First Draft

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Wheel Of Misfortune edition

Good morning, gentle people - it's time to spin that airlock door wheel and venture into Freeperville, where up is down, black is white, and All True Scotsmen love Sarah Palin!

Bimbo Bozo Bum Boots Boffo Boxoffice!!

Palin film disappears at box office
The Hill - GOP12 ^ | August 1, 2011 | Christian Heinze

Posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:01:20 PM by CedarDave

The pro-Sarah Palin documentary, The Undefeated, suffered another huge drop in ticket sales over the weekend, earning just over $5,000.

Last weekend, the distributor pared things down and ran the film in only four theatres, which should have raised its per theatre average, even while reducing ticket sales.

Well, overall ticket sales did, indeed, fall, but so did sales/theatre, which were just $1,300 last weekend -- its worst performance since opening.

(Excerpt) Read more at gop12.thehill.com ...

Nonetheless, my "I'm voting for Sarah" bumper sticker will continue to remain on my P/U.

This was predicted by a number of FR members. However, while it would have been nice to have better numbers, the DVD and online releases coming in six to eight weeks will enable many more to see it.

1 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:01:28 PM by CedarDave

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Her appeal is definitely becomig more selective.

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To: CedarDave

Did anyone not already a Sarah supporter see it?
Will anyone not already a Sarah support buy it/pay for it on pay-per-view?

I have to think not.

4 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:08:15 PM by dmz

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To: CedarDave

No, this is part of a brilliant strategy!
Taking the country by storm! With a brilliant strategy!

And timing! It’s brilliant and timing and strategic. By storm!

Millions!

Wait, what?

6 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:13:07 PM by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)

I can't imagine what's keeping the True Believers.

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To: humblegunner

I can’t wait to see what you have to say in September. You’re such a bitter jerk.

7 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:18:17 PM by toddausauras

Ah - there we go...

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To: dmz

Am definately a Palin supporter, but why on God’s green earth would I want to pay a dime and sit through a 90 minute campaign ad??

This movie thing was NOT a smart move!

8 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:19:57 PM by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)

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To: CedarDave

This was a definite PR misstep.

11 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:22:32 PM by wideawake

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To: CedarDave

I was a box office flop Jim.

12 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:22:37 PM by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)

You Palinistas aren't gonna take this lying down, are ya?

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To: org.whodat

“I was a box office flop Jim.”

Do you mean that Sarah’s movie was a box office flop? I, for one, would’ve gone, but the closest theater where it played was four hours away. It wasn’t played in many venues. (I won’t go more than a half-hour to see ANY movie.)

Besides, most people who’ll vote for her don’t need to see a movie to convince them. People who suffer from PDS wouldn’t go on a bet. Perhaps some undecided voters saw it and learned something.

21 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:31:05 PM by MayflowerMadam

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To: wtc911

It was a bad idea from the beginning. The only people who would pay to see a 2 hour infomercial about Palin are die hard fans. I wouldn’t pay to see an infomercial lasting 2 hours about any candidate...or non candidate. LOL

She is a known commodity. It would have been far better to join the race earlier and change minds by competing alongside the others.

Like it ot not, people pretty much have made up their minds about her over the past 3 years. She has loyal fans, but not enough to win a national election.

No doubt some will watch it for free, and they can still sell DVD’s to the same people.

With a free gift in every box!

I guess The Undefeated was Defeated.

37 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:43:58 PM by indylindy

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To: alstewartfan

She can always sell DVDs from the bus when she goes back on the road to finish the America tour...................any day now..........

26 posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 4:34:21 PM by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")

Oh - the bus tour!

Sounds like something we should explore after the vertical elevation.

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They Thought They Could Control It

David Frum, going, "I say, old chap, maybe inviting this frothing, flea-infested, mangy were-panther to our lovely garden soirée was a bad idea."

I feel about this the way I feel about people who keep grizzly bears and gorillas and tigers as pets. They keep animals that outweigh them as pampered houseguests, feeding them raw salmon and steak and putting cute little collars on them and shit, and then are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when their "best friends" get bored one day and eat their faces.

