Rethug Morons: January 2010 Archives

I don't believe much of what this jackass is selling, but I do wish to post it for one significant laughable reason.

Michael Gerson, you see, is one of Bush's speechwriters. You know, the president that never, EVER apologized for anything. You know, like ignoring threat assessments and getting 3,000 people killed in NYC. Or for starting a war in Iraq that has killed hundreds of thousands for no damn good reason. And so on, and so on.

So I find it hilarious and incredibly telling of the type of Republican bullshit and lies we're forced to endure for some reason as a logical response to actual thought and legislation.

Gerson's main complaint about the State of the Union speech is that Obama didn't apologize "enough" for the things he could have done better.

Which is sad really. The guy who put the words into the "man" who ran away when our nation was attacked during 9/11 and never apologized for ignoring the evidence that an attack was going to happen. The failed man who killed 4,500 American military men and women needlessly never apologized for it. The weak man who killed hundreds of thousands of foreigners and called for a new Crusades never apologized.

The guy who wrote the lies for that unapologetic shit thinks Obama hasn't apologized enough for saying he - and all of us - can do better. Incredible.

Absolute stones to say this to their faces. More of this is needed.

ThinkProgress follows up with actual examples of Republican hypocrisy.

The problem with conservatives is that they often make oaths or promise things and then conveniently forget it when the moment comes to be ethical or just keep their word. Senator Patrick Leahy calls out Samuel Alito for basically lying to Congress during his confirmation hearings.

Why this is relevant today of all days is that Justice Alito went all Joe Wilson last night and broke decorum by editorializing during the State of the Union speech. Check it out:

What a turd. You are supposed to be above party bickering. That said, given said body's response to weigh in on, much less ever bother to hear, Bush v. Gore pretty much says everything you need to know about the current Supreme Court.

Here is the transcript, followed by the video:

Additionally some followup notes from the White House.

HuffPo has a top 10 quotes list from the speech.

Plus a good piece by Gail Collins on the angry speech of the day.

And a decent analysis piece on the speech by E.J. Dionne.

Then again, hearing some of the conservative vitriol, I have been wondering what speech those morons were watching. Atrios shows us what the racist tea bagging traitors saw through their hate filters:

If you feel the need to grimace while being amused by hypocrisy, this is the interview for you.

In it, NPR's resident NeoThug basically gets on his knees and services The Orange Man, John Boehner.

Other than bearing that asshole's children, I am really not sure what other service Inskeep could have done for him. And I am really, really, REALLY tired of NPR giving the GOP an open mike to air their bullshit without even once questioning their words, motive, intent, or honesty.

Seriously, it's always, "let's criticize the Dem plan without even the courtesy of a sound bit" and then give the conservative point of view without filter, analyze, or even the obvious outright "you're kidding me, right?" response it usually deserves.

Want to know why I still refuse to donate to NPR and kinda want to kick myself for doing so? Start with Steve Inskeep.

More on South Carolina's dipshit Lieutenant Governor. Sadly, this will probably get him more votes amongst the Cracker/Talibangelical crowd.

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Some commentary on the Supreme Court literally turning America into a Fascist corporate fiefdom. Don't believe me? Look it up.

Olbermann weighed in on the whole thing. Yeah, he has his usual sense of drama, but the words aren't any more correct for it.

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Some more info on the situation.

This week in "compassionate conservatism":

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed.

"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."

That's South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer on why he thinks needy people are like stray animals. And yes, he's running for governor.

Suddenly I understand why the Palmetto State was fine with keeping a hypocrite and scumbag who sleeps around with his wife in office.

The irony here, as with most things Republican, is that Bauer used to be on a reduced school lunch system as a kid.

Palast is so out there way past progressive that he almost comes around the bend over in Cheney Facsist land, but he's dead right on this issue.

The Supreme Court just made it damn near certain that rich Chinese companies will be picking our presidents from here on out. Assholes.

Antonin Scalia is a Communist enabler.

More on the Bush rehabilitation tour.

You know what? Maybe we should focus on actually saving the Haitian people or something instead of issuing fluff pieces like this.

On a side note, welcome to the rehabilitation campaign of George Bush apparently. Frankly, I think he should be doing time for the thing he allowed to happen, but if he's going to be used to call out the Treason Wing of his party, then he has his uses.

I can't take credit for this, but am just reposting from TPM:

After he left the presidency, Teddy Roosevelt famously went on Safari in Africa. George W. Bush is following in his footsteps by keynoting a safari & hunting convention in Reno.

Some truly abyssal examples of the ranting Republican lunatics on TV this past year.

Fiscal conservatives are just greedy idiots: they are greedy idiots who want to create a permanent underclass to serve them.

Here are some douchebags on FAUXNews who want to cut or even abolish the minimum wage.

News flash douchebags: when people are too broke to eat or have a roof over their heads, they are going to buy any more Sarah Palin books, which essentially puts morons like you under the same bridge they live.

Great commentary on conservative idiots on this story from a couple weeks ago on the White House calling out it's critics as fools.

Posted by commenter Ironcomr. DECEMBER 30, 2009 4:47 PM:

Birthers, teabaggers, radical right wing "christians", secessionist, healthcare anti-reformist,etc., are all the same core group of poor, uninformed ultra-conservative pawns tricked by the corporate masters and cheerleadered by AM conservative talk radio to get these people to believe and vote against their own self interest.

It isn't any wonder that the main weapon to keep the rank and file conservatives in check is fear. Conservatives fear that their guns are going to be taken away, they fear that U.S. will become socialist, they fear that health care reform will kill off the elderly, they fear that the president is a muslim, they fear that when minorities are in power that reverse racisms will run rampant, they fear that every nation under the sun wants to destroy the U.S. and on and on. This is the main message of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, et al. to be afraid. After 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week conservatives literally become brainwashed through the radio and then some on Fox news to be afraid and angry.

Conservatives don't even know what exactly they are trying to conserve. They speak of fair play and freedom but when a group other than their circumscribed group speaks about and want such things (i.e. gay rights, immigrants, minorities, the poor)these ideas suddenly become liberal pandering.

Conservatives don't realize that what they fear most is change. The changing of American society and of the world. Thus their behavior is not much different from other conservative movements around the world, i.e. Taliban, Al Qaida, Likud, Abadgaran. These groups want to maintain the status quo and use fear and sometimes violence to achieve their means. These groups target the same type of people to believe in their ideology. These are usually the poor, rural denizens who feel that the rest of society is moving too fast and that they are being excluded because the city centers are thriving and they are not.

It is this simple mind trick that has allowed the military-industrial complex to roll along unabated for so long. The very thing president Dwight Eisenhower,a Republican, warned against. However, it was only recently that Republicans were up in arms against the slashing of the military budget and discontinuance of the F-22. This is just another example of how twisted and convoluted conservatism/republicanism is. It contradicts one of their venerated leaders and ideals.

Unfortunately, contradiction and hypocrisy have become the norm for conservatives, so much so that entire shows are based on it and have become very popular (The Colbert Report, Countdown, The Daily show etc.). When conservatives are confronted with this, the usual retort is that it's the "main stream media" distortion, wholly ignoring that "main stream" = normal or average, non-fringe. Again this is just fear working on these people, fear that their ideology is being pushed to the fringe creating the us vs them mentality.

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." Edmund Burke.

You may hear conservatives trying to scare you about how health care reform will "ruin" our economy much like it did Europe's. Well, given our past decade of economic chaos compared to Europe, maybe we'd be better off "ruining" our's as well.

What troubles me about the Reid comments is that as someone who does not know the man personally I can't help but assume that he does not have a single black American in his life that he is genuinely close to and spends any real time of consequence with on a personal level. Because if he did, I find it hard to believe that such a gaffe would be possible. (Note: black people who are paid to spend time with Reid or anyone else, as employees, whether as nannies or office staff, do not count as close, personal, friends.)

I heard Keli Goff discuss her article on Harry Reid's comments on NPR today. Here is that segment as well as another view on the issue.

In short, Harry is basically the same kid from rural, white bread Searchlight, Nevada. He probably has never been around a lot of black people. In truth, his work to get more minorities working in the halls of Congress is a testament to his trying to go the right thing.

Let's face it, the guy works in an almost exclusive white man's club. The Senate has one African-American, one Latino, three Asian/Pacific Islanders and that's only if you count White Poster Child John Ensign. And seventeen women. In a body of 100 people. That's not exactly a microcosm of America. Hell, that's not even a microcosm of upstate idaho.

So, yeah, his words are unsavory. Mind-numblingly stupid in a sense. Not that anything he said was incorrect. The first black president of America was always going to have to alleviate the fears of rural Democrats. Obama managed to do that.

But to have these racist "Kill the Kenyan socialist" asshats calling for Reid's resignation is too much.

I say Reid should take each of them to task for their overblown charges of racism. When THEY quit, he will too. We lose the majority leader and the whole damn GOP has to resign and get replaced by uneducated Palinite teabaggers. Serves them right.

John Oliver points out the conservative lie that they was some mythical time when the world made more sense. Basically any time women had no rights and minorities "knew their place" is just great for the Party of White Supremacists.

Bob lays out the numbers for relevance given the GOP's cowardly attacks on the President. Our country is safe despite their efforts to undermine our credibility and security. Follow the link for more details on how he came up with this data.

"Our country is being destroyed. Every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom... Terrorism? Yes. That's not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C. with the radicals. They aren't liberals. They are radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz: They're not liberals, they're radicals. They are destroying our country."

- GOP Traitor Allen Quist

The hypocrisy of the GOP rears it's ugly head again. Yet another Rethug challenges and diminishes the service of a highly decorated veteran in order to win office.

But hey, this ploy sadly works for these so-called chickenhawk "patriots". Bush "won" elections over both Gore and Kerry, the latter a combat vet. Hell, let's be honest, Bush legitimately beat McCain for the nomination in 2000 by attacking the veteran in that fight.

Chambliss beat out Max Cleland by directly calling him everything short of a traitor, including a terrorist sympathizer.

Why Americans allow these assholes to insult our veterans at the same time they circle jerk to Lee Greenwood songs while wearing the flag on their underwear is beyond me. Something is seriously screwed up with these "sunshine patriots" and they should be ashamed of themselves.

That said, between this asshat, Pawlenty, and Bachmann, there's something seriously f'd up about Minnesota.

Bob always finds a way to say it better. Granted, this is his job and all, but here he is calling out the GOP for making the world a more dangerous place and then whining and grandstanding on the fact that it is a more dangerous place.

Here's the law-and-order anti-immigration Sheriff in action abusing yet another human being.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.

More on this cretin violating his marriage vows (for the second time) and why the most recent ex-Mrs. Rove wanted out quickly.

You know, I was hoping this would happen. Sadly, the moron seems to have wised up. Birther Princess Michelle Bachmann has been carping about people not filling out the census so the "evil guvment" (that she works for) can't find out who is living in America.

First off, I hoped all her followers would be declared illegal aliens and shipped to an abandoned oil platform we can call Wingnuttia. Then I heard that Minnesota might lose a Representative district, namely her's.

So she's shut up all about avoiding the census.

Pity.

Sadly the fools CAN be taught. Just not anything that would make them better people.

Apparently Lush Rimjob wasn't aware that Hawaii already has a form of socialized medicine when he was bitching about getting good health care after stroking out from his hillbilly heroin or whatever the hell happened to him.

Republicans truly are pieces of shit, as if converting to Christianity would make a sin more or less forgiveable.

That's the problem with Talibangelicals and their ilk, they believe that just going to church solves everything. No, you ALSO have to not be racist warmongers. Idiots.

Or, as posted on Reddit:

So Brit Hume suggested Tiger go find Jesus. I wonder why he didn't make the same suggestion to Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, and all the other republican cheaters, pedophiles, and repressed homosexuals.

- posted by ioster

A bit old, but sadly still relevant.

And, wow, yeah, this is pretty much how they sounded.