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    Joe Arpaio - Vile and Rotten

    Why is this guy still in business? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...

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  • Romney The Liar

    Romney The Liar

    The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar. A partial list. Bush had nothing to do ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    Happy Friday. The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. "Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman "The head of ...

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  • Another Unexceptional Republican Claims Obama Is Not An American

    Another Unexceptional Republican Claims Obama Is Not An American

    Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado. I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...

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  • Idiot Quote of the Day: The “Gayer” Obama

    Idiot Quote of the Day: The Gayer Obama

    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 ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    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 ...

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  • What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    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 ...

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  • Obama – Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Obama - Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

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  • Another Day, Another Vote – Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Another Day, Another Vote - Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    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 ...

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  • ‘Romney – The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry’ and Other Fairy Tales

    'Romney - The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry' and Other Fairy Tales

    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 ...

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  • A Madman and Fox News

    A Madman and Fox News

    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 ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    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 ...

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    New GOP Logo

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  • Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    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. ...

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  • Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    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 ...

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  • Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    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 ...

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  • GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    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 ...

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  • Republicans Are The Problem

    Republicans Are The Problem

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  • Marco Rubio – Just Another Weasel

    Marco Rubio - Just Another Weasel

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  • Obama’s Move Forward

    Obama's Move Forward

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Choosing God Over Science

How hot has it been across the U.S.?

Well, as CBS reports

  • 17 states have issued heat warnings and advisories
  •  Oklahoma City has seen 47 consecutive days of 90+ degree temperature with only a single day this month below 100
  • Record temperatures in various cities and towns has seen the high temperature record tied or broken over 800 times
  • Tallahassee, Florida: 105 degrees on June 15 – Record high
  • Amarillo, Texas: 111 degrees on June 26 – Record high
  • Borger, Texas: 112 degrees  on June 26 – Record high
  • Childress, Texas: 117 degrees on June 26 – Record high
  • Gage, Oklahoma: 113 degrees on June 26 – Record high
  • 29% of the U.S. is in drought and 12% is in exceptional drought – both are record highs

Tragic circumstances as the weather plays havoc with the lives of millions. So, what does Mary Fallin, Oklahoma’s Republican Governor, suggest people do?

Pray. Actually, she’s called for a statewide day of prayer.

“I think if we have a lot of people praying, it moves the heart of God.”

Is there anything wrong with people praying and asking for divine intervention at a time of crisis?

Definitely not if praying to one’s god helps comfort the soul and gives greater strength to deal with a difficult situation. In that case, it’s a positive. But if praying to one’s god is an excuse to sit on your ass and do nothing, then the practice is both dangerous and foolish.

In 2009, Mary Fallin, as a member of the United States Congress, voted against a global warming bill. Here was her rationale for doing so.

“Our state is a large producer of both oil and natural gas, and the restrictions this legislation places on the production and exploration of these resources will devastate our energy producers. That will not only destroy oil and gas related jobs, it will also lead to a reduction in tax revenue, which in turn will affect our ability to maintain and repair roads, bridges, schools and other public works and services.”

As a gubernatorial candidate in 2010, she said.

Protecting our nation should be a number one priority. Does leadership really think that our surveillance satellites should be aimed at polar ice caps and not terror cells, and that spies should be investigating global warming? Congress must adequately fund our intelligence operations. If we don’t, we may need to be more concerned about global warming in the U.S. caused by a nuclear attack in our own back yard.

She is on record as saying that climate legislation is completely unnecessary. Somehow, Fallin believes it makes much more sense to call for the citizens of her state to bow their heads, get down on their knees and pray to god to make it all go away even though climate science predicts the exact sort of extreme weather patterns which Oklahoma is currently experiencing.

Rest assured that while the ignorance displayed by Mary Fallin is astounding, it is secure and happy in the minds of Republican leadership everywhere.

