Category Archives: Politics

Inhofe: “Hope This Country Can Hang On Another 16 Months” | TPMDC

At some point, Obama is gonna have to stop being a nice guy and start putting traitors like Jim Inhofe in a re-education camp.

I mean, hell, the Rethugs already believe such things exist. Why not prove them correct on something. For once.

This is the same assclown joining the “let’s have a revolution” crowd in recent days.

Look, you guys lost an election. Badly. It happens. You don’t get to burn down the country because the voters decided we didn’t need a Luddite Talibangelical theocracy. Get your crap together, form cogent sentences with actual ideas and maybe you get another chance in a future election. That’s how democracy works.

Then again, Christianity was supposed to be about loving thy neighbor and living righteously and see what you perverts and bigots have done with that.

Why Is Universal Health Care ‘Un-American’? | CommonDreams.org

I can’t believe I am standing today in a Christian church defending the proposition that we should lessen the suffering of those who cannot afford health care in an economic system that often treats the poor as prey for the rich. I cannot believe there are Christians around this nation who are shouting that message down and waving guns in the air because they don’t want to hear it. But I learned along time ago that churches are strange places; charity is fine, but speaking of justice is heresy in many churches. The late Brazilian bishop Dom Hélder Câmara said it well: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.” Too often today in the United States, if you talk about helping the poor, they call you Christian, but if you actually try to do something to help the poor, they call you a socialist.

A pastor questions why true Christians would be against health care reform. And, more importantly, expresses disappointment with his angry co-religionists who oppose caring for their fellow man.

Republican Heroes: Asshats and Assaults

From the same Rethug Representative hoping for a new Republican “Great White Hope”, some footage from her town hall meeting where she laughs at the plight of a single mom without insurance.

But, while mocking people you are supposed to represent is pretty vile, at least she didn’t go out and hit her.

In Florida, a random Rethug pulled his truck over at a rally and punched an elderly pro-reform supporter. Nice.

These asshats will even shout down a woman in a wheelchair in New Jersey and stop her from speaking.

Once again, there’s nothing compassionate about conservatives and nothing Christ-like in their Christianity. Disrespecting people who you supposedly speak for. Beating on the elderly. Treated folks in wheelchairs like second-class citizens.

Why do we listen to such vile people?

SPORTSbyBROOKS » Taking Torch From Ted Kennedy … Curt Schilling?

Even irreverent sports columnists are laughing it up at the prospect of Curt Schilling running for Ted Kennedy’s seat. I lost all respect for this guy when he went full out for Bush in 2004. In 2000, that was forgiveable to a degree given that we didn’t know how much of a spineless asshat he would be. But not in the next election.

In short:

Yes when I think of the Kennedy legacy, the photo above immediately comes to mind. In fact, make that puppy giant-size and slap it on a few billboards around the state, and Schilling could be the first person ever to get zero votes. Sorry to ruin this thing before it gets started, Curt.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Lion in a Senate Full of Them–Back in ’63, That is

This is almost depressing.

Here is a list of some of the shining lights of the Senate back when Teddy Kennedy joined up to fill in his brother’s term. Granted, some – like Goldwater and Thurmond – aren’t people I’d necessarily admire, but even those I wouldn’t agree with couldn’t be called outright idiots. You could disagree with them on principle and respect said differences.

Face it: McConnell, Cornyn, Grassley, Chambliss, McCain, Inhofe and company couldn’t hold a candle to another of those names – collectively. To be fair, neither could Feinstein, Baucus, Landrieu, Lieberman and their ilk.

Thankfully Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown, and the Udall cousins seem to be making early good starts. But honestly, our current crop is lacking in both gravitas and good ideas.