“I guess it’s an efficiency thing. You don’t want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they’re committing real gang rape.”
– John Stewart on the difference between ACORN and Halliburton
Comedy Central video link
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So, the GOP has been harping since basically the beginning of his presidential campaign that the Democrats treat Barack Obama as some form of minor deity. You know, with McCain’s mocking faux-religious commercial about “The One” and such crap.
I mean, I’ve been to African-American campaign events and never saw anyone worshiping Obama. Hoping to God he won, yes, but prostration? No.
So, since Saint Ronald can’t actually be a god to them (he got divorced, remember?) the have no issue calling him Ronaldus Magnus. You know, like Charlemagne or something of the like. A Holy Roman Emperor from Death Valley (Days), as it were.
Jackasses.
Other failures from GOP.com include the name change to Tom Michael Steele’s blog. Yesterday it was called “What Up!” Today it is called Change the Game.
That sounds very – ahem! – whitewashed. Not that you could tell by all the non-white and mostly non-male faces being used as decoration on the website.
You know yesterday when I kind of almost said a nice thing about Bill O’Reilly?
Yeah, with this flashback in history of Bill the Sexual Predator, I’m taking that comment back now.
You aren’t gonna catch me linking to these cretins often, but Bill O’Reilly takes off his asshat hat for a moment and remembers he’s an American, and the wingnuts he relies on for a paycheck sell him out as a traitor.
I honestly feel bad for him in a “now you know how far thirty pieces of silver will go” kind of way. The answer is “not damned far” but he should have known better than to throw in with irrational traitors.
He was respectful to the President and they’re planning to hang the guy, hopefully in effigy.
I love that Democrats are finally fighting back against Republican stupidity.
The GOP can’t stand that Obama has been recognized as a peacemaker, even as he has the clean up Bush’s wars. Look at the following quotes, first by some conservative blowhards and then by terrorist spokesmen. There isn’t much difference between them.
“What has President Obama actually accomplished?” – Michael Steele, RNC Chairman
“The Nobel gang just suicide bombed themselves. Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton. See a pattern here? They are all leftist sell-outs. George Bush liberates 50 million Muslims in Iraq, Reagan liberates hundreds of millions of Europeans and saves parts of Latin America. Any awards?” – Lush Rimjob
“I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it” – RedState’s Eric Erickson
“He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan … We condemn the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for Obama.” – Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman
“Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward. Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace.” – Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official
Contrast these responses with ones from even Syria and Iran, for God’s sake:
“I believe Obama is working hard for peace. We in Syria believe that Obama’s initiative have been suitable, and that Syria is now witnessing important steps to correct the relationship with the United States. I believe everyone here will be very happy for Obama.” – Muhammad Habash, a Syrian member of parliament and director of the Islamic Studies Center in Damascus
“We are not upset and we hope that by receiving this prize he will start taking practical steps to remove injustice in the world.” – Ali Abkar Javanfekr, media aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
And here is the DNC’s response, which seems very appropriate given these statements:
The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.
Michigan’s Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who nailed John Kyl on hating women recently, had this to add:
“I find it very very disappointing for the chairman of the Republican Party — after the cheers that went out when America lost the Olympics — to now be attacking our president, everyone’s president in our country, at a time when he is being recognized on the world stage.”
It’s nice to see Democrats growing a spine again.
“A lot of us took it as more of a racial-type thing. I can only imagine how his players would feel. I know I wouldn’t want to play for him. He’s a jerk. He’s an –. What he said (about McNabb) was inappropriate and insensitive, totally off-base. He could offer me whatever he wanted, I wouldn’t play for him. … I wouldn’t play for Rush Limbaugh. My principles are greater and I can’t be bought.”
– Jets linebacker Bart Scott
Looks like the prospect of Lush Rimjob buying the St. Louis Rams doesn’t sit well with some NFL players.
Let’s hope every player – regardless of color – thinks the same way. They won’t, but you’d like to think something this foul would inspire them to do the right thing.
Going along with Krugman’s argument about Republicans and Medicare:
