Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Why liberals cannot win arguments with conservatives
Read the article on Huffington Post after the click.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
New Word: Republizombie
Republizombie (re-PUB-li-zom-bee) (n)
1. Former GOP office-holder, now undead, unkillable; see Palin, S.; Cheney, D; Delay, T.; Armey, D.; Gingrich, N. A flesh-eater, the Republizombie counter-intuitively eats the flesh of other GOP; see 23rd Congressional District, NY.
2. Former relative of a former GOP office-holder, such as the former fiance of the daughter of a former Governor; like the other Republizombies, the second-tier Republizombie is seemingly ubiquitous, appearing on The Today Show, Tyra, and naked in Playgirl.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Republicans believe strongly in property rights
Chris Christie Rips Off Monty Python, Risks Copyright Infringement
Jackson Brown v. John McCain
Heart to Sarah Palin: Quit Playing 'Barracuda'
Aerosmith to House GOP: Don't Use Our Song
Satire, Parody, and Copyright: Republican Govs Ape NYT’s Format netting a cease and desist order.
Dont' Worry, Be Happy: The song was used in George H. W. Bush's 1988 U.S. presidential election campaign until McFerrin, who was a Democrat, objected and the campaign desisted.
I guess it's always easier to
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Anthony Weiner Points Out the Hypocrisy of Members of Congress on Medicare but Against the Public Option
Included on Weiner’s list are anti-public option crusaders Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), and Rep. Peter King (R-NY).
From a C-SPAN interview:
WEINER: Well it’s more kind of another way of looking at this debate, this discussion about the public option, to put it in focus. We went, just out of curiosity, looked at how many members of Congress get the public option. And I know a lot of people have said, “Well under the new bill, how many of you members of Congress would choose the public option?”
Well there already is one; it’s called Medicare. And we found that 55 Republicans and 151 members of Congress are on Medicare right now. So they’re already getting the same type of public option that we’d like people who are without insurance to be able to get. And I guess the purpose of this list was to kind of point out some of the hypocrisy of this debate.
You have members of Congress thumping their chest how they’re against government health care, against government control of health care, socialized medicine and yet when it’s time for them to accept Medicare, they’re like, ‘Sign me up!’
Source: Crooks and LiarsMy comment: You were elected to represent ... THE PEOPLE!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Why do Republicans love them some rapists?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Rape-Nuts | ||||
| www.thedailyshow.com | ||||
| ||||
Or catch the video HERE after the click ...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Could it be what they call "projection" in psychology?
However, the same cannot be said for those on the right:
Ensign's "C Street House" Owned By Group Touting Plans For Christian World Control
Most recently covered by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (1, 2), Washington D.C.'s "C Street House" has over the past two weeks become the center of a media firestorm. Along with GOP Senator Tom Coburn, sex-scandal embroiled GOP leaders Senator John Ensign and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford have been tied to the row house, assessed to be worth 1.84 million dollars, which is registered as a church and provides Washington politicians with substantially lower than market rate rent. Coburn and Ensign have lived at the C Street house, while Sanford has participated in its Bible study group.
According to the Washington Post the house is owned by Youth With a Mission D.C. Youth With a Mission is one of the most extensive Christian fundamentalist para-church organizations on Earth, and YWAM founder leader Loren Cunningham has publicly outlined a vision for Christian world-control.
... read the rest after the click.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Asking people who know ...
President Obama’s stand, I think, has been the most sensible, and it’s amazing that the President of the United States is taking such a sensible stand. And that — everyone I’ve talked to in Iran has said the same thing, that we do not need any symbol of Western, especially American, interference in Iran’s internal politics. And the fact that America does not have diplomatic relations with Iran really ties its hand, as far as how far he can go in really supporting Iran. So the only thing they can do is to just scream as loud as they can, which will be immediately used by the Iranian authorities.
... get the whole story after the click.
My comment: It's interesting how the people with the least credibility on a topic are often the loudest voices. McCain said during the campaign that the economy was not his strong suit ... then he proved it. He claimed foreign affairs was his strength yet his approach is that of a fighter pilot as opposed to a global strategist. Why do these people get air time after they've been discredited time and time again?
Virtually every interview I've heard with Iranians states unequivocally the the American right is not being helpful ... yet Republicans persist in trying to make political points here at home at the expense of our national interests.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Republican Fiscal Conservatives in Action
My comment: When ever they say anything, you can count on the truth being the exact opposite. ... and you can take that to the bank!
