“[The Kenyan Usurper] sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective.”
–Rev. E.W. Jackson, Virginia’s GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, in his acceptance speech.
Virginia is cutting to the chase and nominating preachers now in their quest to form a theocracy.
Just sayin’ that there are some real scandals that never got the attention of the GOP.
Sweet Baby Jeebus with a Subpoena, Wingnuttia is starting earnestly to talk about impeaching The Kenyan Usurper, according to Tiger Beat on the Potomac:
Senator John McCain, who famously defended his then presidential opponent Barack Obama against an islamaphobic supporter during a 2008 campaign rally, defended President Obama once again on ABC’s This Week Sunday, cautioning his Republicans colleagues to cool it with talk of impeaching the President over the Benghazi attacks and its aftermath.
I was around during the Clinton years, when every two-bit grifter with an (R) after his name chased the Clenis around the country. They spoke of impeaching him before there was even a forced crime of low-level perjury, and by any measure of sanity the 1990s-era wingnut was the model of sobriety and good mental health compared to the New Millennium Edition Wingnut with new and improved Teabagging added to seal in the freshness.
Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham is calling Benghazi! Benghazi! BENGHAZI! Obama’s Watergate (and if that doesn’t take your breath away, I’m not sure what will), and now that the local Cincinnati IRS office has gone rogue and investigating Teabagger money-laundering organizations resulting in headlines of Obama’s IRS…, well you know. The Crazy has become both industrial strength and weaponized.
There are a thousand reasons for us lefties to not like Obama (and I’m sure in the comments we will be told 1,001 reasons, probably from long-time Scissorheads, and you know who you are), but the fact remains that there is no High Crime and Misdemeanor in any of this.
And remember this: I knew Ambassador Chris Stevens; we went to high school together; we hung out with the same friends; he went to a party at my house. None of us from back then (that I know of, and we talked, many of us did talk) are outraged at the Administration. We are–including his family–outraged that the Right is making his tragic death a political witch hunt.
Yes, it is personal. No one should be exploited like this.
“…but if y’all want to feel something hard, Ah’m your man,” Sanford did not say while winking and flicking his lizard tongue.
“What I’m going to do is, in essence, look under the hood at a whole host of things,” he said. “What are y’all wearing?,” he did not say while breathing hard.
(The Hill)
The new and improved Third Amigo, Kelly Ayotte (R-NRA), is filling in Traitor Joe’s shoes very nicely. Instead of being in the pocket of AIPAC, she’s sitting comfortably in the pocket of Wayne LaPierre, having voted to kill off the very weakened background checks legislation and whatnot, even though 91% of her state was in favor of them.
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Quid Meets Quo
LaPierre, to thank her for her efforts, put up this very deceptive ad when polls showed that Ayotte’s favorability rating almost instantly fell by more than 50%:
But it didn’t seem to do much good: her poll numbers remained depressed.
The Plot Thickens
So in steps the American Future Fund to lend a helping hand:
Except… those everyday, ordinary New Hampshire voters are Republican activists per Think Progress:
Jayne Millerick is billed in the ad as a “New Hampshire mom” and says “Those attack commercials are partisan and deliberately misleading.” But Millerick is actually a Republican strategist who served as Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, a New Hampshire Republican Delegate in 2008, and was a member of New Hampshire Women for Mitt coalition in 2012. She is now a professional political consultant.
Judy Brown, another “New Hampshire mom” from the ad, served alongside Millerick in the Romney campaign and volunteered for Ayotte’s campaign in 2010. In 2013, she was named as the Nashua City Republican of the Year.
Barbara Dutile, a “Law Enforcement official,” is the wife of a Republican Sheriff in Grafton County who was Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) New Hampshire delegate in 2008, campaigned for Romney, and served as an alternate delegate. In 2012 she received an award from the Republican Party of New Hampshire.
The other individuals featured in the ad Richard Crate, Russ Larry, and Christopher Connelly, are all part of a group of law enforcement officials who have backed Ayotte and are featured on her Facebook page.
So what does it all mean? Well, like Traitor Joe who famously to be relevant, Kelly Ayotte wanted to be a power player in the Senate, but she poorly choose her issue to betray her constituents; they hate her, they really hate her. I can hardly wait to see who steps up next to prop her up.
