John Boehner Seeks Asylum in Any Non-Tea Drinking Country

11 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by Sherry in Congress, Crap I Learned, Current Issues, Essays, GOP, Humor, Immigration, Individual Rights, John Boehner, Satire, teabaggers, US Government

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Seriously, the dude will go anywhere where tea is not drunk, spoken of, or dangled precariously off the rims of head-gear.

John is dangerously close to drowning in a sea of tea. The mere mention of Boston makes him shudder. The words Pekoe or Darjeeling make him quiver in fear.

John is scared I tell ya. Things never thought to be on his horizon are looming like orca whales with maws agape. He can smell the fine stomach acids emanating from their bellies in anticipation of John Meat.

You remember the Hastert Rule no doubt. A cute piece of party law, instituted by that great constitutionalist and all-around patriot, Dennis Hastert, the rule was designed to protect the GOP from embarrassment when a few too many of its members felt compelled to vote “nay” to a popular piece of legislation.

Hastert instituted it so that no legislation was ever brought to the floor unless it already had a majority of Republican votes. When a majority chose not to violate, say their allegiance to the United States of Exxon-Mobile or America the NRA, they were protected from having to take that stance publicly, because old Denny would just not let the bill come to the floor for a vote.

And that, ladies and gents is the way real DEMON-ocracy works in Merika.

So, Johnny the Orange has lived by the Hastert rule since his speakership began. It worked flawlessly until, oh say, when the GOP got its butt handed to it in slices via the 2012 election. Suddenly, with Congressional approval ratings on life-support, and most of that directed at the GOP, well, things had to change.

John first violated the Hastert Rule over the December 2012 “fiscal cliff” discussion, realizing that unless he wanted to start digging his own and his party’s grave, it was the sensible thing to do. That was followed the Hurricane Sandy relief bill of which his own tea Potter clan refused to accede. Now this was considered highly egregious by even the non-Tea Potters within the party seeing as how they had always supported relief packages quickly in the face of need to the Midwest and the South East.

And then of course Boehner was forced to abandon Denny’s Detour Delight once again when it came to the Violence Against Women Act, an act that was already a law, but needed periodic “re” validation. The Tea Potters objected to those gay women being protected and those native women being assaulted by white guys who had just had a bit too much to drink. I mean ALL assaults aren’t bad are they?

But Boehner saw the writing on the wall (volumes of mail calling him names that are not printable here), and brought all three of these bills before the full house and getting them passed with sizeable Nays from the Tea Potters who really hated being “outed” (pardon my gay reference) by their chief of crap.

So, what has all that got to do with Boehner’s desire to leave our fair shores?

Well, Boehner has been warned by his Tea Dribblers that this outing has to stop. They, as any good Republican certainly knows, want to continue to hide behind the very substantial pants of one Dennis Hastert and his curtain of shame. And they have told Johnny, to stop THAT.

Except now, John is squarely in the crosshairs (pardon the gun pun) of the gun safety issue.

You see, it seems that there is a very good likelihood that the Manchin-Toomy bill will pass the Senate. It is a not so great bill, since it comes with the usual loopholes (like how are we policing “sales between relatives” and what the hell constitutes a “neighbor”), but it’s better than no bill at all, which was looking awful likely a couple of days ago.

So John, who has been able to avoid doing much of anything for 4+ years because he could count on the filibuster keeping ANYTHING from ever hitting the Senate floor, and thus he could “wait until the Senate did it’s job and passed a bill”, is now faced with the reality that a bill will hit the floor and lord of all lords, will probably pass.

That leaves Johnny with the sticky wicket as it were. For seriously his idiot Tea Potters are so used to that Glock stuck up their behinds that they dare not breathe compromise or Wayne La PeePee Pierre will pull the trigger blowing their shit to kingdom come.

And folks it gets sweeter than this.

The Senate is probably also poised to pass an immigration bill as well. It too will be crummy, but not quite as crummy as nothing.

And John is sweatin’ that one too, for if anything gets his Tea Potters more upset than having a loaded Glock go off in their booties, it’s the thought of tens of thousands of those confounded “brownies” getting citizenship in their respective states, thumbing their noses at their newly blown off white asses, and running against them and getting the Latino vote and redecorating their TeaPotter offices in Turquoise and desert red.

So, John, is swooning with pique.

John is asking why he ever wanted this damn job in the first place.

