madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time

[boutons_deux]

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/republicancrazy.jpg

Chaos Looms

Is economic/political commentary like writing detective stories? In some ways, I think, it is; certainly I have always taken to heart some passages in Raymond Chandler’s The Simple Art of Murder (http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/chandlerart.html), especially the passage in which he distinguishes between the inherent importance of themes and the extent to which they are a good subject for writers:

Other things being equal, which they never are, a more powerful theme will provoke a more powerful performance. Yet some very dull books have been written about God, and some very fine ones about how to make a living and stay fairly honest.


Right now, if inherent importance were all that mattered, I wouldn’t be writing about the effects of sprawl, or the Fed succession, or even, probably, about China’s brick-wall problem. I would instead be writing all the time about the looming chaos in U.S. governance.

In the short run the point is that

Republican leaders are about to reap the whirlwind, because they haven’t had the courage to tell the base that Obamacare is here to stay, that the sequester is in fact intolerable, and that in general they have at least for now lost the war over the shape of American society.

As a result, we’re looking at many drama-filled months, with a high probability of government shutdowns and even debt defaults.

Over the longer run the point is that one of America’s two major political parties has basically gone off the deep end; policy content aside, a sane party doesn’t hold dozens of votes declaring its intention to repeal a law that everyone knows will stay on the books regardless. And since that party continues to hold substantial blocking power, we are looking at a country that’s increasingly ungovernable.

The trouble is that it’s hard to give this issue anything like the amount of coverage it deserves on substantive grounds without repeating oneself. So I do try to mix it up. But neither you nor I should forget that the madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time.

While I’m at it, a note to loyal readers: I know that my output has been a bit low this week; that’s because of family matters that among other things have me on the road. My guess is no posts at all tomorrow, unless traffic is a lot less severe than I expect. Normalcy should return next week.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/chaos-looms/?_r=1

House Repugs, wrapping up important business before summer vacation, squeezed in their 40TH failed repeal of ACA. :lol

Will Cruz and accomplices shut down government if ACA isn't defuned, repealed? Cruz wouldn't reap that whirlwind because TX bubba assholes will vote him in again.

[AntiChrist]

Lol Krugman

[angrydude]

WE NEED AN ALIEN INVASION TO SAVE THE ECONOMY!!!

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Republicans Against Reality

Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time (http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/02/19835524-recess-bound-house-votes-to-gut-obama-health-care-law-for-40th-time?lite) to repeal Obamacare. Like the previous 39 votes, this action will have no effect whatsoever. But it was a stand-in for what Republicans really want to do: repeal reality, and the laws of arithmetic in particular. The sad truth is that the modern G.O.P. is lost in fantasy, unable to participate in actual governing.

Just to be clear, I’m not talking about policy substance. I may believe that Republicans have their priorities all wrong, but that’s not the issue here. Instead, I’m talking about their apparent inability to accept very basic reality constraints, like the fact that you can’t cut overall spending without cutting spending on particular programs, or the fact that voting to repeal legislation doesn’t change the law when the other party controls the Senate and the White House.

Am I exaggerating? Consider what went down in Congress last week.

First, House leaders had to cancel planned voting on a transportation bill (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/republican-no-shows-in-the-budget-wars.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&), because not enough representatives were willing to vote for the bill’s steep spending cuts. Now, just a few months ago House Republicans approved an extreme austerity budget, mandating severe overall cuts in federal spending — and each specific bill will have to involve large cuts in order to meet that target. But it turned out that a significant number of representatives, while willing to vote for huge spending cuts as long as there weren’t any specifics, balked at the details. Don’t cut you, don’t cut me, cut that fellow behind the tree.


Then House leaders announced plans to hold a vote cutting spending on food stamps (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/politics/gop-push-to-slash-food-stamps-puts-farm-bill-in-jeopardy.html) in half — a demand that is likely to sink the already struggling effort to agree with the Senate on a farm bill.

Then they held the pointless vote on Obamacare, apparently just to make themselves feel better. (It’s curious how comforting they find the idea of denying health care to millions of Americans.) And then they went home for recess, even though the end of the fiscal year is looming and hardly any of the legislation needed to run the federal government has passed.

In other words, Republicans, confronted with the responsibilities of governing, essentially threw a tantrum, then ran off to sulk.

How did the G.O.P. get to this point? On budget issues, the proximate source of the party’s troubles lies in the decision to turn the formulation of fiscal policy over to a con man. Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, has always been a magic-asterisk kind of guy — someone who makes big claims about having a plan to slash deficits but refuses to spell out any of the all-important details. Back in 2011 the Congressional Budget Office, in evaluating one of Mr. Ryan’s plans (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/22085), came close to open sarcasm; it described the extreme spending cuts Mr. Ryan was assuming, then remarked, tersely, “No proposals were specified that would generate that path.”

What’s happening now is that the G.O.P. is trying to convert Mr. Ryan’s big talk into actual legislation — and is finding, unsurprisingly, that it can’t be done. Yet Republicans aren’t willing to face up to that reality. Instead, they’re just running away.

When it comes to fiscal policy, then, Republicans have fallen victim to their own con game. And I would argue that something similar explains how the party lost its way, not just on fiscal policy, but on everything.

Think of it this way: For a long time the Republican establishment got its way by playing a con game with the party’s base. Voters would be mobilized as soldiers in an ideological crusade, fired up by warnings that liberals were going to turn the country over to gay married terrorists, not to mention taking your hard-earned dollars and giving them to Those People. Then, once the election was over, the establishment would get on with its real priorities — deregulation and lower taxes on the wealthy.

:lol Paul nailed it, as I have so many times! :lol

At this point, however, the establishment has lost control. Meanwhile, base voters actually believe the stories they were told — for example, that the government is spending vast sums on things that are a complete waste or at any rate don’t do anything for people like them. (Don’t let the government get its hands on Medicare!)

And the party establishment can’t get the base to accept fiscal or political reality without, in effect, admitting to those base voters that they were lied to.

The result is what we see now in the House: a party that, as I said, seems unable to participate in even the most basic processes of governing.

What makes this frightening is that Republicans do, in fact, have a majority in the House, so America can’t be governed at all unless a sufficient number of those House Republicans are willing to face reality. And that quorum of reasonable Republicans may not exist.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/opinion/krugman-republicans-against-reality.html

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This NOT an Onion article

House GOP Weighs Defunding ACORN In 13th Vote To Block Funds To Defunct Organization

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1277206/thumbs/r-BOEHNER-CANTOR-large570.jpg?6


When House GOP leaders abruptly shelved (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/house-republican-budget_n_3684582.html) a bill to fund standard federal transportation and housing programs last Wednesday, one of the legislation's few uncontroversial provisions was a section banning funds for the anti-poverty group ACORN. Had Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) been able to pass the bill, it would have marked the 13th time that Republicans have voted to block federal funding for ACORN since the GOP took over the lower chamber in 2011.

Oddly, however, ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, does not exist. And it did not exist at any time when the House GOP has held a vote on ACORN's access to government monies -- the group disbanded in the spring of 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/acorn-disbanding-embattle_n_508893.html).

Just why, exactly, the House GOP keeps voting to ban funding for an organization that was extinguished more than three years ago remains something of a mystery, and the subject of Democratic ridicule.

"Word is the majority will also prohibit foreign aid to the Ottoman Empire this year," a Democratic congressional aide snarked to HuffPost. (Like ACORN, the Ottoman Empire does not exist.)

"Thirteen votes to defund a program that no longer exists. Forty votes to repeal a health care law that is transforming millions of lives," said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), comparing the anti-ACORN legislation to the House GOP's routine votes to repeal Obamacare. "If their agenda is to do nothing on a timeline of never, they're setting record pace."

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declined to comment on the ACORN legislation and directed questions to Jennifer Hing, spokeswoman for the GOP majority on the House Appropriations Committee. Hing has repeatedly (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/acorn-gop-budget-bill_n_2810345.html) told HuffPost that the defunding of ACORN is a "standard provision (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/defund-acorn_n_3384060.html)" that goes into most appropriations bills (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/house-gop-acorn_n_3672557.html?1375133611).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/gop-acorn-defunding_n_3690753.html

:lol

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BOEHNER URGES REPUBLICANS TO REST UP FOR MEANINGLESS VOTES AHEAD


As House Republicans began their five-week summer vacation, their leader, House Speaker John Boehner, urged them to rest up for “the many symbolic and meaningless votes that lie ahead.”


Mr. Boehner, while congratulating his colleagues on having voted to repeal Obamacare forty times, reminded his fellow-Republicans that their work is “far from over.”

“I want you to come back from vacation rested and refreshed, because we’ve got another year of futile, time-wasting votes to cast,” he said. “Only the strong will survive.”

According to Mr. Boehner, this year’s gruelling schedule of fake-repeal votes had been the G.O.P.’s “most physically punishing ever.”
Noting that the exhausting ordeal of frequent, pointless Obamacare votes had transformed his fellow House Republicans into hollowed-out husks of their former selves, the Speaker observed, “Purely symbolic voting may be even more exhausting than actual work.”

“It’s true that voting to repeal Obamacare has cost the American taxpayer over fifty million dollars,” he said. “But that’s nothing compared to the toll it’s taken on us.”

For his part, Mr. Boehner said he intends to spend August at the beach, as he always does, fruitlessly trying to change the rules of volleyball.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/08/boehner-urges-republicans-to-rest-up-for-meaningless-votes-ahead.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(157)

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Cantor: We'll totally keep government running, if you give up Medicare and Social Security (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/05/1227548/-Cantor-We-ll-totally-keep-government-running-as-long-as-you-give-up-Medicare-and-Social-nbsp-Secur)
http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/4964/large/eric-cantor-speaking.jpg?1346769633

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) suggested on Sunday that Republicans could be open to a deal on the sequester if it includes cuts to entitlement programs.
“What we need to have happen is leadership on the part of this president and the White House, to come to the table finally and say 'we're going to fix the underlying problem that's driving our deficit,'" Cantor said on "Fox News Sunday." "We know that is the entitlement programs and the unfunded liability that they are leaving on this generation and the next." [...]

"This fall is going to give us a great opportunity, I think, to all come together and try and tackle the real problem, which is the entitlements,” Cantor said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/05/1227548/-Cantor-We-ll-totally-keep-government-running-as-long-as-you-give-up-Medicare-and-Social-nbsp-Secur?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

"the real problem, which is the entitlements"

He lies, naturally as would any wealthy 1%er Repug fucking the 99%.

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Cruz: A Government Shut Down Is No Big Deal Because It Happens Every Weekend


Tea Party members of Congress like Sen. Ted Cruz are threatening to shut down the federal government in an effort to defund health care reform while, simultaneously, attempting to place the blame (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/ted-cruz-why-is-president-obama-threatening-to-shut-down-the-federal-government/) for any such shut down on President Obama.

Obviously, pulling that off successfully will require the creation of some pretty ingenious arguments, one of which Cruz tried out last week when he was interviewed on Newsmax TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acL1OKrkkbg) where he asserted that the term "shut down is a misnomer; what it in fact is is a partial, temporary shut down" where "nonessential government functions are temporarily suspended.

"Now that's inconvenient," Cruz admitted (http://youtu.be/YojKugFDzNk), before adding "but we actually see that every single week on the weekends":

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cruz-government-shut-down-no-big-deal-because-it-happens-every-weekend#sthash.y3qVmNHR.dpuf

and TX ignorant, simplistic bubbas who vote Cruz take him at his word on this bullshit.

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6 of the Nuttiest Right-Wing Statements Just from this Week Alone

With Congress taking its summer break, Tea Partiers and other kooks were saying some of the nuttiest things we have ever heard. With straight faces!


1. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL): Obama’s tax on tanning beds is racist

2. Rick Santorum: Liberals Make It Uncomfortable to Shower at the YMCA

3. Rep. Louie Gohmert: Brags about having ‘duct-taped’ a defendant’s head, then later in the week manages to blend his Islamaphobia with his anti-Latino racism.

4. Rep. Steve King: Global Warming is more of a religion than a science.

5. Mike Huckabee: For your weekly dose of Islamophobia

6. Pat Robertson’s Sanity is In Grave Doubt
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/6-nuttiest-right-wing-statements-just-week-alone?akid=10787.187590.bj2RYz&rd=1&src=newsletter881056&t=3&paging=off

NOTHING on the non-right compares with these assholes. They say this shit because they know their voters, co-religionists are equally ignorant, stupid assholes.

[jag]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the liberals in this forum wish boutons would have been aborted. They probably feel about him the way most Christians feel about the Westboro Baptist church.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the liberals in this forum wish boutons would have been aborted. They probably feel about him the way most Christians feel about the Westboro Baptist church.

on your knees and take your bitch slapping like a little bitch

[scroteface]

it's funny because i'm one of like 2 conservatives on this board and none of the liberals like you

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the liberals in this forum wish boutons would have been aborted. They probably feel about him the way most Christians feel about the Westboro Baptist church.
:lol

I actually find protesting funerals of dead soldiers hilarious. The "semper-fi faggot" signs legitimately make me laugh.

[Jacob1983]

Obama is a liberal Republican and neocon.

[Rogue]

As far as I know there're 3 conservatives on this board at least: scrote, me and DMC.

[Jacob1983]

What type of a conservative? We need to have a town hall discussion on the definitions of conservative and liberal.

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Donald Trump, Louie Gohmert Make Great Case For Why GOP Should Keep People Like Them Off TV

Jonathan Karl asked Donald Trump the Important Questions, like, "Is Ted Cruz eligible to be president?" Karl knows that the answer to this question is "Yes." But Karl asked Trump because he knew it would be some Super Duper Silliness

OMGZ!

“If he was born in Canada, perhaps not,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t know the circumstances. I heard somebody told me he was born in Canada. That’s really his thing.”

And Trump's "thing" is horseshit like this, which everyone at ABC News knew to be the case the second they agreed to interview him. I promise you, no one at ABC News thought that their interview with Trump would be good for America. Interviewing Trump is the political media version of the group of people who positioned pig's blood above Carrie at the prom and then laughed in anticipation of the big joke they were about to pull, only in this case, "America" is Carrie. "HAR DE HAR, THERE'S GONNA BE PIG BLOOD EVERYWHERE!" is what the people at ABC News said when they hatched the idea of airing an interview with Donald Trump.

Right now, the GOP leadership is trying to tamp down the idea that they'd be willing to shut down the government unless they get an agreement from Democrats to defund Obamacare. At the end of last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor -- no weak-willed compromiser! -- was strongly signaling that everyone needed to take a chill pill (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/eric-cantor-gop-government-shutdown_n_3734298.html?utm_hp_ref=eat-the-press). So naturally, ABC went out and got a guy that they knew would say something like this:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think you have the votes to defund Obamacare? It doesn't appear like that's...GOHMERT: No. Not right now. But we'll see after August after people go home.


Louis, call Eric Cantor's office!

Meanwhile, over at the Meet The Press, King was on, defending his remark, "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds -- and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert." There was never a moment that Gregory gave any suggestion that resolving this weeks-old matter was important to journalism or immigration reform or anything. King was doing so, just because David Gregory wanted him to come on "Meet The Press" so that everyone could watch King flop his gob over this matter one last time.

Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist, thankfully decided that she'd heard enough. "I think Congressman King should go get himself some therapy for his melon fixation," she said. "I think there might be medication for that. I think he's a mediocre congressman who's got no legislative record, and the only time he makes national press is when he comes out and says something offensive about the undocumented or Hispanics."

Navarro went on to say that the really great thing about King is that his stupidity is "emboldening other Republicans to speak out strongly against him, people like John Boehner, like Eric Cantor, like Paul Ryan, who are not going to stand anymore for the Republican Party being defined by somebody like Steve King."

"There are other voices who are the adults in the room and who are working hard towards a reform," Navarro said, "And I think it's going to happen. I'm more optimistic than most."

Well, I appreciate the optimism, but I don't share it because it is still Steve King getting booked on Sunday Morning Teevee, not these other "adults in the room."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/donald-trump-louie-gohmert-steve-king_n_3740081.html

:lol Repugs have so many 100% asshloles, jerks, buffoons, Wild Corbras, Yonis, Snakeboys, etc, etc. :lol

Trump going birther on Cruz! :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

lol confirmation bias feed

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TB :lol

bullshitl, as always. Nothing but evidence evidence evidence, from their own fucking mouths, why the Repugs are asholes, obstructionits, racists, ideologues, etc, etc.

show evidence to contrary, iow, confirm your own Repug-sucking bias.

[TeyshaBlue]

lol op ed blogs = evidence.

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lol op ed blogs = evidence.

those are direct quotes from Repugs, not blog editorializing.

[TeyshaBlue]

Cherry picked quotes = editorializing. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. lol confirmation bias.

Partisan hackery by non-thinking sychophants is the central issue of our time.


http://www.people-press.org/2012/06/04/partisan-polarization-surges-in-bush-obama-years/

[boutons_deux]

Cherry picked quotes = editorializing. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. lol confirmation bias.

Partisan hackery by non-thinking sychophants is the central issue of our time.


http://www.people-press.org/2012/06/04/partisan-polarization-surges-in-bush-obama-years/

fuck that shit.

The quotes stand by themselves, without any need for your bullshit "context". keep trying to wiggle your asshole Repugs out of their undeniable assholeness. TB :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

fuck that shit that you didn't read. lol simpleton. keep trying to claim some kind of relevance and I'll keep bitch slapping you for it.

[TeyshaBlue]

lol boutons the shallow coward.

[Winehole23]

boutons is outraged anytime you do not pay him with a coin bearing his own image.

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GOP in a panic over Georgia primary freak show (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/12/1230712/-GOP-in-a-panic-over-Georgia-primary-clown-nbsp-show)

They're facing one more election where they should be able to regain the Senate, and they're probably going to screw it up again. Case in point, the clown show that is the Georgia Senate primary (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/316489-gop-anxiety-grows-over-georgia-senate-race).


Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious about—Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.)—leading the pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where shifting demographics benefit their party. [...]The scenario that panics Republicans is Broun winning the nomination. The Tea Party-affiliated congressman has generated controversy by calling evolution and the big bang theory “lies straight from the pit of hell” and routinely referring to President Obama as a socialist.

He has some strong support in the GOP base and sports a perfect rating with the deep-pocketed, fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which could give him a big financial boost if they decide to get involved in the race. Many think they might, especially if Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), a longtime appropriator with a more centrist record, makes the two-candidate runoff.

Meanwhile, Democrats are likely to nominate a woman, Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn. So not only do you have the possibility of Broun and Gingrey being themselves about hell and socialism, but you've got them running around doing things like defending Todd Akin (http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/01/11/16465515-some-congressmen-just-cant-help-themselves?lite) and voting against (http://boldprogressives.org/2013/03/republican-senate-candidate-paul-broun-votes-against-both-versions-of-the-violence-against-women-act/) the Violence Against Women Act. In other words, running against a a woman and acting like typical Republicans.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/12/1230712/-GOP-in-a-panic-over-Georgia-primary-clown-nbsp-show?detail=email#

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When a Political Party Goes Off the Deep End

In the short run the point is that Republican leaders are about to reap the whirlwind, because they haven't had the courage to tell their political base that the Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, is here to stay; that budget sequestration is in fact intolerable; and that in general they have at least for now lost the war over the shape of American society. As a result, we're looking at many drama-filled months, with a high probability of government shutdowns and even debt defaults.

Over the longer run the point is that one of America's two major political parties has basically gone off the deep end; policy content aside, a sane party doesn't hold dozens of votes declaring its intention to repeal a law that everyone knows will stay on the books regardless. And since that party continues to hold substantial blocking power, we are looking at a country that's increasingly ungovernable.

"That Is Cool"

Greg Sargent, a commentator at The Washington Post, recently pointed out how Senator Marco Rubio is trying to redefine the nature of budget blackmail, declaring that it's not about Republicans threatening to shut down the government unless President Obama defunds heath reform; it's about Mr. Obama threatening to shut down the government unless he gets to implement the law.

No, really.

According to Mr. Rubio: "I think the real question is: Is Barack Obama willing to shut down the government over Obamacare? In essence, I think we should pay our military. I think we should fund the government. I just don't think we should fund Obamacare. And what the president is saying is we either fund Obamacare, or we don't fund anything. And I think that's an unreasonable position. And that's the position he's taken and the Democrats have taken."

So, where have I heard that before? In Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union address in 1860, in which he spoke of slave interests declaring that they would break up the Union if Northerners voted in a Republican, which would have made secession the fault of ... anti-slavery forces: "That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' "

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18151-when-a-political-party-goes-off-the-deep-end

:lol

absolutely SHITTING in their pants :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

lol confirmation rss feed

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TB :lol

got nothing to say :lol

Your Repugs are FUCKING NUTS, own it, bitch.

[TeyshaBlue]

your rss feed tells you what to think. You're fucking nuts. own it bitch.:lmao:lmao

[TeyshaBlue]

non thinking syncophants is the issue of our time.

[Winehole23]

sycophantic hyperplasia of the cortex. how common indeed., Dr TeyshaBlue.

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big picture on Repug crazies, roused rabble, etc, etc of the "base"

GOP’s True Believers Risk Nothing By Threatening Economic Catastrophe
Recently, Moore informed readers that “[t]he biggest underreported story out of Washington this year is that the federal budget is shrinking and much more than anyone in either party expected.”
Overall federal spending that peaked at $3.598 trillion in FY2011 due largely to recession-related costs will drop to $3.45 trillion by the end of FY2013. “The $150 billion budget decline of 4 percent,” Moore writes “is the first time federal expenditures have fallen for two consecutive years since the end of the Korean War.”

Also dropping is the annual federal budget deficit (http://www.nationalmemo.com/deficit-down-by-37-6-percent-this-year-but-most-americans-think-its-growing/). Projections by the Congressional Budget Office show a $642 billion shortfall this year—less than half of the $1.3 trillion shortfall the Obama White House inherited from George W. Bush. It’s forecast to drop to $560 billion next year, and $378 billion in 2015.

Moore: “Already the deficit has fallen from its Mount Everest peak of 10.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, to about 4 percent this year. That’s a bullish six percentage points less of the GDP of new federal debt each year.”
In short, informed conservatives understand that there is no need whatsoever for a melodramatic standoff over raising the federal debt limit. No need to risk “the full faith and credit of the United States” by threatening default. Hostages need not be taken.
As in the Obamacare charade, Republican posturing on the debt would only risk catastrophe for the sake of certain defeat.

Alas, but herein lies the rub: The great majority of GOP voters out in the wilderness beyond the Hudson and the Potomac not only don’t know these facts, they’re constitutionally incapable of accepting them.

To followers of politicians like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, fears of fiscal collapse, runaway inflation and social chaos aren’t political ideas, but fixed beliefs scarcely amenable to arithmetic or reason.

And their Antichrist is Barack Obama.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/gops-true-believers-risk-nothing-by-threatening-economic-catastrophe/2/

and many of the Repug Congressional rabble rousers don't fear losing next election since they are in safe, anti-democratic, voter-suppressed states and districts.

[TeyshaBlue]

sycophantic hyperplasia of the cortex. how common indeed., Dr TeyshaBlue.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/teyshablue/Justin-Long-Idiocracy_zps463040d9.png (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/teyshablue/media/Justin-Long-Idiocracy_zps463040d9.png.html)

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Repug madness, madness everywhere

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/large/public/cartoon_weds.png

[TeyshaBlue]

Oooo...a cartoon!
non-thinking cut and pasters everywhere!
lol

[boutons_deux]

Oooo...a cartoon!
lol

TB :lol

a cartoon with relevant message, relevant to the thread, bitch slaps your "smh"

[TeyshaBlue]

The next relevant thing you cut and paste will be the first.

[TeyshaBlue]

I posted a relevant veiwpoint with a cite and you ran like a little bitch....again.:lmao

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Okie Madness, nothing new:

Oklahoma Senator Says Obama Is Close To Impeachment

Another day, another Republican pandering to the right-wing base of the party. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said at a town hall meeting (http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/22/20142926-coburn-raises-possibility-of-impeachment-at-town-hall?lite) in Muskogee, Oklahoma on Wednesday that the president is “getting perilously close” to impeachment. It’s a move that puts him in what former Pennsylvania Democratic governor Ed Rendell calls the “wacko faction (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews/vp/52822078/#52822078)” of the Republican Party.

When words like “impeachment” get thrown around, it’s important to take a step back and really understand what the Constitution says about the grounds for the action. What does a president have to do to prompt an impeachment trial? The standard is laid out in Article II, Section IV of the U.S. Constitution, which states,”The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

What are Obama’s crimes that meet this standard? For Republicans, there may be a few (http://www.salon.com/2013/05/14/which_obama_scandal_will_inevitably_lead_to_his_im peachment/) – most notably, NSA surveillance, the Benghazi “scandal,” or the IRS probe.

Of course, there’s absolutely no evidence that Obama has committed an impeachable offense. For many Republicans, however, doubt remains.

Tom Coburn, for example, admits he doesn’t even have the legal knowledge to determine if impeachment is suitable, but nonetheless thinks Obama is getting close. :lol


“I think those are serious things, but we’re in serious times,” Coburn said at the meeting.

( Says the clown from the busful of clowns! )

“And I don’t have the legal background to know if that rises to ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,’ but I think you’re getting perilously close.”

Moreover, Coburn thinks that the Obama administration is breaking the law purposefully. “I think there’s some intended violation of law in this administration, but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence,” Coburn said, adding: “I am fed up. I am frustrated. I am happy to raise an issue at every point.”

By joining the impeachment crusade, Coburn is in league with other Republicans like Texas senator Ted Cruz and congressman Blake Farenhold, and Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI).

http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-oklahoma-senator-says-obama-is-close-to-impeachment/

Repugs gonna impeach Barry on Repug/Fox-fabricated scandals? :lol

You Repug assholes keepin voting is these "mad" assholes :lol

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Gov. Paul LePage tells fellow Republicans: Obama 'hates white people' (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/20/1232570/-Gov-Paul-LePage-tells-fellow-Republicans-Obama-hates-white-people)

Gov. Paul LePage told a group of Republicans last week that President Obama "hates white people," according to two state lawmakers who say they heard the remark directly. […]

Each said LePage talked about how Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage. LePage said the president hasn't done that because he hates white people.

"Yeah, he said it," said one of the lawmakers. "It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/20/1232570/-Gov-Paul-LePage-tells-fellow-Republicans-Obama-hates-white-people?detail=email#

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Colorado Republican says fried chicken causes black and Latino poverty (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/22/1233044/-Colorado-Republican-says-fried-chicken-causes-black-and-Latino-poverty)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/45728/large/fried_chicken.jpg?1377186528

http://kdvr.com/2013/08/21/sparks-fly-after-sen-marbles-fried-chicken-comment-in-poverty-hearing/

"Look At The Big Brain On Repugs!" :lol

[spursncowboys]

:lol

I actually find protesting funerals of dead soldiers hilarious. The "semper-fi faggot" signs legitimately make me laugh.

You should have been a pillow stain.

[spursncowboys]

Ultra liberals giving advice to conservatives are the greatest most cherished type of advice conservatives should follow.

I recall Dems losing the 00 election. Then losing seats in the 02 election. Then unseen, losing seats and the presidential election in 04. No one said anything about the death of the dems. Dems never changed their game plan. Why should the repubs. They could market better. utilize technology better. Campaign, starting the day after an election, sure. But there isn't really a need to become dem lite. JMO of course.

[ElNono]

Ultra liberals giving advice to conservatives are the greatest most cherished type of advice conservatives should follow.

I recall Dems losing the 00 election. Then losing seats in the 02 election. Then unseen, losing seats and the presidential election in 04. No one said anything about the death of the dems. Dems never changed their game plan. Why should the repubs. They could market better. utilize technology better. Campaign, starting the day after an election, sure. But there isn't really a need to become dem lite. JMO of course.

Back then there was no "Tea Party" or such brand of right wing hard line so prominent either. I've read a few times it's doubtful Reagan would've made it these days, and IMO, it's right on point. I think a guy like Christie can win the election for the GOP and get the party together again, but can he win the primaries?

[spursncowboys]

Back then there was no "Tea Party" or such brand of right wing hard line so prominent either. I've read a few times it's doubtful Reagan would've made it these days, and IMO, it's right on point. I think a guy like Christie can win the election for the GOP and get the party together again, but can he win the primaries?
yeah there were. you just didn't pay attention to them because w. was the devil.
Christie was a radical right winger back then. For going after the unions and wanting to cut spending he was called an extremist by the left. Now because he gets mad at the repubs for not giving him boatloads of money in disaster relief, the dems consider him a moderate.
It's doubtful FDR, or JFK would have won the primaries. Or any open praying christian on the democrats. That kind of point, I keep hearing, seems moot. Theres no way of telling.

[ElNono]

yeah there were. you just didn't pay attention to them because w. was the devil.

Not in 00, 02 and 04. The GOP literally fractured in 2010, when the Tea Party became notorious and actually gained some Congressional seats. What you have today is the fallout from that.


Christie was a radical right winger back then. For going after the unions and wanting to cut spending he was called an extremist by the left. Now because he gets mad at the repubs for not giving him boatloads of money in disaster relief, the dems consider him a moderate.

I live in his state, so I've seen it first hand. He changed. He was the bully that barked and barked until Sandy completely humbled him. It was a turning point for him, he finally had a case in his hands where the "personal responsibility" line wouldn't cut it. People needed help bad, and it had to come from government. He softened his speech, and got shit done, even with Dems.

Make no mistake, he's still a neocon and conservative to the bone. He just has one thing clear: you need to win elections to get the power to make changes. That's why he isn't a guy that alienates demographics like Blacks and Latinos, etc.


It's doubtful FDR, or JFK would have won the primaries. Or any open praying christian on the democrats. That kind of point, I keep hearing, seems moot. Theres no way of telling.

The GOP needs to figure out who they want to be. I personally would like them to get their heads out of their asses and win a majority or a presidential election at some point because I prefer some degree of party change in government. But it's very difficult to appeal to the middle (which as the Dems they need to win elections) by sticking with the far right rhetoric. IMO, obviously.

[spursncowboys]

The GOP needs to figure out who they want to be. I personally would like them to get their heads out of their asses and win a majority or a presidential election at some point because I prefer some degree of party change in government. But it's very difficult to appeal to the middle (which as the Dems they need to win elections) by sticking with the far right rhetoric. IMO, obviously.
All the Dem rhetoric, for the most part, is from the 70's. I still think it's cyclical and will swing back.

[ElNono]

All the Dem rhetoric, for the most part, is from the 70's. I still think it's cyclical and will swing back.

The Dems have zero credibility too, that's not the problem.

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"Dems have zero credibility too"

:lol

but they hold the senate and the WH. polls shows people hold the Repugs responsible for the Congressional constipation, and the polls will be worse if Cruz shuts down govt trying to stop ACA.

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7 Outrageous and Downright Horrific Statements From the Right-Wing Fringe Just This Week


1. Justice Scalia wonders aloud if citizens should have rocket launchers.

2. Colorado legislator: Poverty higher among blacks because they eat too much chicken.

3. Fox guest says Oklahoma shooting was partly because shooters could have been aborted.

4. Bryan Fischer: Christians are the new blacks.

5. Alabama GOP candidate: “Homosexuals should stop pretending like they’re married” and Republicans must sign a pledge to make them stop doing that.

6. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO): Climate change is a conspiracy; only ‘radical environmentalists’ get grants.

7. Heritage Foundation’s Jim DeMint’s alternative to Obamacare: emergency rooms.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/7-outrageous-and-downright-horrific-statements-right-wing-fringe-just-week?paging=off

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The ‘Impeachment Store’ That Sells All Things Impeachment


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/assets_c/2013/08/impeachment-bumper-stickers-wnd-cropped-proto-custom_28.jpg


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/08/impeachment_store_wnd.php

aka, The N!gg@ Derangement Syndrome

[TeyshaBlue]

Whateves

http://mindprod.com/image/politics/impeachbush.png

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Steve King: Unemployed people are like kids trying to eat without doing chores

“See what’s happening? A hundred million Americans aren’t contributing. And yet, we’re looking out across the border and saying, let’s bring in some more people that are uneducated, unskilled. And we’re going to put them into the unskilled workforce, and somehow we’re going to increase our economy.”

Near the end of his remarks, King recalled that he had been criticized (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/16/113758/king-obama-marxist/) by “one of those left-wing mainstream media outlets” for not correcting a constituent who told him that President Barack Obama was a “Muslim and a Marxist.”

“I don’t know his religion, I don’t question that at all,” the congressman explained. “But my answer was, ‘Well, he’s at least a Marxist.’ And they didn’t criticize that part. They don’t want to go down that path.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/steve-king-unemployed-people-are-like-kids-trying-to-eat-without-doing-chores/

Fucking IOWA, what a bunch of dumbfucks and frauds, like Texas and Georgia, Confederate states, sending assholes like King, Gohmert, Cruz, Braun to Congress.

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Gun Bill in Missouri Would Test Limits in Nullifying U.S. Law

the Republican-controlled Missouri legislature is expected to enact a statute next month nullifying all federal gun laws in the state and making it a crime for federal agents to enforce them here. A Missourian arrested under federal firearm statutes would even be able to sue the arresting officer.

The law amounts to the most far-reaching states’ rights endeavor in the country, the far edge of a growing movement known as “nullification” in which a state defies federal power.

Richard G. Callahan, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, is concerned. He cited a recent joint operation (http://www.justice.gov/usao/moe/news/2013/july/vrcp.html)of federal, state and local law enforcement officials that led to 159 arrests and the seizing of 267 weapons, and noted that the measure “would have outlawed such operations, and would have made criminals out of the law enforcement officers.”

