FIRST DRAFT

Snarky, My Favorite Flavor of Democrat

OUCH: 

"Tea Party House Republicans have had a rough month … We have a few suggestions for House Republicans that might make their next month a little bit easier," said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Jesse Ferguson in a release.

Among the "suggested" agenda items complied by the DCCC: breakfast paid for by lobbyists, "Science 101," a workshop on "How to stop talking about 'legitimate rape' and insulting women," a math course on "counting to 218 votes" — and, of course, trust falls.

Also on the suggested topics to be discussed: "How to increase our approval ratings: What root canals, traffic jams, cockroaches and head lice are doing right."

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Ride Glenn's Bologna Pony

And other family-friendly amusements at Glenn Beck's new Rand-Land: 

Glenn believes that he can bring the heart and the spirit of Walt's early Disneyland ideas into reality. Independence, USA wouldn't be about rides and merchandise, but would be about community and freedom. The Marketplace would be a place where craftmen and artisan could open and run real small businesses and stores. The owners and tradesmen could hold apprenticeships and teach young people the skills and entrepreneurial spirit that has been lost in today’s entitlement state.

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Across the lake, there would be a church modelled after The Alamo which would act as a multi-denominational mission center. The town will also have a working ranch where visitors can learn how to farm and work the land.

Working this in reverse order, I don't think people are prevented from setting up an agrarian Galt-paradise of their very own from a lack of knowledge about how to "work the land." I think it has to do with how farming is a quick path to OMGBROKE.

Also, the church will be modelled after The Alamo? So Mexicans will invade it eventually? I'm okay with this.

ALSO I'm kind of having a hard time believing in the ability to build a whole new Galt's Gulch theme park when Beck can't even hire a copy editor for his own web site.

What rides would YOU like to see in this independent community paradise?

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Worst Governor Ever

I was contemplating posting about my so-called Governor's reverse Robin Hoodism (abolishing income and corporate taxes in favor of staggering sales taxes increases) but then I read my friend Lamar White's recent  PBJ post and decided to do a link and quote instead:

He is, without any question, the single worst Governor in contemporary Louisiana history, and in lightning fast time, Bobby Jindal has destroyed institutions, services, and programs that had taken generations for us to build, shuffling our tax dollars from those most in need to those who have the most, lining the pockets of his campaign contributors with public money while disingenuously lecturing the State about the need for austerity. Louisiana remains at the bottom of all of those “bad lists” that Jindal once liked to talk about, and because of Jindal’s personal political ambitions, he’s refused billions in federal aid and grant money. He thinks he’s sending a message to Washington and President Obama about how smart he is; he’s actually just telling the country that he’s an incompetent political hack who cares more about serving his financiers than his constituents.

Methinks Lamar deserved his 2012 Ashley Award:

Rising Tide 7 - Ashley Award - Lamar White - Cenlamar blog from Jason Berry on Vimeo.

 

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - GOP follies edition

 

Good morning, everyone!

Let's get suited up and spin that airlock wheel, shall we?

Without further ado - King Slut!

Peter King: Halt donations to House GOP http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/issa-sandy-bill-was-a-pork-fest-85668.html#ixzz2Gqq8p8tc ^

Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:08 PM by ConservativeMan55

New York Republican Rep. Peter King went to war with his Republican colleagues on Wednesday after leaders spiked a Hurricane Sandy relief bill, calling on New Yorkers to stop all donations to GOP House members.

1 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:10 PM by ConservativeMan55

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To: ConservativeMan55

Already done!!

2 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:36 PM by ConservativeMan55

Yeah.  Sure. You stopped giving that money that you never gave in the first place.

To: ConservativeMan55

Peter King can go to hell and he can take Jabba the Hut Christie with him!

7 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:27:18 PM by pgkdan (Does America have a Cassius Chaerea?)

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To: ConservativeMan55

halt donations to Peter King

8 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:27:50 PM by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)

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I'm detecting a theme here...

To: SeekAndFind

I live in NY and I am disgusted with it. Every time there is a disaster some mysterious illness or irreparable seems to pop up and harm our citizens all go running for the doctor

Running for the Doctor? EVERY time a mysterous illness pops up? What a bunch of wusses!

andthe lawyer and the congressman and cry crocodile tears in order to make some money. How about we all shut up, pull ourselves together and stop asking for money for once. What a concept! What a bunch of wusses!

42 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:57:19 PM by AdaGray (squi)

That's what I said!

To: ConservativeMan55

The Tea Party is a good place to send money and Sarah Palin is my choice.

18 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:46:11 PM by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)

 

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To: frogjerk

I think tea party and like minded individuals gave the GOP one last chance in 2012. I think it is time to move on. If the GOP wants to come along fine but otherwise they can go pound sand.

2014 will be the last chance for the Pubbies, IMO.

On second thought, the upcoming debt ceiling is the last chance. If the Pubbies don't draw the line in the sand, it will never happen.

Does Boehner realize he's Speaker because of the Tea Party?

27 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:13:17 PM by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)

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To: John O

I honestly see no logic in subsidizing people living in areas which are especially vulnerable to bad weather.

Well, let's see - that would be the entire population of both coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, tornado alley, and the Rocky Mountains from British Colombia to the Rio Grande.  Throw in the desert states where nothing edible grows and sandstorms turn car windows milky white,

What's left?

On top of that, those areas (costal) are generally pretty affluent.

Have you ever BEEN to Mississippi, you hat of asses?

It’s bad enough we have effectively subsidized flood insurance, but aid on top of that is rubbish.

36 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:25:00 PM by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)

Yeah! Aid? On top of that???

(you know this douchenozzle would be the first one to scream for help if a tornado demolished his town)

Well, we're not done with the Big Bad Boehner yet, so that and more after the Quantum Singularity...

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No It Won't, You Fucking Poser-Loser ... Ploser? We Need a New Word, That's How Much This Guy Sucks.

God, armchair revolutionaries make me tired. 

1776 will not commence again, because that would require that you give up your job that you hate and your family you don't like very much and your fucking recliner and your Bugles filled with spray cheese and actually DO SOMETHING, and if you were capable of improving the world in any miniscule way you wouldn't be such an angry fucking insect in the first place, and you wouldn't need to use the prospective deaths of others to yob off in front of the world on national television to make yourself sound important. Fuck you.

God, can all these people just get back to me when there's a meeting I actually need to be at? At least ten times a day somebody within earshot of me wishes armed revolution would commence over something or other, and is this me getting old, that I've been on this planet long enough to remember EVERY TIME that we are always promising that THIS is gonna be the big one and it never fucking is? How 9/11 was going to make us better people (SO FUCKING GROSS) and how we were gonna be serious again, how the wars were going to teach us not to be so susceptible to bullshit, how Obama's election would end racism forever, how this time, today, this morning, it was all gonna change? 

(And it never goddamn does, and I don't even care that it doesn't. I care that we keep saying stupid shit. I care that we keep making promises we can't keep, instead of getting up every day and picking up the laundry off the bathroom floor for once. The big promises DAMAGE us, they ruin us with their hopelessness, because they make us think ALL promises are hopeless, and ALL change is impossible, and all progress is a forlorn dream with no chance of coming true.)

So now the gun nuts are going to rise, huh? No they're not. Not en masse. Not in a wave that will remake this nation. Not to throw off the yoke of oppression or to protect "freedom" (Hey fuckos, you want to shoot shit for a living and defend freedom? The recruiting office is right there.) or even to keep the rusty hunting rifle Granny kept for shootin' varmints. A few people will cause untold amounts of carnage because bullshit merchants like this guy keep yelling, and the majority of people will go on about their lives.

Grumbling, sure. Resentful, sure. Just like every other Tuesday in the entire universe ever, because we have made these kinds of declarations before, and I'll believe in the next leader of the Last Free Republic when he puts down the remote and does something, anything other than talk about what he's gonna do someday, this time, for real. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Boehner's Big Election edition

OK then - where were we?

Ah yes - the fabulous Freeperati. (I almost posted a movie review or a recipe before I remembered what my gig is).

Well, them Duke tabagger boys had gotten themselves into a terrible fix with Boss Sob, or was it the other way around?

(caution - if you have an election lasting more than 4 hours, see a physician immediately)

First there was this:

Congressmen Confirm That Boehner Will Either Resign Speakership Or Be Forced Out Cybercast News Service.com ^ | 1/2/13 | Ron Meyer

Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:08:45 PM by drewh

I have confirmed with a group of Congressmen that House Speaker John Boehner will not be reelected Speaker tomorrow.

He will either resign or be forced out tomorrow.

Only 17 members are needed to block Speaker Boehner's election tomorrow. A Speaker needs an absolute majority of all votes cast for a specific person.

If no one has a majority, the House is speakerless. I've confirmed these rules with the House Parliamentarian.

1 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:08:53 PM by drewh

Woo hoo! The teahadists are gonna flex their muscle of love and get that damned traitor sent down for his betrayal of The Cause!

To: drewh

Get rid of this freakin idiot socialist moron Boner.

tweet Republicans , tell them get rid of this creature or else we get rid of them

http://www.gop.gov/republicans/twitter

4 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:11:48 PM by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)

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To: HiTech RedNeck

The Speaker doesnt have to be a current member necessarily.... (according to the constitution)

5 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:11:56 PM by drewh

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To: drewh

FIRST THINGS FIRST...

NEWT, THE BLEACHED BLOND SPOUSE HAS TO GO....

10 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:15:10 PM by ptsal (E)

Heh.

To: drewh

It won’t matter if the GOP-e just nominates another reliable RINO. It might be why Alan West was gerrymandered out of his district.

15 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:16:39 PM by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

YEAH! Because they always want to keep the black man DOWN!

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Wait - wut?

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To: drewh

Why get rid of one socialist to get an even worse one. Besides, Gingrich is too busy crusading for climate change and same-sex marriage.

27 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:21:51 PM by nickcarraway

Newt Gingrich - RINO!

To: drewh

I believe Congressman Louie Gohmert himself would make an excellant(sic) Speaker.

47 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:30:44 PM by duffee (Newt Gingrich for Speaker)

In much the same way as gasoline would make an excellent flame retardant...

To: drewh

The fact that people are even talking about this means they are not
afraid of Bonehead.
The issue seems to be who will replace him.

91 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:55:31 PM by tennmountainman

Actually, the issue is how self-deluded the Freeperati are.  You'd think they would have rented a clue after the Mitt's-gonna-win-in-a-landslide debacle, but apprently not.

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Good. Job security for me.

To: penelopesire

“Dittos!!... No Eric Cantor!... He is too sissified and rino in elephant clothes.....”

There has always been something very womanly about him....Too soft-spoken to be feared by opposition....Even the picture on Drudge with Boehner which was the lead story today, he just looks like a, well wuss.......

102 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:59:35 PM by 3722535r

"Too womanly"? "wuss"? You guys have more issues than National Geographic.

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Many names are floated by the Freeperati:

Newt - Cain - Ghomert Pyle - Clint Eastwood - Ted Nugent (it just gets sadder after that - I'm surprised they don't start pushing for their Dads as the wishful thinking accelerates)

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

And if he doesn’t leave, FR will need a full time janitor for the blood that will shoot out of a lot of people’s eyes. :’)

Thanks drewh.

193 posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:20:43 PM by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)

Let's just get right to that part, shall we?

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Eyes Full Of Blood (right after a word from our sponsors)

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Krauthammer's Pork Rape

A gentle reminder that hundreds of newspapers pay this man for his syndicated column, while the journalism industry as a whole whines that there is no money for journalism anymore. 

"I think what Boehner did in postponing the vote until today was absolutely right," he said on "Special Report." "That was a rape of the Treasury. $60 billion, including a ton of pork. The part that was essential that passed today was to replenish the flood insurance. That's right, and the rest ought to be debated in regular order."

First of all, you know what is like rape? Rape. Everything else? Not like rape. Like something else. It's not a complicated rule. I'm not an abnormally bright girl so if I can learn this, Charles Krauthammer certainly should be able to grok it eventually. 

