Nah, it was funny. Mental-funny.

Flags, any flags, used in any way, viewed by voters push voters towards the Republican Party. I never saw so many Australian flags as at the Liberal Party conference at the hotel I worked at last year, and expect to see a bloom of flags at any?

OTOH, an Iranian flag almost certainly would.

And both are Texans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMhaehb5AnE

I think he came unstuck because he hasn't played the Superhero/Cowboy figure in office, and that's what Americans seem to expect of their presidents now.

What a great nation!
from the desolate early scenes
(post-rapture?)
then being carried along in
the orgiastic stock pic frenzy
of patriotism – I too now want
Perry White to be Editor in Chief
of the Daily Planet!

see the?

I love the way that when Obama grasps the whole separation of powers shtick, thinks bipartisanship actually means something?

Fuckers.

Only on Planet Tea Bag, dear? Then again, James, I guess we can squint past Gov. Romney?s record as a pretty moderate New England governor who made Obama look like a pussy when it came to Marxist healthcare.

please don't encourage the baggy dickness about names

And linking to that article...

Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die

The victim in question was none other than Ron Paul's own campaign manager. Is that?

As an outsider looking in at the tangled wreck of a once great Nation I can see the bitterness and resentment all too clearly. Obama is hardly a "leftie"?

(I snogged a bloke?)

Though I suspect the only reason that happened was because it provided a conveniently weightly cudgel to beat Michelle Bachmann over the head with.

Oh, you also forgot that Perry also called Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake a traitor who would receive "pretty?

Can pretty much add Standard & Poors.

With this GOP field, I remain grateful for even the smallest of mercies. That whole stoush got the mainstream news networks reporting that Gardasil was safe?

Come to think of it, the red states, on balance, ironically receive more Federal tax dollars than they pay into it. While it's largely the opposite with the blue states.

Red state/blue state is such an unhelpful conception, though. Most "blue" states have significant Republican minorities and most "red" states?

examples of reflexive hypocrisy are rather common these days in the human animal. Yes I called you lot, animals! wanna make somefing of it huh?

Problem is even larger majorities of Americans define the rich as earning 50% more than themselves.

GRRRR, woof woof.

Yeah, the median American household wage is somewhere between $40 and $60K/year – "the rich", by even the lowest Bush-era-tax-cut-repeal definition, are those earning over $250K/year. Which is something like 1.5%?

James, I sincerely hope you're not involved in?

If Fox News and the Tea Party are defining what the "center" is, then Ronald Reagan (who increased marginal tax rates while Governor of California) is a ranting commie along with Margaret Thatcher and pretty much every center-right government on this planet who?

Oh really?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/federal_budget/september_2011/50_favor_mix_of_cuts_taxes_to_reduce_deficit_but_64_oppose_paying_higher_taxes

The US needs spending cuts and increased tax revenues (not rates) generated by eliminating deductions and loop holes and lowering rates. A comprehensive corporate tax reform deal was on the table earlier in the year and?

It's so, uh, weather-y.

I understand the concept of progressive taxation, whereby the top tax rate you pay is not the rate every dollar is taxed at, and it is therefore very?

His ratings have slipped in the past six months, to about where Reagan was at the same point in his presidency, but he still beats a generic Republican candidate, and seems likely to beat?

Oh, FFS? Look I get that in your book Obama can?t say or do anything that isn?t malignant and malicious, but while you?re entitled to your own opinion you?re not entitled?

Ahem, no pretty sure they do. American politics is based on expressing opposing sentiment to?

So you want to live in a bankrupt country??

A lot of it seems to be attributed to all the litigation associated with it. Also, American industry has faced employee health insurance costs?

Mostly it comes down to the fact that 30c in every American health dollar goes to administration, v. 2-3c in nationalised?

IMhO, this succinctly explains the core of the problem in the simplest of terms.

There, but for the grace of Od, go we?

The ironic thing is, if you have good health insurance, it is. Americans are trained to accept stacks of paperwork as part and parcel of the healthcare experience, and high-quality care in America is very high-quality indeed. But as with taxes, the people who make the?

Too liberal, insufficiently brutal towards the children of illegal immigrants. And some other shit that really does not make sense.

It's highly selective. If you have power and money, it can work wonders, and certainly patient interaction and therefore?

The venerable Jared Diamond has theorised that collapsed civilisations ultimately came to grief the way they did, whenever their?

Stupid proles should?

That's really very thoughtful of you.