Adam Winkler, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, who follows nullification efforts nationally, said that nearly two dozen states had passed medical marijuana laws in defiance of federal restrictions. Richard Cauchi, who tracks such health legislation for the National Conference of State Legislatures, said: “Since January 2011, at least 23 states have considered bills seeking to nullify the health care law; as of mid-2013 only one state, North Dakota, had a signed law. Its language states, however, that the nullification provisions ‘likely are not authorized by the United States Constitution.' ”

What distinguishes the Missouri gun measure from the marijuana initiatives is its attempt to actually block federal enforcement by setting criminal penalties for federal agents, and prohibiting state officials from cooperating with federal efforts. That crosses the constitutional line, said Robert A. Levy, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute’s board of directors — a state cannot frustrate the federal government’s attempts to enforce its laws.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/us/missouri-gun-measure-pushes-nullification-boundary.html?from=homepage

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8 Despicable Right-Wing Statements From This Last Week Alone

1. Penn. Gov. Corbett: Gays are like children. Neither should be able to marry.

2. Joe Walsh gives absurdly racist "I have a dream” speech.

3. Laura Ingraham makes bizarre and vicious decision to feature sound of a gunshot during John Lewis’ speech.

4. Christian radio show hosts: Gays commit half of all murders.

5. Pat Robertson: Gays using 'special rings' to infect us with AIDS.

6. Liz Cheney makes Dick Cheney look liberal by opposing her own sister’s right to marry.

7. Ted Cruz' father rants insanely about Obamacare.

8. Mitch McConnell woos women voters by touting legislation he never supported.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-despicable-right-wing-statements-last-week-alone?paging=off

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Powerful Texas Republican Advocates For Seceding From The United States (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/06/2581681/texas-republican-secession/)

Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman, who is running to be the next state Attorney General, is preparing his state to secede from the United States and become an “independent nation.”

In an interview with WND, a right-wing birther hub, Smitherman argued that Texas not only has the capability to survive without the rest of the country, but is actively taking steps to prepare for that day. “Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation,” he declared. “I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity.”

From the interview (http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/texas-official-preparing-for-independence/#c2uwVppcUPGRMbvT.01):


“We are uniquely situated because we have energy resources, fossil and otherwise, and our own independent electrical grid. Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.”
Smitherman said he feels Texas officials must do what they can to prepare the state.

“This was one of my goals at the Utility Commission and it is one my goals currently as chairman of the Railroad Commission. That’s why I stress so vehemently oil and gas production, permitting turnaround times, and everything that enables the industry to produce as much as it can, as quickly as it can,” he said.



Railroad Commissioner is not a ceremonial position in Texas. Smitherman is charge of regulating the state’s energy industry, including oil, gas, coal, and other minerals. (Fun fact: the Railroad Commission no longer regulates Texas’ railroads.) And the fact that Smitherman could soon be the state’s Attorney General, a springboard for the governorship, makes his secessionist tendencies all the more alarming.

Smitherman’s not the highest-profile Texas Republican to openly ponder secession. That honor goes to Gov. Rick Perry (R), who told (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/04/15/37587/perry-texas-secession/) reporters in 2009 that Texas may have to secede “if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/06/2581681/texas-republican-secession/

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7 Instances of All-Out, Mean-Spirited, Right-Wing Lunacy From This Week Alone


1. Texas GOP Candidate: Texas Can Be Its Own ‘Island Nation’

2. Fox Guest: No Money, No Lunch Is a Good Teaching Moment

3. Christian Radio Host: Military’s ‘Homosexual Takeover’ Could Doom Attack on Syria

4. GOP Spokesman Calls McConnell Opponent an ‘Empty Dress’

5. Anonymous Portland Douchebag Threatens to Out Food Stamp Recipients

6. Christian Radio Host to Flock: You Can Attend Gay Weddings if You Tell Grooms ‘They Shall Both Be Put to Death’

7. Glenn Beck: Can’t We All Just Get Along? And Progressives Should Be Hunted Like Nazis

http://www.alternet.org/7-instances-all-out-mean-spirited-right-wing-lunacy-week-alone?akid=10900.187590.TnqN1m&rd=1&src=newsletter893328&t=3&paging=off

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5 Ways Republicans Will Permanently Destroy The GOP Brand


Shutting Down The Government

Defaulting On Our Debt

Reaffirming Themselves As the Party Of The Rich

Denying Health Care To Millions

Punting On Immigration Reform

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-ways-republicans-will-permanently-destroy-the-gop-brand/

[Parker2112]

Dems/liberals should be the conscience of our nation. Churches, unions, universities, democratic party, activists. Remind mex BD...remind me how many professors havent sold out for six figure salaries....remind me how the unions are protecting the rights of the workforce, and not selling them out...remind me how churches are speaking out against immoral actions of the state...remind me how this administration has stood up for minorities and for peace.

Its not.repugs who failed the working class. Its liberals. And you can only point the finger at repugs. Remember, repugs never promised to do shit for the working class, but utilize them as tools. Its the dems thatsold out America.

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Dems/liberals should be the conscience of our nation. Churches, unions, universities, democratic party, activists. Remind mex BD...remind me how many professors havent sold out for six figure salaries....remind me how the unions are protecting the rights of the workforce, and not selling them out...remind me how churches are speaking out against immoral actions of the state...remind me how this administration has stood up for minorities and for peace.

Its not.repugs who failed the working class. Its liberals. And you can only point the finger at repugs. Remember, repugs never promised to do shit for the working class, but utilize them as tools. Its the dems thatsold out America.

I've always said the Dems refused to go crazy on the Repugs, out-crazy them to stop them. Dems remained moderate, passive, while the Repugs went, and stay, totally aggresively nuts.

But in no way does do the Dems have primary responsibility, as you say, for the Reugs and conservatives fucking up the unfuckable USA.

So all this totally dishonest false equivalence of the Dems and Repug are the same, is pure bullshit.

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Annual Republican Crisis

The fiscal year is about to end, so the annual awakening of Tea Party Republicans in the House and Senate is about to begin. Most of the time they sit around and do virtually nothing but gripe (they have made the current Congress the least productive ever), but a new fiscal year finally gives them a chance to govern the only way they know how: by creating a false crisis in order to tear down a piece of the government.

This year, as has been the case so often in the past, their target is President Obama’s health care reform law. If it is not repealed or defunded or delayed or otherwise left bleeding in the public square, they will not pass a spending bill needed to keep the government open past Sept. 30.

And if that doesn’t cripple the health law (which it won’t), they will resort to the far more serious threat of default, refusing to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, no matter the catastrophe that would cause.

It has been clear for months that House Republicans are not going to agree to the Senate’s reasonable spending plan for 2014, one that replaces the damage of the sequester with a mix of revenue increases and less-harmful cuts. The House budget, in fact, calls for cuts to below the sequester level. The best that can be hoped for is a stopgap measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep the government running through mid-December at this year’s inadequate level.

But on Wednesday, with time running out, House leaders announced they couldn’t manage even something as simple as that. Speaker John Boehner and Eric Cantor, the majority leader, had come up with a far-fetched scheme to placate the radicals in their coalition by attaching a provision to the spending resolution that would force the Senate to vote on defunding health reform. The Senate would, of course, instantly reject the health care language, but it could then approve the spending measure to prevent a shutdown.

The Republican extremists killed the idea, leaving the scheme without enough votes. They are no longer interested in symbolic blows against the health law; there have already been scores of those votes. They actually think they can get the Senate, and ultimately the president, to approve the defunding of the health law — Mr. Obama’s most important achievement — by threatening to harm the nation and the economy.

This is pure delusion. Democrats are never going to undo the law, especially knowing the size of the self-inflicted wound Republicans would suffer if they really did force a shutdown or, far worse, a default. But the powerful forces on the right don’t care about reality. The Club for Growth, a conservative group, announced it would use its dreaded ratings system against any Republican who supported a continuing resolution that did not “defund Obamacare.”

According to the Senate Conservatives Fund, an activist group,

“House Republican leaders have chickened out and decided to fund a program that will destroy our country.” :lol
The group, founded by former Senator Jim DeMint, promised to run primary challengers against those who don’t vote to destroy the law.

Mr. Boehner, too, bears responsibility for the chaos that engulfs him. On Thursday, he demanded health-law concessions from Democrats, even as he announced that “we’ll continue to do everything we can to repeal, dismantle and defund Obamacare.” This only raises expectations on the right that the impossible might be achieved, as Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, put it, “in an alternative universe.”

What the speaker should be doing is the only thing that will spare the economy this unnecessary trauma: putting a clean spending bill and debt-ceiling increase before the full House for a vote, making it clear that the shrill voices of extremists have been silenced.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/the-annual-republican-crisis.html

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7 Totally Crazy Statements by Right-Wing Lunatics From This Week

1. Ted Cruz: We need 100 more like Jesse Helms in the Senate.

fun-filled, wacky things Helms said and did:



He sang the confederate anthem “Dixie” in an elevator with Carol Moseley-Braun, the African-American senator from Illinois, and told Sen. Orrin Hatch in front of her that he was trying to make her cry.
He opposed integration, or “mixing of the races,” and called the University of North Carolina the “University of Negroes and Communists” because it was integrated.
He led a one-man, 16-day filibuster opposing the designation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday, and threatened to lead one to save South African apartheid.
More comically, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he seemed unable to absorb the fact that the North Korean president’s name was Kim Jong Il, not Kim Jong 2.
Unlike other like-minded Southern politicians Strom Thurmond and George Wallace, Helms never disavowed his racist, segregationist views even on his deathbed in 2008.


2. Glenn Beck: War is a progressive idea so I am now against it.

3. Alex Jones: Globalist cyborgs are coming.

4. Stuart Varney and Monica Crowley: EPA is trying to suffocate children.

5. Minnesota archbishop: Satan is behind gay marriage.

6. Texas GOP gov. candidate tweets that Wendy Davis is “too stupid to be governor.”

7. Internet advice from a nobody who wants to ruin perfect strangers’ lives: Dads, don’t educate your daughters!

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/7-totally-crazy-statements-right-wing-lunatics-week?akid=10935.187590.FfFyQW&rd=1&src=newsletter896602&t=3&paging=off

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Glenn Beck rails against ‘progressive’ washing machines at Lowe’s

Glenn Beck’s attack on all forms of what he deems “progressivism” expanded to the home-improvement front today, as he criticized General Electric’s new “progressive” dishwasher. (Raw Story couldn’t find any information about this new GE dishwasher, but a lack of evidence isn’t proof that it doesn’t exist.) According to Beck, the new GE dishwasher is just the latest in a long line of attempts to “embed” the word “progressive” into daily discourse.

His co-host reminded him that “‘progressive’ does mean other things other than ‘progressive,’” but Beck would have none of it.

“I was a Lowe’s,” he said, “looking for some new paint. And I find this paint — I’m not sure who the manufacturer is — but this paint, this ‘progressive’ paint, and one of the colors is ‘Woodrow Wilson white.’”

Beck is referring to a line of Valspar paints (http://www.valsparpaint.com/en/explore-colors/find-ideas/national-trust-historic-colors/georgian.html) made in conjunction with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which does include colors from sites associated with Wilson.

It also includes “Mark Twain House Ombra Grey” and “Betsy Ross House Blue,” the latter of which, at least, shouldn’t be stained by progressive associations.

“There was also something else in the store that was ‘progressive,’” Beck continued. “See how they’re embedding the word everywhere, to remind you that ‘progressive’ is a good thing.” Raw Story notes, for the record, that the word “progressive” is nowhere included — much less “embedded” — in the Valspar line of National Trust paints.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/04/glenn-becks-trip-to-lowes-reveals-massive-progressive-conspiracy/

Beck morning screeds "carried by more than 400 stations"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenn-beck-radio-deal-million-335650

bubbas, rednecks, shit kickers, cowboys, tea baggers, libertairans, all ignorant assholes, catch Beck in drive time, and Fox TV. :lol

[Clipper Nation]

You do realize Beck's schtick is to troll people like you, right? :lol

Dude's pretty much a self-parody, tbh....

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You do realize Beck's schtick is to troll people like you, right? :lol

Dude's pretty much a self-parody, tbh....

Beck ain't trolling The Great Boutons who is by definition untrollable.

400 stations carry BecKKK because they can sell ads aimed at the BecKKK paranoid, ignorant asshole listeners.

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10 of the Most Appalling Statements From America's Right-Wing Madhouse This Week


1. On Fox TV, it is assumed that the Nicaraguan meteorologist knows all about tacos.
It’s fairly obvious by now that Fox News is a place where being offensive and ignorant is not just permitted, but encouraged. For example: How much fun is it to make fun of someone’s ethnic heritage inaccurately? So much fun. In an exchange that is indistinguishable from schoolyard bullying and outright nincompoop-ism, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday said he assumed that the network’s Latina meteorologist “grew up on tacos,” because she is from a Spanish-speaking country, and of course, they are all the same.

Being the multi-ethnic bastion that it is, Fox & Friends featured a segment on making tacos to celebrate National Taco Day. Kilmeade turned to Fox News Weather team member Maria Molina, who was born in Nicaragua and grew up in South Florida and asked, “So what are the tips we need to know? You grew up on tacos, correct?”
“No, I did not grow up on tacos!” Molina snapped. “I’m Nicaraguan. It’s not a native food.”
Does she really think that these people are educable?

2. Poor Ted Cruz: first a Republican “lynch mob” is after him, and then Democrats hurt his feelings.
Some Republicans are very mad at Ted Cruz, whose antics against Obamacare spiraled into the impasse that became the government shutdown, which is beginning to play very badly for the GOP. So on Wednesday, a group of Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, railed against Cruz at a private luncheon, according to theNew York Times. Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin were there as well, and some of these senators became very angry with Cruz’s intransigence, and lit into him. An unnamed senator described the scene thusly to the Times: "It just started a lynch mob."

Lynch mob is a term that is being tossed around rather cavalierly these days, if you ask us. But then a lot of racially loaded terms are flying during the Obama administration, and anyone who thinks that is an accident is a fool. (See next item.)

Poor Ted Cruz was feeling really picked on all week, and not just by his own party. Democrats, he said at week’s end, are portraying him as the “root of all evil in the world.” How could they, when really everyone knows that Obamacare, or affordable healthcare, is the root of all evil in the world?

3. Rep. William O’Brien, (R-NH): “Obamacare is as bad as Fugitive Slave Act.”
Obamacare, in the conservative echo-sphere, is the worst thing ever to befall mankind, and that is why they must at any cost prevent it from happening, no matter how futile, ridiculous or damaging their actions may be. Rep. William O’Brien joined the anti-Obamacare hysteria this week with his racially tinged analogy comparing Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it against the law not to return runaway slaves to their owners. Hmmm, wonder why something slavery-related popped into his head to describe the signature legislation of the first black president.

Here’s how he justified his offensive comparison to the Manchester Union Leader: “Just as the Fugitive Slave Act was an overreach by the federal government, so too we understand that Obamacare is an assault on the rights of individuals.”
Oh, so nothing racial about it at all.

4. Rep. Todd Rokita, (R-IN): Obamacare is the worst law known to man, pretty lady.
Crazed Republicans are really enjoying the attention they are getting what with the shutdown, and how they are saving the world from the abomination of Obamacare. Rep. Todd Nokita took full advantage of his moments in the sun this week, first when he said: "We just want to help the American people to get through one of the most insidious laws created by man, that is Obamacare."

Please save us, Republican heroes.

Still enjoying the spotlight, Rokita mixed it up with CNN’s Carol Costello later in the week, again defending the shutdown as a small price to pay for saving America from the horror of affordable healthcare. Finally, he gave up on trying to explain this all to Costello, saying, “Carol, you’re beautiful, but you have to be honest as well.”
Mmmm, sexism. That’s hot.

5. Not to be outdone: Bill O’Reilly finally weighs in on Obamacare
It did not seem possible, but Fox News host Bill O’Reilly took fear-mongering to a new level on Thursday when he told viewers to think of President Obama’s healthcare law as a “vicious motorcycle gang” coming for their daughters.

Yeah, that’s right.

“It’s like this,” O’Reilly said. “Your teenager comes to you, saying she wants to attend a dance. You have some misgivings, but you say okay because she’s so passionate about the issue. Then you learn a vicious motorcycle gang may well show up at the dance, so you change your mind based upon best available evidence. And you protect your daughter from possible danger. Obamacare is like that.”
See?

6. Rafael Cruz (Yep, Ted’s Dad): Obama’s on the side of the Muslims.
Ted Cruz is not the only member of his family with political aspirations and a talent for crazy talk. Speaking at a GOP rally in Adams County, CO, Ted’s dad, right-wing pastor Rafael Cruz said: “So Barack Obama said: 'If the winds shift, I will side with the Muslims.' McCain couldn’t say that, because it's not politically correct. It is time to stop being politically correct!”

What he really meant is it’s time to stop being correct at all, or to have your words reflect any sort of reality. That’s what time it is, America.

Then he made some more stuff up:“55 million babies have been murdered by abortion since 1973. At the other end, Obamacare, with denying care to the elderly, with care being rationed, with care being postponed for 12 to 18 months, with care being controlled by a group of bureaucrats, that on the basis of cost/benefit, will decide whether you get a medical procedure or not, they’re destroying our end of life. As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling!”

Translation: Run, run ye Christians away from this terrible Muslim-imposed healthcare law.

7. Rick Joyner, Christian TV host: Time for God to impose martial law to save us from Obama’s tyranny.
There is only one way out of this pickle, the one imposed by the tyrannical Muslim-in-chief Obama. On his Monday Internet broadcast, Morning Star TV’s Rick Joyner predicted that democracy was “doomed,” doomed I tell you, unless the Lord imposed martial law.

Poor guy worked himself into quite a lather. “We’re headed for serious tyranny, a terrible tyranny right now. But guess what? The kingdom is coming, the Kingdom of God is coming.” And some more stuff, blah blah blah. Then: “That’s why I appeal to the Lord: Don’t let us be totally destroyed, please raise up those who will save us. And as I’ve been telling friends for a long time, no election is going to get the right person in there because the system is so broken.”

Therefore, God must stage a coup. That’s what needs to happen right now.

8. Pat Robertson to elderly woman viewer: It’s your fault your husband’s health his suffering.
Always willing to comfort his flock, Pat Robertson used his “700 Club” pulpit recently to set a woman straight about priorities. Retired and living on a small pension and Social Security pension, the woman had to make the difficult decision of whether to give money to her church or pay her husband’s medical expenses.

This whole situation is all her fault, Robertson told her. Her husband is sick precisely because, despite her lifetime of tithing to the church, her contribution has been inadequate.
“Your husband has all these medical problems because the ‘devour’ has not been rebuked,” Robertson explained. “You need to rebuke him. You give your tithes faithfully and God said, ‘I will rebuke the devour,’ the person that is eating up your money and eating up your health. So you want to be healthy? That’s a promise in the word.”
Comforting words.
( iow: Send Robertson More Money! :lol )

9. PA officials continue their rich history of offensive same-sex marriage analogies: This week, it’s pets and incest.
Back in August, lawyers for the state of Pennsylvania arguing against a clerk who was issuing same-sex marriage licenses suggested same-sex couples were like 12-year-old children. Governor Tom Corbett, on whose behalf the lawyers were arguing, tried to distance himself from those remarks in the ensuing kerfuffle. This week, on Wednesday, a like-minded county commissioner by the name of Tom Creighton who’s fighting tooth and nail against giving benefits to same-sex couples said: “I don’t feel the county should be looking for new ways to give away taxpayer money. Next it could be giving money out to people’s pets or whatever.”

On Friday, during an interview, Gov. Corbett opened his mouth and stuck his foot deep inside it, saying that while his lawyers’ (for whom taxpayers are paying $400 an hour) comparison of same-sex couples as children was inept, “I think a much better analogy would have been brother and sister, don’t you?” he said.
His interviewer declined to offer her assent, saying she’d leave the comments to “his team.”

By afternoon, Corbett was backpedaling and offering his version of an apology. It turns out he didn’t want to offend anyone, and if he did, he was sorry. He just wanted to give examples of categories of people who are ineligible for marriage.
Oh, okay. That makes it much better.

10. Hatefulness prize-winner of the week: Fox News’ Stuart Varney.
Fox News has been having a rollicking good time with the government shutdown. They think it’s the most wonderful thing. But it’s also the Democrats' fault. Go figure. The first day of the shutdown, Hannity and friends marveled at how they were not feeling the effects of the shutdown at all. What was the big deal, anyway? Fox Business’ Todd Starnes chortled: “If you believe the Democrats, it’s time to go out and buy the potted meat and Tang and get in your survival bunker.”

Ha ha ha ha. Aren’t people who barely have enough money to eat so funny? And so fun to make fun of?

Later in the week, Varney was not in so good of a mood. He was very, very angry, and not chortling anymore. He was angry at the more than 800,000 furloughed federal employees for having the audacity to want their back pay, so angry that he wants to “punish those people.”

“No, I don’t think they should get their back pay, frankly,” he said. “I really don’t. I’m sick and tired of a massive, bloated federal bureaucracy living on our backs, and taking money out of us, a lot more money than most of us earn in the private sector, then getting a furlough, and then getting their money back at the end of it. Sorry, I’m not for that. I want to punish these people. Sorry to say that, but that’s what I want to do.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-most-appalling-statements-americas-right-wing-madhouse-week?akid=11014.187590.WSfryN&rd=1&src=newsletter905956&t=3&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

Repugs! Libertarians! "Christians"! Fox and right-wing hate media! Tea Baggers! What a bunch of FLAMING ASSHOLES, moving America forward!

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Another Repug nutcase takes in the nuts

Supreme Court Smacks Down Ken Cuccinelli’s Sodomy Law Appeal (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/10/07/2742221/cuccinelli-sodomy-supreme-court-loss/)

The U.S. Supreme Court announced (http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100713zor_5436.pdf) Monday that it would not hear Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s (R) appeal (http://ag.virginia.gov/Media%20and%20News%20Releases/News_Releases/Cuccinelli/116364_Moose-vs-MacDonald-FINAL-6-24-13.pdf) of a lower court ruling (https://www.motherjones.com/files/appellateopinion.pdf) that held that the state’s sodomy ban is wholly unconstitutional. Cuccinelli had made his defense of the law an issue in his campaign for governor (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/17/2315251/virginia-cuccinelli-oral-sex/).

Virginia’s archaic Crimes Against Nature law (http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-361) made oral and anal sex a felony — even between consenting adults in the privacy of their bedroom. In 2003, the Supreme Court held (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZS.html) in Lawrence v. Texas that sodomy bans like Virginia’s violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv).

In 2004, a bipartisan group (http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?041+vot+S03V0137+SB0477) in the Virginia General Assembly proposed updating the law to comply (http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?041+ful+SB477S1) with the Supreme Court’s ruling, by eliminating provisions dealing with consenting adults in private and leaving in place provisions relating to prostitution, public sex, and those other than consenting adults. Cuccinelli, then a state senator, opposed the bill in committee and helped kill it on the Senate floor. In 2009, he told a newspaper (http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/steve-shannon-attorney-general) that he supported keeping restrictions on the sexual behavior of consenting adults: “My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. … They don’t comport with natural law.” As a result, the law’s text remained unchanged (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/03/1816861/ken-cuccinellis-appeal-and-how-he-helped-undermine-virginias-protections-against-adult-sex-with-minors/) a decade after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/10/07/2742221/cuccinelli-sodomy-supreme-court-loss/

Typical Repugs, loving bedroom regulations as much as they hate EPA/OSHA/FDA/etc.

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World Net Daily: Obamacare will lead to genocide, just like Hitlercare

You know who else established a universal health care system in his country? Hitler, that’s who.

As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect this month in the U.S., World Net Daily columnist Ellis Washington points out (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-obamacare-will-lead-systematic-genocide) the similarities he sees between the law, commonly referred to as Obamacare, and the health care system established in Germany.

“Years before the Jews were sent to the death camps en masse, the initial mass murders of the Holocaust were performed in sanitized German hospitals and the clinical procedures for socialized governmental mass execution were created and developed there under the Nazis Aktion T4 Program,” Washington warns in a column published (http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/hitlercare-vs-obamacare/) Friday.

“Handicapped, retarded and mentally ill persons were killed by the hundreds of thousands within Hitler’s universal health-care system, including some of Hitler’s own relatives,” Washington says. “This genocide was conducted not out of evil intent but born out of medical necessity. Hitler, in his official directives, allowing medical killing, called them ‘mercy killing’ and ‘lives not worth living.’”

Washington says universal health care inevitably leads to genocide and mass killings, just as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin warned (http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/10/sarah-palin-wont-let-death-panels-die/) during her failed vice presidential bid in 2008.

“Like Hitlercare, Obamacare will inevitably lead to health-care rationing, death panels, millions of uninsured and, eventually, the systematic genocide of the weak, minorities, enfeebled, the elderly and political enemies of the God-state,” Washington writes.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/07/world-net-daily-obamacare-will-lead-to-genocide-just-like-hitlercare/

:lol

[AntiChrist]

Rabid monkey boutons still hurling feces, hoping something will stick

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Rabid monkey boutons still hurling feces, hoping something will stick

amazing comeback, always informative. You anencephalic (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/anencephalic)s bode well for the Repug party.

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Is This the Dumbest Thing a Republican Has Said During the Shutdown Mess?

Florida tea party Rep. Ted Yoho has a novel theory of what failing to raise the debt limit, forcing the United States into default, would accomplish. Where economists are in agreement that it would be catastrophic, according to Yoho (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-ted-yoho-government-shutdown-is-the-tremor-before-the-tsunami/2013/10/04/98b5aa8c-2c3c-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html):

"I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets," since they would be assured that the United States had moved decisively to curb its debt.

http://www.alternet.org/dumbest-thing-republican-has-said-during-shutdown-mess?akid=11016.187590.UoHxql&rd=1&src=newsletter906618&t=7

[Jacob1983]

Put down the koolaid. :p:

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Rabid monkey boutons still hurling feces, hoping something will stick

At least he is truthful which is more than we can say about you.

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Bachmann: 'End Times' Are Coming Because Obama Is Supporting Al-Qaedahttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bachmann-end-times-are-coming-because-obama-is-supporting-al-qaeda

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Dr. Ben Carson (black) Calls Obamacare ‘Worst Thing Since Slavery’ at Values Voter Summit

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"his name was being thrown around by some as a possible Republican presidential candidate for 2016"

:lol Repug/tea bagger reachout!

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dr-ben-carson-calls-obamacare-worst-thing-since-slavery-at-values-voter-summit/

[angrydude]

lol dumb women, dumb blacks

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Supply-Side Jesus and the Death of Shame

The single greatest political strength of the modern Republican Party is their utter and complete lack of shame. They will say anything - literally anything, no matter how delusional or self-contradictory - if it gets them what they want, or at least deranges the political debate in America enough to keep the other side from getting what it wants.

Case in point: on Tuesday afternoon, following President Obama's press conference regarding the shutdown, House Speaker John Boehner called a presser of his own to push the GOP's galactically shameless dialogue pivot about how the shutdown never had anything to do with defunding the Affordable Care Act, but has actually been about the debt and the deficit and the future of our children and stuff.

No, really, he said that, after Ted Cruz did that silly non-filibuster with the expressed purpose of defunding the law, and the first bunch of House-crafted versions of the CR sent to the Senate carried a rider defunding the law, and one could not swing one's dead cat by the tail in the first five days of the shutdown without striking a Tea Party lawmaker holding forth on the need to defund the law. Hell, a pack of these right-wing flatulators have been planning to use a government shutdown to wreck the Affordable Care Act since the day Mr. Obama was re-elected (http://www.thenation.com/blog/176538/meet-evangelical-cabal-orchestrating-shutdown), and now, everyone knows it.

But no, said Boehner, it's not at all about Obamacare, and never was, because they will say anything, literally anything, if they think it is to their advantage.

Mr. Ryan unctuously offered up the "Grand Bargain" once again - Chained CPI, means testing for Medicare, tax cuts for rich people and corporations, lather, rinse, repeat - as a means to end the impasse in Washington.

Conservatives all over the North American continent rose up in high dudgeon to denounce Mr. Ryan and his plan (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conservatives-furious-that-ryan-didn-t-address-obamacare-in-debt-proposals)because it failed to include the defunding of the Affordable Care Act, because it's all about defunding Obamacare, except it's not, even though it is, but let's say it's not, because that polls better.

Their greatest strength, for years and years, has been their utter lack of shame. Their ability to say or do anything, and hypocrisy take the hindmost, has vaulted them into the position they hold today in American politics.

The Republican Party, as every living creature on the planet from you and me and him and her all the way down to the amoeba in the mud puddle knows full well, has stapled itself to the idea of supporting the military.

Yet the veterans are still getting screwed, the dead soldiers are getting doubly screwed, and all by the same pack of brazen liars who trumpet their love of the military after pouring body after body after body into the meat grinders of Iraq and Afghanistan. The amoeba in the mud puddle knows those were Republican wars, the soldiers and veterans know it for damn sure, and the American people know it, too...and now that this glad-handing pack of conservative hucksters with flags on their lapels and "Support The Troops" on their lips have gutted the basic services provided to those troops and veterans,

No "Grand Bargain," no deals of any kind. Pass a clean CR, raise the debt ceiling, period, end of file. Nothing, but nothing, is more important than standing firm on this, because hostage politics must end.

In the meantime, let their lack of shame do its brutal, corrosive work on the hull of the death ship that is the Republican Party. They are taking on water and listing badly. Let them sink, and let us finally bury Supply-Side Jesus and all his adherents under fathomless fathoms of cold, dark water.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19341-supply-side-jesus-and-the-death-of-shame

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probably 99% of these assholes, mostly in red states, red districts, in Confederate states, vote Repug

32% of Americans Think the Syrian Crisis is Part of ‘End Times’

The controversy involving Syria has 32% of Americans thinking that it’s all part of the “end times” as told in the Bible.

More specifically, 26% of Americans think that the Syrian conflict is foreshadowing Armageddon.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/09/15/32-of-americans-think-the-syrian-crisis-is-part-of-end-times/

http://www.lifewayresearch.com/2013/09/13/many-americans-link-u-s-military-strike-in-syria-to-end-times/

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[Jacob1983]

Why do libs label states from the South as Confederate States? The hypocrisy is hilarious. Liberals get pissy when southerners have the confederate flag and say that said southerners are stuck in the Civil War yet those same liberals still call the South "Confederate States". So sad. The South has more diversity than the North yet no one ever wants to admit it.

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Why do libs label states from the South as Confederate States? The hypocrisy is hilarious. Liberals get pissy when southerners have the confederate flag and say that said southerners are stuck in the Civil War yet those same liberals still call the South "Confederate States". So sad. The South has more diversity than the North yet no one ever wants to admit it.

because they ARE Confederate states, the racist base of the Repug party, exploited by Nixon to convert Dixicrats to the Repug party after the Dems' progressive gains for blacks (VRA) of the 60s.

They, plus the rural western states, are the core of tea bagger "hate/destroy govt" faction, going back the Union "govt" winning the Civil War and destroying the Confederate slavery-based way of life.

"The South has more diversity than the North"

you mean more illegal immigrants being exploited by Confederate agriculture?

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bachmann_egypt_130908a-615x345.jpg

The radicalization of the Republican Party is the most important political story today

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once claimed that “80 to 85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists” and called those who worship in them “an enemy living amongst us (http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/08/end-game-john-boehner-doesnt-even-have-to-cave/).” He held McCarthyesque hearings into the supposed “radicalization of American Muslims,” parading a line of prominent bigots through the House Homeland Security Committee.

In the past few weeks, dozens of political journalists (https://www.google.com/search?q=pete+king+moderate&oq=pete+king+moderate&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j69i61j0.3028j0&sourceid=chrome&espvd=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8) have dubbed him a moderate. In fact, he’s been anointed a leader among the Republican moderates (http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/05/to-understand-the-shutdown-you-have-to-grasp-the-mindset-of-the-gop-base/). He earned that label because, like other New York pols, he doesn’t blindly support the National Rifle Association, and because he opposes shutting down the government (http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/02/understanding-the-rights-obamacare-obsession/) and threatening to unleash a potential economic catastrophe in a hopeless quest to defund Obamacare (http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/11/the-ten-hardline-conservatives-pulling-the-strings-of-the-gop-shutdown/). That’s it. That’s how low the bar of moderation in the Republican Party (http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/08/end-game-john-boehner-doesnt-even-have-to-cave/) now falls.

the most important political story of our time – one necessary to understanding the last five years of so-called “gridlock” in Washington (http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/08/end-game-john-boehner-doesnt-even-have-to-cave/), DC – is one that journalists wedded to the idea that ‘both sides do it’ are uncomfortable reporting: the wildly asymmetric polarization of our two major political parties

the radicalization of the Republican Party since the 1980s. That shift isn’t merely a matter of opinion. Political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal developed a statistical measure of lawmakers’ voting records that allows scholars to study the dynamics in Congress empirically. The system, known as DW-NOMINATE, ranks legislators according to how far they veer from the midline of congressional votes.

Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker (http://billmoyers.com/guest/jacob-hacker/) used this data for his 2006 book, Off Center, in which he noted that since 1975, Senate Republicans have moved twice as far to the right as their Democratic counterparts have moved to the left. Of course, this shutdown is being driven by the Republican-controlled House, and in the lower chamber Hacker found that Republicans had shifted six times further to the right than their Democratic counterparts went to the left.


the key aspect of this story is that the Republican Party veered toward the extreme of its ideological orientation just as the country was becoming more diverse and tolerant – and as the most progressive generation in 70 years was coming of age – and that dissonance has driven them to cast off the legislative norms that have traditionally made our divided government work.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/12/the-radicalization-of-the-republican-party-is-the-most-important-political-story-today/

"since 1975, Senate Republicans have moved twice as far to the right "

What a coincidence! The VRWC got going in the early 1970s. Conservatives were really pissed about how the country ganged up on criminal Nixon and sent dozens of his admin's lawyers to jail. They also reacted to the trashing of Goldwater in '64, and progress for minority rights, Medicare, Medicaid of the 1960s.