Second, and this offends me just as much: A ton of pork. To do trivial things like rebuild people's houses and, you know, FEED THEM. This is pork to some privileged Washington asshole who's never going to miss a meal because a hundred years ago he said something intelligent and they've been paying him to say stupid shit ever since. 

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How soon they forget

It's not news that a GOP Congresscritter elected in the 2010 teabagger wave election would vore against aid for Hurricane Sandy victims. It is, however, news when that malaka is from Biloxi, MS and his district was ground zero for Katrina. Here's a statement from Congressman Steven Palazzo's office:

Congressman Palazzo fully supports a Sandy relief package that includes spending offsets.  On the heels of a fiscal cliff deal that added $4 trillion to our existing $16 trillion national debt, we must ensure that disaster relief is paid for.  He also hopes we will be able to have a much-needed national discussion on disaster relief reform in the coming days.

This would be hilarious if it weren't so pitiful. I *hope* that the voters punish him in 2014 but I'm not optimistic. Next thing you know he'll blame the Real Housewives Of New Jersey for his vote. Relief money could fall into the hands of Tree and Juicy Joe Giudice, after all...

In Palazzo's lexicon, E is not for empathy but H *is* for hypocrisy.

Malaka Of The Week: Marion Hammer

I have a new motto for this feature: when in doubt select someone from the NRA, where malakatude along with smoking guns is what they do best:

 ...even by the standards of what we’ve heard from the NRA recently, comments made by former NRA president Marion Hammer earlier this week stand out.

Appearing on an episode of the NRA news show The Daily News on Wednesday, Hammer concluded a discussion of the prospects on gun control initiatives prompted by the Newtown, Conn. massacre by drawing a comparison between attempts to ban guns and racism.

“And they even admit this is about banning the ugliest guns, it’s about cosmetics and it has nothing to do about how a firearm works,” host Ginny Simone said toward the end of the segment.

“Well, you know, banning people and things because of the way they look went out a long time ago,” Hammer responded. “But here they are again. The color of a gun. The way it looks. It’s just bad politics.”

TPM's Eric Lach compared Ms. Hammer's comments to Jim Crow, which is a pretty good analogy. I see his Jim Crow reference and raise it with an Apartheid one...

I don't know about y'all but I don't even know what these malevolent rods look like, nor do I care. The ugliness is in what they do, not in how they look. I'm surprised that Malaka Hammer didn't suggest that manufacturers paint the guns pink or even in team colors. Just imagine the Badger red or the LSU purple and gold on an assault weapon or ammo cartridge. Of course, there are people in both states who might like that idea so...

Wingnuts seem to specialize in inappropriate and OTT "historical" references these days. I'm surprised she didn't mention Hitler and guns since the right is fond of comparing us commie-pinko-socialists to the Nazis. Me, I don't compare anyone to the Nazis, it is almost never appropriate or accurate. Maybe the wingers have read their history and know that their formal name was the National Socialist party. Nah, when did a winger ever crack open a book that wasn't on the approved batshit crazy teanut reading list?

I realize picking an NRA honcho as malaka of the week is like, uh, shooting fish in a barrel but it's irresistible. Hmm, I wonder if she's any relation to Mike Hammer?

 

Welcome to the United States of YOUR OWN PARTY, You Monumental Assclown

Fuck Chris Christie, okay?

During a press conference in Trenton, N.J., Christie directed his fury toward House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who shelved an expected vote late Tuesday on the Senate-backed relief package worth $60 billion.

Christie said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) called him at 11:20 p.m. ET following an 11th hour deal on the so-called fiscal cliff to inform him there would be no vote on the supplemental funds. After that call, Christie said he phoned Boehner four times. Boehner never returned the calls. Christie also added that he was never given an explanation for the canceled vote.

“Shame on Congress,” Christie said, accusing lawmakers of putting “politics ahead of their responsibilities.”

“Our people were played last night as a pawn,” Christie added. “Last night, my party was responsible for this.”

Because here's some things that happened while you were a Republican that didn't appear to make you go all NOT ON MY WATCH until now. Republicans have: 

Blocked Katrina aid.

Denied relief funds to Missouri.

Told parts of Virginia caved in by an earthquake to suck it.

And acted like the last big hurricane to hit the East Coast was just one more welfare queen. 

All of that happened before you climbed up on stage and told everybody that big government was the enemy and unions sucked and Mitt Romney deserved to be president and by the way OH YEAH SO DID YOU. All of that.

Of course, all of that that wasn't about your people or your state, but hey, guess the fuck what? It's always your state. It's always your people. That the POINT of that big government you hate so much. If it isn't you today it will be tomorrow, which is why what happens to somebody can happen to anybody, so maybe you should have thought about that before here you come the inquisitor demanding to know what assholery commences here.

Maybe you should have recognized that as small as your beloved party likes to draw the circle, you are statistically likely to end up on the outside of it at least once in your life. And then you blow up all I SAY HOW DARE YOU SIR, when the same thing happened to about a thousand people last week and you didn't say shit. 

You're not wrong in this instance, Christie, but the point is you wouldn't have been wrong in ANY instance involving any other state had you chosen to open your yap and risk breaking a rib speaking up, and you waited till now, so don't you dare act surprised.

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Time for a Cantor Coup?

I am an agnostic when it comes to the fiscal cliff/slope/curb/grassy knoll deal. I'm not sure that I like it BUT I am also sick and tired of the teahadists in the House taking the economy hostage as if it were an Embassy or something. I'm waiting to see what happens when the next round starts before shooting from the lip, hip or any other orifice. No instant analysis from me this time around, unless Nancy Smash starts fretting publicly about what comes next.

I am, however, fascinated by the maneuvering and intercine strife on the GOP side. Majority Malaka Cantor seems to be erasing the entries marked Boner on his dance card. I'm not sure if he's coup plotting but he's keeping his distance from the weakest Speaker in recent memory. Speakers such as Carl Albert, John McCormack, and Denny Hastert were not exactly dynamic and charismatic but they had helpful chairmen, majority leaders, and whips. Speaker Boner has the weaselly Cantor instead.

Cantor may not be ready to plunge the dagger all the way up to the hilt BUT he *has* inflicted a series of cuts this week that, at the very least, have Boehner bleeding and as pale as a guy who uses too much spray tan can be. We all know that Cantor wouldn't carry the Speaker's tune of the cliff/slope/curb bill but he's also pointing a boney finger of blame at Boner for the Hurricane Sandy aid bill fiasco:

 At a press conference in New York, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday that he’s “distraught” and “angry” over the House’s failure to hold a vote, blaming it on a House GOP “leadership squabble.” He said Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been “truly helpful” in piecing together the package and blamed Boehner.

“Cantor has been very much for us, but Speaker Boehner … pulled the rug out from under us,” Schumer said. “It’s a Boehner betrayal.”

A Cantor aide affirmed that the majority leader has been pushing for the package.

“Majority Leader Cantor is committed to ensuring the urgent needs of New York and New Jersey residents are met, and he has been working tirelessly toward that goal,” the aide told TPM.

So, will the Boehner betrayal lead to a Cantor coup? I think the odds are 50-50 but if Cantor is as snakily shrewd as he seems, he'll let Boner bleed slowly to death instead of moving immediately. Who the hell would want to be in charge of the fractious and ideologically idiotic House GOP caucus, after all?

Since I've used a lot of bloody imagery, I'll let the Rolling Stones have the last word, since we all need someone we can bleed on:

 

 

 

Malaka Of The Week: John Boehner

I don't have to recite chapter and verse on this one, you know why he's won the malakatude crown of thorns. Speakers-even strong ones-all eventually lose control of their caucus. Boner, however, *never* had control over his, and it turns out he has no influence with them either. He also doesn't know how to count votes. I have never in a lifetime of following politics seen an important vote, announced, scheduled, and withdrawn in a 24 hour period. Never.

It's hard to see how John of Orange can survive this public humiliation at the hand of the teawads in the GOP caucus. Unfortunately, that weasel Eric Cantor is just as bad and is unlikely to unite the fractious House Republicans so that the nation's business can get done.

The message to Democrats in all this is a simple one: get out and vote in off-year elections so that 1994 and 2010 will not be repeated. Unfortunately, losing so many ledges in 2010 has given the GOP an advantage in the House via the dark magic of Gerrymandering.

I saw Louisiana Congressman Bill Cassidy on WWL-TV this morning. He's the man from Red Stick so I was surprised that they didn't interview our local wingnut Congressman, Steve Scalise. Cassidy seems to be planning a run against the eternally vulnerable Senator Mary Landrieu in 2014. Cassidy blamed-surprise, surprise-Obama for Boner's defeat at the hands of his own caucus, which is crazy but typical.

Boehner's Plan B tuned out to be as artistically successful as Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space as well as equally mockworthy. That's why the lame duck (?) Speaker of the House is malaka of the week.

Pantsed

LOL BOEHNER: 

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), one of the conservative lawmakers "purged" from a committee seat by House leadership earlier this month, issued a release gloating over the fact that Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" to avert the so-called fiscal cliff failed on Thursday night due to lack of support.

"On a separate note, Republican leadership thought they could silence conservatives when they kicked us off our Committees," Huelskamp said. "I’m glad that enough of my colleagues refused to back down from the threats and intimidation, thus preventing the Conference from abandoning our principles."

I ask you, is there anything more lulzy than watching these freakjobs eat each other? I say lulzy not because it's going to be fun to have certain kinds of tax cuts expire, but because this was like the world's most predictable outcome and Boehner didn't prevent it. Bad planning, generally, either enrages me or cracks me up and since it's tired and I'm late, I've chosen to be amused. 

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The stupidest thing I've ever heard

How's that for a dramatic statement since we live in the land of stupid. As the Veep would say, I mean that literally, not figuratively. It comes via Jillian Rayfield at Salon:

Incoming state Rep. Kyle Kacal, R-Texas, will not support any gun control measures in Texas because people need their guns “to be safe,” and, besides, “ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns.”

“People know what they need to do to be safe. We don’t need to legislate that — it’s common sense,” Kacal said, according to the Eagle. “Once everyone’s gun is locked up, then the bad guys know everyone’s gun is locked up.”

“I’ve heard of people being killed playing ping-pong — ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns,” he added. “Flat-screen TVs are injuring more kids today than anything.”

Ping pongs? First of it's ping pong but, dude, you are a fucking moron who is even stupider than Palin, Bachmann or Louis Fucking Gohmert. Mega-stupid, uber-stupid, just plain stupid.

That is all.

Without A Sidearm

What the fuck do they think goes on in black neighborhoods? 

The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan’s former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused “from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times.”

Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. “without a side arm.”

I hear this miserable fraidy-cat shit all the time and it is becoming a THING with me, like what do you think, nobody's at the polls with their coffee and their friends in Detroit because Teh Negroes live there and their ways are strange to us all? Not fellow humans, are they, who are voting before work and then going to work and going home and having dinner and trying to get the kids to bed on time and watch Idol and go back and do it all the next day? 

You wouldn't go to the polls in Detroit without a sidearm? Fool, ain't nobody nowhere gonna screw with you UNLESS you show up all aggro and packing your Wal-Mart arsenal. Otherwise you're just some other dude and you're not bothering them one bit. I've been in just about every neighborhood in the city of Chicago at just about every time of the day and night, and not once did anything happen to me that could remotely be construed as threatening. I got invited to a self-confessed gang member's birthday party once. A coke dealer gave me directions when I was lost. Those are the scariest things that have ever happened to me in neighborhoods that appear regularly in the police blotter. 

(I regularly do just the stupidest shit. Last night after dark I drove out to meet a fellow who'd advertised some furniture on Craigslist. As I drove my car into his locked storage lot behind his creepy van, it occurred to me that this was pretty much the plot of every third Morgan Freeman movie, but hey, too late. The furniture was great, the guy was nice, his price was fair, and he offered to deliver it free of charge. Horror.) 