I mean, COME ON. Did you really not think you'd be lunch at some point? It's one thing to know it and have a death wish. People jump out of planes. People do all kinds of shit they know is dangerous as hell and it's kinda sexy to live that far on the edge, but only if you know. If you've got yourself a degree in Advanced Self-Deception and you think it is going to be okay to keep a zoo animal in your living room because it owes you something for naming and putting a little hat on it, I don't even know what to do with you. That kind of idiocy exhausts me down to my bones.

They nurtured these freaks for years. The entire apparatus of the sensible Republican Party of which Frum is so enamored, which started unprovoked wars and slashed necessary funding for programs that helped people but at least did it with pinky finger properly cocked, was RUN on keeping people like this chained to the machines. We've all seen these movies. The slaves always rise up and kill their masters. Free Willy always breaks out of the whale enclosure. Thinking you can use and use and use people and there won't come a point when they'll start demanding the right to choose their own names and clothing and get their own elected to Congress, that says more sorrowful things about the intelligence of those running the party than even the debt ceiling crisis can.

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Fiscal Follies (female) edition

Good morning, everyone!

Since Adrastos is busy with Rising Tide VI - Electric Boogaloo (shameless plug) and Kibitzer is still recovering from strolling into the iso chamber, noting the rotating red beacon lights, the warning sirens and the people rushing for the airlock in a frantic attempt to outrun the unleashed Freeper crazy - and then looking around saying "What's up?" while the toxic fumes engulfed him - I'd like to thank the erstwhile Elspeth Ravenwind (still sounds better than Wendy) for doing a yeowoman's job helping me get the insanity sponged off the walls.

Let's see what's cooking this week, shall we?

First of all - Freepers luvs them some Laura Ingraham.

I mean, luvs. 

Laura is on O'Reilly

Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:49:33 PM by fatima

She is doing a great job and looks Beautiful.

1 posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:49:33 PM by fatima

Would you still love her if she looked Ugly?

To: fatima

She is one smart woman.

2 posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:51:40 PM by svcw (Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)

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To: fatima

She is doing a great job and looks Beautiful.

She always does...and always does...

 

3 posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:51:50 PM by jessduntno ("Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in it." - Ted Kennedy (D-HELL)

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To: SoCalPol

Thanks.That’s means she is on the rest of the week.:)Love Laura.

14 posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:13:25 PM by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))

Get the picture?

"I love Laura and she loves me - She's as brittle as she can beee"

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Now?

Not so much.

Why?

Laura Ingraham pushes back on Sarah Palin primary threat Politico ^ | July 29, 2011 | ALEXANDER BURNS

Posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 4:00:56 PM by ejdrapes

Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, one of the high-profile certified non-moderates urging the GOP to support John Boehner's debt ceiling bill, leveled criticism at Sarah Palin during today's show for raising the prospect of 2012 primary challenges to House Republicans.

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No, Larua thank god

You're going to Hell for failing to capitalize "God".  Just so ya know.

we have people who stand on principle. Most of the time that's the reason we get half a loaf.

Metamucil can help you with that.

If it wasn't for the grass roots we'd be totally screwed. I do agree with her though that throwing out primary challenge threats right now isn't helpful. I can't believe Palin really thinks someone like Paul Ryan or Alan West should be primaried because they're voting for Boehner 3.0. So I'm not sure who that challege was directed at.

1 posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 4:00:59 PM by ejdrapes

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To: ejdrapes

Ingraham argued in her broadcast that Palin's note was unhelpful to the GOP — and to the tea party

I have had about enough of Ingraham too.

 

Lindsey Graham's old girlfriend.

4 posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 4:04:40 PM by kcvl

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To: ejdrapes

Makin’ friends inside the beltway there Laura? Don’t let the cash trump the ol’ principles.

12 posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 4:07:48 PM by Invincibly Ignorant

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To: ejdrapes

Certified non-moderate?????????????????? The woman is a RINO!

The ultimate insult!! Could there be anything lower in the eyes of the Freeperati?

An unmarried RINO!

26 posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 4:13:15 PM by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)

 

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More of The Battle Of The Babes after the folded faces, with gratutious Allen West (remember when they loved him, too?) bashing.

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Super-Charming

From Facebook, a billboard in Wisconsin. YAY!

These are the people who really, really care about federal spending, you know.