“[If the Boy Scouts don't maintain their anti-gay policy] then what do we stand for as a country?”
–Rep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS)
Palazoo is such a schmuck, he’ll probably get his dick caught in the zipper of his body bag. Only guessing, of course.
It is alarming when the Tea Party merges with the NRA, but that is where we are today.
Uber-teabagger talk radio personality Adam Kokesh (not Koresh, but so close it made me look more than twice) is agitating for a peaceful, yet fully-armed and loaded, unpermitted march on Washington DC, where openly carrying guns is against the law:
On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide. This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent. Should we meet physical resistance, we will peacefully turn back, having shown that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.
There’s a remote chance that there will be violence as there has been from government before, and I think it should be clear that if anyone involved in this event is approached respectfully by agents of the state, they will submit to arrest without resisting. We are truly saying in the SUBTLEST way possible that we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Now, it just might be me, but it seems to me when you are calling for an armed force of 10,000 to march on any capitol city, the point is not for demonstration but for confrontation. It’s absurd to think of it as any thing other than provocative.
I admire the Libertarian sensibility of being pro-peace, it is where that political philosophy’s better angels sit. This does not strike me as Libertarian, though. How does one marshall a group of undisciplined, alleged patriots bearing loaded arms into what by definition will be an illegal activity into the capitol? How will this work out without having someone want to be a martyr?
Kokesh tweets:
When the government comes to take your guns, you can shoot government agents, or submit to slavery.— Adam Kokesh (@adamkokesh) May 3, 2013
As of this post, Kokesh has rallied nearly 1,000 people to his cause, so perhaps he cannot pull it off, but he still has a lot of time to rally his troops.
I do not see a way that this will end well.
The other day when The Kenyan Usurper said:
“I cannot force Republicans to embrace … common-sense solutions,” Obama said at the press conference, referring specifically to budget gridlock. “I can urge them to. I can put pressure on them. I can rally the American people around those common-sense solutions. But ultimately, they, themselves, are going to have to say, we want to do the right thing. And I think there are members certainly in the Senate right now, and I suspect members in the House as well, who understand that deep down. But they’re worried about their politics. It’s tough. Their base thinks that compromise with me is somehow a betrayal. They’re worried about primaries. And I understand all that. And we’re going to try to do everything we can to create a permission structure for them to be able to do what’s going to be best for the country. But it’s going to take some time.”
…I have to admit I heard Permission Slips instead of Permission Structure, and I did laugh thinking that Obama finally has realized he is dealing with feral children in the GOP. “Good for him,” I thought.
It is really upon reflection of the latest screeds from the likes of known pop-culture fetishist MoDo and Dame Peggington Noonington of the Brooklynshire Nooningtons that I started to understand what he was really getting at, and it was not to get permission slips to take the pinheads bowling (to paraphrase Camper Van Beethoven).
The Republicans have admitted as much this week–as they have in the past–that their sole objective is to make our first black president a failure, and to that end they will oppose anything Anything ANYTHING he wants, whether or not they want it too. Nothing is too great or too small to deny him. Even being seen with him makes the Teabaggers suspect their representatives of collaborating with the enemy. Not to put too fine a spin on it, but it strikes me that their strategy is thinly veiled racism dressed up as nihilism.
I think what Obama’s Permission Structure means is that he will not publicly support or encourage anything (other than process?) so that the “you can’t make me” caucus feels empowered to actually do something.
Now whether behind the scenes that means he will continue his so-called charm offensive to try to peel-off some of the grownups, I’m not sure. It might be like a marketing-advertising campaign where you get a few celebrity endorsements (to the degree that Wingnut politicians are celebrities, but work with me here) to act as influencers on the rest of the caucus, but Obama himself cannot be seen to be one of the influencers.
Wingnuttia used to accuse him of leading from behind, and this might actually be his strategy now, it’s hard to say. Which of course will make Nooner and MoDo go nonlinear, but that’s kinda fun.
(Correction: An earlier version of this post misdientified Take the Pinheads Bowling as being a Dead Kennedy’s song. We regret the error.)