John is wondering whether a nice cushy job with one of his long time corporate supports wouldn’t make more sense.

John is polishing his passport and scouring the globe for a non-tea country to settle down in.

Boehner Bypasses Hastert Rule Again (politicalwire.com)
The fate of the ‘Hastert Rule’ (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
Boehner Pledges to Stick to Hastert Rule (politicalwire.com)
VAWA Passes, the Hastert Rule Takes a Tumble (motherjones.com)

A Rolling Stone Gathers Whatever Is In Its Way

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Sherry in Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Crap I Learned, Economy, Energy, Essays, Humor, John Boehner, Middle East, poverty, Satire

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Sir Boehner of Orange is not a man who is cozy with the truth. He, like so many of his cohorts, believe it is a most malleable thing to be twisted and pulled into whatever shape is necessary to feed the agenda they are pushing at any given time.

As most of us know, the sequester is looming on the horizon, and the GOP chatter seems as usual to ignore facts and create a new reality as needed. Thus the sequester is the “president’s idea” as if he designed it as the solution to our fiscal ills.

The Grand Bargain that Boehner continues to claim fell through because the President “changed” the offer at the last minute, is a total lie. In fact Boehner made the deal only to discover that he could not control the crazy element in his own caucus. Because of the Hastert Rule (thou shalt not bring to the floor a bill not already approved by a majority of your party), Boehner knew the deal could only pass with Democratic help. That he was not prepared to do, so he created the myth that the President changed the offer.

Given that time was short and the GOP was threatening to destroy the economy unless they got their way, the President proposed a draconian alternative that would come into play in six months. This was supposed to ensure that a meaningful debate and agreement would ensue to avoid the awfulness of the sequester. The President originally offered a 50/50 deal–there would be a sequester that consisted of half tax increases and half budget cuts. Boehner refused that deal and insisted that all be cuts.

Moreover, at the conclusion of the sequester deal, Boehner bragged to the press and anyone else that would listen that he had gotten “98% of everything he had been asking for” so he declared himself and his Party the winner.

Those are the real facts.

What the GOP continues to miss here, is that we are not so gullible nor so stupid that we don’t know these facts. So, his little attempt to hijack the truth in favor of his new reality only elicits nods and uhuh’s from his own stupid base. The rest of America sees it for the series of lies it is, and of course, realizes that the GOP is still the party that protects corporate interests to the detriment of the rest of us.

No lessons yet learned. The GOP continues to wallow in the mire of lies. It will remain a party that can’t win the big one. It will continue to try to figure out ways to steal elections. It will continue to be the best comedy routine in town.

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You have heard no doubt that the President is heading to Israel? And when he is there, he’s going to get a Presidential Medal of Distinction. And the Right wing reactionaries are livid. They just cannot understand why the vast majority of us cannot see that this man is a horrid, vile, Commie, Islamic lovin’ Israel hater. I mean they cannot fathom this as it is SO obvious that he has a “visceral hostility toward Israel.”

Their answer is of course that the person giving him the medal, Israeli President Shimon Peres, is just a figurehead, who is not liked by most of the population.

It makes me laugh. And then I read their shock and dismay again, and I laugh a bit louder and longer.

The circus continues.

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I do so appreciate a Republican who wants to help the poor. Jeff Sessions is ready to do just that. His method? Cut welfare of course. I mean really, it just breeds dependency doesn’t it? At least that’s what Newt said back in the 90’s when he pushed through the welfare reforms that resulted in tens of thousands losing their benefits. (hint: you might find some of these folks among the homeless today.)

Anyway, Sessions is bristling at the idea that the GOP is being called the party of the rich. And in a memorandum, he made it clear that they shouldn’t tie this deep desire to help out our poor by tying it to deficit reduction–that looks bad. Instead cuts in food stamps and such should be tied to helping business get healthy so those jobs become available. As everyone knows giving stuff to the poor just breeds more grabby people. Everyone knows that.

Boy, I feel ever so much better knowing the GOP really has a heart.

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If you have been wondering why the price of gas has gone up sharply, well, yes you guessed it, you can blame the neo-cons. They pushed sanctions against Iranian oil, making Europe and others refuse to buy any. The neo-cons were sure of course (they always are) that this would not impact American prices.

They were also sure that Saudi Arabia would pick up the slack. (That now seems unlikely).

West Texas oil is selling at $100 a barrel, which is not good either.