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Thursday Night Music: It's My Own Fault

This one is dedicated to John Boehner who is probably the worst House Speaker of my lifetime. He's a no-account who cannot count votes but unlike BB King, he'll never say, it's my own fault:

 

Deadbeat Club

I must admit that I thought that Congressional Republicans were bluffing when they talked about default being no big whoop. They do, however, place an inordinately high premium on ideological purity, which means that they're ready to drive their clown car off the cliff and drag the rest of us down with them. I guess they haven't noticed that the Greek debt crisis has driven the Eurozone to the brink of calamity and Greece has any eeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini economy.

Gene Lyons wrote a great piece for Salon about these reckless GOP nutters:

As I write, it's impossible to guess how the latest made-for-TV partisan crisis in Washington will end. We've reached the point where the president of the United States felt he needed to deliver a prime-time speech essentially defending the post-Enlightenment values of reason, evidence and compromise against an obscurantist movement more like a religious cult than a political party.

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Mr. President, this ain't Harvard Law Review, where everybody's done their homework and honorable colleagues seek reasoned compromise. If you want the great mass of Americans to grasp what's going on, you've got to tell them plainly and repeatedly until they can repeat your message like an ad slogan: "Less filling, tastes great." "Where's the beef?" Like that.

How does "deadbeat Republicans" sound? Because the simple fact is that the GOP under George W. Bush put two wars, a Medicare drug benefit, and tax cuts heavily slanted toward the rich on the national credit card. Now that the bill's due, they're planning to skip town and stick Democrats with the charges.

There it is in a nutshell. I want whoever is President to be rational BUT right now the other party has gone stark raving mad. They cannot be reasoned with, all one can do is bop them in the head long and hard enough to try and beat some sense into them. It's not going to work all that well BUT you cannot reason with fanatics.

I really like Lyons' slogan suggestion: Deadbeat Republicans. It's simple and catchy but if you want to be able to dance to it, you need a theme song. Here's my suggestion:

 

They Just Can't Help Themselves

Not a role model, people.

Greetings again from Wisconsin, where the Republican Party, not content with going after working people, public transit, schools, air, water, soil, arithmetic, logic, and compassion, has decided that yet another special interest group has it too easy.

Puppies.

You read that right.  Puppies.

State Representative and Beelzebub's Cabana Boy Don Pridemore (R-Heartless) has taken it upon himself to craft legislation that will ease restrictions on puppy mills.

Again, you read that right.  You see, in 2009, the Wisconsin Legislature, in an inexplicable fit of decency, decided that these motherfuckers who breed hundreds of dogs, but don't care for them properly, shouldn't be allowed to profit off of the misery of dear old Canis lupis familiaris.  So they enacted (by unanimous vote, for fuck's sakes) a law that made anyone who had more than 25 puppies at a time subject to state licensing, regulation, and fees.  Everyone was happy; it's not like the supply of dogs has dwindled, but the government actually did something to reduce the amount of cruelty in the world.  Also, dogs that are cared for well while they're puppies grow up into healthier, happier adult canines.  They require, on average, far less medical care over the course of their lives, which means significantly lower medical bills.  (Note to Republicans: The same principle works on humans as well.)  Seems like a success story, no?

Fast forward to 2011.  My, how times have changed.  Representative Pridemore--who, in an extra twist that's guaranteed to make Baby Jesus cry, was a co-sponsor of the 2009 bill--has since decided that we just can't have the heavy hand of government interfering in the glory and majesty of the Free Market.  So he's proposing that the number of dogs you can have before you're subject to licensing and such be raised from 25 to 100.  Has there been any public outcry in favor of easing these requirements?  No.  Is there any justifiable reason for doing this?  No.  Does Rep. Pridemore get a lot of campaign donations from dog breeder interests?  I don't know, but that might be a good thing for an enterprising journalist to look into.  If he does, this thing reeks of payback.  If he doesn't, he's just a cruel and stupid bastard who thinks that there should be more suffering in the world, and who has decided that his vote of less than two years ago was an affront to some misguided principle.   

Here's hoping that this thing dies before it reaches the governor's desk.  But with the way the Wisconsin GOP is dedicated to pissing off anyone who ever voted against them and chopping away at the very notion of a decent society, I can't be sure.  If you live in Wisconsin, call your state representative and senator and tell them that this kind of idiocy needs to disappear.  And tell them what you think about the rest of the ridiculous GOP proposals that have been and are being enacted this year.

Where's that goddamned meteor, anyway?