(Hat tips: TPM, Digby, Ezra Klein)
The National Review Online’s (The most intellectually dishonest rest stop on the information highway) Jim Geraghty says that the Newtown families are political pawns just like the 9-11 widows.
You know, Jim, this is exactly what a democracy is about: these citizens are trying to make a difference, to change things that they experienced first hand. They are trying to make the world a better place and to ensure that what they suffered through, no one else should suffer through. And yes, they have an agenda, as do you, Jim. The difference is that their agenda is towards saving people and yours is towards saving gun manufacturers bottom line.
Wingnuttia is letting the spiders crawl out of the brainpans of their Orcs and up to the mics of all their media outlets. Anyway, nice way to insult two groups of people who have been publicly shattered by events beyond their control.
“Keep f***ing the chicken, boys.”
The original?
Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further, but fiscal policy is restraining economic growth.
Austerity! Economic growth is not in the political interests of Wingnuttia, so everyone can suck eggs.
I enjoyed learning the Colbert-Busch won the so-called debate in South Carolina, seething hotbed of unbridled lust® , and I enjoyed learning that she called Mark “Kiss Me South of the Border” Sanford out on his Appalachian Trail, and that basically she doesn’t take crap from anyone. All good things.
On the sad side, she’s another Bluedog Dim. Maybe it is what it takes in SC, but it left a bone in my throat. Still, I’d rather see Sanford permanently retired, so it still counts as a win.
As part of their $10M effort to rebrand a kinder, gentler Wingnuttia, the so-called Mommy Blogs are about to get banner ads to try to lure women back to the GOP, who values women as long as they do as they are told:
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are targeting popular “mommy blog” websites in a digital ad campaign beginning Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to repair the GOP’s image with certain voting blocs — in this case swing female voters — who have sided decisively with Democrats in recent elections.
Yeah? So what’s the hook?
The $20,000 ad buy, running on sites including Ikeafans.com and MarthaStewart.com through Friday, will call on Democrats to vote with House Republicans next week on a bill to give hourly private sector workers more flexibility to choose between compensatory time and cash payment for overtime work.
Oh, so work for free in hopes to exchange it for time off? Yeah, no problems with that idea. Just off the top of my head:
The legislative effort is not expected to garner much Democratic support because it has long been opposed by labor unions and Democratic interests who argue it is a backdoor attempt to weaken workers’ rights to overtime pay.
No kidding.
You might be surprised (or not) that this is part of Eric Cantor’s effort to provide conservative alternatives to everyday problems facing American families, but in this case to give a great, big wet kiss to Corporate America. He really thinks women are this stupid?
“One of these days someone’s going to trigger one of these homemade bombs with an ObamaPhone. Can we at least cut the welfare off now?”
–Dennis Miller
Because welfare=terrorists.
Gee, you know Dennis, someday some terrorist is going to drive on a road paid for by taxpayer dollars, too, so we should stop building them, too?
And before I get off my soapbox, can we quit calling the Lifeline telephone program Obamaphones? They were created before The Kenyan took office and it is not funded by taxpayer money. It is designed to allow the poor to connect to jobs, family, and 911 services. I don’t think any of those things are bad.
“All of us are fallible, we make mistakes, we say things the wrong way. I’ve relived that moment many, many times.”
–Todd Akin on his infamous legitimate rape comment.
The quote bothers me because of the we say things the wrong way clause. So… what was the right way to say what you meant, Todd?
…we offer this reprise showing:
UPDATE: Great minds think alike: One of the Internet Blogger Hall-o-Fame greatest stylists and a personal hero of mine, Jurassic Pork also is calling Chimpy’s Lieberry a collection of pop-up books. Also, too: What JP Said.
Oh, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Bad-haired GOP sex-lizard and notorious Appalachian trail hiking, amateur castanet playing Lothario, South Carolina Governor Mark “Kiss Me South of the Border” Sanford decided to do a little, um, tit for tat, so to speak. Here’s the sequence of events as near as I can tell:
One of the people whose number he published responded, “I’m not too happy about it and I’m not sure what the point was. He’s a representative, he’s supposed to respond to us, not to try to get back at us,” which says just about everything you need to know about Mark Sanford and the run-of-the-mill Xristian Xrazie scold who has been caught dipping his finger into the honey pot.
