This is funny in the ironic symbology kind of way. Tea Bagging Traitors across America have taken to flying the Gadsden flag as a symbol of protest.
Primarily because they are unoriginal bastards and, more to the point, snakes themselves.
Turns out, however, that the snake on the flag – the Eastern diamondback – is endangered and in need of government protection if any are to remain.
Irony. Tastes delicious!
Ron Paul. In lovee with treason, the “Lost Cause” and apologist for slavery. This apparently is what people are willing to look past in order to get a president who will legally let them smoke pot.
You’ll need weed to endure everything else this prick would allow to happen.
Obama the candidate really had a smart operation four years ago. One of those effective things was his branding, including great font usage. Let us hope the fonts still works, as does the messaging.
He really has to get across what he is willing to do once the possibility of re-election is off the table. By that I mean, he’s spend three years compromising with folks who have done nothing but demean his patriotism, his faith, his convictions, the color of his skin, and his family members.
Screw them. It hasn’t even resulted in much meaningful legislation. I want to see a president who not only points out how childish, cruel, and reactionary his opponents are, but how he plans to do his job despite them. Honestly, he’s got nothing to lose so he had best start making the argument that way.
Want to know why Republicans are worried so much about voter fraud? I mean, sure, yes, they definitely want to disenfranchise minorities, old people, college kids, overseas military personnel, and anyone else who might potentially vote for a Democrat.
But, also this. In Iowa, the GOP has shown that it is utterly incapable of handling a fair election on their own.
In a caucus process run SOLELY by Republicans, composed SOLELY by Republicans, they don’t know who won. They even – two weeks after the case – have had to throw out the results of eight caucus sites because they have no clue how those votes went. Hell, one site they left in had an adjusted total of 50 votes!
No wonder they don’t trust anyone else. They can’t even do it right by themselves.
I like this.
It needs said. More often, by more people.
Up until this morning, a guy, (Traitor Rick Perry), who was considered less effective than George W. Bush and who is a fan of Texas secession wanted to be considered a viable candidate for presidency of the United States.
Currently, a man who couldn’t keep a sacred vow to two women (Gingrich) wants to swear on the bible that he will “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”. And this, even as he vows to ignore the Supreme Court of the United States.
Each is part of a party whose platform is not to improve our economy, mend fences with a world that has reason to hate and fear us, nor find ways to fix our immigration, labor, environment, infrastructure, or a host of other issues. No, their stated goal is to make Barack Obama a one term president. For some, many I’m sure, that has everything to do with the color of his skin.
And you wonder why I am down on them.
I have no business watching a GOP debate so I only know what I’ve read. So, yeah, some of the message may be jaded.
That said, none of those folks seriously have a chance of earning my vote. A corporate raider, a lobbyist in all but name, the ick that is Santorum, Traitor Rick, and Ron the Racist. Um, no thanks.
After 8 years of Bush the Lesser and the GOP *still* has two Texans in the running? Including Bush’s understudy? Wow.
Anyway, the highlights I gathered this much are that Gingrich is (still) advocating for child labor. Yes, Newt, it IS good to earn a buck and to learn the lessons of money management, savings, and responsibility. However, you do not coach it that way. You want to fire a (often union) janitorial staff, tell kids not to worry about studying or extracurricular activities, and do what is, frankly, some pretty hard work.
Oh, and probably get mocked relentlessly by your peers if not handled properly.
The lesson here really is, bust a union or two, tell kids not to worry about their dreams and get ready for a low wage job.
Oh, and got a standing ovation for telling a black moderator to basically remember his place. Nice job, Juan Williams. Are you finally figuring out that you sided with the wrong people?
Rick Perry still wants to fight the federal government. This time he wants the feds to stop trying to stop him from disenfranchising elderly voters, college age kids, and minorities. So he’s either FOR mass-vaccinating little girls (which, frankly, isn’t that what we already do for polio and a host of other ills?) or he is actively trying to stop people who disagree with him from voting at all.
How a secessionist is trying to win control over the whole United States and isn’t laughed off the stage still amuses and befuddles me.
And people consider the Republican party a viable option in this country.
I can’t wait for the future, when we put away the Birther BS and the angry progressive BS, which in the end kind of sound the same, and look back at this time as consider ourselves so very, very lucky we had this man in office instead of Palin.
And if you think McCain would have survived under this kind of pressure, you’re nuts. I think even he would agree if his most honest, quiet moments.
I could hand out a laundry list of things that definitely would NOT have happened in a GOP presidency, but you have your own angry list, part truth, part fiction, of how you’ve been disappointed.
I read Andrew Sullivan’s conservative defense of Obama, and – given its bias – agree with the premise if not quite the details.
I have a bias too.
Frankly, if I had secessionist nitwits from Palin to Perry questioning my patriotism, much less my status as a citizen, I wouldn’t have been able to keep my cool. If I had every abortion clinic bomber cheering for me to die and for the right to carry guns to national parks and to shut the whole country down because they can’t handle the color of my skin, I’d have given their fondest dreams a reality and built those damn FEMA camps they have wet dreams about.
Which is why I’m not president. I would not allow these “Christians” to abuse my wife, mock my children, hell, insult my dog the way this guy has.
I would have, literally, grabbed the nearest FOXNews git and choked them out. Or at least have spent WAY too much time fantasizing about it.
So, temperament alone, after the Age of Bush, I give the man credit. It doesn’t hurt that he genuinely seems to give a damn about this country to boot. Seriously, he doesn’t care what you think. It shows. And he’ll get to smirk quietly in his dotage as all his work pays off over the decades.
That said, I’ll thank him now. And hope he gets a second term where he really, genuinely can ignore the traitors. By that I mean the writers who fill the bookshelves with them standing in front of waving American flags with titles about how America is finished.
Seriously, they have had the reins of power for much of the past three decades. If America has failed, I place the blame at their feet.
I don’t know why this surprises anyone. The GOP has spent the last 50 years collecting every racist in the country like they were Pokemon cards. Even their “Massachusetts liberal” presidential candidates can’t help but give warm bear hugs to bigoted blowhards.
I mean, I know Republicans who aren’t racists, but many of them refuse to criticize those that are for the sake of party line purity.
You sleep with pigs, you wake up in the stink. That’s all I’ve got to say.
Bill Moyers is back. Thank God.