The next time you are talking to a racist Tea Bagger foaming about illegals taking jobs away from stockbrokers or something and how basically brown people are “taking their country from them” or something, remind said traitor that their boy Ronnie gave three million illegal Mexican migrants amnesty back when he was trying to bankrupt our nation.
Just saying.
Paul Krugman points out the sick thought pattern that conservatives consider rational: that the unemployed want to sit at home collecting 60% of their former pay.
Bob Cesca tackles the issue as well, including this quote by Atrios:
Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good.
It’s all very depressing.
Republicans, until proven otherwise, are vile, evil elitist bastards who care nothing about their fellow Americans in need.
Gotta love The Onion. Another winner here.
In oh so many ways, too true.
Comedy Central video link
From Political Irony:
“So which is it conservatives? Do you want Obama to stop the oil spill and clean up after it, or do you really want the federal government to stay out of it? You can’t have it both ways.”
Also:
Some commentary at PI on how most racists start out a discussion on how they aren’t racist at all. And then go on to proof that to be a lie.
I’ve been reading some of the news and editorials in Prescott and find it heartening that some see the mural debacle as a chance to grow as a community. For the most, it has joined folks together and even a local paper hopes it doesn’t define it’s citizenry.
That said, a quick read of the comments of the above stories shows the hate-filled spittle, anger, and fear of those who want to whitewash our society and make criminals out of folks solely on the color of their skin.
Screw Aryzona. Maybe when these old racists die off, you can make something good of your state, but for now you are a cancer on this nation. God bless those of you who have to live in that tyranny of racist hate.
Too close to reality, but still funny.
You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women’s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in the end-of-family-free-enterprise-God-America on the one hand, and the imposition of atheism-socialism-Nazism on the other.
This is about as close to truth as you’re going to get about the GOP.