Am I lucky? You fucking bet I am. Could I have been raped and murdered that night or any one of a hundred nights and days when I've been driving around places we've allowed to decay until they look like demilitarized zones? Absolutely. You know what else could happen? I could get pasted all over the freeway by a semi truck out of control. I could drop dead of a heart attack while jogging. I still drive and I still jog and the universe is random and horrible so you tell me where this kind of thinking leads. I'm a grown-up. I lock my doors at night. I live where I live because I believe it's as safe as can be found within the limits of how I want to live. But I try not to live like there's some magic line somewhere that's going to protect me because there just fucking isn't. 

It makes me insane, the way we wall ourselves off from one another and act like it HAS to be that way. It drives me up a fucking tree, hearing people put limits on their movements because of absolute bullshit. Yes, you can drive there safely. Yes, you can park your car there. Yes, you can order from that restaurant. Yes, you can live your life as if you're not shit-stupid and scared of people who don't look like you. These are CHOICES you're making. Own that at least. Give yourself that much credit. This isn't me saying you need to seek out the most Beirut-like place to live. This is me saying you can venture places without a sidearm, if you want, because it's up to you. 

And think about this: If you're scared to VISIT someplace, why are you okay with anyone living there? Statistically the people who live in these places are far more likely to be the victims of crimes than those just passing through, so where do you get off exactly muttering darkly about where you won't go and what you think happens there? 

Apparently if you're the bag of fuck cited above, you get off before you get anywhere near anything new, so your beautiful mind doesn't have to be troubled by it. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Odds and Clods Edition

Morning, everyone! One more trip to the schadenfreude well, because there's just so much of it left.

First up (and overripe for sure) - All-inclusive Newtie!

Gingrich: GOP needs to be "inclusive" cbsnews.com ^

Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:21:38 PM by Sub-Driver

Gingrich: GOP needs to be "inclusive"

In the aftermath of Mitt Romney's presidential loss last week, Newt Gingrich is joining the cadre of Republicans calling for the Republican Party to more actively reach out to a more diverse electorate, arguing on Monday that the party needs to become more "inclusive."

"I think we need to be inclusive, and I emphasize the difference between inclusive and outreach," Gingrich said Monday morning in an appearance on ABC's "The View." "Outreach is when five white guys have a meeting and call you. Inclusive is when you're in the meeting. And I think we have to understand to be inclusive."

Gingrich, who was joined by his wife Callista on the show, argued that Republicans had "misunderstood the American people" in 2012, and that the GOP can't just wait until 2016 to try to broaden its reach.

"The Republican doctrine of highly paid consultants spending hundreds of millions of dollars on 30-second ads doesn't build a party," he said. "The Republican Party better not wait until 2016. The Republican Party better rethink in 2013 how we're going to deal with the country's issues and do it in a way that the average American looks up and says, you know, those are folks I'm willing to trust with my future. We lost that."

He added that "there were a whole series of fundamental things that were really wrong" with how the GOP framed the 2012 election, including the fact that the Obama campaign so successfully appealed to non-white voters.

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Oh shut up.......

1 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:21:40 PM by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver

This is the only reason Republicans lost the Presidency, Newt:

They chose a RINO like you.

2 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:23:58 PM by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)

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They did not choose a RINO like Newt.

They chose a RINO like Mittens.

So there.

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To: Sub-Driver

Newt, we definitely need more Honey Boo Boos. People who can’t identify the 3 branches of government or those who are on the Supreme Court...

PS: What a crock!

3 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:25:27 PM by Frank Sheed (The injustice of trendiness is nearly dualistic in its isomorphism.)

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To: Sub-Driver

How about looking into all the questionable precincts where Obama got 99-100% of the votes? This election was STOLEN!!!!

6 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:26:52 PM by DLfromthedesert

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Of course it was.   Now you just go and have a little lie-down.

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To: Sub-Driver

This is who Newt really is. He will be whatever you want him to be one minute and then change back to who he really is a short time later.

He says great things at times, but he doesn’t always mean them. He is an opportunist.

15 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:34:12 PM by dforest

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To: Sub-Driver

BS! If the Republican Party is to survive it needs to be more openly conservative. Period.

20 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:36:18 PM by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)

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To: Sub-Driver

Et tu, Newt?

23 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:36:53 PM by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)

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To: Sub-Driver

Fabulous. More pearls of wisdom brought forth while sitting amongst some of the biggest foul mouthed, ignorant shrews the entertainment business has ever known. I suppose it could be worse. I could have to sit through his and Callista’s convention speech again.

35 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:42:33 PM by ShadowDancer ("Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.")

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How crazy are these heads of fuck?

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This crazy:

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To: paglia444

Screw the implication we’re in the wrong simply because we’re white and male.

(Tommy) No, you're in the minority, and because you're white, male, and living in the past - and a past that never really existed, at that.

We lead in the way we know is right and best for the Country. Don’t like it? Then GFY.

36 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:42:33 PM by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)

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No, I'd rather fuck YOU.

With the razor-sharp steel strap-on of reality.

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Of course, some of them can see the apporaching light of the train that just ran over them and is coming around for another pass:

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To: Sub-Driver

Why should he shut up? He’s right.

18 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:34:42 PM by Melas (u)

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To: Melas

I’m with you. Take a poll of the Free Republic ideological mindset and you might have a representative sample of about a quarter of the electorate. We want to elect a president based only on that and brand everyone else as RINOS, socialists, Marxists or idiots? Good luck with that.

40 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:44:57 PM by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)

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And, lest we forget:

To: Sub-Driver

People on FR that were punting for Newt...

Where are you now you a-holes? You castigated us for pointing out Newt's "sitting on a bench with Nan" photo-op... You said we were being unreasonable. You said he REALLY WAS a "conservative"...

All of it, utter BS.

This is why we can't have nice things.

83 posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 1:37:32 PM by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)

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And it is always thus.

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More after the clickable feast.

News Flash: Rat-Fuckers Enjoy Fucking Rats

SHOCKER. 

Unfortunately for Mr. Crowder, a look at the video broadcast on the Sean Hannity show appears to show quite clearly that he left out an important section of the footage when he put together his edit. A section of the Fox News broadcast preserved by the Web site Mediaite shows that Mr. Hannity’s producers at Fox News started the clip five seconds earlier than Mr. Crowder did. What the extra footage reveals is the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground seconds before and then getting up and taking a swing at the comedian.

Those rats were totally asking for it. I mean, did you SEE how they were dressed? And who's honestly out looking for cheese at this hour anyway? 

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Malaka Of The Week: Cathie Adams

There's a whole lotta malakatude this week but I've decided to pick on a minor offender, former Texas GOP Chair, Cathie Adams. Why? I'm pressed for time and I can whip this one out in a hurry. Also, it's yet another example of the GOP's continuing pursuit of the stupid and crazy even as Politico assures us that Republicans have gotten the message and are becoming instant-moderates, as if it were a powdery drink like Tang. It's more like Kool-Aid, y'all...

Anyway, Ms. Adams seems to have eaten some really strong pot brownies by mistake before making this preposterous claim:

Adams went on to rail against Colorado’s (then-)upcoming vote on legalizing marijuana, which passed in the state on Election Day. “And if we legalize it, will we empty out our jails and will we be safe for ever more?” Adams asked. “No.  I’m telling you, Barack Hussein Obama has got to have a teleprompter because he fried his brain on drugs. It doesn’t work.”

Barack Obama: stoner burn-out? Who knew? Next someone will claim that Cheech Marin or Tommy Chong is either the Prez's real father or his gay lover. Of course, the former allegation would undermine birtherism but what's wrong with a a little inconsistency? The batshit crazy wing of the GOP thrives on inconsistency, after all.

Ms. Adams also thinks Obama is-surprise, surprise-a Commie:

Who is a Marxist in our White House?  Of course, it’s Barack Hussein Obama.  And I don’t know why we’re not calling him what he is as a Marxist.  It’s as if, when the wall fell that communism died; it didn’t. Today, it is green on the outside and red on the inside. It is as red as ever and Barack Obama is implementing his green agenda,

I guess Ms. Adams is unaware that the most polluted nations on earth were members of the Warsaw Pact, which at least claimed to be Marxist guvmints. I won't even get started about China. Once again, why let the facts get in the way of a loony conspiracy theory? Facts are for Commies. Hey, at least she knows her colors...

I guess it's time to warm up the teleprompter, fire up a joint, and read Das Capital. Wow, man, that sounds hard. I'd rather space out and listen to Dark Side Of The Moon, man:

 

That ends my foray into Tommy T country. I don't know how the man does it but I'm glad he does. He's the anti-malaka and his fellow Texan, Cathie Adams, is malaka of the week.

Now, Now to Sit or Never

From OccupyMARINES, the scene outside the Michigan statehouse this morning.

This is why we say never stop.

This is why, when the smart money in Wisconsin said to calm down and back down and sit down, to just concentrate on the next election and whatever, really, people stood up. Because you never know where it stops. 

Let's get one thing straight here. Democrats didn't have the power in Michigan to stop this. The people might, but it's far from a sure thing. But it's not the responsibility of anybody to listen to what you have to say. It's your responsibility to speak. If people listen, if people act, that's a bonus. That's a grace. That's a miracle. If what you say spreads out across the world and turns the tide, that's the prize. But that's not the work. The work is you opening your mouth about what you care about. And the work is never done.

It seems like I ask you this question every year, like it's cold out, and I'm tired, and I just want to get off the damn treadmill and so do you. When does the treadmill stop? When does it get easier? But the secret is that there's no treadmill and no off. Stop thinking that there's gonna come a day when things are easier, Mr. A and I say to each other at least once a week. Stop waiting for that day. It's poisonous and small and it'll kill you every day just a little bit more. This is all there is. It's hard. Stop thinking hard isn't what it's supposed to be. Stop thinking hard isn't what you're here for. 

There's such a gloriousness of purpose in fighting the hardest that you can for what you really want. There's such a strength in it. Half of our frustration and all of our anger comes from asking so little of ourselves every day, from the constant work of convincing ourselves there's nothing we can do. There's always something. Look at that up there. Did they win? No. But you tell me they lost as much as everybody on the couch and I'll call you a liar. 

Watching the Ustream of the protests this morning here, a man with a sign reading "We Fight Until You Take My Union Card from My Cold Dead Hands" looked over the crowd chanting "Kill the bill." He grinned, even in the face of certain defeat. 

"Worth it," he told the camera, a smile in his voice and on his face.

"Worth it." 

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Obama, Michigan and 'Right to Be Shitcanned' Legislation

I suppose better when he doesn't have anything to lose anymore, than never: 

And by the way, what we shouldn’t do -- I just got to say this -- what we shouldn’t be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages and working conditions.  (Applause.)  We shouldn’t be doing that.  (Applause.)  These so-called “right to work” laws, they don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics.  (Applause.) What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.  (Applause.)

I mean that. I do. Should Obama stay in Washington and send out a tweet for this just because that's what he did two years ago? After all, it's not like Michigan's not epically screwed: 

This governor has a checkered record on saying he wants to cooperate with Democrats and moderates and actually doing it.

First he signed a bunch of legislation that labor didn’t much like and there were no Democratic votes. The governor had control of the house and senate and he used it to advance his early agenda.

But when there was the uproar in Wisconsin over anti-labor legislation there, this governor reassured everyone, “Michigan will not be Wisconsin.”

Damn right. It'll be worse. Which is what happens when you delay fights for a better time. When you keep your powder dry. 

Horwitz said he believed the White House would be more aggressive on the labor battle in Michigan than it had been in Wisconsin.

“There’s nothing but upside for him on this one. The landscape has changed,” Horwitz said. “In the terms of the way the fiscal cliff is being pursued, the president is fighting for the middle class and saying, ‘let’s tax the elites.’ … In the middle of that, the Republicans are saying let’s curb union rights.”

THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE BEEN SAYING FOR 20-30-40-100 GODDAMN YEARS JESUS GOD. This isn't a new thing. They've been pounding away here, trying to get to exactly where we are, where unions are so neutered and assailed as such anachronisms by every fuckstick with Sunday paper real estate that it's hard for them to even rate a seat at the table. And all the while Democratic politicians thought that if we just hunkered down and let this one storm pass us by the skies would be clear forevermore. 

This has been building for a while. And I'm glad Obama opened his mouth and said something about it now, because every day you wait, every day you refuse to speak up, every day you hang back is another day they can dig in and poison the ground. Michigan's gonna need all the help it can get in the coming days. Luckily, Wisconsin's sending reinforcements: 

Randy Bryce, an organizer for Ironworkers Local 8, is putting together a group of workers from Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to join the protest against legislation pushed by Gov. Rick Snyder and Republicans in the Legislature to make Michigan a right-to-work state.

Bryce, a Racine County ironworker who was involved in similar protests against anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin, said the issues involved are even greater in Michigan.

"A lot of things are eerily similar to parts of what happened here in Wisconsin," said Bryce, who expects 40 to 50 people from his union to travel to Lansing, Mich., by Tuesday when lawmakers reconvene and Snyder plans to sign the bills into law. "I would say what’s under attack there is even bigger because they decided to go after the public- and private-sector unions."

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NRSC Not Pro-Rape Enough

Republicans. Will they ever support rape enough? 

“The NRSC’s actions reflected its incompetent leadership,” Tyler told TPM Friday. “It’s hard to say if Akin could have won given how poorly the Republicans performed nationally. But there can be no question that their actions and comments kept the campaign from recovering after a misstep.”

Right. It's not that your candidate was a total dog anus. It's that Republicans performed poorly nationally, so how could poor saintly Todd Akin possibly have won? 

Tyler, honey, Republicans could have won every other district and Senate seat ever and you still would have come up short because YOUR CANDIDATE WAS THE RAPE GUY. The first of many rape guys, but still, the RAPE GUY. 

Democrats said the proof of the ad buys shows the NRSC was “underhanded and dishonest” in Missouri. Tyler says it would have been more helpful if GOP leaders hadn’t lined up to publicly dismiss Akin’s chances.

Well, yes. It would have been more helpful to your candidate. Not so much to the NRSC, which was still at that point thinking about winning any elections at all, and thus trying not to be so loudly pro-rape (while still, of course, supporting whatever bag of hammers with an R after its name was on the ballot anyway). 

I actually wish they'd been open about it, too. I would have more respect for them if they'd just flat-out owned it, monetarily and otherwise. Less respect than I have for the fine upstanding Americans who rob liquor stores for a living, but more respect than I have for the NRSC right now. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "It's TOO quiet" edition

 

Good morning, happy campers!

Freeperville has settled down quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. I guess they're running out of garments to rend.

Well, I can't keep posting immediately-post-election threads forever (although I have an entire outbuilding full of them still unopened)...

Ah - here's something new - Two Girls, One Cupp!

What happened to Ann Coulter? Tea Party Nation. ^ | 12/6/12 | Judson Phillips

Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:10:05 PM by Thad Lost

Ann Coulter used to be one of the shinning voices of the Conservative movement. She could be counted on to verbally joust and destroy liberal opponents.

Suddenly she isn’t doing this.

Suddenly she is saying we should give in to Obama.

What has happened to Ann Coulter?

1 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:10:09 PM by Thad Lost

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To: Thad Lost

You mean the Ann Coulter who thought Christie Kreme was the conservative man of the year before she thought Mitt was?

I think Ann’s relevance factor has slipped exponentially.

6 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:16:17 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

I daresay, (as that particular horse gets longer in the tooth), her appeal to the only head Freepers seem capable of thinking with has slipped exponentially.

To: Thad Lost

She reminds me of Dennis Miller, who virulently savaged Reagan years ago, and then found out that there’s money to be made by tweaking the conservative data base. No matter what anyone says, Miller, Coulter, and bozos like O’Reilly have their conservative feedbag on and don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the conservative cause.

For Coulter to have cheerleaded for Gov. Krispy Kreem and Romney into a so-called Conservative base just showed where her allegiance lay. And may she and the rest of her buddies go to hell.

8 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:21:41 PM by laweeks

Of course, some of the Freeperati are still having that tingle running down their legs:

To: Thad Lost

I have nothing against Anne Coulter.....but I wish I did.

12 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:25:56 PM by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)

 

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To: Thad Lost

Not just Coulter. Last night O’REILLY and today Cavuto threw in the towel. O’Reilly said he was tired of the issue and Cavuto was like whatever, it will hurt the economy but it won’t be a death blow.

21 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:37:15 PM by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewiscrate)

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To: laweeks

All these “conservative” talk show hosts and commentators make lots of money, and that is the name of the game.

Not that I envy their wealth, but let’s not put them on pedestals.

WSHF they will pack their bags and leave the country for a better place to live.
What, me American?

27 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:43:16 PM by 353FMG

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To: Thad Lost

Ironically from today's Guyism. Even they root for the real right chick.

 

S.E.Cupp > Ann Coulter

 

30 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:46:22 PM by mnehring

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To: Thad Lost

Ann is 50, single, dates leftwingers, and loves homosexuals. Something’s not right there.

49 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 6:07:22 PM by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)

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To: Thad Lost

I think Bill Maher infected her with his demon seed.

56 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 6:17:09 PM by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)

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To: Thad Lost

RINOpause

13 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:26:59 PM by Happy Rain ("Obama, like Satan, would rather rule in (fascist) Hell than serve in (constitutional) Heaven.")

 

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More after the seasonal adjustment.

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Gobsmacked

I was watching MSNBC last evening and Laurence O'Donnell ran a clip that nearly made me fall out of my chair in disbelief. It was an exchange between Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity about taxes:

 

That's right: Ann Coulter, of all people, urges a pragmatic approach to the non-existent fiscal cliff, which is really more of a slope or a curb. Dim bulb Hannity states that conservatives must "stand firm" on principle in dealing with the Dems whereas the artist formerly known as Coultergeist quite correctly asks, "What principle?"

I'm not sure if hell froze over, pigs flew or <insert your own phrase> but I was gobsmacked. It took crazy Ann Coulter to note that Hannity's "principle" involved raising taxes on 98% of the people. Ninety-fucking-eight percent. That's a lot, y'all.

I'm not sure how long this deathbed conversion will last but it does reflect that the times they are indeed a changin':

 

Yeah, I know Bryan Ferry is an arch-Tory but he's a helluva interpreter of Dylan's oeuvre.

Our Fate is Your Fate

Michigan edition.

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Assholes

The alleged men of the modern Republican party:

The wheelchair-bound, 89-year-old former Senate majority leader, GOP presidential nominee and World War II veteran was escorted onto the floor Tuesday by his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., to rally support for the United Nations disabilities treaty.

Last week, he was being treated at the Walter Reed National Medical Military Center. This week, he was trying to buttonhole colleagues to support an initiative to extend the rights granted to Americans under the Americans with Disabilities Act to citizens of the world.

Dole was gravely injured during World War II when his right arm was shattered in battle, and he has been a longtime advocate for the rights of the disabled, particularly veterans.

One by one, Senators of both parties approached the frail national leader, with former colleagues gently resting their hands on his shoulder or reaching out to his left hand, briefly clasping the man who once presided over the chamber with a mix of wit, tactical guile and ruthlessness.

Then, one by one, after Dole was wheeled off the floor, most Republicans voted against the measure.

Fucking douchebags. Why vote against it? What would it do?

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities essentially makes the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act a non-binding international standard. It requires no change to U.S. law.

Why, because their leading intellectual lights started screaming about World Government and the Obamachrist or something, according to Roll Call: 

Several conservative groups, Glenn Beck and former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., opposed the treaty because they said it would allow the U.N. to overreach and impose on the rights of member countries.

And there should be a coward clause allowing people immunity to throw rotten eggs at Thad Cochran whenever he appears in public just for this: 

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., changed his vote from a “yes” to a “no” after it was obvious the treaty would fall short of ratification. Cochran is up for re-election in 2014 and could face a primary challenge from his right.

Bob Dole did more good before breakfast today than Cochran has done in his entire life, and this is me saying this about a Republican senator and former presidential nominee of that party. Way to show us all what it looks like to have absolutely no balls at all, Cochran. Way to fucking be. 

Take it away, boyfriend: 

In a statement released by his office after the vote, Kerry called the vote one of the saddest in his 28 years in the Senate, “a wakeup call about a broken institution that’s letting down the American people.”

“Today the dysfunction hurt veterans and the disabled, and that’s unacceptable. This treaty was supported by every veterans group in America and Bob Dole made an inspiring and courageous personal journey back to the Senate to fight for it,” Kerry said.

But what is that compared to a primary threat from teawads? 

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A Peek Inside The Smoke-Filled Room

If you haven't heard Kathleen McFarland's conversation last year with Gen. Petraeus, you simply must. I'm serious, stop what you're doing and give it a listen.

Here's the Clif's Notes edition: a recording of a conversation last year between Fox News national security analyst Kathleen T. McFarland and Gen. Petraeus has surfaced. In it, McFarland passes on an important message to Petraeus from NewsCorp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes: run, Petraeus, run! Run for the Republican nomination for president! Ailes would quit Fox to be his campaign manager, Murdoch would bankroll the campaign, and everyone at Fox News would be his campaign's "in house."

I suggest you listen to the recording or read the transcript. It's pretty amazing stuff.

My jaw first dropped to the floor when I heard this (the "him" is Roger Ailes):

So what I’m supposed to say directly from him to you, through me, is first of all, is there anything Fox is doing, right or wrong, that you want to tell us to do differently?

Isn't that cozy! Please, Gen. Petraeus, tell us what you love and hate about our news coverage so we can fix it! The true hallmark of an impartial journalist is when he or she asks a powerful person they cover whether the network needs to change how it reports the news. /sarcasm

Hilariously, Petraeus then indicated he'd noticed a decided anti-war shift in Fox's news coverage, which he understood completely because of course the network needs to remain anti-Obama, and it's Obama's war now. But still ... careful, now!

Keep in mind, we're only about 20 seconds into the recording.

There's a lot of hilarity in here. I loved when Petraeus used the term "the Three Amigos" for John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. I just about died. And then there's the strategizing about 2016 -- five years away, and they want Petraeus to run because the scuttlebut is that he's the only serious threat to Obama's re-election in 2012 and a Democratic win in 2016. If the Dems win in 2016, the Republicans wouldn't be able to undo everything Obama had done, see. Makes all of that "one-term president" stuff seem so much more urgent, doesn't it?

It's major crack for a political junkie like me, but I have to keep reminding myself of one important factor: this is a person connected to a cable news network saying this stuff, reportedly passing on information from the owner of that network and the chairman of its news division. This level of political puppetry is just astonishing. Can you imagine Anderson Cooper or Tom Brokaw having this kind of a conversation? I certainly can't imagine a legitimate so-called liberal media outlet doing this:

Q: I know Roger, he’s done okay, but . . . no, I think the one who’s bankrolling it is the big boss. 

Petraeus: That might be it.

Q: Okay. The big boss is bankrolling it. Roger’s going to run it. And the rest of us are going to be your in-house.

Petraeus: Yeah, right. Okay.

Q: We’re all set. . . .

Look at how Republican presidential candidates are made. Lots of sausage. Rupert bankrolling it. And Fox News as the candidate's "in-house." And that means Fox News' advertisers are paying for it. 

The WaPo buried the lede. The news wasn't that Fox News tried to get Gen. Petraeus to run. It's that they were going to bankroll it, and a supposedly impartial news outlet was going to be the candidates' propaganda outfit. Didn't author Tom Ricks just get slammed for having the audacity to call Fox News "an arm of the Republican Party"? Indeed.

