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Thomas Szasz To Run Department of Health and Human Services
Ha! No, it's gonna be Tom Daschle. Or so say "two Democratic sources close to Daschle and with intimate knowledge of the decision." So you see, Obama isn't just drawing on Clinton retreads; he's reaching out to retreads from the legislative branch, too.
Comments to "Thomas Szasz To Run Department of Health and Human Services":
I saw "retread" and thought I saw something else. Guess what it was? Then I saw Daschle's name, and I saw it again.
Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:19pm | #
Maybe Obama will reach out to Bob Barr. After all, libertarians are such an important part of the American political scene that he can hardly ignore them.Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:22pm | #
Maybe Obama will give me a reacharound. Donate now!Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:22pm | #
Bob Barr Views:Pretty much the same as Ron Paul's, but without the avuncular charm or vicious racist past
Issues:
(1995–2007) Trying to control the faith, sexuality, reproduction, drug use, and national allegiance of every single American. (2007–) Aw, Fuck it.
Looks Like:
Effeminate maître d'
Role In Clinton Impeachment:
Finger-pointer
Average Time To Summarize Libertarian Philosophy To Stranger:
4 hours, 16 minutes
As President, He Pledges To:
Use his platform to apologize for things he supported as a Republican
junior | November 19, 2008, 4:25pm | #
Daschle supported the hitler youth.Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:25pm | #
[pointless, irrelevant drivel]. Donate now!Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:26pm | #
The upside of being a libertarian: you will never have to face the embarrassment of seeing a single libertarian policy implemented.PWA | November 19, 2008, 4:26pm | #
Lefiti,You should try some ritalin.
Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:28pm | #
Nah. Gives me the runs. Like right now. Maybe I'll change clothes tomorrow. But probably not.Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:28pm | #
The upside of being Lefiti: Mom says i'm special. And and she's gonna get me a puppy for Christmas!Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:30pm | #
I didn't make those posts you hot-plating bastards!Pro Libertate | November 19, 2008, 4:30pm | #
Answering the real Lefiti who probably hasn't even posted yet, if what's simple and popular governs what our politics should be, why not tear up the Constitution and declare Oprah Winfrey the God Empress of America and let her guide and nurture us into the future?Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:30pm | #
As I've stated earlier, laissez faire policies led to this current meltdown; that is why your views have always been irrelevant.Something like that.
Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:32pm | #
I am SUCH a piece of meat.Lefti | November 19, 2008, 4:37pm | #
Has anyone seen my broom?Jesse Walker | November 19, 2008, 4:39pm | #
The fake Lefitis are now officially as annoying as the real Lefiti.Citizen Nothing | November 19, 2008, 4:42pm | #
Finally it's official.Thank god.
And I'll preempt joe by defying anyone to provide a link to any statement made by Obama or his supporters during the campaign to the effect that Daschle would be a crappy head of HHS.
Episiarch | November 19, 2008, 4:46pm | #
The fake Lefitis are now officially as annoying as the real Lefiti.Aww, Jesse, they're funny. This cracked me up:
"Pretty much the same as Ron Paul's, but without the avuncular charm or vicious racist past"
John | November 19, 2008, 4:51pm | #
I think the fake Lefiti s funny to. I loved the one the other day about the Governor of South Carolina."Free market lunatic. Yesterday's man". That is funny shit.
Citizen Nothing | November 19, 2008, 4:51pm | #
I'm beginning to suspect that the "real" Lefiti hasn't posted for weeks.Xeones | November 19, 2008, 4:53pm | #
If Lefiti didn't exist, we'd have to invent... actually, no. We wouldn't.The spoofs are as content-free as as the original. If the objection is content-free insults, just ban the annoying little momma's boy and be done with it. If not, I say this is libertarian social ostracism at its finest.
J sub D | November 19, 2008, 4:58pm | #
Re: Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:30pm | #Love that E-mail address. Kudos to whoever did it.
Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:58pm | #
I'm not annoying.robc | November 19, 2008, 4:59pm | #
So, if you had been in a coma the last 12 months and woke up and saw the admin picks, wouldnt your first reponse be "Huh, I wonder who Hillary beat in the general?"Pro Libertate | November 19, 2008, 4:59pm | #
My only problem is that the spoofs happen more than the real postings. It's a Lefiti-a-thon. If I want to read one guy posting more than everyone else combined in a thread, I'll read one where joe's getting all defensive about being called a partisan.Gilbert Martin | November 19, 2008, 5:00pm | #
There should never have been a department of health and human services to begin with.robc | November 19, 2008, 5:00pm | #
Pro Lib,I'll read one where joe's getting all defensive about being called a partisan.
There is a fresh one, made earlier today.
John | November 19, 2008, 5:03pm | #
"If I want to read one guy posting more than everyone else combined in a thread, I'll read one where joe's getting all defensive about being called a partisan."You made me spit coffee out of my nose on that one. Joe is not a partisian. It is not his fault Democrats don't ever do anything wrong and are right about everything.
