Republicans: abortion, taxes, war…
Democrats: health, education, peace.
Either way it will cost money. What do we want to buy?
The choice is too easy.
Archive for GOP Lame
A Shrink in Denial
Dr. SanityThis news must be a real bummer for the political left, who have managed to convince themselves that they were given a “mandate” by the electorate for their dysfuntional ideological views in 2004.
I don’t think it took convincing. It pretty much is a fact (dysfunctional ideology or not) that the Democrats were given a mandate to remove the Republican stranglehold in Washington. Face it - the Republicans have screwed up royally.
The Timeline - Iraq
Two more years, two more years…
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
And with those words, George W. Bush announced the beginning of the Iraq war on March 19, 2003. And on its fourth anniversary, let’s follow this war through the words of George Bush. Follow the time line here
Neocon Intelligence
There are 25 of their talking points / beliefs listed. Go read it and get your points:
The Blog | Marty Kaplan: Are You Smarter Than A Neocon? | The Huffington Post
13. Dissent emboldens the enemy, aids and abets the terrorists, and is unpatriotic.14. Freedom is like dominoes.
15. Our mission is victory.
16. In six months, this will all turn around.
17. The Generals on the ground know what they need and get what they want.
18. If Joe Lieberman is for it, it’s bipartisan.
19. The Senate Intelligence Committee already looked into it, and there’s nothing to it.
20. It’s Clinton’s fault.
21. Iraq is the central front in the global war on terror.
22. “Redeployment” is another name for cut-and-run.
Conflicted Conservatives - Max’s Theory
The Sanchez story heats up - predictably because of hypocrisy. No surprise who else is in Club Hypocrisy.
Max Blumenthal
…Conflicted Conservatives in Crisis.
CCC’s are aggressive toward groups they privately identify with, like sexual minorities or independent women, but they are simultaneously submissive to those who might otherwise persecute them. Thus, Coulter assiduously cultivated the approval of James Dobson, an anti-feminist demagogue who advocates “women’s submission;” Sanchez enlisted in the Marines, then joined the right’s campus culture war; and Haggard inveighed against homosexuality from the pulpit. These CCC’s scurried away from freedom for the tight confines of an authoritarian movement. For CCC’s, backlash politics is a crude form of therapy.
The CCC phenomenon explains why so many of the right’s most bigoted and hysterical figures are eventually unmasked as frauds. Sanchez may be drummed out of the movement after today’s revelations, and Coulter may lose advertising revenue and allies after her latest paroxysm of hate, but the show will go on. So long as conservatism is propelled by the politics of resentment, it will continue to attract and generate CCC’s.
Sex, Homosexuals and the GOP
If it were not for the hypocrisy of the GOP it wouldn’t *be* or have *been* a story Michelle.
Michelle Malkin
It’s only a matter of time before the MSM goes nuts with the story. Report on the everyday progress in Iraq? Forget it. Sex, homosexuals, and the GOP? Get ready for wall-to-wall coverage a la Foley, Gannon, and Haggard.
“Conservative” Loathing
How sad - the party of Goldwater and Reagan has descended to this:
The Daily Dish: The “Faggot” Video
All I heard and saw was loathing: loathing of Muslims, of “illegals,” of gays, of liberals, of McCain. The most painful thing for me was the sight of so many young people growing up believing that this is conservatism.
Pandering
There was a time McCain could have gotten my vote. There is no courage here, nor leadership. Disapointing.
McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned - Yahoo! News
“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.
Helen Thomas Earned Her Front Row Seat
Fox News is shameless. With their new “comedy” news show clip getting thumbs down all over the net you would think they might lay low and lick their wounds. Noooooo. With Bill O’Reilly screeching about NBC turning “far left” and basically watched for the “laugh factor” he provides, you would think Fox News would buy a clue. Nooooooo. Fox wants to up the ante by knocking Helen Thomas out of the front row at the White House. Never mind that she is a national treasure.
Talk about attention for bad behavior. Fox News is not only stupid but now we can add mean. Pathetic.
Note: Does not apply to Gretta or Shep Smith
‘Fox and Friends’ Discusses FNC Getting Helen Thomas’s Seat in White House Pressroom | NewsBusters.org
It’s safe to say that columnist Helen Thomas is not a favorite figure in the White House pressroom as far as conservatives are concerned. On Wednesday morning, the “Fox & Friends” crew discussed the revelation that the Fox News Channel has asked for a better seat during gaggles and pressers in the newly renovated pressroom once it’s completed, one in the front row in fact.Co-host Steve Doocy mentioned that FNC and another cable outlet have asked for this privilege, but as the new design only includes one more front-row seat, Helen Thomas would have to be kicked out of her chair to accommodate both outlets.
~Congress - Vote More GOP Do-Nothings Out in 08
Shenanigans still. We vote in a new congresional crop and gain a slim Democratic majority. Has it done us any good yet?
