Republican Dicks

Time For Herman Cain To Give It Up

November 8, 2011 By mario piperni

What more does anyone need to know about Herman Cain? Even without the charges of sexual harassment, Cain was clearly out of his league. Bought and paid for by the Koch brothers and endorsed by the Tea Party, the only positive that this know-nothing clown had was that his name was not Mitt Romney.

If the testimony of Sharon Bialek who has accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment (actually sexual assault would be a better description of what Cain did to Bialek),does not put an end to Cain’s cartoonish presidential run, then the Republican party is even more screwed up than anyone imagined. There have now been four separate charges of sexual harassment against Cain as well as the claims of two former National Restaurant Association employees who witnessed Cain’s dirty deeds. That should be enough to disqualify Cain.

For the record, here is Bialek’s description of Cain’s assault on her.

During their meeting, Bialek alleges that Cain put his hand under her skirt and reached for her genitals and also pushed her head toward his crotch while they were in a car.

She recalls saying: “This isn’t what I came here for, Mr. Cain.”

The now-GOP presidential candidate responded, according to Bialek, “You want a job, right?”

There are other parts of Bialek’s story which can be verified and which lend credibility to her story. And again, she is not alone in making these claims. The Cain camp response:

“All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false. Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone. Fortunately the American people will not allow Mr. Cain’s bold ‘9-9-9 Plan,’ clear foreign policy vision and plans for energy independence to be overshadowed by these bogus attacks.”

What a fucking joke. “Clear foreign policy”? Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan’ is a clear foreign policy? “Plans for energy independence”? Drill everywhere and deregulate the oil industry is Cain’s vision for energy independence. “Bold 9-9-9 Plan”? Try unworkable, idiotic plan worked out on the back of a paper napkin by a third rate accountant.

Herman Cain’s 15 minutes should have been up months ago. The fact that he is still running neck to neck with Romney for the lead should tell you where the Republican party stands in terms of serious presidential candidates. The GOP is morally and intellectually bankrupt. That is clear.

Cain has had more than enough time to defend his actions against his accusers. He has chosen not to and so it appears that his little gambit of running in the GOP primary as a means of branding his name as to allow him to charge higher fees for his motivational speeches as well as sell more of his books, has backfired. If the charges of sexual harassment against Cain are true (and there seems no apparent reason to believe that they are not), then Cain has become damaged goods.

Even teabaggers and fools, I imagine, lose interest with shiny objects once they get muddied up a bit.

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Filed Under: Republican Dicks Tagged With: Herman Cain

Kasich’s SB5 Going Down For the Count

November 7, 2011 By mario piperni

Looks like good news coming out of Ohio one day before the big vote to repeal a bill that limits the collective bargaining powers of over 350,000 public employees.

Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday. PPP’s final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval.

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Democrats are almost unanimous in their opposition to SB 5, supporting repeal by an 86-10 margin. Meanwhile there’s division in the Republican ranks- 30% are planning to vote down their Governor’s signature proposal while only 66% are supportive of it. Independents split against it by a 54/39 spread as well.

If this margin holds on Tuesday night it will be a humiliating defeat for John Kasich. Kasich continues to be one of the most unpopular Governors in the country with only 33% of voters approving of him to 57% who disapprove. [...] If Ohio voters could do it over again they’d reelect Ted Strickland by a 55-37 margin over Kasich, and although they don’t have an opportunity for a redo on the Gubernatorial election the likely results of the Senate Bill 5 referendum on Tuesday can be seen as a proxy for it.

It would be nice if the vote would repeal both the bill and Kasich, but one out of two isn’t bad. Ohioans are stuck with Kasich for another 3 years but the repeal of SB5 will put a serious chink in his already damaged armor. The lesson to be learned here (should the vote go as expected) is that organized grassroots protests do work.

The pro-labor side was able to amass almost 1 million signatures to place the repeal of SB5 on tomorrow’s ballot. With that, they were able to raise almost $30 million as well as have thousands of individuals working phones and knocking on doors. All this to battle the millions of dollars that poured into the state by way of the Koch brothers and the Tea Party movement who viewed the battle as a run-up to next year’s general election.

