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That says it all, really. If you are pro torture you are a sociopath. Frankly, I refuse to listen to kvetching over "morality" and "values" from the people who support torture.
Anti medical care for 9/11 first responders.
Seriously? WTF?
Apparently, every thing changed on 9/11, except for the fact that Republican politicians are greedy, hate filled assholes who would throw their own national heroes down a flight of stairs if it pleased their corporate masters and hurt the Democratic President. Remember, these are the shmucks who impeached a President for blowjobs. Conservatives are patriots in the same way that a dog who eats its' puppies is a concerned mother.
I'm pissed, and on behalf of my city of birth, New York, and all of the people who risked their lives to help others on 9/11, I have a message for the Conservative movement.
That message is YOU SUCK AND I HATE YOU, and I hope YOU FAIL, you sociopathic futhermuckers!
The top 100 things Conservatives HATE and the 5 things they like plus more below the fold
If nothing else has scared you about the Republicans and their agenda, the latest comments from Michele Bachmann should be the biggest motivation as to why you should work to make sure the Republicans fail in their coup de Congress.
"I think that's all we should do," Bachmann said at the GOP Youth Convention in Washington on Thursday. "I think all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another and expose all the nonsense that has gone on."
Democrats stand up. Seriously, we can't get Karl Rove to testify in front of Congress. We cannot allow the Republicans to step all over us with their faux "freedom loving" agenda turned witch hunts.
The Republicans will shut down the government to focus on dog and pony hearings and investigations. Never mind that we are less than two years into cleaning up the mess created by the most corrupt deceitful administration in American history. Never mind that we just sat through the pillaging and the looting of the Haliburton Cheney Presidency.
Sewell claims in her latest ad that she has "never been associated with that or any other Republican group period."
Then why did you give money to a Republican running for Congress in New Jersey? Don't take my word for it. Look at the Federal Election Commission page.
Speaking of salary - Didn't you work at Davis, Wardwell and Polk? Where you made well over six figures as a Wall Street Securities attorney?
You are making that much money and you are asking someone else to take a pay cut? Seriously?
Did either of the law firms you work at ever make layoffs? And if so did you ever take a cut? Please answer that question.
How Democrats can impeach President Obama in one easy step
Step #1.Do NOT vote in 2010
That is all it will take!
If you want a Republican majority in Congress, be certain to not vote in the elections this November, because that is what you will be likely to get.
And that Republican majority in Congress will not stop until they have dragged the Presidency of Barack Obama into the dirt. They will not care one bit about the harm it will do to America. A Republican majority in Congress will do nothing but work towards "Obama's Waterloo", and the people who do not vote for Democrats in 2010 will be just as responsible for it as the people who vote for Republicans. That is the reality of it, and the possibility of a GOP majority in Congress is something America can NOT afford.
But you can do something about it before it is too late.
Speaker Pelosi pulled a brilliant move at the end of the last weeks legislative session.
House Democrats are home for a long Memorial Day break with a gift-wrapped wedge issue delivered just in time for district campaigning. One of their final actions before adjourning late Friday was passing a measure that would strip tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas by a 215-204 vote.
On June 8, Californians will vote on several referendums, in addition to primary races. One of those referendums, Proposition 14 (aka the Top Two Primaries Act), could hugely change how those primary races are conducted, and it would definitely not be for the better. As if to add insult to injury, but it could take down a public campaign financing measure along with it.
Prop 14 was put on the ballot through the backroom dealings of State Senator (not Lt. Gov.) Abel Moldonado, the very last holdout on the budget this year. He used the budget crisis for his own profit and one of his demands was to put this measure on the ballot. Now, his reckless action is being opposed by every political party in California and numerous electoral reform groups, groups ranging from the NAACP to the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.
But big business wants this to pass because of the control it could give them over elections (explanation below the fold). So your help is needed - $5, $10, $100 - whatever you can chip in to prevent California from descending further into a mess of broken government.
A lot of Republicans, these days, are either calling for, or getting close to calling for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to resign. As a Democrat, I think he is doing a superb job. For us. So here is my plea to my Republican friends: please please please don't fire Michael Steel! After all, what other Republican can give the Democrats a list to publicize like this?
In the 1980s, the great tax-cutter Ronald Reagan raised taxes on unemployment benefits. The Patron Saint of GOP economic policy also shamelessly decided that your social security benefits should be taxed if you had any other income. Last year, Obama and the Democratic Congress provided relief on the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits. The Recovery Act delivered numerous tax cuts to the middle class. Health care reform adds up to the largest middle class tax cut for health insurance ever. But hey, don't look at the evidence. Parrot after me: the terrible horrible no good very bad socialist communist Democrats want to raise your taxes!
Now, the Republicans have a new complaint against the Democrats, President Obama and the landmark health care bill: they're stopping corporations from claiming a tax break on the money the taxpayers give them!
It was kind of amazing what we saw yesterday. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives gave a press conference accusing Democrats of fanning the flames in the latest political violence. That's quite a feat for Mr. Cantor. We have seen Democratic offices vandalized, Democratic members of Congress openly threatened and called racial and homophobic slurs, and Eric Cantor thinks it's the Democrats' fault.