You know what I find interesting? That Eric Cantor sat on that info he had about the General's affair before the election. Maybe this is why. Knowing how tight Republican politicians are wtih Fox News, I wonder if a NewsCorp muckety-muck told Cantor to make that information go away because Petraeus was the GOP's big hope for 2016. And then that big ol' dope of an FBI agent wouldn't shut his trap. Man, this is a Steven Soderbergh movie if I ever saw one.

Now, I know what y'all are going to say. You're going to yawn and tell me, "Fox News is a partisan propaganda organ for the RNC? What next, water is wet?" Sure but that's not the point. Of course we DFH lefty types have known this for years. What I find fascinating is that other people are saying it. It's like they're tired of the bullshit or something.

After the Ricks incident, Eric Boehlert wrote:

What's telling is that Ricks' claim about Fox operating as a wing of the Republican Party barely caused a media stir. While the comments have been widely covered, no one in the press is leaping to defend the channel or criticize Ricks. Even conservative bloggers and pundits haven't really bothered to push back on Ricks' central claim that the top-rated cable "news" channel works in tandem with a political party.

That's what I noticed, too. But I want it to cause a media stir, I really do. I want the AARP to know that when they advertise on Fox News they're giving money to an as-yet unnamed Republican Party candidate who will probably run against everything they stand for. And I want the rest of the media to give up the pretense that what they do is in any way the same as what Fox News people do.

I've often wondered why the legitimate news media tolerated Fox; after all, if you're a doctor and you've got a bunch of quacks sullying the reputation of your profession, wouldn't you speak out? I just didn't understand why, say, White House pool reporters tolerated the Fox press release pushers in their midst. Some even came to their defense (*cough*cough*JAKE TAPPER*cough*cough). And I find it really strange that all of this is coming out now, just after an election in which everyone seemed to agree that Republicans lost because they live in a Fox News-created information vacuum. 

Verrrry interesting.

Exquisitely Bored

Willard Mittbot Romney is bored. He and the Dressage Queen are living in one of the 4 home states that he lost, and, naturally, they picked the one that's nice at this time of year: California. You know, it's the house in La Jolla that's going to have a car elevator but it doesn't yet. Willard is bored, bored, bored:

Four weeks after losing a presidential election he was convinced he would win, Romney’s rapid retreat into seclusion has been marked by repressed emotions, second-guessing and, perhaps for the first time in the overachiever’s adult life, sustained boredom, according to interviews with more than a dozen of Romney’s closest friends and advisers.

Wow, the Mittbot sounds almost human. It's a pity that he's wallowing in self-pity, which is unattractive and unseemly coming from an arrogant rich prick but it's human.

One reason for Mitt's epic pity party is that his fellow Republicans have not only kicked him to the curb but they keep coming back and kicking him in the head. Apparently, it's wreaking havoc with the Mitt 'do, which has become floppy and ungelled, which is the plutocratic version of uncombed and unkempt. I seethe with both class *and* hair envy when it comes to Willard. The fucker does not deserve that full head of hair...

As to the entitled and condescending Ann Romney, she's resentful,resentful,resentful:

By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.

She's probably also upset that Mittbot has to pump his own gas nowadays. It's what happens when the 47% leave their "apartments" after getting their Obama "gifts" and vote against the stiff. A side bar: why do Republicans think that all poor people live in apartments? Hell, in Manhattan it's the rich folks who live in apartments.

I know it's a bit cruel to bang on about the Romneys but the powerful and delusional are funny. The 2012 election was never fated to be a blow-out, so the agony of defeat was possible on both sides. Of course, I never thought Willard Mittbot Romney would be our first robot President BUT I had the numbers on my side.

Time to circle back to the Gopers kicking Romney around. It's all a part of the narrative that they would have won with a better candidate. Too bad for them that the other options were clowns like Perry, Newt, Cain, Santorum and the like. I do get a kick out of Republicans acting like Democrats and piling on their defeated candidate but they've been harder on Willard than we were on our recent losers. It has been entertaining and edifying to watch Governor PBJ and his ilk pounce on Mittbot: I halfway expect them to steal the Tin Man's oil can next. One more side bar: My friend, the former Picayune columnist, Stephanie Grace has an excellent piece in the Gambit about Jindal's national ambitions. PBJ is almost as delusional as the Romneys, y'all...

Finally, Philip Rucker's WaPo article makes me think that Pete Townshend is a prophet, prophet, prophet:

Exquisitely bored in California, We take our trouble to the Crest.

Exquisitely bored in California. Exquisitely bored - just like all the rest.

Of course, Pete was writing about his stint in drug rehab but Willard's withdrawing from the most potent drug of all: Potomac Fever.

 

UPDATE: I stumbled into an interview with Townshend and Daltrey that's partially about Yank politics. Holy coinky-dink, Batman.

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - rancid remainders edition

 

Good morning, gentle people - time to finish gathering up the simmering schadenfreude-laden drums of Freeper tears post-election, so let's get started!

First up - STOP FUCKING PANICKING!!!!!!!!!!

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DON'T POST ANY DAMNED PANIC POSTS self | November 07, 2012 | swampsniper

Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:22:47 PM by SWAMPSNIPER

We've got a long night ahead of us.

I'm personally not in the mood for woe is me whining.

I'm pleased to see that some of these negative posts have been pulled

We are still in the fight!

BUAIDH NO BAS!

1 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:22:48 PM by SWAMPSNIPER

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To: SWAMPSNIPER

You mean like this one

7 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:28:29 PM by al baby (Hi Mom)

Heh.

To: SWAMPSNIPER

I will panic some about the Senate races:

To Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin and the rest of my fellow conservatives:

Repeat after me:

The next time you are asked about rape stow the religious answers away and give the liberal answer.

And what the fuck is "the liberal answer"??   "Rape is bad, mmmkay?"

WE WILL NOT HOLD IT AGAINST YOU.

We know where you really stand!

Unfortunately for the "forcible rape" gang, so do women.

Mourdock had no reason to lose an election in a heavy Romney victory state. This is an unforced error. If Akin blows it too then will WE PLEASE NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE NEXT TIME???

Stop trying to thread the needle on rape.

29 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:55:44 PM by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)

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To: cripplecreek

It doesn’t look like we’ll be losing anything in the senate

Brown lost to warren, can the panic start to ensue yet?

34 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:00:34 PM by JSteff (((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.)))))

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To: JSteff

Brown lost to warren, can the panic start to ensue yet?

Looks like both Akin and Mourdock lost their once all but guranteed Senate seats as well.

44 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:13:15 PM by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)

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To: SWAMPSNIPER

It’s the demographics folks and we can’t reverse the trend. The GOP is finished as a national party.

61 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:42:34 PM by 38special (I've been banned from commenting on Bill O'Reilly's Facebook feed...seriously)

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To: cripplecreek

Can someone explain why FL is 50-50. Polls gave Romney a 5-point lead!
CBS has got OH leaning to Obama. Hope this isn’t true.
CNN is jubilant about returns in CO. I’m waiting to hear what Rove says.

62 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:58:50 PM by Steelfish (ui)

And, of course:

To: SWAMPSNIPER

Faux News just called Ohio for Bammy. Do I have your damn permission to panic now?

66 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:21:34 PM by The Sons of Liberty (Win One For The Gipper! Win One for AMERICA! Nov 6, 2012)

Gee- wasn't that fun?

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More Old Gold after the "Are you clicking on ME?"

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Malaka Of The Week: Susan Collins

The Susan Rice farce continues anon. I remain gobsmacked that John McCain's personal pique is driving the whole story as well as getting Senators who allegedly know better involved. The Senator in question is Maine's Susan Collins. I am avoiding the usual modifier applied to her, "moderate," because I'm not buying it, and I'm sick and tired of hearing her called a moderate when on vote after vote after vote, she toes the  party line. The late Senator Jake Javits of Noo Yawk was a genuine GOP moderate, Senator Collins is not. That is why she is malaka of the week.

Collins has added *another* specious concern to this mess:  Rice's role in the aftermath of 1998 bombings in Tanzania and Kenya when she worked for the Clinton administration.  This is preposterous: it never came up when Rice was nominated for her UN post and Senator Moderate Malaka voted *for* Rice but now it suddenly matters.

I don't give Collins' complaints about Rice's "political role" after the Benghazi fiasco any weight whatsoever. I have a policy of disregarding and mocking any pol who criticizes someone else for playing politics. Every act by every administration is political even when they deny it. There is no separation between politics and government, and there never has been, and never will be.

The worst that can be said about Ambassador Rice's alleged offense is that she lied for her country and her President, which she didn't, and even if she had, it is the essence of diplomacy. Just ask Henry Kissinger.

I was strongly in favor of John Kerry being appointed as the master of the Foggy Bottom bureaucracy; until this week, that is. I think the President needs to go ahead and appoint Rice, and fight for her nomination unless she declines it in disgust.  Who could blame her?

Hell, I'm not even one of those people who believes in the Scott Brown restoration theory as the explanation for this surreal episode. That's too rational. This whole thing reeks of the irrationality and personal pique that drives every action by Senator Walnuts. I think he's predominantly pissed off at Rice because she made her comments on a Sunday show. That's McCain's safe place, y'all. I admit that that's a crazy notion but who's crazier and pettier than John McCain?

Senator Collins, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for stooping to McCain and Little Lindsey's level when even Holy Joe would not go along with them. I used to think you were okay, but now I see you for what you are: a fake moderate and a real malaka.

Republicans Also Propose Bill Saying Kittens Fucking Suck

Seriously, what is wrong with these assholes? 

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Wild About Harry

Don't make him choke somebody: 

"They talked some happy talk about doing revenues, but we only have a couple weeks to get something done," Reid said about Democrats' negotiations with Republicans. "So we have to get away from the happy talk and start talking about specific things."

Despite his tone of frustration, Reid also said he is optimistic that lawmakers ultimately will reach a deal to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff, a convergence of an estimated $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts that threatens to trigger another recession.

"I'm extremely hopeful, and I do not believe that the Republicans are going to allow us to go over the cliff," Reid said.

Oh, I believe they would, but I also believe they're reeling from their electoral crushing and trying to figure out hey, if the Teawads can't help me get elected, why do I have to listen to them in the first place: 

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has tapped Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to help reach a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” a senior GOP aide confirms to TPM. The elevated role puts the staunch conservative and recent vice presidential nominee in a tough predicament that carries important implications, both for his personal political future and, potentially, for relations between the White House and Congressional Republicans.

Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is now at the center of fiscal cliff talks and involved in daily GOP leadership meetings, along with Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp and Energy & Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, the aide said. That means that unlike previous hard-fought bipartisan deals, his fingerprints will be on the final outcome.

LOL. Shorter Boehner: You wanna be the future of the party? Then BE IT, asshole. I'm tired of your nonsense. Fuckin' teaheads. They show up all WE IZ NOW IN CHARGE BITCHEZ and then don't want to be caught holding the bag when the wet cat inside it claws its way out. Well GUESS WHAT, I'm outie. You fix this crap. 

(An aside: Ryan's not a "staunch conservative." He's a pissy little brat who has been dining out on having half-written a grade school report on the economy for the past however many months, and he doesn't understand that absolutely everybody everywhere is fed up with his shit, won't want to cut social security, and thinks the job creators can suck it.)

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Oh, NOW You Want a Big Tent

If only you had some kind of power position in the party, or were once its standard-bearer, or something: 

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that the Republican Party, which lost minority, women and young voters in 2012, needs to have a "bigger tent" during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

"I think we have to have a bigger tent," McCain said. "And obviously, we have to do immigration reform. There's no doubt whatsoever that the demographics are not on our side."

Watching these people flail about is really amazing. It's like they just woke up JUST THIS MORNING and oh holy shit, brown people everywhere. Chicks. With their chick bits, which need attention. WHERE DID ALL THIS COME FROM? If only there had been some sign, in the past 40 years, that singing Dixie under your breath wasn't gonna work forever. If only someone had warned them. 

