Vent, or Risk Explosion

My country has gone bat shit insane.

Republicans are now out of the friggin minds. They hold the world economy hostage, until they can slash and burn away at the very things the middle class needs to survive, so that their corporate overlords can keep their bonuses.

And the Democrats, as the grown-ups in the room, caved surrendered are forced to acquiesce to this blackmail.

And the electorate keeps on voting for the Republicans, even as their way of life evaporates into the pockets of the obscenely rich. They are so afraid that "some lazy, good-for-nothing" brown person is getting more than their share, that the Gays will marry and this all will make the baby Jeebus weep. So on and evermore, they keep supporting these assholes, in direct conflict with their own best interests.

So we have jobs off-shored and outsourced, benefits whittled down to nothing, mass transit gutted, healthcare and education costs spiraling out of control; a nation where only the robber barons bourgeoisie gilded class can afford anything.

Welcome to America, 2011

UPDATE: I hear that a few Dem's called the Repug's out on their terrorist tactics. That's what terrorists do; take hostages. Well I guess this hurt the Republicans' feefees! Asshats to the end.

Arianna Takes Down Rich Sanchez On Bachmann v Frank

Faux balance indeed! Arianna is so right, as usual.

On the Barney Frank / Michele Bachmann "discussion" over ACORN, Ms. Huffington sez:

But to make him the liberal Frick to Bachmann's conservative Frack is utterly ludicrous.

Come on CNN, (who I regard as the worst offenders of this "in the name of balance" crap.) This fake balance garbage has to stop. The mass mental illness infecting Republicans is not the equivalent of the mostly intelligent, rational argument offered by the Democratic Party. Rick, even if they wrote this for you to say, it doesn't mean you have to read it with a straight face. We already know Lou Dobbs is an illegal immigrant from La La Land. Lou doesn't seem to realize how cruelly unfair it is to put these two in the same rink, though, Michele, delusionally thinks she's up for the bout.

Honestly, Rick, we have better hopes for you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/rick-sanchez-equates-barn_b_206126.html
Just take a look at Michele Bachmann's eyes and you know that the crazy lady beamed down from some backwards planet on borrowed transporter technology. Look at the video on the link above (can't figure out how to imbed it).

If that is, to quote Rick, "A Classic Showdown" then this is the "Battle of the Titans":

Grandpa, Grandma? What Did You Do at the Start of the New Depression?

As I watch these McCainiacs work the tubes, their only response can be:

"For nostalgia's sake and as a loyal Republican, I shilled for the new Herbert Hoover, John McCain! Now go fetch us some water from the river."

Boehner's Boner

That Bonehead Rep John Boehner (R-Fantasyland) sez it's Pelosi's fault 'cos she gave a partisan speech, driving off Republican votes.

Which means, Republicans voted against the best interest of their country because their feelings were hurt. Pathetic.

Barney Frank nails 'em:

Barney Frank's Frankness: "Give me the 12 (R) names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them, and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe now they will think about the country."

Fitness to be Commander...

in Chief And President of the United States of America

I have no idea whether Sarah Palin is fit to be the leader of the free world.

Don't even care much.

However, if John McCain allows this crap to go on, and he has, he has no business aspiring to highest and noblest office in the land.

He is not worthy.

He needs to take a night off and watch "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" on TCM.

He might just learn something.

Oh For Chrissakes-Obama Is NOT Calling Palin A Pig

However, All of you Republicans who are trying to say this...

I am calling all of you out as muck and shit wallowing pigs of the lowest order, lipstick or no lipstick!

Ya all sound like the basketball jerks who feign fouls 'cos they think the ref doesn't see what your up to.

Mainstream Media! Move on already! If a Republican's lips are moving, THEY ARE LYING! Don't you see that by now?

Phrase of the Day: "Magisterial Condescension"

Marty Kaplan at Huffington Post on Peggy Noonan:

It established a baseline for magisterial condescension, for blindness, for night-is-day, for the gulf between Republican dead-enders and the rest of the country.

Indicted Republican Sen Ted Stevens (Alaska) Wins Primary

This is so cool. The arguably most corrupt sitting senator (Republican, of course) wins his primary while under indictment by the most politicized, Republican favoring Justice Department, ever.