All this causes prices to rise (and Iran gets the benefit of that for what oil it does sell).

Thank your nearest Republican today!

PowerPoint Presentation Shows Boehner Selling The Sequester To His Members In 2011 (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com)
The sequester slideshow that may haunt the Speaker (maddowblog.msnbc.com)
GOP lawmakers don’t fear political impact of sequester taking effect (thehill.com)
Boehner pushed the sequester that he now blames on Obama (dailykos.com)
Setting the Record Straight About the Sequester (whitehouse.gov)

We Got SNOW!!!

04 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by Sherry in 2nd Amendment, An Island in the Storm, Diego, Humor, John Boehner, Life in the Foothills, Satire, The Contrarian

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desert Snow Yes, Margaret, we too get snow here in the desert. We are “high” desert and yesterday was a day filled with salt pellet snow, followed by the real stuff! All in all we got about half an inch. It’s still spitting some this morning as we traversed the landscape.

Diego had a ball, racing here and there and going much deeper than usual into the brush as the goat heads which plague his toes were buried under the white shroud of powder. Actually, it’s fairly squeaky snow which all true snow knowers will recognize. That’s snow that has a high water content which means it’s very near the temperature to melt.

It now claims to be about 30° and a high is expected in the low forties, so we may get some melt. If not, tomorrow for sure when the temperatures are due to be even higher. Then it’s back to our norm of mid-50’s. So we won’t have this white stuff to kick around long.

I can testify that our Chihuahuan desert is overloaded with bunnies and jackrabbits. The tracks were astronomical and we saw one hopping around. As usual they make for safety long before Diego can get a tooth to them. I can’t seem to convince him that digging like mad will not result in a succulent rabbit stew, but he keeps trying. Either that or he is hungry for Chinese and is using the old tried and never trued method of digging his way to Shanghai.

that's crazy 174 Sooo, Boehner got re-elected as Speaker, not without a minor rebellion by the eye-spinners.

At right is my painting of the Tea People. Naw, not really, I swiped it from the Google Images. But it does resemble Louis Gohmert a bit though don’t you think? Louis, unaware of what century he is in, voted to elect Allen West Speaker. I hear that Quasimodo got a vote too.

Boehner has been spanked as they say, and we shall now see how he wants to be remembered in history. Does he wish to go down as the puppet of the Tea People or as the man who realized his fate and decided to leave a legacy of actually accomplishing something. The jury, is as they say, still out on that one.

The Contrarian pointed out a rather salient fact the other day. Or I should probably say theory. Now, when the gun toters of America claim that we have to protect the 2nd Amendment against encroachment because it is the hallmark of our democracy that we have arms in case the government goes wacko (make an argument that it isn’t already, I dare ya) they do have a point. We must, they argue be able to rise up and take “our country back.”

Well that sounds all nice and all. And look around the middle east and see that armed insurrection is occurring in lots of places. But of course, all these countries did not have long established traditions of democracy. Some have pointed out that many repressive regimes started out by instituting gun control. But again, almost none of them were democracies to start with. Most were either dictatorships already or aristocracies.

I do not, therefore see that these events around the world have much to teach us about our own circumstances.

My question is what good is an AK-47 or any of its myriad offspring against the likes of predator drones, missiles, fighter jets, and all the cornucopia of fire power that the government can bring to bear upon people with hand guns and rifles? No “revolution” has a chance to succeed without the military going over, and frankly how likely is that? Whose gonna be in charge?

I frankly don’t recall reading any time that the Revolutionary forces in the US had issues with weapons. But even with apparent access to the normal weaponry of the day, they required the assistance of France with its naval fire power in order to win that war. Are we going to get help from Canada? Or Mexico? Or Brazil?

The idea that revolution is around the corner in America is the fantasy death wish of a small and crazy segment of the country who are deluded into ecstasies of orgasmic shuddering at the thought of sighting in their scopes on the likes of Barney Franks, Nancy Pelosi, and all those other lefty bleeding hearts that they so detest. Do you really think that there are countries out there other than the now dead Qaddafis and Husseins, who are crazy enough to help the “insurgents”?

That is why the argument fails in my opinion. There has never been an even close call when it comes to a real legitimate fear that this country was falling into the hands of some dictatorial menace. The menace we face today is corptocracy, if that is a word. We are nearly owned lock, stock and barrel by corporate interests and that plague is spreading around the globe and will soon ingest EVERY government.