Also I love how they're flat-out stating that it's not that dealing honestly with minorities and women is the right thing to do, or that minorities and women have legitimate needs of any kind. It's that "the demographics are not on our side." In other words, we can't win with just the old white racists anymore so NOW it's a crisis and I guess we HAVE to listen to them, god, the indignity, but what are you going to do? They keep existing and breathing oxygen. Inconvenient. 

"And as far as young women are concerned, absolutely, I don't think anybody like me -- I can state my position on abortion. But to -- other than that, leave the issue alone," McCain said. 

"I'm proud of my pro-life position and record," McCain said, clarifying that he did not mean he was now pro-choice. "But if someone disagrees with me, I respect your views."

Do you respect his or her views enough to allow him or her equal rights under the law? If not, NO YOU DON'T RESPECT MY VIEWS, you colossally panderiffic assclown. 

In other words I love women but I MEAN I DON'T OH GOD PLEASE DON'T PRIMARY ME TEA PARTIERS. So much for the courage to call for a bigger tent. 

Schmuck. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Gruesome grab-bag edition

Well, folks - it felt a bit strange taking the "Paul Ryan" and "Mitt Romney's flaccid penis" tags down and packing them away, but I think we're all had enough of Mr. Forty-seven Percent to last us a lifetime.

So - let's see what's in the first drum of toxic Freepitude, shall we?

To: Thane_Banquo; All; FReepers

Let not your heart be troubled. On Fox, Karl Rove is painting a very good picture for a Republican win in Ohio, Florida and Virginia. I realize Karl was not very popular hereabouts a few months ago but he’s an astute observer of politics and an excellent numbers cruncher.

49 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:34:36 PM by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)

HOLEE SHIT! Kibitzer - hold the lid down while I weld it shut!

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Jeez - we're gonna be mopping up this stuff for months.

OK - let's try that again.

Steve Schmidt: GOP must muzzle Rush Limbaugh
Politico ^

Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 12:58:51 AM by Windy City Conservative

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said early Wednesday morning on MSNBC that it’s time for Republican leaders to stand up to “extreme statements” and “nonsense” coming from within the GOP, including Rush Limbaugh.

“Now, people calling for revolution and these extreme statements — when I talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, what I mean is, it’s time for Republican elected leaders to stand up and to repudiate this nonsense, and to repudiate it directly,” Schmidt said.

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Time for this guy to go.

1 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 12:58:56 AM by Windy City Conservative

Which one?

To: Windy City Conservative

Who is Steve Schmidt?

3 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:00:51 AM by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)

And the Freeperati say that the problem with Dems is that they're uninformed.

To: Windy City Conservative

Rush is extreme. You can thank him for the Sandra Fluke phenomenom and of coursse you can thank him for operation chaos four years ago.

4 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:01:23 AM by tshaun

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To: Windy City Conservative

Another indication that the GOP is going to go the way of the Whigs.

The GOP establishment doesn’t realize that they’ve shot their last wad.

9 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:02:20 AM by NVDave

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To: Windy City Conservative

The republican establishment is kaput! They cannot put blame anywhere but on themselves.

The ignoramuses of this country re-elected a communist. It's not the conservative's(sic) fault!

17 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:05:54 AM by ChiMark (chewed up his body for a decade)

(sigh)

To: Windy City Conservative

Anybody have Steve Schimdt’s telephone number.

18 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:06:16 AM by Chgogal (Obama helped murder US Navy SEALs.)

Why? You gonna ask him if his refrigerator's running? Are you going to fake-order 100 Papa John's pizzas for delivery to his house?

Two birds with one stone and all that...

To: Windy City Conservative

I am enjoying the talk about revolution.

22 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:07:48 AM by Floratina

So am I, but for a different reason.

There was a revolution, all right - and you're the British.

To: tshaun

Rush needs to learn not to take stinky bait like the Sandra Fluke thing and then doubling down

24 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:08:06 AM by Homer1

Rush was led down the primrose path by a master baiter.

C'mon guys - don't go off the deep end here.

To: Terry Mross; All

Would not be surprised if folks like Rush like ended up being “disappeared” by Federal Law enforcement/Dept. of Homeland Security in the not to distant future.

The open mass grave that is the history of the 20 century shows us what will be happening in the country in the next 4 years & if you think that American cops would never do something like round people up for reeducation/liquidation bear one little fact in mind .

In all of the genocides,pogroms,dealing with stubborn Kulaks,Great Leaps Forward,final solution to the Jewish Question not once did the police or the legal system stand up & say NO THIS IS WRONG WE WILL NOT CARRY OUT THESE CRIMINAL ORDERS . Just the opposite is the grim reality . Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

Rush,Glenn Beck ,Mike Savage,Hannity would be wise to make plans on how to get out of the country on really short notice & without government permission, the key words being without government permission failure to do so could lead to being in government custody for thought crimes to a bullet in the back of the head.

104 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:02:25 AM by Nebr FAL owner

Oops - too late. And you misspelled "Fail owner"

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More Thanksgiving leftovers after the linky thing.

Oh NO YOU DON'T, Swift Boat Assholes

Not. Again. 

The founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John O’Neill told Fox News’ Hannity that if Barack Obama nominates John Kerry to Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense the group will “do the very best we can” to protest the appointment.

Twitter is full of this bitchery this morning, armchair warriors yelling about the sacredness of our military and how JOHN KERRY IS A GAY FAGGORT and all manner of other oldsauce nonsense. 

The only saving grace in trying to re-run smears is that in our brand-new information superhighway magical mystery Internet wonderland, anything we've heard more than twice is ancient history and an official Nobody Cares is decreed, and then a Kardashian does something somebody deems slutty and we're all on to the next thing.

This is a distinct disadvantage when trying to point out, say, that somebody took the country to war and lied about why, or blew up the whole economy and then tried to blame poor people and union workers. However, it can just as well work for making sure we don't re-run the greatest hits of the Bush Administration's surrogates. 

Also? Happy Kerry photo: 

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The Ownership Society

Ooh, Republicans are upset that Republicans look like bad ideas now: 

On the Sunday talk shows, senior Republicans, former Romney surrogates and prominent conservatives piled on their defeated presidential nominee for telling donors that he lost because President Obama bought off minorities and young voters with “gifts.”

“It’s nuts,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on ABC’s “This Week.” “I mean, first of all, it’s insulting. … The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can’t offer a better future that is believable to more people, we’re not going to win.”

Rumored 2016 presidential hopefuls in the party saw an opportunity to distance themselves from Romney.

“I absolutely reject what he said,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on “Fox News Sunday.” “We as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote. If we want people to like us we have to like them first. And you don’t start to like people by saying their votes were bought.”

And I have a solution here. If you don't like being a Republican anymore because you don't like standing next to smelly, sticky people at parties and getting their cooties, then don't be a Republican anymore. Because until you started losing elections, you didn't have a problem with any of this at all. 

Until it started costing you at the ballot box and the piggy bank, until people started to cross the street to get away from you, you were absolutely fine with being the party of racists, sexists, general jerkbags, warmongers, vulture capitalists, ignorant-ass 'necks and everybody who's vaguely creeped out every time they overhear someone speaking Spanish in the grocery store.

That's your base. It's been your base for four solid decades. Mitt Romney ran an entire convention appealing to exactly those people, and you said dick. You were fine with it as long as he was gonna win the election according to Karl Rove's super-secret math. Then he went out there and lost, and was pissed about it, and said slightly more bluntly that I BUILT THAT, and magically it was beyond the pale and demeaning to the future of your magnificent party. 

“It’s been well said that you have a political problem when the voters don’t like you, but you’ve got a real problem when the voters think you don’t like them,” said conservative columnist George Will on ABC’s “This Week.” “Quit despising the American people.”

Considering you made your bones penning mash notes to Ronald Reagan, who had zero problems pointing out classes of people to be despised, this is a bit rich. But Reagan was charming when he did it, unlike glum old Mitt, and he won elections, so that makes it okay. 

The entire RNC was about ownership, about owning a business and taking responsibility for it. Yet the minute the election went the way everybody but that unskewed polls asshole knew it was going to go, Republicans were torching the place on their way out. They owned Mitt Romney wholly, and would have done so if he'd won. They shouldn't be able to get away from him in his loss. 

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Caption This: Mitttwit Edition

I guess I was wrong when I said Willard Mittbot Romney didn't have any die-hard supporters. There was at least one guy dumb enough to do this in honor of his candidate. I hope he doesn't run into PBJ, he might get slapped:

Malaka Of The Week: Walter Shapiro

Athenae took a whack at the veteran hack, Walter Shapiro earlier in the week. It's my turn to play whack-a-hack by making Shapiro malaka of the week. Shapiro is a competent political reporter who has been around the block a time or three but he 's also one of the avatars of the Beltway conventional wisdom, which means that he's nuts for Senator Walnuts and that's why he wrote this tripe:

Before the initials CIA came to stand for Covert Intimate Affairs, the battle over the next secretary of state would have been the main event of post-election November. Normally, it doesn’t get better than a brand-name Washington struggle pitting the newly reelected president against the Republican senator he defeated in 2008 over filling the Cabinet post soon to be vacated by an ex-president’s wife. 

Barack Obama’s ill-camouflaged inclination to name Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, as Hillary Clinton’s successor would normally be about as contentious as, well, a confirmation hearing for David Petraeus in 2011. Rice, an undersecretary of state in the Clinton administration, has by most accounts performed well in a job that pivots around the micro-wording of Security Council resolutions rather than grand geopolitical visions.

But all that good will evaporated when Rice, drawing the short straw as Obama’s designated foreign-policy spinner, dutifully made the rounds of the Sunday shows on Sept. 16, five days after the Libyan attacks. Repeating the White House line, Rice argued that, based on “the best information,” a “spontaneous protest” outside the American consulate in Benghazi attracted heavily armed “extremist elements” who murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. 

In John McCain’s splenetic view, Rice’s TV commentary smacks of a White House cover-up, since subsequent reporting has shown that initial accounts of a triggering protest were incorrect. As McCain put it Wednesday on Fox News, threatening to filibuster the nomination, “Susan Rice should have known better and if she didn’t know better, she is not qualified.”

All of this shit has largely been discredited by McCain's overweening malakatude when he skipped a briefing about what happened at Behghazi in order to go on teevee to complain about being kept in the dark about what "really" happened. It led to this classic Walnutty moment:

 

Sorry for posting dipshit Wolfie but this was a classic Walnuts temper tantrum. Malakas like Walter Shapiro would *never* dare to pose such an impertinent question to Saint McCain whose inconsistencies are treated like charming idiosyncrasies. The only thing I find charming about Senator Walnuts is his daughter, Meghan.

The oddest thing about Shapiro's piece is that he doesn't *really* believe McCain's conspiratorial bluster but he thinks it could kill Rice's chances:

As should be obvious, the U.N. ambassador has nothing directly to do with embassy security, American covert operations in the Middle East or the flow of intelligence about terrorism. All Rice was doing in her television appearances on September 16 was reciting from talking points presumably prepared by the White House national security team based on information provided by the CIA and other agencies. According to reporting by Washington Post national security columnist David Ignatius, the CIA was still clinging to its belief that the Benghazi attacks began with a spontaneous protest when Rice made her ill-fated rounds of the Sunday shows.

So, Mr. CW agrees that Ms. Rice was using CIA talking points but that Obama should duck a fight over a possible nomination because otherwise McCain will hold his breath until he turns blue? Sheesh.

I don't know about you but I like the new look Democratic leadership style. Both the Prez and Leader Reid seem ready to kick ass and take no prisoners after the election. They've been as feisty as hell and I think it rocks. Mind you, I think John Kerry should be Secretary of State BUT if the Big O wants Susan Rice, he should fight for her and it looks as if he will. He seems to have learned something important from the Denver debate debacle: people love a fighter, the MSM may not but the people do.