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Religion Of Peace edition

Ok campers - a little change in protocol today - we're going to have to inspect the Freepertude from perspex windows outside the iso chamber - it's too crazy and dangerous to go in there just now.

You see - Norway happened.

Oslo explosion - live coverage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/ ^ | 7/22/2011

Posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:50:05 AM by cll

Edited on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:53:53 AM by Admin Moderator. [history]

 A man disguised as a police officer began shooting where youth were attending a Labour party conference at Utoya, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just confirmed.

1 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:50:10 AM by cll

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To: cll

For a country under 5 million people this is their comparison to 9/11. Not to diminish 9/11 but this is horrible.

I have many friends in Norway, some posting on Facebook already. They have spoken often of Muslims not integrating into Norwegian society at all. But mostly everyone felt safe.

Possibly because they actually knew some Muslims, as opposed to reading about them in places like FR, or seeing them as cartoon creations?

Rude awakening today for them. Shall be interesting to see how this enfolds.

6 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:53:45 AM by alisasny

Yes it will, won't it?

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To: cll

In my travels working with troop movements, I have been to Oslo on occasion. Fine city, wonderful people. God be with them in spirit and courage, strength and rage be with them in the flesh.

These bastards are evil and sick, and their religious beliefs are beneath contempt.

14 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:57:13 AM by Cap74 (You can disagree with me. You can attack me. Do not lie to me.)

Bookmarked.

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To: cll

Time for Western Civilization to Rock the Casbah again.

On THEIR turf.

15 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 11:58:05 AM by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)

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To: cll

This will not stop until a real war on islam begins... and we all know that it is muslim demons that are doing this.

LLS

23 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 12:09:21 PM by LibLieSlayer ("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)

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To: alisasny

Most of the older Norwegians do not like what has been happening in their country but they do like their cradle to grave benefits

Horrors! How dare they??

so they haven't said enough.....the younger generation (under 40) have been raised to worship at the twin altars of “tolerance” and “diversity”.

Those BASTARDS!!!

Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call for them, as well as the other European countries who have welcomed the wolves into their sheep folds and are now surprised to discover “what sharp teeth” they have!

29 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 12:16:04 PM by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know who holds the future!)

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To: cll

Must be the Amish or the Mormons again.

Must be.

Norway needs to get a clue that an immigration policy which is driven by political correctness is suicidal.

37 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 12:35:46 PM by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)

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To: dfwgator

“This is a new kind of, a new kind of evil. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while. And American people must be patient.”

George W Bush, September 6th, 2011.

Anybody really think he used the word “crusade” accidentally? I don’t.

That's because you're a dumbass, too.

Ezekiel 39?

46 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 12:54:53 PM by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)

Proverbs 14.7

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And then...

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To: All

Police have a suspect in custody. Looks like it was a right-wing Norwegian native trying to take members of the ruling Labor Party.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017851/Named-The-blond-Norwegian-32-arrested-holiday-island-massacre-linked-Oslo-bomb-blasts.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

146 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 7:45:27 PM by Endo

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then:

To: Endo

So much for all the comments on every Muslim that exists!

147 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 8:15:18 PM by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)

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10 minutes later:

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To: Endo

Hmmmm....silence here...can it be that everyone jumped to conclusions?

148 posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 8:20:27 PM by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)

They're thinking.

 

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To: cll

It wasn’t a muslim attack. It was a home-grown white boy.

150 posts of muslim hate and it wasn’t even a muslim.

152 posted on Saturday, July 23, 2011 1:56:54 AM by Prairie Rat

They're still thinking!

Yosemite Sam: All right! Don't rush me. I'm a-thinking... and my head hurts.

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Finally.....

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To: Prairie Rat

Still, it could have been muslims,

Well, there you go.

so just let that
rage out , let it go, and think how much better you’ll
feel knowing that it’s gone.....til the next time.

154 posted on Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:09:37 AM by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

I'll keep that in mind, fuckmonkey.

I'd like to say it gets better, but after the jumpola...we have Bachmann.

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The Fool Who Follows Him

Taking advice from the stupidest fucking guy on the face of the earth. No wonder people want Rick Perry in the Republican race for president.

A thank you to the 457 people who e-mailed this to me. My blood pressure is always so nice and low before I check my inbox.