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The Eight Craziest Things Ted Cruz Said At Values Voter Summit (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/11/2770311/craziest-ted-cruz-said-today/)
1. On Obama’s plot to kidnap him: “So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.”
2. On the press: “The media wants America to give up and allow this country to keep sliding off the edge of the cliff.”
3. On the Constitution: “This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.”
4. On the hecklers who interrupted his speech: “Is anybody left at OFA headquarters? I’m actually glad that the president’s whole political staff is here instead of actually doing mischief in the country
5. On hecklers, again: “It would seem that President Obama’s paid political operatives are out in force. The men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them.”
6. On hecklers, a third time: “How scared is the President? What a statement of fear, what a statement of fear. Oh, they don’t want the truth to be heard. They definitely don’t want the truth to be heard.”
7. On the Cold War: “Our foreign policy is detente, which I’m pretty sure is French for surrender.”
8. On Vice President Biden: “You don’t need a punchline. You just say his name, people laugh.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/11/2770311/craziest-ted-cruz-said-today/

If Texans had any pride or shame (or maybe they're just fucking stupid), they'd vote this asshole out.

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Texas Lt. Governor Calls For Obama To Be Impeached (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/15/2782201/texas-governor-calls-obama-impeached/)http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cruz_dewhurst_ap-555x300.jpg


Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) called for President Obama to be impeached during a Tea Party event (http://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/14/lt-gov-dewhurst-calls-obamas-impeachment/), according to the Texas Tribune. At the close of the event, a spokesperson for Dewhurst elaborated that “[h]e feels very strongly about the tragedy in Benghazi and has said that Congress should consider impeaching the President over the tragedy.” The spokesperson added that Obama needs to be held accountable for “Washington’s failure to secure the border and the gross overreach of the federal government under Obamacare.”

Significantly, Dewhurst is the former United States Senate candidate who was rejected by Texas Republicans in 2012 for being an insufficiently aggressive conservative (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/us/politics/cruz-defeats-dewhurst-for-gop-nomination-in-texas-senate-race.html). They elected shutdown advocate (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/09/24/2673501/ted-cruzs-filibuster/), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) instead.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/15/2782201/texas-governor-calls-obama-impeached/

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Greasebag REPUG Maine Gov. LePage: 47% Of Mainers Don’t Work (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/22/2814211/maine-gov-lepage-47-mainers-work/)


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In a meeting (http://thetippingpoint.bangordailynews.com/2013/10/22/state-politics/gov-lepage-lets-slip-what-he-really-thinks-about-maine-people/) last week in Falmouth, Maine, the controversial Republican governor bemoaned how “About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work. About 47 percent. It’s really bad.”

It’s also false. With statistics provided from Maine’s own labor department, the Bangor Daily News points out that 65 percent of able-bodied Mainers are working or actively seeking work. The 35 percent remaining is composed largely of retirees, homemakers, students, and the disabled. The blue collar state is not divided between givers and takers, as the governor seems to suggest.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/22/2814211/maine-gov-lepage-47-mainers-work/

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Texas is run by Repug assholes voted in by assholes

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Stop blocking military benefits for gay and lesbian National Guard membersThe Department of Defense allows all same-sex spouses of National Guard members to enroll for the same benefits as other couples. So why is Texas refusing to allow these couples to enroll for benefits at any state-run facilities?

Marriage equality may not be law in Texas, but standing in the way of allowing people to access their guaranteed federal benefits is just plain wrong.

Our service members and their families deserve better. And thanks to the Supreme Court's decisions this summer, they are entitled to it by law.

https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1727&autologin=false

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why do libs label states from the South as Confederate States? The hypocrisy is hilarious. Liberals get pissy when southerners have the confederate flag and say that said southerners are stuck in the Civil War yet those same liberals still call the South "Confederate States". So sad. The South has more diversity than the North yet no one ever wants to admit it.

This makes no sense. Perhaps if people would stop trotting out ole Dixie then the label would go away.

Why do people label him a communist. They get mad when he drapes himself in the hammer and sickle but still call him communist.

The south had more 'diversity' prior to the civil war as well. Black folks didn't start fleeing from the south until the Civil War. SCOTUS ruled that runaway slaves were to be sent back several times prior ot the confrontation.

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[RandomGuy]

Dems/liberals should be the conscience of our nation. Churches, unions, universities, democratic party, activists. Remind mex BD...remind me how many professors havent sold out for six figure salaries....remind me how the unions are protecting the rights of the workforce, and not selling them out...remind me how churches are speaking out against immoral actions of the state...remind me how this administration has stood up for minorities and for peace.

Its not.repugs who failed the working class. Its liberals. And you can only point the finger at repugs. Remember, repugs never promised to do shit for the working class, but utilize them as tools. Its the dems thatsold out America.

Wow, Chemtrail-boy still haunts the halls.

That said, I do think that the Democratic party can and should do more. That last bit has a grain of truth to it, IMO.

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Why do libs label states from the South as Confederate States? The hypocrisy is hilarious. Liberals get pissy when southerners have the confederate flag and say that said southerners are stuck in the Civil War yet those same liberals still call the South "Confederate States". So sad. The South has more diversity than the North yet no one ever wants to admit it.

Wow, there is still someone who doesn't get the code.

The people who try to argue that the Civil War wasn't about slavery or white power and that the confederate flag isn't still used as shorthand for "fucking blacks need to know their place, under our boot heel" tend to be about the same sort of intellectual midgets who deny the holocaust.

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To be clear:

I don't think Jacob is quite that dumb, I just know how the Confederate battle flag is used by racist fucks these days, and I have never seen anyone sporting it that wasn't actually a racist if you got to talking to them and teased it out of them.

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"...same sort of intellectual midgets who deny the holocaust."

and who deny AGW, deny that Repugs/tea baggers' main base is not motivated by racism or xenophobia, call the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression, etc, etc.

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10 Jaw-dropping Absurdities Brought to You By the Right Wing

1. Kevin Swanson is begging you not to buy those lesbian Girl Scout cookies

2. Men’s Righter, Paul Elam: It’s okay not to care about female rape victims

3. N.C. Republican official doesn’t want those lazy blacks voting

4. N.C. (yes, again) State Rep. Larry Pittman: Obama not a traitor (to Kenya, where he was born, of course)

5. Sherman Adelson: Nuke Iran

6. Joe the former Plumber: Democrats are the lynchers

7. Coach Daubenmire: Christians are being bullied into not bullying gays

8. Bradlee Dean, President Obama is both secretly pushing Shariah law, and secretly gay

9. Group of Christians refuse to tip waiter, but are nice enough to leave a note explaining his “homosexual lifestyle is an affront to God”

10. Texas Rep. Steve Stockman: Ted Cruz is a brilliant, heroic, visionary leader

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-jaw-dropping-absurdities-brought-you-right-wing?akid=11085.187590.Qzbjqg&rd=1&src=newsletter915483&t=2&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark (http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-jaw-dropping-absurdities-brought-you-right-wing?akid=11085.187590.Qzbjqg&rd=1&src=newsletter915483&t=2&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark)

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8. Bradlee Dean, President Obama is both secretly pushing Shariah law, and secretly gay

I report, you decide.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lrf8DbrJH0

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Benghazi witnesses grilled in secret on Capitol Hill

Two of the Justice Department's key witnesses in last year's terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, were summoned to Capitol Hill this month and grilled for hours in separate legal depositions.

Responding to congressional subpoenas, the State Department security agents were asked how the Libyan terrorists stormed the mission and set parts of it on fire, how they were armed and how they killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, sources with knowledge of the matter said. The agents also were asked about security breakdowns and whether the administration reacted appropriately to the Sept. 11, 2012, assault.

How those highly guarded and secret interviews came about was part of an increasingly bitter dispute between two branches of the federal government.

Prosecutors are under intense pressure to arrest and convict the terrorists, while the Republican-led House is determined to find who is responsible for any lapse in security that night, and whether the administration misled the public when officials initially said the attack stemmed from a protest.

Weeks before the interviews, top Justice Department officials repeatedly warned Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) against doing so, saying it would seriously jeopardize any criminal prosecution of the terrorists. They wrote three times to the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, strongly urging him not to insist on interviewing the agents.

The interviews have not been released. But the Justice Department expressed concern that Issa might reveal some details from the interviews, or that defense lawyers could subpoena them if suspects are apprehended, according to the sources, who did not have permission to speak publicly, citing the ongoing investigation. At least one person has been named in a sealed indictment in the Benghazi attacks.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/609/article/p2p-77952897/

dickless, feckless Issa is fucking mad, insane, tilting at windmills, hoping one of them is holding a smoking gun to bring down Obama.

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Paranoia-Rama: This Week In Right-Wing Lunacy

5. Satan Behind Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Herman Cain

Herman Cain has finally put all those allegations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain_presidential_campaign,_2012#Sexual_mis conduct_accusations) of extramarital affairs and sexual harassment from different women to rest, saying that all of them were lying and are working the Devil. Cain told Real Clear Religion (http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/10/23/the_devil_and_herman_cain.html) that Satan was behind the charges of sexual misconduct, several of which were made long before (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html) he even ran for president, as part of a plot to bring down his campaign, which he suspended before the Iowa caucus. After explaining how he was the real victim, Cain said that he now preaches about his experience in fighting the demonic spirits which supposedly manufactured the scandal.

4. Grover Norquist Is Palling Around With Terrorists

In an interview with Glenn Beck, Center for Security Policy head Frank Gaffney said (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/21/glenn-beck-presents-just-the-beginning-of-why-you-need-to-pay-attention-to-grover-norquist/) that he saw terrorists meeting with Grover Norquist back when they shared an office in Washington, D.C. Rather than alert the authorities, apparently, Gaffney instead decided to wait over a decade to reveal Norquist’s terrorists allies. Norquist notes that on the date of his supposed meeting with terrorists, he wasn’t even in Washington (http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/norquist-responds-to-targeting-by-beck/).

Gaffney’s claims that Norquist is a terrorist fellow traveler (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-claims-grover-norquist-helping-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrate-conservative-move) are so farfetched that leaders of the American Conservative Union decided to kick Gaffney out of the annual right-wing summit CPAC (http://de.scribd.com/doc/81353264/Letter-From-Cleta-Mitchell-To-ACU-Board-On-Frank-Gaffney-s-Allegations-Against-Norquist-And-Kahn), but that hasn’t stopped him from winning over Beck and other anti-Muslim zealots such as Jerry Boykin (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-grover-norquist-muslim-brotherhood-facilitator), David Horowitz (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/horowitz-abedin-hiss-norquist-muslim-subverting) and Pamela Geller (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/14/144096/geller-norquist-islamophobia/).

Cathie Adams of Eagle Forum has found even more definitive evidence that Norquist is a secret Islamic agent: “he has a beard (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cathie-adams-finds-proof-grover-norquist-secret-muslim-you-see-he-has-beard).”

3. Obama Will Nuke Charleston

After the right-wing conspiracy that President Obama was planning to set off a nuclear bomb in Washington, D.C. (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/erik-rush-navy-yard-shooting-carried-out-prevent-obama-being-arrested) and blame it on Syria, we now have gotten word that Obama has shifted his menacing plan to Charleston, South Carolina. Survivalists have (http://www.prepperpodcast.com/obama-ousts-top-officers-after-nuke-explodes-in-ocean-instead-of-charleston/#axzz2ikwzrqnn) been (http://www.thenewamericanmedia.com/did-lindsey-graham-foreshadow-nuclear-false-flag-in-charleston-to-be-blamed-on-syria/) fretting (http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-trying-to-bomb-the-us) about (https://www.usacarry.com/forums/politics/40541-obama-ousts-top-officers-after-nuke-explodes-ocean-instead-charleston.html) a secret plan to nuke Charleston (http://wonkette.com/532306/we-are-all-going-to-feel-pretty-stupid-when-barack-obama-really-does-nuke-charleston-south-carolina) that went awry after generals refused and, as a result, were swiftly fired by Obama.

This conspiracy theory (http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/charleston.asp) follows claims (http://www.infowars.com/sen-graham-warns-of-nuke-strike-after-missing-nuke-report/) made by Alex Jones of InfoWars, who cited comments made by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/09/05/grahams-hawkish-posture-confronts-war-weary-voters-in-south-carolina) about how Iran could give nuclear weapons to terrorists targeting US cities like Charleston, of an imminent false flag attack: “Graham is quite literally saying that if we do not launch a war with Syria, South Carolina may be nuked. And this ultimately reeks of yet another false flag being orchestrated by the United States government in order to send us into war, or at the very least a threat.”

2. Military, NFL Facing Feminization

Did you know that President Obama is personally selecting new hats for the Marines to make them look “feminine” and “French” (http://nypost.com/2013/10/23/obama-wants-marines-to-wear-girly-hats/)? The New York Post story about Obama’s wretched plan to make male Marines seem “girly” was quickly picked up by Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/24/obama-wants-marines-to-wear-girly-hats/), the Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/marines-turn-noses-obamas-new-girly-hats/), Newsmax (http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/marines-obamam-girly-hats/2013/10/24/id/532855), all the news sources you’d expect not to do basic research to see if Obama was actually involved in uniform cover design process.

Shockingly (http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-marines-girly-hats-2013-10), he (http://www.stripes.com/news/us/marines-shoot-down-internet-story-on-obama-s-alleged-push-for-girly-hats-1.248963) wasn’t (http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hero-project/articles/2013/10/24/story-claiming-obama-changed-marines-hat-is-flat-wrong.html).

But maybe that was all a plot to take away attention from the “chickification” of the NFL (http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/10/24/rush-nfl-wearing-pink-for-breast-cancer-proves/196580), which Rush Limbaugh bravely exposed. “You don’t put the NFL in pink for a month!” Limbaugh said (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/10/24/quick_hits_page), referring to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, “I don't think there’s any question, folks, that there is an attack on masculinity. And it’s not new. Basically the modern era of feminism, that's what it is, is a critique against masculinity.”

1. Fainting Lady An Obama Plant

When a pregnant, diabetic woman nearly fainted during President Obama’s press conference in the Rose Garden, “Lady-Patriots” was on the case (http://www.lady-patriots.com/proof-obamas-fainting-lady-was-faked-in-3-minutes/) to expose her as an Obama plant! Naturally, Sarah Palin (https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151954708003588), Matt Drudge (https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/393059740583866369), and Fox News (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/24/fainting-truthers-from-alex-jones-to-fox-news/196583) were happy to join the usual suspects like WorldNetDaily (http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obamas-fainting-woman-a-staged-hoax/?cat_orig=politics) and InfoWars (http://www.infowars.com/staged-obama-catches-fainting-woman-during-healthcare-speech/). “Lady Patriot” Sharon Scheutz foiled (http://www.lady-patriots.com/proof-obamas-fainting-lady-was-faked-in-3-minutes/) Obama’s false flag fainting to “take the focus off the disastrous website” and make people “feel warm and fuzzy for our hero President.”

“There are a lot of idiots out there,” she writes.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-week-right-wing-lunacy#sthash.TyF2vCQM.dpuf

:lol You Right-Winger People are a bunch of ignorant asshole jerks, so funny! :lol

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Fringe Factor: End Homosexuality With a Class Action Lawsuit

Homosexuality is just as dangerous as cigarettes, so why not try to end it—with a tobacco company-style lawsuit? Meanwhile, it’s about time for an insurrection against Obama, plus more from the fringe this week.


Tea Party Leader Wants to Sue Homosexuality, All of It

North Carolina GOP Leader: Law That Hurts ‘Lazy Blacks’ Is Not Racist

Conservative Commentator Calls for Insurrection Against Obama

Virginia: Push to Ban Sodomy May Make Life Easier for Real Sex Offenders

Major GOP Donor: Nuke Iran Before It Can Get Nuclear Weapons

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/27/fringe-factor-end-homosexuality-with-a-class-action-lawsuit.html

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http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/19017/small/Paul_Broun_Congressional_Portrait.jpg?1360794338


“There was absolutely no reason, whatsoever, for this administration to block access to the World War Two Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial. It’s never ever been done in a government shutdown prior to this administration doing so.”


There are at least two problems with this.

1. The Lincoln Memorial was indeed closed during a previous government shutdown in 1995. That one was also caused by Republicans trying to extract concessions from a Democratic president. Broun should remember it well, since he ran for Congress the following year. (He lost.)

2. The World War II Memorial was completed in 2004, and so did not exist during any previous shutdowns. While this renders Broun's statement technically true, it is true in the same way as saying "Abraham Lincoln never dined at Chipotle" is true. Neither statement makes a particularly intriguing point.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250645/-Rep-Paul-Broun-makes-aggressive-bid-for-stupidest-shutdown-claim?detail=email

fucking Confederates, ignorant assholes, politicians AND their voters.

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you right-wingers think unfair to brand Southern politicians and tea baggers as secessionist, racist assholes?

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/n_maddow_3theda2_131023.video_560x315.jpg

Maddow: Tea party apparently no longer embarrassed to flaunt its racist, neo-Confederate roots

tea party Republicans are embracing the Confederacy-era South as their cultural touchstone.

the conservative women’s group the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) and their 2010 conference in Charleston, SC, in which attendees were promised “A Southern Experience” by the South Carolina branch of the organization.

photos of the event, which featured white attendees dressed in Confederate regalia and African-American people dressed as slaves. The individual dressed as a Confederate officer in the image is South Carolina’s now-Lieutenant Governor Glenn McConnell, who in 2010 was still just a state senator.

In South Carolina, it is apparently good for your political career to be seen doing Civil War reenactments, complete with slaves.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R), shortly after being sworn in, elected to celebrate Confederate History Month. Unlike past governors, however, he did not mention or make any note of the issue of slavery.

“After a while, after a national kerfuffle,” said Maddow, “McConnell did finally get embarrassed and went back to the commemoration statement and added a reference to slavery.”

the main problem with the shutdown of the federal government was that it ended, said Maddow. Those people believe the Republican Party didn’t fight hard enough to keep poor people from getting health coverage.

One of the people they are targeting is Sen. Thad Cochran, a rock-ribbed conservative who has sinned against the far right by voting to reopen the government. The tea party in Mississippi has found a challenger for Cochran in the form of neo-Confederate candidate state Sen. Chris McDaniel (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/23/mississippi-tea-party-candidate-for-u-s-senate-connected-to-secessionists-and-neo-confederates/).

“It is an interesting question,” Maddow said, “whether being associated with the Confederacy — not just with the South, but with southern, white secession — it’s an interesting question whether being associated with that hurts individual elected officials.”

Another question, she said, is whether this pro-white, arch conservative movement that we call the tea party is a new thing, or rather a new name for the same old angry racists who have always lurked at the base of the GOP.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/maddow-tea-party-apparently-no-longer-embarrassed-to-flaunt-its-racist-neo-confederate-roots/

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Republican Says He'd Bring Back Slavery If His Constituents Asked Him To


“Anyone who knows me knows that I could never vote for something like that...There is absolutely no room in my life for any bigotry.”

http://www.alternet.org/nevada-republican-says-hed-bring-back-slavery-if-voters-demanded-it?akid=11091.187590.nh0V2W&rd=1&src=newsletter916696&t=5

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The G.O.P. Tax

The research firm Macroeconomic Advisers has a new report out about the effects of bad fiscal policy since 2010 - that is, since the G.O.P. takeover of the House of Representatives.

The way it's written, however, might confuse some people. They say that the combined effects of uncertainty in the bond market and cuts in discretionary spending have subtracted 1 percent from gross domestic product growth.

That's not 1 percent off G.D.P. - it's the annualized rate of growth, so we're talking about almost 3 percent of G.D.P. at this point; cumulatively, the losses come to around $700 billion of wasted economic potential.

This is in the same ballpark as my own estimates. And they also estimate that the current unemployment rate is 1.4 points higher than it would have been without those policies (a number consistent with almost 3 percent lower G.D.P.);

so, we'd have unemployment below 6 percent if not for these lawmakers. Great work all around, guys.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19572-gop-still-worried-about-those-people

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GOP Senator Threatens To Hold Fed Chair, DHS Secretary Noms Over Benghazi (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/31/2863471/graham-yellen-johnson/)
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/110506_lindsey_graham_ap_328-555x300.jpg

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday made clear that President Obama’s nominees to become the Chair of the Federal Reserve and Secretary of Homeland Security would be his latest hostages in his ongoing quest to unearth the “truth” about Benghazi.


Since the attack last year that ended in the death of four American citizens in Benghazi, Libya, Graham has been a stalwart crusader (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/29/1508811/graham-clinton-benghazi-hagel-panetta/) on the hunt to expose the supposed White House cover-up that he knows exists (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/17/1210521/republican-senator-campaigns-on-benghazi-tragedy-ahead-of-2014-election/). On Monday, he indicated that a new push (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/28/2843591/graham-block-benghazi/) would be coming, warning on Fox News, “I’m going to block every appointment in the United States Senate until the survivors are being made available to the Congress.”

Graham followed through (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-usa-fed-yellen-senate-idUSBRE99T19M20131030) on Wednesday, announcing at a news conference that he would be placing a hold on Janet Yellen’s nomination to become the new Federal Reserve Chair and Jeh Johnson’s to replace Janet Napolitano at DHS. “That is the only leverage we have,” he told the assembled reporters. Yellen’s nomination is also being threatened by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over different demands (http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-364904/).

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/31/2863471/graham-yellen-johnson/

fucking Repugs and their voters, all assholes

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Lies, Nonsense and Totally Off-the-Wall Behavior -- 10 Doozies from the Nutty Right Wing This Week

Some really crazy things came out of the mouths of the frothing right wing this week --

1. Suzanne Somers is still an idiot, and the WSJ prints her error-ridden Obamacare hitjob anyway.

While Thighmaster spokeswoman Suzanne Somers has matured since her hit TV show days, her plumpers and politics have pretty much ossified. Her enlightened take on the Affordable Care Act appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week, concluding that it’s “a greater Ponzi scheme than that pulled off by Bernie Madoff.” She wrote 535 hysterical words, in which Lenin came up in addition to Madoff, on the topic of this dreaded “socialized medicine.” By the next day, the Journal had published nearly a fifth as many words in corrections.

But it did not correct the “Ponzi scheme” assertion, which was based on flimsy anecdotes about relatives who had bad experiences with Canadian doctors, and how Somers is hearing on the news that everyone’s premium is doubling and tripling. (Any guesses as to which so-called news channel she watches?)

This piece of rocket science appeared in WSJ’s "The Experts" section, which bills itself as “an exclusive group of industry, academic and cultural thought leaders who weigh in on the latest debates.”

This will definitely be our go-to section for expert analysis henceforth.

2. John Stossel: Women, aka hypochondriacs, should pay more for health insurance.

Fox libertarian spokes-moustache John Stossel became rather mentally unbalanced about the fairness of the Affordable Care Act this week. It’s not fair, he whined, that under the law, men have to pay as much for health insurance as women because “Women go to the doctor much more often than men! Maybe they’re smarter or maybe they’re hypochondriacs. They live longer. Who knows?”

The point is, they’re women, dammit.

Another thing that has Stossel and a number of Republicans really irked is that men have to help pay for pregnancy and maternity coverage, when men can’t even get pregnant. It’s so unfair!

Look, everyone knows that women get pregnant all by themselves, and it’s their fault they got themselves into this fix, and they damn well better get themselves out of it. Hypochondriacs!

3. Concerned Women for America: Very worried that young people might get health insurance.

While women are making bank with this whole Obamacare Ponzi scheme, you know who is getting screwed? Young people, that’s who. Concerned Women for America is very very concerned about that; concerned that young people may actually choose to join a program that will help them afford health insurance.

Concerned Women don’t just get concerned about any old thing. They’re not losing any sleep about silly things like tens of thousands of children going hungry because of the massive food stamp cuts that just took effect. They only get concerned about important things, like how close Miley Cyrus’ butt got to Robin Thicke’s crotch at the VMA Awards.

In an interview this week with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Concerned spokeswoman Alison Howard sent out the alarm bells to “young subsidizers” who might sign up for a “government-run program that’s a complete fail.”

“Complete fail!” she said. So hip with that phrasing!

Then she told those same hip young people, who listen to CBN all the time, to “pray for our nation’s leaders, that they have wisdom and clarity to fix this very broken problem and help us completely heal as a country,” according to Right-Wing Watch [3].

This praying stuff will be good practice for when you get sick or hurt, and don’t have health insurance.

4. 27 GOP senators vote to disapprove of themselves.

At first glance, maybe this headline actually makes sense. About time these clowns disapproved of themselves for their heartless policies and shameless tactics. But, no, no. No such attack of conscience has hit the Republicans in Congress. What took place this week in the Senate may have set a new low on the moron scale—and these days, that is really saying something. All 27 Republican senators who voted recently to raise the debt ceiling, pay the nation’s bills, and reopen the government (and arguably do their jobs), voted this week in favor of a symbolic “resolution to disapprove” of that vote. All of them.

Apart from making no sense (but when has that stood in the way of Republican politics?) the vote was completely pointless, unless the point was to further illustrate their idiocy.

Actually, the point was as simple as it was hypocritical. (Remember when John Kerry was given hell after saying he was for something before he was against it? At least some time passed in between.) The point was simply to brazenly give these Republicans political cover, so that Tea Partiers and other right-wing crazies won’t try to unseat them.

5. Marsha Blackburn: Americans must be free to drink from red Solo cups.

Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn made some marvelously on-point comments during the congressional “yell at Kathleen Sebelius” hearing on the bumpy Obamacare roll-out this week.

“Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari … And some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not a crystal stem. You’re taking away their choice,” said Rep. Blackburn.

Blackburn has taken the lead as a defender of Americans’ rights to choose many important things this week, not just red Solo cups. From cheap shoes, clothing and plasticware to insurance plans that don’t cover much of anything, or kick you off when you get sick. Cause we’re Amurricans, damn it. And we’re free.

Yes, she’s a staunch defender of freedom and the rights of all Americans to choose. Except, of course, women's right to choose whether to have a baby or get contraception. That’s the government’s job.
6. S.C. soup kitchen to atheists: No serving soup for you!

Everyone knows that religious belief and serving food to the poor are inextricably intertwined. Which is why it makes total sense that a group of avowed atheists, Upstate Atheists, [4] were banned from helping out at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen in South Carolina last week. Since they were not allowed in, they set up across the street to distribute food and other necessities like toothpaste and socks to the area’s poor. And they did this while not believing in god. What an abomination!

Upstate Atheists' slogan is "Charity Beyond Belief," but the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen wasn’t buying it, calling the atheists' mission “counter to the mission of the soup kitchen." The executive director then added, "They can have the devil there with them, but they better not come across the street."

We did not know that the devil had branched out into the charity business. Clearly, a rebranding scheme.

7. Minn. Republican party posts, then deletes, unbelievably racist message.

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/553151_10151803022305326_1814269420_n.jpg

The Chicago County, Minn. Republican party got caught with a deeply offensive Facebook post comparing abortion to slavery this week.

"Pro Choice. Against Slavery? Don't buy one," said the caption to a picture depicting a slave auction. MSNBC and radio Host Ed Schultz posted a screengrab of the photo on his Facebook page. [5]

Unsurprisingly, outrage ensued, leading the party to delete the post and deny any responsibility for it. They said their page was made by a "large number of administrators," who, we guess, aren’t vetted very well.

But they are very, very sorry, and sought to remind everyone that the Republican Party derives from the anti-slavery movement.

Today’s Republican Party always reminds us of abolitionists and Lincoln.

8. Nevada Rep.: 'Would bring back slavery if constituents wanted it.'

Nevada Assemblyman Jim Wheeler did not get the Republican anti-slavery memo, as evidenced by comments Wheeler made to the Storey County Republican Party in August, according to the Associated Press [6], that came to light this week.

He said he’d bring back slavery if that was what his constituents wanted. There was a Youtube video of it that now appears to have been taken down. Perhaps someone thinks these comments make him look bad. Even racist. Which, of course, he is not. Why would you think that?

Because he did add that he would find it distasteful to bring back slavery, saying “I'd have to hold my nose ... they'd probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah.”

That’s how dedicated this man is to public service. He’d be willing to override his own lack of bigotry to represent bigots.

9. Religious broadcasters: It’s simple. Miley Cyrus sold her soul to the devil.

Remember Miley Cyrus’ tongue at the VMA? Remind you of anyone? Someone with a forked tongue perhaps?

It’s a well-known fact that the devil has completely taken over the entertainment industry—Rick Santorum definitely thinks so—so it should not come as a surprise that there was a coded message in Cyrus’ infamous performance. She was announcing she’d sold her soul to the devil, said a pair of religious right broadcasters [7].

Broadcaster Rick Wiles and anti-rock music pastor Joe Schimmel confirmed this revelation on Wiles’ TruNews radio program this week.

“The American entertainment industry loves perverting the souls of innocent children, [and] they thrive on their wicked methods of defiling children and converting them into little citizens of Babylon. It is the work of the synagogue of Satan. Their latest poster child to recruit little Babylonians is Miley Cyrus,” Wiles said.

Wait, "synagogue"?

He also said he has seen an actual photo of Cyrus licking the ribs of a caped skeleton figure with red eyes and horns, according to Raw Story. An actual photo!

Schimmel agreed, as any reasonable person would. Cyrus, he said, has been “baptized into the Illuminati.” Her dance moves, he added, are demonstrations of “how to have sex with some satanic figure.”

Let us pray for the safe return of Miley Cyrus’ soul.

10. David Conn: Obama similar to Jim Jones.

It was a banner week on Wiles’ TruNews radio program. He also interviewed a very enlightening Jim Jones/Jonestown cult “expert.”

David Conn, the “expert,” is seeing the emergence of another Jim Jones-like figure in our midst—President Obama, who embodies “the re-emergence of the Jones Cult mentality on a grand national level."

Let’s unpack that for a sec.

“First off, Jones captured the media and Obama captured the media,” Conn explained. Also they both had strange childhoods, and were yearning for father figures. Leaving the plane of reality altogether, Conn added, “Obama's only father figure was a terribly nasty old man, a pornographer and a child molester and a cocaine user who was an avowed communist.”

Wiles knew just who he was talking about: Frank Marshall Davis. He’s the one who got Obama into cocaine.

Also, both of them, Jones and Obama, had a background of community organizing. Of course, Obama’s cult is Islam, so that’s a slight difference. But otherwise, it’s a no-brainer.

Here, have some more Kool-Aid.

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GOP Candidate Argues His Opponent Would Have Supported Slavery (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/11/05/2892071/rob-maness-slavery/)

A Tea Party-backed Senate candidate in Louisiana recently argued that, were his opponent Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) alive in the 18th century, she would have sided with pro-slavery forces.

Rob Maness, a retired Air Force officer running against Landrieu in Louisiana’s 2014 U.S. Senate election, attracted national attention in the last week, after a powerful outside spending group, the Senate Conservatives Fund, endorsed (http://www.senateconservatives.com/site/post/2335/scf-endorses-rob-maness-in-louisiana) his candidacy.

Before all the national attention, in August, Maness spoke at the annual RedState Gathering. He attacked Landrieu for her observation (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/mary-landrieu-senate-immigration-93088.html) during the immigration bill markup that “The only way you get something is to become obnoxious.”

Maness extrapolated from Landrieu’s statement that she would believe anyone who holds an unpopular belief is “obnoxious,” then inferred that Landrieu would have sided against anti-slavery advocates had she been alive around the country’s founding. “Senator Landrieu might have called Mrs. Adams ‘obnoxious,’ especially since she was opposed to slavery and favored women’s rights when both were very unpopular ideas,” Maness told the crowd.


MANESS: We’ve got a dog named Lady Abigal named after the outspoken first lady Abigail Adams. Senator Landrieu might have called Mrs. Adams “obnoxious,” especially since she was opposed to slavery and favored women’s rights when both were very unpopular ideas.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/11/05/2892071/rob-maness-slavery/

What? Since when is slavery an UNPOPULAR IDEA in Louisiana? :lol

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Who Is Chief Right Wing Whacko this Week? It Might Surprise You

1. Christian historian: Abortions caused Typhoon Haiyan.

This might come as news to the grieving survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: the cause of the powerful storm was abortion. Not necessarily their abortions, but just the fact that anyone has abortions, especially legally, even though abortion is illegal in the Philippines. God is very, very pissed about that, and that’s why he sent a typhoon that killed all those Filippinos on its way to Vietnam. He’s vindictive like that. That is why he is causing all these very destructive and scary storms.

What is not causing any of this climatological havoc is global warming—not that it even exists. Burning fossil fuels is something God actually wants us to do more of. So goes the theory of Christian denialist, oops, we mean “historian” David Barton. The blanket explanation for all this “climate stuff that we can’t explain,” he said this week in a conversation with televangelist Kenneth Copeland, as well as murder and pedophilia, is legalized abortion. America voted for politicians who support abortion rights, and in doing so “opened the door to the curse.”

Here is the historical background. In the good old days, when America was first starting out, Barton explained that if there was really bad weather, leaders would “call for a national day of repentance, humiliation, fasting and prayer … and today we’re saying, ‘Oh no, it’s global warming.’”

That’s how we lost God’s protection. We chose to lose it. What did we expect?

2. Radio host Damon Bruce: Sports are set to the dial of men.

Sports are for men, and Richie Incognito is a man, acting manly in a man’s world. And if you don’t like it, ladies, you can lump it. That is the short version of a nine-minute tirade against women in sports this week by KNBR sports radio host Damon Bruce.

Bruce is mad at women because women are to blame for the suspension of Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito after his alleged (and apparently legendary) harassment, bullying and threats against teammate Jonathan Martin drove Martin from the team.

Here’s how the tirade starts:

“A lot of sports has lost its way and I’m gonna tell you, part of the reason is because we’ve got women giving us directions. For some of you, this is going to come across as very misogynistic. I don’t care, because I’m very right. I'm willing to share my sandbox, as long as you remember you're in my box. I didn’t slip into your box....”