Warfiti | November 19, 2008, 5:04pm | #
May I have your attention please?May I have your attention please?
Will the real Lefiti please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Lefiti please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here..
Y'all act like you never seen a troll blogger before
Jaws all on the floor like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the door
and started whoopin her ass worse than before
they first were divorce, throwin her over furniture (Ahh!)
It's the return of the... "Ah, wait, no way, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?"
And Dr. Dre said... nothing you idiots!
Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)
Feminist women love Eminem
[*vocal turntable: chigga chigga chigga*]
"Lefiti, I'm sick of him
Look at him, walkin around grabbin his you-know-what
Flippin the you-know-who," "Yeah, but he's so cute though!"
Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
But no worse, than what's goin on in your parents' bedrooms
Sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't
but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
"My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips"
And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
Of course they gonna know what intercourse is
By the time they hit fourth grade
They got the Discovery Channel don't they?
"We ain't nothing but mammals.." Well, some of us cannibals
who cut other people open like cantaloupes [SLURP]
But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
[*EWWW!*] But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote
Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goes
[Chorus: Eminem (repeat 2X)]
'Cause I'm Lefiti, yes I'm the real fiti
All you other Lefitis are just imitating
So won't the real Lefiti please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?
[Eminem]
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records;
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
You think I give a damn about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?"
Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here?
So you can, sit me here next to Britney Spears?
Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs
so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
and hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first
You little bitch, put me on blast on MTV
"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!"
I should download her audio on MP3
and show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD [AHHH!]
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me
so I have been sent here to destroy you [bzzzt]
And there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing but not quite me!
[Chorus]
[Eminem]
I'm like a head trip to listen to, cause I'm only givin you
things you joke about with your friends inside your living room
The only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of y'all and I don't gotta be false or sugarcoated at all
I just get on the mic and spit it
and whether you like to admit it [*ERR*] I just shit it
better than ninety percent of you rappers out can
Then you wonder how can kids eat up these albums like valiums
It's funny; cause at the rate I'm goin when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursin home flirting
Pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with Jergens
And I'm jerkin but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working
And every single person is a Lefiti lurkin
He could be workin at Burger King, spittin on your onion rings
[*HACH*] Or in the parkin lot, circling
Screaming "I don't give a fuck!"
with his windows down and his system up
So, will the real Fiti please stand up?
And put one of those fingers on each hand up?
And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?
[Chorus 4X]
[Eminem]
Ha ha
Guess there's a Lefiti in all of us
Fuck it, let's all stand up
Episiarch | November 19, 2008, 5:04pm | #
I'll read one where joe's getting all defensive about being called a partisan.There is a fresh one, made earlier today.
And the best part is that no one called him a partisan (at least I didn't). He went right there automatically.
No. It was me that set him off. I said that the only reason the people at the weekly standard think appointing Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State is a good idea is because they will have so much fun watching people like Joe try and defend it. Shortly after he went bizerk and accused me of being a hack.
T | November 19, 2008, 5:08pm | #
And the best part is that no one called him a partisan (at least I didn't).You were using a code word, I bet. So you called him a partisan and didn't even know it.
Episiarch | November 19, 2008, 5:11pm | #
I thought about it, maybe thats what set him off.I don't think your Jedi mind tricks work on joe. John is probably right and can take credit for it.
You were using a code word, I bet. So you called him a partisan and didn't even know it.
Is that code word "joe"?
BDB | November 19, 2008, 5:11pm | #
Daschle is such a pussy. This is the guy Obama wants to get through his health care plan? He better be careful about pushing Republicans out of their "comfort zones" as he once said as the minority leader. Howard Dean would have been much scarier to Republicans than Daschle.John | November 19, 2008, 5:14pm | #
BDB,It is not about convincing Republicans. It is aobut dealing with all the Democrats who are from republican leaning districts to buy onto socialized medicine. That and giving out of work loser politicians somewhere to work.
BDB | November 19, 2008, 5:17pm | #
"It is aobut dealing with all the Democrats who are from republican leaning districts to buy onto socialized medicine."By nominating a guy who lost his Senate seat in a Republican-leaning state? That's not entirely convincing, lol. Anyway I bet the nutroots goes crazy over the fact it wasn't Dean.
voxpo | November 19, 2008, 5:17pm | #
Lefiti | November 19, 2008, 4:26pm | #The upside of being a libertarian: you will never have to face the embarrassment of seeing a single libertarian policy implemented.
We still have the draft?
BDB | November 19, 2008, 5:20pm | #
" you will never have to face the embarrassment of seeing a single libertarian policy implemented."Welfare reform. And nobody seriously believes in things like wage and price controls anymore.
Pro Libertate | November 19, 2008, 5:25pm | #
And nobody seriously believes in things like wage and price controls anymore.BDB,
Don't bet too much on that. Especially if the recession gets very deep and/or prolonged.
