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

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Christianity, fundamentalism, GOP, Herman Cain, Jesus, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, social issues, teanutz

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.

 

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Anybody Interested in Starting a New Country?

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budget, debt ceiling, economy, GOP, John Boehner, teanutz

Perhaps it is true that no empire can last forever.

Perhaps it is true that inevitably a state rots from within.

Perhaps.

Perhaps my perspective is not long enough.

Perhaps.

All I do know is that my heart is as heavy as solid iron. I am but a step from weeping in frustration and defeat.

I cannot understand what insanity has captivated an insignificant number of people such that they are prepared to see the country either descend to chaos or to punish the least able among us by leaving them paupers, fit only for the workhouse or death.

It may be pure indifferent ignorance liberally coated in self-interest and the defiant claim that “I got mine, and I worked for it, and I just don’t care about you. It’s YOUR problem.” It may be a diabolical agenda that we are not privy yet to: “We will guarantee that you will be the plantation foreman Jeff, just help us destroy this democracy of the weak.”

In any case, we are spiraling into a hopeless morass of destruction. How to negotiate with insane people? The answer seems at this point that we accept a reprieve of utter destruction now, in exchange for having it later. That is what the TeaNutz© seem to be offering. They will stand on the prow of the sinking ship of state screaming their “no taxes” until the sea swallows them up.

Why?

It seems because their hatred of this president is greater than anything rational people can surmise. They fear they cannot live with another four years, and they fear if he gains anything, that will happen. The fact that they destroy the country in the process, well that now seems acceptable collateral damage.

 We can assure them that they can live through another four years of course. We did. But of course, they will not see it that way. Bush’s debt-ceiling raises, his reductions in revenue, his unpaid for wars of choice, and his silly and expensive drug prescription extravaganzas are somehow different.

People who are used to doing business in Washington, like John Boehner, figured that once in Washington these intellectual midgets could be controlled. But Boehner has proven no more capable of dealing with insane and ill-informed jackasses than Democrats are. He appears most often as a man caught in the headlights, being pushed and carried along on a wave of caucus madness that he neither understands nor can speak to.

He struts forth and engages, deals and finagles in ways that his predecessors always did, only to be bluntly informed that “we will not deal.” Tail between his legs, he retreats, engineers another lie and tries to appear “still in control.” He is not.

The young and upcoming (they think) cubs growl as they manuever for position. Cantor and King, Walsh and West, they all prod and poke their TeaNutz© into line. Each, even the most docile and quiet are given their mike time to crow about economic matters they have no real understanding of. They spend their evening before memorizing the prepared talking points. “Just ignore questions you don’t understand, and go back to bullet points. You’ll do fine.”

exhilarating times. Talking to national audiences when just a few months ago, you were barbering at the local shop or pushing life insurance. Wined and dined by the rich lobbyists who smirk and giggle behind their backs about their “backward” ways, they thrill to the excitement and the seeming power that is but a finger tip away.So they think.

Notice that whatever rational Republican remain are deathly quiet? Not a word from them. They are shamed, deep in their heart, yet they STILL would rather put their own re-election first rather than save the country. There is no courage out there, on either side. No George Washington for us. Only sad hulks of human beings who have found a good living working in the beltway.

A pox on all their houses.

There are times, waking in the middle of the night when clarity comes. When you can feel what must be going through the minds of those who do try. I have not been happy with this President on a number of occasions, yet I know that he is trying with all his heart to do right. My heart goes out to him. Rational thinking cannot overcome insane ignorance, especially when even semi-moderate Republicans would rather succumb to crazy than slap it down–after all, taking down this President remains the insane FIRST order of business.

First order of business? Can you believe that?

I was really ready to call it a day with politics this morning. But then I heard Michele Bachmann, and I was reminded that there are people engaged in the process that really want to talk about important issues of the day.

Did you hear? In her White House, there will be no teleprompters! Now that is change I can get behind.

Damn them all.

** I e-mailed weenie Chuck Grassley, my GOP senator. Boehner’s congressional phones and email server have crashed utterly. You can let him know what you think at Twitter at @SpeakerBoehner. Whether rational protest affects these jackasses is anybody’s guess.

