“This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed.”
– Jesse Ventura, August 2008
I don’t agree with most of his politics – and why should I? – but Jesse Ventura has been on a roll coming out against torture recently. Here’s a nice roundup of his recent appearances.
Baldwin makes a very, very good argument concerning Talibangelical hypocrisy when it comes to gay marriage.
If you look at it through that point of view, it’s a no-brainer argument. Heck, if you look at it as anything but a fundamentalist theocrat point of view, it’s obvious.
Heck, singer Rob Thomas makes more sense than your average Republican fear-filled bigot, and I don’t expect much from musicians who aren’t folk singers.
Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, lays out a plan for action.
I still reiterate that the fastest way to get equal rights for gays in this country is to ensure that they pay nothing but property tax until they have the same rights as anyone else in this country.
Just a quick list of highlights about our potential next Supreme Court Justice.
I find it funny how the Rethug Brigade is already branding her as a “judicial activist”. Look, put the damn term away. The ONLY activist judges we have had in this nation in recent years are Bill Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence “Pubic” Thomas when they circumvented the will of the people and picked Bush. In the case of Rehnquist and O’Connor, they apparently did it just to retire under a GOP administration. Assholes.
If you are Mike Huckabee, every Latina is named Maria, as he calls Sonia Sotomayor. Classy, and probably indicative of how the GOP is going to play this along racist lines of argument. Maybe I can link him to the murder of that little girl by her Sunday School teacher in California. Huckabee, Huckaby, same difference. Murderer!
In a similar vein, Nathan Deal, Rethug Representative from Georgia, wants to make it harder to be born an American citizen. Yep, nothing like killing freedom to ensure democracy.
That didn’t take long.
I figured the GOP would need time to get their racist panties all in a bunch given that there are a few ways they could screw this up.
Bob Cesca relays the following quotes and sources:
Charles Krauthammer feeds the fear machine by saying the nomination letting “concern for certain ethnicities override justice.”
Glenn Beck sick contribution is: “They’re just like, ‘Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You’re empathetic. You’re in!'”
GDAB contributor Elvis Dingeldein hits back with some reality and objectivity.
And just so we’re clear on the race thing, here is Rethug hero Stephen Baldwin on Obama and his “jive talking”. No, I’m not kidding.
Our Border Patrol agents work hard to protect the line. And, having crossed back and forth numerous times at a dozen or so different locations, they’ve been friendly enough.
That said, there is always the mirrorshades asswipe just looking to intimidate. To them, anyone brown is an illegal. Anyone not Amurkan as he is is the “enemy”.
It is of this ilk which the following officers belong. To deny the documentation of an American citizen. Actually – to TEAR IT UP – should be some form of felony in a just world.
Sadly, we don’t seem to be living in one.
Bob delivers some common sense reality to the topics of Harry Reid’s spineless nature and closing Gitmo. In short, Harry needs to step down and don’t believe the hype of GOP fearmongering on Gitmo inmates.
In short, no one has EVER escaped from SuperMax prisons. Also, Republicans didn’t fear holding over 400,000 Nazis during WWII. So why the big hangup over a couple thousand Muslim extremists now? I mean, the GOP was a racist as the Third Reich then, and as reactionary as al-Qaeda now. Shouldn’t they be welcoming their brothers-in-arms?
Once again, Nevada politics fails to impress.
Out governor, dirt bag that he is, is planning to veto some gay rights bills. Presumably he is making this decision on the whole “protecting the sanctity of marriage” BS argument that Rethugs use.
Let’s review for a moment Gibboon’s “family values”. During his campaign he was busted trying to seduce a cocktail waitress. He has since gone on to bang a Playboy playmate. Some husband!
But hey, if Gingrich can accuse Clinton of impropriety while having cheated on his wife, why can’t another Rethug be a hypocrite? At least it isn’t “protect the children” Mark Foley trying to have pedophile sex with young boys?
Seriously, what the hell is it with Republicans being sexual degenerates?
The Body beats up on Hannity, as he deserves:
A list of the twits who made American torture possible. And yes, it’s a greatest hits roll call of Bush douchebags.
What a bunch of jerks.