Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You've been posting here for years, and so I feel I've the right to make this criticism: Your strong suit is quick jab snark - fast, clever one liners. Rhetorical hyperbole, particular the ironic variant, does not work for you. Why? I'm not sure, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that rhetorical hyperbole only works when it's delivered from a position of power. One can bash the govt with it because the govt is a perfect foil - it's admittedly ineffective, bloated, corrupt, wasteful and a notorious magnet for middle management functionaries who'd die in the private sector. When you use it to bash a person for having more money than you think he ought to, it sounds envious. And when everybody knows you are a member of exactly the income strata you'e whining about, it sounds like remnant self-loathing you failed to work out of your system during the phase of junior high where Karl Marx made sense.

(I don't bitch about the govt. I look down my nose at it. There's a difference.)

I know you consider the run-on your calling card, but if you want a quick snarky jab just ask.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I know you consider the run-on your calling card, but if you want a quick snarky jab just ask.

I'm only setting you up every other post. Have I ever not left at least 2/3 of my flank exposed for a quick, "Your head is up your ass, Sebastian" reply?

ETA: And stop whining about people with "servants." First, the people you're poking don't have that kind of scratch. Second, you're one of them. Congrats on your success. Go buy a bottle of something good and allow yourself a moment's reflection. Yeah, it's a bitch to deal with the annoyances, but it's good to be upper middle class. (Use the Mel Brooks Louis XIV voice if you like.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

But they're not, so it's not part of this discussion. Left to do what they like, the Dems would spend more. But you don't see me criticizing them for that here, in this finite discussion.

The topic under discussion was, should a deficit hawk prefer one party or the other. The Dems might spend more, but under Paygo rules, which should be OK for a deficit hawk.

Here is the point in the conversation where it becomes clear that many people who pretend to be deficit hawks are really just using that language as cover for opposition to government spending.

That's a projection you cannot support. You have no idea what the removal of that money from the economy would do in terms of decreased economic activity. This economy is amazingly fragile. The negative multiplier effect of any pullback in consumption could create a decrease in revenue far exceeding the tax cuts. This is why even Obama and the Dems, no doubt suppressing a gag reflex, are open to an across the board extension. (By saying this, I am not arguing that tax cuts pay for themselves. I don't buy that any more than you do. But I think this is a unique instance where the lapse of a tax cut could have disastrous results.)

Oh, come now. Enough of the Devil's advocacy. We agree that tax cuts don't pay for themselves.

If you think that tax cuts would have a uniquely bad effect right now, I would like to hear the economic theory behind that.

If you agree with my last point, how do reach the conclusion we nevertheless need to roll back all of the Bush tax cuts? (Keep in mind, I'm not GOP Orthodox on this... I personally think that the safe play is to raise the bar to $500-750K.)

I think the politics of the situation have left Democrats in favor of continuing the tax cuts for all but those making more than $250K.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Go buy a bottle of something good and allow yourself a moment's reflection. Yeah, it's a bitch to deal with the annoyances, but it's good to be upper middle class. (Use the Mel Brooks Louis XIV voice if you like.)

I thought I had a scotch emergency on my hands yesterday. Went for a wee dram and everything in the house had been drained. After pushing around a bunch of bottles in the basement (I think the bottle of Galliano is older than the house), I finally found a bottle of 18 year Macallan - with a bottling date of 1980, so it had been hanging around for over a decade.

I went to open it and the cork disintegrated. Who loses a cork on a bottle of whiskey? So I decanted and strained it and am now drinking corked scotch.

It IS a real bitch to deal with these petty annoyances. But you're right, the scotch does help.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Just to make clear that it's not only Republicans who pretend to be deficit hawks but really aren't:

George Stephanopoulos writes:

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I thought I had a scotch emergency on my hands yesterday. Went for a wee dram and everything in the house had been drained. After pushing around a bunch of bottles in the basement (I think the bottle of Galliano is older than the house), I finally found a bottle of 18 year Macallan - with a bottling date of 1980, so it had been hanging around for over a decade.

I went to open it and the cork disintegrated. Who loses a cork on a bottle of whiskey? So I decanted and strained it and am now drinking corked scotch.

It IS a real bitch to deal with these petty annoyances. But you're right, the scotch does help.

*bottled* in 1980? So you bought it as NOS from a liquidator or something?

[sgtclub]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I thought I had a scotch emergency on my hands yesterday. Went for a wee dram and everything in the house had been drained. After pushing around a bunch of bottles in the basement (I think the bottle of Galliano is older than the house), I finally found a bottle of 18 year Macallan - with a bottling date of 1980, so it had been hanging around for over a decade.

I went to open it and the cork disintegrated. Who loses a cork on a bottle of whiskey? So I decanted and strained it and am now drinking corked scotch.

