October 28, 2013

Well, 2016 is now over. Christie wins, because Shaq endorsed him!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/27/chris-christie-shaq_n_4168347.html#



Well, that settles it. When someone as politically important and intelligence as "Shazam" comes out to support you, you'll win in a landslide.

W2G, Governor Ballast!

October 26, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

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Sometimes, a civil war is fun to watch, when all tht dies is a political party that wants to destroy everything. The GOP Civil War (1, 4, 6) is full on and just getting started. Dick Cheney has come out from like the troll under the bridge (5), Scott Walker may do the perp walk soon (7) and Don Yelton proves how worthless of a man he is (10). Hint: As worthless as used spit. And as always, don't forget the key. Or you can run your mouse over the icon and see what each one means.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The GOP[/font]
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And so it begins. After getting smacked down, ripped apart and completely embarrassed over their created crisis that blew up in their faces. And then there were aftershocks of explosions.

It all started when an unnamed Republican “leader” (this will be a theme for the week) came out to personally insult President Obama during a meeting. Now, no one cares if someone has respect for the man who holds the office. There must be respect for the office. Apparently, this unnamed “leader” has none for either.

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Way to protect your buddies, Dick. Luckily, someone decided to be a good American and smack down the unnamed Republican leader. Hint #1: It’s a white guy. Hint #2: He’s from the South (wow, no surprise there). Hint #3: It’s that troglodyte Pete Sessions from Texas.

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The two senators who spoke to HuffPost did not hear the Republican make the remark, but said a top White House aide who was present during Obama's meeting with Republicans later told Senate Democratic leaders that the lawmaker who made the remark was Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Rules Committee.

Reid relayed the story to the entire Democratic caucus on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and named Sessions, according to one of the two Democratic senators who spoke to HuffPost. Reid also told the caucus that he was “sorry” to have to tell them about it, per this senator, but gave Obama credit for his “dignified” response to Sessions. Reid reportedly told the caucus that Obama responded to Sessions by saying he understood that they disagreed on many issues and he respected their differences.

Two Senate Democratic aides separately told HuffPost that White House deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors was the official who originally told Democratic leaders about the Sessions incident.

Harry Reid exposed sessions for his disrespect and complete idiocy. The #2 Democrat in the Senate is too much of a coward to call out a Republican. When did “Compromise because we don’t have the votes” Harry Reid develope testicles and a spine? Whenever it happened, keep feeding him “Balls of Steel” Juice. It’s about time he grew a pair to deal with the children on the other side of the aisle.

Still, it is fun to watch the imploding. Apparently, not only are the GOP coming out swinging with their racist Obama hatred, but fringe groups seem to have lost their appeal to the GOP establishment. This might not be good for Karl Rove, Dick Armey and the rest of the leaders of GOP astroturf group.

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"The right is a multiplicity of various groups, some of which aren't even Republicans, but who think they can control the Republican Party," said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, condemning tactics he referred to as "radicalness." Republican strategist Mike Murphy chided what he called "the stupid wing of the Republican Party." "There's tension and there ought to be a questioning of whether we ought to listen to such bad advice," Murphy said when asked about the influence of conservative groups. "We took a huge brand hit. It's self-inflicted. ... I'm glad there are no elections tomorrow."

Self inflicted? Ya think, Mikey? Seriously? Your party spent 35 years shooting itself in the foot. . .getting married to bible thumpers, racists, xenophobes, jingoistic chickenhawks and people like Rush Limbaugh. Now, you think it’s all self-inflicted. I’m trying not to laugh here, but it’s so hard.

So, what is the Tea Party’s response? Well, it’s time to oust RINO elected official for ones that make Atilla-the-Hun look liberal. Ready! Aim! Shoot that foot!

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“We are going to get engaged,” said Scott Reed, senior political strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “The need is now more than ever to elect people who understand the free market and not silliness.”

The chamber spent $35.7 million on federal elections in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based group that tracks campaign spending. Meanwhile, two Washington-based groups that finance Tea Party-backed candidates said yesterday they’re supporting efforts to defeat Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, who voted this week for the measure ending the 16-day shutdown and avoiding a government debt default. Cochran, a Republican seeking a seventh term next year, faces a challenge in his party’s primary from Chris McDaniel, a state senator.

McDaniel, who announced his candidacy yesterday, “is not part of the Washington establishment and he has the courage to stand up to the big spenders in both parties,” Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund, said in a statement supporting him.

Thad Cochran is first on the list? Seriously? Mississippi nebbish Thad Cochran? Apparently so.

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McDaniel kicks off his bid with support from several national conservative groups, including the Club for Growth, Senate Conservatives Fund and the Madison Project. The seat is safely in GOP hands, but Cochran is still mum on whether he will seek re-election. He’s said he will make a decision by the end of the year. A longtime appropriator, Cochran has leveraged his seniority to bring home funds for decades. Mississippi’s economy relies heavily on federal funds — thanks in part to the state’s high poverty level.

A handful of Republicans noted last month that the delegation is young and the hope is that Cochran does not leave office until the younger members earn seniority in the House and Senate.

Oh, Thad. . .don’t run. Insure that a tea party nutjob gets the nomination and then completely watch a safe state like Mississippi turn blue. Remember, Thad. . .rats always dissert a sinking ship. And the USS Republican is sinking faster than the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Because if one thing is for certain, the Tea Party brand is now politically toxic. . .even to members of their own party.

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In the poll taken from Oct. 9-13 of 1,504 adults, nearly half of respondents overall, 49 percent, said they also have a negative view of the tea party. Only 30 percent said they have a positive view, which was down from 37 percent in Pew's June poll. Pew also asked participants about their views of Cruz, the freshman senator whose opposition to Obamacare initiated the government shutdown on Oct. 1.

The poll found that Cruz's popularity has soared among tea party Republicans to 74 percent, up from 47 percent in a July survey that asked the same question. But the latest survey also revealed that his standing among non-tea party Republicans has dropped significantly. Fifty-eight percent of non-tea party Republicans in the Pew July poll had no opinion of the Texas senator because they didn't know him. At that time 26 percent of respondents voiced a favorable opinion of him, while 16 percent expressed an unfavorable view. But in the latest poll, his unfavorable rating nearly doubled to 31 percent.

Liberal Republicans??? Where are those again? Most liberal Republicans have been kicked out of their party. 27 percent of liberal Republicans? Did they interview four “liberal” Republicans and three said their party sucks? If their party sucks so much, maybe they should leave.

But all is not lost. . .we all know who will be the GOP nominee for president in 2016. Ted Cruz! And one of his advisors will be Louie Gohmert, also of Texas (wow, three Texans in the first listing. That must be a record of bullshitting idiots on the Top Ten). But that Louie, he’s part of that divide. Apparently, 2008 GOP presidential nominee and Sarah Palin enabler John McCain (R-AZ) decided to get into a pissing match with Lucky Louie as to who is smater. Which is my mind is a contest between a moron and an imbecile!

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"Sometimes those are, comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence, I don't view it as being a malicious statement," McCain told NBC News. "You can't respond to that kind of thing."

Gohmert didn't hesitate to respond.

"Obviously, Senator McCain would be better off with 'no intelligence' since he does not know the Syrian opposition he met with is infested with al-Qaeda and terrorist kidnappers," the five-term congressman said in a statement released by his office.

Popcorn, please! This is getting more and more fun as the days continue. All I can think of is Harry Belafonte’s song Man Smart, Woman Smarter song to describe this pissing match.

So, what is this all doing to the GOP? Killing it.

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Of course, important caveats apply. The 2014 elections are more than a year away, and these surveys were conducted in the midst of a high-profile shutdown debate. Moreover, generic Democratic candidates are not the same as actual candidates. Democrats must recruit strong candidates and run effective campaigns in individual districts if they are to capitalize on the vulnerability revealed by these surveys, and they must maintain a significant national advantage over Republicans.

While the caveats are important, remember. . .the GOP are running against NO ONE right now and are losing big time! This teabag revolution has run its course. The GOP is fractured and broken. . .and if the Democrats are smarter, it’s time to put the foot on their throat and politically cut off the air supply.

However, Democrats might not have to do that. Apparently, Republicans realize the party is doomed and are now leaving the party since the party has left them.

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What took the good judge long enough? He sounds like Ronnie Raygun. But remember, it’s all Obama. It’s never the Republicans. Their policies haven’t pushed the country to the brink of disaster. It’s all Obama and Obamacare. Speaking of which, isn’t it time for another vote to defund or repeal. I mean, it’s already worked 43 times, hasn’t it?

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ken Cuccinelli[/font]
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One place the GOP is losing big is Virginia. Remember, this is the state that banned interracial marriage and forced a mixed race couple to get married in the District, then exiled them. So Virginia has a long history of being a bit. . .well. . .teabagger-rific.

So, it is of complete shock to see that current Virginia Attorney General and resident psycho Ken Cuccinelli is failing in the polls. I mean, just look at this list of crap he’s done since he’s been in office.

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IMMIGRATION - On July 14, 2010, Cuccinelli joined eight other states in filing an amicus brief opposing the federal government's lawsuit challenging an Arizona immigration enforcement statute.

HOMOSEXUALITY - On March 4, 2010, at the request of several state universities, Cuccinelli issued an official opinion to "Presidents, Rectors, and Visitors of Virginia’s Public Colleges and Universities" that stated, "It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender expression,’ or like classification, as a protected class within its nondiscrimination policy, absent specific authorization from the General Assembly.
In 2004, Cuccinelli stated "homosexuality is wrong."

ENVIRONMENT - On February 16, 2010, Cuccinelli filed a request with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reopen its proceeding regarding EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. He also sought judicial review of EPA's finding in Federal court. His press statement explained, "We cannot allow unelected bureaucrats with political agendas to use falsified data to regulate American industry and drive our economy into the ground"

FUEL STANDARDS - On April 1, 2010, Cuccinelli announced he would challenge the March 2010 standards for fuel efficiency for cars and trucks finalized by the Obama administration and Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act

SEXUAL RELATIONS - On June 25, 2013, Cuccinelli filed an appeal with the United States Supreme Court, asking the Court to uphold the law, saying the appeals court ruling would release MacDonald from probation and "threatens to undo convictions of child predators that were obtained under this law after 2003."

Cuccinelli said the law is important for prosecutors to be able to "obtain felony charges against adults who commit or solicit this sex act with minors," and noted that the law "is not - and cannot be -- used against consenting adults acting in private."

Nice lineup of crap from Kenny’s noise hole. How is in his campaign doing against former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe? According to Hotair:
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe leads Republican Ken Cuccinelli 46 to 39 percent in a new Quinnipiac poll, numbers that remain virtually unchanged from the government shutdown even though 47 percent of likely Virginia voters say it affected their state “a great deal.”

A survey, conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling for the League of Conservation Voters, a liberal environmental advocacy group, found McAuliffe taking 57 percent of early voters, compared with 39 percent for GOP Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Kenny-boy Cuccinelli seems to be sinking and sinking fast. Rocks and rockhead seem to do that. And he seems to be taking down the entire GOP in Virginia with him!

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So, how does a rabid right wing lunatic with a God complex survive and try to enable an election close enough that he can steal it? Enter former PA wackjob and pro “keeping a dead fetus in a glass jar on the mantle, naming it and calling it your child” crazy loon Lil’ Ricky “Frothy Mix” Santorum. Because when your campaign is drowning, nothing like asking a failure in life, politics and public perception to save your ass.

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Dan, as many of you know, is a writer, journalist, activist, sex advice columnist, and all around good guy. Well, Dan was in DC a week or so ago speaking at an event, I suspect on tour for his new book “American Savage,” when he got on to the topic of Ken Cuccinelli.

Frothy Mix couldn’t save himself from Dan Savage. Have at him, Dan. Savage him like there is no tomorrow. Sic the Rude Pundit on him too. It will make the sinking ship even more enjoyable.

This clown car show is getting crazier and crazier.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Paul LePage[/font]
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What is it with Republicans and the number “47?” Mitt Romney said that 47% of the United States would never vote for him because they were takers and losers (well, 53% didn’t vote for him. 47% did). Now, we have pluarlity Maine governor and batshit crazy bomb thrower Paul LePage making the same claim about Maine residents.

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“About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work,” LePage said.

One woman in the audience loudly called out, “What?”