Walter Shapiro is essentially a stand-in for the longstanding malakatude of the MSM punditocracy. It's time for them to kiss-off Senator Walnuts and his diminutive sidekick, Lindsey Graham, but that's unlikely. The CW will continue to see them as "moderates" but I think that McCain should zip his lip and zip up his pants because his Grumpy Old Man/Walter Matthau routine isn't wearing very well, and the idea of casting Graham in the Jack Lemmon role makes we want to, uh, retch up my rice...

PBJ: Get Smart?

 The GOP post-mortems are coming fast and furious. This unintentionally funny one comes from my rabidly ambitious erstwhile Governor, Bobby Jindal:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday called on Republicans to “stop being the stupid party” and make a concerted effort to reach a broader swath of voters with an inclusive economic message that pre-empts efforts to caricature the GOP as the party of the rich.

In his first interview since his party’s electoral thumping last week, Jindal urged Republicans to both reject anti-intellectualism and embrace a populist-tinged reform approach that he said would mitigate what exit polls show was one of President Barack Obama’s most effective lines of attack against Mitt Romney.

“We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything,” Jindal told POLITICO in a 45-minute telephone interview. “We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.”

This is,uh, rich coming from PBJ who as Governor has waged war on public education, and is so taxophobic that he wouldn't originally sign off on keeping tobacco taxes high enough to discourage smoking. In fact, his entire political philosophy-if you want to call it that-boils down to this: Taxes bad; creationism good; Jindal awesome.

On the rare occasions he was in Baton Rouge in 2012, PBJ ran roughshod over the LSU Board of Supervisors, fired recalcitrant system President John Lombardi and voucherized primary and secondary public education. It's what happens when you have a Governor who spent his school days strictly in private schools. When it comes to education, PBJ is Shiva the destroyer or perhaps even Kalki.

The mere fact that this cut-rate version of Willard the weathervane feels free to depart from *some* teawad dogma means that some changes will actually be coming to the Republican message but not its substance.

Jindal is clearly positioning himself for 2016 and he fits the GOP model for the perfect minority candidate. The party that froths at the mouth over affirmative action, practices it when it comes to candidates. True tokenism is the rule of the party: PBJ is way to the right but he has dark skin, ergo the GOP is enlightened, not racist. Whatever, dude.

The pol Jindal most reminds me of is-get ready-Willard Mittbot Romney. He's robotic, awkward and dull, dull, dull. Willard is at least good-looking whereas PBJ is the guy who could turn the nasty party into the ugly party.

Jindal has relentlessly pandered to the religious right and *that* part of his message will not change. While he criticizes the Akins and Mourdocks of his party, it's more about their verbal table manners than anything else:

“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal said. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”

Again, this is fascinating coming from a man who talks down to his state's electorate. PBJ tends to speak at the 4^th or 5^th grade level when addressing the people of the Gret Stet. Hence, the comparisons to Kenneth the page from 30 Rock. Kenneth has subsequently been demoted to janitor, it's a pity that the same won't happen to PBJ…

There is also no way in hell that PBJ will abandon his party's insanely retrograde positions on social issues. I think their (wide?) stances on gay rights, women's issues and tattoos and piercings are dragging them down with younger voters. I made the bit up about tattoos and piercings but PBJ would pierce his pencil dick if he thought it would get him elected without alienating his confederate base.

The coming war within the GOP should be most amusing. I'm going to sit back, pour myself a beverage and enjoy watching the freak show.

A Quick Thought

This picture has nothing to do with the post. It just cracks me up.

I'm no political strategist, but telling people that they're too stupid to understand why their lazy, mooching, female, "urban," or entitled asses should vote for the party that has pledged to destroy the things that those people are supposedly dependent on is probably not a good plan to increase that party's share of the vote totals.  Discuss.

Temper, Temper

Jeez, it would be better if this wingnutty woman was "shellshocked" instead of OTT loony. This, however, is funnier:

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.

Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle.

Daniel Solomon, 36, was in critical condition at a local hospital, but is expected to survive, Gilbert police spokesman Sergeant Jesse Sanger said.

Police said Daniel Solomon told them his wife became angry over his "lack of voter participation" in last Tuesday's presidential election and believed her family would face hardship as a result of Obama winning another term.

Witnesses reported the argument broke out on Saturday morning in a parking lot and escalated. Mrs Solomon then chased her husband around the lot with the car, yelling at him as he tried to hide behind a light pole, police said. He was struck after attempting to flee to a nearby street.

Obama won the national election with 332 electoral votes compared with 206 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Arizona's 11 electoral votes were won by Romney.

Um, um, um, Obama won Arizona and she's blaming her husband? Sounds like a pretext to me. Hmm, maybe he's the shirtless photo texting Feeb in the Petraeus thing?

Proud to Promote

Soon Allen West will be out of office, and we will not have to listen to his stupid comments anymore: 

In an e-mail to supporters on Monday, Representative Allen B. West, a Florida Republican, called the increase in food stamp use a “highly disturbing trend.” He said that he had noticed a sign outside a gas station in his district over the weekend alerting customers that food stamps were accepted.

“This is not something we should be proud to promote,” he said.

Yes. What we ought to do is keep secret all the locations where poor people can get food, forcing them to go up to each cashier at each potential source of nutrition for their children and ask loudly, "IS THIS WHERE THE LAZY SHIFTLESS WELFARE TYPES CAN PURCHASE T-BONE STEAKS PLEASE?" Because that, as we all know, will make people less poor. It will also make them full. Humiliation is magic in the way that it improves people. 

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It's Always Good News For Republicans

Pardon my kvetch but Jesus, the media's hand-wringing over the demise of the Republican Party is starting to annoy the shit out of me. Yes, it was amusing the first four days, but enough already. I'm really tired of every single news channel and cable program trotting out this or that Republican to discuss what's wrong with their party, why they lost, how they can make a comeback, what they need to do, etc.

You know what? I sure don't remember Democrats dominating every news program when they lost the 2010 midterms, or when they lost in 2004. I really don't. Do you? I think what we saw then was the same group of Republicans paraded out to discuss how wonderful they are and that's why they won. 

Christ. 

I mean, seriously, CBS This Morning? Now you've got Mike Huckabee on to talk about how the GOP needs to reach out to minorities? Like I give a shit at this point? This is news? How about we have a Democrat on there to talk about how wonderful they are. No? Why not? Oh, I forgot, it's always good news for Republicans.

Look, we've been hearing about Republicans being the party of old white men since forever. This is not news. Seems like last time the GOP decided they needed to reach out to minorities what that really meant was tokenism -- putting Michael Steele in charge of the RNC and combing the land for every conservative African American to appear on the TeeVee box spouting the glories of the free market and the dangers of the deficit. 

This does not work. This is image over substance.  Hearing that Voter ID is necessary to prevent imaginary voter fraud does not go down better when it comes from Ron Christie's mouth. The Republicans don't get it, the problem is their ideas, not the color of the skin of those spouting them. And the media doesn't get it if they think we're all so fascinated with the Republican Party that we want to hear about how it can be nursed back to health. There's a reason these people lost the election. We are tired of them and they got shown the door. So, enough.

Forward, people. The election is over. Let's get back to work fixing this country.

Call Me Ishmael, or, the Romney Fail Whale

Good CHRIST: 

The Romney high command had cloaked the system in secrecy to maintain what it hoped would be a true competitive turnout advantage. But by limiting the number of people with access to Orca, the campaign was not able to train its field operatives to use it or do the necessary beta-testing to work out the kinks that typically plague new software.

“It did not work perfectly,” said Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign’s political director, in an interview. He acknowledged that Orca crashed in the morning on Election Day. At first the campaign thought the system had been hacked, he said. Passwords and user names for the 34,000 volunteers using the program had to be reset.

I once started a job at a florist's shop on Valentine's Day. I was in high school, there was no Internet, and I didn't know a Peruvian lily from a bromeliad. It was a fucking disaster. My training consisted of being taught how to open the register drawer. The phone never stopped ringing. People were coming in asking for things I had no idea if we could give them. Clueless assholes who apparently never HEARD of Valentine's Day were begging us to make arrangements with the "my wife's gonna kill me" plea and I wanted to brand a calendar onto their arms, like it's the same day every year, geniuses. We ran out of roses and then we ran out of everything else, to the point where the last guy who wandered in at 9 p.m. looking like he'd been run over by a bus got a green plant for which we charged him $50 and I wanted to include a card for a relationship counselor. 

You know what I learned from that experience? Ninety percent of emergencies are the result of piss-poor planning and managerial laziness. Who the fuck starts a high school kid employee with no training at a florist on Valentine's Day? It irritates me just thinking about it now, like there was no reason that day had to be that stressful for everyone involved. I thought of that when I read this: 

But Beeson also said Orca was able to provide voting data on 91 percent of the precincts and accounted for turning out some 14.3 million voters. “At the end of the day I can look any donor in the eye and say we used our resources effectively,” he said. “This is the first time we have attempted to do anything on this scale. By no means was it an abject failure.”

Actually, it kind of was, given that your candidate lost resoundingly. A victory is not that your program is shiny. A victory is that it does what it's supposed to do. 

Who the fuck rolls out a brand-new operation on fucking ELECTION DAY? Who does this? This is the world's most easily preventable clusterfuck, and they managed not to prevent it. Was there nobody in the room screaming that "let's take a bash at this and see if it works, Biff" is a terrible way to handle the days when things matter.

After watching the RNC I'm not surprised things went down this way, but if I was a donor and this guy looked me in the eye and said they used their resources effectively, I'd kick him in the dick. You've got to be kidding me. Mr. A and I rehearsed our wedding more seriously than this, and neither of us was in the running for leadership of the free world at the end of that day. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Great White Fail edition - Vol 2

Good morning, gentle people!

Well, Jude, Michael, Adrastos, Scout, Southern Beale, et.al. did yeoman's work Sunday scrubbing the scorch-marks and Freeper cranial matter off the walls and ceiling - I thank you all.

OK - after the shock wears off a little, the Freeperati start the finger-pointing and wrong-conclusion-jumping we've been seeing everywhere, but only in Freeperville will you see them unleash their inner Joker.

I give you - Our only hope now is real economic collapse!

Vanity: Myths Destroyed

Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:07:58 AM by over3Owithabrain

Unskewed polls.com Nate Silver is clueless GOP vote underestimated/DEM vote overestimated Anything Dick Morris says Groundswell of anger at Obama Bradley effect Romney had momentum PA was winnable WI was winnable

Anything else??

1 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:07:59 AM by over3Owithabrain

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To: over3Owithabrain

Nate Silver is clueless. He’d be happier if he slit his wrists

2 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:10:51 AM by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)

You're just sore because he predicted your ass-whuppin' down to the last State. And I daresay that you're the one who'd be happier if he slit his wrists, since you have to watch Nate Silver bask in the aprobation he's so justly receiving.

To: over3Owithabrain

Nobody can predict what trojan horse can do, except G-d!

4 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:13:43 AM by hamboy

And what's with you nimrods leaving out God's middle letter all the time? Does this automaticaly get you into Heaven or something? Or is it like not saying Voldemort's name out loud, or only saying "Candyman" four times?  Do you think that He'll be so miffed by your typing "God" instead of "G-d" that he'll manifest himself and smite you?

To: over3Owithabrain

I really hope people stop obsessively trying to discredit polls. They aren't gospel, but in the last two elections they have been fairly accurate, and if anything, slightly republican leaning.

Go back and check the RCP final poll average for the 2010 Senate races - 20 of 23 correctly senate seats picked correctly. Of the the 3 that were incorrect, 2 dems won instead of the predicted republican, and the last was Murkowski beating Miller in Alaska. And obviously, polls were better than GOP cheerleaders this time as well.

The dumbest thing I hear around here is "no one polled me."

5 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:14:06 AM by MrShoop

Commie.

To: Mr. Jeeves; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...

