Category Archives: Politics

As racist as they wanna be

Honestly, I’ve been ignoring the Sotomayor confirmation hearings because I know two things. One, she’s going to get confirmed barring a catastrophe. Obama picked a moderate knowing damn full well she’d get confirmed.

Two, I just knew the Republicans were going to sink to the lowest form of racism allowed on 21st century television. It is their nature. It is also their only way to gain power.

I was glad to see this point of view confirmed in Tom Gilroy’s HuffPo article this morning. A very large taste focusing on Beauregard Sessions interrogating Sotomayor:

“The point of putting a ‘racially insensitive’ white man up to question a Latina has nothing to do with bad GOP planning and everything to do with intimidation. Republicans know she’s getting confirmed; what they really want to do is intimidate the White House, the media, and me and you from embracing progressive views.

So, if you’re going to embrace affirmative action, feminism, equal rights, economic fairness, civil rights, — Jesus, even empathy — you stand warned you will be attacked. It has nothing to do with defeating Sotomayer and everything to do with discrediting what most Americans believe and intimidating us from expressing it. It’s also a signal to their dwindling base — disenfranchised, uneducated whites — that the GOP is still the party of the cluelessly and inarticulately disgruntled.

Hence economic fairness is ‘a special interest,’ universal healthcare is ‘socialism,’ and believing in a right to privacy is ‘judicial activism;’ all of it bullshit, but all of it useful.

That’s the goal here; keeping ignorance alive so you can cajole it to the ballot box, the streets, in front of David Letterman’s studio, at the local Board of Ed meeting or the commencement at Notre Dame.

Or outside Dr George Tiller’s women’s health clinic or the Holocaust Museum — carrying a gun.”

Don’t believe that? Then how about Pat Buchanan literally screaming that the GOP doesn’t need Hispanics as long as they can con enough white people to vote for them. That way the GOP Senators should try as hard as possible to paint Sotomayor as an anti-white racist to ensure their ideological purity or some shit.

To be honest, he may actually be right about the numbers if not his racism.

Meanwhle, Maureen Dowd is proud of Sotomayor’s defense of her opinions and career, though may be making too much hay of the white racists in the GOP Senatorial contingent. Not that they aren’t, but they are still in power because someone voted for them.

Even in our next Supreme Court Justice can school Beauregard Sessions.

Businesses should let go of health care

I’ve been avoiding the public health plan debate on the old blog because I don’t even see another plausible side to the argument other than greed. Or maybe just plain evil.

So, on Friday, I really, really enjoyed this commentary on Marketplace of all places. I mean, I enjoy the program but it is usually chock full of conservative financial types. It was wonderful to hear a logical, and accurate, voice telling business that they are idiots for not wanting to get out of the health care business.

Case in point? Both Chrysler and GM exist today in a post-bankruptcy world and solvent precisely because the government found a way for them to get rid of their health care obligations.

It’s a pretty “duh” moment for this country but big business and GOP are too stupid to see it.

And so, we have Senators who already have public health care reading the words of the private health care lobby, who is currently spending $1.4 million A DAY to fight off a public health care option. Why? Well, if the public plan can give care to the 45-47 million who don’t have insurance, and draw in folks like me who hate paying more money for less coverage year after year after year, you could easily have a public plan of at least 100 million Americans fighting for better care at a cheaper price.

And that’s bad for business while being good for American citizens. Since when was the health of a nation supposed to be something measured on a balance sheet rather than a health chart anyway?

If you want another reason to loathe the health industry, listen to this interview I heard this morning. Steve Inskeep is one of NPR’s conservative bullshit artists and even he seemed to be creeped out by Dr. Sam Nussbaum of WellPoint. Seriously, give that one a listen and you’ll see why I previously stated that greed and evil are the only stances against health care reform that seem accurate. And that guy is both.

Political Irony › When Context is Everything

The only trick left to conservatives is to take anything out of context they can to make others look bad.

