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Are Republicans Their Own Worst Enemy?

May 20, 2010 in GOP, Libertarian, Rand Paul, Republican Party, Right Wing, Tea Baggers, Tea Party | 4 comments

Kentucky Senate candidate Republican Rand Paul has made it clear that he doesn’t see a role for the federal government in prohibiting discrimination in private enterprise.

If Republican Rand Paul believes that private businesses have the right to exclude service based on whatever they feel like, then he must also believe that the private restaurants have the right to ignore any federal mandated regulation. I suppose private restaurants can also ignore FDA regulations or provisions for keeping food safe in restaurants. Anybody care for rat droppings on your hamburger, or salmonella in your Egg McMuffin?

This is the problem with the Tea Party, they believe that government should only be accountable for government, but cringe when they see government doing its job, providing for the common welfare of the people.

And what is with this “Civil rights should have been decided locally”, crap?

The entire Civil Rights movement was about forcing the states to comply with federal law and desegregate. If we had left it up to the states, who knows how long Jim Crow would have stayed in place? If we had left it up to the states, who knows how long slavery would have remained? The entire civil rights movement was based on federal action where there was state resistance and inaction.

Wow…the “future of the Republican party” turns out to be Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrats of 1948….

Every single interview with a Republican should include a question as to whether they would favor the repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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“all these Tim McVeigh wannabes”

April 6, 2010 in Right Wing, Sean Hannity, Tea Baggers, Terrorism, Violence, Wingnuts | 1 comment

Been pretty busy lately with school work, but could not let this nugget go by without a comment.

Watch as Sean Hannity’s (R-Teabaggerstan) audience applauds him calling them “Tim McVeigh wannabes” — as if that’s a GOOD thing.

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What does this even mean?  Taken with Fox’s News implicit approval of Teabaggers, it would seem that Sean Hannity is proudly encouraging them to emulate McVeigh. If the Baggers go violent, might we look at charging Sean with incitement?

Is this free speech as we understand the 1st Amendment grants? It seems to me that Sean just yelled “FIRE!” in a movie house.

But wingnut Teabaggers don’t want to see the following photo, nor do they want to think about what may result from their racist white supremacist anti government insanity.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act added up to 2.1 million jobs in Q4 of 2009, so says the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

February 24, 2010 in Economy, Recession, Right Wing, Stimulus, Tea Baggers | 17 comments

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters)

The package boosted the economy by up to 3.5 percent and lowered the unemployment rate by up to 2.1 percent during that period, CBO said. The package is likely to have the greatest impact this year, according to CBO. It is expected to boost GDP by between 1.4 percent and 4 percent and bring down the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percent and 1.8 percent in 2010, higher figures than last year when many of its programs were being set up. The impact is expected to trail off over the next two years.
Direct purchasing of goods and services by the federal government and states have been the most effective provision of the act, CBO said. Among the least effective: a tax credit for first-time homebuyers and a tax cut for the wealthy.

but… but… TYRANNY, SOCIALISM!!!!

LOL. I’m quite sure that all these jobs went to black people, ACORN, and illegal Mexican abortion doctors, so Tea Baggers will still oppose the stimulus.

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Glenn Beck Calls for “Eradication” of Americans.

February 22, 2010 in Glenn Beck, Republican Party, Right Wing, Tea Baggers, Terrorism, Violence, Wingnuts | 11 comments

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. And it was designed to eat the Constitution…It must be cut out of the system because they cannot co-exist. And you don’t cure cancer by – well, I’m just going to give you a little bit of cancer. You must eradicate it.

Where did the progressives go; where did they come from? All of a sudden, I’m not a liberal, I’m a progressive…Every time they wake America up to their policies, they have to change their names…They’re running out of names.

Please don’t pretend that there is a difference between progressives and liberals, that’s akin to insisting Hitler only detested Judaism but had nothing against Jews.

How is Beck’s demand for eradication of a large group of Americans different from a genocidal bin Laden fatwa?