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Anybody for RotoRootering a Few Butts?

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Bill O'Reilly, budget, debt ceiling, economy, fundamentalists, gay rights, GOP, idiotic laws, marriage equality, Oslo, religion, Reproductive Rights, state legislatures, teanutz, wingnuts, Women's issues

Bill O’Reilly, Fox Noise mouth, may be one of the more rational (at least he wants to be) voices at the propaganda machine, but heck that isn’t really saying anything much. He’s a mush head of the first order.

His “opines” are so often nothing but third-rank right-wing babble, and recently he took to sucking his toes once again.

If you hadn’t heard, the Institute of Medicine recently recommended that contraception should be available to women without co-pay requirements. If one is serious about cutting abortions, one would think that making sure that pregnancy avoidance would have top priority.

Not so to Billo. He theorized thusly:

 “Many women who get pregnant are blasted out of their minds when they have sex. They’re not going to use birth control anyway.”

Yes, women are just drunken sluts who get taken advantage of by sex hunting men. I suspect he didn’t think that through to the last part very well. Or as Keith Obermann suggested, maybe Billo was talking about his own relationships.

It’s what I like about Fox. They offend everyone, always. And make that a good hard steel bristle brush, thanks!

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Rushy Limpbaugh says the August 2 date on the debt ceiling was picked because it needed to be before the start of Ramadan. Louis Gohmert said it was picked because it was the day before the President’s birthday and he wanted it done to raise campaign funds. Steve King says there is no crisis because the President can order anything paid whenever he wants to. Michele said it all gave her a migraine.

If aliens ever landed and met these four empty vessels, they would mark this planet down as having: most intelligent life? whales. Make that an extra LONG steel bristle brush will ya? And with 4 ends? I wanna give it to them all at once.

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What I was hoping President Obama would say in his press conference yesterday:

“It seems that Speaker Boehner is not in control of his caucus. I ask them to send me Grover Norquist. Apparently he is in charge and I need to negotiate directly with him.”

Alas the President is too civil for that.

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Best line I’ve seen so far:

 “House Speaker John Boehner took his balls and went back to the House, presumably to give them back to Eric Cantor.” (Mustang Bobby at The Reaction )

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John Bolton, we have been lead to understand was “sure” that what happened in Oslo was an Al Qaeda operation. Course it wasn’t, since Bolton is an idiot. It was a homegrown terrorist, and self-identified “Christian conservative.” And so when somebody tells your that it is horrible to accuse fundamentalists of being dangerous. . . And would you dip that roto-rooter brush in hot sauce first?

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Meanwhile, folks on the extreme social right-wing are sure that this marriage equality in New York is one more step to the debauchery of Old Rome. This fine piece comes from “the sky is always falling” National Review. You’d think they would be embarrassed to print such sludge.

Just a few points:

• Brian S. Brown: Go look up the definition of racism. And when you are done, go talk to the small businesses that cater to weddings. They are ecstatic. And don’t get me started about divorce lawyers.
• William C. Duncan: Two points. It’s been pretty much debunked that marriage is for the purpose of procreation. As to “slippery slope” oh please can’t you be more creative?
• Chuck Donovan: What? I derive some comfort about ancestors? Are you nuts? Read what you wrote. I bet you can’t explain that drivel.
• Matthew J. Franck: No court mandated marriage equality, no legislative mandated equality. Oh yeah, we usually submit EVERY decision to a referendum. How long have you been in this country bucko?

Well there is a good deal more, but you get the drift. Make sure the roto rooters are all of the same-sex for this band of merry bigots.

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It is quite clear to me now that humans are a resilient species. How so? Why it progresses, fitfully I admit, even when only about 10% of its total numbers are certifiably sane. I bet no other species can claim that.You disagree? Well read AlterNet’s list of  “The 10 Craziest State Legislatures in America.”

Read it? Now tell me I’m wrong.

We now need so many roto-rooters that I can justifiably call myself a “job creator.” Lower my taxes you dolt!