HILARIOUS: White House Budget Director Peter Orszag Heckled During Brookings Institution Speech (VIDEO)
The heckler breaks into a song. No, I'm not kidding. Heres the first verse:
- "Peter Orszag & Larry Summers, they're fascist pigs! Fascist pigs!"
And then his mic goes dead. You can see he attempts to sing the remainder of the lyrics so that Orszag hears him. If he puts the entire song on Youtube, I'll post it later.
Strange thing is, before starting this site, I would not have found this clip particularly funny. Now having become jaded beyond comprehension, I think it's a freaking riot. Small victories, taunting the opposition, stupid songs, they all appeal to the base individual I have become.
Here's the deal with Orszag -- he's the first major Obama appointee to bolt, having announced his departure last month. This in fact was his last speech as head of OMB. Extra sweet. Orszag is a deficit hawk and when he signed on, I don't think he planned to head OMB during the greatest deficit spending splurge in our nation's history, and with his new marriage, he had an easy excuse to leave Obama and go make some cash worthy of his hot, new wife.
Video: Bianna Golodryga -- start at the 50-second mark to avoid Cramer.
Jul 29, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Reader Comments (13)
I really admire people like that guy. Civil disobedience at it's best.
If I had balls that big, I'd be stalking Bernanke with a case of Silly String.
Very, very small. So small in fact that it kinda comes across as being a NON-victory.
Instead of taking the opportunity to ask an embarrasing question or to make a shrewd critical remark, the dipshit blows it and completely discredits himself instantly by singing some stupid-ass shit.
If THIS is the best 'revolutionary tactic' that Americans intend to exhinit in trying to regain control of their government, I'd have to say you're all up Shitcreek and without a paddle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLfT6ZAZbA&feature=related
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_re_us/us_chelsea_s_wedding_security
Okay, it is Chelsea and not Bristol. I am sure that it wouldn't have made a difference to the leftist media.
The "wedding of the century" raves the Associated Press...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dYfTRnd4ww
These people are ego-maniacs (most of them are sociopaths too, but that's another story). They relish "being important" and take themselves more seriously than people like us can imagine. They're immune to hatred, anger and reason, but when they feel like a doofus (especially in front of a crowd), they lose sleep. At least that's what I think.
Orszag got a doofus's send-off. Let him slither off into the sunset knowing that he's a joke. And that come November, we're gonna send a whole lot more slithering out the door.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-29/peter-orszags-parting-shots-obamas-budget-chief-exits/?cid=bs:archive9
By MIKE WHITNEY
Increasing the money supply does nothing when interest rates are already at zero and consumers are slashing spending. Bernanke has added over $1.25 trillion to bank reserves but consumer borrowing, spending and confidence are still flat on the canvass. The problem is demand, not the volume of money. Bernanke knows what to do, but he refuses to do it. He'd rather line the pockets of bondholders, bankers and rentiers. This is from Calculated Risk:
"This report from the National League of Cities (NLC), National Association of Counties (NACo), and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) reveals that local government job losses in the current and next fiscal years will approach 500,000, with public safety, public works, public health, social services and parks and recreation hardest hit by the cutbacks.
The surveyed local governments report cutting 8.6 per cent of total full-time equivalent (FTE) positions over the previous fiscal year to the next fiscal year (roughly 2009-2011). If applied to total local government employment nationwide, an 8.6 percent cut in the workforce would mean that 481,000 local government workers were, or will be, laid off over the two-year period."
The cutbacks will ravage local governments, state revenues and public services. Emergency facilities by the Fed provided $11.4 trillion for underwater banks and non banks, but nothing for the states. The GOP is helping the Fed strangle the states by opposing additional aid for Medicare payments and unemployment benefits. Many cities and counties will be forced into bankruptcy while Goldman Sachs rakes in record profits on liquidity provided by Bernanke. It's a disaster.
The bottom line? When Wall Street is hurting, money's never a problem. But when the states are on the brink of default and 14 million workers are scrimping to feed their families, it's time for belt-tightening. Explain that to your kids.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Problem is; for every one that sluthers OUT the door, 3 more come slithering in thru the side.
I loved the look on the chic's face when she took the mic back from the guy. "You Shit Head".....you cant talk like that to my beloved "Bobble-Head" ?