So am I right? Or wildly wrong?

Oh and a short perusal of the blogs that kicked up from “snow in the desert” proves again the old adage–stupid stays stupid. You would not believe the number of posts that suggest that snowfall in southern parts of Texas and New Mexico, PROVE that there is no global warming. Yes and proof that you can talk is proof you ain’t stupid too. Right?

John of Orange Falls Into the Poo Pit

21 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by Sherry in 2nd Amendment, Budget, Congress, Constitution, GOP, Humor, Individual Rights, John Boehner, Satire, teabaggers, What's Up?

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boehner crying John put in his thumb and pulled out a lump of coal. That’s what they call mixin’ a metaphor if you hadn’t guessed that already.

In any case, Mrs. John the Orange must be havin’ to pull his weeping ass out of the bed this morning kicking and screaming all the way.

So ya wanna be Speaker do you John?

Well, welcome to the world of TeaPeople. The GOP House caucus must be the singular black hole of intellect on the entire globe.

John must wish he were a Democrat about now. Go talk to Nancy John, she will explain how to do the job.

If ya hadn’t heard, John of Orange withdrew his Plan B vote last night when it became uncomfortably clear that his own party would not pass it. And this was a draconian measure if there ever was one, gutting Obamacare, severely gutting the food stamp program, killing unemployment insurance and well, you get the idea. And all they had to agree with is to raise some taxes on those making more than a million buckeroos.

And they said NO. Not gonna raise no taxes on the rich people who we wanna be someday and they promise us we will be if only we don’t ask them to pay out of their fun money cache, cuz that is reserved for ya know, fun.

And now all the country is starkly aware that the GOP is the party that will let as they said, 99.8% of the country suffer in order to protect the rich. Now that is a brand that might be a bit hard to erase. Coupled with their complete and utter inability to even utter the words “assault rifles and high-clip ammo is unnecessary in a civilized society” and you have a party made in Hell.

Let’s face it folks, John of Orange needs to jump back into the Cheetos bag and forget this speaker stuff. He don’t know how it works it seems. It is a cardinal rule these days, that “thou shall not bring onto the floor a bill thou does not have the votes to pass”, and caveat to that is “thou shalt not talk of any such bill before thou has the votes to pass it.”

Me thinks John’s tenure may be short. Me thinks it should be. I

The foxes are in charge of the hen-house.

And yeah, it’s fun to watch, except that geez you fools, there is a country to run. When are ya gonna grow up?

I been reading Noam Chomsky. Just wanted you to know that.

If you want to read a great analysis of the fiscal cliff talks and negotiations, well you can’t do better than Paul Krugman in todays NYTimes. Twice now the GOP has given up great opportunities to “win” in favor of ideological purity. This latest is a Christmas gift to the Democrats.

Yes, It’s True, We’re Marching to Pretoria

21 Wednesday Mar 2012

Posted by Sherry in Budget, Economy, Election 2012, Evolution, GOP, Health care, Humor, Individual Rights, Iowa, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Reproductive Rights, Satire, teabaggers, What's Up?

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It’s all for one and one for all. . . .

NO?

Oh.

Willard thinks we should all just get along now.

Newt says that this proves that Ragin’ Rick ain’t got the cajones and should step aside and let a real man wade into the Mitty waters.

Ron Paul has gone to sleep.

Ragin’ Rick says, “on to Pretoria . . .err, I mean Louisiana–you must stop that ghetto Cajun talk and speak English!”

Me? I’m packing.

Did you know that Johnny Depp is in New Mexico even as we speak? Yes he is! He’s shooting Tonto. And I’m here in Iowa. Not where I should be, by his side, offering technical advice on how he can be even more adorable each and every moment that he breathes.

Oh. Excuse me. I forgot myself.

Hey, I can drift into Deppland just a bit. The Contrarian was pulling for this woman on Jeopardy just because she had big boobs! I never noticed at all. I think that’s a lousy reason to cheer for a contestant.

John has talent. Pure, gorgeous talent, from the tip of his head to the tip of his toe. And I would like to . . .

Back to REAL LIFE.

Real life has Willard in it. Oh that man annoys the bejesus out of me. The phony of phonies, not to be confused with the holy of holies. Or the moly of molies.