Allowing women to “slip into the box” of professional sports has pretty much ruined sports, Bruce thinks. It has feminized men and made it hard for men to bond the way they like to bond—by being assholes. That’s what Jonathan Martin didn’t understand. Incognito was trying to bond with him when he called him racial slurs and threatened to rape his sister.

Here’s Bruce’s sage advice to women sports journalists who can’t hack it: “If sports get too gruesome for you, go write a restaurant column. Go write a housekeeping column.”

Sweet of him to be concerned.

3. Rand Paul overtakes Ted Cruz as chief Republican wacko bird.

This is a tightly contested race—neck and neck. Lately, Texas Tea Partier Cruz has been relatively subdued since his widely ridiculed Obamacare filibuster which lead to the widely reviled government shutdown.

So, Kentucky libertarian Paul was good enough to step into the breach to fulfill the role of what Senator John McCain coined as “chief of the wacko birds.” Paul has distinguished himself in the last week or so with his passionate defense, or is it ignorance, of plagiarism, challenging Rachel Maddow to a duel for repeatedly pointing out that he lifts passages from Wikipedia wholesale for speeches, articles, books, whatever. She’s impugning his honor by doing so, “spreading hate” on him. Besides libertarians don’t attribute stuff; that’s for big government suckers.

A plagiarism scandal, or multiple plagiarism scandals, need not be devastating. Hey, mistakes happen. Admit them and move on, we say. But no, Paul started talking “duel” during an interview with ABC’s “This Week.”

“If, you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge. But I can’t do that, because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then.”

Note to Paul: Toto, you’re not in 19th-century Kentucky anymore.

4. Antonin Scalia brings up the devil in case about prayer.

It’s almost as if there’s a little red guy with horns and a tail sitting on the shoulder of the Supreme Court’s most verbose right-winger, making him say really off-the-wall things. Justice Antonin Scalia just keeps seeing the devil and his worshippers everywhere, bringing them up during oral arguments in a case about the constitutionality of legislative prayer. This, just weeks after a somewhat embarrassing interview in New Yorkmagazine in which he gleefully affirmed his belief in the Antichrist. And what’s wrong with that?

During this week’s case, fellow conservative jurist Samuel Alito was asking questions about whether any kind of prayer would be permissible before a legislative session, one that would not offend Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Hindus.

"What about devil worshippers?" Scalia interjected. Laugher ensued. He’s such a card.

His larger point was that not letting people pray before legislative meetings deprives them of their religious freedom, and that it is impossible to design a prayer that satisfies all faiths—not to mention lack thereof.

"What is the equivalent of prayer for someone who is not religious?" Scalia asked. "There are many people who do not believe in God. ... If you had an atheist [town] board, you would not have any prayer. I guarantee you."

After all, who do you think makes people atheists? Guy with the horns, we’re talking to you.

5. Louie Gohmert: Shutdown was necessary to save people from Obamacare.

Two quick refreshers: 1) Obamacare is the “worst law known to man,” worse than slavery, Nuremberg laws, Indian removal act—you get the idea; and 2) Tea Partiers received a drubbing in this week’s election, but seem not to realize it.

Texas Tea Partier Louie Gohmert was out stumping this week, bizarrely bragging that the devastating shutdown was necessary because people would “suffer and potentially die” because of the Affordable Care Act. Yup, nothing kills people faster than health insurance. It is deadly stuff.

He made the statement at a nursing home in East Texas, where he hoped to scare the bejeezus out of seniors so they won’t sign up for the dreaded healthcare coverage. “Anybody that thinks the Affordable Care Act helps seniors doesn’t really understand what’s unaffordable to seniors,” Gohmert helpfully and misleadingly explained. “It makes most of the Medicare Advantage plans go up, but you’ve got to remember, Obamacare actually cut $716 billion from Medicare and seniors rely on Medicare.”

That, of course, is either a lie or make-believe, or both, but since when has that stopped the opponents of Obamacare?

6. Rep. Steve King knows personally—don’t ask him how—that Saddam Hussein purchased uranium from Niger.

Who can forget the fiction that fueled the invasion of Iraq in 2002? Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, was building the bomb, and was ready to use all of it against us or Israel. He got his uranium from Niger, high-level intelligence said. President George Bush even said so in a speech.

Cut to a couple months after “Shock and Awe” and not even Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney or President Bush was standing by that statement. They were misled by some bum intelligence. Sorry. Our bad.

But crazy Iowa Rep. Steve King still believes it because, as he said on Jan Mickelson’s radio show this week: “I have had hands-on evidence that what George Bush said in that State of the Union address was the truth.”

What Bush said was: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

When the claim unraveled, the Bush administration had to eat crow and admit the so-called intelligence was “bogus,” documents “forged.” Spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted the statement should never have found its way into the president’s speech. But nobody took the war back.

But King has “hands-on” knowledge. He just does.

7. Illinois Rep.: Marriage equality has nothing to do with rights; it’s about the Bible.

As the Illinois legislature began to debate whether to join the growing number of enlightened states that have legalized same-sex marriage, State Rep. Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon) pointed out that everyone has it bass-ackwards. Our nation was built on “the scriptures, then came the Constitution. Is that not right?”

It was, of course, a rhetorical question. “I think it is,” Kay continued. A brief course in American history could clear this up for the confused legislator, but never mind.

Kay is at a loss to understand why everyone keeps talking about human rights, and civil rights, and equal rights all the time when they talk about marriage equality. What do human rights have to do with a nation built on scripture? Who you gonna believe, that Constitution with its Bill of Rights written by men, or the word of God?

8. Larry Pratt: Trayvon Martin’s broken family is what killed him.

It’s never too late to pile more pain onto the grieving parents and loved ones of slain teenager Trayvon Martin. His killer is free, Trayvon has been blamed for his own death, and now, taking it one step further, Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America has suggested that Martin's dysfunctional family is responsible for the boy’s death.

That’s what he said in an interview with NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg this week: Trayvon Martin was killed because he had a “broken family.”

Who else can you blame? Triggerman, neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman was just lawfully “standing his ground” when he shot unarmed Martin. “Stand Your Ground” laws can’t be to blame because, as Sen. Ted Cruz explained to Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton in a Senate hearing on the controversial law, she’s just “mourning the loss of her son.” Stand-your-ground laws in fact “protect those in African-American communities,” he said.

Facts be damned, gun nuts and Tea Partiers agree. According to Right-Wing Watch, a recent “Tampa Bay Times analysis of stand-your-ground cases in Florida found substantial racial disparities in the application of the law, including that ‘people who killed a black person walked free 73 percent of the time, while those who killed a white person went free 59 percent of the time. A national studyfound a similar disparity.”

But, it’s Trayvon Martin's family’s fault he’s dead. Probably his mother’s.

9. White, anti-LGBT Texan wins office by pretending to be black.

Dave Wilson, a Houston electrician, has become pretty adept at creating literature for the causes he believes in. While not rewiring people’s homes, he long pursued his sideline of mailing homophobic fliers to thousands of Houston voters attacking the city’s lesbian mayor Annise Parker. His argument is pretty simple. Open homosexuality is bad. It leads to extinction. (Closeted homosexuality, not so much.)

Recently, Wilson expanded his literary efforts into fiction, when he got himself elected to the Houston Community College Board of Trustees by out-and-out pretending to be someone else. He pretended to be a black man, defeating longtime incumbent Bruce Austin, who actually is black, in an overwhelmingly African-American district.

According to Right-Wing Watch, “Wilson’s campaign fliers were filled with black faces that he admits to simply pulling off of websites, along with captions such as ‘Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson.’ Another flier announces that he was ‘Endorsed by Ron Wilson,’ which is the name of an African-American former state representative. Only by reading the fine print will voters discover that the ‘Ron Wilson’ who actually endorsed Dave is his cousin. The cousin lives in Iowa.”

Wilson is fine with this whole deception thing. After all, lying is what politicians do, he points out.

10. Nutjob former classmate of Obama reminisces about his cocaine-snorting, gay-hustling high school days.

Scott Lively's "Defend The Family" website got a real scoop this week with an interview that nutjob preacher James David Manning conducted with Mia Marie Pope, who says—and why would we not believe her?—that she knew President Obama back in high school in Hawaii in the 1970s, when he was a foreigner (this is a birther website, after all) and a gay druggie.

"He very much was within sort of the gay community," Pope claimed. "And we knew Barry as just common knowledge that girls were never anything that he ever was interested in ... He would get with these older white gay men, and this is how we just pretty much had the impression that that's how he was procuring his cocaine. In other words, he was having sex with these older white guys and that's how he was getting this cocaine to be able to freebase."

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10 Deranged Dispatches From the Right-Wing Wackosphere This Week

It’s been a busy week for all manner of charlatans, religious and otherwise.

1. One-woman parade of idiocy, Sarah Palin: The Pope is too liberal; social programs are similar to slavery.

Sarah Palin was on book tour this week, telegenically spewing some of the stupidest nonsense we’ve heard since she announced she could see Russia from her house. We’d like to ignore her, but the fact is she’s hugely popular among a certain segment of the population, and her book about the “war on Christmas,” Good Tidings and Great Joy, is destined for best-sellerdom. Just don’t wish her “Happy holidays!” That is waging war, my friend.

As Christian as she is, though, during an interview with CNN, Palin complained about Pope Francis. She’s taken aback by his liberal attitudes, she says. Taken aback by his unwillingness to go after the LGBT community and atheists, we suppose, and his sympathy for the lonely elderly, and unemployed youth. As Bill Maher said, Palin's really going to be shook up when she finds out what Jesus said. Be sure to have tranquilizers available when she encounters the Sermon on the Mount.

Palin hopped right on that highly offensive bandwagon of equating the social safety net with slavery. “Our free stuff today is being paid for today by taking money from our children and borrowing money from China,” she said. “When that note comes due — and this isn’t racist so try it anyway, this isn’t racist — but it’s going to be like slavery when that note is due, right? We are going to be beholden to a foreign master.” :lol

Insisting that you are not being racist when you’re comparing slavery to something far more benign is always a really convincing way to make people believe that you are in no way racist.

Maher: If Palin thinks the Pope is too liberal, ‘wait until she sees what Jesus has been saying’ :lol :lol

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/16/maher-if-palin-thinks-the-pope-is-too-liberal-wait-until-she-sees-what-jesus-has-been-saying/


2. Pat Buchanan: The Pope is bordering on moral relativism. The horror!

Pat Buchanan is another conservative who is very upset that the Pope is not willing to use the Catholic Church to bully people anymore. Specifically, he misses license to bully atheists, women who use birth control and have abortions, and gay people. In his refusal to berate or convert atheists, and tell LGBT people that they are going to hell, Pope Francis is bordering on— cue music of dread — moral relativism.

Two of the statements that upset Buchanan the most: Pope Francis describing the attempt to convert people to Christianity as “solemn nonsense,” and saying that Christians should spend less time lecturing people than listening to them to “discover new needs.”

Why, that dastardly Pope Francis even acknowledged that people can be good no matter what their religious belief, or lack thereof. And he committed the cardinal sin (sorry, pun intended) of stressing helping the poor, rather than focusing on distractions like the gay lifestyle. As Buchanan wrote at Townhall (http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2013/11/15/papal-neutrality-in-the-culture-war-n1746895/page/full) [3] on Friday, Pope Francis is leading “the Catholic Church to a stance of non-belligerence, if not neutrality, in the culture war for the soul of the West.”

A non-belligerent church?! What the hell?

3. Pat Robertson: Ask your gay son if he has been molested.

Ever the dispenser of sound parenting advice, 700 Club host, evangelical bigot par excellence Pat Robertson advised a caller to be “understanding” when talking to her gay son. By being “understanding,” he meant asking her son if the reason he is gay is because he was molested. Because that is always how people become gay.

“Is there a biological thing going on or has he been influenced — has a coach molested him?” Robertson asked the viewer who called in.

Either way, of course, the mother must immediately enroll her son in one of those gay conversion therapies; yes, the abusive form of pseudo-counseling that even ultra-conservative New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was forced to acknowledge should be illegal.

4. Sandy Rios: Gay-waiter-refused-tip story just a clever ruse to help ENDA.

No doubt you’ll remember the story two weeks ago of the Kansas City waiter who, in lieu of a tip, received a note from his oh-so-considerate Christian customers saying that, despite his superb service, they couldn’t let him share in their riches because they, and god, disapproved of his lifestyle. That story went viral, and even Bill Maher picked up on it, suggesting that if you want to be selfish and cheap, just do it. Don’t claim it’s for the worker’s own good.

Unfortunately, the behavior has spread, with another family refusing a tip this week to a server they assumed was a lesbian. They were even less nice about it, treating her rudely from the start, racking up a sizable bill and gleefully stiffing the hardworker, who happens to be an ex-Marine, out of her gratuity.

But wait, back up, this just in: Sandy Rios of the American Family Association says the first story was a ruse — a hoax staged by the tricky LGBT community to drum up sympathy for ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) to pass in the Senate.

“I smell a rat in this story,” Rios said. “I don’t believe a Christian couple wrote this note, I think it was a ruse because it was the week ENDA was being voted on.”

If only progressives were as willing to engage in dirty tricks and outright deception as ultra-conservatives. If only… hatred was something that was merely stagecraft.

5. Rafael Cruz: Atheism leads to sexual abuse of children.

Ted’s dad. At it again. Downloading his unique combo of spurious lies, bile and nonsense.

This week, speaking at a gathering of a group we must look into joining, OK2A (http://ok2a.org/) [5], described on its website as “Oklahoma Premiere Second Amendment advocacy group,” Rafael Cruz said, straight up, that atheism leads to sexual abuse of children.

Here is the logic he laid out to the assembled gun-toting crazies: “If there is nothing, if there is no God, then we are ruled by our instincts.”?

Atheism leads to moral anarchy, he said. “Do we know any politicians that have done that?” he asked the crowd.

“Hitler!” answered Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America (http://gunowners.org/larry-pratt.htm) [6], who, coincidentally, was in the audience.

“Oh, we don’t have to go that far, Larry,” Cruz chummily replied. “Just go to Washington. Just go to the White House.” From there, it’s a short hop to sexual immorality, perversion and sexual abuse, Cruz concluded.
Follow?

6. “Historian” David Barton: True Christian soldiers wouldn't have PTSD.

Atheism is apparently a problem in the military, too. Because if soldiers were true Christians, they would not feel bad about killing enemies and sometimes non-combatants. They would not come home traumatized and have all these psychological problems.

Christian “historian” David Barton, the one who blamed Typhoon Haiyan on women having legal abortions, celebrated Veteran’s Day by criticizing veterans who feel at all guilty for what they do on the battlefield.

If they read their Bible, he and televangelist Kenneth Copeland agreed on Believer’s Voice of Victory, they’d read in Numbers 32 that soldiers “shall return and be guiltless before the Lord” and that means that they wouldn’t have PTSD.

“You don’t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn’t take psychology; that promise right there will get rid of it,” Copeland said.

When you go to war God’s way, Barton chimed in, “not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”

So, get it together veterans!

7. Rand Paul: Obamafascists are coming for your donuts.

This is truly terrifying. Right-wing libertarian wackadoodle Rand Paul took to the microphone this week to warn Americans that the federal government is targeting donuts. That’s what he said: “They’re coming after your donuts!”

Way to scare people. First, Madam Dictator Michelle Obama tries to get kids to eat more vegetables and exercise; now, the FDA is banning trans fats. Give me obesity or give me death! Or both, as the case may be.

You know who libertarian Paul is not so libertarian about? Gubb’mint employees.

"I say we should line every one of them up. I want to see how skinny or how fat the FDA agents are that are making the rules on this," he said in his rousing donut hysteria-invoking speech.

Donuts, as Esquire’s Charles Pierce pointed out, don’t need trans fats to be delicious. The two largest donut purveyors, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts are making pretty tasty round pastries without them.

Credit where due, though: There’s no indication, yet, that Paul’s recent call to arms was plagiarized.

8. Rush Limbaugh makes deranged comments on Obamacare.

There have been a lot of deranged comments on Obamacare this week, including from the New York Times when it idiotically compared the bumpy rollout of healthcare.gov to Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina. Hmmm, website = hurricane. Thousands dead = millions potentially getting health insurance. Yep, that analogy works.

Actually, all kidding aside, it’s monstrous.

While arguably Rush Limbaugh is less influential than the Times, and perhaps a tad more right-wing, he was not to be outdone in the crazy Obamacare hysteria that ran rampant this week. Rush, of course, does not like women, or sluts as he calls them, who use birth control. And Obamacare making it easier for them to do so is one of the healthcare act’s greatest evils in his view. Because he cares so much about millennials and their virtue, Rush took it upon himself to warn them on Wednesday’s show not to fall into this trap. What Obamacare is really advocating is not safer sex, he says—it’s prostitution.

"If you like being promiscuous, you can keep on being promiscuous," Limbaugh, friend of the young, said. "If you like being a prostitute, then have at it!"

And summing up for emphasis:

"If you like your risky, promiscuous lifestyle, you can keep it. That's what Obama is promising."

Wait, that sounds kind of good, Rush. Thanks!

9. Phyllis Schlafly: Calling all border agents—be on the lookout for polygamist Muslims.

In a world that made any sense, conservative mouther-offer Phyllis Schlafly would have long ago faded into irrelevance. Frankly, we had assumed she was dead by now, but she’s alive and kicking, and still getting airtime to broadcast her ignorance.

While the Eagle Forum founder has long been preoccupied with fighting feminism, she also wants to make sure that those really sexist Muslims with multiple wives are not being let into our country. Yes, immigration, the changing complexion of America, and what that means for the welfare rolls is very much on Schlafly's increasingly enfeebled mind these days.

She expressed these concerns on a radio show called “Crosstalk” the other day, saying:

“I would like to know if our immigration authorities are letting in people who believe in polygamy. Polygamy is against our law. We’ve brought in thousands of Muslims — I want to know if they made them sign a pledge to assure they’re not bringing in a bunch of wives who will now go on our welfare. Nobody can answer that question; I can’t get any answers to that question.”


Luckily, a caller to the show had an answer. He asserted without an iota of doubt that the Obama administration was bringing in 40 to 50 million Muslims and that they will destroy our constitution and implement Sharia law.

On the bright side, Phyllis: feminism and Sharia law do not go well together. Time to make friends with the enemy of your enemy?

10. Louisiana official: Close the libraries so those Mexicans can’t learn English; build a jail instead.

Most immigration hardliners also believe that anyone who comes to this country damn well ought to learn English. No bilingual education, no chance of Americans ever rubbing elbows with people who don’t speak Amurrican.

But Lindel Toups, who sits on the Lafourche Parish City Council, is upset that Mexicans are trying to learn English, and he’d like to divert funding from libraries to a new jail because of that fact. Toups played down the importance of libraries (http://www.tri-parishtimes.com/news/article_d1cd291e-4bd9-11e3-acb2-001a4bcf887a.html) [9] in recent comments to the Tri-Parish TimesandBusiness News, by pointing out that the Spanish-language Biblioteca Hispana section helps Spanish-speakers learn English.

“They’re teaching Mexicans to speak English,” Toups said “Let that son of a bitch go back to Mexico.”

Libraries are apparently a great source of evil. “There’s just so many things they’re doing that I don’t agree with… Them junkies and hippies and food stamps [recipients] and all, they use the library to look at drugs and food stamps [on the Internet]. I see them do it.”

The citizens of Lafourche Parish are voting this week on whether to keep $800,000 in the library system or put it toward the $25 million needed for a new jail. That way, they might be able to avoid an increase in taxes.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

http://www.alternet.org/print/tea-party-and-right/10-deranged-dispatches-right-wing-wackosphere-week

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This Week In Crazy: The United Nations Invades New Hampshire, And The Rest Of The Worst Of The Right

Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the wildest attacks, conspiracy theories, and other loony behavior from the increasingly unhinged right wing. Starting with number five:

5. Larry Pratt

Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt — who was last seen on this list warning that Obamacare is actually a gun-grabbing scheme that will force doctors to “submit medical information to the big computers in the sky” — claims the number five spot this week for reviving the smear campaign against the gun lobby’s least-favorite victim of gun violence: Trayvon Martin.

During an interview with NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg, Pratt claimed — falsely — that Stand Your Ground laws disproportionately benefit the black community, before sharing his own theory on why Trayvon Martin lost his life.

“Probably what killed [Martin] was the broken family that he was forced to deal with,” Pratt explained. “That’s often an indicator that a young man is going to have trouble, of either race, of any race.”

Divorced parents, a vigilante neighborhood watch coordinator with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol…really, what’s the difference?

3. Alex Jones & Larry Klayman

Larry Klayman has had a tough time gathering support for his planned coup against the federal government — his dress rehearsal during the government shutdown didn’t go very well — but on Tuesday, he finally found an enthusiastic audience: conspiracy king Alex Jones.

Unsurprisingly, Jones is fully onboard with overthrowing the “Obama gang,” whom he describes as “offshore crony capitalist kleptocrats” who are using a “communist model” to take over the country.

“We have to rise up,” Klayman insisted. “We will succeed in the end but we need to show force.”

Video of their exchange, which is full of as many conspiracy theories as one could possibly fit into 90 seconds, is below:

1. Jack Kimball

Jack Kimball, a Tea Party leader and the former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, “wins” the week for a conspiracy theory that helps to explain why the Republican Governors Association reportedly thought $100,000 was a fair price to get rid of him.

In an email that was “intercepted” by the conservative NH Journal on Tuesday, Kimball warned that the United Nations may be invading the Granite State:

Hi Folks,

Just a quick heads up. This morning my Daughter and Son-in-Law were on Route 95 headed North to Maine where they observed 40 – 50 unmarked white trucks and humvee type vehicles headed South toward NH. There were also some cammo painted military type unmarked vehicles. All of these trucks were being driven by Military personnel. Some of them were clearly carrying fuel or water. Others were carrying other types of supplies. There were also some white buses interdisbursed in the group. A bit later they encountered an additional ten 18 wheeler’s that were being driven by military personnel but were, once again, unmarked. That’s roughly 60 vehicles. Don’t know what they were doing or where they were going but the white vehicles sound more like UN trucks. Be alert.

Jack

Sounds crazy, right? Thankfully, in a follow-up interview with Patch, Kimball explained that he didn’t mean to imply that the UN planned to put New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” motto to the test. “No, of course not,” he said. “Nothing like that.”

So why did he send the alarming email?

“We’re all concerned about what’s going on with Obama,” Kimball explained. “We’ve all been talking about what’s happening. We’ve got Chinese troops arriving in Hawaii… and Kansas. There’s a lot of things going on that are very suspicious. There are a lot of people that are very vigilant.”

If nothing else, Kimball at least has clarified why Ron Paul seems to like him so much. :lol

http://www.nationalmemo.com/this-week-in-crazy-the-united-nations-invades-new-hampshire-and-the-rest-of-the-worst-of-the-right/

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Texas GOP Lawmaker Charged With Felony In Airport Gun Incident

A Texas Republican lawmaker was charged with a felony after he allegedly tried to take a gun through security earlier this month at an airport in Austin, according to multiple reports.

Authorities said Texas state Rep. Drew Darby (R) tried to take a .38 caliber Ruger pistol with six rounds of ammunition through security at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, according to the Austin American-Statesman newspaper.

When the gun was spotted by security, Darby reportedly told an an officer it was his, that he had a concealed pistol license and had forgotten it was in his bag.

The paper reported he was booked at the Travis County Jail on Nov. 14. He was released a few hours later on a $5,000 bond.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-gop-lawmaker-faces-felony-charge-for-taking-gun-through-airport-security

if he were black or Muslim, he'd be sitting jail and heading to trial ...

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right wing BIMBO/AIRHEAD ERUPTION!

YMCA swim class for Muslim girls proves Sharia law is ‘changing everything’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/fox_ff_sharia_ymca_131202a-615x345.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/fox-news-ymca-swim-class-for-muslim-girls-proves-sharia-law-is-changing-everything/

Now the red states will be inflamed to ban Sharia law in their pools.

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50 DUMBEST THINGS RIGHT-WINGERS SAID IN 2013

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/lists/50-dumbest-things-right-wingers-said-in-2013-20131204 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/lists/50-dumbest-things-right-wingers-said-in-2013-20131204)

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Repug + Catholic = very nasty politician or judge.

Rick Santorum compares himself to Nelson Mandela fighting against the ‘apartheid’ of Obamacare

On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Rick Santorum compared Obamacare to apartheid, then called Obamacare “cool” because it will help Republicans win in 2014.

“Nelson Mandela just died,” O’Reilly said. “I don’t know if you’re aware. Ninety-five years old. Nelson Mandela — I spent some time in South Africa, he was a communist, this man. He was a communist. But he was a great man anyway. The sacrifices he made for his people were just stunning. But he was a communist. A great man, but a communist.”

“I would never attack Nelson Mandela,” O’Reilly continued. “I told Bishop Tutu, who’s like that too, but I told him ‘I respect you.’ Why can’t you guys in the Republican Party bring that to the forum?”

“Well, Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice,” Santorum replied. “And he was willing to pay a huge price for that. And it’s for that reason he — he — he is mourned today, because of that struggle he performed. But what he was advocated for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice.”

“I would make the argument,” Santorum continued, “that we have a great injustice going on too, in this country, with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives, and Obamacare is front-and-center in that.”

“And I agree with [O'Reilly's] talking points earlier, that the center focus of the 2014 election must be Obamacare and all of its aspects,” he concluded.

“And the cool thing about Obamacare is that it’s not only bad for the economy, not only bad for people’s health, it’s also bad for freedom of conscience — it’s also bad for a whole variety of issues that will energize all across America.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/06/rick-santorum-compares-himself-to-nelson-mandela-fighting-against-the-apartheid-of-obamacare/

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a particularly great week for right-wing/Christian madness

10 Ways Right Wingers Went Cuckoo This Week -- 'Duck Dynasty' Meltdown Edition

1. Conservative Hootenanny Over Firing of Duck Dynasty Star

In every cloud there is a silver lining. Phil Robertson may have lost his reality show over his vile comments about gays and blacks unrepentantly spewed to GQ magazine, but look at all the marvelous new friends he made, many who seem ready to anoint him to sainthood. If Mother Teresa had only known that all she had to do was imply that homosexuality leads to bestiality and promiscuity (in that order) and black people thoroughly enjoyed their subjugation in the Jim Crow south, she would not have had to spend so much time taking care of all those poor, sick people.

Okay, okay, we’re exaggerating. No one actually compared the duck patriarch to Mother Teresa. That’s crazy talk. Who would do that?

Newt Gingrich just compared him to Pope Francis.

Conservative radio host Mike Slater said he is like Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monica Crowley, Megyn Kelly, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin all called him some combination of a First Amendment martyr and an example of a good Christian.

Illinios GOP Congressional candidate Ian Bayne called him “the Rosa Parks of our generation,” and the

American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer called him an American hero then warned, darkly that Robertson's suspension is “the Mark of the Beast.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

2. Chris Christie’s true colors truly revealed. Astonishing pettiness. Total willingness to abuse power.

Can there be any lingering doubt that Republican darling, Chris Christie, must not be allowed anywhere near presidency? If you have ever sat in traffic trying to cross the George Washington Bridge, (or anywhere, for that matter) assuming all the while, that it cannot be helped. That’s the way it is. There are a lot of cars—too many. Accidents happen. Work must be done. Security must be maintained. These are assumptions that can no longer be made in Chris Christie’s New Jersey.

Chris Christie revealed himself as a man perfectly willing to settle a petty political score (the Mayor of Fort Lee, the New Jersey town just over the bridge from New York, did not endorse Christie for re-election, and Christie’s henchman closed lanes to the bridge on the flimsy pretext of a traffic study to punish him) and to hell with the tens of thousands of people, just trying to get somewhere.

Do not let this out-of-control, bullying man anywhere near the reigns of the IRS, the NSA, the list goes on. Do not.

3. Rick Santorum delivers unhinged, illogical rant about nationalized healthcare.

We may need to run this excerpt from a Rick Santorum speech in its somewhat cleaned up entirety, because we’re still trying to make sense of it. But it seems very ominous. It is about that death-deliverer, government-subsidized healthcare. Even the Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher, was too frightened to take it on. And she was so tough. That’s how scary it is! Then there is this leap of logic that has us scratching our now totally terrified heads. Because if you get sick, and you don’t have healthcare, you die. (Question: So, why isn’t that an argument for providing healthcare to more people?) And, as if dying weren’t bad enough, you also don’t get to vote if you die. So the whole system is rigged, because only living people can vote. And only living people can get healthcare. See?

Here’s Uncle Ricky to explain:

If we have a system where the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country, we’re done. Because then, you are dependent on the government for your life and your health…When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said — remember this, this is the Iron Lady — she said, ‘The British national health care system is safe in my hands.’ She wasn’t going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can’t take it away from them. And the reason is because most people don’t get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don’t get health care, you die and you don’t vote. It’s actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That’s how it works.



We’re sure this thought-chain makes perfect sense in Rick Santorum’s head. But only in Rick Santorum’s head, where it must be very lonely indeed.

Want to see tape and the slightly perplexed crowd at the Young Americans for Freedom event at Reagan Ranch? Click here. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rick-santorum-health) [3]

4. Rep. Jack Kingston: Poor kids should be forced to clean floors for their lunch.

And they say Republicans don’t care about poor children. Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, who is running to replace Senator Saxby Chambliss does. He’s really worried that children living below the poverty line are getting the wrong ideas about how the world works, and about how work works. He’s worried they’re learning that there might be such a thing as a free lunch. His suggestion: Make them pay. Oh, they don’t have money? Oh, you say that’s what poverty is actually all about? Here’s another idea he suggested:
Kingston: “… maybe sweep the color of the cafeteria—yes . . . that would be an administrative problem . . .”

Us: Right, but that’s absolutely the only problem with it, the administrative thing.

Kingston: “And it would probably lose you (the government) money.”

Us: Yeupp, that’s the only other problem with it. It does not, for instance, stigmatize kids whose parents are poor or going through hard times, or expose them to cruel teasing or bullying, or segregate them from their more well-off peers.

Perhaps, Mr. Kingston has spent some time with Mr. Newt Gingrinch (sic) who also thought there was some untapped potential in developing a janitorial labor force of poor children, and said so, to great reception on the presidential campaign trail.

And here’s the thing, Kingston is considered the reasonable one running to replace Chambliss. Yikes.

5. GOP lawmaker: Income inequality is real and it could be a good thing.

It has often been said that the first step towards solving a problem is acknowledging that it exists. That progression went astray, however this week when Minnesota lawmaker David Hann, the State Minority Leader, acknowledged that income inequality was indeed quite real—but, not a problem. No, not just not harmful, good. Because, if rich people don’t get to stay rich, they won’t pay taxes and that will be bad for the government.

News bulletin for Mr. Hann: Rich people already don’t pay their share of taxes.

There’s ample evidence of this, for example, from Huffington Post:

University of Minnesota Associate Professor Jay Coggins actually did have a chart showing who paid state and local taxes. It showed that, in reality, the top 1 percent of earners paid the lowest tax rate.


And, if anyone still needs yet more evidence that drastic income inequality does not serve the common good, the Associated Press provided it when it surveyed more than three dozen economists about income inequality; a majority (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/income-inequality-economy_n_4460725.html) [4] of them said the gap is hurting the economy.

Basically because, many many people cannot afford to spend much money at all. Duh.

There is, as it turns out, no such thing as a no-brainer.

6. Meet the new tea-partying, public-school hating, Jesse Helms worshipping, secession-backing, wacko-bird candidate for North Carolina Senate.

Greg Bannon is a doctor, an ostensibly educated man. Sometimes education has been shown to help counter the problem of ignorance.

Not in this case. Where shall we start? Greg Bannon opposes public education, period. He supports nullification, which is when a state can choose to ignore federal laws. He moved to North Carolina because he worships the late segregationist/secessionist/obstructionist Senator Jesse Helms and wants to be more like him. Somewhat terrifyingly, Greg Bannon is an obstetrician/gynecologist who refuses to give his patients information about contraception or abortion. Shouldn’t one lose their stirrups for that?

Bannon may be ready to hang up his speculum (phew!) because he’s running for Democratic Senator Kay Hagan's seat next year. (uh-oh! Doesn’t North Carolina have those awful voter suppression laws?)

Rand Paul , Erick Erickson and Ann Coulter all like him. And, should he (gasp!) win, he’ll fit right in with the cuckoo-bird caucus in the Senate including Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.

7. Tea party leader: Blacks should stop bitching and moaning about slavery.

A New Mexico tea partier by the name of Glynis Racine has made the determination that it is time for black people to get over the whole slavery thing. Enough already. The Lincoln Country Tea Party patriot made this helpful suggestion somewhat obliquely while celebrating—in her own extremely festive way—the 148th anniversary of the end of slavery.

“White Irish slaves were treated worse than any other race in the US,” she tweeted. “When is the last time you heard an Irishman bitching & moaning about how the word owes them a living.”

Honestly, we can’t actually recall an occurrence where we heard either an Irish person or a black person “bitching & moaning” about that.

Quite a lot of flack ensued twitterspherically, some perfectly valid points about the obvious racism of her statement, and failure to grasp the totality of black suffering during and, of course, well after slavery. Some tweeters insulted Irish people, instead. The courageous tea partier removed her tweet, we’re sure having learned a very valuable lesson.
h/t: RawStory (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/16/meet-wacko-bird-greg-brannon-the-tea-partys-secession-backing-public-school-hating-hopeful/) [5]

8. N.C. GOP-er: Obamacare is like Hitler .. . . again? Yawn.

Another dispatch from the great state of North Carolina, where, unfortunately, right wing loonies are ascendant. By now, we’ve heard that Obamacare is a catastrophic law of epic proportions, tantamount to the Nuremberg laws, Indian Removal Act, Fugitive Slave Act, ummm, what else, pogroms, genocides, hurricanes, typhoons, nuclear bombs, tsunamis—and it may have turned Santa black.