Sen Ted "Internet-Series-of-Tubes-Florida-Exit-To-Nowhere" Stevens (Alaska Alledgedly, Corrupt Republican) also argues that he is a target of a political witch hunt. From Bush's Justice Department? Yagottabekiddinme!

Methinks Republicans have to be so blatantly corrupt that it can't be ignored to warrant an indictment from these people.

Thank you, Ted, for helping us on our way to a veto and filibuster proof majority.

This is funny! Stevens supporters shouting "Four More Years!" Hey, Morons! Senate terms are six years.

This is how Republicans stay in office, by recruiting the least amongst us, the ignorant.

More flatus- For whom would Jesus vote ? / A website ya'll'd probably like- www.rightwingwatch.org

The flatus (on Jesus' voting preferences) from http://christiannewswire.com/news/779825576.html ...

SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, Feb. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- In preparation for key upcoming elections, William H. Carney has written a unique preparation guide, How Would Jesus Vote?, published by Creation House, a division of Strang Communications.

Carney starts off by asking a simple question: "If Jesus were a United States citizen, having all the legal rights and responsibilities of voting, according to what standards would he vote?" Carney delicately weaves through ten tumultuous topics, including taxes, same sex marriage, and war and national defense.

What comes through loud and clear in these 61 pages is Carney's passion to help readers not be swayed "by the economy, the media, the current popular opinion, or what is seemingly correct." In discussing each topic, he encourages readers to "not sit outside the political arena." To that end, he arms them with wonderful insight with biblical backing to reveal the truth of how Jesus would vote on each topic.

Concerning abortion, he notes, "It is clearly Satan's agenda manifested in the earth." Cleary, that can be said of any of the topics, particularly prayer in the schools. He writes on that topic: "The major issue with our school system is the government-forced removal of God from our schools. If you add that to the government-endorsed introduction of the 'religion' call Humanism … then you can see why evils like teen pregnancy and violence have increased greatly in our school."

Taking How Would Jesus Vote? to the polls will arm readers with the ability to vote correctly on each issue and turn the tide on humanistic agendas.

For more information on "How Would Jesus Vote?, including book orders, contact HWJV, LLC at 734.345-4281 or visit http://www.hwjv.net.

I found out about this via www.rightwingwatch.org

My response can best be expressed by this cartoon I made for my multiply blog, and is now one of the "required reading" items for people wanting to join the "whygod" seminar and support group my wife and I cohost there.

Repub Debate Last Night

Awesome!!!
Let me paraphrase"

"Hillary, Hillary, Blah, Blah, Blah, Hillary...
Democrat's Taxes, Blah, Blah, Blah, Hillary!
Glorious, Victorious, Iraq Forevah!!!!!"

They bankrupt the country of blood and treasure, and this all they have to say.
I would think they would at least say, "OOPS, OUR BAD"

MORONS!!!!

Huckabee Schmuckabee

is having a Willie Horton Moment.

Basically,

Blinded by Clinton hatred, Arkansas Governor Huckleberry urged (and secured) the parole of convicted serial rapist Wayne Dumond because he was convicted of raping a distant relative of former Arkansas Gov. Clinton, claiming that the conviction was politically motivated.

Huckabee writes (this is a creepy link to National Review) his BFF Wayne:

Dear Wayne,

My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for your reintroduction to society to take place.

The man went on to rape and murder two more women.

And this is the "darling" of the 'Christian" Right and "Law and Order" Republicans of all stripes (typically, jailhouse stripes).

I guess, IOKIARDI (It's OK if a Republican does it).

Sanjay!!! Actually Supporting Our Troops

Sanjay Gupta is on CNN on my TeeVee actually giving the Veterans Administration hell for the way they are "supporting our troops".

How they are denying services for a guy with shrapnel wounds throughout his body along with a missing arm because the wounds were not "combat related".

How the VA is denying services for soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

How the VA is denying services for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries.

Give 'em hell Sanjay. These VA assholes deserve it.

We need more genuine reporting like this and less "Stenography for Bush".

This has been my treasonous post of the day.