Why is a lone, disgruntled engineer with a small airplane who committed a terrorist act in Austin Texas being lauded as a hero by the Tea Party Wing of the GOP?

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Priceless!!

February 8, 2010 in Right Wing, Sarah Palin, Tea Baggers, Wingnuts | 2 comments

Cheat sheet written on the hand….what grade did the rest of us stop doing that? LOL!!!

Cheat Sheet Palin

I wonder how Sarah Barracuda would fare on live C-Span fielding unscripted questions from the Democratic Senators?

That would be must see T.V.

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A New Kind of Politics.

January 25, 2010 in Democratic Party, GOP, Health Care, Obama Administration, Tea Baggers, Wingnuts | No comments

The public elected President Obama on the basis of his persistent invocation of bipartisanship or a “new kind of politics,”. While a President getting elected on promises of bipartisanship, or working with “the other side of the isle” is nothing new, it was foreseeable that Obama had a slim to none chance of success. I do not blame or criticize Republicans for sticking to their principles (tax cuts are the universal elixir), misguided though I believe they are, but the more I think about this the more I agree that Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts should mark the end of Obama’s efforts to create a new, bipartisan climate in Washington.

Consider last spring’s $787 Billion stimulus bill which was heavily weighted toward tax cuts in an effort to win some Republican support. In the end, the bill received not a single Republican vote.
Consider that he nominated a moderate, pro-prosecution Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, only to see her tagged as a racist over some rather harmless remarks she made about being a “wise Latina”.
Consider that healthcare reform became bogged down in such a compromise-ridden mess to try an woo Senator Olympia Snow, and appease Senator’s Landrieu, Nelson, and Lincoln. Let’s include the fact that President Obama never truly fought hard for a public option to compete with private insurance companies because those in his inner circle knew it would never get passed.

Obama has done precisely what he condemned while campaigning for the presidency: he has played the old Washington game of compromising on basics to win a few votes. Now the idea was to bring along a few Republican senators thought to hold reasonable views, I get that, but NO Republican support was offered by the other side…none…NADA.

Instead we got calls for this becoming Obama’s “waterloo”. Obama’s attempts to find compromise solutions did not stop Republicans from labelling him as a radical – or their nutty tea-party allies from calling him a “socialist” and citing scripture (Psalm 109:8) calling for his death. He’s being called a radical though he’s doing nothing radical, and yet alienating radicals because he’s doing nothing radical. It’s an old paradox: you can’t chase with the hounds and run with the foxes.

The House should pass the Senate Health care bill and fix it later through reconciliation. Put a “W” in the Win column and move on.

Then he needs to pick another fight….. and then FIGHT, and stop going for these half-assed measures by watering down legislation to get any GOP votes. Maybe he is finally starting with his proposing a tax to recoup some of the billions of dollars in bailout money the bankers received, and has referred to bonus payments as “obscene” at a time when many “continue to face real hardship in this recession.”

The White House and the Democratic Party still have time to change course. Surely Obama knows his strategy of reaching out to Republicans was an utter failure. It’s time to try something new.

I hope he is ready for it.

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Scott Brown’s Birther connection.

January 24, 2010 in Birther, GOP, Republican Party, Right Wing, Scott Brown, Tea Baggers, Wingnuts | No comments

Birther

To help me get this straight I need to look at the timeline…

Nov 2008: –

Hudak put pictures on his lawn portraying Barack Obama as Osama Bin Laden. He defended the pictures and told a local paper that Obama was born in Kenya. From affidavits that he made available: “Obama was not born in the United States but in Kenya”. He also said that Obama has ties to the Muslim faith through an extremist cousin that is from Kenya. “There is a lot more going on here than anyone knows,” Hudak said…

Tri-Town Transcript published this story.

Later in Sept 2009 the Salem News published another story linking Hudak to the birther movement.

Scott Brown runs for Senate –

Bill Hudak is running against Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.). Hudak campaign spokesman Tyler Harber says that Hudak and Brown are personally close, that they appeared together several times during the campaign and that Hudak put his volunteers to work for Brown in the closing days of the campaign.