Well, my friends, it’s not that bad. It’s much, much worse. According to North Carolina state Sen. Bob Rucho (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/16/north-carolina-republican-obamacare-worse-than-hitler-stalin-and-terrorism-combined/) [6], Barack Obama is worse than Hitler, Stalin and Osama bin Laden and quite likely Voldemort.

This week, Rucho tweeted:

Justice Robert's pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis, Soviets & terrorists combined.


People complained. They thought the tweet unreasonable. Perhaps, a tad hyperbolic. But Rucho stood firm, tweeting back:

Those that tweeted, put your thinking caps back on:"The PEN is mightier than the SWORD."Edward Bulwar-Lytton,1839. But surely you knew that.


Later, when Rucho also spoke with Mark Binker of WRAL.com (http://www.wral.com/rucho-health-law-more-harmful-to-us-than-nazis/13220181/) [7] he softened his stance a bit, saying that he was just trying to highlight the economic consequences of Obamacare vs. the murderous tyranny of Nazis, Stalinism and radical Islam. He said: “I was concerned about the fact that there are 6 million people who have lost their healthcare due to Obama.” This is a completely fabricated number when it comes to Obamacare. Hmmm, though, rings a bell. Where might he have gotten the figure 6 million from?

It turns out that Rucho is a frustrated op-ed writer. He’d like to explain his points more fully, but no one will print his op-eds. Wonder why.

9. Creationist: Evolution is a silly story for silly people.

Once upon a time this week a man named Dr. John Morris—what kind of a doctor, we do not know—of the Institute for Creation Research (words that hardly go together) said some laughable ridiculous things on the radio. Here’s a sample: “No truly helpful discovery has come from evolution” since evolution proponents, unlike Creationists, “rely on silly evolutionary stories to make us believe it.”

These silly people he pointed out should really not be “gullible enough to think that a frog changed into a prince.”

There it is, evolution in a nutshell. He's certainly read his Darwin.

Silly, silly scientists. What they will come up with next? That gravity holds us on the earth?

See more here. (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creationists-evolution-gullible-people-who-rely-silly-stories#sthash.3E09c3AP.dpuf) [8]

10. Crazy Libertarian radio host: You get MLK, Jr. We get Santa.

Paleolithic radio ranter Neal Bortz made such a reasonable point this week about that whole Megyn Kelly, White Santa debate. Why didn’t we think of it? Mr. Bortz pointed out that Martin Luther King, Jr. is always portrayed as black, you know, like in photographs and documentary footage. What a scam!

And that, my friend, proves Santa is white. “Deal with it,” Mr. Bortz helpfully said.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-ways-right-wingers-went-cuckoo-week-duck-dynasty-meltdown-edition?akid=11306.187590.ys5nXi&rd=1&src=newsletter939697&t=2

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TX's very own Steve Stockman!

Exclusive: Inside Steve Stockman's Disgusting, Condemned Campaign Office (PHOTOS)

Those looking for dirt on Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) need look no further. TPM has obtained photographs taken by the local officials who recently shut down Stockman's campaign office in Webster, Texas. And the images are dirty. And dusty. And grimy.

The story, to recap, was reported last month (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Officials-shut-down-Stockman-campaign-headquarters-4986593.php) by The Houston Chronicle. According to the Chronicle, officials in Webster, Texas in November ordered the emergency closure of Stockman's campaign headquarters, citing multiple safety violations. The newspaper reported that various campaign staffers and volunteers were working and sleeping in the office, located in a former a former motorcycle shop considered unsafe for habitation.

Stockman, who since the office closure has announced a Republican primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), spoke about the arrangement in an August 2012 profile (http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/05/how-steve-stockman-won-in-texas-36/) in Human Events.

"Well, you'll hear a lot of 'Stockman was lucky' and similar stuff -- just don't believe it," Stockman told the conservative outlet. "I could not have done it without all the hard-working, grass-roots volunteers. Believe me, we had them -- young conservatives who came into an old motorcycle shop, worked the precincts and made phone calls, slept on the floor, and ate MREs [Army rations] for their three meals. There's nothing like volunteers who believe in a candidate and a cause."

In response to a public records request from TPM, the city of Webster released photographs taken during an inspection of the property on Nov. 4. The images show a makeshift kitchen, a crumbling bathroom, a closet doubling as storage space for campaign signs, and beat up furniture. The refrigerator in the kitchen is decorated with bumper stickers, one of which appears to be Stockman's infamous "If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted" (http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1315059!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/stockman13n-1-web.jpg) sticker:



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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/pictures-from-inside-steve-stockman-s-condemned-campaign-office

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Republicans agreeing evolution is ‘lies from the pit of Hell’ up 10 points


A recent poll about how the United States views evolution may leave some believing that Republicans are definitely not evolving. :lol

According to a Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project telephone survey released on Monday (http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/), the number of Republicans who believe in evolution has dropped by 11 points in just four years.

The survey found that 54 percent of Republicans thought that humans evolved over time in 2009. But by 2013, that number had dropped to just 43 percent.

During the same time period, Democrats who believed in evolution increased from 64 percent to 67 percent.

Overall, 33 percent of American rejected the idea that humans evolved over time. Pew noted that the number of Americans embracing evolution had remained steady over time, but that there was an increasing divide between Democrats and Republicans.

“The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that humans have evolved over time,” Pew senior researcher Cary Funk pointed out (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-usa-poll-evolution-idUSBRE9BT0LC20131230?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews).

White evangelical Protestants were the top religious group denying evolution, with 64 percent agreeing that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” Pew said. That's some holy shit, right there! :lol

Last year, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) — who sits on the House of Representatives science committee — called evolution (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/06/republican-congressman-paul-broun-dismisses-evolution-and-other-theories/) and other scientific theories “lies from the pit of Hell.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/30/poll-republicans-agreeing-evolution-is-lies-from-the-pit-of-hell-up-10-points/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

The Party, and Religion, of Stupid.

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8 Jaw-dropping Inanities Far Right Wingers Said This Holiday Week

1. Joseph Epstein in Wall Street Journal: The problem with America is the collapse of white rule.

2. Paul Ryan lectures his hero, the Pope, on capitalism.

3. Geraldo Rivera: Alec Baldwin’s comments not homophobic because everyone used to be homophobic.

4. Alabama lawmaker calls "Duck Dynasty" star a hero.
Here, in all its glory, is that proposed legislation:

Whereas, renown[ed] entrepreneur, Louisiana outdoorsman, and reality television star Phil Robertson has positively impacted countless lives through the powerful testimony of his steadfast faith in Jesus Christ and how it has transformed his life; and

Whereas Phil Robertson, along with his family ... have served as ambassadors of the love and grace of the Heavenly Father ...

Whereas recently, Phil has received backlash for expressing his personal views on homosexuality that were based on scripture in the Bible in an interview with GQ Magazine; ultimately, the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E) punished him for his beliefs and suspended him indefinitely from the reality television show, Duck Dynasty ...
Whereas a portion of the politically correct populous [sic], which strongly encourages tolerance and open-mindedness, is now contradicting themselves with extreme intolerance and close-mindedness towards Phil and his personal beliefs, which stem from his rock-solid Christian faith ... Phil should not be penalized in any way for practicing freedom of speech, but should be celebrated as a hero for courageously revealing his self-truth and Christian ideals in a world that can be unkind towards those with a conservative mind-set ...

now therefore, Be it resolved by the Legislature of Alabama, both houses thereof concurring, that this chamber of persons stand united in support of Phil Robertson and his family, and in opposition to the A&E Network's deplorable action of suspending Phil indefinitely from Duck Dynasty for relaying his Christian beliefs.”

5. Brilliant and incisive, Bristol Palin ranks haters. LGBT community is the worst!

6. Sarah Palin defends "Duck Dynasty" star without actually reading what he said.

7. John Hagee spreads Christmas cheer by suggesting that people who don’t like hearing "Merry Christmas" get on a plane and leave the country.

8. Mat Staver: If gay marriage is legal then everyone will do it and society will cease to exist
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-jaw-dropping-inanities-far-right-wingers-said-holiday-week

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Jim Garrow Reveals Obama's Secret Plan To Use Aliens And Canadians To Plot Against America -

Jim Garrow today appeared on Erik Rush’s radio show to promote the Operation American Spring rally, where he predicted that President Obama will try to distract Americans from his supposed scandals…by claiming that he is now in touch with alien life.

This must be Obama’s Plan B (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0d8QxlSYk), as Garrow previously claimed (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/obama-soros-conspiracy-nuke-america-and-kill-300-million-people-exposed) that Obama almost launched a devastating nuclear attack (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/garrow-rush-obama-should-be-tried-and-executed-over-mythical-emp-plot) on the US with the goal of killing 90% of Americans in order to help George Soros make money.

“What we’re going to see soon is an unveiling of the concept that we have in fact been contacted by and have been in communication with people from other civilizations beyond earth and that will be part of the great deception that is forthcoming soon from Mr. Obama,” Garrow told Rush.

Another guest, Nancy Smith (http://nancy%20smith%20of%20the%20tea%20party%20news%20sh ow%20%E2%80%9Cpolitichicks/) of the Tea Party news show “Politichicks,” said she is not shocked by Obama’s latest scheme: “Personally I’ve already heard some other sources saying the very same thing that you’re saying.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jim-garrow-reveals-obamas-secret-plan-use-aliens-and-canadians-plot-against-america

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Fox News' 5 Worst Moments of 2013


5. Bill O’Reilly says Asians aren’t liberals because they’re “industrious and hard-working.”

4. Megyn Kelly insists Santa Claus is white.

3. Ben Carson compares LBGTQ people to NAMBLA, bestiality supporters.

2. Geraldo Rivera says jurors would have shot Trayvon Martin sooner than Zimmerman did.

1. Lauren Green interviews Reza Aslan, can’t figure out why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/fox-news-5-worst-moments-2013

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Conservative group calls to lynch Obama and make it a ‘national holiday’
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/conservative-group-calls-to-make-obamas-lynching-a-national-holiday/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Maine senate candidate’s domestic violence conviction proves he has ‘guts

A conservative Portland, Maine Senate candidate claims (http://bangordailynews.com/2013/12/30/politics/elections/susan-collins-primary-challenger-erick-bennett-says-fight-against-assault-conviction-shows-integrity/) that experience he acquired while spending a decade fighting domestic abuse charges informs his “pro-family” agenda.

He fought the Class D assault conviction all the way to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (http://www.cleaves.org/pdf/04-172.pdf), which ruled that “sufficient evidence does exist in the record to support his conviction.”

“The fact that I have been jailed repeatedly for not agreeing to admit to something I didn’t do should speak to the fact of how much guts and integrity I have,”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/maine-senate-candidates-domestic-violence-conviction-proves-he-has-guts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Reverend Franklin Graham has blasted some Christians for not defending Phil more aggressively.

”If we Christians banded together and took a stand, perhaps we wouldn’t be losing so much ground in what the media is calling the ‘cultural war,’” he wrote (http://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-urges-believers-to-fight-religious-war-against-christians-and-biblical-truths-111805/). “However, it is not a cultural war—it is a religious war against Christians and the biblical truths we stand for. Some churches have fallen into the trap of being politically correct, under the disguise of tolerance (http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-the-right-is-turning-political-correctness-into-another-tool-of-the-1-percent/).”

But don’t worry, Franklin.

There’s no tolerance going on at the Man Up God’s Way Facebook page, (https://www.facebook.com/manupgodsway)where this image has been “liked” over 150,000 times.


http://nationalmemo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-02-at-1.31.50-PM.png

http://www.nationalmemo.com/conservatives-might-be-taking-this-whole-duck-dynasty-thing-a-bit-far/

Who wouldn't like to screw 15 year old girls FOR CHRIST! :lol

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Up Next On Fox: A Guy Who Thinks President Obama Should Be Assassinated…

The publication of a story in The New York Times debunking many of the right wing’s claims about the attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi has inspired Fox News to go into overdrive (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-friends-hosts-unfairly-attack-ny-times-for-talking-to-benghazi-attackers/) to keep the story alive.

And on Fox Business, host Lou Dobbs was so eager to attack the Times for allegedly defending Hillary Clinton that he brought on Michael Scheuer, a former CIA operative who had only days before seemed to be calling for the deaths of both President Obama and British prime minister David Cameron.

Daily Beast columnist David Frum pointed (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/03/michael-scheuer-s-meltdown.html)to Scheuer’s Decemeber 23 blog post (http://non-intervention.com/1146/the-desperate-u-s-uk-relationship-barack-obama-david-cameron-and-the-nsagchq-issue/)in which he urged supporters of Obama and Cameron to read the words of a 17th century British republican who wrote, “…every man might kill a tyrant; and no names are recorded in history with more honor, than of those who did it.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/up-next-on-fox-a-guy-who-thinks-president-obama-should-be-assassinated/

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From an email from Alan Grayson:

"A few weeks ago, the Republicans unveiled their 2014 agenda, and it was . . . nothing.

I kid you not. Here is how it was reported in Politico: (http://cl.exct.net/?qs=3d5f9a2853efcd85cca42a848cd9928370c521f7f1f94d d78775eb0a710ff7d8)

"Last Thursday, a group of House Republicans filed into Majority Leader Eric Cantor's Capitol office suite and received a blank piece of paper labeled 'Agenda 2014.' . . . A Republican aide . . . said . . . 'The problem is we don't know where we are headed . . . .'"

Many people saw the absence of an agenda as a problem. I think that it understates the problem. My concern is that the Republicans don't know where to go, not that they don't know how to get there.

To give you an idea of where they seem to think we should go, here are some actual bills that were actually introduced by actual Republicans last year:



a bill to allow the states to nullify any federal law (didn't we settle that in 1865?);
a bill to require every high school student to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (mandatory libertarian indoctrination -- oh, the irony . . . .);
a bill to prohibit lap dancing and jello wrestling (which contained fascinating definitions of the terms "nudity" and "sexual device");
a bill establishing a state religion (not Islam, that's for sure); and
a bill authorizing restaurants, hotels, hair salons and other businesses to deny service to gay customers.


If you're trying to do stuff like that, then doing nothing is a massive improvement."

oxymoron: Repug governance when Repugs hate/destroy government (for the 99%).

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Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people killed by potLegalization of medical marijuana will inevitably lead to the legalization of recreational marijuana use, said Benvenuti.

“I do not believe in the recreational use of marijuana,” he said, “and I could likewise fill this committee room with first responders, law enforcement officers and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana.”

As a protest rose from the assembled crowd that marijuana is not a lethal substance, Benvenuti continued, “In driving intoxicated, in child abuse, we’ve already heard today from folks who talk about intoxicants and its role in child fatality and child abuse.”

“So we need no more recreational drugs in Kentucky,” he said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/kentucky-republican-offers-to-fill-this-committee-room-with-people-killed-by-pot/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

KY's got meth and hillbilly heroin, don't need no mary jane.

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Fox contributor ‘confirms’ Islamists in White House: ‘I haven’t got their names exactly’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fox_ff_syria_wmd_130322a-615x345.jpg

A Fox News contributor who questions the president’s birth certificate (http://www.mediaite.com/online/rachel-maddow-fox-news-lt-general-thomas-mcinerney-comes-out-as-a-birther/) and believes Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were removed just prior to the U.S. invasion claims there are Islamic extremists working in the Obama administration.

World Net Daily trumped up comments (http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/general-muslim-brotherhood-inside-obama-administration/) that retired Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney made Thursday during an appearance on WMAL-AM to discuss a new book written by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

“McInerney, who served as both assistant vice chief of staff and commander in chief of U.S. Air Forces Europe, has surprised interviewers on a radio program by confirming the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood inside the U.S. government,” the WND report claims.


The online report cites a book written by Aaron Klein, a WND senior reporter, and Brenda J. Elliott, an anti-Obama blogger, to provide background for the retired general’s claims.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/10/fox-contributor-confirms-islamists-in-white-house-i-havent-got-their-names-exactly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Virginia predicts need for more prison beds if oral sex is banned for teens

A Republican lawmaker in Virginia has proposed re-criminalizing oral and anal sex — but only for teenagers.

State senator Thomas Garrett, who calls himself a “Cuccinelli Conservative,” filed a bill (http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB14) on Wednesday to “amend and reenact § 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia, relating to crimes against nature.”

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/07/supreme-court-rejects-cuccinellis-bid-to-ban-oral-and-anal-sex-in-virginia/) by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to re-establish the ban on oral and anal sex in his state. The law had previously been declared to be unconstitutional by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In its 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, the Supreme Court had ruled that all sodomy laws were unconstitutional, but Cuccinelli argued that the ruling did not apply to minors.

Garrett hopes to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling by applying his bill only to non-adults.

“Any person who (i) carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or (ii) carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be is guilty of a Class 6 felony,” the bill says. “The provisions of clause (ii) shall not apply where all persons are consenting adults who are not in a public place and who are not committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, aiding, or abetting any act in furtherance of prostitution.”

the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission has just completed an impact study (http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+oth+SB14F160+PDF) and determined that extra prison beds would be required to house the sodomy offenders if the law was passed.

The statement estimated that it would cost taxpayers at least $50,000, but said it was impossible to predict how many more prison beds would be required over a six-year period.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/virginia-predicts-need-for-more-prison-beds-if-oral-sex-is-banned-for-teens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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http://nationalmemo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Jim-Inhofe.jpg

“When you look at what this president has done in Egypt, in Syria, in Libya, in Iraq, in other places, it’s almost like he’s on the other side,” Larson suggested to Inhofe during a segment on the fight against terrorism.

“Well, don’t forget Iran,” Inhofe insisted.

“I have to agree with you,” the Oklahoma senator continued. “I’m not a conspirator either but I wonder, there’s such a repetition, we are over and over again, it’s always — the other guys are always the good guys and we’re the bad guys.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/this-week-in-crazy-bridgegate-is-the-least-of-christies-concerns-and-the-rest-of-the-worst-of-the-right/2/

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My name be Eboneesha Hernandez, a African-Hispanic-American Girl who jus got a award for bein the bess speler in class.

I gots a 47% on the spelin text and 38 points for being black, 10 points for not bringin drugs to class, 10 points for not bringin guns to class, and 15 points for not getting pregnut during the cemester. It be hard to beat a score of 120%.

White dude sit nex to me is McGee from Jaxon Mizipy.

He got a 94% on the text but no extra points on acount of he have the same skin color as the opressirs of 150 years ago.

Granny ax me to thank all dimocrafts and liberuls for suportin afermative axion.

You be showin da way to true eqwallity.

I be gittin in medical skool nex an mabe I be yo doctor since Barrac takn over da healfcare in dis contry.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/10/ohio_politician_not_sorry_for_incredibly_racist_em ail/

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9 Right-Wingers Who Said and Did Colossally Stupid Things This Week


1. Ohio politician not sorry at all for sending out racist email.

2. Art Laffer: 'The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act.'

3. WSJ writer says women are to blame for the rise of fatherless children.

4. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert: 'The state won’t recognize legal same-sex marriages.'

5. Rush Limbaugh: 'Media created polar vortex hoax to perpetuate global warming hoax.'

6. Georgia GOP Senate candidate: 'Dems just want to put illegal aliens on welfare and get them to vote for them.'

7. Ted Cruz: 'Obama should lock up pot users.'

8. Maine Gov. Paul Le Page: 'New Year’s Resolution: Get those 12-year-olds back to work again.'

9. Followup: Congressman who suggested poor kids work for their lunches, expensed $4,200 in lunches for himself—to the taxpayers.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/9-right-wingers-who-said-and-did-colossally-stupid-things-week?akid=11397.187590.pEJcCU&rd=1&src=newsletter946090&t=3&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

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Karl Rove: Bridge scandal proves Christie is ‘what we want’ in a presidenthttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/12/karl-rove-bridge-scandal-proves-christie-is-what-we-want-in-a-president/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Yep, just as they did with p/e company destroyer/asset stripper Bishop Gecko, Wall St must salivating over getting an ex-Wall St 1%er greasebag into the WH

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Fox News’ Brit Hume Says Chris Christie’s Problem Is That Society Is Too ‘Feminized’http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-fox-news-brit-hume-says-chris-christies-problem-is-that-society-is-too-feminized/

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Wyoming lawmaker wants to save money with firing squads: ‘It’s one of the cheapest’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bruce_burns1-615x345.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/wyoming-lawmaker-wants-to-save-money-with-firing-squads-its-one-of-the-cheapest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

impeccable logic and fiscal responsibility

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Megyn Kelly advises McConnell: Stop fighting Obama in court and ‘try to impeach him!’http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/megyn-kelly-advises-mcconnell-stop-fighting-obama-in-court-and-try-to-impeach-him/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

dumb bimbo. Dems have Senate majority! :lol

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South Carolina Senate Candidate: Impeach Pro-Equality Judges, Give Teachers Machine Guns -

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/south-carolina-senate-candidate-impeach-pro-equality-judges-give-teachers-machine-guns#sthash.V9hPEpDi.dpuf

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From Bible-thumping, Confederate, racist east Texas ...\

Gohmert: Judges Ruling In Favor Of Gay Marriage Need 'Basic Plumbing Lessons'

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Tuesday said that judges who have struck down state bans on same-sex marriage, like those in Utah (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-judge-strikes-down-utah-same-sex-marriage-ban) and Oklahoma (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-oklahoma-judge-rules-state-s-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional), need "basic plumbing lessons."

Gohmert said that these judges are denying the biological reasons for restricting marriage to between a man and a woman.

"'Basically, we haven't seen any biological evidence to support marriage being between a man and a woman,'" he said, summarizing the judges' rulings during a Heritage Foundation event, according to Roll Call (http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/gohmert-judges-legalizing-same-sex-marriage-need-plumbing-lessons/).

And so the Texas representative said that the judges "need some basic plumbing lessons."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gohmert-judges-need-basic-plumbing-lessons-gay-marriage?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

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Idaho Republican opposes law aimed at stopping ‘faith-healing’ child deaths
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/17/idaho-republican-opposes-law-aimed-at-stopping-faith-healing-child-deaths/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

God loves the children so much He wants them to die avoidable deaths. That's why He's so famous for healing the sick.

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Christian Taleban Education

Noah Took a Baby Dinosaur on the Ark? 5 Extremist Christian "Science" Teachings

Accelerated Christian Education is a fundamentalist school curriculum used in a claimed (http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/speaker-emphasizes-success-of-more-than-ace-schools/article_a288379c-28d5-11e3-92da-0019bb2963f4.html) 6,000 schools and 145 countries.

Despite the name, education is actually second to its stated primary purpose (http://www.aceministries.com/aboutus/pdf/Great_Commandment_Commission.pdf), which is "to diligently teach our children to love the Lord in every sphere of their lives, with all their hearts, all their souls, and all their minds," according to its website. (http://www.aceministries.com/aboutus/pdf/Great_Commandment_Commission.pdf)

ACE explicitly says (http://www.aceministries.com/aboutus/pdf/Great_Commandment_Commission.pdf) its intention is that students should not have any knowledge of anything contrary to the Bible. In practice, students are taught gross distortions and misrepresentations of mainstream science, like these 33 bizarre multiple choice questions (http://www.alternet.org/belief/33-jaw-droppingly-stupid-multiple-choice-questions-christian-education-curriculum) from the ACE coursework. Here's a look at the some of the blatant mistruths ACE teaches.

1. The Loch Ness Monster Disproves Evolution

2. Solar Fusion Is a Myth

3. Japanese Whaling Boat Found a Dinosaur

4. Evolution Has Been Discredited

5. Humans Footprints Found Beside Dino Tracks

http://www.alternet.org/noah-took-baby-dinosaur-ark-5-extremist-christian-science-teachings?akid=11411.187590.VMo5cQ&rd=1&src=newsletter948243&t=9&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

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here's a racist NRA hero to racist gun fellators

Ted Nugent writes insanely racist Op-Ed about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Even for Ted Nugent, who once wrote that America’s African-American community has “a mindless tendency to violence (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/25/nras-ted-nugent-denial-riddled-hysterical-black/195053),” this one is bad.

Writing at the batshit insane right-wing fever swamp of a site known as WorldNetDaily, Nugent claimed on Wednesday (http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/what-would-dr-king-say-about-black-culture/) that a viral video of a young child cursing was representative of all the ways black people in America had failed to live up to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

“Just when you think it can’t get any uglier,” Nugent begins, “some street rat will slither out of the sewer and do something that shocks even the most hardened and calloused among us, me included.” He goes on to argue that the video showed “the continuing and unbroken cycle of street-rat savagery” and that the boy’s family (he uses scare quotes around the word) “is a bunch of gangster thugs, punks, degenerates and criminals.”
As much as the video bothered Nugent, however, the former rock star writes that it represents just “the tip of the black gangster iceberg.” He goes on to argue that “[h]igh school dropout rates, illegitimacy and other culture rot is a black plague that has engulfed the black community” and that this tsunami of dysfunction is “the result of Fedzilla’s $16 trillion and 50-year-old so-called war on poverty, which created a cycle of dependency, destruction and culture rot for black America.”

Finally getting to how any of this dehumanizing and blatantly bigoted rhetoric relates to Martin Luther King Jr., Nugent proclaims that African-Americans cannot “honestly celebrate the legacy of Dr. King” until they “admit to the self-inflicted destructo-derby they are waging and begin to tell their liberal Democratic slave drivers to take a hike.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/16/ted_nugent_writes_insanely_racist_op_ed_about_the_ legacy_of_martin_luther_king_jr/ (http://www.salon.com/2014/01/16/ted_nugent_writes_insanely_racist_op_ed_about_the_ legacy_of_martin_luther_king_jr/)

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The Confederacy never fails to amuse

Requiring an ID to Eat?! The Right-Wing's Next Crazy Plot Against Low-Income Americans

Under a bill Vitter introduced Wednesday (http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/vitter-introduced-bill-to-require-photo-id-for-food-stamp-purchases), beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would be denied their food if they are unable to show a photographic identification card at the register. For millions of low-income Americans who don’t have an official photo ID and can’t necessarily afford to buy one, Vitter’s bill would mean being cut off from their primary food source.

Estimates of how many people are without the kind of ID Vitter wants to require are a bit fuzzy, as researchers have tended to focus on the issue in the context of voting rights, but multiple surveys have found that around 10 percent of the voting public doesn’t have a state-issued ID. One survey of voting-age citizens in 2006 put the ID-less proportion of the population at 11 percent, meaning that more than 21 million people (http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_39242.pdf)nationwide likely lack photo ID, and found that one in four African-Americans surveyed had no ID.

At 1 percent, SNAP fraud rates pale in comparison (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/politics/fraud-used-to-frame-farm-bill-debate.html?_r=3&)to the rate of fraud in the farm assistance programs (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/06/2581861/watchdog-finds-major-overpayments-food-stamps-17-million-farm-programs/)that conservatives like Vitter are attempting to shelter from cuts in the ongoing farm bill fight.

http://www.alternet.org/requiring-id-eat-right-wings-next-crazy-plot-against-low-income-americans

And of course Vitter won't pay to give people an a photo ID.

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Republican lawmaker uses “thoughts of God himself” in speech denouncing abortion

Rather than use his own thoughts, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., decided to use “the thoughts of God himself” during a Wednesday speech on the House floor denouncing abortion. (Rand Paul likes to steal his remarks from Wikipedia; plagiarizing God is slightly more audacious, no?)

“Today, Mr. Speaker, we sit in a Chamber that has above your rostrum the motto of the United States of America that says ‘In God We Trust,’” Walberg said.

“And so rather than going on with further comments that I would make from my own thoughts, I would turn to the thoughts of God himself, more specifically words that were uttered by a man, a king, a very wise king who was very human, as well, a king who was classified by God himself as being a man after My own heart.

And so what this man would say or would think if he were honored by God with that statement would be something we should hear.”

Walberg then read Psalm 139, which says nothing about abortion, but is often used by anti-choice activists to justify their efforts to restrict women’s access to basic healthcare.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/16/republican_lawmaker_uses_thoughts_of_god_himself_i n_speech_denouncing_abortion/

These Christian assholes will say anything, do anything, and claim God, who talks to them, whose mind they know, told them to do it.

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more Christian bullshit in cowboy country.

Repugs' key tactic is suckering the low-information sheeple by referring to the Bible to give themselves credibility.

"hey, that guy talks about Christ, devils, quotes the Bible, hates gays, etc, he MUST be a good person with good policies for me. I'll vote for him." :lol

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"This week’s “winner” is Colorado legislature candidate and militant gay-fearer (http://www.nationalmemo.com/this-week-in-crazy-sheldon-adelsons-nuclear-diplomacy-and-the-rest-of-the-worst-of-the-right/5/) Gordon Klingenschmitt.

It may not shock you to learn that Klingenschmitt is not a big fan of his home state’s decision to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Klingenschmitt’s concerns are twofold:

First, he’s worried (http://www.prayinjesusname.org/2014/01/colorado-buying-marijuana-with-food-stamps-pijn-0197-dr-chaps-klingenschmitt/) that poor people can buy weed with food stamps (they can’t (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/13/3152841/colorado-marijuana-food-stamps/)). (TGB aka, all the poor are criminal frauds and must not be helped)

Second, he fears that demons are getting you high. Seriously.

“There is a demonic spirit of drunkenness and it’s not just alcohol,” Klingenschmitt warned. (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-drug-induced-hallucinations-are-demonic-spirits) “Why do you think you have hallucinations? These spiritual visions that you have are not just biological; they’re actually demonic.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/this-week-in-crazy-demons-are-in-your-weed-and-the-rest-of-the-worst-of-the-right/5/

alcohol is "demonic spirit"?

Colorado's very own extreme right-wing COORS alcohol trafficker won't be pleased :lol

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Fox News Host Says Americans Don’t Know Their History, Then Makes Up Some American History

Andrea Tantaros — host of Fox News’ The Five — claimed on Wednesday that Americans are less free because they don’t know their history. Then she helpfully gave a perfect example of how Americans don’t know their history.

“If you ask most people, they don’t even know why we left England,” she said. “They don’t even know why some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea. Most people don’t know that.”

She went on to say that this has led to lawmakers “doing whatever they want, nobody checks them, there’s no responsibility. If we don’t know why we got here, if we don’t know why we fought and died, how are we going to fight for it?”

“Yeah, it’s a good point,” her co-host Greg Gutfeld said.

“Early-American history experts were generally puzzled over what Tantaros was talking about…”PolitiFact said in its attempt to fact check Tantaros’ statement (http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/16/andrea-tantaros/tantaros-says-americans-dont-know-their-history-th/).

Author Chris Mooney found seven studies (http://www.alternet.org/story/154875/the_science_of_fox_news%3A_why_its_viewers_are_the _most_misinformed) that confirm Fox News viewers as consistently the most misinformed of any news channel. It seems they’re nearly as misinformed as the channel’s hosts.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-fox-news-host-says-americans-dont-know-their-history-and-what-happens-next-wins

Our dear Andrea was actually not far off, just a little too simplified for Fox's highly informed, discerning, educated viewers.

4000 words might help Andrea's accuracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

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1. Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot, stab and strangle each other.

2. David Brooks: Poverty is not an economic problem.

3. Another great Republican idea: People should have to show ID to get food.

4. Fox News Host says Americans don’t know their history—then proves it by not knowing her history.

5. Ted Nugent demonstrates that he is insanely racist . . . again.

6. Senator Bob Goodlatte’s jobs plan: Restrict abortion.

7. Louie Gohmert: Judges for same-sex marriage need plumbing lessons.

8. Fox’s News’ Dr. (!!!) Keith Ablow: Being transgender is a myth!

9. Another one from Fox’ repository of crazies: Elisabeth Hasselbeck wonders if girlie men are a threat to national security.

10. Ken Buck: Pregnancy and cancer, very similar.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-nuttiest-nastiest-right-wing-statements-week-pot-freak-out-edition?akid=11418.187590.-9LSAP&rd=1&src=newsletter948927&t=2&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

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Fox host accuses MSNBC of partisan Christie coverage as panel veers into Benghazi talk

Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz on Sunday devoted an entire segment to whether MSNBC had been partisan in its coverage of New Jersey Chris Christie’s (R) growing scandals, while National Review Online columnist Jonah Goldberg pushed the panel to discuss Benghazi instead. :lol

“MSNBC has been leading the charge with Rachel Maddow leading with the story every single night,” Kurtz said.

“Surprise, surprise, don’t we all know MSNBC is a partisan network?” Fox News contributor Lauren Ashburn asked. :lol

Goldberg said that he was outraged that there were “dozens of results” on Google if “you type in Chris Christie and Watergate.” :lol

http://intelligenthome-texas-dsp.aiprx.timewarnercable.com/intelligenthome/price.php?aitrk=twcIHtxd&teng=gd&geng=e06&aeng=adde06-25&keng=www.rawstory.com

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Confederate racist FL itchin' for a lynchin'

GOP Florida House candidate on Obama: ‘It’s time to arrest and hang him high’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/gop-florida-house-candidate-on-obama-its-time-to-arrest-and-hang-him-high/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Pastor tells Fox News: Obama’s getting us ready to embrace the anti-Christ

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/pastor-tells-fox-news-obamas-getting-us-ready-to-embrace-the-anti-christ/

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Michigan GOP official: ‘Herd all the Indians’ to Detroit, build a fence and throw in corn

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/michigan-gop-official-herd-all-the-indians-to-detroit-build-a-fence-and-throw-in-corn/

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Rep. Louie Gohmert: I’m no prophet but Netanyahu could be the next King David

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as a historic leader, on par with King Solomon and other biblical rulers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/20/rep-louie-gohmert-im-no-prophet-but-netanyahu-could-be-the-next-king-david/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

and the East Texas Bible-thumpers/End Timers went wild! :lol

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Rush Limbaugh darkly hints at conservatives needing to commit violence against liberals (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/03/1139450/-Rush-Limbaugh-darkly-hints-at-conservatives-needing-to-commit-violence-against-liberals)

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"RUSH: I have to say, though, folks, terrorism is the greatest threat, because we can still defeat liberals without violence. So terrorism still, of course, represents a greater threat than the Democrat Party. We can handle them without violence. So far."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/03/1139450/-Rush-Limbaugh-darkly-hints-at-conservatives-needing-to-commit-violence-against-liberals

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TSA's boyfriend and NRA/gun fellators' hero continues his shit-for-brains class-and-charm offensive.