Excuse me. I have to make some scalloped potatoes. Explain that name to me. They have no scallops in them, are not cut to resembled scalloped edging. So what is it with calling them scalloped? Huh?

Wanna watch evolution in reverse? Head to the state of Tennessee where you can see the latest in evolutionary chic, which is creationism in all it’s glory. Yes, ladies and gents hurry up and watch the fake illusory fable compete with science.

From this day forward, lil childrins in the fair state of Tennessee whose namer was a writing stutterer (the true spelling of which is Tenese), will be teached both truth and fable in one jumble of hogwash that passes as your basic edge-E-cation. You will learn if you are so inclined that all these so-called “theories” are controversial, as Pastor Backwards so informed you last Sunday from his pulpit. He learnt that from his KJV which has all the important stuff in red, for the quick tour.

They also passed a law that allows all those ten commandments to be displayed everywhere so you can refresh you memory before stoopin’ the mayors sweet wife when she comes in for some “pork” at the deli.

Oh I did not say that.

I have a question. The Willard says that the President doesn’t understand the economy.

Willard says he was a business man.

Does that mean he understands the economy?

Does The Willard have as many experts advising him on the economy as the President has?

Another example of the inability of Republicans to follow plain logic.

Instead of quietly walking away from an issue that is killing them, the GOP is racing over the cliff. In Tennessee, as you no doubt heard, there is a bill that would require every doctor who does an abortion to be in a list, and that list must include the patients, and plenty of personal information about them. It seems that if you can’t stop the abortion, you make a list of all the necessary information for hate groups and their too-willing nuts to “take care of the problem” themselves.

And In Arizona, when even the dried up prune, Jan Brewer refused to sign the “employer decides if your contraception is for the right purpose” bill, another bright GOP bulb wants prospective aborting women to “have to watch a real abortion” first. And before you are treated for prostate cancer you idiot, I think you should was some ass surgery.

Remember back when President Obama and Senator of Orange, John Boehner were close to the “grand bargain” to pass a budget and end the debt ceiling crisis? Remember that? And remember when JB said that the reason it failed was that “Obama moved the goal posts once again”? And remember that he looked a little sheepish?

Well, the truth comes forth. Indeed the Prez and lil’ weiner Boehner were near a deal. And Boehner was very sincere. And while he was being very sincere, wanna be Eric Cantor was being very sincere in going around all the TeaPeople® and telling them that he would lead them in a mutiny against JB, and whispering that JB was nothing but a low-down RINO.

Now, a bit of history is in order. Way back in the time of Newtydom, when Newt was Speaker, he was getting entirely too friendly with working with President Clinton. The religious RAgeous Right decided his time had come, and they were organizing a mutiny to dump Newty. Dick Armey thought he was their chosen heir apparent. Except they had in mind Steve Largent (previously a footballer who had got that old time religion and was married to James Dobson and Tony Perkins and all those crazy MF’s). So Armey told Newt, and Newt avoided the coup.

So, Boehner gets wind of the tides of NO CONFIDENCE about to descend upon his Cheetos head, and well, he ran screamin’ into the night of NO.

And that’s the way that grand bargain fell apart. And that MF I threw it in there? That was Mindless Furies. Cuz I don’t use those bad words.

And this I just leave you with, cuz I haven’t worked up anything really good on it yet. I swear it’s true though. Here in Iowa they have begun advertising a website called Farmers.com which is for farmy types who are looking for love. It’s a dating service for hicks. I swear it’s true. I do.

I Think I Hear the Fat Lady Warming Up

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

Posted by Sherry in Election 2012, GOP, Humor, John Boehner, meteorology, Michelle Backmann, Newt Gingrich, Satire, teabaggers, What's Up?

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Here in Iowa, Michele Bachmann is waylaying K-Mart shoppers and with wild-eyes and smeared lipstick, screeching in desperation: THE IS THE TEAPARTY’s LAST CHANCE!

Of course she means, she is their last chance, and if she doesn’t win the Iowa caucuses, her campaign (which has been dead for months) will be declared so, and buried.

But actually, she speaks the truth in some sense (now Politifact don’t keel over!)

Back in Washington, the usual dunderheaded nonsense is playing out. I refer to the payroll tax bill. While talking points abound on the GOP side, the truth is pretty evident. Boehner stepped in his own poo again.

The Senate, which almost never agrees on anything, including the time of day, actually passed the bill, albeit for only two months and with a proviso that Obama must ignore environmental concerns and decide on the Keystone Pipeline within 60 days.

