Daily Archives: July 22, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist – Pharisees on the Potomac – NYTimes.com

Maureed Dowd points out that the GOP has gotten bad at the only thing they’ve ever been good at: Here is a list of the Rethug crazy train rolling through his district.

Meanwhile, some Rethug car dealer in Missouri is offering a free AK-47 with the purchase of a pickup truck. One, rednecks need less weapons, not more given their tendencies towards killing doctors and blowing up decent Americans. Two, why are so-called patriots lining up to get Soviet/Russian/Red China-made assault rifles? Are you too traitorous to actually want an AR-15 when you plot to destroy America? Is THAT the limit of your hypocrisy?

Look, at this point, I could never voting Republican, even if the Democrats turn into the Flying Demon Bat Party tomorrow. In that case, find me a viable third party, but I am NEVER EVER going to side with those racist morons. Ever.

(Granted, I only voted GOP once and he was running for coroner, for God’s sake.)

Think Progress » Executives receive one-third of all pay in the U.S.

Does anybody seriously believe that it’s a good thing that business execs earn a third of all payroll in this nation?

This is, frankly, utter bullcrap. Yeah, let’s tax the bastards to pay for health care. Let’s not forget that a bunch of these bastiches pushed for the Iraq War, got rich off of it, and still are.

Others are oil execs. Some are the same bankers we’re bailing out because they screwed our economy up.

Tax ’em. Then cut their damned pay.

Think Progress » Jindal takes credit for stimulus, presents constituents with jumbo-sized stimulus check.

So….

Governor Piyush Jindal* hates the stimulus plan. He came on TV and gave an incredibly awkward speech to tell me so.

So why the hell is he trotting out press conferences to give out stimulus checks?

Oh wait! He’s not calling them stimulus checks. And he’s putting his name on them instead of Obama’s or the federal government in general.

So you stole the money Jindal? Just asking.

Either way, clever in that lying, double-faced GOP kind of way we are all too used to.

* As you may know, Governor Jindal likes to be called Bobby, after the youngest son in The Brady Bunch. No, I’m not kidding.

But as he is in a party that a) is incredibly racist, and b) went out of it’s way to point out that the president’s WHOLE name is Barack HUSSEIN! Obama, I think it is only fair that we remind them that one of their governors who hasn’t either quit, or cheated on his wife lately does not have an Anglo-Saxon name.

You know, just in case they need their noses rubbed in it.

Even Tom Arnold Can Out-Think Sean Hannity and Other Republicans | Crooks and Liars

Tom Arnold looks like a freaking genius when pitted against Hannity and the lobbyist puppets arrayed against him. Check it out.

Meanwhile, Lewis Black makes some chuckle-worthy assessments on The Daily Show.

Look, the GOP can’t even make an argument that a B-movie actor and a comedian can’t cut to shreds in quick succession. How the hell does this pass muster as a counter argument to the President’s plan?

Let me put it closer to home. How am I supposed to be that “Obamacare” or whatever they want to call it is bad for me and my family? How am I supposed to buy the “stay the course and go broke” argument? Last week I went to get Gabriel a refill on one of his meds. The pharmacy cuts the prescription 20% because the insurance company made them do it. So, I pay the same and get less for my 11 month old baby because the insurance company has the right to override the wishes of our pediatrician. And I’m supposed to like this?

Screw that. Pass the public plan. Hopefully it is worth the rhetoric and is something I can jump on board with to provide for my family.