It IS a real bitch to deal with these petty annoyances. But you're right, the scotch does help.

Is this reported on Fox?

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

Is this reported on Fox?

I think it's being pitched to ForbesLife.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I thought I had a scotch emergency on my hands yesterday. Went for a wee dram and everything in the house had been drained. After pushing around a bunch of bottles in the basement (I think the bottle of Galliano is older than the house), I finally found a bottle of 18 year Macallan - with a bottling date of 1980, so it had been hanging around for over a decade.

I went to open it and the cork disintegrated. Who loses a cork on a bottle of whiskey? So I decanted and strained it and am now drinking corked scotch.

It IS a real bitch to deal with these petty annoyances. But you're right, the scotch does help.

Indeed. I had half of a psychoactive chocolate chip cookie around 10:30 or 11:00 last night. Nothing happened for the first hour, and I wound up falling asleep. 3:00 rolls around and I have to run downstairs to have a piss (the tile in the bathroom reflects sound and wakes the wife, so I try to do the late urination downstairs). Anyway, I was ambling about the kitchen and decided to read the morning's to do list. This was difficult, and for a moment, I was totally confused (also wondering why or how I came to be holding a Vitamin water I'd taken from the garage, but hadn't recalled picking up). Then it struck me. Yes, the cookie had worked.

I promptly ate a Snicker's from the remaining Halloween candy and some horseradish cheese. This gave me terrible heartburn around 4:00. I woke up once more, went down to the kitchen and had a Rolaid. All was good once more (except for the knowing, judgmental glares of the Maine Coon cat... astride the kitchen island, he gave me the usual stare: You're a dim creature. And you're wearing your wife's sweatpants again... Get your own, you cheap son of a bitch.)

It is trying living this life, but trust me, you will get through that 18 y.o. scotch. You'll grit through the occasional cork remnants and damnit, you will like it.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

3:00 rolls around and I have to run downstairs to have a piss (the tile in the bathroom reflects sound and wakes the wife, so I try to do the late urination downstairs).

I couldn't get past this part. Why do you piss on the tile?

S_A_M

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I thought I had a scotch emergency on my hands yesterday. Went for a wee dram and everything in the house had been drained. After pushing around a bunch of bottles in the basement (I think the bottle of Galliano is older than the house), I finally found a bottle of 18 year Macallan - with a bottling date of 1980, so it had been hanging around for over a decade.

I went to open it and the cork disintegrated. Who loses a cork on a bottle of whiskey? So I decanted and strained it and am now drinking corked scotch.

It IS a real bitch to deal with these petty annoyances. But you're right, the scotch does help.

We should have a booze board.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Indeed. I had half of a psychoactive chocolate chip cookie around 10:30 or 11:00 last night. Nothing happened for the first hour, and I wound up falling asleep. 3:00 rolls around and I have to run downstairs to have a piss (the tile in the bathroom reflects sound and wakes the wife, so I try to do the late urination downstairs). Anyway, I was ambling about the kitchen and decided to read the morning's to do list. This was difficult, and for a moment, I was totally confused (also wondering why or how I came to be holding a Vitamin water I'd taken from the garage, but hadn't recalled picking up). Then it struck me. Yes, the cookie had worked.

I promptly ate a Snicker's from the remaining Halloween candy and some horseradish cheese. This gave me terrible heartburn around 4:00. I woke up once more, went down to the kitchen and had a Rolaid. All was good once more (except for the knowing, judgmental glares of the Maine Coon cat... astride the kitchen island, he gave me the usual stare: You're a dim creature. And you're wearing your wife's sweatpants again... Get your own, you cheap son of a bitch.)

It is trying living this life, but trust me, you will get through that 18 y.o. scotch. You'll grit through the occasional cork remnants and damnit, you will like it.

I'm not sure if I find this intriguing or terrifying.....and that's coming from someone who did last call 3 nights in a row in DC last week.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

I'm not sure if I find this intriguing or terrifying.....and that's coming from someone who did last call 3 nights in a row in DC last week.

They are not tight sweat pants. They're a pair she stole from her father years ago. If we must observe the tiniest of claifications, I was wearing my father in law's stolen sweatpants.

My cat also has a temporary bald spot on the back of his head (had some sort of virus that caused him to lose hair). He cuts a regal figure for a feline from the front, but from the side, in those morning hours particularly, he's a bit bizarre looking. And I think he might be touchy about it. Usually, he seeks to run outside with the neighbor cat (no idea if they're romantically involved). But lately, he's been sticking around the house, no doubt waiting for the hair that's growing back to fill out his mane.

And who doesn't pee on the tile?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I am suddenly feeling the urge to visit Brazil.