Since, I believe that Boehner and McConnell have phone service, we know they chatted about the Senate version, and Boehner signed off. Otherwise McConnell looks a fool, (well he does that anyway, so more so). So when Boehner tries to line up his sniveling brats to vote, they fall en mass on the floor and start screaming: NO!

Now, of course the spin is that the House GOP, is so concerned for the little folks that they want to extend the payroll tax cut for a year. And of course, they gleefully want to race to “conference” to “hash out the differences”. Where of course, it will die, and they can blame Democrats for that and who’s the wiser, since conference meetings are not public meetings. This is simply about the TeaNutz® wanting to deny Obama a “win.” And they are ready to sell the average Joe down the river to do it.

And of course, they are dead wrong on how this will be perceived.

Remember rule #1: Most people pay almost no attention to politics. They only catch a drive-by snippet of talking points as they go about their daily routine.

So what does the average unknowledgeable know?

Congress as a whole sucks, and most of the jerks are on the take and don’t care about me.
The House is controlled by the GOP and the Senate by the Democrats.
The House passes all kinds of stuff, that never passes in the Senate.
Almost nothing passes in the Senate.
The payroll tax cut passed the Senate.
The House voted it down.
The House is controlled by the GOP.
The GOP is at fault.

Boehner was unable to get his TeaNutz® to go along as he promised they would. Boehner cannot control these idiots. They actually called themselves “principled Scots” just like Braveheart. So they think it wise to compare themselves to Mel Gibson, Mr. Bigot.

And no they are not going to vote “down” the payroll tax cut. They are going to vote “for” it to go to Conference. They think they are so slick. Word is they are then going to high tail it out of town and leave the mess for the Senate.

The fat lady is about to take the stage. The TeaNutz® should spend some time looking around the Capital. They will be packing up their belongings next Christmas and returning to the obscurity of their rabbit holes in their respective states.

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So far, Newt’s handlers have convinced him to play nice with those who attack him. Just smile and stay on message. Since Newt is starting to sink, wanna bet he tells his handlers to go suck an egg, and erupts like Vesuvius? Truth is Newty has little money, and he has few options against the negative ad campaign against him. So look for him to grab any microphone in sight and start spewing.

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How’s weather you way? We have had a few days of below 32°, but darn few that stayed there all day. We had some snow one day in mid-November, but it warmed up and melted within a couple of hours. It’s been my kind of winter so far. We’re expecting some rain today, and so we have postponed our last shopping before Christmas trip to buy the ham until tomorrow or Thursday.

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I know I shouldn’t, but I feel a tinge of sadness for Ricky P. I mean the guy looks for all the world like a lost puppy. The guys who pull his chain assured him this would be a good old Texas barbecue, and it’s become a New England Clam bake. If you watch him at the debates, every time he answers a question, he looks around expectantly to his fellow debaters for some sign that he got it right. And now he’s marrying himself to Jebus as a prophet to spread the word of Christianity. I mean it is totally sad doncha think?

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Tomorrow, let us talk about what government is. Or more particularly what we want it to be. See ya.

Showdown: House GOP set to defeat Senate payroll-tax bill after Reid says he won’t negotiate further; Update: Boehner cancels House vote (hotair.com)
Payroll Tax Cut Bill: House To Wait Until Tuesday To Vote On Measure (huffingtonpost.com)
House GOP delays vote on Senate two-month payroll tax extension (thehill.com)
Boehner tries to derail bipartisan payroll tax holiday extension when far right flips out (americablog.com)

He Deserves to be in Hell, Just Not on the Same Floor as Hitler

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

Posted by Sherry in Corporate America, fundamentalism, Health care, Herman Cain, Humor, Immigration, Jesus, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Satire, social concerns, teabaggers, What's Up?

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I apologize to Jon Stewart, but his line last night was priceless. He was paraphrasing good old Pastor Jeffers who said of Romney’s faith something like this:

“He’s a good moral man, but Mormonism is a cult. That is what evangelicals believe.”

Mitty (I am so trying to be just your average Joe) Romney cannot catch a break. No matter what he does, his poll numbers don’t move one millimeter. Not one. The crazy Right flirts with candidate after candidate, boosting them upon their shoulders in some increasingly desperate attempt to infuse each one with some modicum of sense and electability, only to find each one gorging on every donut in town, and eventually weighing them down until they are squashed to the ground.

