Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Republican Heroes: More “Family Values” failures

In case you hadn’t heard of him, meet Michael Duvall. He’s a California state rep and some type of moral majority bigot and, yes, a Republican.

Apparently, when he’s not gay bashing or trying to cram his “do as I say and not as I do” morals down people’s throats, he’s screwing not one, but two female married lobbyists, and apparently gets hard spanking at least one of them.

But hey, he’s got nothing on Kentucky Republican Steve Nunn. This asshat was working for the state government and was once considered a shoo-in for governor. You know, because his daddy was once governor. However, Stevie derailed his political career by beating up his then fiancee, a girl about half his age. He had to resign from his job as well, a rare feat of Republicans having sexual or violent acts and actually having to atone for them in some way.

That was a year ago. Now, ex-fiancee Amanda Ross is dead from being shot in her condo parking lot and cretin Nunn is in the hospital for what are apparently wounds from a failed wrist slashing suicide. The cops think the Nunn waved around in the latter incident (not to mention the potential shooter) just might be related to the former crime.

I mean, hell, this is the GOP at it’s finest. Get spurned by someone who doesn’t want to be treated like a punching bag, kill her, then slash your wrists because you’re too chicken to dine on a bullet. But it’s all okay because you tried to off yourself at your parents gravesite.

Freak.

So compassionate, these conservatives.

Bill Maher: New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali

The Democrats just never learn: Americans don’t really care which side of an issue you’re on as long as you don’t act like pussies.

Mr. President, there are some people who are never going to like you. That’s why they voted for the old guy and Carrie’s mom. You’re not going to win them over. Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren’t crazy.

Bill Maher asks the President to grow a pair. I don’t always agree with Bill but I sure do on this one.

The Seminal » Stay Classy, Right Wing Republican Radicals

Not sure if I linked this or not, but it bears a second look if I did.

Meanwhile, locally, we have this editorial cartoon…

…and this letter to the editor pointing out how wrong the Republicans are when it comes to health care reform.

If you bother to read the letter, take a moment reading the comments by our local teabagging traitors. It is instructive to realize how hateful these cretins are.

Angry Republicans – September 12 Protest Signs in Washington – Esquire

This is the face of evil, dressed up under the flag and a cross. Hypocrites, liars, and damn near traitors, the whole lot of them.

If Republicans had gotten everything they wanted for the last seventy-five years or so, the United States of America would have no Social Security, no Medicare, no Aid to Dependent Children, no civil rights, no environmental protections, no privacy rights to make contraception legal.

Plus, the the history of the “birthers” and assorted associated treason.

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study | U.S. | Reuters

Pretty much everything you need to know about the financial reason to push through health care reform. Families are going broke and losing their homes while insurance companies have enough cash to bribe and buy Congress many times over while earning insanely sick salaries.

Don’t believe me? The CEO of UnitedHealthcare makes (through salary and stock option) over $800,000 A DAY! Unless this guy managed to cure cancer, pull all the excess carbon out of the air, and figured out how to get rid of acne in one morning, there is no way in hell he deserves that kind of money.

But he does. On the back of everyone paying for crappy insurance policies. Some of them are losing their homes while he figures out how many more mansions he’d like to own.

So much for fairness.

Who took the picture of Joe Wilson? And how? | Psychology Today

THIS is a great question:

So here’s what I don’t understand. If Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s speech Wednesday night was truly “spontaneous,” as Wilson claims, and no one (including Wilson himself) could have anticipated it, how come there is a sharply focused and neatly centered picture of Wilson right at the moment he shouted “You lie!” when the outburst lasted less than a second? In the picture, Wilson’s mouth is still open, apparently in the middle of his shouting “lie.”

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I’m pretty convinced that the GOP is using South Carolina and Louisiana politicians to push forward their hate and racism as those folks will never lose an election in the heart of the resurgent Confederacy. In short, Wilson’s “moment” was staged.

Op-Ed Columnist – Boy, Oh, Boy – NYTimes.com

Just to follow up on my last post, Maureen Dowd’s most recent editorial adds to the “GOP are racists” debate.

One of my co-workers posted something about resurgent McCarthyism on Facebook this week and one of our other co-workers basically railed against “Socialists who hate our Republic” and other assorted shit she probably learned from Glenn Beck’s knee. I shot back with a comment or two and then she assails us all as the “usual suspects” who have “no respect” for others. You know, because calling someone a traitor demands respect given in return or something.

I’m getting really tired of these hypocrites.

The Seminal » Big Insurance Defines Abuse as a Pre-Existing Condition

Do you still like your insurance company?

It takes people who lack a moral compass to justify nine figure salaries while denying cancer patients care because they failed to disclose previous bouts of acne. It is no surprise that insurance executives, who are always busy chasing after the next five figure bonus, are coming up with a novel way to deny people access to medical care: labeling survivors of domestic violence as “individuals with pre-existing conditions.”