For instance, the GOP could never find the political will to simply cancel Social Security and raid the funds in that program, but if an enormous budget crisis, say precipitated by decades of unchecked deficits, were to force their hand, why they may have no other choice....

These people are batshit crazy. I mean, honestly. What the hell are these people even talking about? Does this make sense to anyone? ANYONE? Thank god for Eydie Gorme and Maker's Mark. They help me get through it all.

American media & education is such an echo chamber. Hello?!?!? Every other single 1st world country has adopted Obama's "impossible demands" and much, much more and they have not collapsed. They even manage to retain their culture of xenophobia and racism. Southeast Asia even manages to have all this, plus *legal* discrimination! What more could a conservative want?!

Giuliani's Law: As a presidential election grows near, combined with a Democrat leading, the probability of a conspiracy theory involving 9/11 approaches one.

@ 3 - yeah, apparently Obama is a disciple of Grover Norquist. Who knew?

I tried to make one, but I didn't want to give them my email and they wouldn't show it to me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

My sign says "I am Fearful of the Nig Nogs". I think I'll forward it to my racist uncle.

I've long had a nagging suspicion that Bush and co. are actually extremist socialists who are committed to this strategy.

Maybe they're like Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate, exactly the opposite of what they claim to be.

I think i have fallen in love with Banjo's Law

Does anyone else laugh when Republicans equate making that kind of money with "working hard"?

I love the idea that most of the people using that stupid McCain thing would probably pay lower taxes under Obama's plan. ZOMG SOCIALIST WELFARE!

And I've heard rumored that O'Bama plans to use his donor database to decide who will lead his new comisariat. Think about it. 3.1 million people is just about right for petty comisar positions over most of the country I guess some folks would have to relocate though.
Anyways, better donate if you want in, at least that's what I hear.

Oh man, there was a Tom Tomorrow strip back in 2005 or so about just that: Bush, Cheney, and Rove are all hippies sitting around in the 70s, when they all cook up a conspiracy to go "straight" and infiltrate the system so they can bring it down from the inside. Wish I could find it...

Found it:

http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/09/19/tomo/

oh, paul, honey, don't you feel all dirty and icky after reading these conservative blogs? how do you stand it?

Ooo! Sign generators are fun. Let me play!

I AM bozo
THE clown

I AM Levi
THE guy that spooged your daughter

I AM Attila
THE Hun

I AM voting for
THE socialist muslim terrorist

I AM smoking
THE pole

I AM locked in
THE sweat shop

I AM Michelle Bachmann
THE reincarnation of Joe McCarthy

I AM a Log Cabin Republican
THE delusional

You can play too!

I love the august handles these wingnuts give themselves ..."American Thinker", indeed!

I hope they don't think too much; it might implode their hateful little pea brains.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

@3 5 9

ditto.

IT's creeping socialism. First we have govt. organized sewers; then schools; then an army; then transit; then ynemployment insurance; then social security; then "private" hospitals but we make then serve anyone (thius they are actually govt. run!); then banking; pretty soon we will look like the marxist leninist state of Denmark.

heh heh heh heh heh heh heh

PS--we also have secretly taken over the NRA for years. Yes, we will USE THEIR MEMBER LIST TO CONFISCATE ALL GUNS.

Why do you think we created the NRA anyway, huh?

heh heh heh heh heh heh heh

Unity & selam--

overload the government with impossible debts? like the iraq war? Like the trillions in annual defense spending on a cold war relic military?

"Blogosphere" is a damn ugly word. "Conservablogosphere" is so ugly it's funny and almost awkwardly cute, like those pictures of baby chimpanzees people keep e-mailing me. "Obamaeconomics", on the other hand, what I can only imagine is what these evil anti-Americans what to overthrow capitalism for (cause communism is deader than Reagen and I can't imagine even conspiracy nuts thinking that's what they're going for), that's a pretty rockin' word.

@24:
Yes. Try telling the Chinese that communism is dead...

You guys will throw up this claptrap and *not* cover the story about how Obama is hypnotizing the masses???? http://lewp.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/barack-obama-puts-his-audience-in-hypnotic-trance/

That's what I call irresponsible journalism! (and that last bit's a joke)

I thought you Libs might want to make your reservations early since all the flights will be booked in two weeks:

http://www.canadaairtickets.com/

flamingbango @3: Always accuse your opponent of what you're doing. I think I'll call it Banjo's Law: When one hears the Neo-cons accusing liberals of something nefarious, one's suspicions that this describes a current neo-con strategy should rise substantially.

flaming, reading this post I kept thinking, "This is exactly what the right has been accused of." Never mind "starve the beast," this alleged use of a crisis to further political ends is the whole premise of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

Everything is connected in these turbulent times.
On the back of the US one dollar bill, it reads: NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM. That is Latin for NEW WORLD ORDER.

'Nuff said.

I AM ready for
THE election to be over

I AM hoping that
THE racists lose

Gawd these people infuriate me.

How's this new "internet law":
whenever you attempt to debunk a 9/11 conspiracy theory (other than the official government conspiracy theory), you’re just as bad as a holocaust denier or brainwashed nazi?
btw, not all 9/11 skeptics buy the FBI's "19 hijacker" claim: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hijackers.html?q=hijackers.html

#3 got to it first, but still...

Grover Norquist publicly states again and again his goal to "shrink government to the size where I can drown in a bathtub."

Needless to say, Grover's place is THE networking site for the right wing.

I am HISPANIC
The GREATEST RACE

I AM taking
THE mickey...

I AM wishing I took
THE blue pill.

I AM voting for
THE One!

I AM I said to no one there. And no one heard, not even
THE chair

I AM robbing
THE bank
DON'T TAX ME FOR WORKING HARD!

When you are free of cognitive reasoning the way the right wing is.And when you are self deluded the way the right wing is. And when religious superstition and fear are your motivation, it doesn't matter what the truth is. The truth is irrelevant. What matters is blaming the opposition for anything and everything when you are failing. They never take any responsibility because they are never wrong.

Yeah, those liberals just don't cotton to government as we see it today... or... if we were to apply occam's razor to nutty conspiracy theories, wouldn't it be right wingers and libertarians who would be the ones plotting to erode our infrastructure?

I AM
THE INCREDIBLE SULK!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

That's what fiscal conservatives thought Reagan was doing in the 80s- running up the debt so high that the welfare state would implode. The smart ones have learned that the only thing worse than a "tax and spend liberal" is a "spend and spend and then spend a little more right wing nutcase."

I AM Palin
THE Idiot

Damn, Paul, you're really obsessed with 9/11 theorists, huh? You can barely go a post without bringing them up, even when the story you're referring to isn't about them. You seem to feel very strongly that people who question the 9/11 commission should the object of ridicule and scorn. Because apparently if you question the administration's story on only this particular issue it makes you equivalent to the "rightest-wing". Do I have that right?

I AM a first-time campaign contributor, to
THE black guy

Shouldn't it really just be called the Grover Nordquist strategy? Or maybe the Nordquist-Bush strategy?

I think somebody is manually checking these for earnestness, because my
I am terrified of
the brown-skinned people
sign never came through via e-mail. On the other hand, I'm now on John McCain's mailing list.

I thought that taking public funding meant that John McCain couldn't fundraise, but he was def begging me for money. Is it that he can only fundraise up to a certain dollar amount, or something? If that's the case, how is it not embarrassing that he hasn't hit that limit yet? What's the deal?