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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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"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 ...
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"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 ...
Pat Buchanan reminds us again why he’s little more than a bigoted white guy.
Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.
Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?
But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.
Until the day Sarah Palin and her buddies in the religious right win out and the United States becomes a theocracy, religion should not be a factor in deciding who sits on the Supreme court…but, for the record, MediaMatters points out:
Overall, Jews represent 6.4% of ALL SCOTUS justices over the years (7 Jews have sat on the bench, total). By contrast, over 32% of justices have been Episcopalians, when only 1.7% of the country is within that religion.
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1787 - The U.S. Constitution is written. It represents slaves as “three-fifths” of “Free Persons”. It does not grant slaves nor women the right to vote.
1865 - The 13th Amendment is ratified abolishing slavery.
1920 - The 19th Amendment is ratified giving women the right to vote.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American nominated to the Supreme Court.
1987 - Thurgood Marshall delivers a speech in which he called the Constitution, as drafted by the Founding Fathers, defective.
I cannot accept this invitation, for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever “fixed” at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite “The Constitution,” they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began to construct two centuries ago.
For a sense of the evolving nature of the Constitution we need look no further than the first three words of the document’s preamble: ‘We the People.” When the Founding Fathers used this phrase in 1787, they did not have in mind the majority of America’s citizens. “We the People” included, in the words of the Framers, “the whole Number of free Persons.” United States Constitution, Art. 1, 52 (Sept. 17, 1787). On a matter so basic as the right to vote, for example, Negro slaves were excluded, although they were counted for representational purposes at threefifths each. Women did not gain the right to vote for over a hundred and thirty years.
1993 - Elena Kagan, writes a law review article in tribute to Marshall shortly after his death. She quoted parts of Marshall’s 1987 speech, specifically the part in which he calls the Constitution “defective” and that the Constitution showed “a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged.”
2010 (April) – RNC chairman Michael Steele, in response to a question as to why African Americans should vote Republican, said:
“You really don’t have a reason to, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True.”
“For the last 40-plus years we had a ‘Southern Strategy’ that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, ‘Bubba’ went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.”
2010 (May) – RNC chairman Michael Steele, issues a statement:
“Given Kagan’s opposition to allowing military recruiters access to her law school’s campus, her endorsement of the liberal agenda and her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution ‘as originally drafted and conceived,’ was ‘defective,’ you can expect Senate Republicans to respectfully raise serious and tough questions to ensure the American people can thoroughly and thoughtfully examine Kagan’s qualifications and legal philosophy before she is confirmed to a lifetime appointment.”
2010 (May) – High-ranking Republicans think the RNC’s position is full of shit.
“I would say that the original Constitution was a document that needed amending, and after the Civil War it was amended and removed those offending parts.” -Senator Jeff Sessions
“I don’t like to see anybody downgrade the Constitution, but let’s face it: The Constitutition, to get passed, had to give the three-fifths language to the South, and that’s what Thurgood Marshall was referring to. And I think most people in retrospect say that was a compromise that they had to make in order to have the Constitution, but it wasn’t right. The rest of the Constitution was right.” – Senator Orrin Hatch
Conclusion:
The Constitution as originally written was defective.
Thurgood Marshall was right.
Elena Kagan was right.
Jeff Sessions was right.
Orrin Hatch was right.
The RNC was not.
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In case you haven’t been following the latest, greatest reality show – Republican Hypocrisy – here’s a snippet from the latest episode.
Republican Senator John Cornyn, 2005 version, comments on Bush’s Supreme court nominee Harriet Miers.
“Although she has no prior judicial experience, this was true for nearly 40 percent of the men and women who have served as Supreme Court justices. Indeed, rather than make her nomination less desirable, many of us believe that her long career in private practice will be to her credit.”
Republican Senator John Cornyn, 2010 version, comments on Obama’s Supreme court nominee Elena Kagan.
“The president says he wants to appoint somebody who will understand how the court’s decisions will impact regular people,” said Cornyn, a Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee that will first consider Kagan’s nomination. “I don’t see how Ms. Kagan meets the president’s own standard. Her lack of experience as a practicing lawyer and a practicing judge are things that do not argue in her favor.”
If you’re capable of placing your brain in a box thereby suspending all rational though, then this is the show for you. A few million Fox viewers can attest to that very fact.
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American Family Association (AFA) today, Bryan Fischer comes right out and says that the media should pointedly ask Kagan, “Are you a lesbian?” And if she is, according to AFA, she shouldn’t serve on the court:
It’s time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans.
The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?
There was a time when one would write ‘far-right groups’ to describe these narrow-minded homophobes and hatemongers. No longer. Hate and stupidity has gone mainstream on the right. Right-wing will suffice, thank you.
I wonder if these people are born ignorant and bigoted or does it develop over time?
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Another summer of discontent is upon us. It appears that the President will choose current solicitor general, Elena Kagan, as his Supreme Court nominee because…(according to WaPo…)
Obama wants someone who can serve as a counterweight to the intellectual heft of Chief Justice John Roberts. Regardless of how strong a liberal Kagan would prove to be, as a former dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan practically defines legal gravitas.
She’s also a female, which adds to the court’s gender diversity. She’s young, at 50, which means she could be on the court for a quarter century. And she’s never been a judge, which gives her a quality that Obama is known to have been seeking: someone to bring a different sensibility to a court that’s currently dominated by judges.
That particular lack of experience also means she does not have a long record of controversial rulings that could provide fodder for the presidents political opponents.
Kagan had the backing of seven Republicans last year in her confirmation as solicitor general which should ease her path to the Court. The vetting, for the most part, has been done. Progressives have been critical of Kagan for being, well, not progressive enough. Conservative opposition will be centered around any number of issues (mostly ‘no’ because ‘no’ is what they do best) but certainly their ideological opposition will derive from her rumored sexual orientation – something which Republicans will allow right-wing bloggers to shout out at every opportunity.
And for those interested in this sort of thing, Kagan is Jewish. There are currently six Catholics and two of the Jewish faith on the court. Protestants won’t be happy. Surprise.
Intelligent, Jewish, female, lesbian (?), liberal and young. I wonder if Limbaugh and James Dobson will approve?
Here’s what the brunt of conservative criticism will sound like.
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