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Republican Brings Back The ‘Commie Evil Empire’ Fear Tactic

You know Republicans have not a shred of shame when they can still wheel out the old commie bogeyman. Rep. Duncan Hunter:

This is it folks. This is it. There is nothing after 2012. [...] I don’t care if it’s a more moderate/former liberal like Ronald Reagan, who would never be elected today in my opinion. If it’s someone like him or a hardcore conservative, you gotta elect the most winnable person this time. I know it sounds bad, but Congress makes the law. You’ve got a conservative Congress. You’re one third there. [...] You gotta vote and get behind an electable person for president. I know after what I said, me saying that doesn’t go hand in hand. Obama’s going to raise a billion dollars. He’s going to hold on to this thing, the communists in this country, the community organizers in this country, are going to hang on for dear life. This is it for them. If they can change the balance of the scale of this country, they will affect it until our downfall.

A few thoughts…

a)  “communists in this country“…really?  Is that still an effective fear tactic in this day and age? Someone should bring Mr. Hunter up to speed and remind him it’s 2011.  As someone once mentioned, there appears to be two types of Republicans – those stuck in the 1950s and those yearning for a return to the good old 1770s.

b)  When does the Republican “electable person for president” make his or her appearance? Surely, no GOPer of reasonable mind believes that Bachmann, Paul, Santorum, Gingrich, Pawlenty or Cain is electable? As for Romney, he appears to lack the Tea Party credentials required to become the GOP nominee. They’re not going to let a guy who was once pro-choice and enacted “socialist” legislation (Romneycare) become their standard bearer.

c)  It’s nice to see someone on the right recognize the fact that that Ronald Reagan would be destroyed by today’s brand of conservatism. It’s always ironic to hear some teabagger praise the Reagan legacy when in truth, they’re clueless as to the man’s policies.

  • Raised taxes in 7 of his 8 years in the White House.
  • He tripled the federal budget deficit.
  • As governor of California, he liberalized the state’s abortion laws.
  • He gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented illegal immigrants.

And we won’t get into Iran-Contra or Reagan’s role in creating the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.

d)  Why do Republicans despise community organizers as much as they do?

Duncan’s entire line of reasoning smacks of desperation. While his ‘elect-anyone-as-long-as-they’re-not-evil-libuls’ might sound appealing to right-wingers, independents aren’t going to buy it in the national elections. They’re going to need more than a Michele Bachmann and her 23 foster children to convince them that turning the reins of power over to wingnuts and merchants of fear is the way to go.

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See Newt Run. See Newt Spin. See Newt Implode.

The best part of the 2012 election race might very well be watching Newt Gingrich go down in flames…and not by enemy fire but from his own words and the nihilistic sewage he spews out on a daily basis. And I can’t think of a more deserving individual than Mr. Self-Proclaimed Intellectual (although Palin, Bachmann, Boehner and a dozen other GOPers do come in for a close second).  Anytime a politician gets mocked by both the opposition and his own party, you know his chances for higher office are all but gone.

With his latest salvo, Gingrich has crossed the dividing line from STFU You Lying Immoral Bastard to Ridiculous Monkey.  First there was his appearance on Meet The Press where he referred to Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal as “radical change”.

“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering… I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”

When angry conservatives stood up in unison to defend the Ryan plan, Gingrich felt compelled to back down. And back down he did with this lovely piece of Newtonian logic.

“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.”

Which begs the question: why Newt? If you thought it accurate enough on Sunday to actually go on about Ryan’s Medicare plan and call it a “radical change” and an example of “right-wing social engineering”, what made it inaccurate on Tuesday? Is it too cynical to suggest that the only thing that really changed in the intervening two days was the sledge hammer placed squarely over your head by a right-wing noise machine who called you a bad conservative for not marching lockstep with other Republicans? Might that be it, Newt? We think so, scumbag.

And then there was the matter of Gingrich’s 1993 support for the individual health insurance mandate, something which he has fought hard against in the last two years. Here’s how Newt reconciled his apparent inconsistency.