Why? Because these days there doesn’t seem to be any way to make themselves look good. If their future candidates for president aren’t cheating on their wives and staying in office, they are quitting their jobs and calling it experience.

But, as PI shows, a picture and a soundbite can look bad, until you put it in context, focusing on a recent incident involving the President, and a much-much-rehashed and misinterpreted quote by Sonia Sotomayor.

Op-Ed Columnist – She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It – NYTimes.com

Frank Rich uses his pointed righteous indignation for good intent and correctly reams Palin for aiding in destroying what little prestige the GOP had left.

Look, because they coddle racists and have the platform of a pack of drunken frat boys, I have no desire to ever vote Republican. That said, this country needs at least two parties to not become led by complete asshats, so someone had better get rid of these racist, anti-American Talibangelicals and get their fiscal conservative asses back in the driver’s seat over there.

And Caribou Barbie ain’t what’s going to get you back on track folks.

LIFE Goes Inside Today’s KKK – Photo Gallery

The GOP would like you to believe that racism is dead. That the Klan is no more and there is no threat against those of a different color, creed, or religion in this country.

But your average Palinite rally last fall put the lie to that nonsense.

Check out these photos from LIFE on the lives of America’s racist, Nazi-loving, GOP-voting hardcore. A collection of similar pics from the photographer is here.

As ‘Tea Parties’ lose steam, fringe conspiracists step up to the fore | Crooks and Liars

Bent on screwing up the Fourth of July, crackpot separatists took over tea parties to espouse their hateful anti-American views.

As usually, they get help from FAUXNews, who just recently had a show host angrily fume on how we don’t keep the races “pure” here in the United States.

Here is more on how even fringe anti-American GOP pols get booed at Texas tea parties.

Genius! Thanks for stoking the anger of all those traitors. Let’s genuinely hope it doesn’t come back to bit us, even the Republican bastards.

The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room » Bachmann, Poe introduce bill to curb yearly Census survey

I am a lifelong Republican. What can I do about the continued insanity? The GOP has absolutely fallen apart and I don’t know if we can salvage it or fix it? Who votes for people like this woman? She is simply irrational. I am tired of being the butt of jokes from the left. We must find intelligent people. We cannot continue to elect cretins like this and make any headway. Why are our leaders getting more stupid and less qualified every election year? I just don’t get it. Where are the Buckleys? Where are the reasonable people?

Comment by Christopher Carroll — July 13, 2009 @ 8:57 pm

I actually feel bad for the woman quoted above. She was posting on this story about Insane Sociopath Michelle Bachmann, Republican of course, who wants to kill the annual mini-census. Presumably this is in line with her desire to kill the census – and eventually democracy – altogether.

But seriously, Republicans, why do you vote for these idiots? There has to be someone, anyone better. Y’all need to step it up or quit the profession.

Obama Checking Out Lady? Judge for Yourself – ABC News

Even more context from the raw video itself.

I don’t know why this pisses me off as much as it does. I guess the GOP is scrambling to find anything it can against the President and they’ve now resorted to the “horny minority” option. You know…he’s “subhuman” and all.

Bastards. This guy has more loyalty to his wife – and there isn’t proof of anything else to date despite the wrath of a thousand Swift Boater types – than the entire GOP Senate delegation. Or GOP Governors. You name it.

Daily Kos: Obama daughter wears t-shirt, Freepers call her ghetto trash

Yet ANOTHER classy Republican reaction to the Obama family.

Racist pricks.



Some lowlight quotes:

“we;’re being represented by a family of ghetto trash.”

“Looks like a bunch of ghetto thugs. A stain on America.”

“Looks like a typical street whore.”

“What we now are sending the ghetto over to represent us. and if so who the hell is that flea bag who looks to be dragged from the trash dumpster.”

“you could go down any ghetto right now and see exactly the same.”

“could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there”

“the world must be laughing like mad right now at that we have this kind of street trash in our white house.”

“Wonder when she will have her first abortion.”