Make what you will from the following talking point used by Republican Representative Mike Pence. He was warning his audience of the dreadful consequences should health care reform come to pass.
“Once the American public becomes dependent on the federal government during that most vulnerable moment of illness of a loved one, a spouse, a parent, a child, a grandchild, those on the elite leadership of the left know…they’ll never let it [public healthcare] go.”
Good point, Mikey. Much more honorable, I imagine, for a parent to watch their 5-year old daughter die because some health insurance flunky patriot deemed their child’s illness a preexisting condition than to allow the government to pass legislation which would disallow ANY health insurer from EVER canceling a policy over a preexisting condition.
Stupid elitist libruls caring about your loved ones, parents, spouses, children and grandchildren. How dare they. Much smarter to let your loved ones die needlessly than to cave in to elitist propaganda.
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Seriously, stupid no longer begins to describe Sarah Palin.
“I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years a go that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. … As long as there is not the opinion under the guise of hard news stories — I think there needs to be clear differentiation.”
Trying to decipher Palinese gives me a headache.
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A resolution from the legislators of South Dakota…
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:
(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;
(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect [sic] world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and
(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislature urges that all instruction on the theory of global warming be appropriate to the age and academic development of the student and to the prevailing classroom circumstances.
Astrological? Can there be any doubt that insanity has gripped republicans and conservatives with a force unseen before?
The senate of SD did pass a bill removing most of the crap above, but still left in the part about how global warming isn’t real because it is just a theory…like the theory of gravity, of the theory of relativity…you know just theories. One could only hope that they abandon all reason, and go out daily to test the “theory” of gravity by throwing themselves off high places.
In all honesty, if this is the best our leaders can muster, we have very little hope of making it as a species…I suggest you all start doing things on your own and/or get new leaders.
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I finally found something Michael Savage and I can agree on.
“If you want Obama for a second term, just make sure that Sarah Palin is the Republican nominee … She is not electable as president.”
Everything else Savage says in this clip is pure madman talk but on Palin, he’s got it right.
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How much of a lunatic is Savage? He believes James Inhofe would be a credible candidate for President.
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Another example of the ugly, venomous talk which emanates from the religious right all too often.
Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake of Buena Park sent out an email Monday night, saying that perhaps his prayers had been answered with the death of Rep. John Murtha yesterday.
“Maybe God took him out,” Drake wrote. “Maybe God Answered our IMPRECATORY prayer that we prayed every 30 days.”
The Pennsylvania congressman, a decorated former Marine who fiercely opposed the Iraq war, died at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery.
I asked Drake if his statements weren’t distasteful, particularly coming immediately after Murtha’s death. He said that as a Christian, he didn’t buy into the sentiment of not speaking ill of the dead.
“It’s not distasteful to pray the word of God and include somebody’s name,” he said. “I didn’t celebrate his death. I said maybe it was God’s answer to our imprecatory prayer.”
Drake regularly asks his “prayer warriors” to participate in prayer targeting “unrighteous” politicians. He typically uses Psalms 109, including these passages including in his Monday email: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” And, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
At one point, Drake prayed for the death of President Barack Obama. However, he dropped that because he wants to see Obama faces charges that he is not a natural-born citizen and so cannot be president. Drake has such a lawsuit on appeal.
Drake said he and his prayer warriors had been praying for Murtha’s death for four or five months. Among other things, Drake said Murtha’s use of profanity and his use of God’s name in vain. Beside praying for the death of specific politicians, he said they pray for “politicians in general who are taking unrighteous stands.”
Here is Drake talking to Alan Colmes last June.
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The radical right – be it the Christian coalition, the white supremacists, the neo-nazis and others – are the embodiment of all that is ugly in America. They prey on the weak-minded, the lonely and the psychopaths of society. They preach a gospel of hate and intolerance which goes against the very essence of what the Bible teaches. In this group I would include the Limbaughs, Savages, Falwells and Dobsons, for beneath their cloak of pious indignation, the message is clear – if your neighbor is not white, Christian, heterosexual or American-born, then fear them.
Wiley Drake is just another example of the insidious ways of these people.
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After my last post, here’s a reality check. Bill Kristol shows exactly why liberals view many conservatives as homophobic, small-minded and logically-challenged. In a piece titled Don’t Mess With Success, Kristol puts forth his argument for not repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
But, “It’s the right thing to do,” said the president.
