Jean Arp, where are you when we need you most?

Joe the plumber shows up again this week. But he's still a star in conservative circles -- and still saying some odd, hostile things. At an event Thursday for the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity (one of the lead organizations behind the Tax Day Tea Parties), Wurzelbacher suggested Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) should be lynched.

"I'm here for one reason and one reason only: It's 'I love America,'" Wurzelbacher told the crowd. "Mainstream media wants to paint us as a bunch of extremists, right? We're in search of liberty and our freedoms. What's so extreme about that?" [...]

"Let me give you another extremist view, 'In God We Trust,'" he said to wild applause. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/26/joe-the-plumber-suggests_n_221631.html

Michelle Bachmann now has won her own comic book. She will never shut up. She insists she will refuse to fill out a census form for 2010. Paraphrasing Nixon I guess she actually said "I'm not a kook" She went on an on about how the Census is run by the likes of Acorn.

On Fox News this morning, Bachmann repeated her determination to break the law. She also suggested that the Obama administration could use the Census data for nefarious purposes -- including the imprisonment of Americans in concentration camps:

BACHMANN: If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations, at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I'm not saying that's what the Administration is planning to do. But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to the census bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/25/bachmann-fox-census/

On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, panelists suggested supporting English-only initiatives as a prime way of attracting "working class white Democrats." The discussion ridiculed Judge Sotomayor for the fact that she studied children's classics to improve her grammar while attending college. The panelists also suggested that, without English as the official language, President Obama would force Americans to speak Spanish. http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/22/misspelled-english-buchanan/

s. The word conference was spelled "Conferenece." View it here:

Media Matters has rush blaming Obama for the Sanford affair. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906260037

MM also has Beck demonstrating that cap and trade is like a watermelon, green on the outside and red on the inside and therefore a communist plot. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906260032

But that was not good enough so:

MM included Beck's rant on "some" cap and trade supporters: "dumbest people" to walk Earth, "greedy," "wicked," "treasonous" http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906260020

 Oh and as far as Savage, just follow Bill Bowman, he has that under control here at TPM and on his own web site. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/wfb812/

Oh and the guy who burned down the barn, killed the neighbor's dog and ran over the sheriff, Stratofrog has w all documented without any help from me. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/stratofrog/2009/06/widdledub-engages-in-thinkery.php

Keith O had it in for some state senator all week who was giving speeches about how important it was to refrain from giving free lunches to poor kids during the summer because hunger could be a great inspiration to change your station in life.

DADAISM

According to Wiki:

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature--poetry, art manifestoes, art theory--theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

At the first public soiree at the cabaret on July 14, 1916, Ball recited the first manifesto (see text). Tzara, in 1918, wrote a Dada manifesto considered one of the most important of the Dada writings. Other manifestos followed.

Marcel Janco recalled,

We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the "tabula rasa". At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order.

Jean Arp was one of those courageous leaders of this movement. He told a story about his experience with the draft for WW1:

Arp later told the story of how, when he was notified to report to the German embassy, he avoided being drafted into the army: he took the paperwork he had been given and, in the first blank, wrote the date. He then wrote the date in every other space as well, then drew a line beneath them and carefully added them up. He then took off all his clothes and went to hand in his paperwork. He was told to go home.

I related another story about Arp and a publisher. I cannot confirm it right now but the story goes that he was supposed to write a book. So in order to comply with the contract he wrote two hundred and some pages. Each page ended with a period. He then SHUFFLED the pages like a deck of cards and handed the tome in to the publisher.

Now, what has all this to do with the cost of gasoline and health care in this country?

Well first, Main Stream Media would have you think that the repubs are in 'DISARRAY'.  That they need to find a SPOKESMAN for their party. (I love this, spokesman, what a bunch of idiots)

That somehow something has changed.

I watched the 'SPOKESPEOPLE' for the repubs give out the same Dadaistic crap for eight goddamnable years. (blesses himself) Nothing has changed. They just are not in power anymore. They never once came out and spoke any truth. They never once came out and communicated logical reasons for their actions. They even lied about what their actions were most of the time.

There are weapons of mass destruction.