What indeed! Considering this clown won with 39% of the vote, he sure runs the state like he has a mandate to turn it upside down. 47% of Maine doesn’t want to work? Based on what evidence, assclown?

When this douche is up for re-election, I doubt 47% will vote for him. I doubt 39% will vote for him. As crappy as he is, I don’t think his own dog would vote for him. Or his own mother.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Unnamed Republican Leader[/font]
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The GOP is a party of principle, open-mindedness, open government, low taxes, personal responsibility, personal freedom, gun rights, restricting voting, disenfranchising homosexuals, the MIC, PIC, EIC and every other industry complex that wants to bilk this country dry. . .but they are not cowards. They have big backbones, big balls and big egos. They went to war in Grenada, Panama, Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan, proving they can attack countries much weaker than the United States.

The GOP is a party of strength and needs to be listened to. I mean, look at former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. He is strong. He made a point I (gulp) agreed with this week. Ted Cruz needs to shut the hell up.

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Speaking with ABC's John Karl, Bush said that problems with the basic structure of Obamacare and the law's flawed rollout would have done more to undermine the program than a hard-nosed GOP threat to shut down the government if the health care law was not defunded. The websites where people are supposed to buy health insurance under Obamacare have been effectively nonfunctional for millions of people since Oct. 1.

Karl asked Bush if he had a message for Cruz. "Have a little bit of self-restraint," Bush replied. "It might actually be a politically better approach to see the massive dysfunction, but we don't even hear about that because we've stepped on that message ... show a little self-restraint and let this happen a little more organically."

I believe there were two reasons for this comment. First. . .Ted Cruz is ruining the GOPs chances of stealing another election. Second. . .Jebber knows Ted Cruz has the rabid, psycho Republican voters in his pocket for the primaries and will kick his ass. So Jebbers needs to look presidential compared to that asshole from Texas (no, not his idiot brother).

So, someone not elected and not in office comes out and slams Ted Cruz and the Republican Party. Will someone that is in power right now please step forward and tell us exactly what is happening and how Republicans truly feel about the Tea Party, Booze Cruz and the rest of the Flying Monkey Right Wing that has completely hijacked your party?

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I wonder if this guy knows that when it’s leaked that he said this, the tea party is going to go after him with hammers and tongs. Please continue, Mr. “I haven’t said what my name is yet.”

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“This senator -- who requested anonymity so he could describe the party’s problems candidly -- is part of that less-high-profile contingent.” He is afraid to go on the record. How damning is that for a political party when their members are afraid to speak their minds openly for fear of losing power? Power trumps country. . .Republicans know this, fame/power junkies! Do continue, Mr. “I think I know who this is.”

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Okay, Right-to-work laws that destroy workers, salaries and jobs are not worth a fight in your eyes, Mr. Cowadly Senator, but you don’t believe the Republicans would do the same to defund people’s access to affordable health care? What fucking planet are you on? The Republicans have been defeatist for years. Now, they are openly defeatist.

I am 90% positive this is Thad Cochran of Mississippi. And he has a tea party challenge because his party thinks he’s a RINO. BTW, Thad. . .since I am positive you said this shit. . .if you want to be taken seriously, put your name on the record. I know, I know. . .Edward Snowden whistleblew on the NSA and was pretty much exiled from the country. If you whistleblew on the Republican, you might be suicided. . .or worse; you may lose your power. And then what would someone who’s only skill in life is to fuck people over, lie, be a greedy prick and win elections do with his time?

Coward!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Dick Cheney[/font]
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Darth Cheney has returned. . .kind of like herpes, only he can’t be considered a gift that keeps on giving. He’s more like a rash that keeps on festering.

Dick Cheney went on 60 Minutes with his evil, monotone voice and burped out a conspiracy theory that would make Glenn Beck and Alex Jones proud. It involves a defibrillator, radio signals and his black fucking heart.

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In a “60 Minutes” interview to air Sunday, Cheney said his doctor disabled the wireless feature on his implanted heart device so that a terrorist couldn’t use it to somehow send a shock to his heart and induce cardiac arrest.

Cheney said he has seen the episode of Homeland in which a terrorist uses that method to kill the vice president and that he’d already known “from the experience we had … that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible.”

I have a few questions:

1: Would anyone really care if Dick lived in that fear for the rest of his life? I mean, this many caused more misery, death and destruction than any other American over the past 50 years. Fuck him!

2: Since he was just the Vice President, wouldn’t terrorists target his boss first? You know, Dim Son? Oh wait. . .Dim Son was just a figurehead. Never mind.

3: Dick Cheney actually has a heart? Now I’m shocked.

If you don’t think that Dick Cheney’s ego is that big. . .well, you don’t know dick.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]GOP Death Roll[/font]
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Back to the GOP’s successful march to irrelevancy now. Apparently there is alot of fallout still coming from the Great Republican Temper Tantrum.

According to CNN, the GOP and John of Orange Boner (don’t care how to spell his real name. He is John Boner) are looking worse than a shit covered pile of shit right now.

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And the CNN/ORC International survey also indicates that more than six in 10 Americans say that Speaker of the House John Boehner should be replaced. The poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, just after the end of the 16-day partial federal government shutdown that was caused in part by a push by House conservatives to try and dismantle the health care law, which is President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.

According to the survey, 54% say it's a bad thing that the GOP controls the House, up 11 points from last December, soon after the 2012 elections when the Republicans kept control of the chamber. Only 38% say it's a good thing the GOP controls the House, a 13-point dive from the end of last year.

I smell alot of tears from the Ohio Tearduct. 60% of people think he should be replaced. I see 60% more tears from him as he realizes his caucus, and now the country, has abandoned him. He could be honorable and resign, but that would mean he would lose his power. Remember, these people are power junkies.

More from CNN.
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The poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, just after the end of the 16-day partial federal government shutdown that was caused in part by a push by House conservatives to try and dismantle the health care law, which is President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.

According to the survey, 54% say it's a bad thing that the GOP controls the House, up 11 points from last December, soon after the 2012 elections when the Republicans kept control of the chamber. Only 38% say it's a good thing the GOP controls the House, a 13-point dive from the end of last year.

Certainly Not News (CNN) seems to be developing a poll based attitude that makes Republicans look bad. Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and Nancy Grace definitely will not be happy about this. Maybe the days of trying to out Nazi Fox “News” are over.

The thing developing is the GOP is about to lose and lose big. First, The Houston Chronicle showed buyer’s remorse for their Ted Cruz endorsement. Snake Oil is apparently hard to swallow for a long time. Secondly, people got all bent out of shape when Florida Congressman and DU member Alan Grayson compared the Tea Party to the KKK. Rude Pundit did a good job dissecting this. And now it looks like the Democrats may win a sizabe majortiy in the House and Senate in 2014 because 75% of Americans think the GOP is a pile of worthless, grab-ass-tic shit.

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Republicans will likely find this third round of surveys to be the most alarming yet, given that the new results show substantial Republican vulnerability in many districts that were not even supposed to be close. Incumbent Republicans trail generic Democrats in 15 of the 25 districts we most recently surveyed. This means generic Democrats lead in 37 of 61 districts polled since the beginning of the government shutdown.Democrats only need to net 17 seats in order to retake the House.

And the bad news for Republicans doesn’t stop there, because in the minority of the 61 districts where Republicans lead in the initial head-to-head question, 11 more Republicans fall behind once voters are informed that the Republican supported the government shutdown and 1 race becomes tied. This means that our results indicate Democrats have pickup opportunities in an astounding 49 of the 61 districts surveyed.

Bleak as it sounds, the GOP learned its lesson. It will now stop the brinksmanship, the Obama hating and work for good compromises to makes our country work better. Marco Rubio shows us the New GOP thinking after getting beaten down, smacked down and literally raked over burning coals.

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During an interview Sunday, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Rubio if the president would delay parts of any immigration reform law the way he has delayed parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

“Certainly, the president has undermined this effort because the way he’s behaved over the last three weeks,” Rubio said, referring to the government shutdown. He said the breech of trust after Obama undermined the efforts against Obamacare is reasonably making the GOP in the House unwilling to negotiate immigration reform with the president.

These fucking people learned nothing. Not one thing ever!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Walker[/font]
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Wisconsin elected Scott Walker because of some logical flaw in their thinking. This was the same election year that Democrats lost because liberals cut of their noses to spite their faces because Obama wasn’t liberal enough.

Walker, a Koch sucker of the highest odor, appears to have as many ethics investigations and criminal probes against him as Bob McConnell in Virginia has now and Rick Scott had years ago. According to TPM, Walker is being investigated for everything from campaign violations, funding violations, jaywalking and committing fashion crimes.

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The current probe was initiated by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office, but now involves multiple counties. Francis Schmitz, a former assistant U.S. attorney who was once considered by President George W. Bush for the post of U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin, is now leading the case as a special prosecutor, according to the Journal Sentinel. "It's now spread to at least five counties," a source told the paper. The same source said that Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf had been investigating "all over the place."

The case apparently opened in February 2012. And according to the Journal Sentinel, the investigation is looking at a number of issues, including the recall races, a current legislative leader, and the 2012 gubernatorial recall contest between Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

Have at it, hoss. Walker is by far one of the most odious men in the US today. But this is what the Koch Brothers wanted. Easily controlled lackeys that are reliant upon their money to keep them afloat. GOP politicians are like a multi-billionaire’s new toy. Play with it until it sours, then throw it away and get a new one.

So the problems for Walker keep going and get worse at all times. Alot of this happened in the lead up and the campaign during this clown’s recall. According to Daily Kos:

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Francis Schmitz — who spent nearly 30 years as a federal prosecutor and was once a finalist for U.S. attorney in Milwaukee — is leading the widespread John Doe probe, according to sources. Overseeing the case is Kenosha County Circuit Judge Barbara A. Kluka, who has been used by Milwaukee County judicial officials in past John Doe cases. This is the type of news that normally dumps out late on Friday, but here it is first thing on Monday. Better yet, this probe was going on BEFORE the Milwaukee County John Doe Probe closed after the conviction of Kelly Reindfleisch, the former top aide to County Executive Scott Walker and 6th associate of his to be charged and convicted.

Oh, please. . .let him be indicted after the GOP nominates him again for Governor. Please. Please. Please!

Charles and David Koch, how does the Kochsucking feel? You will learn you can buy an election once in a while. . .but after your stooges get in, people realize how pathetic you and your stooges are.

And I apologize to Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp for using the word stooges. I hate that I have use that word to describe people like Scott Walker. Maybe lackey works better. . .or flunkie!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]NJ Gay Marriage Protester[/font]
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New Jersey Governor and battleship ballast impersonator Chris Christie, who is doing the Peter King thing to try to win the hearts and minds of the country rather than the votes of his insane base (which means his 2016 presidential run is pretty much dead in the water, just like Peter King’s) finally woke up, saw the tide over his fat sacks and told gay people “I won’t eat your lunch anymore. You can marry. But I want a big piece of cake.”

So, gay people can finally get married in New Jersey. This is good. NJ, for all the jokes people make about it being a suburb state, the “Garbage State” or Carlin’s joke (“I was a booster. I had a shit made here. Kiss her where it smells. Take her to New Jersey.”), finally joins intelligent people in allowing all people to marry, not just straight people. And it didn’t take a Supreme Court case to do it this time. . .unlike in 1967 with Loving V. Virginia.

Newly elected Senator and former Newark mayor Cory Booker joined many others in the state to marry the first gay couples of NJ’s history. What a proud moment for civil rights. Let’s relish it for a while.

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In Lambertville, Beth Asaro and Joanne Schailey smiled through a ceremony in the same crowded municipal courtroom where almost seven years ago they became one of the first couples in the state joined in a civil union. "We remained optimistic and hopeful that we would be able to gather together to do the right thing, the just thing, and see our two friends get married,"

Mayor Dave DelVecchio, who led both the 2007 ceremony and Monday's, said before leading the couple of 27 years through their vows as their 13-year-old daughter served as the flower girl. "We're floating on air," Asaro, in a salmon pink suit said afterward. "It's like winning the Super Bowl," said her wife, who wore a black pant suit.

Yes, it is wonderful to see. Sadly, some teabagger fundie decided to make a political scene at something that should have no politics. While in Newark, Booker was marrying Gabriela Celeiro and Liz Salerno when some decided to speak their mind about something that is none-of-their-damn-business.

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After the protester was removed, the mayor, choking up, paused, put his hand over his heart and said, "This is very beautiful."
Booker’s response was really tactful and intelligent.

It makes one proud to see a good man like Booker show a schmuck like that exactly where he belongs.

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Booker, who was elected to the U.S. Senate last week, called for the person to be removed and police dragged him out.

As Booker continued speaking, "...not hearing any substantive and worthy objections," thunderous applause erupted.

Oh man, Senator-elect Booker. . .amazing smackdown. If this is “unlawful in the eyes of God and Jesus Christ,” then let God or Jesus Christ make heir objections. We’ll all wait for their words.

Remember, folks, these people thing God talks to them and that they have God and Jesus on their speed dial. Also remember two ideas:

1: A religion of 400 people is a cult. A cult of a billion is a religion.
2: When you talk to God it’s praying. When God talks to you, it’s schizophrenia.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]William Smith[/font]
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From the family values/personal responsibility vault.

Apparently, former Pennsylvania GOP kingpin and ward of the state William Trickett Smith, Sr is back under a criminal spotlight. This time in involves his worthless son, William Trickett Smith, III, who. . .well, let his wikipedia page tell you what this clown did to his wife].

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In 2000, the younger Smith was sentenced to 2 to 4 years imprisonment for drug trafficking stemming from an arrest with two other men in a vehicle that contained cocaine and marijuana that had been packaged for sale, along with cash and handguns. While still under parole for the previous offense, Smith was convicted in 2004 of escape and eluding arrest after fleeing a vehicle that had been stopped by police. He was sentenced to 4 years of intermediate punishment, of which he served 9 months in prison.[1][2][7] The younger Smith also has a son, born around 1999.

Drug trafficker, escape artist, weapons violations. . .cold blooded murder. This prick, Smith III, deserves his 35 year sentence. But not if Daddy has anything to do with it.

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U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith said Wednesday that the elder Smith, 76, of Swatara Township, twice tried to arrange escapes for his son, lied to federal investigators about the plots, and also tried to get another person to lie to federal agents. The younger Smith was arrested in Pennsylvania for his wife's slaying in 2008. Peruvian authorities sought his extradition for the crime, which occurred in that country.

Federal investigators claim that in 2009 and 2010 his father devised plans for his son to escape before being extradited.

If you are Republican, wealthy and powerful, you can write your own ticket in the United States and get away pretty much with murder. Peru is a bit different. Smith, Sr better enjoy his prison jumpsuit. He won’t be losing it for a while. I wonder if someone will help him escape. Probably not R. Budd Dwyer, who killed himself publicly in 1987 because of being around Smith.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Don Yelton[/font]
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And finally, let’s go back to North Carolina and look at GOP fat cat Don Yelton. He is now famous. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interview him and John Lewis about voter ID laws. And Yelton proceeded to destroy all arguments the GOP could make in combating the idea that voter ID laws have racist implications.

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To get some perspective, Mandvi also interviewed Congressman John Lewis, one of the most outspoken opponents of voter ID laws. Guess which one seemed more reasonable.

I’ll bite. Let’s watch the video and see. It’s on the hyperlink. While you do, you can read more of Yelton’s non-racist musings.

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Hmmm. . .I still don’t know who is more reasonable. Maybe we need more from his Facebook account. When dealing with Anchor Ashleigh Banfield, who played part of a radio interview in which an unapologetic Yelton says he’s “embarrassed that they (the county GOP) don’t stand up and fight for what’s right,” to which Banfield added “Okay, Mr. Yelton, I’m going to stand up and fight for what’s right,” Yelton went on the offensive.

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Wow. He drops N-bombs and B-bombs publicly. Does he do or say anything else that doesn’t make him look like a complete fucking, subhuman asshole? Here is his opinion (again on Facebook) about gun control.

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I am not making this up. However, not all people were impressed with Yelton’s meltdown. He was shitcanned from his position within the GOP.

I expect him to be on a radio show soon, like that San Diego asshat Roger Hedgecock, former ward of the State G. Gordon Liddy, barely escaped prison Oliver North and insane wingnut Michael Savage. I’m sure Yelton will fit in fantastically.

As for who is more reasonable. . .I believe Aasif Mandvi proved it easily.

See you next week.

PS: In order to be fair to our Southerner who accused me of having an anti-Southerner bias in the article, here is a head count:

6 = Number of southerners on the list (southerner meaning those from states that seceded from the Union in 1860)
7 = Number of non-southerners on the list

October 18, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER EDITION[/font]

That whining and sobbing noise you hear coming from the mid-Atlantic area over the country are the sounds of Republicans crying like little babies after their Daddy, Awesome Ninja President Barack Obama, turned them into sniveling little shells. But did they learn their lesson? No. Ted Cruz (1) is still talking like a moron, Tea Partiers (2, 3) can't decide whether to wear their Klanhoods or to call Whine-1-1 and the GOP is in full on "ready, aim, shoot in the foot" mode (6, 7). Lastly, two irrelevant idiots comes out of the dustbin to prove just how irrelevant they are (9, 10). And as always, don't forget the key.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]


This guy is proof that assholes gravitate to the Republican Party. The House and Senate passed a clean CR, Obama signed it and the world was saved another economic disaster the likes of which would make the Great Depression look like a blip in the radar. Ted Cruz was completely defeated. . .everything he wanted, he didn’t get. From Rachel Maddow. . .here’s what Booze Cruz wanted and here’s what he got:

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Kind of makes your mouth water, doesn’t it? Booze Cruz is completely defeated. Everyone sees it. . .except Ted Cruz.

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Ultimately, Cruz said that his effort to defund Obamacare, which died in the Senate Wednesday night, was not a failure.

"It was an incredible victory," Cruz said.'

Wait? What? Incredible Victory??? What? Ummm. . .yeah. I have nothing to say here. He has literally made me lost for words with that comment.

You GOT NOTHING!!! Absolutely nothing! Not one thing. . .you’ve hurt your party (more on that later) and have proven yourself to be an opportunistic asshole. . .this is a complete victory like Hiroshima was for the Japanese in 1945. The only difference is you nuked your own party. . .you know, your allies.

Don’t tell Booze Cruz that, because at some Values Votes straw poll of conservative idiots, Booze Cruz won big.

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Please be he nominee in 2016, Ted. Please! I’m begging you. Pick Marco Rubio or Mike Lee to be your running mate too. Please! Maybe Howdy-Doody in Louisiana can be your campaign manager.

But all is not good in Tex Cruz World. Apparently, the damage of his exercise in stupidity is costing him support among House Republicans. Accoring to Buzzfeed:

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According to Peter King (?):

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“I think it’s important for Republican leaders around the country to speak out against him and neutralize him,” King said of Cruz.

“Otherwise he’s going to start the same nonsense again in December or January. He’s the guy that caused this, he’s the guy who is a fraud because he never had a strategy to begin with. And if we let him do it again, it’s our fault.”

When did I start agreeing with the Long Island Gadfly? So, what was Ted Cruz fighting for? Apparently, money was the #1 reason:

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And the second reason: fame, power and more money:

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Almost single-handedly, the freshman Tea Party apostle has upended the clubby U.S. Senate, roiled the tradition-bound GOP, and revolutionized the business of power in the nation’s capital, all thanks to the health-care bill that Cruz, former senator Jim DeMint, and a small army of conservative operatives have essentially made a living out of hating.

"These guys aren't stupid. They can read the votes,” says a veteran Republican operative. “That's why Republicans are so infuriated. Folks know exactly why they're doing this. They are using this issue and misleading conservatives in order to expand their own influence and raise money for themselves."

Why am not surprised? Next up for Ted Cruz: Shutting down the government so he can get a law passed removing all campaign finance laws for anyone named Ted Cruz so he can run for president above the law. One last note on this douche. . .apparently he’s as bad a Senator as he was a roommate in University. Just look at his former roommate’s Twitter to get the dope on Smellbag, bad roommate and just plain worthless Ted Cruz. Texas voters, are you proud of this ass yet?

***UPDATE***

Apparently, our boy Ted Talk Booze Cruz has a problem brewing. He seems to have violated Senate ethics rules.

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Can’t put the fart back in the elephant, you corrupt, lying pig. Just do the country a favor and resign, then go back to Canada. . .if the Canadians really want you.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tea Party Protesters in Washington[/font]


So while Ted Cruz was on his crusade, a bunch of veterans decided to march and do something honorable, living up to the Constitutional right to petition the government to redress grievances. And if there is one group of people that his US Government has traditional crapped all over, it’s its armed services veterans. I might not agree with their stance, but I will listen, especially when they complain about the GOP closing down monuments because Obama hasn’t been impeached and sentenced to prison for the crime of being a Black, Democratic President. Leave it to the tea party to tear it apart. First, it turned into this:

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Strike one! Nothing says “we are credible” more than flying the one symbol from American history that sparks memories of lynching, segregation and the plight of the forgotten (but should always be remembered) George Stinney.

However, what gets even more disgusting in this entire crusade is how these fine American “patriots” reacted when the police showed up to watch them.

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The so-called “Million Vet March” demonstration was attended by at least some non-veterans, including Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT), and was marked by the flying of a Confederate flag at the White House. In this video, which records the arrival of the police, then documents the confrontation in extreme closeup, you can hear more of what the crowd shouts at the police, including “You work for us!”

Apparently, reactionary conservatives feel the police are only needed to stop Occupy protesters, WTO/G8 protesters and anyone that protested against George Bush.

So, with all the illegal activity, racism and bigotry, would the Republicans do their best to stay away?

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Are you kidding? The GOP normally hide behind the flag, the bible, the police shield and children. Veterans are good political props. Confederate flags and racist speech be demanded. Their base LOOOVES that crap!

Expect them to soon go to Leith, North Dakota and tell everyone there that they are good Americans while the citizens of Leith dress in their SS uniforms, flag the Nazi flag and salute, then jackoff to posters and painting of Hitler. Because if the GOP like Palin and Cruz will not renounce the racism of Confederacy, the acceptance of Neo-Nazism is just a small step away.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tea Party Ranchers[/font]


Classify this entry into the “are you serious” file? So, last week a freak blizzard hit the upper midwest, killing thousands of head of cattle because people were caught with their pants down, not expecting the storm.

Ranchers like Scott Reder were horrified by the devestation.

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Mile after mile, half-buried by snow, the dead animals lay huddled in groups, calves close to their to mothers — carcasses by the dozens strung out along field fences and packed into ditches, black hooves poking up through the drifts like macabre stakes.
"In 20 years of flying, I've never been sick, but I had to let my friend take over," Reder recalled. "I looked down and saw 120 of my cattle laying there dead. After I'd finally had enough. I said, 'Let's go home.'"

I feel for you, buddy. I really do. Losing your livelihood due to a freak storm is terrible. Look what happened to NYers and people in NJ after Sandy and the people of NOLA after Katrina. I feel for you.

Tell me what you’re doing, rugged individualist, to pull yourself up by your boot straps.

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These days, Reder passes a federal Farm Services Administration office whose doors are closed. Like most American ranchers, the 47-year-old is a resilient small businessman used to tending to his own problems, with help from neighbors whose families settled this land generations ago.

Still, he's frustrated and feels that federal lawmakers have turned their backs on the nation's heartland in a time of need.

Okay, so you run to that big bad government that does nothing to help anyone, according to Ronnie Raygun and Ted Cruz. . .that’s to be expected. But the government is shut down.

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Again, I feel you, buddy. I really do. Completely. The government needs to help you farmers out. Please tell us how you feel about the shutdown that the GOP and conservatives caused that is now personally affecting you.

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Errrr. . .stop! You supported the government shutdown? And are now complaining that the shutdown is affecting you personally. WTF is this?

I see. . .a poor family that needs foot assistance needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop sucking the government teat. “Real Americans” like you, Mr. Reder, will run to the government with their hands out in case their cattle is killed. To which I believe a good “you’re a flippin’ hypocrite” is exactly what you need. Save your own cattle, buddy. . .not with my tax dollars!

Sound familiar, Scott? Because we all just want Washington “more fiscally responsible.”

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]John Boehner[/font]


Orange Glo got spanked. I mean, spanked hard. I mean, spanked that brings new meaning and a new definition to spanking. Talk about backing the wrong horse all the way to the bottom of the ocean.

Let’s look at the fallout from the Ohio Tearduct’s massively amazing blunder. First, he tries to show he’s not the WORST SPEAKER IN THE HISTORY OF TIME by pulling a debt bill at the last minute, signaling that maybe the default was on. . .all because the Spineless Sack of Tweed from Ohio couldn’t stand up to the NGO Heritage Foundation and put the “country first.”

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It would also strip lawmakers, their staff and members of the Obama administration of subsidies to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. But some House conservatives indicated that the proposal doesn’t do enough to change the health care law. Heritage Action for America, a prominent conservative group, announced that it would “key vote” legislative action on this proposal, holding “yes” votes against politically vulnerable Republicans.

“Unfortunately, the proposed deal will do nothing to stop Obamacare’s massive new entitlements from taking root — radically changing the nature of American health care,” the group said in a statement.

Of course, the others in the GOP are stunned at the lack of leadership by their leaders and the pandering to fringe, far-right groups that don’t really care about anyone outside of themselves. They spun and spun, but it didn’t hide the fact that, by the end of the day, the writing was on the wall. In fact, even the complicate media started calling Boner on his boner.

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The Washington Post described it as a "humiliating failure," and said Boehner and his leadership colleagues had " lost all control of their majority."

An editorial from the arch-conservative Wall Street Journal board fumed about the GOP strategy, saying that the House caucus "might as well hand the Speaker's gavel to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid" and urging Republicans to give up their fight.

Things were not much better on the morning shows.

"After a shutdown that lasted 16 days, a shutdown led by House Republicans...by the end of today, those Republicans may leave with little to nothing to show for it," NBC's Peter Alexander said.

"House Republicans are the clear losers," was how ABC's Jon Karl put it. "They pushed to the brink and have nothing to show for it."

When Matt Drudge says that Nancy Pelosi will be the next Speaker of the House, you know it’s over. So why did this happen? Picking a losing issue? Maybe. Underestimating Barack Obama’s resolve and backbone. Possibly. Not being able to control your caucus because you are a drunken, orange colored, inept waste of tears? Oh hell yeah!

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Boehner still tried to press on. Another rebellious faction believes repealing the medical-device tax was nothing but a giveaway to corporate America, not a part of Obamacare that should be erased.

And then there were the conservatives, who looked at Boehner, Cantor, and McCarthy’s plan, didn’t see any serious attempt to defund or repeal Obamacare, and took a pass. Several lawmakers in this group, sources say, were conservative House Republican freshmen.

So, the Republican voice of reason is uber-bigot and arrogant ass Peter King of NY, who actually sort of told it like it is.

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"On this one they can't even see both sides," King said. "They just think Republicans are crazy. That's it. They see no justification for any of this." He added that the compromise House leaders were pushing actually did little to affect Obamacare, except to force the federal government to stop contributing its share to congressional staffers' health insurance. "Even if this bill passed tonight, what would it have done?"

King said. "After shutting down the government for two and a half weeks, laying off 800,000 people, all the damage we caused, all we would end up doing was taking away health insurance from congressional employees. That's it? That's what you go to war for? That's what we shut down the United States government for?"

To which I must ask Peter King. . .going? Where have you been since 1980?

***UPDATE***

Tea partiers are throwing Orange Glo under the bus BIG TIME. Check out his Facebook at all the wonderful comments. When Republicans eat, they love the taste of Republican. Here are a few of their missives to the Ohio Tearduct.

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• You are disgusting! RINO!
• I can't believe they let you stay in the party, let alone the speaker. Go to hell asshole!
• BULLSHIT!! You sold us out!! You spineless coward! You are a complete dumb fuck, a failure, AND a fraud.
• I hope you and the rest that caved get tea-partied in the next elections…may your own self interest be the death of your political career.
• Thanks for NOTHING!! You are DEFINITELY NO LEADER!!
• Stick House rule 368 up your ass and spin on it.
• You are the worst human being currently alive. Do the world a favor and slink back under the rock you were born under. Your very existence is a tragedy.
• Go crawl in a hole and STFU! Happy Retirement!
• Asshole Sellout! You put Judas to shame!
• Hey Benedict, they’re having a special on group impeachments and your name has risen rather high on the list.

Couldn’t happen to a more useless piece of slime. By the way, use this website to see more of their words for John of Orange and maybe you can entertain yourself and come up with your own.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rush Limbaugh[/font]


Actual leader of the Republican Party and Conservative Propaganda Minister Rush Limbaugh decided to come into the fray and launch bombs at the GOP from the safety of his Oxycotin ladened sty. Normally, a marginal, drug addicted gasbag doesn’t make it on to the list because he’s completely small potatoes and is about to get bumped off Cumulus Radio, but I found this interesting.

Apparently, Limbaugh looks at this as a complete failure. Not for the country. . .he only cares about he country if it makes his bottom line fatter. No, this is bad for his corporate masters, but he will feign interest in making it about the country.

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The Missouri Mastodon doesn’t seem to accept. . .HE LOST!!! THEY LOST!!! And now they are in self-delusion mode! You’ve never seen a political party so irrelevant before. Get used to it, fatboy. The Republicans are slowly dying off.

On that, I have better things to do than report on your Turds of Wisdom, Kaptain Krispy Kreme. I have grass to watch grow, a sock drawer to organize and have the desire to watch two flies procreate.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]GOP[/font]


Before the GOP decided to resort to economic terrorism to get their way, their prospects of picking up seats in the House and the Senate looked really good. Now. . .not so much.

I know the GOP doesn’t like looking at polls (unless they commission them and they get the results they want to hear, or it’s a poll that makes the Democrats look bad), but they really need to look at these.

First, according to TPM, the GOP’s national approval rating is just four points above HIV and Tapeworm infections.

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Only one thing can be said.

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Next comes news from the New York Times that the prospects of the Senate being Red in 2014 fare just as well as ice cream in the sun.

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Then the government shut down. Now, instead of sharpening their attacks on Democrats, Republicans on Capitol Hill are being forced to explain why they are not to blame and why Americans should trust them to govern both houses of Congress when the one they do run is in such disarray. Complicating the prospects, the grass-roots political force that has provided so much of the energy for conservative victories over the last four years — the Tea Party — is aggressively working against Republicans it considers not conservative enough.

To which only this can be said:

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Finally, House races in the gerrymandered House are not as safe as they appeared before this political terrorism. According to Cook Report, as many as 14 House seats are now leaning to a generic Democrat. This is not good, and will probably expand as a real Democrat starts a real campaign.

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House Republican seats Cook deemed more in danger include Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) and Rep. Mark Takano (R-CA). The Cook statement warned that while Democrats have acheived fundraising success recently, they still have a while before the 2014 elections.

And of course, I’ll let the most famous bully in the world say it best:

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Now go find the Ohio Tearduct and join him at the bar for a session of self-loathing, self-medication, self-eroticism and self-pity.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]GOP Fallout from the Shutdown[/font]


So, what lessons did the GOP learn from their crap? Nothing, apparently. Let’s take a few cases.

1: Paul Ryan (R-Pants on Fire) has decided to shift his budget crap to attack women’s sexual health. Typical.

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According to the Washington Post, in a private meeting with House Republicans Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — who earlier this weak floated a compromise that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to entitlement programs — railed against emerging Senate proposals and argued that the “House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year”

Continuing the war on women. It’s amazing these scumbags have wives and mistresses, because I am positive they all do.

2: Lindsay Graham (R-Closet) used his soapbox to almost scuttle the budget deal if there wasn’t a vote on the Vitter Amendment.

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“We’re in a compromised situation, but I’m going on offense,” Graham explains, in an interview at Pete’s Diner on Capitol Hill. “Members of Congress and their staffs should not be exempted from Obamacare, and I’m going to insist that if the Senate wants to move forward on any deal, we have to overturn the ruling on congressional employees,” or, at the least, force senators to vote on it in the coming days.

Didn’t work. Nice try. Don’t you have some Muslims to encourage discrimination against, Lindsay. On review, the National Review needs spell checkers, being professional writers.

3: The GOP Children in the House are furious with the GOP babies in the Senate. Expect alot of whining and stamping of teeth.

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Members emerged from a conference meeting saying Obama had double-crossed them by breaking off talks in order to shop for a better deal from the Senate GOP. They said the deal, formulated by centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.), would never get House GOP approval. “They are trying to jam us with the Senate and we are not going to roll over and take that,” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said after a GOP conference meeting.

Oh Jeez, Paul. . .grow up and compromise for once in your life, you scumbag.

4: Rand Paul now wants to continue the GOP War on the Elderly.

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“I am worried about a government that borrows over a million dollars every minute. And so I think there needs to be some structural reform of our spending or we shouldn’t raise the debt ceiling,” Paul told WABC’s Aaron Klein in an interview airing Sunday night, and shared with BuzzFeed. “And rising the age on social security gradually a couple months a year for younger people is a way to fix the imbalance. It ought to be done probably for Social Security and for Medicare.”

Un-fucking-real. Did they learn ANYTHING???

5: Marsha Blackburn (R-Moon) has decided to have selective amnesia. Look at this exchange with Thomas Roberts on MSNBC:

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Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): … We are going to take the steps to bring together components of a bill that we will send over to the Senate and be hopeful that they are going to take it up today.

Thomas Roberts: When it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): I got to tell you something. I think that comments like that that you are making are just incredibly inappropriate. What we have to realize.

Thomas Roberts: You don’t think it is incredibly inappropriate to shutdown our government and to take all the hostages of Americans, that you have taken? No. No. No. It is not inappropriate because you have taken the government hostage to a shutdown and all the American people you are now walking them to a cliff, the economy. And you are going to push them over one by one based on the fact that you don’t like the ACA. That’s all it is. You don’t like the affordable care act.

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Listen to yourself. We didn’t want a government shutdown. Just listen to the way you are sounding; my goodness.

Thomas Roberts: On August the 6th at the Economic Club of Nashville you said, “Everything we can do. Whether it is the funding, delaying, repealing, replacing, all of our energy needs to be in every one of these efforts. I applaud Ted Cruz for getting out there and bringing this to the forefront. Did you not say that?

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Those are comments that I did make.

You own it. You built it. Get used to it, you witch!

6: Raul Labrador (R-Abyss) has decided to ramp up the War on Immigration again since the War on America’s Finances failed.

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Keep winning the hearts and minds of the largest growing minority group in the country, scumbag!

7: One GOP Congressman thought the Budget deal would provide funding to Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army.

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"Finally, the 'deal' is full of pork," he said. "A dam project in Kentucky got extra money; the state of Colorado got money to help with its flooding; and the 'Lord's Resistance Army' received special funds. Those may be worth discussing, but that will never happen now, as they were crammed into this 'deal' in order to help it pass. So much for the 'clean' bill that my Democrat colleagues said they wanted so badly."

You know, because Obama’s a black Kenyan Muslim, he supports Joseph Kony due to black pan-Africanism or what-not. I don’t know. My brains are beginning to leak out of my head.

8: The Republicans are beginning to see the Tea Party for what they are and are declaring war on them. Man those cannons, folks!

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Boustany, a former surgeon who is not known as the most outspoken GOP member, said he fears his party's inability to rule the chamber with its own majority is threatening its hold on the House

Threatening. Look at the polls, dude. It’s almost gone!

9: DU favorite gasbag and Texas Loon Louie Gohmert (R-Sanitorium) spoke again and gave us this duzy of a logical leap.

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Fox News host Alisyn Camerota pointed out to Gohmert that after two weeks of a government shutdown, Republicans were basically guaranteed to lose on their core goal of repealing, defunding or delaying the president’s health care reform law. “A majority in the House should be sign to the Senate that we need to negotiate,” Gohmert opined. “We have sent over compromise after compromise after compromise with ourselves. Our own leadership proposed yet another compromise and Harry Reid said all of the sudden, he thinks that’s a slap at bipartisanship.”

“He wouldn’t know bipartisanship if it came up and slapped him and said, we’re bipartisan,” he added. “So, I don’t need to hear any crap from Harry Reid about bipartisanship. He doesn’t know bipartisanship, nor does the president.”

Can’t think of something specific, Louie? Okay. . .we’ll call you the Queen of Hearts. . .sentence first, verdict afterwards.

These people learned NOTHING!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tom Corbett[/font]


One Term Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania has been officially thrown under the bus. His own party hates him, his approval rating are two points below HIV and even his own dog won’t come when he calls. Tommy is DOA this election cycle and will be thrown out of office.

But don’t tell Tommy that. He isn’t going away. In fact, he’s decided it’s time to take on the most dangerous people that could destroy him. . .the Pennsylvania GOP.

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Our sources say Corbett will have nothing of it and instead has launched an attack against the record Democrat Allyson Schwartz.

She is a possible opponent for Corbett.

No. Let’s not do that. Stay in the race, Tom. Please. Don’t quit. Announce you will run for re-election on that great record you have. Sink the entire state in your hubris (while taking down the PA Republicans in the Legislature in Harrisburg), then when Allyson Schwartz wins (and she will), you can play “Wag the Dog” and say “you don’t change horses mid-stream.”

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Frank Balles[/font]


This entry will be done out of order. The hyperlink will be at the end and the excerpts will be out of order. Let’s meet Frank Balles, Republican candidate for the NJ State Legislature.

What has Frank done? Well, he decided to address gundamentalists. Mistake #1. This never turns out well for candidates.

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Okay, he is on a stump speech with his base for the GOP. This is acceptable. What did Frank say?

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Typical anti-government, Ronnie Raygun bumper sticker Republican logic. Government is the big bad boogeyman, except when Hurricane Sandy hit, right. . .scumbag. Anyway, where does the evil come in?

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Ummm. . .So this is called threats and intimidation. You’re a sheriff, Frank. You should arrest this man for threatening violence against an elected official. What did Frank do?

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Expect Frank to hide behind “I was only joking” and “if you were offended, I’m sorry.” Makes me very nervous about calling the Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office if I have a problem if the Sheriff things gun violence and threatening it is funny.

BTW, I am not making this up.

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Jeez, this is the modern Republican Party? Lincoln must be rolling in his grave.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Joe the Plumber and Rob Schneider[/font]


And finally, this comes from the “holy shit, they are still alive” file. My apologies to Rod Serling. . .but I have to do it this way.

“Submitted for your approval here is the cases of Joe the Plumber and Rob Schneider. One, a ne’er-do-well who is attached himself to a loser, only have have mild success as a second-fiddle. . .and the other is a bald idiot whose name isn’t even Joe. Each has a problem. A problem that can only be solved. . .in the Right-Wing Zone.”

Joe the Plumber decided to pitch his ideas about why people should not like or support Barack Obama. His opinions are pretty much meaningless, but take a gander at his tortured logic.

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Okay. . .maybe his racism is just a misunderstanding. Let’s read more:

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OMFG!!! This was the prick John McCain paraded around as the real American man. A racist, half-educated plumber’s assistant? Most Americans don’t care if the president is plaid with purple polka-dots, Joe the Klansman. . .we care if he can do the Obama. Obama’s done a great job considering the shit he has had to work with in Congress. PS. . .go screw yourself!

And lastly, we have Deuce Bigalow, Republican Gigolo. Rob Schneider of “Copy Guy fame” has decided to weigh his irrelevancy into politics and burped out the first turd he’s made since his last craptacular shitfest movie six years ago. What did Adam Sandler’s water boy say?

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“The state of California is a mess, and the super majority of Democrats is not working. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and I have to switch over because it no longer serves the people of this great state,” said Mr. Schneider, as The Blaze reported. “The last time I made a movie was seven years ago and that’s because we’re not being competitive.”

First, I take issue with the word “star.” Rob Schneider is not a star, he’s a hack. . .a shameless, unfunny hack. Secondly. . .when did becoming Zell Miller become the in-fashion.

Why did you leave the party, Robert?

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Oh. . .I see. Greed made you do it. Worshiping the all mighty dollar. Good riddance.

“Back to Rod Serling:

Two men with identical outcomes from different backgrounds. One saw his career end due to his lack of talent. . .the other saw his career end due to his lack of talent. In the future, Townhall.com, WND.net and other avenues of insanity will permeate their minds.

Joe the Plumber went on to fame being nothing. . .while Rob Schneider continued to kiss the ass of Adam Sandler while going down the same route as Victoria Jackson, James Woods, Ted Nugent, Dennis Miller and the wife from Everybody Loves Raymond. But it doesn’t matter. Each will find their happiness worshiping at the alter of Koch and Limbaugh. . .in Right Wing Zone”.

See you next week.

October 13, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]DAMNED LIBERAL MEDIA EDITION[/font]
Yes, welcome to the new Civil War. The GOP is fighting the GOP. And in the process, losing everywhere (1, 2, 3). Outside of that, Gundamentalists have decided to insult pretty much everyone they can (5), Republican Celebrities waxi idiotically about Obama (7) and Arizona again embarrasses it (9). And as always, don't forget the key. And this week, and every week from now, if you run your mouse over the icon, it will tell you exactly what it means.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]
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Booze Cruz is really the best thing to happen to the Democratic Party in a long, long time. Because of him, the GOP's approval is in the toilet, Obama's approval rating is climbing and his own approval is sinking while he takes Mike Lee down with him. Who woulda thunk? On top of that, blame for the shutdown is being squarely put on the GOP, where it belongs.

According to the Hill:

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The survey found that 26 percent have a favorable view of the Texas Republican, against 36 percent unfavorable. That makes 62 percent of the public that has an opinion on Cruz, up from 42 percent in June, when 24 percent had a favorable view of him against 18 percent unfavorable – a 16-point negative swing.

According to MSNBC:

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What's the good news for Republicans in the poll? There is no good news.

* Approval ratings: While President Obama's approval rating improved after GOP lawmakers shut down the government, Republican support has collapsed. In the new poll, 70% of Americans disapprove of the way in which GOP lawmakers are doing their jobs. Republicans have reached a level of unpopularity unseen in the history of the poll.

* Shutdown: Asked who bears responsibility for the shutdown, a 53% majority blame congressional Republicans. Less than a third (31%) blame the president.

* "Obamacare": Despite the difficulties the Affordable Care Act has encountered since the open-enrollment period began, support for the law has increased.

* Generic ballot: Democrats enjoy an eight-point advantage in the congressional midterm elections (47% to 39%), as compared to a three-point advantage last month (46% to 43%).

* Government activism: By a 52% to 44% margin, Americans believe the government should do more, not less, to solve problems. In June, the results were evenly split.

* Patriotism: A 70% majority believe congressional Republicans are "putting their own political agenda ahead of what is good for the country."

Republican pollster Bill McInturff added, "These numbers lead to one inescapable conclusion: The Republicans are not tone deaf; they are stone deaf."

Stone deaf and stupid is not a way to go through life, GOP. Add to this that, according to LA Times, the GOP is getting decimated in the war of public opinion and things don't look good for them right now. Congress is beginning to look blue in 2014 and the smell of Tea is getting toxic.

Don't tell that to Ted Cruz though. According to him, everything is rainbows and butterflies. In fact, thing are so good, he told Republicans they are gaining ground and winning the war.

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Asked by host Candy Crowley whether his actions have "hurt the Republican Party brand," Ted Cruz said no.

"Not remotely, but I also think far too many people are worried about politics" in the shutdown fight, Cruz said.

Then he complains that the big bad Democrats are being partisan and lying to the public that he started this crap. To which host Candy Crowley let it pass without challenging him (damn liberal media). See, he believes all this because he did his own poll that showed gold shoots from his ass and everyone gets on their knees and pleasures themselves to his photo.

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Republicans who attended the closed-door lunch Wednesday hosted by Senate conservatives told the Examiner that Cruz presented the poll he paid for — and pollster Chris Perkins of Republican polling firm Wilson Perkins Allen was there to explain the numbers.

So what does Booze Cruz want to do? DEFAULT! Yes

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“The debt ceiling historically has been among the best leverage that Congress has to rein in the executive," Cruz said.

He listed three objectives as Republicans approach the debt ceiling: "No. 1, we should look for some significant structural plan and reduce government spending. No. 2, we should avoid new taxes, and No. 3, we should look for ways to mitigate the harms from Obamacare."

Nothing like being stupid, stubborn and obtuse. Rome still burns, and this asshole keeps lighting matches and pouring gasoline. Ted Cruz will next attempt to destroy the world's economy by demanding the Gold Standard again. After all, it helped lead to the Great Depression, and how bad could it have been if everyone calls it “Great.”

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]John Boehner[/font]
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I need to stop quoting the Ohio Tearduct. He is so small potatoes that he doesn't even warrant being thrown into the shitheap of history. He is impotent, useless and lose control of his Frankenstein Tea-bagger monster.

This week, Orange Glo Johnny has decided it is time to up the ante (because that's what Ted Cruz and the teabaggers like Cantor and Ryan want and he need to hold his power) but announcing he will kill the country's economy because Obama “won't negotiate with him.” Which I find interesting because he will take his party down with him, like Hoover did during that wonderfully Great Depression that happened.

According to ABC News:

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BOEHNHER: “That’s the path we’re on. Listen, the president canceled his trip to Asia. I assumed, well, maybe he wants to have a conversation. I decided to stay here in Washington this weekend. He knows what my phone number is. All he has to do is call.”

Boehner acknowledged that the showdown over government funding, aimed at scaling back the Obama health care law, isn’t a fight that he chose. He also appeared to confirm that, in conversations with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, he had previously sought to ensure full government funding, only to be convinced to take a different course after consulting with his fellow House Republicans.

BOEHNER: “I and my members decided that the threat of Obamacare and what was happening was so important that it was time for us to take a stand. And we took a stand,” he said. “I thought the fight would be over the debt ceiling. But you know, working with my members, they decided, well, let’s do it now. And the fact is, this fight was going to come, one way or the other. We’re in the fight.”

Hey. . .moron. OBAMACARE IS THE LAW!!! That time has passed to debate it. It was debated, passed, signed and upheld. And AMERICANS love the law! You failed. Again! Time for another vote to defund or repeal it, right, Tearduct? What was Obama's reaction to Agent Orange?
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Game. Set. Match. “Sorry, Johnny. . .you get nothing this time. Give me a clean “CR” and we'll talk then.” Of course, the GOP looked at that as an opportunity to go from stupid to insane. According to TPM:

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CNN's Anderson Cooper pressed Labrador to explain why a so-called "clean" continuing resolution to fund the government shouldn't immediately be brought to a vote.

"You know, we could bring it to a vote and it would lose," Labrador said on "AC360." "And this is a beautiful talking point that the Democrats have, because it is something they have no evidence that there is anybody willing to vote for this bill."

Wait. . .what? There is no evidence it will pass the House. Why? Because your teabagging asshats will vote it down. Stand by your vote while the country continues to sink. In order to prove they right, Democratic Underground member and Flordia Democratic Congressman Allan Grayson introduce a rider to a bill for a “clean CR.” The GOP's reaction was as to be expected.

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Under Grayson's amendment, the title would have an extra clause about what a great idea it would be to pass a "clean" funding bill: “Making continuing appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes, although we prefer -- and would support -- a comprehensive, clean continuing resolution to end the government shutdown.”

Grayson's goal was purely symbolic; he wanted to see how many Republicans would vote for the idea of passing a clean funding bill to reopen the government, with no strings attached. His confidence that his amendment would pass stems from the fact that at least 24 Republicans have said they would support a clean funding bill to end the shutdown, which, along with the support of all Democrats, means the votes are there to do it.

So the GOP won't even introduce a clean “CR.” I guess Raul Labrador is right. . .it will never pass the House, and now the GOP has its evidence because THEY are causing it. But let's get back to the Ohio Tearduct and his impotence, if we needed more evidence of it. Apparently, he not only lost control of his Caucus, he can't even control the stupid shit they say or do.
Example one: Rep. Morgan Griffith comparing the shutdown to the American Revolution.

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The Hill reports Griffith suggested that even if it resulted in a severely damaging default, the House should reject an unfavorable agreement from the Senate.

“We have to make a decision that’s right long-term for the United States, and what may be distasteful, unpleasant and not appropriate in the short run may be something that has to be done,” Griffith said, according to The Hill. “I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.”

Moron only partially describes the asshattery here. Children. . .immature, spoiled childish bullies. Every one of the GOP Caucus in the House and the few teabag idiots in the Senate.

Example #2: An altercation between a Democratic Congressman and a high level staffer from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office. Seems like Sumner/Brooks all over again.

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What is undisputed: Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., the vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, had an altercation with a Republican staffer, Chris Vieson, the floor director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.

What is in question is what Vieson and Crowley said to each other, and whether Crowley touched Vieson.

My only question is when Sumner/Brooks happens again, will teabaggers send the GOP Congresscritter that commit the act replicas of the weapon used with instructed on who to beat next? They did that last time.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Lee Terry[/font]
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Next stop on the GOP Insanity Tour. . .Nebraska! Home of Cornhuskers, the Ogallala Aquifer and conservative idiot Lee Terry.

Last week, Lee Terry announced he would not give up his Congressional pay during the shutdown because he needs to pay for his nice house. The rest of the country that relies on the government for their salary can go screw themselves.

Well it appears, after a week of getting slammed, Terry will ask for his pay to be withheld until those who aren't elected cretins like him get their money.

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The Omaha Republican also issued a full apology for comments he made to The World-Herald last week.

“The other day I made a statement that I would put my needs above others in crisis," Terry said in the statement. "I'm ashamed of my comments. It was not leadership. It is not how I was raised. It is not the nature of my character. It is not what I want to teach my sons. I apologize for my hurtful remarks when so many others are feeling the pain of Washington's dysfunction."

Terry is asking for his paycheck to be withheld until furloughed employees get their paychecks.

Personally, I expect Terry to be first in line with his hand out demanding all back pay when this shutdown ends. He isn't donating it to charity. He's just having it withheld. It is important to pay attention to language. And this greedy slime used the words to show how much he cares about anyone not named Lee Terry.

However, Terry now has another problem. His idiocy made it easy for a potential opponent to slam him as greedy and out of touch in EVERY commercial next year. In fact, Terry might already have a strong opponent for 2014.

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Festersen opened the door Monday to reconsidering his earlier decision not to run against Terry next year.

Festersen, a Democrat, said he is being urged by many to jump into the race in the wake of Terry's verbal misstep. Last week, Terry angered many when he said he could not “handle” going without his paycheck during the federal government shutdown, despite the fact thousands of other federal workers were not being paid for a shutdown Terry supported.

Armed with that knowledge, Terry received massive campaign contributions last week.

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The embattled congressman from Omaha reported a healthy fundraising quarter Wednesday, saying he had more than a half-million in the bank as of the end of September.

It was the biggest war chest Terry has amassed at this point in an election cycle — 13 months before the next election — since he first won his seat in Congress in 1998.

The fundraising numbers were released after a tough week of criticism over Terry's explanation of why he would not give up his paycheck during the federal government shutdown. Terry said he couldn't “handle it” with a child in college and a mortgage to pay on a “nice house.”

No one likes avarice and greed like the GOP and their multimillionaire and billionaire owners. Just pass the collection plate around and buy your Congresscritter. I hope his house is really “nice.” And in 2014, I hope he spends a lot of time in it. . .especially after November.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tea Party Republicans[/font]
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It has been said that controlling the Democratic Caucus is similar to putting cats into a bag. I have also heard the statement: “When you have two Democrats, you have ten ideas and none agree.

Now it seems that the GOP has become that. Apparently, the self-destruction is just in the beginning phases as House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy can't control the Caucus at all to get votes.

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Many of the candidates recruited by McCarthy and his fellow Republican "young guns" — Reps. Eric Cantor of Virginia and Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin — went on to win, creating a GOP majority and propelling the amiable congressman from Bakersfield into the No. 3 post in the House leadership, majority whip, whose job is to count votes and "whip up" support for the party's positions.
In the years since, however, many of the new members McCarthy recruited have repeatedly refused to follow the leadership's lead, and the whip's operation has had a number of high-profile public stumbles. Nearly three years into the job, it's still an open question whether McCarthy can corral, or even effectively keep track of, the majority he helped create.

Dr. Frankenstein of Kern County can't control his monster. Who woulda thunk? You recruit the most insane, uncompromising people in the world to be party of your caucus and you expect them to play nice and be controlled? When the GOP finally implodes, the “amiable” Congressman from Bakersfield will be one of the biggest reasons.

Part of the problem is a maturity problem. . .McCarthy recruited young children to be in charge and as a result, they have childish ideas. Take Dennis Ross (R-Idiot), who summarized the shutdown as not a battle of ideas, but one of pride.

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“Republicans have to realize how many significant gains we’ve made over the last three years, and we have, not only in cutting spending but in really turning the tide on other things," Ross told The New York Times. "We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare."

"I think now it’s a lot about pride," he added.

Waah! The big bad Democrats hurt my feelings. These are the same people that always say “if my words offended you, I'm sorry,” as if the offended party is wrong for being offended. Can we all flip these people off now? And when will the media stop giving their ideas equal footing. Damned liberal media again!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Gundamentalists[/font]
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Look at this graphic. A big second amendment rally will be held on December 14th of this year. Gundamentalists from all over the country will show up country the country holding their penis extenders in their hands, screaming “from my cold dead hands” and then going back into their basement to post on Free Republic about how horrible gun control people are.
From the press release:

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"The event is designed to counteract what certainly will be a day of activism and misinformation from the gun prohibition lobby," Larry Ward, founder of DefendGunRights.com, says. "We wanted to ensure that the public has the facts on gun rights and understand how many Americans stand with them in defense of Second Amendment rights."

Okay, I'll jump. I believe in the second amendment. I have no problems with gun ownership. Responsible gun ownership. My only question is why December 14th? What possible symbolism could December 14th offer to crazy gun huggers?

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Honor a dead child, murdered in gun violence, but raising up your guns and saying it's good to shoot things. And no one in the liberal media calls them on this. Damned liberal media yet again!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Virginia State Police[/font]
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I have long stated that the events of 9/11 turned the US from the United States of America to the United States of Police. Arizona's “papers please” laws, NYC's “stop and frisk,” NSA's “domestic spying” and now the State Police of Virginia get into the act. According to the ACLU:

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According to a press release at ACLU.org, state law enforcement agencies went on to compile a massive database of Virginians that they used to track the location of citizens throughout the state.

So doing this at political rallies is okay, but not when gunhuggers show up armed to political speeches? Understood. 1st amendment = worthless and bad. 2nd amendment = most important.

This was later confirmed by Raw Story:

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In a memo dated Feb. 13, Cuccinelli wrote to the VSP that such information gathering practices should only be undertaken “provided such data specifically pertains to investigations and intelligence gathering relating to criminal activity.”

So, nutbag Cuccinelli supports this. McAlliffe better majorly slam in on it. But there is more to this story:

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I guess there is nothing more to see, but you can't put the fart back into the elephant. Next time I quarter soldiers and I am in Virginia, I hope the State Police don't take down my license plate number for a massive database of people exercising their civil privileges.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]James Woods and Ted Nugent[/font]
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We now enter the irrelevant, past-their-prime, haven't-done-shit-worthwhile-in-years celebrity file. James Woods starts us off. You know him. . .he hasn't done anything good since he played racist assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi. James Woods of “getting best by Peter Griffin” fame. James Woods of “I like to have sex with women 40 years younger than me” fame.

Seems Jimmy wants everyone to know how much of an Obama hating teabagger he is. So he went to Twitter and posted his rants in 140 characters or less, which is just what his intelligence level can produce. Here are a few of his turds of wisdom:

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Woods spoke out on the government shutdown, placing the onus on Obama, while also criticizing the president for various other problems in the country, including gun violence and race relations. He continued to respond to both those who agreed with him and those who did not, calling Obama "a true abomination" and linking to articles about the shutdown. Woods said the remarks might keep him from being able to find a job in Hollywood, but that he put "[his] country first."

I will not post Tweets from the Twit, so go to the link and see it. Needless to say, he seems to be a bit off on his logic. He might not get another job in Hollywood not because he is an outspoken Right Wing jackhole, but because everything he does SUCKS!!!

Next on the list, perennial DU favorite Ted Nugent. Apprently Cat Scratch Fever made a new album and is back on tour. . .but everyone who cares about music doesn't seem interested. So he trotted out his normal political line for shock value.

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Nugent said government overreach and incompetence goes back decades, but it's at its worst under President Barack Obama. He described Obama as a "monster in the White House" who "wouldn't qualify to drive my tour bus."

He is right. . .normally Harvard Law graduates aren't qualified to drive tour buses. They tend to be over-qualified (there are exceptions. Ted Cruz is qualified to drive his tour bus). But, Teddy, let's look at something simple. You're not qualified to be a rock star. You haven't done shit since 1977. Your 15 minutes is only still going because of the right wing rubes that hold their guns and jack off to photos of Rush Limbaugh in their basements.

BTW, why do you hate America? “The American government today will go down and the American people, it breaks my heart to say ... will go down as the dumbest, most unappreciative society in the history of humankind.” If you hate Americans so much, leave! I hear North Korea is good. . .or the moon. Or Hell. Take your pick.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Right Wing Truckers[/font]
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I have nothing against LTR and LTL truckers. Most are good people. I've known many. But this next group of yahoos. . .to quote Carlin: “Holy jumping fucking shitballs. Dumber than a second coat of paint.” According to [http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/07/2744611/right-wing-truckers/|Think Progress]:

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Organizers of the event, which is titled “Truckers Ride for the Constitution,” say they are fed up with a variety of headaches caused by the government: Fuel efficiency standards enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency, Obamacare, state and local laws over idling their trucks, and “insurance companies purportedly requiring technological updates,” according to US News and World Report.

Okay, so the police will stop this, right? I mean they are inhibiting traffic and literally inciting insurrection. Or will the State Police only target Occupy people?

Fuel standards while idling? Technological updates? You mean you can't lie on your logbooks anymore? How about that drug testing requirement of the FMCSR? Oh, I know, you hate those too. Let's go back to the way it was before there were federal licensing requirements, safety standards and oversight.

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Originally, reports from US News and World Report indicated the truckers were looking to impeach President Obama. But Earl Conlon, an organizer of the event, told US News, “We’re not asking for impeachment, we’re asking for the arrest of everyone in government who has violated their oath of office.” These include House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), both for purportedly arming al Qaeda linked Syrian rebels. But while it might seem very US-specific, even some Canadian truckers might join in.

They want to impeach Obama for what? Being black? Allowing people not to die in debt due to medical bills with no insurance. And what happens after the people you want arrested are? Do we repeal the 1st amendment too? My God, the stupid burns my eyes.

There is more. According to US News and World Report:

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D.C. commuters who wish to be allowed past the convoy must have "T2SDA" – an acronym for the event's original name, "Truckers to Shut Down America" – written on their vehicle, he said.

Oh, I see. “Papers please,” then we will let you out. Who elected you people to that position? Again, where are the police in all of this?

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"We want these people arrested, and we're coming in with the grand jury to do it," he said. "We are going to ask the law enforcement to uphold their constitutional oath and make these arrests. If they refuse to do it, by the power of the people of the United States and the people's grand jury, they don't want to do it, we will. ... We the people will find a way."

Thank you AM Hate Radio, Fixed Noise and places like Free Republic. Our teabagger population is now being open revolution against the government. All because a black man in the other party was elected president. . .TWICE!!!

***UPDATE***

Below is a photo of their "massive trucker insurrection.

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Way to go, right wing truckers. You have enough people there to maybe play a game of touch or flag football. Fizzles and dies. . .just like your party, your ideas, your values and your ideological future.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Barbara Barton[/font]
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My state gets embarrassed again. Trust me, we're only all crazy lunatics from Arizona. Some of us are really good people with intelligence. My Congressman Raul Grijalva is amazing. So was Gabby. Even Janet Napolitano was good. But now. . .Arizona is filled with people like Brewer, Horne, Arpaio, Flake, Schweikert and Russell Pierce. Now comes Barbara Barton, State Representative (LD-5) from Payson here to compare Obama to Hitler. Oh, not this shit again!

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Barton was asked about the post by the Arizona Capitol Times newspaper and said she said was inspired by National Parks Service officers enforcing the government shutdown on federal lands.

"He’s dictating beyond his authority,” Barton said of Obama.

Barton said Obama's attempts at health care reform and expanding gun control laws are evidence of his similarities to Hitler.