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Rapture Rupture

As a confirmed atheist,  I think the single dumbest thing about evangelical Christianity is the rapture aka armageddon, which is not to be confused with carmageddon even if the two are equally stupid. The latest poll of GOP primary nutters voters is pretty darn interesting: not only is Michelle Bachmann in the lead nationally BUT PPP asked voters the following question:

This is patent nonsense but good news nonetheless: when the fake rapture happens, Sarah Palin will be whisked away to wherever the hell these dipshits go. Then we won't have to hear about her any more. That's almost enough to make me want to wait for the end of the world:

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "Shut it down" edition

Good morning, gentle people.

Well, I'm not sure on how to present this one as humour - it's not terriby amusing.

These morons really do want to cut of everyone's nose to spite their face. They want to jump off the ledge - rope around their waists, with America  tied to the other end..

TARP’s Shadow: Why Tea Partiers won’t listen to the establishment, even as a debt crisis looms
City Journal ^ | 15 July 2011 | Nicole Gelinas

Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:44:38 AM by neverdem

On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a warning on the debt-ceiling hike. “Let’s get on with writing the bill,” she said. “I don’t need to see markets drop 400 points. But Republicans may need to see markets drop 400 points.” Pelosi remembers September 2008, when the House, then controlled by the Democrats, initially voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Stocks plunged 778 points. Only after her caucus felt the visceral terror of an impending depression was Pelosi able to cobble together votes to counter Republican opposition.

If the House goes to the wire this time, there will be plenty to fear. A Treasury default would be worse than the financial crisis of 2008. The world economy is built on Treasury securities. Companies around the globe use them as collateral for overnight loans so that they have cash to pay workers as they wait for their own payments from other companies. Because this collateral is so safe, the lenders who make the overnight loans don’t have to worry about the borrowers. The key is that Treasury bonds are supposed to be risk-free.

But nothing is risk-free. If and when the market discovers this about Treasury bonds, the consequences will be dire. Companies short of cash would shed workers. Global asset selloffs could send the slow-brewing Eurozone crisis into multiple defaults, and European governments would struggle to protect their own financial institutions from panic. The fear of default could spur companies around the world to hoard more cash in anticipation, slowing the economy down. In the past week, a parade of leading financial figures has sounded the alarm—Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, JPMorgan Chase honcho Jamie Dimon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, and former Obama economic adviser Larry Summers among them.

 And that’s precisely the problem. Tea Party freshmen and their supporters hold this establishment in contempt. Implicitly invoking TARP, as Pelosi did when she mentioned a stock-market crash, won’t scare them; it will only embolden them. It would be one thing if Tea Party adherents merely believed that a default wouldn’t spell disaster; in that event, the GOP freshmen would figure out the truth soon enough. The problem is that many Tea Partiers consider TARP such a terrible idea that they would have chosen to brave a worse financial disaster instead. Today, they think that a market cataclysm would be better than another “sellout” vote. House veteran and GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann set the pace in last month’s GOP presidential debate: “I fought behind closed doors against my own party on TARP. It was a wrong vote then. It’s continued to be a wrong vote since then.” As the defeat of Utah senator Bob Bennett in 2010 showed, party voters are unforgiving of Republicans who supported TARP. A debt-hike vote will follow Republican candidates in their primaries next year.

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 Nicole Gelinas, a City Journal contributing editor and the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.

1 posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:44:41 AM by neverdem

Pretty sobering stuff - and a pretty accurate assessment of how clinically insane the teabaggers are.

So what's their reaction?

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To: neverdem

The Democrats propose to tear down the Washington Monument. The Republicans counter with a plan to do it in three stages. They settle on a “bipartisan” plan to do it in two stages. That’s the Washington, DC way in the age of the two-legged Republican/Democrat socialist beast.

2 posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:53:09 AM by EternalVigilance (The tea party was and is about the right to govern ourselves, according to natural right.)

That's one strawman....

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To: neverdem

A Treasury default would be worse than the financial crisis of 2008.

For who? Those of us living in the bombed out aftermath are already eating squirrel for supper a couple of times a week. They gonna kill the squirrels?

The nation and the financial system needs a tonic to clean out the dreck.

Then, we can begin, again, older, wiser, and poorer. You know, the way humans learn things, for a short time.