Fiscal Conservatism appears to mean "borrow yourself wealthy!"
Please forgive me if I seem a little cynical!
Friday, February 13, 2009
Party First or Country First?
"When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today," said Specter, "one of my colleagues said, 'Arlen, I'm proud of you.' My Republican colleague said, 'Arlen, I'm proud of you.' I said, 'Are you going to vote with me?' And he said, 'No, I might have a primary.' And I said, 'Well, you know very well I'm going to have a primary.'"
... read the rest after the click.
My comment: In our two party system of government, some people are able to put the country first. Others feel they have to put party before country. I wonder how that's going to play in Peoria.
... and then there's this by John Ridley:
The Republican Bipartisan Myth
Shangri-la and Brigadoon and Bipartisan. Three mythical places. One of which few Republicans have seemingly ever heard. Because if there is one thing we can take from the first weeks of the "New" Washington, it's that the (liberal) Democrats are incompetent (old news, really) and the Republicans are disingenuous when it comes to bipartisanship. Oh, sure, they talk up the swellness of President Obama every chance they get. And will continue to do so as long as his approval numbers are above fifty percent. But most GOPers tend to become like children who dance hysterically in a sandbox when it comes time to play with others.
Despite all the sit-downs Obama had with the Republicans -- apparently too many for Speaker Pelosi's tastes -- and despite the fact that the House version of the Stimulus Bill contained specific tax breaks for which the Republicans had asked -- though not to the degree they wished -- not a single GOPer would break ranks, step up and vote for the bill. A surprisingly "my way or the highway" attitude for the minority party whose eight years of good cogitating was a major factor in whipping America into the stellar fiscal shape we find ourselves.
... read the rest of this one after the click.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
There are consequences ...
The president of the peanut company linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak serves on an industry advisory board that helps the U.S. Department of Agriculture set quality standards for peanuts.
Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corp. of America, based in Lynchburg, Va., was first appointed to the USDA’s Peanut Standards Board in July 2005 and was reappointed in October for a second term that runs until June 2011, according to the USDA.
... read the rest on AJC (Atlanta Journal Constitution) after the click.
Republicans: Spare Me Your Newfound "Fiscal Responsibility"
At his press conference on Monday, President Barack Obama had to remind Mara Liasson of Fox News and NPR that it was the Republicans who doubled the national debt over the past eight years and it's a little strange to be hearing lectures from them now about how to be fiscally responsible. That interchange was my favorite part of the press conference. A savvy inside-the-Beltway reporter of Ms. Liasson's caliber shouldn't have to be reminded that George W. Bush and the Republican Congress were among the most fiscally reckless politicians in U.S. history.
The most inexcusable action the Republican Congress and the Bush administration took vis-Ã -vis the federal budget was to launch two wars and two open-ended occupations without raising one dime in revenues to pay for them. Never in the history of this country has an administration and Congress cut taxes while launching open-ended wars.
... read the rest on Huffington Post after the click.
My comment: A new found sense of fiscal responsibility; a new found desire for bipartisanship ... but the same old sense of social responsibility. Party first, nation second, but wave the flag and accuse everyone in sight of being unpatriotic. You can ignore the plight of the unemployed, and the recently homeless among us as long as you wear a flag pin. Conservative economists be damned! Who cares if they say tax cuts won't do the trick ... go for the tax cuts. After all, its bought votes in the past. No reason to think it won't work now.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Republicanism Explained
In the last few months, as the scavengers have picked at the carcass of the Republican party, I've heard a lot of people talk about what "conservatism" means. Most recently, the New York Times saw fit to address the issue in this waste of virtual space.
Well, I can't definitively say what "conservatism" means. I possess no advanced degrees, am not a philosopher, and have almost no knowledge of political science.
However.
I can tell you what Republicanism means, and that, I think, is a more germane issue. As I'm sure you've noticed, we don't have a "Conservative" party on our ballots. No. We have a "Republican" one. So figuring out what they stand for seems to be a much more useful endeavor than attempting to define "conservatism."
Well, I've done a lot of observing and thinking, and it seems to me that the Republican party stands for two things.
- Tax cuts are the cure for everything, including the common cold.
- Fuck you.