BDB | November 19, 2008, 5:30pm | #
Jesus, Pro L, have a little optimism. Don't people remember who those things really fucked us over in the 70s?MAX HATS | November 19, 2008, 5:32pm | #
I don't get it. Who is Obama supposed to hire? "Change," to me, didn't mean staffing inexperienced people to do odd things. That sounds more like disaster, and if I ever really believed that would happen I would have voted differently. No, to me "change" means "not being completely bugfuck crazy." Asking the dangerous questions that had fallen out of fashion in our eight years of complete insanity. Questions like:"What if we don't invade Iran?"
"What if we treat our allies with basic respect?"
"What if we staff based on competence, rather than personal loyalty?"
"What if we don't seek to make permanent deficits structural?"
I'm definitely not saying I like every appointment. Far from. I just don't see the problem with this one. He's a retread? Oh no! Come on.
BDB | November 19, 2008, 5:34pm | #
MAX HATS--Here are still liberal yet more Change-y appointments:
Sec. of State: Bill Richardson
Attorney General: Tim Kaine
HHS: Howard Dean
Notice the only Clintonite in there endorsed Obama early on.
SIV | November 19, 2008, 5:34pm | #
Don't bet too much on that.
I'd say betting on wage and price controls is a sure thing.
Wonks Anonymous | November 19, 2008, 5:35pm | #
More libertarian policies that were implemented:The decision not to regulate Credit Default Swaps.
The repeal of Glass Steagal a.k.a. depression era banking regulation.
Take credit when credit is due people!
Pro Libertate | November 19, 2008, 5:38pm | #
BDB,Mit der Dummheit kämpfen die Götter selbst vergebens.
Actually, I am optimistic. I'm optimistic that whatever stupidity occurs in the next few years, we'll have enough common sense to overcome it and remain, generally, successful. Probably with some crazy technological innovation that will subdue the world into awe. Or not.
MAX HATS,
Clinton didn't appoint a bunch of Carter-era officials.
SIV | November 19, 2008, 5:40pm | #
Thanks for the gratuitous Szasz reference.I'm sure it pissed somebody off again.
That is almost as good as a substantive Szasz reference.
Nemo | November 19, 2008, 6:38pm | #
What's with the Szasz obsession lately?Reason be a strange creature.
Pro Libertate | November 19, 2008, 6:59pm | #
Come now, Szasz is a fun name to type and say. Szasz right, it is.SIV | November 19, 2008, 7:02pm | #
Szasz is still on the masthead of the print edition I believe. I think it was his content that lead me to buy my first REASON issue off the newsstand. I'd rank him up there with the Austrian economists in the libertarian Pantheon.Jerry | November 19, 2008, 7:07pm | #
Hillary Clinton must have some real dirt on Obama looking at those cronies getting cabinet positions. And poor Bill ain't gonna get his divorce.Pac | November 19, 2008, 7:26pm | #
DO they mean the szasz villain from Batmancunnivore | November 19, 2008, 8:57pm | #
It could be worse. He could be considering Robert Reich for Secy of Labor.Neu Mejican | November 20, 2008, 10:35am | #
John | November 19, 2008, 5:07pm | #No. It was me that set him off....Shortly after he went bizerk and accused me of being a hack.
But John, you are a hack...perhaps the most partisan poster on h&r. No?
SIV | November 19, 2008, 5:40pm | #
Thanks for the gratuitous Szasz reference.
I'm sure it pissed somebody off again.
That is almost as good as a substantive Szasz reference.
This is the first appropriate Szasz reference they have used given that they used him as a punchline.
;^)
Szasz is still on the masthead of the print edition I believe. I think it was his content that lead me to buy my first REASON issue off the newsstand. I'd rank him up there with the Austrian economists in the libertarian Pantheon.
Says a lot.
Dripping with irony.
On a tangent | November 20, 2008, 10:45am | #
Schizophrenia is a divergence of idios kosmos from koinos kosmos within the perception system of an individual. This divergence, induced by dehumanizing institutions and isolation, causes a feedback loop in which the schizophrenic is further isolated due to his inability to communicate the radically different idios kosmos that he percieves, thus exacerbates his schizophrenia, ad infinitum.The extremely idiosyncratic idios kosmos of the schizophrenic might be closer to reality than the idios kosmos of the well-adjusted individual. The reality being a universe without the mediation of time and without percieved causality. The schizophrenic "gets it all at once". This experience is difficult to cope with and even understand.
This "overperception" and the consequential breakdown of the naming process that is key to uderstanding is what makes it difficult if not impossible to communicate the schizophrenic's idios kosmos to others.
Bill Norton | November 20, 2008, 11:01am | #
"Thomas Szasz To Run Department of Health and Human Services -- Libertarians to be discredited for the Next Century"
