Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday.
"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'.
Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...
I'm not sure what one does with information of this sort but I thought it important you know. From Alex Pareene's new ebook, The Rude Guide To Mitt.
Every good Romney ...
Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!
I'm quite sure there isn't much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but ...
Jesus (c. 30 CE):
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois (2012 ...
Make sure you circle March 1 on your calendars. It might very well turn out to be the most earth-shattering day in U.S. political history.
The results of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “investigation” into whether President Barack Obama is eligible for office are set to be announced.
MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong tells New Times the findings are set to be released on March 1.
Arpaio’s been mostly hush-hush about the probe, but has promised his “birther” posse will deliver a “shock” with its findings on the conspiracy theory that’s been continuously debunked for several years now.
And it all comes down to twin babies and something you probably last heard of in a 1970s spy movie…microfiche!
Arpaio told New Times in November that the key to investigating whether Obama’s eligible for the office of the president deals with twins born at the same Hawaii hospital as the president (allegedly), just one day earlier.
The sheriff said the twins’ files could be found on microfiche — meaning Obama’s records should be there too.
One of the most brilliant and diabolical plots ever conceived will finally be brought down by a lousy piece of plastic film. Nice. Kudos to Sheriff Arpaio for taking the initiative and hiring a posse (did they have horses?) and finally putting an end to the black Muslim’s illegal reign of terror.
Orly Taitz should be given a medal for sticking in there when the rest of the world mocked her and referred to her as a crazy, racist bitch with a bad wig. Well, I’m thinking that while few people would argue the fact that Orly gives every impression of being both crazy and a racist, March 1 will be her day of redemption. Thank you, Sheriff Arpaio.
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: “I’ll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.”
A foreign student? For all his supposed good ol’ boy charm and much-touted Christian values, Huckabee is just another run-of-the-mill, right-wing, lying jackass spewing the same birther-crap that’s been refuted time and time again.
And what exactly does the President’s college transcripts have to do with Romney releasing his tax returns? Nothing.
Bill Maher had a great comment last night about how Romney and his cohorts on the right have created a fictional person to do battle with. They refer to this opponent as Barack Obama but, in truth, bears no resemblance to the actual person. Their President Obama is a Marxist who cannot put two thoughts together without the help of a teleprompter. Their Obama is a tax-raising, money-spending, freedom-hating, Constitution-abusing, power-hungry simpleton who goes around the world apologizing for the U.S.
Any resemblance between the right’s Obama and the one who sits in the White House is nonexistent.
And the further to the right one goes on the political spectrum, the more bizarre the accusations. Obama is then attributed with siding with the terrorists, is of the Muslim religion and in all likelihood was born in Kenya. Hello, Orly Taitz and Mike Huckabee.
The right has gone completely mad. There’s no other rational explanation.
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There you have it, a perfect example of the right-wing fringe in action which has become less fringe and more mainstream with each passing day . And should anyone make the claim that Taitz is more exception than rule, than may I suggest that either: a) you have not been paying attention to the endless stream of hysteria emerging from the right over the last three years or b) over-exposure to Fox has undoubtedly fried one brain cell too many.
The age of teabagging/birtherism/lunacy/batshit crazy is fully upon us and all it took was the simple act of voting in a black liberal to the White House.
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OK. So the President releases his long form birth certificate and birtherism is dealt a fatal blow as the 67% of Republicans who were unsure of Obama’s place of birth let out a collective sigh of relief and finally come to accept this man as their President. Right? Wrong. It’s not over and it’ll never be over for as long as this president’s skin color continues to cast a non-white hue.
The bigots will never admit it but birtherism has its roots in racism and no document will take away the true birther’s view that this president is illegitimate. Here’s Joseph Farah of WorldNutDaily on the issue:
“The certificate of live birth is an absolutely vital foundation for determining constitutional eligibility of any president. We look forward to reviewing it like so many other Americans do at this late date. But it is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very skeptical public concerning Barack Obama’s parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life.”
As I said, nothing has changed. For racists, the President is a ni**er and doubly so when his middle name is Hussein. And as anyone who has ever attempted to debate a bigot can confirm, there is nothing that can possibly change a dull little mind and minds don’t come any duller than those of birthers.
I’m not completely certain what the deal is with Donald Trump these days. Is his birther posturing of late simply an act or is the man a total nutcase? Probably a bit of both. In any case, he’s now gotten into a verbal battle with New York Time’s columnist, Gail Collins, who wrote a stinging critical piece on Trump’s presidential aspirations.
Donald Trump has run faux campaigns for president before, flirting with the Democrats and independents. This time, he’s playing a conservative Republican. By 2016, he’ll probably be talking about his affinity for the Alaskan Independence Party or the Whigs.
Trump took exception to the criticism and especially to being referred to as a birther – a term which he feels is derogatory. Well, he’s right on that count. It is a derogatory term, as it should be. It refers to people who are delusionally insane and/or unwilling to accept the fact that a black man has made it to the White House. Take your pick. And as long as Trump continues with his ‘show us the birth certificate‘ idiocy, birther is a fitting term to describe him.
Trump fired back with a letter to the Times in which he personally attacked Collins…
Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me. Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!
He also went on to repeat the same debunked claims that President Obama was not born in the U.S.
Open your eyes, Gail, there’s at least a good chance that Barack Hussein Obama has made mincemeat out of our great and cherished Constitution!
I always love when President Obama’s opponents make note of his middle name in their attacks. It’s as if they believe that repeating the word “Hussein” somehow adds weight and credibility to their arguments. Idiots.
Anyway, best line of the Trump/Collins battle goes to Ms. Collins. Referring to the Trump escapades of late (he also believes that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father‘), Collins writes:
I find this a disturbing spectacle — a little like seeing a guy you know from the neighborhood suddenly turn up in the middle of Times Square with his face painted blue and yelling about space aliens.
So what exactly makes Trump any different from the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls such as Bachmann, Gingrich and Palin? Not much really. They’re one sorry lot of clowns, fools, liars, sociopaths and jackasses.
All in all, it tells you a whole lot about the state of that particular political party. It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
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