And that's pretty much it. All of the shit that the Republicans do flows from those two points.
... more from First Draft after the click.
The Evil of Banality
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's fulminations on the Senate floor last Friday were a sight to behold. He denounced President Barack Obama for being "A.W.O.L." on providing leadership for his economic stimulus bill and theatrically concluded: "This bill stinks. The process that's led to this bill stinks. If this is a new way of doing business, if this is the change we can all believe in, America's best days are behind her!" Graham then made his usual rounds on corporate media repeating his "it stinks" tag line. When I caught a snippet of Graham's dramatic soliloquy it led me to wonder to what constituency is he speaking? Could it be the people who live in those counties in South Carolina where unemployment is now 20 percent? Or was Graham just channeling the sentiments of the beleaguered white men of his state?
... read the rest of it after the click.
and then there's this ...
Sixty-seven percent of the American people approve of how President Obama's handling his efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, as opposed to 48% for Democrats in Congress and 31% for congressional Republicans.
... more after the click.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Some of the stimulus the Republicans can't get behind ...
- A billion dollars extra for the 2010 U.S. Census, which is going to pay good money to many jobless people in every American town — and shore up Lockheed-Martin, which is getting $500 million to build the data systems and run the machinery.
- $75 million for FBI employee salaries, because why would you want to pay America’s top cops to do law enforcement and investigations, in America?
- $500 million for Mississippi River flood control projects, which would employ thousands of laborers and keep dozens of construction companies in business, because nothing makes Republicans happier than seeing a Katrina repeat on the teevee every other hurricane season.
- $200 million for green vehicles on U.S. military bases and $600 million to replace the federal fleet of cars with hybrids, because only a gay communist could see the economic benefits of $800 billion in sales for U.S. auto manufacturers while simultaneously cutting the government’s gasoline bill by billions per year.
- $1.4 billion for rural garbage-disposal and recycling programs, because who but an Islamo-Fascist would want to provide much-needed jobs for the Red State countryside while keeping toxic garbage out of those people’s drinking water?
- $125 million to rebuild the broken, rotten, third-world sewer system of our Nation’s Capital. You give the blacks this, and who knows what they’ll want next! And by “give,” we mean “pay a decent wage to laborers in D.C., to rebuild their sewers.”
- $6 billion to pay dozens of big regional contractors, hundreds of local businesses and tens of thousands of American workers to retrofit federal buildings so that they’ll be energy efficient.
- $200 million for computer centers at community colleges, because if poor unskilled workers want to “learn the computer,” they should just go to Stanford instead of complaining.
But the Bush tax cuts for the people who need them least? They gotta stay!
Monday, February 02, 2009
Wake Up, White People!
... more of the story on Pam's House Blend ... An On Line Magazine in the Reality Based Community ... after the click.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Party Identification
The Gallop organization (they do polls, right?) has some interesting things to say about the current state of party identification in the United States. I'm thinking that Republican House members (probably Senators, too) oughta call home. There have been some changes back on the ranch ...
... more from Gallop after the click.
What I find really knee-slapping funny it how much the new party affiliation map resembles the "Born Again" post-Rapture map that was making the rounds when Mitt Romney, a wealthy Mormon who raised questions among the Evangelical right, was still imaging he had a shot at the presidency in a Born Again America.
Maybe there's something to that "End of Times" stuff!
More de ja vous all over again ...
Say you belonged to a charitable organization, and you and your friends were appointed to the steering committee for a big fund raiser, so you chose to have a combination bake sale and casino night. And let's say that you scheduled it on the same night as the town's homecoming football game, so nearly nobody showed up, and the peanut butter cookies in the bake sale gave the few guests that did visit salmonella. Oh, and let's say that in setting up the casino equipment, you accidentally cut off the electricity for the entire block. When the time rolled around the next year for the annual fund raiser, would you stand up and advocate a salmonella bake sale held on the same night as the big game? Of course not. You'd sit down, shut up, and wait for someone else to come up with a new idea. Even if you thought a bake sale/casino night could work under the right circumstances, you would probably be able to figure out that having overseen a colossal failure, the timing might not be right for you to pitch the same idea again.
Unless, apparently, you are a Republican member of the House.
... more from Mitchell Bard after the click.
Wanna know why you think what your think?
... more on Crooks and Liars after the click.
Hint: You think what you think because you watch television.