is armstrong williams a parrot or a moron?

by jackie sheeler on June 16, 2009

his piece on the the congress pundit blog yesterday demonstrates an abundance of both qualities.

williams, long-time house nigger for the conservative wing of the GOP, really outdoes himself  in this brief but idiotic post that lays blame for the entire economic meltdown in obama’s lap, asking how the president can claim to have created millions of jobs when the unemployment rate increased from 8%-9.4% during his (brief) tenure.

he writes as if the subprime mortgage ponzi scheme, lehman brothers, AIG and eight miserable years under president bush had never happened. poof! democrats win an election? the slate of republican history is wiped squeaky clean.

housenig2if only it really worked that way! if only we could wipe america’s slate clean of all the double-dealing republican dirt that’s been forced down our throats. just think: deregulation that allowed banks and brokerages to lend as much as 40 times more money than they actually had would never have passed, the mortgage feeding-and-flipping frenzy would never have started, we wouldn’t be at war in iraq nor torturing middle eastern men on cuban soil.

i can’t even count the billions of dollars and millions of jobs that would have been saved — rather, which would not have been lost in the first place — if your party’s blatant insanities had been prevented.

without your kind of republicans, armstrong, we would not be where we are right now. how DARE you write about our economic crisis as if it started on january 20th when you know quite well it started during the reign of GWB,  as a direct result of his disastrous crone-bootlicking policies. you may think you’ve got some kind of special license to smear obama just because you’re “black like him” but you don’t.

you write as if the bankrupting & bailout of detroit was the beginning and end of our financial problems when it’s nothing more than icing the cake.

obviously, i voted for obama and continue to support him. that doesn’t mean i agree with the course he’s taken, particularly around the bailouts — whether of wall street or detroit. there’s no such thing as “too big to fail” in a capitalistic society; if capitalism is the true foundation of our economy then mismanaged, over-leveraged, bonus-squandering firms will and should go out of business, ripple effects notwithstanding. and it’s not as if shoveling billions of dollars their way has made anything better. oh, but wait — TARP was enacted under bush. ah. no wonder only detroit gets a mention in your post.

whether i agree with our president’s solutions or not, one thing is perfectly clear: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF EIGHT YEARS OF UNCHECKED PARTISAN REPUBLICAN POLICY. you motherfuckers created this mess and now you’ve got the brass balls to complain about how the cleanup job is being handled? well, you’ll have to do more than a bit of whining to earn that stance. you’ll have to do something like make a constructive solution, propose an alternative, and stand behind it.

but that’s not how you operate. you’re the kind of guy who takes back-room money to use your media soapbox in support of a program that was known — especially within the black community — to be seriously flawed. the quarter-million dollars that bush handed over for that little plum assignment was likely the easiest money you ever made. maybe what you’re really pissed off about is that the payola party is over. obama simply doesn’t operate that way. but if he did, a moron like you would never make it to the shortlist.

you should get down on your knees and thank god that the unemployment rate rose ONLY 1.4% over the last five months. what with the shitpile your party left behind we’re lucky it didn’t go up 20%, 30%. are you kidding me? do you seriously think doddering john and his simpering sidekick could have done a better job here, and would have held the rate down below its present level?

think again.

 in closing, i’d like to rewrite the last sentence of your post:

“When you have a liberal Democratic Congress lead by a liberal Democratic president, it is a prescription for fiscal disaster.”

it should read:

“After eight years of a conservative Republican Congress led [note grammatical correction] by a conservative Republican president, your entire economic system will be left in a shambles.”

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l.mackay June 17, 2009 at 9:50 am

I’m not sure what to say to someone like you. You are obviously not open to reason, debate or argument. You are blinded by hatred of GWB and Republicans. The fact remains, however, that GWB is not responsible for malfeasance and banditry in some business circles, he IS responsible for trying to tamp down the incipient mortgage crisis (for which he was shouted down by Barney Frank and other liberal D’s who accused him of ‘hating poor people’), GWB is NOT responsible for Obama’s ridiculous $3.5T monstrosity of a budget (in which 1 of every 2 dollars spent is borrowed), neither is GWB responsible for a ridiculous $800M stimulus plan that won’t really achieve spending momentum till 2011. Nor is GWB responsible for the $50B wasted on Chrysler/GM when the bankruptcy courts were ready willing and able to take them straightway. Mr. O has done much – all without GWB’s help – to get us to our present impasse, and his profligate spending is the main impetus for our continued economic peril.

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