No there are not.

Just wait, we have not found them yet.

It has been two years and there are no weapons of mass destruction.

Yeah but there is a definite connection between Saddam and 1) the Taliban or 2) Terrorists or 3) Al Qaida or 4) totalitarian communists.

There was a nuclear arms program in Iraq.

No there was not.

We know that there was a link between Iraq and obtaining nuclear 1) bombs or 2) a missile deliver system or 3) aluminum tubes for...4) enriched uranium cheerios.........

No there was not, ever.

Well we wished to make America safe for Democracy.

Cheney, w, rummy, condi, rove, ....just take your pick. They all once did or still do make these claims.

Regulation is strangling this country and loosening regulation will help with the economy and....

Lack of regulation is killing this country you doofus or doofuses or...

We had full employment and good numbers for 46 months or 48 months or whatever.

What about the rest of the term, what about the last year of your administration? What about the worst economy in 75 - 80 years? What about the mire you left all of us in as far as wars in the Middle East? What about........

You see, this is all a waste of time and energy. At least when the third grader says my dog ate my homework, I mean, he could be right. Make a call, does the kid have a dog and does the dog like to eat paper?  I dunno.

We, the left, the Dems, the Progressives, the Educated.....we are doing this all wrong. We are responding incorrectly to this drivel. We cannot change the arena for discussion. MSM will continue to let cheney or w or rove or whoever get on tv and say this drivel. They are interested in ratings and money and advertisers who are all repubs anyway.

So we need an Arp out there or a Janco or even a Quinn to respond properly. For me the Q & A might go like this:

Cheney:  We have not had any further attacks on this country since 9/11 because of policies we instituted in our administration...blah blah blah blah

Arp:  Mr. Dick sir, you and yours have made the Muslim terrorists stronger and stronger and I would personally like to thank you for that since it means that my company, MISSILES GALORE will make more money than any two third world countries now in existence. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Bachmann:  This country is drifting, nay falling into communism faster and faster every day. The government has too much power over individual lives....blah blah blah

Janco:  I really wish to thank you, whatever the fu.. your name is for giving our side the opportunity to confront this woman about certain statements she has made recently.  But my God, here she is filling her pants again and I told you before michelle, my belle, you have to put the depends on first and then your pants suit. My god, the smell in here.

Beck:  Family values are the values that make families and families that make the values that we value at all times and if the homos have their way with themselves and then, naturally with me because I will be defenseless......

Quinn:  thank you for that mr. glenn and just for this purpose I have brought along a recording from Queen (my favorite cut used in Highlander) and here it is (pulls out a miniature recorder) and now let us all sing along:

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me
for me

Rush:  I really believe that the sins of the republicans of late are directly tied to the realization that the socialist dems have taken over the government in a bloodless coupe and that THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO RETAIN POWER and that they will stop at nothing to level the playing field and redistribute wealth.....

Dickon: If I had a hammer (and a sickle) I'd hammer in the morning (an sickle too) I'd hammer in the evening all over this land. I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warnin', I'd hammer out the love between my brother and my sister (and be sickling too) all over this land.

Rummy: We now know some things we did not know but at the same time we still do not know what we did not know, at least to some extent...........

Dester:  We do know that you do not know the difference between making war profitable and making hundreds of millions of dollars on drug stocks......have you taken your meds today? I mean seriously, a man of your age and with obvious behavioral issues should be under the care and guidance of a group of mental health care providers.....

Palin:  You know we do not even have taxes in Alaska. I was just reading one of those New York Elite papers and it was sayin that only through more taxes can you be happy. Well I disagree with that, I mean less taxes is better and no taxes is even better. You know someone said that everytime you lower taxes the government makes more money. Think of how much money this country would have if we just ended all federal taxes forever. You betcha

Little Eva: Well Mrs. Governess, Do you not see, Everybody's doin a brand new dance. I know you will like it if you give it a chance. Do the locomotion with me-- come on baby jump up, jump back well I think you have the knack.  Move around the floor in a locomotion. Do it holding hands if you do get the notion. It even makes you happy when you're feelin blue. Oooh you're lookin good.