Women legislators are a severe minority in the Republican Party. Enough to warrant special attention.

I mean, it’s pretty obvious why given their policies, but it is still quite alarming. You expect this stuff from a Third World nation, just not here. Hell, even Pakistan has had a female leader, but we have a party actively against the rights of women recently hold all the levers of power in the United States.

Case in point: in Rethug Texas, if you are a woman who is raped and work with the police to prosecute your assailant, they will charge you for your rape kit. The implied message is “rape is okay, don’t raise a stink”. A similar charge was exacted in Palin’s Alaska.

The point was really drove home recently when Rethug Hero (and Felon) G. Gordon Liddy launched a race and gender-based attack on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor which included the following statement:

“Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something.”

Stay classy GOP.

I read this article awhile back and was actually dumbfounded by the idea. Apparently, a substantial amount of conservatives think Stephen Colbert’s character is for real.

Granted, I have my issues with the show. I think it toes the line into even pretend angry bigoted too often and too close to be real. Also, it isn’t all that funny overall. That said, I’m still pretty convinced he’s play acting. Don’t take my word for it, here’s an interview Colbert recently did with the Los Angeles Times.

For more on the study, go here.

Robert Reich weighs in on the topic of Rethug vitriol against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. They’ve gone to the standard plan of letting Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al speak the racist BS while the elected types go “aw shucks, them guys” and pretend to focus on issues.

So far, no one has really called them on it. Hell, Mitch McConnell doesn’t even pretend to speak out against the bigoted statements.

Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. They’ve attacked her for “having feelings”, re: being a woman. As mentioned in another post, Traitor Liddy had some VERY chauvinistic things to say about her.

Aside from calling Spanish “illegal alien”, the GOP has also gone out of it’s way to label Sotomayor a racist. What is telling is that since they are damn near ALL saying it, doesn’t that kind of make them the racists? Or is calling her “Sonia from the block” not a racist statement.

Among the racist fearmongers are Liddy (see above link), Tom Tancredo, and Limbaugh and Beck and their ilk. Trust me, it isn’t hard to find links to this.

And while trying to pin a racist label on a federal judge, one of Tancredo’s aides (who also worked for Pat Buchanan) confessed to accosting an American-American woman on the street, karate chopping at her head and calling her the N-word. And he has not been fired from Tancredo’s employ.

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.

But they aren’t the racists. Right.

Wait. Isn’t Sotomayor actually qualified for the job she’s up for?

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.

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: