Rethug Morons: December 2009 Archives

Because Republicans truly are nitwits who need to stop being taken seriously until they grow up.

"(Y)ou have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it's much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly."

- Former Romney spokesman and current Tool Kevin Madden

Republicans are, quite seriously, anti-American douchebags. To think that Hawaii isn't American enough for them goes back to the whole Palinite BS argument about "real Americans". I live in a desert surrounded by casinos and mountains. No one in Nebraska would find any similarity with that at all, but that person and I are both Americans.

There's probably some conservative racist code words in there too I imagine.

Best reply to this asshole who thinks only Texas can be viewed as the standard for America?

Yeah, uh, that state whose leaders want it to actually become a foreign place via secession?

- Commenter BobbyG

I gotta be honest, Colbert sometimes gets too into character, but this one nails wingnut nitwit Beck better than anyone else did this year.

"I know that public scrutiny will simplify this matter and act as a check against anyone's need to be overly vindictive, aggressive or malicious, not that Bristol would ever be that way, nor that I would. But her mother is powerful, politically ambitious and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive. So, I think a public case might go a long way in reducing Sarah Palin's instinct to attack."

- Levi Johnston, in his affidavit

God help me, but I do actually like this kid Levi. In a world full of people grasping for fame, he just kind of fell into it and is making the most of it. And now that the Palin family is trying to cut him off from his son, he's fighting back. Not for sole custody, but for joint custody, a chance at being in his kid's life, something Sarah "Family Values" Palin doesn't seem to want.

Don't get me wrong, he may be an ignorant racist from the backwoods, but if even he is turned off by Palin, the rest of the angry conservatives might want to be taking notes as to why.

Not that this meme, like most Republican ones, deserves to even be noticed as rational, but Bob Cesca points out that Bush waited more than a week to address the Shoe Bomber incident. You know, another failed terrorist attack.

Plus, he didn't even bother to address the DC sniper deaths. At all.

Where was the Rethug outrage then?

I have always thought that the fearful, chickenshit Republicans running around screaming about "Islamofascists" did a better job oh promoting al-Qaeda better than even terrorist spokesmen.

Glad to see others agree on this.

Arlen Specter tells us what we already know: that the GOP is so determined to not let President Obama succeed that they are willing to screw over (and in the case of health care reform - kill) American citizens just to score talking points.

A roundup of the screwups and lies of the GOP that directly led to a rich man's kid trying to blow up an airplane.

You know, if FAUXNews was some operation out of some small town on the Plains, you'd feel bad for them saying stupid shit like this. Instead, one of our biggest media companies has a problem with him because he speaks actual English instead of the Hooked-on-Phonics crap they trade in.

Seriously, how freaking stupid can Republicans be? First they spend millions and decades on trying to force everyone (except Southerners) to speak English. Now that we finally have a president again who can speak it, they don't understand what he's saying.

Morons.

The year in FAUXNews obstructionism.

Fair and balanced my ass.

Man, did I need a good laugh this morning and this editorial brings it. Not the editorial itself, I totally agree, but the wingnut commenters.

Damn, people are stupid. Comparing Bush's overreaction to 9/11 to Obama's (correct) assessment that this was one loon on one plane, carry on. Another commenter wisely pointed out:

"An idiot boards a plane in Amsterdam, and just before landing here sets himself on fire. According to larryvegas, it's Obamas fault. More of the crazy tin foil, skull cap, very far right wing propaganda. George W. gets his daily briefing, learns there is a imenent attack planned, goes on vacation, and we have 9/11. Can you really compare the two incidents?"

Conservatives hate everything. Even life, considering how hard they are trying to make the Rapture happen.

That said, their blathering and carping about Avatar isn't without merit. There IS a ecological message there, and an anti-war one. That said, those elements made me like the movie more, though I can see why it would piss off consumerist bigots. Too bad. I hope it makes a billion dollars.

More on Senator Whitehouse calling out the GOP for canoodling with racists and domestic terrorists.

I'm sure he's going to be told to keep backtracking on this, but honestly it needs constantly said to these cretins. In public. Every day. Until they stop, and you know they never will.

News flash. The teabaggers are so big of hypocrites that they now endorse a plan to attack capitalism itself come January 20th.

Socialists!

Check it out: anti-everything banshee Michelle Bachman is sucking at the government's teat to the tune of a quarter million dollars in subsidies to her family farm.

More on her socialist tendencies and that of others of her ilk.

And yes, her constituents are as insane as she is.

In other batshit crazy thug news, Glenn Beck has been named "Misinformer of the Year". Congrats to that psychopath.

If you still have doubts as to why, here's a montage:

Meanwhile, Chuck Norris is of the opinion that Barack Obama would have smothered baby Jesus in his manger or something. Don't ask me, I can't understand these idiots anymore. They just talk stupid and white morons eat it up.

Plus, Sarah Palin wins Politifact's "Lie of the Year" award. It couldn't have gone to a more deserving nitwit, though the runners-up are equally loathsome, stupid, and insane.

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So, according to this story, John McCain is either senile or a wretched liar. Or possibly both.

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A quick round-up of some stories that interested me of late.

Concerning "Avatar":

Interview: James Cameron, A King With A Soft Touch?

Movie Review: 'Avatar': Cameron's Dizzying, Immersive Parable

Do You Speak Na'vi? Giving Voice To 'Avatar' Aliens

Plus one quick story concerning "Invictus":

Filming 'The Game That Changed A Nation'

Also one concerning Jeff Bridges' next movie:

Jeff Bridges' New 'Dude': A Fallen Country Star

Some followups concerning Blackwater:

Blackwater: Private Army In The News Again

Our filthy water supply:

Overloaded Sewers Lead To 'Toxic Waters'

Hostage negotiators:

'Hostage Business' Survives Economic Downturn

Immigrants and private prisons:

Questions On Public-Private Prisons For Immigrants

and the evolution of the English language:

What's The Word? How English Evolved This Decade

This really just needs to constantly be reiterated: John McCain is a non-stop, continuous piece-of-shit.

"What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight.That's what they ought to pray."

- Republican Hero Tom Coburn (OK), hoping Senator Byrd died before voting to stop Republican obstructionism on health care

As if I needed another reason. When Republicans are literally praying for people to die so that laws they don't like can not get passed, you absolutely guarantee that I'm never voting a Republican, not even for dog catcher. Screw every single one of them.

All the Republicans have done is obstruct. They have gone to the filibuster on 70 percent of every bill in this past year. At their worst, Democrats have used it 27 times over a whole session of Congress. Read up on it here.

More on this problem of childish Republican obstinance here.

Seriously, angry infants who want people who don't agree with them to die. Such odious bastards.

Hmm, years of abstinence-only education and we suddenly just found out that kids know nothing about sex? Gee, I wonder why?

Face it, letting conservatives near education only results in dumb kids. That's not bias, that is fact.

Be it fake science, slanted history, censored literature, or biology, there just isn't any way you can get a decent education with Republicans around. Quit giving these illiterates the means to stunting the development of our children.

Republicans are dumb. Like monumentally stupid.

Don't believe me? They elected Michael Steele to lead them. Sure, as a Token Leader since they're racists and all, but really, read his thoughts on Greenland. Amazing.

Then again, these are the same idiots who cream their pants hoping to touch Sarah Palin. The same folks who decided that electing a religious nutjob cocaine addict wouldn't screw up America. The same folks who look to Dick Cheney AND Ted Nugent for inspiration.

Seriously, go have a kool-aid party out in Nebraska and quit trying to destroy my country and my planet.

You actual conservatives should be ashamed at yourselves for letting this happen to your party. I can't take you morons seriously anymore.

Yet another thing to lay at Bush's feet: filthy drinking water.

I swear, remember when at least some conservatives followed along the Teddy Roosevelt vision of actually conserving our natural resources? Now they can't wait to ruin nature in the hopes of twisting God's arm to bring on the Rapture. Instead, the rest of us have to suffer with a polluted planet.

Thanks for nothing!

Here are a couple of the rich white racists that are paying for poor white racists to form angry mobs to protest health reform, climate change laws and other things that would otherwise improve their lives.

I hope the Koch Brothers burn slowly in a hell of their own creation. And I hope the idiots that believe their bullshit burn quickly because they were too stupid to realize that helping your fellow man (and even yourself) live better, not to mention stopping Man from destroying Creation actually are the essence of Christianity, not to mention all religions.

This also could be titled "Meet the Racists". Don't believe me? Read this, particularly give a listen to the story and resist the urge not to drive to Texas and punch Teabagger star Lorie Medina in the neck.

Here's the main thread post:

If we ignore climate change and just keep burning fossil fuels, nothing bad will happen. But if gays get married or atheists get treated fairly in public, it will be the end of America. - How can people that think like that get positions of power in America?

- submitted by KingBeetle

That's a pretty good assessment of the GOP's stupidity. However, in the comments is a fantastic breakdown of what makes person worth ignoring:

- comment by echo_USER

People have differing views on economics that i can respect, hey they disagree with me but I can respect them, and their level of intelligence.

People can disagree with environmental policy, and hey, I can respect that.

As long as they make reasoned, logical arguments supported by fact.

The anti-gay marriage crowd has not a single one well reasoned argument. Lets review a few.

God made adam and eve, not adam and steve.

Congrats, you're officially "special". Get on the fucking short bus. I refuse to even speak to anyone who says something this stupid.

American has christian founders.

Um, the base populace maybe, but the majority of the founding fathers were either deist or flat out atheist. not christian. The christians who founded this nation (the base populace) also fled religious persecution, it seems odd to flee from persecution just to set up a society that persecutes others. Our constitution is setup in a way that keeps government from wielding religious influence over the public. It's right there in th first amendment.

nevermind the fact that just b/c things were a certain way means they always need to be that way. See: slavery, women's suffrage, etc..

Gays will raise gay kids and it'll be the end of man

Just like straight people only raise straight kids, right? It also would seem odd for a parent to experience the pains of being made to feel guilty for who they are their entire lives, then impose an equal and opposite evil unto their child.

Gay marriage will ruin he sanctity of marriage.

First off, i can show you pictures and court records of a 10000 marriages that have zero sanctity to them. Ignoring that, i don't see how one set of people getting married affects anyone else.

Gays are perverse and kids do not need to be exposed to it

Kids don't need to be exposed to their parents fucking period, regardless of sexuality. Just b/c you're gay doesn't mean a second goes by in which you don't have a dick in your mouth. They are normal human beings with jobs, who watch tv, and have daily chores just like their straight counterparts.

Gay marriages will raise insurance premiums

I guess we should kick blacks off too for having higher STD rates.

Gay's can't procreate so they shouldn't have families

Neither can infertile women, or the elderly, or men who shoot blanks, maybe we should ban them from being married too.

Since they can't procreate we'll be ending the human race as we know it by supporting a lifestlye that doesn't allow for reproduction

No one is forcing anyone else to be gay. Secondly gays have ALWAYS been around and our population is still increasing in size at an alarming rate. Thirdly, not that it will happen, but our population size is far too big to be sustainable on this planet, and fourth. We're talking like 1-4% of the population here. That's it. All this fuss over a tiny tiny demographic. They're not going to end the human race.

I just don't want to be exposed to that sort of stuff

And what about the gay people who are exposed the hetero stuff day in and day out

No matter how you spin it, a person against gay marriage is ALWAYS going to come back to an irrational fear or dislike of homosexuals, when asked why the basic argument reverts to "that's the way i was raised" or "that's what it says in the bible" (ignoring the fact that the bible does touch on gay men, but never says a single thing about lesbians, and only does so in the Old Testament.. in Leviticus, which all Christians ignore today anyways).

some people might tell you "i have gay friends", well my father is a sexist and he's married, so what? I've seen people utter the word "nigger" one moment then kiss some black dude's ass the next. Some might tell you that they don't have a problem with gays, but just think what they do is gross.. .like anyone is forcing them to watch what goes on behind closed doors by putting a gun to their head.

I have never, not once heard a well reasoned arguement against gay marriage, gays, or gay families and if you could give me one, i'll respect it. Until then, everyone against it, is a fucking idiot.

The worst part is, you have people I have debated with (like my father) who, point after point gets backed into a corner.. and they'll readily admit: " My logic my be faulty, but that's the way I was raised and I know I'm right. Those people are degenerates". He'll get all red faced, he'll admit, that his every point fails in this argument, he'll admit he has no logic, but swear that he's correct in this. And frankly, that what it falls down to.

It comes down to people believing in shit, without a reason. They believe something they were taught, and questioning that is incredibly uncomfortable.. so instead, they fight it. Because change is hard for people.

Read Shirley Jackson's - The Lottery sometime. Believing in traditional things without questioning the tradition, can have disastrous outcomes, an those outcomes make people suffer.

And it's odd to me, that people smile and hold hands and clap when marriage amendments at the state level get voted down, or over-turned.. they're all happy about it. And it saddens me, because a sizable portion of our population gains happiness from other's misery. They have invaded someone else's lives with the government on their side, to bully them. And they're happy about it.

Think about that. To me that says we have much deep cultural issues than just homosexuality.

it's called religion. Only religion, nationalism, and psychiatric disorders can make someone happy that others suffer.

That should be chiseled into something somewhere.

Well said.

I swear, I really don't get the Palin fan base. Why all the love for someone who constantly reminds us what a full-blown moron she is.

Seriously, this latest bit just hurts the brain.

Meanwhile, it turns out the college aged Palin ran away from Hawaii Pacific University because it had too many minorities. No, I'm not making this up. Of course, her next college was in the lily white (supremacist) land of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Meanwhile, in an unusual twist, FAUXNews is concerned about health care reform not covering abortions because, wait for it, it might lead to a rise of "more low-income babies".

Of course, I'm sure their concern is about the color of said low-income babies. Gasp!

Surprise! A Senate report has "discovered" that Donald Rumsfeld's idiotic military planning allowed bin Laden to escape Afghanistan. Seriously, why aren't any of these people doing time?

Charles Johnson, over at Little Green Footballs, has decided to call out and step away from the right wing racist hate mob currently running the GOP.

This doesn't mean he's gone liberal or that I'd agree with the guy on much of anything. But he and Andrew Sullivan, who left the conservatives when they went into ultra gay bashing mode but just realized it himself are onto something.

I don't mind a cautious voice in our politics. I don't mind a trend towards fiscal discipline. I don't even mind an overly protective voice. It moderates those who want to run full force into the future.

That said, those elements describe Bill Clinton more than any Republican candidate or actual president in recent decades. Republicans, unfairly or not, are those tied to restricting rights to, well, you name it: women, minorities, gays, Muslims. And so on.

Republicans sold all our jobs overseas and let corporations off the hook for paying ANY taxes, putting the burden on the rest of us.

Republicans make boogeymen for us to hate and fear; from Murphy Brown to gays to Muslims to "Socialist Kenyans". Never taking the blame for any failure (9/11, Katrina, Afghanistan (both times), Enron/WorldCom, the Bush Recession, and you name it really).

My father-in-law is a Republican and I can't fathom how much shit he has to ignore about his party just to get through the day. He's not into torturing people. He's not a racist, well, not anymore than one can be living on a golf course north of Houston. You know, not consciously. He can't possibly allow the hypocrisy of arguing against a trillion dollars in health care while being cool with a three trillion dollar war in Iraq.

At least I'd like to think so.

So, it is with him in mind that I read Johnson's manifesto and check out his attacks on the GOP's malfeasance in bowing at the feet and crotch of Rush Limbaugh for inspiration.

Or about how he asks how evangelicals can possibly be fine with executing gays in Uganda because it was a Religious Right plan that put this in motion.

Or even how the Right can be fine with vile, racist attacks on the President such as this:

Once again, I'm glad he and others are waking up to the freakish pack of bastards they have made common cause with. I sincerely hope they can either kick the cretins out of their party or make something new and, if not something I can agree with, at least be something the rest of the country can tolerate and hopefully respect the opinions of.

If not, he's just singled himself out as a "traitor" to the mob rule that currently festers and controls his party. Best of luck to him.

Shatner gets Limbaugh to finally admit what we know all Republicans in power believe: only rich people deserve health care:

Too bad there are millions of poor idiots who can't see they are screwing themselves by voting for fools who believe this and listening to elitist shitheels like Limbaugh all day long.

Judd Gregg is your typical slimebag Republican, more worried about scoring political points than in helping his constituents and Americans at large. But you already should have known that. If you didn't, here's more proof.