So, on the plus side: Sanford now has a lot of phone numbers to call, you know, when he has an urge. Hubba-hubba! But wouldn’t it be easier for Sanford just to take out a Craig’s List ad?
Let’s be real: the explosion at the fertilizer factory was completely preventable. If Grover Norquist and his ilk were not so busy trying to starve the beast and bathtub-drown it for the 1%, there might have been some reasonable inspections that would have at least warned people that this was likely to happen.
Instead, over the past five years, exactly six fertilizer plants have been inspected. There are many more explosions waiting to happen. How is this possible, you ask?
In the US, there are more than 170 companies making 70,000 different chemicals, totaling $750 billion revenue, and so it only seems logical that Congress funded $10.5M for inspections. You can do the math. It is beyond preposterous.
And of course, we should thank Chimpy for the miracle of self-regulation and reporting that is supposed to make up the difference.
As for Texas, well, what kind of zoning laws would allow a bomb-making plant (remember, chemical fertilizers were part of the swords to plough shares at the end of WWII, but the industry really did result from bomb making) in a populated downtown, walking distance to the hospital and elementary school, and with several senior housing facilities also in the radius of the blast?
It all adds up to a perfect storm of Ayn Rand style selfishness and greed, and now it has a body count.
Sex is the most filthy, vile, disgusting, and degrading activity that two people can do to each other, which is why it should only happen after you are happily married.
I think that is about all that Ohio Republicans allowed teachers to say on the subject…
“It is not rocket scientry!”
–Candice Miller (R-MI) who insisted that Napolitano was just making excuses for a failure to secure the border.
Remember Alaskastan’s senatorial candidate and famous beard-wearing person Joe Miller who holds the distinction of being the only candidate to lose to a write-in campaign for the oddly spelled Lisa Murkowski? Remember him? Endorsed by Mooselini? Teabagger?
The Moose-Savant is gonna run again.
(Second verse: a little bit louder and a little bit worse!)
The Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously adopted resolutions against marriage equality on Friday, despite rising support for the idea among voters nationwide.
The Washington Post reported that the resolutions, which were approved without debate, include one supporting marriage “as the union of one man and one woman, and as the optimum environment in which to raise healthy children for the future of America.”
Another unanimous resolution called for the Supreme Court to “uphold the sanctity of marriage” when it delivers its rulings on cases involving the Defense of Marriage Act and the California law Proposition 8, which also defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
So once again GOPers, I gotta ask: How is that rebranding thingie workin’ out for ya?
“However, conservatism begins with facing facts.”
–George Will, the Living Museum of ’80s Power Ties, said apparently without irony.
Baby Jeebus with a firecracker! What the hell is University of Texas historian Jeremi Suri doing proposing we preemptively bomb (nuke? Yes.) North Korea? Did some of the stupid leak over from Chimpy’s Liberry and coloring book emporium at SMU?
One would think that a historian would, you know, remember some history? I can only conclude that Jeremi Suri is aiming to write the definitive court history of Chimpy’s Reign of Error, probably with contributions from the whole, doomed PNAC crowd and special forward by Rummie and Cheney.
(NYTimes)
In his doomed quest to be the next governor, Xristian Xrazie homophobe VA. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is calling for oral sex to be illegal in his state.
Next up, he is going to propose changing the name of the state because it sounds too much like a lady’s woo-woo.
“MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats’ gun proposals. Let’s start with Meghan McCain!”
–Ann Coulter, She-wolf of the Nazis
Everyone, man the ramparts! We must defend our favorite GOPer, SoyBlo.
(TownHall)
Thrice-married chaser of the Clenis, “the idol of the gun-toting, abortion-fighting, IRS-hating hard right wing of American politics” Bob Barr is running for Congress. Again.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) threat late Monday to filibuster gun control, which came during President Obama’s televised speech bashing Republicans who have made such threats, carries important implications for the debate.
In short, McConnell’s filibuster threat makes it ever more likely that any final legislation that passes Congress will have the National Rifle Association’s stamp of approval.
I mean, aside from the fact that Harry Reid is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NRA.
(TPM)
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