It seems that they have plumb run out of people willing to walk the plank. (Wait, I can mix a few more metaphors if you are patient!) So, now it’s either Cain, who is seriously just awful, or Mitt.

And Mitt will continue to be dragged through the swamp with pictures like the above, showing him glorying in his “corporate raider” glee, as he and his buddies do everything but roll naked in thousand dollar bills. This will not be playing well in the shredded landscape that is referred to as “Middle America”.

Mitt will continue to be plagued by the provable and “film at 11:00” clips of saying the exact opposite thing on a whole host of subjects. Can it be made any more clear that Mitt is the malleable Ken doll who can be programmed in repeat the latest poll results as “his belief.”

What is his belief? I can see only one. He believes that he should be President. Beyond that, he has no principles on anything. A week ago he considered the OWS people as “dangerous” and “promoting class warfare.” Now of course, he “understand their frustration”. You see, it didn’t play well to be backing up the 1% against the 99%.

As the OWS phenomenon has grown and prospered, the GOP tune in general has had to change. Oh not with the diehards such as Glenn (is anybody out there?) Beck and Blush Limpaw, and Sean (I still get mail!) Hannity. They continue their demented sewage even though only the rabid wrecks of rusting trailer park renters still tune in. But the silly Cantors and McConnells and Orange slushies, well, they have sought to tame the rhetoric.

I think it’s starting to sink in. There are no more bible-clutching “white” knights on the horizon. The GOPers are stuck with Herm (I love the Koch brothers and they love me) Cain, Ricky (if I could only run a campaign without speaking) Perry, or the ever-morphing Mitty (I can catch the nomination) Romney.

And that is some very lousy reality to live with I bet.

I think backing Obama is starting to be a very comfortable place to be.

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Herm is having more than enough trouble with his stunningly silly 9-9-9 plan. And so he figures it’s a good thing to introduce more stupid remarks. His latest is to suggest that we build a big old fence across the lower border and electrify it, with signs warning that death may attend any attempt to climb over.

Now Herm says that was a joke. Sort of. I’m sure Latinos across the country are splitting their sides in roars of laughter.

And he suggests that immigration should be a state’s right thing. In other words, each state should make up its own immigration rules and enforce them. Does Herm have any clue? Next he will be in favor of each state having its own DOD.

I’m seriously thinking that running a pizza empire must be a pretty brain-lite job.

But simple plays well to the simple-minded.

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This banner was flown over a golf course where Speaker of Orange was playing in California. Cute ain’t it?

Thanks to Joe.My.God

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Meanwhile, Newt (send my dinner bill to one of my donors) Gingrich, continues to amaze the world with his brand of “I can say something more stupid than you” antics.

Only this is not an antic. It’s deadly serious and is but one example of what happens when grifters get into the game of politics and turn serious legislation aside in pursuit of “points” on the campaign trail.

Read this please, and know what a thoroughly wretched individual Newt Gingrich really is. It is called Newt’s Personal Hypocrisy on “Death Panels“. And just so ya know, my “own” Chucky Grassley took the same approach.

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Proof that too much pizza addles the brain:

Herm is only a conservative because the big guy, as in J E S U S, was one. Yep.

Now, I’ve read a boatload of books about Jesus Christ. I’ve read many of the most respected theologians and biblical experts on the subject. A few make a reasonable case that our Lord was a radical zealot, but very few. Most see him as someone apart from the “political” field, even though his teachings certainly impacted on both political and social mores.

But I don’t know a single one who would argue that he was a conservative. That is, unless you define conservatism in exactly the opposite fashion than it has traditionally been defined. And I don’t know a single one who would argue that the Roman Empire nor the Sanhedrin were the “liberal” forces who destroyed him.

But Herm does.

The liberal court found Him guilty of false offenses and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12…..Never before and not since has there ever been such a perfect conservative.……For over 2,000 years the world has tried hard to erase the memory of the perfect conservative, and His principles of compassion, caring and common sense.

And Herm has more to tell you about Jesus. How he was unemployed but never asked for an unemployment check, and how he healed the sick without any government health care plan, and how he answered his detractors without benefit of being “Mirandized.”

Go read it. This stuff is priceless, and Herm is crazy as the perverbial loon.

See, you’re not selfish, your just a good Christian. Yeah right.