First, as a historian, it's spelled Adolf, not Adolph. Please, reporters, get that right. Secondly, Hitler never expanded health care laws. . .and gun control works in many countries. I don't think Japan, Canada, South Korea or most European Nations would appreciate being called Hitler-like because of their gun control laws. Actually, Bush behaved a little more like Hitler. . .Hitler waged aggressive wars. . .Bush did too. The Nazis believed in Hegemony. . .Bush, a signer of PNAC, also believed in it. Where were you, Barbie, during Bush's eight years of terror?

But please proceed.

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Barton also accused the president of trying to maximize the discomfort Americans are feeling as a result of the shutdown, which she described as an "outrageous form of federal imperial government." She concluded by rejecting the idea she owes Obama an apology for her statements.

"He’s doing something controversial. It’s not controversial that I’m criticizing him," said Barton.

NO HE DIDN'T!!! Hitler didn't give a damn about health care. It was all private because thats what the Fascist political theory requires. Fascism was an extreme right wing reaction to the extreme left wing economic theory of Communism. They were not socialists at all! That was their brand name, you moron. You better read your history, Barbie. . .if you know how to read.

BTW, here is her Arizona Legislature Member Page. Next time she says or does something controversial, call her office and call her a Nazi. I place even money you will be hung up on by her staff.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]George Holding[/font]
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And finally,

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Hey, Sleeping Fat and Ugly. . .you have a job to do! You were elected to Congress. Sleep on your own time, moron! This is Rep. George Holding (R-NC). . .and right now the only thing he's holding is his head from falling into his lap. He was caught sleeping during a debate.
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One Congressman is finding the whole government shutdown a total snoozefest.

Rep. George Holding was caught napping Thursday while he presided over a House session, as his Republican colleague Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) launched a passionate protest against Obamacare.

A snoozefest? Obviously! But, come on, Holding. . .Louie Gohmert was speaking. He is at least interesting and entertaining in a train-wreck rubbernecking sort of way. You could have entertained yourself listening to him compare Civil Rights for minorities to giving civil rights to animals. Or his terror anchor babies. . .or whatever shit comes out of that oral/anal orifice he uses to speak.

Better yet, go back to sleep. The less you're awake, the less damage you can do. Is it November 2014 yet?

See you next week.

October 6, 2013

Time Magazine Cover

October 5, 2013

NWS with a message to the GOP

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/coded-message-from-national-weather-service--%E2%80%98please-pay-us%E2%80%99-002058457.html

October 5, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Broken Government Edition[/font]

The first five stops are all about the shutdown (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) from the leadup to the reactions. New GOP Frontman Ted Cruz (6) is to blame for all of this, Kansas (9) really hates science and Rand Paul (10) is just an idiot. And as always, don't forget the key.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Leadup[/font]


The time bomb was ticking. Everyone and their brother knew it was coming. Everyone and their sister knew the GOP would become political and economic terrorists to prove a point. All just hoped it wouldn't happen. It did. But let's look back at the few days before the Great GOP Cliff-Dive.

First they wanted to defund the ACA, but that failed miserably. Attempt #1,456,843,343 to destroy the ACA (Obamacare) failed again. Not deterred, the GOP went into overdrive:

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2: Pass a bill to delay Obamacare for another year. FAILED!

3: Defunding Obamacare's women's health came next and withered on the vine.

Finally, realizing they were stuck, they tried to bully President Obama in agreeing to “piecemeal” spending resolutions. Obama's reactions is best summed by saying Bed! Sleep! Yours! Put it together, pal! DOA.

After that, the GOP reacted with self-righteous indignation, as best summed up by GOP troll Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) in his tweet about ACA.

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— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 28, 2013

How did the Senate deal with this ACA pandering. By voting 79-19 to restore funding. . .and the heads of Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, John Boehner and Tex Cruz all exploded immediately.

FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Shutdown[/font]


So, October 1st came and went with no CR to fund the government. Obama released this memo and the government went into shutdown for the first time since 1995. According to Bloomberg:

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In a memo to executive branch officers sent less than half an hour before a midnight deadline, Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Burwell said there was no "clear indication" that Congress would reach an agreement to keep the government's lights on by 12:01 a.m. ET

"Agencies should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations," she wrote. "We urge Congress to act quickly to pass a Continuing Resolution to provide a short-term bridge that ensures sufficient time to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year, and to restore the operation of critical public services and programs that will be impacted by a lapse in appropriations."

The shutdown is expected to place tens of thousands of federal workers on furlough, close national parks and monuments, and disrupt services like food assistance and IRS audits. Services like benefit payments and national security operations would go on as usual, and – because of a bipartisan measure passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the president late Monday – members of the military will continue to be paid.

Wow! Same result, different reason than 1995. In 1995, the GOP threw a temper tantrum (well, Newt did) because he didn't like his seat on Air Force One. In 2013, the GOP threw a temper tantrum because it can't stand the fact people won't die in poverty and debt because they got sick.

How did the GOP react to this: By living it up and boozing it up.

Want more on the GOP partying while the country sinks? From Huff Post:

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Reporters tweeted that they could see -- and smell -- several Congressmen enjoying a drink while working.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. And they are drinking also. Nice to see them care about the American people.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Results[/font]


So, the shutdown happened. What were the immediate results? First, pandering and spinning but not really doing anything.

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When no one showed up, the Republicans said it was an example of the Senate Dems’ refusal to negotiate to reach a deal.

Love the spin. Tell us more, Demon Spawn Eric. Give us your tidbit of shit!

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“As you can see, there’s no one here on the other side of the table,” Cantor, R-Va., said. “It’s fair to say none of us want to be in a shutdown, and we’re here to say to the Senate Democrats, come and talk to us. This is how we resolve our differences and can work our way out of this kind of situation.”

I know there are people don't like swearing, but can I tell this hypocritical piece of filth to STFU and GTFU! You people enabled this, and the only thing you truly know how to do is play “Pin the Blame on the Donkey.”

Next on the list is California Arsonist (suspected) and Bill Maher favorite Darrell Issa who equated not funding the government with [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/darrell-issa-not-funding-the-government-is-part-of-funding-it|spousal abuse]?


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So, Darrell. . .do you still beat your wife? If not, when did you stop? How does anyone take this guy seriously?

Finally, we got more turds of wisdom from. . .wait for it. . .Ted Cruz's father. Now here is someone intelligent we all need to pay attention to.

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The Republican senator’s dad, who fled Cuba as a teenager and now lives in a Dallas suburb, was caught on tape claiming that the Affordable Care Act “rationed” care for the elderly and includes “suicide counseling.”

“As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling,” he told a crowd at a Lincoln-Day dinner just north of Denver. “Translation: suicide counseling.”

Interesting. His son is destroying the country with every breathe he takes and Daddy Booze Cruz comes out and says the the Republicans that don't support Teddy's little gallivant into insanity need to be primaried by more reactionary idiots. To which I say. . .Have at it, hoss!

BTW, who give's a tinker's damn what Pappa Booze Cruz says anyway? Why was is insanity even newsworthy?


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Reaction[/font]


Now that we are waist deep in the craphole of Lake Government Shutdown, let's look at the reaction of those who made it happen!

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2: Arizona Rep. David Schweiekert things this is all just plain fun.

3: Fox News resident halfwit Steve Douchey and Tennessee Witch-on-Wheels Marsha Blackburn think this is all funny.

4: Fox News reinvents what the shutdown is and makes it sound like the government went to the gym and bought slim fast. Seriously. I never knew the government had a fat ass and big hips.

5: The GOP thinks this will last for weeks. Because shooting yourself in the foot and killing your prospects for the next two or three election cycles is FUN!

6: Minnesota Moonbat and future ward of the state Michelle Bachmann takes the cake by equating President Obama with a crack cocaine pusher. No racism in that comment.

So, how are the GOP faring in the war of public opinion with their ideas?

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While 55 percent of Americans — including 7 in 10 young people — support the right of gay and lesbian couples to get married, 52 percent of Republicans are opposed.

The poll also showed that 40 percent of Republicans want state legislatures to continue to push for laws that limit abortion, nearly double the 22 percent of Americans who feel that way.

A survey released in April showed that 66 percent of Republicans were opposed to marriage equality, while 53 percent of all Americans said they supported gay nuptials.

Oh snap!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Aftermath[/font]


How are everyday people being affected by this bullshit the GOP tea party is forcing on us?

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2: Over 800,000 federal employees will be furloughed without pay (more on that in a moment).

3: Originally, US servicemen would be denied pay. But, thanks to hiding behind the flag when politically necessary, the soldiers will get paid. Federal workers and children with diseases can still go screw themselves!

4: GOP staffers for the Congresscritters feel they have been thrown under the bus because of the shutdown, because they lose their federal health insurance subsidies. Don't worry, you selfish little pricks. . .you can always follow Phil Gingrey's whine of last week and go work as a lobbyist on K Street. No sympathy for you, GOP staffers. . .at least you're not five years old dying of cancer being told there is nothing a doctor can do because the money needed to treat you is being locked up by GOP political terrorists.

All of this happened because one faction of one party in one House of Congress, along with about five of their like-minded Senate co-conspirators decided that since they didn't get their way, they would pull an Eric Cartman and say “screw you guys, I'm going home.”

But there are even more obnoxious reactions to the “slimdown,” to use Fixed Noise's bullshit phrase. Michelle Bachmann took the opportunity to photo-op with WW2 veterans (while supporting their veteran benefits lockdown) by complaining that the WW2 Memorial was closed, how awful it was and that she didn't know why it was closed, but would do everything in her power to get it open as fast as possible.

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“We’re very excited… It’s exactly what we wanted, and we got it,” Bachmann (R.-Minn.) said at the memorial on Tuesday, according to the Political Line website.

Bachmann and other lawmakers will be at the site “today, tomorrow, the next day, however long it takes” to keep the memorial open, she told CNN. ”The last thing we should see in America is a barricade for World War II veterans to be prevented from coming to their memorial,” Bachmann added.

So, now the GOP supports B&E, so long as it's something they can photo op with veterans. Way to hide behind the flag again. And it's the usual suspects: Bachmann and Iowa Fruit-loop Steve King.

Other than the complete hubris of her remarks, one has to wonder how Michelle Bachmann can breathe with her head stuffed so far up her ass. You caused it, Tea Bag Queen. You made this, enabled it and supported it. You want to know why it happened. . .look in a damn mirror, if the thing doesn't break while you look in it. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. . .who's the most idiotic Congresswoman from Minnesota of them all?”

However, all is not lost. . .the GOP has an end game plan for this “slimdown.” Here it is, according to Indiana Representative Marlin Stutzman:

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Yes folks, there's the end game plan in a nut shell. Let's quote the boob personally.

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-- Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), quoted by the Washington Examiner, on the government shutdown.

I'll tell you what you're going to get out of this, pal. . .a massive asswhipping come November of next year, when all you teabagger jihadists are thrown out of office and Congress turns bright blue (but keep gerrymandering those districts).

All is not lost though. The other King Pompous Fool, Peter King of NY (not Steve King of Iowa) has decided to go the “moderate Republican route?” The same Peter King that never met a brown person or Muslim he didn't want seen through in prison for the crime of not being white, Republican or Peter King?

Apparently, in his quest to become the GOP nominee for president in 2016, King has discovered something. . .his party is run by lunatics. He first slams Ted “Booze” Cruz by saying his staffers are rude and make vile phone calls.

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"You can't always blame a person if his followers act in a terrible way," King said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." However, he expressed concern about the "vile, obscene" phone calls.

"I have young women, women interns, full-timers, in their late teens, early 20s, and they get these phone calls," he continued. He did not elaborate on how many calls were received.

Why don't you tell us, Petey? Seriously. . .we'd like to know how Ted Cruz's people have insulted women in their early 20s and how many times it's happened. But, he also claimed that a minority of Congresscritters still refuse to accept Barack Obama as the legitimate President. You know, Bush used the SCOTUS to steal the election in 2000 and then used his water carrier Ken Blackwell and Diebold to steal Ohio in 2004. . .but Obama wins two landslide elections and he's illegitimate. There's no racism there at all.

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King made the remarks in a discussion with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, after the host asked how many Republicans would like to “erase record as if he was never here.”

“I’ve had members, they know who they are, they say – ‘I really can’t say with these lips that this man, Barack Obama, was elected president’,” Matthews said. “They choke on that. How many are there in Congress on your side that represent that rejectionist front?”