“They were text messaging on election day, they were so close,” Harber added.

Jan 19, 2010 –

Scott Brown wins Tuesday’s election.

Came out strong for Hudak the morning after and all but praised (endorsed) him “Bill was with us from the beginning and is (the) representative the people of the 6th district need,” Brown said. “Bill is not beholden to special interests and will help me bring the voice of the people Washington.”

“Bill was with us…Bill is what the people need”…Bill is not beholden…Bill will help me (Scott Brown). tell me oh wise one what does this mean?

Jan 20, 2010 –

Hudak announces endorsement by Scott Brown

Hudak’s spokesperson has clarified that Hudak indeed believes that Obama was born in the United States and feels that his comments were mischaracterized in the original article.

“The birther issue is a non issue for Bill,” said Tyler Harber. “He believes the President of the United States was born in the United States.

There were two sources about Hudak being a birther. The Tri-Town Transcript, which published the original story in November 2008, and in a column by Nelson Benton in the Salem News published September 2009. In both cases Hudak never asked for a correction.

Jan 21, 2010 –

Brown’s campaign will not say whether their candidate has endorsed Bill Hudak.

Hudak’s campaign says Brown gave a private, verbal endorsement to Hudak, and blasted Brown’s staff for reneging.

“Scott Brown gave his endorsement to Bill Hudak and it’s unfortunate that the people Scott Brown surrounds himself with are backing down from a commitment that their boss already made,” said Tyler Harber, a spokesman for Hudak.

Hudak, in an interview with the Salem News, says, “There’s no question that he [Brown] gave me his endorsement,” citing a “private conversation” the two men had. He also says he did not see the press release his own campaign put out touting the alleged endorsement, but that it’s OK with him: “I trust my campaign staff to do what they need to do.”

Brown tells the Boston Globe that Hudak put out a press release touting Brown’s endorsement without his knowledge or permission. “I haven’t spoken to Bill at all,’’ Brown said. “I understand he made a press release of some sort. But I wasn’t aware of it, and we’ve asked him to retract it.”

So now we have a press release filled with direct quotes from both Brown and Hudak, and both men say they were unaware of it before it went out. LOL

Finally.. for 14 months Hudak did not refute his birther beliefs yet Scott Brown and Hudak campaigned together and according to a spokesman “Hudak and Brown are personally close”.

Ten will get you twenty that the re-election campaign of Scott Brown won’t go as smoothly.

Yes, yes, there is a lot more going on here than anyone knows.

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Going Full Birther!!

January 21, 2010 in Birther, Republican Party, Right Wing, Scott Brown, Tea Baggers, Wingnuts | 8 comments

Republican, Sen.-elect, and nude centerfold model Scott Brown has endorsed a candidate for Congress who has asserted that President Obama was born in Kenya rather than the United States. Republican lawyer William Hudak of Boxford, hopes to unseat U.S. Rep. John Tierney, a Salem Democrat, this fall, but on Nov. 3, 2008 Hudak and another person who lives on his street had festooned their properties with anti Obama signs that their neighbors found offensive including one picture of Obama dressed as Osama Bin Laden.

Obama Osama

Hudak asserts that Obama was not born in the United States but in Kenya, according to affidavits that he made available to the Tri-Town Transcript. He said that Obama has ties to the Muslim faith through an extremist cousin that is from Kenya.

Will Scott Brown have the balls to repudiate Hudak? Maybe… which will make a few teabaggers unhappy. I guess it didn’t take long for the “independent” Scott Brown to reveal his true leanings.

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Buyers remorse…..ummm NO!

December 14, 2009 in Democratic Party, Left Wing, Obama Administration, Tea Baggers | No comments

On at lot of things Obama has disappointed me, but I still support him, all things considered. He HAS done a lot of good and is a decided improvement over his predecessor (and we all know he’s ten times better than McCain/Palin ever would have been.)

How have the left wing Democrats responded to some of Obama’s actions… or inactions so far?