The GOP got killed among Asian-Americans, who logically should be strong GOP supporters. The GOP is not even asking itself why.

Can somebody tell me why Asian-Americans vote for democRATS? You're right, Mr. Jeeves... logically they should be strong GOP supporters.

WHY do they vote for 'RATs? I don't understand this...

10 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:16:03 AM by nutmeg

Let me refresh your memory:

"Yellow Peril"

"Gooks"

"Chinks"

"Slants"

Now do your think that Asian-Americans believe that Democrats are more likely to address them as such? Or Republicans?
(or, if that is too complicated for you - Mike Stivic, or Archie Bunker?)

To: over3Owithabrain

We didn’t understand why Obama won in 2008. We thought maybe people wanted to give him a chance, he would be historic first black, post partisan and all that hopey stuff. Then they’d get over it.

Maybe he won because they really wanted a leftist.

13 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:21:44 AM by ari-freedom

And maybe he won because the majority of Americans just don't like you, or what you stand for? YMMV.

To: over3Owithabrain

Our only hope now is real economic collapse (on a catastrophic
scale) that will be so devastating that it will bring about
a huge revolt against the Democrats.

Or it might even bring a military coup.

20 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:32:15 AM by NeverForgetBataan (I am become Barry... destroyer of wealth)

Thought I was kidding, didn't you?

And I love "NeverForgetBataan" chiming in on a discussion of why Asian-Americans don't love the GOP.

To: over3Owithabrain

Myths:

Blacks won’t turn out. Only 80% will vote Obama.

PA was in play.

Ryan will bring a state or two. Not even WI was picked up.

Gender gap is gone.

Dick Morris. Clueless.

Poll watching will help.

29 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:43:41 AM by TigerClaws

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To: wardaddy

Spot on wardaddy. And we only 60% of the white vote. The answer is not to kowtow to the Latino population and open borders and let the country go socialist, but to more or less unify the white vote... well, increase our white vote.

38 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:21:00 AM by Hokestuk

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To: over3Owithabrain

Myths: Ramussen is right, D+6 is delusional, sea of Romney lawn signs, big R&R campaign rallies, Dick Morris, Michael Barone, [your favorite state] is going Romney, incumbents can’t win with >7% unemployment, the Bradley Effect, PA is winnable for the GOP, women like white men, all those “left-leaning” polls are in the tank for Obama, “fraud” won the election, John Roberts and Chris Christie are on our side.

Reality: We are anachronistic outliers in a country we don’t understand and that is going to leave us behind. This type of thing happens every century in many countries since the dawn of time. The US is never going back to what it used to be. Obama will guarantee it. There is nowhere to run.

52 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 4:42:20 AM by BlueStateRightist

Ouch.

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Rebuttal?

To: GVnana

Obama is black, that is the shift, any white guy with the same record would have been booted from office. He is a brother by another mother, and despite horrible job numbers and a looming financial disaaster for blacks and hispanics they will always back a brother.

55 posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:11:37 AM by OldGoatCPO

That's what I thought.

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Well, there's a lot more schaden-whatsis after the paradigm shift.

Snorkels are mandatory due to the water level from Freeper tears.

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Maggot Brain

I had a fleeting personal acquaintance with maggots in October, 2005. It happened when Dr. A and I snuck into NOLA from our Red Stick exile. I emptied our fridge and tried but failed miserably to clean it. Back to maggots, when I opened the freezer, flying maggots came zipping out. No longer larvae but living large and post-larval.

I thought of the magggot swarm (band name?) when I saw this piece at Salon:

Peter Morrison, treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party in Texas, suggests in his newsletter that the state should have an “amicable divorce” from the “maggots” who re-elected Obama.

Morrison posted on his Facebook page his post-election thoughts: “We must contest every single inch of ground and delay the baby-murdering, tax-raising socialists at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotting corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity.”

“Texas was once its own country, and many Texans already think in nationalist terms about their state,” Morrison continued. “We need to do everything possible to encourage a long-term shift in thinking on this issue. Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government? Let each go her own way in peace, sign a free trade agreement among the states and we can avoid this gut-wrenching spectacle every four years.”

A band of maggots, that's what we are. I think we should celebrate our maggothood or is that maggotry? Seriously, the maggots are gonna start gnawing on the Texas body politic soon enough if the Gopers don't start treating Latins like human beings.

As to the secessionist sentiments, rant on, dude. That issue was settled long ago and I don't think the enlightened minority in the South deserves to be governed solely by cretins like this bozo Morrison. Secession is a flag that wingnuts like to wave to illustrate their purity. I think it merely illustrates their idiocy.

I think malaka Morrison is suffering from maggot brain. They worm their way into your cerebellum and begin living larval. Then, they force you to say stupid things on Facebook and the Tweeter Tube. In short, you should blame George Clinton:

 

Sunday Morning Video: The Best Of Mittbot

The fabulous folks at TPM have compiled this swell highlight reel featuring Willard Mittbot Romney:

 

Malakas Of The Week: 2012 Election Edition

I usually write a fairly long post about one malaka. I'm going to try something different and do some quick hitting, un-hyperlinked comments about the 5 biggest jerks of the cycle in ascending order.

5. The Rape Caucus: It may be time for the wingers to either come up with a different policy or at least gussy their horrible policies up in a better ball gown. The satin prom dress that they're using now ain't working.

For some reason, people do not like idle chit chat about forcing women to carry their rapist's child to term. Imagine that. Rape is rape is rape unless, that is, you're The Other Joe Walsh, Richard Mourdock or Todd Akin, the poster boys for malakatude.

4. Sheldon Adelson: Shelly baby spent the year throwing good money after bad. He poured big bucks into Newt's campaign and dropped a bundle with Turdblossom's group with very little to show for it. It's fun to see a casino owner fleeced, they usually do the fleecing...

3. Rafalca As A Romney Stand-In: Ann's fancy horse didn't win a medal but was a source of constant amusement for folks like me. I will, actually, miss mocking Willard and his whole clan but comedy's loss is America's gain. I'm not ranking the Romneys higher because I never thought we'd elect our first robot President and we didn't.

2. Karl Rove: Turdblossom made a complete fool out of himself on election night. He was like a particularly demented general fighting old battles. He expected this election to turn into 2000 or 2004, and when it didn't he started flailing, lying and denying. I'd like to be in the room with him and the suckers he gulled into donating to his stupor-PAC. Couldn't have happened to a creepier guy. The rat fucker got rat fucked himself.

1. Fox News: If they actually gave a shit about the "conservative bowel movement," they'd dial it back but all Roger and Rupert really care about is making mounds of malakatudinous money. The bubble they've created for their viewers, and the pols they support, exploded and made a gynormous mess.

The reason Mittbot was supposedly shell-shocked by losing is that he and his minions *believed* what they were hearing on Fox. They probably even thought that Dick (Always wrong, never modest) Morris knew what he was talking about. He did not. The GOP will continue to lose Presidential elections until they get out of the echo chamber and join the reality based community.

Finally, yeah, I know, Rush was a big loser, and an even bigger malaka, but I have a policy of almost never writing about him. The Sandra Fluke clusterfuck *was* one of the key moments of the race and we owe it all to malakatude hall of famer, Rushbo. Thanks, fuckhead,

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Great White Fail edition - Vol 1

 

Surprise, surprise!

There's just too much Freeper wail and fail for just one thread, so Ms. A has given me permission to do a two-parter, with the conclusion coming up Monday morning.

Without further ado, let's get to the :

ELECTION DAY November 6, 2012 ***LIVE THREAD I*** FREE REPUBLIC!!! | 11-6-12 | Free Republic

Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:18:47 AM by RKBA Democrat

The polls are open on the east coast!!

From this morning's election day prayer thread:

"Heavenly Father may you forgive this nation and its people for the many awful sins that we have commited against you. We do not deserve the wonderful ways we have been blessed and please forgive us for our indifference,neglect and complacency towards you. (snip)

May you smash every crooked deed

GOD SMASH!

as evil men and women try to hold onto power and may this be so convincing that everyone knows that your hand is in this.

Kibitzer - could you please yank the power cord to the Irony Alarm?  Thank yew.

Then we may bring the light of your Gospel to our people who do not know you and to the nations of the world.

May you block and undo every policy and piece of legislation they have passed that is harmful to this nation.

God has veto power? Or just an unending and eternal filibuster?

May you make every policy they make fail and may you turn the hearts of the multitudes against them. May you thwart every evil deed they try to divide this nation with. May you bring their own mischief upon them ten fold. May you punish those in our government who are lawless traitors and enemies of the Constitution by exposing them and deliver them into our hands for justice.

And this we humbly ask in Jesus name. AMEN!"

1 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:18:54 AM by RKBA Democrat

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To: RKBA Democrat

I’m in although I probably won’t be able to load it after about 10 a.m. CDT.

2 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:21:03 AM by Mercat

The good news for the Freeperati? The site stayed up and accessable all day and night.

The bad news for the Freeperati? The site stayed up and accessable all day and night.

To: HokieMom

Getting ready for this wonderful day; washing hair; singing in the shower—We’re going to wash that man right out of our hair...

25 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:37:37 AM by YepYep (We've just GOT to love Jesus enough to LISTEN to Him, and Do what He Says)

It's like watching a skunk amble out onto a freeway.

To: CalvaryJohn

"... an astounding lack of Obama voters."

Obama voters wake up around noon.

34 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:50:40 AM by Enosh (†)

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To: Enosh

Yup once they have to drag themselves up to go pick up welfare or food stamps or the cops raid the house.

35 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:52:43 AM by sunmars

Live by the stereotype - die by the stereotype.

Or as some lazy Chink once said: ‘He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.’

To: chessplayer

Britt Hume just said with a straight face that the electorate is 56% women and 44 % men. We may as well go to bed now. Men can’t overcome the stupidity of so many stupid women.

30 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:08:45 PM by jwalsh07

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To: RKBA Democrat

Gees! Listening to FNC it seems like OZero is having a good night so far - but these are all based on exit polls and some early voting nothing from today’s votes! I hope this does not turn into a bad dream!

38 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:11:25 PM by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)

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To: GQuagmire

Thanks for nothing, Christie. O’Reilly is saying obama gained far more by Sandy than what he lost by Benghazi, and that if obama wins it will be because of Sandy. O’Reilly has all but called the election for obama.

45 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:13:09 PM by chessplayer

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To: comebacknewt

That Dam* O’Reilly said that if Mitt loses Ohio it is all over for him and Obama wins. Now...great to say that...when so many in the country haven’t voted yet where the polls are still open. O’Reilly makes me sick.

47 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:13:33 PM by CitizenM (Obama - The architect of the decline of the U.S.)

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To: StAnDeliver

O’Reilly is so effin stupid he thinks Hurricane Sandy will be determinative. It is patently obvious that his reading of the exit polls is that Obama is going to win.

48 posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:13:42 PM by jwalsh07

Bill O'Reilly - RINO!

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Much more after the extended warranty.

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Tacky

This snippet from NBC News's First Read is more or less the cherry on the shit sundae that was Willard's campaign:

From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.

"Fiscally conservative," sighed one aide the next day.

Cheap and tacky is what it really is. It's charming that they treat their own people like 47% riff-raff.

I guess Willard really meant it when he said he liked firing people...

Light A Fire In Your New Shoes

Oh, good. Let them crap all over Christie. He's only their best chance of winning in four years. He only took a major national disaster and managed not to act like an incompetent bag of assholes like every other Republican on the planet, and actually seems to appeal to people on a personal level, so let's burn him to the ground. 

I get that it was awkward to have Christie say nice things about Obama, but maybe he would have said nice things about Mitt too, if Mitt had been useful in any way. If Mitt had called him up and said you know what, here's $5 million instead of five lousy thousand and some expired chicken broth. I mean, there was in fact a way to do this that didn't make Mitt look like a douche, but hosting a crap relief event and then bitching that Christie didn't love him enough was not, shall we say, it. 

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