Obviously the GOP did not get the message that we (the people) want something done about this war - and something done about this run-amok administration. The GOP blames the election on corruption and is still in denial about the vote for change in Iraq. An anti GOP / Bush vote if anyone cares to take notes.
2008 is going to be even more devastating than 2006 for the GOP if they do not get their act together and stop enabling this administration.
Chuck Hagel is excused from this criticism. He obviously has a handle on reality. One of the few in DC.
Yet Novak credits the Democrats’ tactic as sound and says that it was somewhat successful. “They tried to vote on the Iraq strategy, and Republicans stopped them,” he writes. “Given the war’s unpopularity, that is something of a Democratic victory.”
Novak adds, however, that Republicans “believe they would have been worse off had they been divided in a simple vote for or against” the President’s troop surge. “That would have been embarrassing to the entire Republican Party, as committed as it is now to success in Iraq,” he continues. “Republicans prefer to avoid such a vote altogether.”
Next time someone tells you what a wonderful democracy we have going here, you might want to mention that the Senate, our most important deliberative body, will not allow itself to consider the wisdom of escalating a ruinous war that virtually everyone in the world opposes, save the increasingly detached-from-reality-and-discredited-leaders who insist on continuing it.
Mary Cheney
If she had only had integrity.
It’s a little late to declare the private choices of gays and lesbians unfit for public debate, Mary.
And so long as your party insists on making the fitness of homosexuals to marry or parent—or, hell, exist—a subject of public debate, Mary, your decision to become a parent is germane and very much fit for public discussion and debate. The GOP’s selective embrace of some pregnant dykes—only knocked-up lesbians with powerful connections will be treated with respect—is a disconnect that demands answers. From you, from your father, from your venomous mother, from the idiot president you helped elect. Is that fair? Maybe not. Want to blame someone? Go look in the mirror—and then come out swinging, Mary—for yourself, your partner, and your child.
GOP: Stop Hiding Behind Our Troops
We all know it. Even those who are trying to use Kerry as a whipping boy again. The man made a goofy attempt at cleverness at GW’s expense and “clevered” himself into a media pickle.
These Republicans have been “using” the troops for nefarious reasons since the war began. Bush speechifying with military people both in front and behind him - while they die by the stupidity of his decision to go into Iraq. Any disagreement with the war or their misguided policy - is against the troops. And it goes on, never ending blather about the troops. If the GOP isn’t using the troops for show-and-tell or for campaigning and retaining power - they claim we - their parents, friends, loved ones who have lost so very much, want to lose this war. Shameful.
Politics is a blood sport. Yea, I get it - we all do. Just stop using our blood for your sport. We know who you think are stupid - trust that we are not. Trust also that it is inevitable that the Republicans will lose power eventually - if not this election then it will be the next, or the next after that.
And as for our troops - we all know that those who fight and die for us are smart. What they are usually not is privileged. Privileged enough to get deferments or join the Guard.
Kerry should have not tried to joke or be clever - he shoulda just called these neo-con crazy people what they are: Assholes.
No, the troops are not stupid, but let’s state the obvious: a great many of them join the military because college isn’t an option.
The military recruiters know this. That’s why they specifically target inner-city and rural schools, and stay away from places like Phillips Andover, where you can go to Yale even if you get crappy grades– where you never have to make a choice to potentially sacrifice your life for financial reasons…
…So, let me ask this: if the military relies so heavily on those who cannot afford college, is it a simple coincidence that the Republican-controlled Congress passed the largest cuts ever in student aid this year?
Republican thy name is Pathetic.
What is up with Republican George Allen?
The staff of Sen. George Allen, who is running for re-election, has apparently roughed up Mike Stark for asking questions that Allen apparently does not want to answer - about an arrest record that has been reported.
BobGeiger has the video and reports:
In a turn of events that’s shocking even by Republican standards, a Virginia man has been assaulted by the campaign staff of GOP Senatorial candidate George Felix Allen for asking questions at a campaign appearance that they found unacceptable.
The rest is here
Here is another video if you do not know who George Allen is.
I can understand not wanting to answer a question. It is not acceptable to rough up someone for asking a question, especially a question to a politician during a campaign.
I have had a brief email exchange with Mike Stark a time or two and have heard him many times on call-in radio shows - he seems to be a nice guy who asks questions politely and calmly. In fact he has given advice to people who call radio shows to be on point, but calm.
Update: AMERICAblog is following this as well. They have some still shots from the video.
Update 2: The Raw Story has more.
Update 3: The Washington Post has video
Only The Faithful Got Invited to WH
Not surprising. The crowd in the White House seem to only care about 1/3 of the country. Guess they were afraid to have anyone ask them hard questions. Pathetic.
Radio Hosts Get Closer to the White House — if Only Physically - washingtonpost.com
Though a handful of liberals, such as Juan Williams of National Public Radio and Fox News, were allowed in the White House tent, others say they were shut out. Rachel Maddow, an Air America host, said the White House did not return her calls when she sought an invitation.