Ted Nugent: ‘Subhuman mongrel’ Obama should get ‘just due punishment’ for treason

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent said recently that he wouldn’t rest until President Barack Obama — who he called a “subhuman mongrel” — and of the all “liberal Democrats” had gotten the “just due punishment” that they deserved for treason.

In an interview with Guns.com (http://www.guns.com/2014/01/18/ted-nugent-president/) last week, Nugent said that him winning the presidency in 2016 would be “the perfect ballet of freedom.”

Nugent, who is a National Rifle Association (NRA) board member and a spokesperson for the Outdoor Channel, opined that he would be the best candidate because “our politicians check their scrotums at the door. Even Hillary. But Obviously, she has spare scrotums.”

He went on to apologize to members of the military for allowing “a commander in chief who is the enemy” to take over the country.

“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America,” Nugent continued. “I think America will be America again when Barack Obama, [Attorney General] Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, [Sen.] Dick Durbin, [former New York City Mayor] Michael Bloomberg and all of the liberal Democrats are in jail facing the just due punishment that their treasonous acts are clearly apparent.”

The Motor City Madman added that his rhetoric was less “inflammatory” than the so-called scandal over the 2011 terrorist attacks at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

“What difference does that make?” he asked. “Not to a chimpanzee or Hillary Clinton, I guess it doesn’t matter.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/ted-nugent-subhuman-mongrel-obama-should-get-just-due-punishment-for-treason/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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ignorant, stupid pitbull bitch still has 100Ks if not Ms of ignorant, stupid followers, and probably most of them are hard-core, if closet, racists

Sarah Palin Celebrates MLK Day By Urging Obama To Stop 'Playing The Race Card'

"Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card,"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/20/sarah-palin-mlk_n_4632831.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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Meet Lee Bright, The Tea Partier Who May Be Too Extreme For Even South Carolina


COLMES: So [teachers] shouldn’t have machine guns?

BRIGHT: I would think a teacher protecting a school grounds should be able to carry whatever she can carry legally.

COLMES: So should machine guns be legal to carry?

BRIGHT: The Second Amendment is pretty clear. It says the right to carry arms should not be infringed. [...] COLMES: So you should be able to have any gun you want?

BRIGHT: Well, I don’t see how the government can regulate it.

Bright’s extreme opposition to tougher gun laws is just one of many positions that puts him far outside of the mainstream, even in staunchly Republican South Carolina. Among other examples, Bright has:




Argued (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/13/republican-senate-candidate-welfare-programs-are-all-sin-and-legalized-plunder/) that welfare programs are “all sin” and “legalized plunder.”
Explained (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/graham-s-tea-party-challenger-able-bodied-food-stamp-recipients-shouldnt-eat-social-safety-n) his demand that food stamps be cut by insisting that “able-bodied people, if they don’t work, they shouldn’t eat.”
Warned (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sc-senate-candidate-lee-bright-warned-irs-obamacare-brown-shirts-called-fema-scam) that “Brown Shirts” from the Internal Revenue Service are going to enforce the Affordable Care Act with AR-15 semiautomatic rifles.
Insisted (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sc-senate-candidate-lee-bright-warned-irs-obamacare-brown-shirts-called-fema-scam) that “FEMA is a scam,” and that the government should have no role in providing disaster relief.
Suggested (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/south-carolina-senate-candidate-itching-refight-civil-war) that Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor might want to dissolve the states, and that President Obama wants to become a king.
Threatened (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/south-carolina-senate-candidate-itching-refight-civil-war) that South Carolinians may have to “use the Second Amendment” against the government, adding that “I want to lay down my life for my liberty just like my forefathers did.”


In addition to all of his overheated rhetoric, Bright holds at least $1.4 million in debt (http://www.thestate.com/2013/12/12/3156005/exclusive-graham-opponent-reports.html) from a failed trucking business — a disclosure that rather undercuts his efforts to paint himself as a fiscal conservative.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/meet-lee-bright-the-tea-partier-who-may-be-too-extreme-for-even-south-carolina/

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Chicago GOP hopeful: Autism and dementia are God’s punishments for LGBT rights
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One of the Republicans lining up to challenge Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) for her seat representing the 9th District of Illinois told the Chicago Daily Herald (http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140121/news/701219738/) that God is “angry” with the United States and has sent scourges to punish the American people.


Candidate Susanne Atanus believes that autism and forms of dementia are punishments sent by God because of the growing support for marriage equality in the country and the prevalence of abortion.

“I am a conservative Republican and I believe in God first,” Atanus said at an endorsement session with the Daily Herald on Monday.

God controls the weather, she said, and tornadoes are evidence of his wrath.

“God is angry. We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions,” she said. “Same-sex activity is going to increase AIDS. If it’s in our military it will weaken our military. We need to respect God.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/chicago-gop-hopeful-autism-and-dementia-are-gods-punishments-for-lgbt-rights/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Louisiana Christian Taleban

Don’t want to be hassled by creationist teacher? Give up Buddhism, Louisiana public school says


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A public school in Louisiana allegedly advised a Buddhist family to change their beliefs if they didn’t want their child to face harassment from zealous teachers.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Negreet High School in Sabine Parish on behalf of two parents, Scott and Sharon Lane, and their son, “C.C.” The lawsuit claims the school has “a longstanding custom, policy, and practice of promoting and inculcating Christian beliefs,” including the teaching of creationism.

Sixth-grade teacher Rita Roark has told her students that the universe was created by God about 6,000 years ago, and taught that both the Big Bang theory and evolution are false, according to the lawsuit. She told her students that “if evolution was real, it would still be happening: Apes would be turning into humans today.”

One test she gave to students asked: “ISN’T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The correct answer was “Lord,” but C.C. wrote in something else. Roark responded by scolding the boy in front of the entire class.

When informed that C.C. was a Buddhist and therefore didn’t believe in God, Roark allegedly responded, “you’re stupid if you don’t believe in God.”

On another accusation, she allegedly described both Buddhism and Hinduism as “stupid.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/23/dont-want-to-be-hassled-by-creationist-teacher-give-up-buddhism-louisiana-public-school-says/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Fat Pastor with his War on Wimmens

Huckabee, who served two full terms as Arkansas governor, said women who use birth control “cannot control their libidos” without the help of "Uncle Sugar" and “Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless.”

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178064/mike-huckabee-actually-said-about-women-today?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=email_nation&utm_campaign=Email%20Nation%20-%2020140123

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Gohmert: Gov't Tries To 'Lure' Single Moms Into 'Servitude' With Welfare
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gohmert-government-lure-single-moms-servitude-welfare?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[Winehole23]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/iowa-gop-posts-controversial-facebook-photo.html

[Trill Clinton]

Fat Pastor with his War on Wimmens

Huckabee, who served two full terms as Arkansas governor, said women who use birth control “cannot control their libidos” without the help of "Uncle Sugar" and “Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless.”

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178064/mike-huckabee-actually-said-about-women-today?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=email_nation&utm_campaign=Email%20Nation%20-%2020140123





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Nervous venture capitalist compares nation’s progressive shift to Nazi ‘Kristallnacht’

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published a bizarre letter from wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins warning that the underclasses could stage a Nazi Germany-style pogrom against the wealthy.

In the piece — titled “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” — Perkins worried that wealthy people like himself could end up being rounded up in the night and forced into camps.On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published a bizarre letter from wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins warning that the underclasses could stage a Nazi Germany-style pogrom against the wealthy.

In the piece — titled “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?” — Perkins worried that wealthy people like himself could end up being rounded up in the night and forced into camps.

“Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco,” Perkins said, “I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one percent,’ namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich.’”

“From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent,” he lamented.

“This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent ‘progressive’ radicalism unthinkable now?” he asked.

Perkins is a senior partner in the venture capitalist firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/nervous-venture-capitalist-compares-nations-progressive-shift-to-nazi-kristallnacht/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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10 Most Absurd Right-Wing Lunacies This Week: Pity the 1% Edition


1. Thomas Perkins: The 1% are treated the way Nazis treated Jews.

“Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one percent,’ namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the ‘rich.’”

From there he talked about the ongoing “demonization of the rich,” in the San Francisco Chronicle, the resentment about the Google buses, and rising real estate prices, and the “cruel attacks” on his ex-wife, author Danielle
Steel, calling her a “snob” despite all she’s done for the less fortunate.

Here’s the kicker: “This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking,” he wrote. “Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?”

2. We heart Huckabee, and so will you, once you get that libido under control.

“If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.”

3. Laura Ingraham does not think Sarah Silverman is funny. Sarah Silverman is crying about this.

“Comedy Expert Ingraham also called Silverman 'a Nobel Prize winner' (sarcastically, of course) and a 'degenerate, foul-mouthed, slob of a person.'

4. Iowa Republican Party posts incredibly stupid chart on racism.

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iowa-gop-638x366.jpg

5. Chicago GOP hopeful: Autism and dementia are God’s punishment for LGBT rights.

6. Oklahoma lawmaker: If gay people can get married, then no one should get married.

7. Montana GOP rep: Force women to have babies because abortion robs men.

8. GOP congressman: A wife should submit to her husband.

9. South Carolina Sen. candidate: Teachers should carry machine guns.

10. Victoria Jackson: Change First Amendment to ban Islam.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-most-absurd-right-wing-lunacies-week-pity-1-edition?akid=11443.187590._BGfm-&rd=1&src=newsletter951489&t=3&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

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Rand Paul worries women ‘won’ the war and are ‘conquering’ men, taking their jobshttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/rand-paul-worries-women-won-the-war-and-are-conquering-men-taking-their-jobs/

dog whistle to right-wing misogynists to keep women paid 30% less than white men for the same job

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Veteran CBS host laughs in Cruz’s face after he repeatedly denies shutting down government

“Well, Bob, with all due respect, I don’t agree with the premise of your question,” Cruz replied. “Throughout the government shutdown, I opposed a government shutdown. I said we shouldn’t shut the government down. I think it was a mistake that President Obama and the Democrats shut the government down this fall.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/veteran-cbs-host-laughs-in-cruzs-face-after-he-repeatedly-denies-shutting-down-government/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

holy shit, tea baggers invent their own universe and actually believe they have a hold on reality.

:lol

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Allen West will not lower himself to address your vagina so don’t even bother asking

seeing everyone else having fun and not wishing to be left standing there with his dick in his hand, one-and-done former Congressman and lady-hatin’ ragemonster Allen West explained on a wingnut man-talk radio show that women are strong – they are invincible – they are woman, and they shouldn’t believe anything other than that no matter how much ‘the left’ smooth talks directly at their lady vaginas.

Allen West says he agrees with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s comment that Democrats act like women “cannot control their libido” — and the former Florida congressman adds: “The left tries to win the women’s vote by talking from the waist down.”

“Gov. Huckabee has no reason to apologize and if anything the Democrats should be apologizing,” West told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

[...]

“I’m going to be very blunt, the left tries to win the women’s vote by talking from the waist down. What we have to do on our side as conservatives … we have to talk to their heart and we have to talk to their mind and that’s exactly what Gov. Huckabee was talking about drawing that delineation.”

Yes ladies, conservatives only want to speak to your lady brains and not that crazy plumbing down there because they respect your mind even though, if you want to get an abortion, you’re going to have to wait thirty days because your hormones are probably making you stupid and irrational.

Oh, and they also want to force-feed a transvaginal wand into your junk because you are probably too dumb to know that there is a maybe-baby growing inside you and not … oh, I don’t know … a Miata or a set of steak knives or something.

Additionally Allen West and his fellow conservatives will also speak to your “heart” and you gals can maybe let them but, personally and as a guy, I think they’re just going to try and motorboat you.

But it will be a respectful motorboating because that is the least you deserve from them and probably the most you will ever get…

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/27/allen-west-will-not-lower-himself-to-address-your-vagina-so-dont-even-bother-asking/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Fox News’ Laura Ingraham: ‘Wall off Detroit’ to keep the immigrants inConservative radio host and frequent Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham this week said that the government would need to “wall of Detroit” if more immigrants were allowed to move there.
Earlier this month, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) told reporters (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mich-seek-visas-lure-immigrants-detroit-21633881) that he had asked the Obama administration to set aside additional visas for immigrants with special skills and advanced degrees in an effort to reverse Detroit’s declining population.

The Associated Press reported that if Snyder’s plan is approved, “Detroit would be allocated 5,000 visas in the first year, 10,000 each of the next three years and 15,000 in the fifth year.” Immigrants would be allowed to live and work in the city for five years, but could apply for a green card after that time.

On her Tuesday radio show, Ingraham said the idea was “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of.”

“The people of this country, they’re smart enough to know that they don’t want to go anywhere near Detroit. Right?” she explained. “But we need to get these people from other countries to live and work in Detroit to save us because we can then wall off Detroit, apparently, so they can’t then move to other parts of the country.”

“Is that what Rick Snyder is gonna do?” Ingraham asked. “Is there gonna be, you know, is there gonna be finally a border enforced in our country? Except it’s going to be around Detroit.”

Earlier this month, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson came under fire (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/michigan-gop-official-herd-all-the-indians-to-detroit-build-a-fence-and-throw-in-corn/) after telling The New Yorker that his plan was to turn Detroit into an “Indian reservation.”
“[W]e herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and the corn,” he said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/28/fox-news-laura-ingraham-wall-off-detroit-to-keep-the-immigrants-in/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

and the jingos, racists, and xenophobes went wild!

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LG talking to SC neoConfederates, racists, tea baggers, and other ignorant fuckers

Louie Gohmert: Raise taxes on poor people because they can pay with welfare

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/28/louie-gohmert-raise-taxes-on-poor-people-because-they-can-pay-with-welfare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Repug reachout, pro-wimmen messaging

Fox News host: Women don’t want equal pay, they already get ‘exactly what they’re worth’

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/fox-news-host-women-dont-want-equal-pay-they-already-get-exactly-what-theyre-worth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Lindsey Graham’s State Of The Union Rebuttal: ‘World Literally About To Blow Up’One of the leading foreign policy voices in the Republican Party wants to make something clear to the American people: President Obama is threatening the world’s very existence.

After the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) offered a hyperbolic response to the president’s discussion of his Iran policy.

“The world is literally about to blow up,” Graham said (http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/graham-says-world-literally-about-to-blow-up/).

http://www.nationalmemo.com/republicans-warn-world-literally-blow/

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Confederate, ignorant asshole Sessions takes Lady Gaga as medical proof that mj is addictive! :lol

During a Senate Judiciary oversight hearing on the Department of Justice, Sessions told Attorney General Eric Holder that he was appalled that President Barack Obama had recently said (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all) marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol.

“I’m heartbroken :lol to see what the president said just a few days ago,” Sessions explained. “It’s just stunning to me. :lol I find it beyond comprehension. :lol”

“Did the president conduct any medical or scientific survey?” :lol the senator wanted to know, pointing to studies that claimed marijuana use was linked to impairments in IQ and anxiety.

“That is exactly why one of our aid and enforcement priorities is the prevention of marijuana to minors,” Holder replied.

“Well, Lady Gaga said she’s addicted to it and it’s not harmless!” Sessions insisted. “She’s been addicted to it. Patrick Kennedy, former Congressman Kennedy, said the president is wrong on this subject!”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/sen-jeff-sessions-quotes-lady-gaga-to-prove-pot-hurts-the-health-of-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

There are more than 600 studies on mj, going back decades. In fact, many more studies and much longer time than on ANY BigPharma shit.

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Huckabee, here's a MAJOR discovery of how the brain works that was made mj research, the endocannibinoid system.

http://www.beyondthc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eCBSystemLee.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system

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"In response to a court decision that held that it was illegal to ban marriages between same-sex couples in Oklahoma, a state lawmaker wants to — and I’m not making this up — get rid of marriage for everyone in the state. Apparently, Rep. Mike Turner’s constituents are ready to have this discussion (http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=24543033&catId=112032).

I want to emphasize that this is 100 percent real (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/25/3205541/oklahoma-lawmaker-ban-marriages-revival-jim-crow-tactic/). In order to keep gay people from marrying, actual lawmakers are proposing we eliminate marriage entirely.

Turner isn’t just blowing smoke, either. He submitted a bill. Turner has also called for a second vote to ban same-sex marriage (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/01/22/Oklahoma-GOP-lawmaker-calls-for-second-same-sex-marriage-vote/UPI-39391390417307/), even though, as mentioned previously, a court ruled that the ban was unconstitutional."

http://www.care2.com/causes/how-do-you-stop-gay-marriage-ban-marriage-entirely-says-oklahoma-lawmaker.html#ixzz2rtNsDPS6 (http://www.care2.com/causes/how-do-you-stop-gay-marriage-ban-marriage-entirely-says-oklahoma-lawmaker.html#ixzz2rtNsDPS6)

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Sen. Cruz says Obama's promised sanctions veto could lead to Iran nuking New York, Los Angeles (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/29/1273376/-Sen-Cruz-says-Obama-s-promised-sanctions-veto-could-lead-to-Iran-nuking-New-York-Los-Angeles)

“I thought that was one of the most dangerous things in the entire speech,” Cruz said of Obama’s commitment to veto new Iran sanctions as talks continue with the international community. “What I fear is that we’re making the mistakes of the past—the same mistakes the Clinton administration made with North Korea. With North Korea, we relaxed the sanctions in exchange for amorphous promises, and the billions that North Korea received in relaxed sanctions, they used to develop nuclear weapons.

“The risk is unacceptable. When you have the leaders of a nation who have said, among other things, they intend to drive Israel into the sea and wipe them off the face of the map—if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, the risk is unacceptable that that weapon will be detonated over the skies of Tel Aviv or New York or Los Angeles,” Cruz said. “The results could be hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost.”

According to Cruz, Iran is a bigger threat than North Korea—which actually has nuclear weapons—because dictator Kim Jong Un, who "wants to stay in power more than anything else," can be deterred and that may not be true of Iran's leadership.

Uh-huh. Iran—where International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have been, today, on the ground checking out (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/world/middleeast/united-nations-inspectors-visit-uranium-mine-in-iran.html) one of the nation's uranium mines, with more inspections of other nuclear facilities to come—is more dangerous than North Korea, where the last IAEA visit was 12 years ago. Since then, the North has detonated three nuclear devices. Iran has none.

In Ted Cruz's twisted mind, negotiating an agreement filled with verifiable safeguards to keep things that way is going to lead to mushroom clouds over American cities.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/29/1273376/-Sen-Cruz-says-Obama-s-promised-sanctions-veto-could-lead-to-Iran-nuking-New-York-Los-Angeles?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

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Gohmert, Bachmann, and King tell Hannity they’ll ride Obamacare ‘repeal train’ to bitter endhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/gohmert-bachmann-and-king-tell-hannity-theyll-ride-obamacare-repeal-train-to-bitter-end/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Alabama anti-cloning bill would allow hospitals to turn away miscarrying women

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/alabama_hb31_140130a-615x345.jpg

Civil rights experts have warned that a bill approved by the Alabama state House last week would allow hospitals to turn away pregnant women who were experiencing a miscarriage.

State Rep. Becky Nordgren’s (R) HB31 (http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2014RS/Printfiles//HB31-eng.pdf) — or the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act — would allow any health care profession to refuse to participate in abortion, sterilization, human cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/alabama-hospitals-pregnant-women-sorry-honey-we-wont-help) (ACLU), that means that hospital staff could refuse to take part in ending a woman’s pregnancy during a miscarriage even if her health was at stake.

And the legislation would also protect health care workers and hospitals from liability under Alabama law.

“This means that even if the hospitals know that the on-duty doctor won’t provide appropriate medical care, Alabama law says that in most cases they have no obligation to find someone who will,” the ACLU noted. “In effect, the Alabama legislature is saying to a pregnant woman in distress, ‘Good luck. You are on your own.’”

During a debate (http://alreporter.com/in-case-you-missed-it-2/5671-health-conscience-in-the-alabama-house-w-audio.html) in the Alabama House of Representatives last week, state Rep. Patricia Todd (D) argued that the state had better things to do.

“We are looking at a deficit in this state for Medicaid, for corrections,” she said. “We should be spending time talking about how we get ourselves out of this situation. This is a feel-good bill to me. This is like, ‘I want to throw some red meat to make them see that, you know, I really am against abortion.’ When the reality is a health care professional can always opt-out of doing a procedure.”

Nordgren, however, insisted that the bill was not an anti-abortion bill.

“My personal beliefs have nothing to do with the intent of this bill,” she remarked, to jeers from Democrats.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/alabama-anti-cloning-bill-would-allow-hospitals-to-turn-away-miscarrying-women/

So a woman shows up miscarrying, and probably hemorrhaging, Repugs say: GFY!

[Winehole23]

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/conservative_groups_call_for_national_boycott_of_g irl_scout_cookies/

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BYU-Idaho warns its students against masturbation in earnest war-themed videohttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/01/byu-idaho-warns-its-students-against-masturbation-in-earnest-war-themed-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Homophobic RNC Committee Member Accuses Gay Colleagues Of Manipulating Health Benefits

An official associated with the Republican National Committee (http://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/local/agema-urges-unity-between-gop-tea-party/article_01d5737c-730a-5749-a487-6c9f2c449f88.html)made head-turning comments at a GOP holiday party last week, accusing gay individuals of pushing health care reform because they die earlier in life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/dave-agema-anti-gay_n_4415489.html

Homos probably have an average longer lifespan than the homophobic NFL vets avg lifespan of 58 years.

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Nullfication!

Missouri Senate Committee Votes To Jail Federal Agents Who Enforce Gun Laws (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/03/3237961/missouri-senate-committee-votes-jail-federal-agents-enforce-gun-laws/)

The Missouri Senate’s General Laws Committee voted 5-1 last week in favor of a bill that purports to make it a crime for federal law enforcement agents to enforce the nation’s gun laws (http://dailyjournalonline.com/sports/outdoors/mo-senate-panel-adopts-gun-law-nullification-bill/article_1e3c8eb6-8ad7-11e3-acfd-0019bb2963f4.html). Under the bill’s terms, these agents could be imprisoned for up to a year and be fined up to $1,000.

Much of this unconstitutional legislation mirrors a bill Gov. Jay Nixon (D) vetoed last year (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/12/2610051/missouri-gun-nullification-dies-law-enforcement-outcry/). In September, Missouri’s overwhelmingly Republican senate came just one vote shy of the votes necessary to override Nixon’s veto. Like the bill Nixon vetoed last year, the new legislation contains a provision to arm public school personnel (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/20/2192151/four-most-ridiculous-ideas-in-americas-worst-gun-bill/). It also would lower the minimum age to receive a concealed weapons permit from 21 to 19.

Few principles are more clearly established in American constitutional law than the prohibition on states nullifying federal laws (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/01/1945191/alabama-senate-passes-bill-nullifying-all-federal-gun-laws/). The Constitution provides that duly enacted federal laws “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.”

Indeed, it is particularly well established that states may not prosecute federal officials for carrying out their official duties. In the late Nineteenth Century, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field (one of the most loathsome individuals ever to sit on the Supreme Court (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/28/2529621/mlk-freedom-equality-conservatives/), although for reasons unrelated to this case) received death threats from a former colleague on the California Supreme Court after Field decided a case adversely to the other man’s wife. Because of these threats, a United States Marshall named David Neagle was assigned to protect Field while he was traveling in California, and Neagle wound up shooting the man who threatened Field (http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25719995?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103334198941) when that man made an attempt on Field’s life at a restaurant.

Although California charged Neagle with murder, the Supreme Court explained in In re Neagle (http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/135/1/case.html) that this is not allowed. As Neagel established, a federal official who “is held in custody in violation of the Constitution or a law of the United States, or for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States. . . must be discharged.” Thus, the state of California was powerless to prosecute Neagle because he acted pursuant to his duties as a federal marshal.

The same rule applies today in Missouri.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/03/3237961/missouri-senate-committee-votes-jail-federal-agents-enforce-gun-laws/

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Red State Freak Out: Wingnuts Think Southern Snow Is Faked By the Government

Some wacky conservatives are pushing a conspiracy theory (http://freakoutnation.com/2014/01/31/people-in-the-south-are-trying-to-prove-that-snow-is-actually-fake-because-its-a-government-conspiracy/)that the snow that's falling in recent weeks is not real--and is being engineered by the Federal Government. Fueling the theory is the presence of snow in normally-warmer states in the South.


YouTube videos have cropped up in recent days showing people trying to melt their snow with lighters. But the snow doesn’t melt. It lets off a toxic smell and produces black marks on the snow. It’s proof that the snow is chemical, not real and being geo-engineered by the government, says the video bloggers.
Except that it’s not. As New York-based media outlet PIX 11 notes (http://pix11.com/2014/02/02/fake-burning-snow-sets-conspiracy-theory-machine-in-motion/), meteorologist Mike Stone explains that “when you heat something like this, it goes from a solid to a gas. It’s called sublimation. It doesn’t go from a solid to a liquid, i.e. melting.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/red-state-freak-out-wingnuts-think-southern-snow-faked-government?akid=11471.187590.VJCQqG&rd=1&src=newsletter954243&t=1

:lol Sounds like a bunch of Fox watchers

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Coke's Multilingual "America the Beautiful" Ad Sparks Conservative Outrage


Coca-Cola ad featured the song “America the Beautiful” in multiple languages. Images of a Muslim woman, a Jewish man, and more flashed on the screen.

Right-wingers were none too pleased. On Twitter, the hashtag #boycottcoke picked up steam, though some of that was progressives’ making fun of their outrage.

Outside of Twitter, the outrage was just as ridiculous. Former Congressman and Tea Party star Allen West wrote that it was “a truly disturbing commercial,” as Talking Points Memo notes. (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-america-the-beautiful-conservatives-boycott)

Coke used “a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity – in several foreign languages,” wrote Michael Patrick Leahy on Breibart.com, who added that it featured gay people--the horror!

Perhaps the funniest part of the whole affair was some Twitter xenophobes (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-inspires-racist-twitter-backlash/)saying the ad desecrated the “national anthem.” In case they’re reading this: it’s not the national anthem.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/cokes-multilingual-america-beautiful-ad-sparks-outrage

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WATCH: Ted Cruz Demands Public Schools Be Handed Over To Wall Streethttp://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-ted-cruz-cheers-end-public-education/

Thanks, Texas Tea Baggers! Ted CruzFissile is 100% pro-Wall St wealth-extraction.

For-profit k-12 will be as shitty as for-profit colleges.

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"The Affordable Care Act will also reduce the number of fulltime workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said in the most detailed analysis of the law’s impact on jobs. The CBO said the law’s impact on jobs would be mostly felt starting after 2016. The agency previously estimated that the economy would have 800,000 fewer jobs as a result of the law."

I wonder if Croutons_Deux will be ok with then next President blaming Obama's policies for 4+ years the same was he has been ok with blaming the previous presidency for the past 6 years

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"The Affordable Care Act will also reduce the number of fulltime workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said in the most detailed analysis of the law’s impact on jobs. The CBO said the law’s impact on jobs would be mostly felt starting after 2016. The agency previously estimated that the economy would have 800,000 fewer jobs as a result of the law."

I wonder if Croutons_Deux will be ok with then next President blaming Obama's policies for 4+ years the same was he has been ok with blaming the previous presidency for the past 6 years


I read that article, and that is a problem.

But people shifted from full-time to part-time are probably low-end workers would be heavily subsidized by ACA.

btw, 10Ks of companies already use and abuse part-time workers by not providing fixed work hours, and expecting them to commit to being on call on short notice. By using part timers and contractors, the companies ALREADY refuse to hire full time, full benefit workers.

So don't go crying NOW that you right-winger start giving a shit about low-end workers.

[spurraider21]

I read that article, and that is a problem.

But people shifted from full-time to part-time are probably low-end workers would be heavily subsidized by ACA.

btw, 10Ks of companies already use and abuse part-time workers by not providing fixed work hours, and expecting them to commit to being on call on short notice. By using part timers and contractors, the companies ALREADY refuse to hire full time, full benefit workers.

So don't go crying NOW that you right-winger start giving a shit about low-end workers.
I don't really consider myself a right winger, though compared to the average UCLA student that gets his primary source of political news from The Daily Show, sure I guess I lean more to the right than them. I go either way depending on the issue, but I'm not going to turn a blind eye to problems just because I'm a fan of the politician or his party. I can't remember the last time you copy-pasted an article that says anything negative about the left or positive about the right. I didn't vote for Obama or Romney, just because I would refuse to be affiliated with either after they won

[boutons_deux]

Republicans Finalize Hostage Demand, Public Prepares To Blame Them For Default

House Republicans have narrowed their debt ceiling strategies to two demands, neither of which have anything to do with actually reducing America’s debt.

In exchange for a one-year extension of the debt ceiling so the Treasury can pay debts Congress has already voted to take on, Republicans want the repeal of Obamacare’s risk corridors, according to the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/03/house-gop-finalizes-debt-limit-playbook/?hpid=z3).

Risk corridors will reduce the deficit by $8 billion over the next three years, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report (http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45010-Outlook2014.pdf). Republicans included the same mechanism — which they are now calling a “bailout” — in Medicare Part D indefinitely.


And whom would the public blame for this completely avoidable catastrophe?


A majority, 54 percent, say they would blame House Republicans, while 29 percent would blame the president and 23 percent would blame both, according to a new CNN/ORC poll (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/03/cnnorc-poll-debt-ceiling-blame-game/). Independents would blame the House GOP over the president by a 49 to 30 percent margin.

http://nationalmemo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Screen-Shot-2014-02-04-at-9.04.37-AM.png


http://www.nationalmemo.com/republicans-finalize-debt-hostage-demands-public-prepares-blame-default/

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The Repug lady who did Repug's SOTU response LIED (seems to the skill Fox, tea baggers, Repugs have truly mastered)

‘Bette in Spokane,’ cited in McMorris Rodgers’ speech, declined health insurance options

The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance premiums would become part of the Republican attack on health care reform.

Not that Bette Grenier, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, minds that much.

But the “nearly $700 per month” increase in her premium that McMorris Rodgers cited in Tuesday night’s GOP response to the State of the Union address was based on one of the pricier options, a $1,200-a-month replacement plan that was pitched by Asuris Northwest to Grenier and her husband, Don.

The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And,

Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges.

“I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” :lol said Grenier, 58, who lives in the Chattaroy area and owns a roofing company with her husband. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”

The description of Grenier’s plight, along with the fact that McMorris Rodgers used only the woman’s first name in the televised address, sparked speculation among liberal bloggers and others that the figures may not hold up to scrutiny.

In Olympia, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler didn’t dismiss the possibility but was skeptical that someone would have no choice but to pay $700 per month more for a policy that meets the Affordable Care Act’s coverage requirements.

Kreidler, interviewed before Grenier’s identity had been learned, said he hoped “Bette in Spokane” would contact his office so he could help make sure she’s aware of all of the options available to her.

McMorris Rodgers’ office provided no explanation Wednesday on what steps were taken to verify the figures.

Melanie Colette, McMorris Rodgers’ spokeswoman, would only say Bette is “one of hundreds of people in Eastern Washington that have contacted the congresswoman with their concerns about the president’s health care law.”

Grenier, contacted Wednesday evening at her home, said she didn’t know McMorris Rodgers had mentioned her insurance travails during the GOP rebuttal.

“That probably was me she was referring to,” Grenier said. “A guy from her office called me last week but I never called him back.”

She said she contacted the congresswoman late last year to complain after getting a letter from Asuris Northwest advising that her $552-a-month policy no longer would be offered. She sent the congresswoman’s office a copy of the letter, which included the rate quotes for the suggested replacement policies.

Although the couple’s catastrophic plan had a $10,000 deductible, it included four doctor visits per year at no additional out-of-pocket cost, she said.

The replacement policies offer lower deductibles and broader coverage, she said, but they didn’t include the doctor visits at no extra charge.

Fed up with what they considered limited, pricey choices, she said she and her husband have decided to go without coverage.

“I know some people seem to be getting good deals, but we’re not,” Grenier said. “I have a friend – she and I fight about this stuff all the time – and she got a great deal: $129 a month.”

Kreidler acknowledged his office, too, has been getting a lot of complaints from people who had health care plans that did not meet the minimum requirements of the new law.

They received notices late last year from their companies saying those policies were being canceled and suggesting a new plan. Most paid the same or less, but some paid more.

“Most of those paid more because it was better coverage,” he said.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jan/30/bette-in-spokane-cited-in-mcmorris-rodgers-speech/

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SLANDER, LIES, FRAUD

Trick Websites Dupe Democrats Into Donating To Republicans (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/03/3242381/republicans-trick-voters-donating-democratic-candidates/)

The National Republican Congressional Committee has set up a number of websites that look like they could be a Democratic candidate’s campaign page, unless you read the fine print. They may even violate a Federal Election Commission regulation, Campaign Legal Center expert Paul S. Ryan explained to ThinkProgress.

The NRCC has set up these pages for various congressional opponents, including Amanda Renteria (CA), Martha Roberston (NY), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ), Alex Sink (FL), and John Tierney (MA). Each follow a similar format; they list the candidate’s name “for Congress” to ask for donations:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/03/3242381/republicans-trick-voters-donating-democratic-candidates/

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5 of the Christian Right's Favorite and Most Dangerous New Recruits Running for Congress

1. Matt Bevin: Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky

Bevin, who is a Southern Baptist, is obsessed with controlling all matters related to sex and abortion. Earlier this month, on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Bevin penned an op-ed that read, “The fight for the unborn could not be any more important. Since that dark day in 1973, America has seen more than 55 million babies killed under the guise of 'choice….Being pro-life is more than simply a slogan to us. It is a belief that every life, born and unborn, is so precious to our Creator, that it compels us to action.”

