If only Ted Kennedy had lived long enough to see the health care bill pass. I doubt he’d have liked much of it but as a stepping stone to making America a better place, he’d have voted for it nonetheless. He’s been on the mind of many in these closing days. Hopefully those hypocrites in the GOP who dared call him friend are choking on the bile their duplicity has churned.
The South blows. No, really.
Republicans are vile, vile people. Attacking children, mocking the poor, and now reaming out a Parkinson’s patient for cheap laughs. Link is to the full video, here’s a taste of their hate:
More on the story here.
Some tongue-in-cheekiness from Michael Moore on the passage of the Health Reform Bill.
Which brings me back to what I fervently believe. At least half of the folks that are gonna benefit from this are the tea bagging racists who have been screaming racial epithets and secession the whole time. I hope they can get their meds past the big ol’ honking hypocrisy pill they’ll have to swallow.
This is not a spontaneous uprising of disaffected citizens who are angry about bailouts. This is the base of the modern Republican party, same as it ever was.
– Digby on the Tea Party Racist Traitors
I’d love to say I’m surprised but I’ve lived in the South and in the rural Midwest. Racist Republicans are nothing new to me.
However, you used to find that the most vile woman-hating, minority-loathing, gay-bashing language was kept at home. Now it is out in the open. The secessionist bullshit is in the open. The violent revolution is on the table.
Why? Because they lost a couple elections. That’s it. People, in the main, got tired of their lies and bullshit and voted a lot of Republicans out of office. Then, we the people, elected a black man president. And these cretins went insane.
You have a better explanation? Pop me an email, because nothing else looks plausible.
Our nation is progressing. Moving forward. We just now got a health insurance system that is on par with other free nations of the world. They got their’s in the middle of the last century. We’ll get a portion of our’s in four years time. Progress. Kind of.
But this is horrible for the conservatives. Let’s see what passes for compassion with them.
Reverting to time honored racism, calling black Congressmen “nigger“. Spitting on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver.
Talking Points Memo has a nice roundup on both the racial element, plus the blatant homophobia by calls of “faggot” directed at Rep. Barney Frank.
Once again, so “compassionate” these conservatives.
Here are Reps James Clyburn and Elijah condemning the Rethugs:
In theory, some of the Tea Bagging Traitors fear a backlash from all the racist and treasonous bullshit their kind spews. Granted, I’m supposed to believe these morons don’t know they traffic in treason. That’s a big leap of faith to be honest.
Cases in point follow.
Pastor Randy Neugebauer, who was on the ticket with Alan Keyes, is calling for the death of all 219 representatives who voted for health care reform. Now THAT is compassionate conservatism in action! And he’s supposedly a “man of God”.
ConservaTwit Solomon “Solly” Forell is in deep shit for tweeting about assassinating President Obama. So much for democracy; not that the GOP has been a fan of it anyway.
And then there are the Tea Bagger protest signs. Here are some, plus some more here.
– Bonus points for using a LaRouche sign
There’s protesting and then there is pissing on the concept of America. This is the latter. They voluntarily chose to no longer be my countrymen.
David Brooks is never going to be anything but a Republican apologist. But at least he dwells in the realm of reality as he tries to explain Barack Obama to any Republican who is still capable of thinking past Tea Bagger talking points.
I think he’s pretty close to the mark, at least as far as a Republican can get. Not saying I’m on his bandwagon, but the GOP is going to need a LOT more people like Brooks if you are gonna get folks like me to believe that any of their arguments come from a place of sanity. As for now, there’s no reasoning with that party on anything.
“Attention, Wal-Mart customers. All blacks need to leave the store.”
Wal-Mart is supposedly shocked by hiring racists to harass their black customers.
When my dad got a night job at a Wal-Mart in Illinois, he introduced me to some of the racist propaganda masquerading as training videos. Granted, the message of one tape was for white stockboys not to call elderly black men as “boy” but it was more of a wink, wink, nod, nod “don’t do that in public” thing. I don’t have a copy of the tape but I’m sure it’s out on the Net somewhere.
Besides, Wal-Mart knows how to butter it’s bread. Cater to the racist NECKCAR fans and then buy out any competition in minority-majority areas to where folks HAVE to put up with their racist shit.
Sometimes a little righteous indignation goes a long way.
You are facing a bully. Deal with it!Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.
Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.
Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.
For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantle of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?
Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers – only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.
DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.
Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.
Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and healthcare because life is a pre-existing condition and the “free market” should not have to take on such a high risk – after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.
Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare but should put its hands inside a woman’s body.
Republicans believe in small government – small enough to hold the “right” people and small enough to be owned and operated by the “right” people. And who are the “right” people? Them. Not you.