“I do not support a mandate. I am opposed to Obamacare. I am in support of the 26 attorney generals (sic) who have filed suit. The Center for Health Transformation that I supported, that I helped found, has been actively opposed to Obamacare for two-and-a-half years.”

“That was a clip from 1993, when in fact, the conservative position was to have individual insurance, in opposition to Hillarycare — because she wanted everybody to be in government — but let’s get that out of the way, okay?”

Well no asshole, it’s not okay. Tell us more.

“I’m saying that you see a 20-second clip from 18 years ago, when you were fighting Hillarycare, and when virtually everybody in the conservative movement was united in trying to stop Hillarycare.”

“Now, nobody at that time was talking about the 10th Amendment. Nobody at that time was talking about these kind of constitutional issues. But to jump from that and say, ‘Gosh, if Newt said this in 1993, he must be for Obama’ — skipping, by the way, two-and-a-half years of active, consistent opposition to Obamacare?”

“I mean, I think the kind of amnesia that Washington gets into is, frankly, silly.”

How stupid does Gingrich take everyone to be? His entire argument boils down to: “If Democrats are against something, than I’m for it. When Dems were against the individual health insurance mandate, my buddies and I were for it. Now that Dems have shifted to the right and accepted individual mandates, I’m against it. Don’t you get it, morons? I’m Newt Fucking Gingrich. What I said 18 years ago or 2 days ago doesn’t matter. All that matters is what I say and do in the next 15 seconds.”

And there folks is your worthless Republican party of 2011 – no different from the 1993 version. They were lying, self-serving vermin then and they’re lying self-serving vermin now. With no principles to guide them other than “I”m against whatever Dems are for”, these people have turned a once proud political party into a decrepit joke.
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Mopping Up After The Republican Debate

Best quote I’ve seen on Bush’s Internets regarding last night’s Republican presidential debate:

“…it looked like an episode of Jerry Springer or Maury without the intellectual appeal.”

Here’s what you need to know about last night’s debate in South Carolina and the status of the Republican party. Two of the pre-debate “Freedom Rally” sponsors were the John Birch Society and The Oath Keepers – two extremist right-wing groups. With paranoid friends like those, who needs enemies?

The sanest of the insane at the debate were probably Pawlenty and Cain – but the latter was not given a chance to spout his anti-Muslim hate.  Cain has stated in the past that he would never appoint a Muslim to his cabinet or as a federal judge because

“there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.”

Cain, who sets himself apart from President Obama by referring to himself as “a real black man”, has also stated that Planned Parenthood was…

“put in black communities so they could help kill black babies before they came into the world.”

The odds that this jackass gets the Republican nomination are less than zero.  While the GOP has no problem embracing fools (Bush, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, birthers, teabaggers…), they do draw the line at embracing non-white fools. This we know.

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Louie Gohmert – Another Republican Dumbass

For a party which has the not-so-bright and comical Michele Bachmann considering a presidential run, nothing should surprise anyone when it comes to the idiocy running rampant throughout the GOP.  Yet somehow, Texan Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert never ceases to surprise.  Gohmert (of terror baby fame) believes he might know the real reason behind President Obama’s Libyan intervention.  The conspiracy theory has it’s origins in the Affordable Care Act which Gohmert is hoping to dismantle.

Gohmert on the floor of the House:

It’s a bad bill. And then when you find out that the prior Congress not only passed that 2,800 page bill with all kinds of things in it, including a new president’s commissioned officer corps and non-commissioned officer corps. Do we really need that? I wondered when I read that in the bill. But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill.

Good one, Louie.  You figured it out.  The Kenyan Muslim in the White House is going to bring about the end of the U.S. military so that his Obamacare Force of doctors and health care workers can rise and take out good conservatives with hypodermic needles filled with a venomous solution concocted by an African witch doctor.

Louie Gohmert is either paranoid or a dumbass.  I’m guessing he’s both.  FactCheck has the truth behind Obama’s secret army.

Do you ever wonder how so many willfully ignorant Republicans get elected to public office?  Might it be that they’re fractionally less stupid than the people who vote for them?

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