In case you missed it the first time, he’s leading McConnell and the Democrats by a handy margin.


2. Pam Barlow: Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress in Texas Congressional District 10

describes herself as an “unashamed Republican Tea Party Christian Conservative with a loud voice and some rock-solid core values.” You know, values such as opposing women’s reproductive rights, marriage equality, raising the minimum wage and immigration reform.


3. State Sen. Lee Bright: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina

A member of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Board of Visitors, Bright has been a sponsor of the “Life Begins at Conception Act” for the past three years. In April 2013, Bright introduced a bill that would end all abortions in South Carolina. He has also sponsored bills that would criminalize the Affordable Care Act and bills that would exempt South Carolina from federal gun laws.

Bright has also called FEMA a "scam,” and has promised “to get rid of the IRS.” After seeing a video of IRS agents training with AR-15 rifles, Bright said, “They’re doing assault-weapon training, the Brown Shirts are next because that’s the enforcement for Obamacare. If you don’t have an IRS, you don’t have Obamacare. That’s the mechanism that’s controlling our lives for far too long.”

It gets worse. Bright believes federal income tax is something “designed by Nazi Germany,” and in a series of speeches to pro-faithful gatherings has promoted the idea of reigniting the Civil War. “If at first you don’t secede, try again” is one of his favorite applause lines. “If the 10th Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the 10th,” is another.


4. Chris McDaniel: Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi

McDaniel is a neo-Confederate who has delivered speeches to the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

In January, Mother Jones surfaced comments McDaniel made about his unhappiness with the lack of Muslim villains in Hollywood films. McDaniel said, “They’ll go out of their way to find some Russian white guy that’s just nuts, and he’s the terrorist, which I’ve never seen that. But the Muslims, they’ve just disappeared from Hollywood’s radar.”

He blames rising gun violence on a "hip-hop" culture that "values rap and destruction of community values more than it does poetry."


5. Paul Broun: Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate Seat in Georgia

“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.” Broun believes the world is no more than 9,000 years old and was created in six literal days.

In May 2009, Broun proposed failed legislation that would have proclaimed 2010 "The Year Of The Bible,” and he also introduced a bill to ban pornography at all U.S. military installations. That same year, Broun proclaimed climate change to be a “hoax.” He said, "Scientists all over this world say that the idea of human-induced global climate change is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated out of the scientific community. It is a hoax. There is no scientific consensus."

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-christian-rights-favorite-and-most-dangerous-new-challengers-congress?akid=11477.187590.i2fHYG&rd=1&src=newsletter954787&t=3&paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

[boutons_deux]

Fox Contributor Attacks Sotomayor’s ‘Allegiance’ To The United States Because She Is Puerto Rican (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/05/3253041/fox-contributor-attacks-sotomayors-allegiance-united-states-puerto-rican/)

Laura Ingraham, a conservative radio host and frequent guest host for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingraham), suggested on her radio show Tuesday that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s “immigrant family background” calls into question her loyalty to the United States (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/04/laura-ingrahams-attacks-on-sonia-sotomayor-miss/197915).

The context of Ingraham’s statement was a rant about Sotomayor’s decision to refer to people in the United States without citizenship or immigration papers as “undocumented immigrants” because, in Sotomayor’s words, calling “them illegal aliens seemed . . . insulting.” After claiming that Sotomayor’s preference for one term over the other somehow reflects insufficient respect for the rule of law, Ingraham said that Justice Sotomayor’s “allegiance obviously goes to her, you know, immigrant family background, not to the U.S. Constitution.”

Justice Sotomayor, who was born in the Bronx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor), is a Puerto Rican American. Puerto Rico is part of the United States and Puerto Ricans are United States citizens (http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/jonesact.html). So Sotomayor does not actually have an “immigrant family background.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/05/3253041/fox-contributor-attacks-sotomayors-allegiance-united-states-puerto-rican/

Right-wing bitches are as stupid, ignorant, and hate-filled as right-wing bastards.

[boutons_deux]

Extending Safety Net For Long-Term Unemployed Is ‘Immoral’ (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/05/3252031/sessions-unemployment-benefits-immoral/)It is immoral to extend a meager monthly allowance to unemployed Americans still looking for work more than six months after losing their jobs, according to Rep. Pete Sessions (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/pete-sessions-unemployment-insurance_n_4724956.html) (R-TX), which is why he and his fellow House conservatives are blocking Democrats’ efforts to reinstate the safety net program.


“I believe it is immoral for this country to have as a policy extending long-term unemployments [benefits] to people rather than us working on the creation of jobs,” Sessions said Tuesday on the House floor in response to questions about his party’s refusal to allow a vote on reinstating the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/02/05/3252031/sessions-unemployment-benefits-immoral/

[boutons_deux]

Repug War on Women

"A Republican member of Congress says in a recently released book that a wife is to "voluntarily submit" to her husband, but that it doesn't make her inferior to him.

Rep. Steve Pearce's (R-N.M.) memoir, "Just Fly the Plane, Stupid! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989999203?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0989999203&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20)" was released last month."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/01/22/gop-congressmans-book-the-wife-is-to-voluntarily-submit-to-her-husband/

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Michigan RNC candidate wants gays purged from the GOP, blames Satan for homosexuality

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/08/michigan-rnc-candidate-wants-gays-purged-from-the-gop-blames-satan-for-homosexuality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Speaker John Boehner unveils new website devoted to GOP Benghazi conspiracies (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/06/1275554/-Speaker-John-Boehner-unveils-new-website-devoted-to-GOP-Benghazi-conspiracies)


House Speaker John Boehner's attempts to keep all his clowns in the clown car are getting a bit Dadaesque (http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/197574-boehner-unveils-benghazi-website#ixzz2sYzzSXEC):


House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday unveiled a website (http://www.gop.gov/benghazi/) detailing the GOP's Benghazi probe amid mounting pressure from conservatives that he's not doing enough.

Yes, that is what the Republicans need to further their "investigation" of literally the one and only one of the many attacks on an American diplomatic compound in the last 20 years that any of them can name or give two shits about. A promotional website. Good to see Boehner is bringing the same A-game to Republican foreign affairs oversight that perpetual manchild Reince Priebus (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/04/1274961/-The-newest-Republican-cool-kids-startup-already-sounds-embarrassing) is using to recruit new teams of elite haxors to team GOP.


Boehner's office said the website offers access to “hundreds of pages of documents and transcripts the White House doesn’t want you to read.”

Mostly stuff written by Darrell Issa, some of it in the original crayon, but you have Boehner's word that Darrell Issa is working to leak actual papers relating to national security just as fast as his office gets them.There's not much effort made to pretend the site is in any particular national interest; it appears to exist solely so that John Boehner can say that it does, because John Boehner has to acknowledge the latest faux-issue to have driven half of his party and all of Fox News stark raving batty or half his party and all of Fox News will not let him drive the little clown car anymore. Which, for some reason unfathomable by we mortals who exist outside his circus of the damned, he still wants to do.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/06/1275554/-Speaker-John-Boehner-unveils-new-website-devoted-to-GOP-Benghazi-conspiracies?detail=email

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CNN guest: Blaming Hillary for Bill’s affair gives Republicans on Wall Street confidencehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/stoddard2.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/09/cnn-guest-blaming-hillary-for-bills-affair-gives-republicans-on-wall-street-confidence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Kansas representative introduces bill legalizing discrimination against same-sex couples

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/09/kansas-representative-introduces-bill-legalizing-discrimination-against-same-sex-couples/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

would be even madder if it passes. Christian/cowboy Kansas haters.

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Repug reachout to Latinos continues!

GOP candidate for governor doubles down after calling south Texas ‘third-world country’When Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott compared the Rio Grande Valley to a “third-world country” earlier this week, progressives and the Latino community in south Texas hit the roof.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/09/gop-candidate-for-governor-doubles-down-after-calling-south-texas-third-world-country/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Someone's Been Sending GOP Lawmakers A Bizarre Threat Over The Debt Ceiling


A group of House Republicans has received a mysterious threat in recent weeks: an anonymous email that promises political retribution for those who for vote yes to a debt-limit increase — sent to their closely guarded personal email addresses.

Because of the near-secret nature of lawmakers’ internal email addresses, the emails have raised more than a few eyebrows — and the possibility that one of their own was behind, or at least assisting in the attacks.

The emails, circulated to lawmakers at the end of January and during their closed door retreat earlier this month, came as Republicans struggled to come up with a plan to extend the nation’s debt limit. Leadership threw in the towel Tuesday, opting to move a bill that simply raises the debt ceiling without other conditions. The bill passed Tuesday, with nearly every House Democrat and 28 Republicans voting for it.

“It’s got to be another member. Probably one of the crazy ones,” said a Republican who had seen the email, which was sent from an anonymous email address, [email protected].

Read More: http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/someones-been-sending-gop-lawmakers-a-bizarre-threat-over-th

One of the crazy ones..... the new GOP...

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Kansas House passes sweeping bill allowing anti-gay discrimination in government, businesses (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/13/1277364/-Kansas-House-passes-sweeping-bill-allowing-anti-gay-discrimination-in-government-businesses)


The sweep of Kansas’ statute is breathtaking.

Any government employee is given explicit permission to discriminate against gay couples—not just county clerks and DMV employees, but literally anyone who works for the state of Kansas.

If a gay couple calls the police, an officer may refuse to help them if interacting with a gay couple violates his religious principles.

State hospitals can turn away gay couples at the door and deny them treatment with impunity.

Gay couples can be banned from public parks, public pools, anything that operates under the aegis of the Kansas state government.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/13/1277364/-Kansas-House-passes-sweeping-bill-allowing-anti-gay-discrimination-in-government-businesses?detail=email

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Congressman Slams Obama For Medicare Cuts That He Voted For Three Times (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/15/3297301/gop-congressman-slams-obama-medicare-cuts-voted/)

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) slammed President Barack Obama’s signature health care law during the weekly GOP address on Saturday, arguing that the Affordable Care Act hurts seniors. “Here’s the reality — to help pay for his health care law, the president made deep cuts to the successful Medicare Advantage plan, which serves almost 30 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries,” said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U804YP0mpBk) Rooney, adding that the cuts are causing seniors to lose access to care.

There’s just one problem: Rooney voted for those same cuts on three (http://votesmart.org/bill/13101/34534/107800/2011-budget#.Uv-uL_ldV-I) separate (http://votesmart.org/bill/15034/39465/107800/limits-federal-appropriations-for-fiscal-years-2013-2022-ryan-budget#.Uv-uFvldV-I) occasions (http://votesmart.org/bill/16399/43293/107800/establishing-the-budget-for-the-united-states-government-for-fiscal-year-2014-and-setting-forth-appropriate-budgetary-levels-for-fiscal-years-2015-through-2023#.Uv-utfldV-I).

The Affordable Care Act extends Medicare’s solvency for a decade by saving the program $716 billion. Much of these savings are derived from a reduction in historically excessive payments to health care providers that serve the Medicare Advantage program.

Even though these cuts are to provider payments, and not to benefits, Republicans have repeatedly slammed (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/05/1829651/fox-news-resurrects-death-panels/) them as Obama’s “Medicare cuts” for seniors — a line that was used on multiple occasions by Mitt Romney and House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during the 2012 presidential campaign.

But Ryan has included these very “Medicare cuts” in every GOP budget he’s proposed since the ACA’s passage in 2010. And Rooney, alongside 95 percent of House and Senate Republicans, voted for Ryan’s budgets (http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/paul-ryans-secret-love-affair-with-obamacare) with their “Medicare cuts” and all in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/15/3297301/gop-congressman-slams-obama-medicare-cuts-voted/

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Missouri lawmaker introduces bill allowing familes to 'opt out' of learning evolution (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/14/1277641/-Missouri-lawmaker-introduces-bill-allowing-familes-to-opt-out-of-learning-evolution)

A Missouri lawmaker has proposed what ranks among the most anti-evolution legislation in recent years, which would require schools to notify parents if "the theory of evolution by natural selection" was being taught at their child's school and give them the opportunity to opt out of the class. [...]“It’s an absolute infringement on people’s beliefs,”

[State Rep. Rick Brattin (R)] told theKansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/06/4803445/missouri-bill-would-let-parents.html#storylink=cpy) of requiring schools to teach evolution. “What’s being taught is just as much faith and, you know, just as much pulled out of the air as, say, any religion."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/14/1277641/-Missouri-lawmaker-introduces-bill-allowing-familes-to-opt-out-of-learning-evolution?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

red states! stupid, ignorant fucktards, all of them. :lol

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A Tea Party Republican and a U.S. Marine veteran, Rep. Hunter said he was suspicious of these negotiations because he feels (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nuke-iran-duncan-hunter)that even if there is a positive outcome, Iran cannot be trusted. Why so? Iran is part of the Middle East and, according to Hunter, “In the Middle Eastern culture it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.” In other words, at least some members of Congress have bought into the stereotype that lying is a congenital part of the Middle Eastern personality.

Hunter also said that if worse came to worst and a confrontation occurred, the United States should avoid “American boots on the ground”; instead “you do it with tactical nuclear weapons and you set them back a decade or two or three.”

Once more we can readily identify the racist undertone of the anti-Muslim stereotype. It presently feeds into an Islamophobia that has led to hysteria and violence toward Muslims from some elements of the American population. And now we see it coming from the mouth of a U.S. politician with a seat on the congressional subcommittee for (of all things) intelligence. :lol

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21889-the-dangers-of-stereotyping

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Rick "Man-on-Dog" Santorum Plans 2016 Run on "Save the Unborn, Damn the Living Poor" Platform

He's back. Little Ricky "Man-on-Dog" Santorum is seriously assembling a run for president in 2016 according to the National Journal. (http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/rick-santorum-plots-his-return-20140220)

he still fits into that broad category of religious zealots who get themselves confused with their stated belief that Jesus is the Son of God while their actual belief is that they are the Son(s) of God.

if elected -- Santorum would deliver his Inaugural Address tied to a cross, but it would be something born of a crazed religious fanaticism such as he possesses. This is the age of television imagery -- and he would be our first unctuously smarmy evangelist president, so should his hypothetical (in his own mind) Inauguration occur, expect Creationist television images that would make the Olympics' coverage look like its broadcast from a garage.

Just remember that Santorum has stated thousands of self-righteous proclamations of religious authoritarianism. His sobriquet "man on dog" came about when he gave an interview a few years back to a young wire reporter. In it, he defended his homophobic stances by stating that any acceptance of gays would lead to toleration of "man on dog" sex and the like. The wire reporter was apparenty so shocked that she asked him to confirm that he had just said "man on dog."

Of course, actions beat words. So you can't beat Santorum in the gruesome department when you consider that he and his wife brought home a miscarried dead fetus to be cuddled by their other children. Wonkette.com describes the incident (http://wonkette.com/443167/why-he-runs-rick-santorums-own-fetus-jar-story) (in this 2011 article):

Santorum has his very own fetus story, but unlike Barbara Bush, (http://wonkette.com/429674/young-george-w-bush-traumatized-by-barbara-bushs-fetus-jar) when his wife miscarried in 1996, they didn’t stick the thing in a jar and put it on display. Santorum wrapped the dead fetus in a blanket, took it out of the hospital, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html) and “spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel [the fetus] with his three siblings.” Sure, a miscarriage is a sad and rather strange experience for anyone to suffer, but, uh: “They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.” That should be a cute family album to show primary voters! What kind of clothes did they dress it up in? Did they make the fetus the altar boy?

Santorum and his wife wrote and published a book of letters to their dead fetus -- and that they gave an interview to the Washington Post about it, complete with Rick showing photos of him holding the dead fetus.

Rick Santorum stays true to the general right wing fundamentalist rule of thumb: all life is sacred from conception until a person is born poor and in need of assistance. Santorum opposes everything from income aid to food stamps to any government program that values life by helping those with the least resources. His view of the alleged favor of God for the unborn does not extend to life after birth.

Santorum is one of those politicians, such as Sarah Palin, who views the US as a Christian theocracy.

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/rick-man-on-dog-santorum-plans-2016-run-on-save-the-unborn-damn-the-living-poor-platform

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Rick Perry: Background checks is a bad ‘attitude towards manufacturers of weapons’

“The restrictions you’ve seen states like Connecticut — and when you think about the Northeast, that was the Silicon Valley, if you will, of gun manufacturing,” he continued. “And you’re seeing those manufacturers leave the Northeast because the taxation, the regulation. And just the attitude towards manufacturers of weapons.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/23/rick-perry-background-checks-is-a-bad-attitude-towards-manufacturers-of-weapons/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

what a dumbfuck YOU TEXANS put in office for many years. Thanks!

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Tea Party-Backed Candidate Posted X-Ray Images of Dead People Online


A Tea Party-backed candidate is at it again, exposing the Republicans to charges of nuttiness.

A right-wing candidate for the Senate, Dr. Milton Wolf, is challenging the current Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts. Now, Wolf is under fire after X-ray images of dead people he posted have surfaced.

The story was first reported by the Topeka Capital Journal (http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-02-22/doctors-x-ray-postings-unsettling). In 2010, Wolf “posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage,” the Journal’s Tim Carpenter reports.

For instance, Wolf posted an image of a person decapitated by gunfire. It shows a skull broken apart. “One of my all-time favorites," Wolf wrote on Facebook. "From my residency days there was a pretty active 'knife and gun club' at Truman Medical Center. What kind of gun blows somebody's head completely off? I've got to get one of those.”

In another posting on the same picture, Wolf wrote: “It reminds (me) of the scene from 'Terminator 2' when they shoot the liquid metal terminator guy in the face at close range and it kind of splits him open temporarily almost like a flower blooming. We all find beauty in different things.”

Wolf has cast questions about the images as an attack by his opponent, Senator Roberts.

Medical ethics experts questioned why Wolf would post images. “The dignity and privacy of the individual should be protected,” John Carney, a bioethicist, told the Topeka Capital Journal (http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-02-22/doctors-x-ray-postings-unsettling). It doesn't sound like they're being protected if they're, obviously, on Facebook.”

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/tea-party-backed-candidate-posted-x-ray-images-dead-people-online?akid=11538.187590.-lIFcS&rd=1&src=newsletter962371&t=4

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage Looks Set To Reject Overdose Prevention For No Good Reason

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) appears set to oppose a bill increasing access to a lifesaving anti-overdose medication because of concerns rejected by public health experts that it could encourage more drug abuse,

"His main objection is his belief -- and I have to emphasize 'his belief' because there is no evidence that supports this at all -- his belief that increasing the availability of Narcan or naloxone will lead the drug user or drug abuser to have this feeling of invincibility,"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/paul-lepage-drug-overdose_n_4770196.html

heroin overdose? Repug wants you to die

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Michele Bachmann jewsplains to U.S. Jews that they are buzzkilling her End Times dream date

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Bachmann_DONKEYHOTY-Flickr.jpg

According to Right Wing Watch (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-jewish-democrats-sold-out-israel-help-obama-bible-predicts-us-will-turn-against-isr), Michele says it’s all because of those meddling Jews and that schvartzer in the, previously, White House:


The Jewish community gave him their votes, their support, their financial support and as recently as last week, forty-eight Jewish donors who are big contributors to the president wrote a letter to the Democrat [sic] senators in the US Senate to tell them to not advance sanctions against Iran. This is clearly against Israel’s best interest. What has been shocking has been seeing and observing Jewish organizations who it appears have made it their priority to support the political priority and the political ambitions of the president over the best interests of Israel. They sold out Israel.


Why it was just last year when Bachmann warned that the End Times Are Nigh (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-obama-supporting-al-qaeda-proving-we-are-end-times):


“This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history.”

“Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,” Bachmann continued. “When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”


Cosmology note: Noah opens nationwide (http://www.noahmovie.com/) on March 28, so that has to mean something. Right?

Anyway, everybody knows that Jesus won’t come back until Israel is all nice and tidy, so it would be greatly appreciated if the U.S. Jews would clean up their act, stop hanging around with riff-raff (like giving him money and smokes), and stop treating Israel like a frat house; maybe make the bed, wash a few dishes and take out the empties.

Then, when He gets here, the Jews can all convert which will totally make up for that little whoopsie-doodle! from a couple of thousand years ago…

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/04/michele-bachmann-jewsplains-to-u-s-jews-that-they-are-buzzkilling-her-end-times-dream-date/

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8 Colossal Jackasses From the Right-Wing Fringe: Just-Stop-Being-Poor Edition

Sure, there was plenty of tomfoolery and dickishness on display over at CPAC this week—what with Trump’s immigrants-are-coming-to-steal-jobs remark and Paul Ryan claiming poor parents don’t love their kids. But asinine comments were made elsewhere in the right-wing lunasphere. Some doozies:

1. Fox Business commentator’s advice on the poor: “Stop being poor.”

The Daily Show’s Aasif Maandvi may have found the greatest jackass of them all recently when he interviewed Fox Business commentator Todd Wilemon. The subject was healthcare and the oft-repeated, totally erroneous claim that the U.S. has “the greatest healthcare system in the world.” This assertion should only be made with the addendum:

"if you can afford it."

In fact, the U.S. ranks 37th in the world for healthcare, so,yes we're in the top 40, and hooray, we're ahead of Slovenia. Take that, Slovenia! It’s gotten to the point where international relief doctors who usually helicopter supplies into war-torn, impoverished countries and refugee camps are now starting to fly those supplies into places like Knoxville, Tennessee.

But have no fear. Wilemon had a great solution for these people who just “want a free lunch,” and who “refuse to pay.” When Maandvi pointed out that they are not "refusing to pay," but just aren't ableto afford healthcare because they are poor, Wilemon said, “If you’re poor, just stop being poor.”

Great idea! Why didn't we think of that?!

Watch the whole hilarious clip here (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-6-2014/third-world-health-care---knoxville--tennessee-edition?xrs=share_copy) [3].

2. Megyn Kelly scoffs at atheist’s claim that the cross is a religious symbol.

Somebody was not paying proper attention in Sunday school, and has been very, very naughty. We’re talking to you, Megyn.

There is a steel beam cross in the center of the World Trade Center memorial. It was found in the wreckage and seen as a miracle by some Christians. The activist group American Atheists are suing to have the cross removed, claiming that as an inherently religious symbol, it has no place in a publicly funded monument. They point out that people of multiple faiths, and even those without faith at all, died in the disaster.

“The cross is Christian," said David Silverman of the American Atheists during his appearance on the Kelly Files. "It was installed in a religious service on consecrated ground, which makes it a working shrine on public land in the World Trade Center, and we think the atheists who also died on 9/11, and the Muslims and the Jews, should all have their equal presence,”

Nope, Megyn Kelly said. The cross is not religious. It's just a historical artifact. Nothing Christian about it. Tough luck, atheists, Jews and Muslims.

Got it, the cross is not Christian. Next week: the Bible, not a book.

Watch the entire interview posted online by Cruciefiction. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YeEm2EnrOc) [4]

3. Josh Miller, Obamacare hypocrite: 'I got mine, so bite me!'

Another prime cut of jackass raised its braying head this week in the person of State Representative Josh Miller of Arkansas. Such a man might, at first glance, inspire some sympathy. He was paralyzed in a car accident, and he was uninsured at the time. Fortunately for him, his medical treatment was paid for by personal assistance coverage from Medicaid. Naturally, an experience like that would really convince someone of the value of Medicaid and healthcare for all. Wait, what? No?

Astonishingly, Miller voted against the expansion of Medicaid, which would have given poor people in his state the same coverage he recieved in his hour of need. In an interview with the Arkansas Times, he explained why. "My problem is two things," Miller said. "One, we are giving it to able-bodied folks who can work ... and two, how do we pay for it?"

Of course, he knows that really isn’t a question since the federal government has offered to pay for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. Translation: It would be free money for Arkansans who might get hurt or sick while uninsured.

Like you, Josh Miller, dickhead!

h/t: Esquire.com (http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/arkansas-josh-miller-medicaid-expansion-022814?src=nl&mag=esq&list=nl_enl_pol_non_030314_josh-miller) [5]

4. Michele Bachmann lectures Jews: You’re doing it wrong! You elected the anti-Christ!

In a conversation Monday with Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, that zany Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann chastised American Jews for voting for Obama, She warned them that Obama is “threatening Israel,” and also that he is kind of the anti-Christ, fulfilling biblical prophecies and bringing about the End Times (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-obama-supporting-al-qaeda-proving-we-are-end-times) [6].

Blame it on the Jews, what a novel idea!

The Minnesota congresswoman told (http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/stacy-swimp-mollie-hemingway-michele-bachmann) [7] Perkins that President Obama is pressuring Israel to “give up its land to terrorists,” who are, of course, allied with Al Qaeda. This is what is going to trigger the end of the world, or as Bachmann described it, the “final war, destroying and reducing to rubble Israel.”

Here are more of her insane and fairly incoherent ramblings:

“That’s in the natural, I just believe that as believers in Jesus Christ who see the authority of scripture, I believe that the Lord and his strong right arm will have Israel’s back and will be her protector. The question is, will we as the United States cooperate in standing with Israel and blessing Israel, or will we join those nations that come against her? We are definitely on the wrong side. It is jaw-dropping, it is stunning, it’s breathtaking.”


Fortunately, she was able to retrieve her breath and scrape her jaw off the floor, so that she could scold the American Jewish community for its wide support for Obama (http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/07/1159621/jewish-american-obama-poll-results/) [8].

What is reassuring, in a way, is that all of this was predicted in the Bible. As Bachmann reads it: “The nations of the world will come against Israel and the scripture very specifically says all nations, now for the United States we don’t have that experience until recently under President Obama with the United States not standing with Israel.”
h/t: Rightwingwatch (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-jewish-democrats-sold-out-israel-help-obama-bible-predicts-us-will-turn-against-isr#sthash.nx7aubdS.dpuf) [9]

5. Conservative leader thinking he was off-mic: “Jews are the problem.”

Michele Bachmann, meet Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (retired), the executive vice president of the conservative Family Research Council, or perhaps you two already know each other.

Turns out you both feel that Jews are a problem.

Boykin has other nutty ideas, like a theory that President Barack Obama is using “subliminal messages” to signal support for Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. There is audio to this effect posted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday. (http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/03/07/frc-hot-mic-boykin-jokes-about-jews-says-obama-supports-al-qaeda-sends-them-subliminal-messages/) [10]

“If you understand anything about Islam, there are subliminal messages,” Boykin says. “[Obama's] message, really, I believe was, ‘I understand you, and I support you.’”

Sounds like a thoroughly reasonable man. So reasonable in fact that CPAC won’t even allow him to participate. CPAC! — which featured such bright lights as Donald Trump rambling incoherently and Sarah Palin doing what she does best, making no sense.

Anyway, Boykin and his fellow all-out loonies hold a competing event called the National Security Action Summit. The event’s organizer, Frank Gaffney, has accused CPAC’s organizers, the American Conservative Union, of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Later, Boykin was just joshing around with a reporter, an Israeli no less, saying, “The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world.”
Oh. Hahahahahahaha.They must have had a good belly laugh. The Jews love that kind of humor...

6. James Bowman: 'There must be some happy stories about slavery.'

What the hell is wrong with these people? You really have to wonder about the small (hopefully) subset of white people/commentators/bloviators who keep insisting that some slaves really enjoyed their captivity. Bad enough that people made this argument during the time of slavery, in order to perpetuate it, but we’re talking about TODAY!

James Bowman, cultural critic at the American Spectator, joined the ranks of the idiots of “Duck Dynasty” when he complained that there weren’t any positive stories about slave masters in 12 Years a Slave (http://assholeoftheday.us/tagged/12-years-a-slave) [11].

His words: “If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr. McQueen does not want us to hear about it.”

Yeah, c'mon guys. Why all the negativity about slavery? You're such Debbie Downers. Why can’t we have happy movies about slavery like Gone With the Wind? Don’t slavery apologists deserve some entertainment, too?

We’re sure Steve McQueen will take it under advisement.

7. Wyoming governor takes brave anti-science stand.

It takes a brave and visionary leader to just say no to science. But in Wyoming, one man, the governor in fact, is taking that brave stand. But he did not do it all alone.

A little background: The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are a new set of education initiatives that have been adopted in 10 states (http://www.nextgenscience.org/next-generation-science-standards) [12] and, like the Common Core State Standards, are designed to make sure students across the country are being held to the same benchmarks. They were developed with input from 26 states; although, not Wyoming.

So when the budgeting process came around for that state, another visionary, Rep. Matt Teeters (R-Lingle) first proposed a budget amendment that stops the state from considering the NGSS (http://trib.com/news/local/casper/work-goes-on-at-wyoming-department-of-education-despite-mixed/article_1abca10a-8a07-5491-9915-e0861785e5f1.html) [13]. Gov. Matt Mead (R) approved this amendment in his budget Wednesday.

The NGSS treats climate change and evolution as fact. Hmmmm. Could it possibly be that the real target is climate change science? According to ThinkProgress, Gov. Mead has previously said he is "unconvinced climate change is man-made.” (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/10/12/174811/anti-climate-gov-heartland/#wy) [14]

He and Rep.Teeters just don’t want climate change to be taught as established science. ‘Cause that would be bad, you know, for kids to learn the truth.

Read more here. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/wyoming-next-generation-science_n_4922333.html) [15]

8. Arkansas judge: Gay sex “just a small step to having sex with a dog.”

Yep, direct quote. In fact, Arkansas state judge Mike Maggio is famous for his pithy quotes, which also include: “Sluts are just whores in training.” Women shouldn’t make an “emotional decision to divorce because the husband stepped out” if he was a “good provider (http://www.bluehogreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-03-02-23-06-29.png) [16].” And, whatever you do, don’t go to Disney World during “gay/lesbian week.” (http://www.bluehogreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-03-02-21-56-30.png) [17]

According to ThinkProgress (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/07/3376181/sluts-are-just-whores-in-training-and-other-wisdom-offered-by-a-sitting-arkansas-judge/) [18], these lovely homespun homilies from the bench were “uncovered after the Arkansas blog, Blue Hog Report, discovered that a pseudonymous commenter on a message board for Louisiana State University fans was a sitting Arkansas state Judge Mike Maggio (http://www.bluehogreport.com/2014/03/03/who-have-you-wronged-mr-maggio-hog-nation-turns-its-angry-eyes-to-you-woo-woo-wooooo/) [19]." Judge Maggio, who posted under the username “geauxjudge,” offered questionable views on race, sexuality, women and many other issues.

The comment about sex with dogs arose in a discussion thread about a “Vegas woman arrested for sex with pit bull.” Maggio suggested that “TGGLBS sex”—an apparent reference to “transgender, gay, lesbian or bisexual sex (http://thegrio.com/2014/03/06/arkansas-judges-online-comments-investigated/) [20]”—is a gateway to copulating with canines.”

He has since acknowledged authorship, and withdrawn from a race (http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/03/05/judge-mike-maggio-withdraws-from-court-of-appeals-race-acknowledges-web-postings) [21] for higher office.

http://www.alternet.org/print/tea-party-and-right/8-colossal-jackasses-right-wing-fringe-just-stop-being-poor-edition

God Bless America! :lol

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Boutons the spammer, at it again.

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Boutons the spammer, at it again.

Pearls Before Swine

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White trash rabble rousing white trash

Sarah Palin uses her CPAC speech for a shout-out to the libs at ‘MS-LSD’

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She also thanked the young people — or as Washington thinks of them, she said, “Obamacare suckahs!” Because “you’ll pay the bills in our brave new world.” She then made a joke about “change” you first heard in 2008, and said “not a smidgen” in a derpy voice. She called that liberal network MS-LSD, and said “Yes you can” had become “No you can’t.”

And “there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s also no such thing as free birth control… there’s no free ride… someone always pays and if you don’t know who that someone is, it’s you…”

Oh hell, let’s just list the catch-phrases, that’s really all she does:

“Social engineering politicos.”

“Nothin’ to see in Benghazi, move along.”

“It’s like yuh-all WENT ROGUE!”

“Liberty needs a Congress on Cruz Control.”

On Ted Cruz’s Congressional shutdown defeat by RINOS: “They joined the laptops of the lame stream to trash the foot soldiers who had fought for America!”

“I do not like this Uncle Sam
I do not like his health care scam
I do not like this dirty crooks
Or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals
I do not like their crummy deals…” (w/sing-song voice)

“The America beyond the wealthy DC suburbs… that’s where you’ll find Amazing America.”

“Hangin’ with the Choom gang.” (w/gangsta lean)

“I just feel that we got each other’s back and you know that this is the string of a great awakening, I know that america’s eyes are open.” (Extended metaphor here about people trying to make America go back to sleep.)

“Instead of putting fear of God into our enemies, peace through strength — brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue — is only what the UNITED STATES MILITARY CAN DO!” (Big cheers.)

(Something about a boot that would stomp on America.)

“John (Kerry), why the long face?”

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.”

“The only thing rising in [Obama's] la-la-land is the Russian empire. But I’m probably being too hard on the President. I mean, who could have seen this coming?” (Extremely big cheers.)

To Congressional RINOs: “Remember that 2010 election that swept you into power? You didn’t build that!”

“There aren’t enough low-information voters in the country to save the opposition this year.”

“Our buddy from Duck Dynasty…” (Big roar. Also, “in another time, Phil might have stayed fired,” but “people all over America understood that Phil’s right to express himself was about our right to express ourselves. We pushed back and he won!”)

“C’mon, libs, can you really ‘I am Woman, Hear me…’? No…. Only Mama Grizzlies can say, ‘Hear me roar!’”

“We’re the party with the plank that protects even our littlest sisters in the womb.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/08/sarah-palin-uses-her-cpac-speech-for-a-shout-out-to-the-libs-at-ms-lsd/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Kansas Wants to Prosecute Teachers Who Show “Harmful” Materials – Whatever That Means

Late last week, the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill (http://www.kansas.com/2014/02/28/3317418/kansas-senate-weighs-bill-to-ease.html) that would make it easier to prosecute teachers, librarians and school principals for materials that are “harmful to minors.” The move was in response to an incident involving a sex (http://www.care2.com/greenliving/6-foods-to-eat-for-better-sex.html?lc=int_mb_1001) ed poster hung on a middle school classroom door.