“I would say there are probably 30 or 40 who are like that,” King responded. “As there were a number of Democrats who felt that way about George W. Bush, and going back to when you and I first met, Republicans who felt that way about Bill Clinton.”

Hey Tweety. . .name names please. Cowardly asshat! Yellow bellied cowardly water carrier! Who are they? And Petey, if there are 30 to 40. . .NAME THEM! Otherwise you are giving aid and comfort to those who are hurting this country. But since they are mostly Republicans, I know Peter King wouldn't put country before political party.

Finally, we see how much Republicans really care about people affected by the shutdown (screw Fixed Noise. . .slimdown my ass). Many members of Congress are either rejecting their salary or donating it to charity during this shutdown, but NC Rep. Renee Ellmers has decided to go another route: Whine about her life and tell people to show her HER money!

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"I need my paycheck. That's the bottom line," Rep. Ellmers told ABC affiliate WTVD. "I understand that there may be some other members who are deferring their paychecks, and I think that's admirable. I'm not in that position.

Cry me a river, Ellmers. You're an RN by trade. Tell the kids that need hospitals that you need your money while the money needed to treat them is tied up by your political party. Hypocritical skazwag! I hope there's a good place in Hell for people like you, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and every other Republican that thinks destroying the USA is all fun and games. I mean, that's what Arizona Representative Schweiekert stated earlier. Maybe watching kids die is fun too. BTW, tell the staffers you shafted about your need for your salary. Hypocrite.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]


Guess what. . .due to all of this. . .Rush Limbaugh is no longer the leader of the Republican Party. And neither is Reince Preibus (however you pronounce that guy's name). It's Ted “Booze” Cruz.

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Cruz has gained 8 points since our last national 2016 poll in July while everyone else has more or less stayed in place. He's made himself the face of a government shutdown over Obamacare, and the Republican base supports that by a 64/20 margin. It's not surprising that Republicans identifying as 'very conservative' support a shutdown 75/10, but even the moderate wing of the party supports it by a 46/36 margin.

Cruz is leading the GOP field based especially on his appeal to 'very conservative' primary voters, who he gets 34% with t0 17% for Rand Paul and 12% for Paul Ryan. Voters who fall into that ideological group make up the largest portion of the Republican electorate at 39%. With moderates Cruz gets only 4% with Christie leading at 34% to 12% for Jeb Bush and 10% for Marco Rubio, but they only account for 18% of GOP voters and thus aren't all that relevant to Cruz's prospects for winning a Republican nomination.

Our numbers also suggest that Cruz is now viewed more broadly as the leader of the Republican Party. When asked whether they trust Cruz or GOP leader Mitch McConnell more, Cruz wins out 49/13. When it comes to who's more trusted between Cruz and Speaker John Boehner, Cruz has a 51/20 advantage. And when it comes to Cruz and 2008 GOP nominee and Senate colleague John McCain, Cruz wins out 52/31. He now has more credibility with the GOP base than the folks who have been leading the party for years.

All aboard the GOP Carnival Cruz. Destination. . .Election Loserland! This guy, outside the GOP, rates four percentage points higher than cancer and six higher than HIV, but his party loves him. . .well, the party faithful.

So, what does Ted do with this new found power. First thing he does is throw the Ohio Tearduct under the bus.

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On the call, Cruz told them that Boehner was making a mistake, and urged his friends to fight until the end on the CR. The group agreed, and they complained that Boehner’s shift to the debt limit was a diversion. Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined Cruz on the call, and both senators said they’d stand with House conservatives as they opposed the leadership.

By the call’s end, there was a consensus: until the CR talks are complete, Republicans should whip “no” on Boehner’s debt-limit plan, as a way of preventing the leadership from directing the strategy. And that’s exactly what happened late Thursday afternoon: GOP whip Kevin McCarthy worked the floor, but couldn’t find the votes for Boehner’s debt-limit plan. After McCarthy reported back about the Cruz-inspired uprising, the leadership shelved it.

Now Cruz controls both Houses of Congress. Freshman Senators normally do not have this kind of sway, but he's a teabagger and loud, ugly and stupid. Not a way to go through life, son!

However, the GOP came out swinging and attempted to throw Cruz under the same bus he threw Orange Glo under during a closed door meeting (everything the GOP does is secretive. . .God, I'd love someone to expose their sex lives and give them the same treatment they gave Clinton).

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At one point in the meeting, Republicans pressed Cruz to tell them what he would have done had the party united behind his call to filibuster a House-passed continuing resolution to keep the defunding hopes alives. Only 19 Republicans backed Cruz's attempt to block the bill.

“He kept trying to change the subject because he never could answer the question,” an unnamed senator told Politico. “It’s pretty evident it’s never been about a strategy – it’s been about him. That’s unfortunate. I think he’s done our country a major disservice. I think he’s done Republicans a major disservice."

Unnamed Senator. . .afraid of Cruz that much you refuse to go on the record? Coward!

But then Booze Cruz decided to shoot himself in the foot. First up, he is caught making Nazi comparisons about political opponents. Whoops!

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Here's what Cruz said Tuesday during his floor speech, as TPM reported.

"If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany," Cruz said. "Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, 'Accept the Nazis. Yes, they'll dominate the continent of Europe but that's not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We can't possibly stand against them.'"

"And in America there were voices that listened to that," he continued. "I suspect those same pundits who say it can't be done, if it had been in the 1940s we would have been listening to them. Then they would have made television. They would have gotten beyond carrier pigeons and beyond letters and they would have been on TV and they would have been saying, 'You cannot defeat the Germans.'"

You decide. Did he just cover his ass, or did he get misquoted? I'm leaning towards the former. History lessons, butthead. The “Peace For Our Time” speech in London by Chamberlain was in 1938, not the 1940s. And he never said “Accept the Nazis.” He tried to prevent war because Europe already went through WW1 and didn't want another. He didn't tell his fellow Brits to accept the Nazis and that they couldn't defeat the Germans. But, what do I know. . .I'm just a historian getting a PhD in History. You went to Harvard. . .like Bush went to Yale. You're right, Booze Cruz. Neville Chamberlain made his speech in the 1940s. Except it was in 1938.

Next. . .and this one is rich, he decided to step up and use a case study of a student to show how bad Obamacare is during his 21-hour Ted Talk. Problem is, the student supports and likes Obamacare. Double Whoops!

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One of them involved the case of John Connelly, a Rutgers student who found himself in debt, without a permanent job, and forced to sleep on his friend's couch. His story was one that was all too common in the age of Obama, Cruz concluded.

Well, it turns out that Connelly isn't the biggest fan of Cruz. What's more, he is actually a beneficiary of the very health care law that Cruz was protesting during his speech. And in an appearance on MSNBC Friday morning, Connelly explained just how ironic it was that the senator would use his story to bludgeon the president and the Affordable Care Act.

"A friend of mine called me the next morning as I was on the way to an optometrist appointment .... , 'While Ted Cruz was talking about why the ACA's bad, he mentioned your name.' And I said, 'Well, that's funny. I'm heading to an appointment I can only go to because of Obamacare.'"

I am now trying to picture a Ted Cruz pretzel. One where his foot is in his mouth at the same time his head is up his ass. If someone can make that picture and post it on DU, it would be classic.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Darrell Issa[/font]


Scandal monger, political opportunist, Bill Maher favorite and suspected arsonist and car thief Darrell Issa has an interesting take on the Shutdown. He wants another investigation. Oh, Jeez, not this shit again.

Yeah, Issa has decided that something bad has happened during the shutdown. No, not people losing their jobs. . .no, not kids being denied treatment. Issa has decided that he needs to investigate who is responsible for the D.C. Monument closings. I am not making this up.

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House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa is “in the early stages of examining it,” spokesman Frederick Hill told POLITICO. “I don’t think we’ve sent any letters or requests at this point, but they’re possible.”

Can I save the taxpayers a crap load of money by just mailing Darrell Issa a hand mirror and telling him to look into it? Hand mirrors cost about $15 and a stamp is $.43 I believe. Just remember, if Issa didn't do important things like this, he might have to do something meaningless. . .like his job.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]ACA Hating Republican Governors[/font]


Leave it to the GOP to find other ways to sabotage people getting health insurance. The GOP governors of a few states have decided that the only way they can stop Obamacare is to put their heads in the sand and give next to no help or information about exchanges or how to use the new system.

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Thirty-six states, most of them Republican-controlled, have opted to let the federal government run the exchanges where consumers can shop for individual policies from private insurance firms.

Consumers are getting their first opportunity on Tuesday to buy policies on the exchanges, even as the law remains at the core of congressional budget gridlock that has caused a partial federal government shutdown. The exchanges' funding isn't affected by the shutdown.

A spokesman for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal dismissed the sweeping law as "a federal issue" and said his boss had no plans to discuss the launch of the exchanges.

Please tell me they are not claiming States Rights on this one. But I see how it works. . .federal contracts for pork and these people have their mouths wide open to suck on the government teat. Give people access to health insurance and don't lift a finger because it's a federal issue. Rank hypocrisy and avarice!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]COPE, Inc[/font]


Kansas is a weird state. It's dirt poor, right wing, ultra bible thumping and anti-intellectual. It elected Sam Brownback its governor and can't understand why they get shafted as much as they do.

Now, the latest embarrassment for the state of Kansas comes in the form of the Citizens for Objective Public Education, INC, or COPE Inc. They are suing the Kansas Department of Education for teaching evolution in science classrooms.

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Ummm. . .is this Dayton Tennessee in 1925 all over again? Look, I have no problems teaching fairy tales in literature or even in Sunday School. But science is objective and provable in a lab, not based on “faith.” If these Bible thumpers can prove in a lab that Intelligent Design or Creationism happens without relying on the higher power nonsense, teach it in the science classroom. Evolution can be proven on a small scale and extrapolated into a macro-sense.

I guess COPE Inc will sue the Kansas DOE over history standards that claim the world is round and astronomy standards that the Earth spins and revolves around the sun. The case is pending.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rand Paul[/font]


And finally, we have the Kentucky Rug Doctor bringing up the rear. He is part of the cabal that is killing the country with the shutdown, but he has his sights set on something bigger. . .the world's economy. He sees no reason to raise the debt ceiling and therefore wants the country to default.

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“What’s going on is, interestingly, the Democrats are scaring people saying we might not pay because Republicans don’t want to raise the debt ceiling,” Paul said on CNN. “If you don’t raise the debt ceiling that means you won’t have a balanced budget, it doesn’t mean you wouldn’t pay your bills.”

Paul argued that the House has passed a bill, the Full Faith and Credit law, that mandates payments on debt interest, Social Security, Medicare and soldier’s salaries go out first. He said that if the debt ceiling is breached, other government function wouldn’t get financed, but that no default would occur.

“I’m for taking default completely off the table and for promising to the American people and the markets, to Wall Street, that we will always pay the interest on the debt as a priority,” he said. “You know how we do that? We bring in $250 billion in tax revenue every month. The debt payment is about $30 billion. We just promise that we’ll always pay it. “

Legally, if the US can't pay its bills, everything becomes secondary until the debts are covered. All expenditures freeze until the US pays it bills. The US defaults and the world goes into an almost irrecoverable depression that would make the 1930s look like a blip in the radar. Ayn Rand would love this, so Rand Paul loves it even more.

However, his corporate masters on Wall Street are begging him and the GOP to now play political chicken with the debt ceiling like they are doing with Obamacare.

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"Using the debt ceiling as leverage in the deficit debate is unwise and dangerous," Keating wrote. "Citizens nationwide are frustrated with the political stalemate in Washington. But our nation’s financial integrity should not be used as a bargaining chip."

Don't expect them to listen unless you provide them with a six figure campaign contribution.

Finally, Paul has determined who is to blame for all this chaos of the shutdown. Give you a hint: It's not the Republicans.

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Paul trotted out the newest line of attack from conservatives in Congress, arguing that because Republicans have moved off their initial demand of full Obamacare repeal and are now asking for a one-year delay of the law's implementation, Democrats should compromise as well.

“But see, he is saying 100 percent of Obamacare or the highway,” Paul said on CBS' "Face The Nation." “The president is the one saying I will shut down government if you don't give me everything I want on Obamacare. That to me is the president being intransigent and being unwilling to compromise.”

If only that damn Obamacare law could be debated again, there would be no problems. Bob Schieffer had a good response to that.

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Game. Set. Match!

See you next week.