Category Archives: Rethug Morons

Think Progress » Jindal takes credit for stimulus, presents constituents with jumbo-sized stimulus check.

So….

Governor Piyush Jindal* hates the stimulus plan. He came on TV and gave an incredibly awkward speech to tell me so.

So why the hell is he trotting out press conferences to give out stimulus checks?

Oh wait! He’s not calling them stimulus checks. And he’s putting his name on them instead of Obama’s or the federal government in general.

So you stole the money Jindal? Just asking.

Either way, clever in that lying, double-faced GOP kind of way we are all too used to.

* As you may know, Governor Jindal likes to be called Bobby, after the youngest son in The Brady Bunch. No, I’m not kidding.

But as he is in a party that a) is incredibly racist, and b) went out of it’s way to point out that the president’s WHOLE name is Barack HUSSEIN! Obama, I think it is only fair that we remind them that one of their governors who hasn’t either quit, or cheated on his wife lately does not have an Anglo-Saxon name.

You know, just in case they need their noses rubbed in it.

Bob Cesca: Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed

“The last time I renewed my driver’s license, it took less than five minutes. If I ever have the privilege of sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room and, subsequently, the exam room, for less than five minutes I’ll voluntarily pay triple the fee and send the doctor an enormous gift basket filled with, you know, a Lexus.”

More goodness from Bob Cesca on the bullshit GOP arguments against public health care.

Rethug Hero: Catherine Crabill, VA GOP Candidate: We May Have To “Resort To The Bullet Box”

This lunatic is running on a platform of, hey, armed insurrection if Republicans aren’t allowed to cram their 18th century religion-based racism and hatred and anti-science agenda down our throats.

Tell ya what crazy lady, you turn in everything that isn’t a blunderbuss and stand by your backwards ideals and I’ll go shopping for a Galil and some body armor and meet you on an open field later.

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.