Quote of the Day
Mehdi Hasan reacts badly to Obama’s debt deal:
“ARGH! CAN PEOPLE STOP TWEETING AT ME SAYING OBAMA “COMPROMISED”? A compromise involves give and take on BOTH sides. He got nothing. Nothing”
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Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Calm down dear!
“Naarthing”!
However it was to Barry to compromise – he’s the President, he has to broker an agreement. The Republicans could just decide to give him a bad time & not cooperate at all.
Hey, very nice site. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definately be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table, but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment.
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Mehdi who? He strikes me as an impotent and angry man.
Under all these plans government spending continues to go UP.
Talk of trillions of Dollars of “cuts” is nonsense. For the government (in all but one area – see later) assumes a big increase in spending on government schemes (normally about 8%) and then calls any reduction in the increase a “cut”.
Personally I believe that if deal is passed it will not even see a reduction in the increas of the various Welfare State (“Great Society”) schemes – i.e. that the whole thing will be a fraud.
The one major area of government spending where a “baseline” of vastly expanding spending is not assumed is defence.
In short for all the talk of power of the “military industrial complex” defence is the one major area of government spending where there are ever real cuts. Barack Obama (who is deeply unpopular in the military anyway) will hardly shed any tears if he does manage to slash the military budget.
My guess for the future is that the Defence budget will be butchered (as it has been in Britain), but overall government spending will not be cut (because the rest of government spending will continue to expand) – and the United States will continue to head towards bankruptcy.
The same road that Britain is on.
No conservative (let alone libertarian) should vote for this deal (which continues to vastly INCREASE government spending whilst falsely talking of trillions of “cuts”) so now we shall see just how many actual conservatives there are in the House of Representatives.
“But if the deal is not passed there will be collapse” – there is going to be a collapse anyway, see above.
Mr Fawkes,
As one nearer to the centre of UK politics than I, could you offer your opinion as to why this man, who is on video likening non-Muslims to cattle, still has a job?
Who or what is Mehdi Hasan? Why do we have to take ony notice of his/hers/its Tweets?
Fuck Hasan! He’s a whingeing bitter prick with a chip on his shoulder who cries “racist!” all the bloody time.