"Democrats said that they were called the 'N word,' but no one has any record of it. No witness saw it, it's not on camera, it's not on audio. There's a $10,000 reward for anyone who can produce a video or an audio. Don't you think we would have seen a video or an audio by now if there was something out there?" - Michelle Bachmann (R-Batshit) Link
"I too offer a $10,000 reward for anyone producing audio or video of Jesus performing a miracle. And there is another $10,000 for anyone producing tape of Columbus' landing in the New World. If one cannot produce a tape of an event, then it could not possibly have happened." - Mario Piperni, Link
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Most Americans think that the Democrats not only did something illegitimate by passing health care reform on a party line vote, it was so illegitimate that they were asking for violence and vandalism by doing it. Good to know.I guess you really can't fix stupid.
It has become seriously disenchanting to be an American lately. It's obvious that our people don't give a damn about the substance of anything. We've had some quite serious problems in this country but I think the refusal of a good portion of the American people to use their brains borders on a national dysfunction.
If that's the case, then our democratic system of government is effectively dead. Any minority party can simply block all legislation, make up a bunch of bullshit about "tactics," threaten them with violence and the people will back them. (Unless they are Democrats, of course, in which case they will be told the "elections have consequences" and be called obstructionists who refuse to allow the governing party the room they need to govern.)We can't survive this way for long. I just hope I'm gone before the real decline begins. The end won't be pretty. In a century, the American Empire will be just another chapter in the history books.
Lemme see if I get it - this brain dead buncha batcrap crazy wingier-than-wingnut phony xtians thinks the government is the cause of all their troubles and were plotting to destroy it by killing a coupla cops and starting a civil war. Yeah, like that was gonna happen. The last time I can think of that a 'general uprising' was planned was the Tet Offensive in '68. Didn't work then either, but I don't guess these clowns read much history. These ying-yangs' thinking was probably closer to Charles Manson's Helter Skelter. So when they get caught, instead of being cut down in a shitstorm of po-leece lead on the spot or up against a wall, or being Gitmo'd like the terrorists they are, they are now relying on said taxpayer-funded government to protect the same Constitutional rights they accuse the same government of trying to destroy. Through their mental fog they seem to understand that a free-market lawyer costs money they ain't got because no reputable employer will have anything to do with them because they're idiots and God seems to not be answering their call for Him to provide because He is hiding his face in shame that He made them in his own image because they're idiots. Hey, even the Almighty has a few warranty problems. Is that about right?
Who says irony is dead?
The real irony will be when the Public Defender, most of whom have better conviction rates than the District Attorney, gets 'em off. Heh.
I'm sure the media and right wing blogs will give this the same amount of attention they gave the climate change denialists will ignore this completely:
The UK scientist at the center of the "Climategate" controversy over leaked e-mails has been cleared of hiding or manipulating data by a parliamentary committee.But lawmakers who had been investigating the row over global warming science said in a report published Wednesday that climate scientists must publish all their raw data and methods to ensure the research is "irreproachable."
***The Commons report said the leaked emails suggested a "blunt refusal" by Jones to share scientific data but its chairman Phil Willis said there was no evidence that Jones hid or manipulated data to back up his own science.
If the NY Times behavior in the ACORN case is any example, I'm pretty sure they will get around to clarifying their part in the climate change denialist binge around the time Manhattan is submerged by ten feet of sea water. And, in fairness, if they continue to employ Douthat, Brooks, and Friedman, I'm ok with that outcome.
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When an election is ACTUALLY stolen (not the ridiculous claims made by teabaggers that the all-powerful ACORN (which was all too easily toppled by a 25-year-old punk) somehow managed to get enough poor people to vote to give Barack Obama 56% of the vote in 2008), you don't just move on. Because the same people who stole the 2004 election will do it again if they have to in order to regain power.
Brad Jacobson has a devastating series (Parts one and two) about how a FEC commissioner helped the Republican Party hide its role in vote suppression in the 2004 election.
A little taste before you go read it: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/04/nothing-to-see-here-just-move-onmove.html
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If this is the false packaging they use now, imagine if they actually get her elected
Unfortunately, the judge limited liability to the Feds alone, not to any of the suits who thought that the Constitution could be waived because Bush and/or Cheney found the rule of law to be inconvenient.
He actually says that. And then he tries to blame The Gays for the Catholic priest abuses.
Yesterday:
The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
The proposal is intended to reduce dependence on oil imports, generate revenue from the sale of offshore leases and help win political support for comprehensive energy and climate legislation.
Today:
Boehner rebukes Obama offshore drilling plan via The Hill
Sarah Palin responds with a pair of tweets. In the first, she writes, "Drill, baby, drill." In the second, she praises Boehner's response and admonishes Obama for trying to win over conservative votes for an energy overhaul:
[I]f it was argued during his two terms in office that Bill Clinton was "our first black President" because of his supposed liberal policies that would benefit African-Americans (though I'm not quite sure what President Clinton did, that he wasn't forced to do, that would benefit any minority except for Chinese monks with political donations to spend.) With that argument shouldn't Barack Obama already be our "first gay President" due to his liberal policies pushing the homosexual agenda?
Yeah, right morons, Obama is the first gay president. Good one.