I read tons of nonsense about Barack Obama being some kind of “failed president” because he hasn’t done everything that the left wants him to do. The left wing is getting kind of ridiculous, and threatening to stay home from the polls in 2010 which is beyond childish. Even little kids act more reasonably than these people are behaving. You know when I was a kid most years I made a list all of the things I wanted for Christmas. It never occurred to me I would get every single thing on the list. Hell, if I got one or two things that were on the list I was cool with that.

These people on the Democratic left are like kids who didn’t get everything on their list so they are throwing away all of the toys that they did get and declaring that they want nothing to do with Christmas.

Barack Obama has not done everything that I want him to do, but I’m actually quite pleased that he has done some of the things that I wanted him to do, because his predecessor certainly didn’t do a DAMN thing at all but screw up this country for the last 8 years. As to the things he hasn’t done; some have been thwarted by Congress or other issues, for some he hasn’t yet had time, and some he doesn’t intend to do at all. So he doesn’t agree with all of my priorities. Fancy that.

I will be critical of Obama and his administration when I disagree with their actions, but I’m certainly not going to dissolve into some massive snit and become the Democratic version of a teabagger.

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“Cringemaking”

November 9, 2009 in Democratic Party, Left Wing, Republican Party, Right Wing, Tea Baggers, Wingnuts | No comments

Cokie Roberts didn’t hold back on those health care protests headlined by actor Jon Voight, who in a speech Thursday said Obama “has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Rev. Wright to damn America.”

Calling Voight’s performance “cringemaking,” Cokie added “exceptionalism isn’t optimism…It makes you feel just very uncomfortable. And that is not where the future of any party is.”

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Cokie seems to have cottoned to the fact that conservative fear mongering should have no place in the Republican party, at least to some extent, but she is a charter member of the inside-the-beltway crowd and her ilk are in the process of discovering that the Tea-bagging creature they helped  spawn has grown up and out of their control.

Sorry, Cokie, the time for the Beltway gang to be cringing was way before Sarah Palin became a household name, maybe back when you all clucked about stains on a blue dress.

There is no Republican leader who will stand up against this movement and survive politically.  They were all in attendance at the event..lined up like obedient schoolboys behind the podium waiting their turn to speak to the throngs of tea-baggers who carried signs about the “Kenyan in the White House”.

Who attended?  Minority Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Conference Chairman Mike Pence all spoke.  Conservative Rep (and party right-wing howler monkey) Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) all were in attendance as were Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.

I wonder if they approve of the signs in the crowd.  I crowd they support…a movement they have embraced.

Holocaust

This tells me that lowering the cost of health insurance so people can afford to buy health insurance coverage is like sending them to the gas chamber.

What the hell does that even mean?

“But..but the Democrats did it toooo!!!”

Conservatives point out that the anti-war left and Democrats did the same thing when Bush was in the White House, but this is not true.  The looney Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia.) was the only one I could find that attended and supported any anti-war rally’s.  None of the Democratic party’s congressional leadership attended the 100,000 + anti war rally in September of 2005.  When Code Pink wackos barged into and interrupted Congressional hearings into AG Alberto Gonzales, Democratic Chairman Conyers had them thrown out of the chamber.  Something these wingnut tea-baggers don’t understand is that Democrats in Congress funded the troops, at the levels President Bush sought and sometimes with more money than he even requested for Afghanistan and for veterans. In this sense, Democratic congressional leaders didn’t listen to either MoveOn.org or Code Pink, nor did not align themselves to embrace their movement in the way that the GOP has embraced the tea-baggers. If they did, funding for military operations in Iraq would have been cut off long ago (2006).  The anti-war crowd has been almost as critical and practiced its unnerving, in-your-face protests towards all of the Democratic leaders in the House including picketing and camping out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home.

I think Democrats realize that when you become too shrill (i.e. Sheehan) or too offensive (i.e. Code Pink), you wind up doing more harm to a cause than good, and that rule applies on either the left or the right.  The thing is the conservatives in the GOP, in supporting this anti-government movement, has yet to learn this lesson, and their support of the tea bagger movement is evident of this.

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