{"id":9594,"date":"2010-02-11T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2010-02-11T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:51:13","slug":"sadly-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9594","title":{"rendered":"Sadly Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussing a hypothetical stipend increase for Americorps volunteers — so that they don’t have to receive food stamps as many now do — John Cole pretty much nails exactly how things would go down<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wanting to negotiate in good faith, having never learned a lesson ever, the Democrats like Baucus and Conrad would slow down the debate to give the Republicans time to participate. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe would work for a couple weeks with Senate leadership, get a couple things they want in the bill, then sigh and utter their public regrets that they just can not support the bill. Chuck Todd, the Politico, and other dullards in the beltway media would run a few pieces wondering why Obama hasn\u2019t reached out more to moderates. While this is happening, the wurlitzer\u2019s media blitz starts.<\/p>\n

First off, we all know who loves Americorp- the Clenis. From there, it is all downhill. Breitbart would seize upon the bill, and claim that the anonymous stipend is just President Obama seeking to pay off his campaign volunteers- just like the KHMER ROUGE, POL POT, STALIN, AND DUVALIER! They would find some innocuous aspect of Americorps and turn it into something that is no doubt worse than Hitler.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Somewhere around this time, Randy Scheuneman and Meg Stapleton would post a bunch of nonsense on Palin\u2019s facebook page, maybe declaring that Americorps is just like Hitler Youth Corps. This would get picked up by the Weekly Standard\u2019s resident Palin fluffer, Matt Continetti, repeated by the increasingly loathesome Michael Goldfarb, and mainstreamed into CNN by Stephen Hayes in one of his typical fact-free appearances. Bill Kristol would pick up the ball and run with it, and before you know it, Fred Hiatt\u2019s fishwrap would have 20 editorials railing against Americorps.<\/p>\n

At this time, we would have tea partiers packing guns to town hall events, terrified of a socialist takeover of, well, something, carrying racist signs and chanting \u201cKeep Government out of Americorps!,\u201d and the rest of the MSM can start their coverage. Sensing an opportunity, shitheels like Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu sense the bill is in trouble, and would start to pack the goodies into it for their home state. Lieberman and Marshall Wittman would sense that liberals really want this, and then start voicing grave concerns about the bill, and Marty Peretz and company would call anyone who noted Lieberman is just being an asshole an anti-Semitic Jew hater. Evan Bayh and other \u201cfiscal conservatives\u201d would then start mugging for every camera they could find, and would make appearances on all the Sunday shows with mean old man John McCain talking about the need to cut government and why war should always be off budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The read-the-whole-thing level of this post is off the charts. And deeply depressing. And accurate as all get out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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