Let me be clear: you reap what you saw, Mr. Cantor, sooner or later. Your party is responsible for ginning up this lynch mob. Your party and its leaders and members of Congress laid the seeds of fearmongering and violence a long time ago. Like when Rep. Michele Bachmann went on television in 2006 to ask for a witch hunt in Congress to find out who's "pro-America" and who's "anti-America." Or when in April of 2005, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas essentially justified the assassination of a federal judge because the judiciary was handing down decisions he did not like. Was he rebuked by the Republican party? Oh no, he got a promotion and is now the Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
George W. Bush
Tax Cuts for the rich
Strategery
Invading Iraq
"They will welcome us as liberators"
"The oil will pay for the war"
WMD's
Mission Accomplished
Torture isn't a war crime cause my lawyer says so
Hurricane Katrina
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong"
Sarah Fucking Palin
Katie Couric - But are you ready to become the leader of the free world?
Sarah Palin - Totally. I will totally lead the world. Any world. I will lead Mars or whatever too if those guys need a world president. Or just a Mars president. I took on the ole' boys club in Alaska and I can take it on in Mars.
Katie Couric - But I'm not asking about being president of Mars.
Sarah Palin - But I am answering about being president of Mars because a president person needs to be prepared for anything. I like to reform.
If Republicans and Fox News pundits were embarrassed about looking like birthers, loony bins and white supremacists, well, they just got a whole lot more to worry about.
Recently, a truther organization called "We Are The Change" spoke to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) - a friend of (Glenn) Beck and a frequent guest on his show - about reopening an investigation into 9/11. Chaffetz agreed with the activist, and even noted that he had spoken to professor Steven Jones, leading 9/11 truther, who Chaffetz said had done "interesting work"
At a DNC fundraiser last night, President Obama had an interesting exchange with a Democratic organizer about health care reform, wherein he appeared to suggest that Congress could drop the ball and fail to pass a bill--and that voters should judge them harshly if they do.
"[I]t may be that -- you know, if Congress decides -- if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," Obama said.
In the year 2010, the Republican party has finally, officially, re-discovered racism.
In between demanding to see President Obama's birth certificate so that he can prove for once and for all that he is NOT a secret Kenyan Muslim and Republican demands to be able to racially profile all Muslim-Americans who might be mistaken for a terrorist based on appearance, name or faith, the Republican party has re-discovered racism in America, and all because of this comment by Democratic Senator Harry Reid.
Despite many, many acts on their own part that could be considered racist, Republicans finally became aware of the existance of racism in America again when a Democrat supposedly did it too.
But, just for the sake of accuracy, lets review the year of 2009 in Republican racism and selective outrage.
Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black. The staffer, Sherplatfvormri Goforth, e-mailed this composite picture of the country's 44 presidents, which represents President Obama with only a set of eyes:
Of course, America's So Called Liberal Media/Right Wing Noise Machine has had it's own hand in the racism/race baiting game, including the perpetuation of the birthers by Fox and CNN's Lou Dobbs, who tipped his own so called Independant hand in this Gods awful moment.
CNN's Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, "My wife will love this!" A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand.
GOP politicians have not been ashamed of themselves enough to bite their tongues either. They praise right wing terrorists, they advocate violence and the threat of violence against those whom they oppose, they refuse to tell their base to act like adults and civilized people, and their base just goes farther and farther every day.
"I Want My Country White Back!!!!!"
And the media does not call it out, other than a few hours a night on MSNBC. Instead, they ignore or encourage it.
The master of the RWNM and the GOP's official mouthpiece, of course, is Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and it's television propaganda arm, Fox News, who didn't even wait for Barack Obama to win the Presidency before they played the race baiting charge, a card they keep hidden up their sleeve in order to cheat the American electorate out of a intelligent political conversation every chance they get.
After the fair and free election where Americans overwhelmingly rejected the Republicans candidates and elected President Barack Hussein Obama, the GOP's media propaganda arm didn't stop the racism there. They can't help themselves. It is who they are. It defines them.
And, of course, the coup de grâce
"This guy (President Obama), is, I believe, a racist."
The Republican party had lost all knowledge of racism after President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves during the civil war. Since then, the Republican party has had a case of collective amnesia on all matters race related, including voting against the Civil Rights reforms in the 60's and their more recent opposition to the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor based on her heritage as a "Wise latina", but that has since changed when a Democratic Senator Harry Reid made some poorly conceived comments regarding the skin tone of current President Barack Obama, who happens to be not 100% white. In a Republican party that prides itself on Purity of ideology, consistancy is optional.
Now that a Democrat has said something that might be racist, Republicans are outraged, OUTRAGED I TELLS YA! that such a thing as racism might exist in America in 2010. Regarding racism in America between the years of 1866 and 2009, prominent Republicans refused to comment, unless it was something a Democrat did or said.
Future Republican re-discoveries that may happen in 2010 include Republican re-discoveries of the Class War, sexism and climate change, but none of these re-discoveries are likely to happen unless a Democrat is accused of something related to it first.
Representative Barney Frank said the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's 2008 order to American International Group Inc. (AIG) to suppress disclosures of bank payments is "troubling" and he supports hearings on the issue.
Frank retains confidence in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who led the New York Fed at the time, he said today in a Bloomberg Television interview. The U.S. House last month passed legislation that would prevent the Fed from having the power to bail out companies such as AIG, he said.
Over the past few weeks I have done quite a bit of reading trying to understand what is happening in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party--in order to offer some perspective.
So far, the most helpful text I have come across is Martin Luther King's Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
I want to encourage everyone to take a minute to consider this text as a reflection not just on the specifics of the dilemma the Civil Rights movement faced in the year following the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but as a more general insight into the problems the progressive movement now faces one year after the election of Barack Obama.
This is a problem MLK called the "Second Phase."
#4 As voters return to the polls at the end of the year we may want to remind them that the Republican party has done nothing for this country in the last 20 years. Chris Matthews reminds us of that in this segment with Republican strategist Todd Harris.
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