See what could happen when regressive legislation pisses off enough folks? The people rise. All they need to do now is to go out and actually vote.

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Filed Under: Republican Dicks Tagged With: John Kasich, Ohio

Rick Santorum Plays the Victim Card

September 21, 2011 By mario piperni

In the latest episode of Rick Santorum’s Google problem, poor Little Ricky wants Google to edit its search results on grounds of discrimination.

“I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” Santorum said. “If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”

“To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true.”

“…impact on the country“? What impact? How are the top Google search results for the word ‘santorum’ impacting the country? Did Santorum ever believe he ever had a chance of winning the Republican nomination? And does anyone but a small group of supporters actually care about Rick Santorum’s political ambitions? Nope.

May I suggest that the true filth floating about are the statements of a bigot who hides behind a Bible and spews words of hate and ignorance such as these.

“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything… In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality.

That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing.”

Talk about being a sanctimonious dick. If Santorum really wants the offensive reference to his name removed from Google, then let him try apologizing for his misguided and bigoted statements. If he ever did, I’m guessing that Dan Savage would be only too happy to take down the Santorum web page.

But don’t hold your breath that Santorum would ever back down from his beliefs. Bigots of his variety seldom ever do. Instead they scream out in righteous indignation and claim abuse whenever victims of their harmful attacks decide to fight back.

Is the Santorum definition crude and profane? Absolutely. But it is also most deserving for ugly little men like Rick Santorum.

Homophobes: 0
Internets: 1

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‘Mushy’ Mitt Romney

August 25, 2011 By mario piperni

Rick Perry has pulled ahead of the pack and Mitt Romney did what Romney does best – retreat from his core beliefs.

Romney – June 2011:

“I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that.”

“It’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors.”

Perry – August 2011:

“I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. I don’t think, from my perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective, is more and more being put into question.”

Romney – August 2011:

“Do I think the world’s getting hotter? Yeah, I don’t know that but I think that it is.”

“I don’t know if it’s mostly caused by humans.”

“What I’m not willing to do is spend trillions of dollars on something I don’t know the answer to.”

“I do not believe in cap and trade and I do not believe in putting a carbon cap” on polluting industries, Romney said.

Just like he did on abortion, gay rights, gun control, immigration, campaign finance and health care, Romney has turned away from previously stated positions and sold his soul in hope of becoming the next president. The latest Gallop poll has Perry taking a commanding lead over Romney as Republican’s candidate of choice – 29% for Perry, 17% for Romney. Combine that with endorsements from climate skeptics in the Senate – yes I refer to the pathetically stupid Jim Inhofe…

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Wednesday that he plans to endorse Texas Gov. Rick Perry for president.

“I called Rick Perry a year ago and told him, ‘If you’re running for president, I’ll be the first to endorse you,’” Inhofe said at a State Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Tulsa Press Club.

“I’m going to be that person on Monday.”

Inhofe said he “likes Mitt Romney, but he’s a little mushy on environmental issues.”

…and what you’re left with is Romney pulling a 180…again. He sees his second chance at fulfilling his dream in danger of slipping away at the hands of a Texas fool and his gut reaction is to immediately pander to the ignorance of the base he so desperately needs to win.

One can almost feel for Romney and the dilemma he finds himself in. He has come to learn what it is to be a candidate in today’s Republican Party – a truth expressed so well by a reader at TPM.

You can’t have an informed, reasonable position on anything, i.e. one that is based on established fact or a preponderance of scientific evidence (e.g. climate change, evolution) and be a viable Republican candidate. Mitt knows this; Huntsman will learn it soon enough.

Faust is alive and well and living in the heart and soul of Mitt Romney.

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Filed Under: Climate Change, Republican Dicks Tagged With: mitt romney

McCain Camp Responds To Santorum Idiocy

May 19, 2011 By mario piperni

McCain aide Mark Salter responded to Rick Santorum’s statement that John McCain “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.“

“For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.”

Are you enjoying the Republican in-fighting as much as I am? That said, “pure, blind stupidity” sounds like a fair description of most Republicans in and out of Congress.

Filed Under: Republican Dicks Tagged With: Republicans, Santorum, torture