Here is contemporary liberalism in a nutshell: No need to consider costs as well as benefits. No acknowledgment of competing goods or coexisting rights. No appreciation of the constraints of public sentiment or the challenges of organizational complexity. No sense that not every part of society can be treated dogmatically according to certain simple propositions. Just the assertion that something must be done because it is in some abstract way “the right thing.”
Kristol and his ilk have shown us time and time again that “the right thing” is a concept not easily understood by the conservative brain. Whether it’s gay rights, global warming or health care reform, conservatives choose to be on the side of “me” and corporate interests over those of the ordinary citizen. If they’re not gay, then there is no need to provide equal rights to those that are. If weather is not affecting them in any adverse way and Exxon thinks it bad for business to deal with CO2 emmissions, then calling global warming a hoax is fair game. If they have adequate health insurance for themselves, then there is no need to consider that a broken health care system is not only killing thousands each year but is, in truth, bankrupting the country.
Kristol goes on…
The advocates of repeal say, it’s a matter of basic rights. No, it’s not. Leave aside the fact that there are difficult and unresolved questions of how our society should deal in various areas of public policy with questions of sexual orientation. There is no basic right to serve in the military. That’s why forms of discrimination we would ban in civilian life are permitted: Women have less opportunity to fight than men. The disabled are discriminated against, as are the short, the near-sighted, and the old.
I won’t bother refuting any of the nonsense Kristol writes here except to point out that comparing discrimination of gays to that of the disabled is in essence to claim that being gay is a form of disablement. This is clearly homophobic belief in its purest form.
If you’ve ever had the misfortune of attempting to debate wingnuts on the big issues, you then surely know that logic and common sense have no effect on them. Your time would be better spent debating a brick wall. They lack the ability to critically think beyond a fixed set of talking points they’ve picked up from the media trash they look to for guidance. And if you try to switch from logic to compassion and empathy, you soon discover that they’re completely devoid of these two humanly traits.
Furthermore, they’re cowards who unconvincingly attempt to mask their bigotry and selfishness in hypocritical rhetoric. Unable to debate on facts, they shroud their true intent and feelings behind an avalanche of lies hoping to smother all truth and honest debate. And when they’re called out for their lies, they throw what they believe is the ultimate insult. They call you a liberal.
Well to every conservative lowlife who has ever called me a liberal thinking it to be a disparaging label, I can only say, thank you. I can think of no sweeter compliment that that.
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The lowlifes are crawling out of the woodwork. South Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is running for Governor and he believes that children receiving free and reduced-price lunches should lose all government assistance if their parents fail mandatory drug tesst or did not attend PTA meetings. In essence, Bauer highlights a real problem but thinks the solution is in allowing children to go hungry in punishment for their parent’s behavior.
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.”
Another heartless Republican dick.
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Conservative genius and pundit Hugh Hewitt used up all 17 points of his IQ to come up with this one.
“We’ve invaded Haiti. We dropped troops on the presidential palace yesterday. The difference between Bush invading Iraq, and Obama invading Haiti, is that Bush had Congressional authorization. I’m glad that President Obama has done this, but don’t you find it odd that the left is all quiet as to this extraordinary exercise in presidential prerogative unguided by, unauthorized by simply unilateral on the part of the President?”
The plan was simple and yet so clever. Obama stages an earthquake which knocks off forty or so thousand people (no big deal) and sends in the Red Cross and a few thousand troops to take over Haiti. Next week he arranges for a tsunami to flood the Dominican Republican and in no time the entire Caribbean comes under his control. It’s then an easy move to take over Mexico and Central America. From there, world dominance is a walk in the park.
And all without Congressional authorization! Great plan…except that Hewitt has now spilled the beans. Fool. How will Obama ever fulfill his dream of creating a Socialist, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, Islamic world order based on the teachings of Mao, Lenin, Castro, Hitler, Mussolini and Rachel Maddow when blabbermouths like Hewitt tell everyone what the plan is? How?!!?
Damn conservatives spoil everything.
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President Obama took office with the county on the verge of collapse after two disastrous Bush terms. One year later the country finds itself as divided as ever. Why? Because smear and BS, like the type found in this video or heard daily on Fox or spoken by conservative politicians in both chambers of Congress, works.
Throw enough hate and lies at a nation fighting the economic battle of its life and impatient for better times and what you get is an incompetent fool like Scott Brown possibly winning a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Fear and ignorance are a lethal duo.
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