Ruth Marcus vs. The Onion

First up: Ruth Marcus, concerned troll:

The real-life consequence of Cantor’s loss will be to further diminish the already slim prospects for serious legislating, not only dooming immigration reform, at least in the short term, but also raising the prospect of dangerous showdowns on the budget and debt ceiling.

Cue The Onion:

Flawless victory for the Onion.

Further cud-chewing from Marcus:

As it happens, Cantor’s loss came just before the Pew Research Center released a depressing new report on that very topic: the increasingly polarized state of American politics. The findings are hair-pulling.

More Americans have moved to the ideological edges. “The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%,” Pew reported.

To read the report is to be struck by the pragmatic attitude of the majority of Americans and by their simultaneous abdication of responsibility to the extremes — and, with it, power. This sensible center is willing to compromise; half said they’d be willing to split the difference 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats.

That's quality Broderism, Ruth.

Broderism 1) Actual examples of right-wingers doing stupid things (e.g. threatening to kill police officers, blowing up the Olympics, claiming that "Atlas Shrugged" is history rather than a crappy novel by a nutjob) serve as proof that The Left is equally bad. For obvious reasons, specific mention of the offenses of The Left must be avoided (they care about the environment, don't want to cut Social Security, or even blow up foreigners for corporate profits...THOSE CRAZY ANIMALS!!!).

Broderism 2) The greatest thing in the universe is sweet bipartisanship, aka when right-wing Democrats agree with Republicans on whatever short-sighted, vicious, and ultimately disastrous scheme the GOP has cooked up lately.

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A Tale of Three Stooges and a Tax Cut Deal

Calling Dr. K!









These three lying idiots love your tax cut plan, President Obama. And they can't wait for you to cut Social Security! So these must be very, very good ideas, indeed. Right???

Update: Further credit to Dr. K. He calls Milbank out for lying about the history of the recent H.C.R.:

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Irony Is Reborn Every Night

Only to have its liver eaten the next day by FAUX Nooze:

Judy Miller criticizes Diane Sawyer for being "too busy blogging and net-Twittering" to properly question Pelosi



"Seems like kind of a kid gloves interview if you watch the whole thing."

FAUX is home base for candidates who can't even take questions from the likes of Katie Couric. This is the network the rest of our media takes its cues from, people. Be sad. Be very sad. The media narrative already is "Obama and the Democrats moved too far to the left".

Interior Department employees referred to the "Third Bush Term". How could it be any more right-wing, without just putting Exxon and B.P. in charge, officially?

Larry Summers and Tim Geithner replaced Bush's crack economics advisor, Hank Paulson. Harsh blow for Wall Street! Anything less than hiring Larry Kudlow will show that that the Marxists are still in charge.

David "The Dean" Broder has already suggested that invading Iran is a solution to our economic problems. The war that would pay for itself has cost us $3 trillion and counting. But we're just going to keep making war until we find the Magical Unicorn!

I'm sure Fred Hiatt will chime in shortly, writing if we only had more tax cuts for the rich, and got rid of these silly expensive programs like "Social Security" and "Medicare", all will be blue skies again.

Now let's click for our medicine, where we'll learn it's all Rachel Maddow's fault.
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