Specifically, the bill defines (http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/measures/documents/sb401_01_0000.pdf) “harmful to minors” to mean materials that:

(A) The average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance has a predominant tendency to appeal to a prurient interest in sex to minors;

(B) the average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance depicts or describes nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse in a manner that is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors; and

(C) a reasonable person would find that the material or performance lacks serious literary, scientific, educational, artistic or political value for minors

http://www.care2.com/causes/kansas-wants-to-prosecute-teachers-who-show-harmful-materials-whatever-that-means.html#ixzz2vWWocwWk

fucking Kansas Repug puritanical Bible-thumpers, so afraid of sex. :lol

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'Fox Business' Commentator Tells 'Daily Show' Correspondent, 'If You're Poor, Stop Being Poor'

After watching Aasif Mandvi's segment on Thursday's "Daily Show," two things are clear:

1) America has the greatest healthcare system in the world (if 37th place is considered the greatest), and

2) some people shouldn't do interviews with "Daily Show" correspondents.

Case in point, "Fox Business" commentator and NYSE Euronext Managing Director Todd Wilemon has a couple of jaw-dropping moments in this interview about "third world" healthcare conditions in Knoxville, Tennessee, not the least of which is his statement right at the end: "If you're poor, stop being poor."

Watch the clip above, and keep an eye out for one of the more awkward pauses in "Daily Show" history.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/aasif-mandvi-third-world-healthcare_n_4919304.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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MICHELE BACHMANN WANTS TO PROSECUTE DEMOCRATS FOR "INTIMIDATING" BILLIONAIRES


"I just thank God that there's a billionaire or two on our side," Bachmann told conservative radio host Lars Larson during an interview at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference.

"All the billionaires seem to be on the radical left, so I'm glad that we have a couple on ours."...

"I'm sure that the donors on our side don't like to have their names vilified and that's what this is about, intimidating people from giving money to our cause, that's it," she opined, adding that Democrats should be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for their intimidation of billionaires.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/michele-bachmann-intimidation-of-billionaires-031114

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a freshman at Duke University recently revealed she's helping to pay her tuition by acting in porn films. As degrading as that is, Ruse's reaction was even worse. He claimed that this is evidence liberal academics should just be "taken out and shot." No, this isn't snark--People for the American Way got a clip (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/austin-ruse-says-left-wing-university-professors-should-all-be-taken-out-and-shot).

"That is the nonsense that they teach in women’s studies at Duke University, this is where she learned this. The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/12/1284234/-American-Family-Radio-guest-host-calls-for-left-wing-academics-to-be-taken-out-and-shot?detail=email

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Republican Senate candidate says Planned Parenthood is planning to kill your three-month-old babies (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/12/1284113/-Republican-senate-candidate-says-Planned-Parenthood-is-planning-to-kill-your-three-month-olds)

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Well how far will [it] go? Last year, February 29, 2012, the Journal of Ethics in Australia, they debated that. They said we already know abortion is fine, why stop in the womb? Why not three months after. Why should we end the responsibility at that point? It could happen in America. Florida's trying to do it right now and so is Georgia. Planned Parenthood. Because we allowed that slippery slope.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/12/1284113/-Republican-senate-candidate-says-Planned-Parenthood-is-planning-to-kill-your-three-month-olds?detail=email

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Michigan 'rape insurance' law goes into effect (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/michigan-rape-insurance-law-takes-effect)

When it comes to abortion rights and insurance plans, today is an important day in Michigan (http://www.freep.com/article/20140312/NEWS06/303120050/Abortion-insurance-law-taking-effect-in-Michigan).

Michigan residents who buy health coverage in the private marketplace after Thursday will not have access to abortion coverage, even if a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
On that day, a new state law goes into effect that prohibits insurance companies from covering abortion services unless customers purchase separate add-ons -- called riders -- to their insurance plans ahead of time.

No insurance companies will be offering those riders to new customers in the private marketplace after Thursday, according to the state's Department of Insurance and Financial Services.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

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Idaho House Committee Passes Bill To Get Rid Of All EPA Regulations (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/14/3407631/idaho-house-committee-passes-bill-to-get-rid-of-all-epa-regulations/)



http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Calhoun-e1389192577894.jpgNullificationist Senator John C. Calhoun

Federal law is completely optional and Idaho can opt out of any laws it doesn’t like. Or, at least, that’s what several members of the Idaho state legislature appears to believe.

On Thursday, the Idaho House Resources Committee approved a bill purporting to declare all Environmental Protection Agency regulations “null and void” (http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2014/mar/13/house-panel-backs-epa-nullification-bill/).

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/14/3407631/idaho-house-committee-passes-bill-to-get-rid-of-all-epa-regulations/

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Another Repug caught totally wrong, even lying

The Jeep Plant Mitt Romney Said Was Moving To China Is Booming In Ohio


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The auto plant at center of a misleading TV ad (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/misleading-romney-auto-ad-backfires-with-media)run by Mitt Romney's campaign during the 2012 presidential election is booming, Bloomberg (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/the-jeep-plant-mitt-romney-said-was-moving-to-china-is-hiring-1-000-workers-in-ohio) reported Friday.

In a last-ditch effort to swing Ohio into the Republican column in the waning days of the campaign, Romney's team aired an ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ8P04q6jqE) that gave the impression that Chrysler would ship jobs to China because of President Obama's auto rescue.

"Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China," the ad's narrator claimed.

Not only is the factory in question still in Ohio, demand for Jeeps is so great that Chrysler is planning on hiring up to 1,000 part-time workers as a way to alleviate pressure on regular employees who work 60 hours per week.

“Our people have been working a tremendous amount of hours,” Toledo Assembly Plant Manager Chuck Padden told the Toledo Blade (http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2014/03/11/Jeep-will-hire-up-to-1-000-for-part-time-work-Copy.html#2LoBaGwFZ32wFksL.99). “To get them more time off is important to us, to make sure they’re refreshed, and can work safely.”
Chrysler has already hired 380 temporary part-time employees, 50 of which been converted to regular, full-time employees, according to the Blade. The company is also offering the part-time workers limited benefits, including health insurance.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-romney-jeep-ad?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Chrysler at the time called Bishop Gecko a liar:

Romney’s words drew an immediate and firm denial from Chrysler headquarters. (http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=1932&p=entry) "Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China," the statement said. "A careful and unbiased reading of the Bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/30/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-obama-chrysler-sold-italians-china-ame/

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Reince Priebus: Paul Ryan demonized ‘inner cities’ to help them

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday explained that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) had recently blamed poverty on “inner cities” because he was working hard to help those communities.

In an interview (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/12/paul-ryan-cites-white-nationalist-to-blame-poverty-on-lazy-men-in-inner-cities/) with conservative radio host Bill Bennett last week, Ryan quoted the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/Charles-Murray).

“We have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work,” Ryan opined. “So, there’s a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”

“Here’s what I would say, why was Paul even talking about this? The reason he was talking about it is he devoted a large part of his life — starting back when he worked for Jack Kemp — on finding ways to tackle poverty, to free up capital, to create opportunities in urban areas
around this country.”

“Whatever race, whatever gender, we are the ones leading the way, I think, in this country on these issues,” he added. “And so I commend Paul for his work that he’s doing around country.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/reince-priebus-paul-ryan-demonized-inner-cities-to-help-them/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

holy shit, Repugs go from dumber to dumberer to ad infinitum :lol

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Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/wyoming-gop-lawmaker-promiscuous-gays-weaponizing-aids-for-a-national-suicide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Fox commentator: Walter Cronkite’s ‘Vietnam moment’ proof of CBS liberal bias

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I don’t think that there has been any secret that there is liberal bias at CBS, going back to win Walter Crokite denounced the Vietnam war and, by LBJ’s admission, it drove him out of the White house,” Crawford said.

Cronkite’s ‘Vietnam moment’ is rumored to have led President Johnson to turn off the TV at the White House, turn to his aides, and say, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”

However that report has been disputed because, at the time of the broadcast, President Johnson was in Texas attending a birthday party and giving a speech honoring Texas Governor John Connally.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/fox-commentator-walter-cronkites-vietnam-moment-proof-of-cbs-liberal-bias/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

So now Fox viewers, most of whom are old, white, were around for 1968 have had their memories rewritten, their emotions confirmed.

Will Fox ever tell how Nixon sabotaged the '68 VN peace talks? Which caused the war to drag on for 7 more years, 10Ks more of US lives, etc, etc.

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CA GOP candidate for governor is a registered sex offender, committed manslaughterhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/champ-rifle_campaignwebsite.jpg


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/22/ca-gop-candidate-for-governor-is-a-registered-sex-offender-commited-manslaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Republicans, In Full Anti-Obama Frenzy, Take A Swipe At National Parks

Can the knee-jerk hostility to anything President Obama does get any worse? It’s often fun to joke that Republicans would be against puppies and rainbows if Democrats were for it, but this comes awfully close to making that literal (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/20/3416916/house-no-more-national-parks/).


Responding to President Obama’s decision last week (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/11/3390781/obama-new-california-national-monument/) to protect a stretch of California’s Coast near Point Arena as a new national monument, the House of Representatives is planning to vote next week (http://rules.house.gov/) to overturn a 108 year-old law that presidents of both parties have used to protect iconic American places, including the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Arches National Park.

The bill, H.R. 1459 (http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.1459.IH:), aims to block presidents from using the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish new national monuments by putting caps on how many times it can be used, requiring congressional review of proposed monuments, and forcing local communities to engage in an ironic exercise of reviewing the environmental impacts of protecting lands for future generations.


It has the usual ass-covering aspects that conservatives usually toss out to hide their extremism. You can just hear the excuses. “We’re not saying we’re against national parks. We just think they should be established more responsibly, blah blah blah.” But don’t be fooled:


However, despite arguments from Bishop and Rep. Doc Hastings (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/president-obama-criticized-for-designating-new-national-monuments/) (R-WA) that Congress should hold exclusive power to decide whether or not to protect public lands, the House has effectively shut down all legislative efforts to protect wilderness, parks and monuments since the Tea Party takeover in 2010.

Until the passage of a bill to protect wilderness lands in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20140318/OPINION/303180015/Washington-right-help-dunes) last week, Congress had not protected a single new acre of public lands (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2013/10/02/76182/shutdown-adds-insult-to-injury-for-crumbling-national-parks-and-monuments/) since 2009, the longest such drought since World War II.

Adding injury to insult, Congress also forced a 16-day government shutdown last fall that cost national parks and local communities 8 million lost visitors (http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/03/3353681/government-shutdown-national-parks/) and $414 million in lost visitor spending.


Indeed, as Matt Lee-Ashley at Think Progress explains, this is a “de facto” ban on creating more federal parks or protected lands, because it’s a bill that would be passed to give the power to a congressional body that full well intends never to use it. This shouldn’t actually be too surprising. Despite the way that conservatives tend to think of themselves as outdoorsy people, the hostility to the idea of collective ownership of anything is bound to trump the desire to see the preservation of America the Beautiful. Having grown up near one of the most important national parks—the Big Bend National Park—it truly breaks my heart to see this important piece of American culture crapped on like this.

The good news is this bill has no chance of passing the Senate or passing a White House veto. However, House Republicans had to have known that going in. Which means that they are supporting this odious bill for symbolic reasons, suggesting that they think taking a swipe at national parks is good politics. Or maybe it really is just that they hate Obama so much that if they catch him petting dogs, they feel obliged to start kicking dogs.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/21/republicans-in-full-anti-obama-frenzy-take-a-swipe-at-national-parks/

Fuck Repugs and you assholes who elect them.

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News about the Rupug hard core base

Anti-gay pastor who prayed for Obama’s death demands silence from women in church

On Sunday, a pastor in Phoenix, Arizona implored (http://youtu.be/35zq2--nTYE) his female congregants not to say “amen” in church.

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church garnered national attention in 2009 when he told his followers that he prays for the death of President Barack

Obama every night. After being contacted by the Secret Service, he insisted (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5294157-503544.html) that he “didn’t say he wanted his parishioners to attack the president, he did say the country would benefit from Mr. Obama dying.”

Pastor Anderson first attempted to justify the silencing of women by quoting 1 Timothy 2:11, “[l]et the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

He then asked the congregation to flip to 1 Corinthians 14, which says “[l]et your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, as it is commanded to be under obedience as also sayeth the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is shameful for women to speak in the church.”

“Now obviously,” he continued, “before the service begins, there’s chatting and talking going on, that’s perfectly legitimate. When we all sing praises to God, of course the ladies should also lift up their voices.”

“But when it’s learning time,” Pastor Anderson said, hammering his lecturn, “it’s silence time.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/24/anti-gay-pastor-who-prayed-for-obamas-death-demands-silence-from-women-in-church/

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how many CBN viewers vote Dem? :lol

Pat Robertson Suggests a Woman's Atheism May Be a Result of Rape or Demonic Possession

“I don’t know if you’re dealing with something that is demonic or something that is deeply ingrained,” Robertson said. “It’s something beyond normal human experience, something has happened and she associates God — maybe she had an abusive father, somebody who raped her and then acted like he was preaching to her from the Bible, you just never know what is going on in somebody’s childhood.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pat-robertson-suggests-womans-atheism-may-be-result-rape-or-demonic-possession?akid=11637.187590.giDf6_&rd=1&src=newsletter974179&t=4

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Abbott's surrogates justify paying women less than men:

Cari Cristman, the executive director of a new GOP super PAC dedicating itself to winning Texas women voters, told a Dallas television station that equal pay laws are unnecessary since women are too “busy” to care about fair pay

“Well, if you look at it, women are extremely busy,” Cristman told WFAA TV (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/red-state-women-pac-director-equal-pay). “We lead busy lives, whether working professionally, whether working from home, and times are extremely busy. It’s a busy cycle for women and we’ve got a lot to juggle. So when we look at this issue we think, what’s practical? And we want more access to jobs. We want to be able to get a higher education degree at the same time that we’re working or raising a family.”

Texas Republican Party executive director Beth Cubriel thinks the real fault lies with women themselves for not being aggressive, like men are, during salary negotiations. “Men are better negotiators,” she told YNN’s “Capital Tonight.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/18/texas-gop-equal-pay_n_4985231.html?1395152353) “I would encourage women, instead of pursuing the courts for action, to become better negotiators.”

“We are losing the respect that we so dearly want in the workplace by bringing up all these special bills for women and almost making us look like whiners.”

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22620-women-republicans-try-to-explain-why-women-dont-need-equal-pay

Repugs are in a fantasy world, a Repug echo chamber, heads up their asses.

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Confederate tea party in North Carolina

Brannon, a physician, is running as the tea party alternative to North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, who has been the presumed frontrunner for the GOP nomination.

A March 11 poll from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found (http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/03/tillis-brannon-tied-in-north-carolina-gop-senate-primary.html) Brannon and Tillis tied at 14 percent to lead the Republican primary field.

For the uninitiated, Agenda 21 is a non-binding UN plan regarding sustainable development that is the subject of numerous fringe conspiracy theories.

Glenn Beck, for instance, wrote a dystopian novel about it, and Beck's news site, The Blaze, has warned readers that it could lead to a one-world government.

"This scam of Agenda 21, this scam of humans are poisoning the earth, is a scam," Brannon said.

"They are using that to control you, to control me, to control life." "That's why Obamacare, Agenda 21, NDAA, all these things are the collective over the individual.

The spirit of 1776 must be rebirthed because we are living in the Orwellian 1984."...

"I want to know how Agenda 21 is attacking our private property," he said.

"This is going to be bloody because Mr. Tillis does not want that kind of fight, he's not comfortable with those forums.

So I'm going to disagree with this.

This is truly confrontational because you know what happened? They took my Constitution away."

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/agenda-21-north-carolina-032014

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Louisiana Republican defends ‘chicken boxing’ in order to block anti-cockfighting law

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The debate over a Louisiana bill that would expand a ban on cockfighting took an odd turn on Tuesday after one state Republican complained that the bill would endanger something called “chicken boxing.”

Sen. Elbert Lee Guillory (R) made his objection known during a state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting regarding Senate Bill 523, which would expand the definition of “chicken” under the 2008 ban to include game fowl, roosters or other birds.

“There is a legitimate sport known as chicken boxing,” Guillory was quoted as saying. “It has nothing to do with cockfighting, and it is clear that this bill would interfere, would criminalize that legal enterprise.”

Guillory told the committee the sport, practiced in his district, involved chickens kicking at one another while wearing makeshift gloves, Sen. Elbert Lee Guillory (R) made his objection known during a state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting regarding Senate Bill 523, which would expand the definition of “chicken” under the 2008 ban to include game fowl, roosters or other birds.

“There is a legitimate sport known as chicken boxing,” Guillory was quoted as saying. “It has nothing to do with cockfighting, and it is clear that this bill would interfere, would criminalize that legal enterprise.”

Guillory told the committee the sport, practiced in his district, involved chickens kicking at one another while wearing makeshift gloves,

testimony from James Demoruelle, a 53-year-old “veteran cockfighter,” who argued that cockfighting is not cruel because the chickens do not fight unless they feel like it.

“God put the fight in the chicken, not man,”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/01/louisiana-republican-defends-chicken-boxing-in-order-to-block-anti-cockfighting-law/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

God wants them chickens to fight (and wants Louisiana backwoods people to gamble on chicken boxing), who could possibly object to God? :lol

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A State Fossil For S. Carolina Faces Mammoth Obstacle

The Columbian mammoth is facing extinction as South Carolina's proposed state fossil unless the can survive the efforts of creationist lawmakers.

South Carolina is one of only 10 states that doesn't currently have an official state fossil, something an 8-year-old South Carolinian girl suggested the legislature remedy by adopting the Columbian mammoth. The prehistoric pachyderm is a cousin of the better-known woolly mammoth (already Alaska's state fossil). The girl's rationale was that fossilized teeth of the tusked creature were discovered in a South Carolina swamp as far back as 1725.

But as the proposal was being debated last week, Republican tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill to include a quotation from the book of Genesis about God's creation of the animal kingdom.

"I attempted to recognize the creator," . "However, the amendment was ruled out of order."

Undaunted, Bryant has rewritten his amendment, proposed language that refers to the mammoth — which paleontologists maintain was the product of millions of years of evolution before disappearing about 12,500 years ago — "as created on the sixth day with the beasts of the field."

Fair serves on the state Education Oversight Committee,

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/02/298344506/a-state-fossil-for-s-carolina-faces-mammoth-obstacle?sc=17&f=1007

fucking Confederate red states, full of ignorant, Christian Taleban.

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In Private Speech, Dick Cheney Talks Bombing Iran and GOP Donors Applaud

What do former Vice President Dick Cheney, billionaire megadonor Sheldon Adelson, and Republican activists and funders talk about—and applaud—when they're behind closed doors at a Las Vegas hotel? Bombing Iran.

This past weekend, the Republican Jewish Coalition (http://www.rjchq.org/) held its spring leadership meeting (http://www.rjchq.org/event/rjc-spring-meeting-2014/) at Adelson's Venetian hotel, where several possible 2016 contenders, including ex-Gov. Jeb Bush and current Govs. Chris Christie, Scott Walker, and John Kasich, showed up to kiss the ring of the casino magnate, who's looking to bankroll (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/billionaire-mogul-sheldon-adelson-looks-for-mainstream-republican-who-can-win-in-2016/2014/03/25/e2f47bb0-b3c2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html) a viable Republican presidential candidate. Though the heavy-on-Israel speeches of the White House wannabes were open to the press, the keynote address delivered by Cheney on Saturday night was off-limits to reporters and the public. But Mother Jones has obtained a recording of Cheney's talk, during which he once again derided President Barack Obama on foreign policy, blasted the isolationists within his own party, assailed critics of the National Security Agency, and seemingly endorsed the idea of an Israeli strike against Iran.

Recalling his conversation with Yadlin, Cheney said, "He looked across the table over dinner, and he said, 'Two down, one to go.' I knew exactly what he meant."

"One to go" was an obvious reference to bombing Iran's nuclear program. The crowd responded approvingly with laughter and applause.

(Last October, Adelson publicly proposed that the US drop a nuclear bomb (http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Adelson-US-should-drop-atomic-bomb-on-Iran-329641) in the Iranian desert to show Tehran what will happen to Iran if it develops nuclear weapons.)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/dick-cheney-sheldon-adelson-speech-bomb-iran

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Another (other than Uncle Clarence Thomas) Uncle Tom Also Rises

Fox News’ Allen West Tells Sean Hannity That Obama Is To Blame For Ft. Hood Shooting

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/03/fox-news-allen-west-tells-sean-hannity-obama-blame-ft-hood-shooting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

:lol

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Meanwhile, on Planet Beck ... (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/04/1289556/-Meanwhile-on-Planet-Beck)


"This guy," Beck said of Obama, "you put him in a military uniform, I'm not kidding you, you put him on a balcony in a military uniform, this guy is a full-fledged dictator."

"He's a sociopath!," Beck proclaimed, later in the broadcast. "He's sociopathic!."

Then, after an hour of ranting about Obama and the press and the Republicans, Beck finally snapped and declared that he is "not going to pay attention to these people any more, I am not going to waste my life," screaming that "I have a right to pursue my happiness, I have a right to do what I was born to do!"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/04/1289556/-Meanwhile-on-Planet-Beck?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

BecKKK: it's all about ME.

And the Roused Rabble went wild!

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Wisconsin GOP candidate proposes doing away with weekends, dismisses MLK Day, Kwanzaa

A Wisconsin GOP state senator who once attempted to eliminate a state requirement that workers be given at least one day off per week and argued public employees should be forced work on Martin Luther King Day, has thrown his hat into the ring, challenging 13-term GOP Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI.).

Glenn Grothman announced his challenge this week in the heavily Republican district, bringing to the forefront his colorful history of proposals, according to Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/gop-house-candidate-proposed-eliminating-weekend).
In January, Grothman introduced legislation that would eliminate a state requirement that workers get at least one day off per week.

Grothman has also proposed getting rid the state’s equal pay bill aimed at gender pay equality, saying, “You could argue that money is more important for men.”

He has also attempted to pare back a program that provides free birth control to women while promoting a bill that would have labeled single parenthood as “a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/05/wisconsin-gop-candidate-proposes-doing-away-with-weekends-dismisses-mlk-day-kwanzaa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Mississippi Sex Ed Likened Sexually Active Girls to Dirty Chocolocate


Before a coalition of parents forced a change, a school district in Oxford was teaching students that sexually active teen girls are like dirty chocolate that’s been passed around among students.

“They’re using the Peppermint Pattie to show that a girl is no longer clean or valuable after she’s had sex — that she’s been used,” Marie Barnard, a parent and public health worker, told the Times. “That shouldn’t be the lesson we send kids about sex.”

http://www.alternet.org/education/mississippi-sex-ed-likened-sexually-active-girls-dirty-chocolocate?akid=11692.187590.loFGDE&rd=1&src=newsletter979099&t=9

chocolate-colored girls are dirty? I K K Kan't believe MS would suggest such a nasty thing.


Repugs! :lol

Christians! :lol

red states! :lol

"education"! :lol

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Liz Cheney: Nancy Pelosi’s ‘spine doesn’t reach her brain’ if she’s not proud of torturehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/liz-cheney-nancy-pelosis-spine-doesnt-reach-her-brain-if-shes-not-proud-of-torture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

quoting the right-wing bitch Thatcher, partner in crime with St Ronnie.

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GOP megadonor uses played-out Hitler meme to make attack on Obamacare


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/gop-megadonor-uses-played-out-hitler-meme-to-make-attack-on-obamacare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

More proof that wealthy doesn't mean classy or civilized, just wealthy.

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Fox is isn't racist, but ...
Fox host calls UConn basketball team ‘NAACP champs’ instead of ‘NCAA’http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/freudian-slip-fox-host-calls-uconn-basketball-team-naacp-champs-instead-of-ncaa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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GOP checks into Hotel Breitbart California, finds it’s not at all like the brochures saidNancy Pelosi poster:

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/08/gop-checks-into-hotel-breitbart-california-finds-its-not-at-all-like-the-brochures-said/

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SC Confederate racist dumbfuck still fighting the War of Northern Aggression

Jim DeMint Puts on a Clinic in GOP Stupidity With Claim the Constitution Freed Slaves

Heritage Foundation leader Jim DeMint put on a clinic in Republican stupidity by getting the Constitution and Declaration of Independence confused, and offering a warped theory of how the slaves were freed

Transcript:

DeMint: This progressive, the whole idea of being progressive is to progress away from those ideas that made this country great. What we’re trying to conserve as conservative are those things that work. They work today, they work for young people, they work for minorities and we can change this country and change its course very quickly if we just remember what works.

Newcombe: What if somebody, let’s say you’re talking with a liberal person and they were to turn around and say, ‘that Founding Fathers thing worked out really well, look at that Civil War we had eighty years later.’

DeMint: Well the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution, it was like the conscience of the American people. Unfortunately, there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights’ in the minds of God. But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people.

So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God.



There were a lot of inaccuracies in Jim DeMint’s remarks.

First, he confused the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t use the phrase all men are created equal.

The Constitution did not free the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive action that was taken by President Lincoln. The 13th Amendment was initiated at the federal level and

fourthly, as Right Wing Watch pointed out, William Wilberforce died three decades before the Civil War.

With the level of ignorance that he demonstrated, it is hard to believe that Jim DeMint was once a United States Senator. It is no surprise that Republicans are as uninformed as they are with people like Jim DeMint leading conservative “think tanks.”

( well he was Senator from South fucking Carolina :lol and now he leads a VRWC stink tank )

DeMint’s whole argument against the federal government and liberalism was undercut by his own mind numbing stupidity. This was more Glenn Beck style rewriting of history to fit the right wing view of what America ought to be.

Jim DeMint’s comments are proof that some Republicans have no idea what they are talking about, and should never be allowed anywhere near a position of power within the government.


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/09/jim-demint-puts-clinic-gop-stupidity-claim-constitution-freed-slaves.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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Ted Cruz, Who Said Uninsured Should Just Get Health Care From ERs, Backs Group That Wants ERs To Turn Away Uninsured People -

When he was running for office two years ago, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas insisted that rather than expanding Medicaid, Texas should just let the uninsured get all their health care from emergency rooms (http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/07/doctors-group-scolds-cruz-for-saying-er-care-cheaper-than-adding-uninsured-texans-to-medicaid.html/). The argument that emergency rooms are an acceptable backup for the uninsured has also been used by Mitt Romney (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-gops-emergency-room-argument-never), Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/22/2509681/conservatives-new-plan-to-replace-obamacare-just-go-to-the-er/) and many other prominent Republicans (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/24/1181751/-Mississippi-Governor-declares-no-one-without-health-care-in-U-S).

But now, some members of the GOP are trying to keep the uninsured from using emergency rooms at all. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is pushing Congress to allow hospitals to turn people away from emergency rooms (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/26/1280551/-Here-s-one-Republican-plan-to-reduce-health-care-costs), and Georgia congressman and US Senate candidate Paul Broun – who previously cited ERs to claim that “everyone has access” (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2009/11/17/171060/uninsured-emergency/) to health care – has introduced a bill (http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2900) that would allow ERs to treat only patients who they determine have an “emergency medical condition.”

Now, the Madison Project, a Tea Party group that has earned the high-profile backing of Sen. Cruz (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/ted-cruz-senate-republicans-2014-elections-103958.html) in its effort to defeat three sitting GOP senators (http://www.fourteenin2014.com/endorsements/) in primaries this year, is also advocating for allowing emergency rooms to turn away anybody not deemed to need immediate emergency care.

In a blog post on the group’s website (http://madisonproject.com/2014/04/illegal-immigration-misplaced-compassion-and-healthcare-reform/) yesterday, Madison Project policy director Daniel Horowitz writes of taking his son to the emergency room only to encounter a waiting room “full of illegals” (although he doesn’t specify how he knew the citizenship status of his fellow patients), including “adults who, let’s just say, did not look like they were about to keel over.”


My wife and I were entreated to the chaos of emergency room care last night after our two-year-old son slipped while climbing onto a high kitchen counter and banged his head on the floor. He had a massive lump on his forehead and we were concerned about internal bleeding. When we drove to the closest hospital, the waiting room was full of illegals. Most of them were adults who, let’s just say, did not look like they were about to keel over. Opting not to wait all night simply for a decision whether to put our son through a CT scan, we drove for a half hour in the rain to a hospital that was less likely to be full of those who use ERs for regular care.

Thank God our son recovered and there was no internal bleeding, but in a different situation that extra time could have been critical. Also, if you ever wonder why you get hosed with outrageous bills simply for stepping foot in a hospital, look no farther than the “undocumented” costs of illegal aliens.


The solution for this, Horowitz concludes, is to allow hospitals “to turn away people from ERs if they do not have an immediate need for emergency care” thereby “solv[ing] the problem of illegal immigrants using ERs for primary care.”

See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-who-said-uninsured-should-just-get-health-care-ers-backs-group-wants-ers-turn-away-#sthash.tJgNMXra.dpuf

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Donald Trump Complains About How The President Walks (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/23/1294078/-Donald-Trump-Complains-About-How-The-President-Walks)http://images.dailykos.com/images/79578/large/Screen-Shot-2014-04-22-at-8.18.19-PM.png?1398275575

NOTE: The Donald later deleted the above tweet and replaced it with a version with the corrected spelling
Now, while I'm showing the mocking of this tweet, let's get one thing also clear. this tweet is also RACIST in the extreme. It's easy to tell by the dog-whistling language of the tweet. "Hopping and bobbing"?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/23/1294078/-Donald-Trump-Complains-About-How-The-President-Walks?detail=email

racist, adolescent jerk-hood typical of right-wing assholes and former Repug Pres candidates.

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Rick Santorum: 'Obama minion' said I could have won (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/29/1295594/-Rick-Santorum-Obama-minion-said-I-could-have-won)


Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to promote his new book "Blue Collar Conservatives," Santorum was asked whether he thought he'd win if his family was game to launch another presidential bid. He lost the Republican nomination last time around to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R)."Look, I thought I could have won last time," he said. "I'm convinced.

You know I asked one of the Obama minions who were running the campaign 'Hey, why didn't you guys help me? I was up there battling Romney and all these folks at MSNBC were saying wouldn't this be great if Santorum were the nominee, why didn't you help me? Why didn't you go out and bang me a little a bit, hit me you know, as being too conservative?'"

"And the consensus was, 'We didn't want you, because of this,'" Santorum added, holding up his book.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/29/1295594/-Rick-Santorum-Obama-minion-said-I-could-have-won?detail=email#

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Oregon’s GOP chair wants your urine in the mail, twice a yearhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/01/rachel-maddow-oregons-gop-chair-wants-your-urine-in-the-mail-twice-a-year/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Repugs are so laughable, gives Rachel and her viewers a hell of a lot of entertainment.

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"A One Way Alley for the Garbage Truck"

"Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down. Frankly, I’d question the judgment of doctor who says it’s all fine."

"historically, homosexuality has been a notable marker of the downfall of past civilizations"

" You know, you practice medicine and it’s an issue of politicized medicine and junk science and agenda-driven studies. When the average person can just, you know, what’s self-evident is that [anal sex] isn’t good."

"It's not a very important issue to me! I've told people this isn't in my top five of legislative priorities,"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-hickey-anal-sex-letter-south-dakota

What about all the Christ-like Christian pastors/hustlers/garbage-truck-drivers who butt fuck their wives (and others)?

[The Reckoning]

well the GOP has done enough to ensure that you can spend all day on the internet invoking your freedom of speech

[boutons_deux]

well the GOP has done enough to ensure that you can spend all day on the internet invoking your freedom of speech

link?

[The Reckoning]

link?



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Texas GOP candidate: It’s a ‘myth’ that Planned Parenthood does ‘anything’ for women’s healthhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wfaa_patrick_140508a-615x345.jpg
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/08/texas-gop-candidate-its-a-myth-that-planned-parenthood-does-anything-for-womens-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Repugs, Fox got NOTHING but lies, slander, witch hunting, fabricated scandals.

And all y'all dumbfuck right wingers keep voting for them. :lol

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Monkey in a suit is still a monkey

http://cdn.straightfromthea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Beyonce-Jay-Z-Obama-Fundraiser-7.jpg

[boutons_deux]

pitch bull, mad, NASTY

Sarah Palin just had to weigh in on how Hillary Clinton might feel about her daughter's pregnancy, and Palin continues to be disgusting (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/sarah-palin-chelsea-clinton-hillary-clinton-106433.html):


“She, just knowing that her daughter Chelsea is pregnant with a baby — it’s a real baby!” Palin said during an interview (http://www.extratv.com/2014/05/06/exclusive-sarah-palins-views-on-hillary-clinton-donald-sterling-and-more/) with “Extra” host Mario Lopez on the set of her Sportsman Channel show. “It’s not some disposable something, and I know that will be controversial.

But those who, perhaps, they’re in this position now as a parent or a grandparent, they realize sanctity of life, how innocent, how precious it is.

And of all places it should be in the womb that these babies are protected. :lol

So maybe even on a social issue like that she’ll open her eyes.” :lol

Psst, Sarah. You do know Hillary Clinton had a child herself, right? That would be Chelsea, the woman whose current pregnancy you're talking about. All the evidence suggests that Chelsea is adored by both her parents, and has been all her life. So I'm pretty sure her mother is up on the whole "where do babies come from" thing and nonetheless believes that women who don't want to be pregnant or have a baby should have the right to choose not to do so.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/07/1297511/-To-Sarah-Palin-Chelsea-Clinton-s-pregnancy-is-just-another-excuse-to-be-vile?detail=email#

but out of the womb, or in the womb and needing natal care, and poor, black? Repugs say: Fuck them moocher babies