/johnny

4 posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:58:37 AM by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)

One Galtian nutcase who eats squirrels and is squatting in the forest somewhere ( but curiously, still has internet access )

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To: neverdem

Shut

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8 posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:13:19 AM by Left2Right (Starve the Beast!)

And one New Great Depression cheerleader.

Shut what down, exactly? The entire Military? The FAA? The FBI? The entire banking system, when all the banks go under and there is no more FICA?

These mental midgets will be the first ones to scream when their bank accounts disappear.( their SS and Medicare checks stopping will just be icing on their cake of Armageddon)

The last time the Federal Government shut down it yanked $800 million out of the economy in six days.

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To: jimmygrace

He might choose not to service the debt on purpose.

The Cloward-Piven/Soros strategy: Maximum Chaos

It’s definitely a real possibility

13 posted on Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:35:34 AM by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)

....and one whack-job who grudgingly acknowleges that Maximum Chaos (sounds like a death metal band) would ensue if the economy crashed and burned, but it's Obama's Fault(tm), and indeed, his grand design.

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I don't think you can talk to people like this. I think the best you can hope for is to sedate them and sequester them, where they can no longer be a danger to themselves and others.

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Actual funny stuff after the jump.

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Malaka Of The Week: Orrin Hatch

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is another pol who belongs in the malakatude hall of fame and now he's compounded this status by dragging Thurston Howell through the mud:

How dare you drag America's favorite fictional millionaire into this? Mr. Burns? Sure. But the only fictional magnate whose voice was inspired by Franklin Roosevelt? Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no decency?

   

Rick Perry meets Ted Nugent

There's a must read story at Salon by Justin Elliott about Rick Perry's ties to a pro-Confederate group in Texas. The Sons of Confederate Veterans *used* to be dedicated to preserving Civil War history and yadda, yadda, yadda. It's now dedicated to defending the indefensible: the Lost Cause itself.

Anyhoo, the thing that interested me the most, naturally, was the news of the weird aspect of the story. Wackadoodle washed up rock star Ted Nugent performed at Perry's 2007 inaugural clad, not in his trademark loin cloth, but in a Confederate flag shirt. That was groovy with Perry's peeps but if he runs for President they may have to do some backpedalling. I'm not sure how well the stars and bars goes over in New Hampshire, Iowa and the mountain West even among wingers.

I know I've already asked y'all a question today but this picture screams out for a CAPTION THIS contest:

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Putrid Potpourri edition

Good morning, everyone! Time to clear out some new old stock of Freeper stupid. Kibitzer rounded up some aging drums of moral turpentine, so let's check out the contents, since incoherence has no "Use-by" date.

Starting with the most recent - Rick Perry - sooper sekrit mooslime!

Rick Perry, the Mosque and his agreement with Muslims
The Ismali ^

Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:32:04 AM by BereanBrain

Austin, Texas, 30 October 2009 — At the invitation of Texas State Governor Rick Perry, Mawlana Hazar Imam traveled to Austin yesterday to sign an Agreement of Cooperation between the State of Texas and the Ismaili Imamat. During the visit, Hazar Imam and Governor Perry also held talks at the State Capitol on a range of issues of mutual interest

Describing the importance of the agreement, Governor Perry explained that “traditional Western education speaks little of the influence of Muslim scientists, scholars, throughout history, and for that matter the cultural treasures that stand today in testament to their wisdom.”

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Rick Perry is a SLICK POLITICIAN.

Gee, I wonder why Christians don't get level of access?

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Good question - if you're a drooling simpleton.

Where is our agreement, and visits....we just get pandering statements.

Did you know he also sent a brick to dedicate their new mosque?

1 posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:32:13 AM by BereanBrain

He sent a brick, you shit one - it all evens out somehow.

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To: BereanBrain

traditional accurate Western education speaks little of the influence of Muslims.

Yeah! Other than Abu l'Hasan al-Uqlidisi inventing decimal fractions, and Abu Ja'far Muhammad inventing algebra and algorithms (including the names for them) , and Mohammad Abu'l-Wafa al'Buzjani discovering tangents, with trigonometric tables accurate to 8 decimal places, what have the Muslims ever done for US?

 We don't allow the Jivaro headhunters to practice their "religion"! Why the Slimes???? There's not much difference between them!

4 posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:52:47 AM by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)

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To: BereanBrain

We Have PEACE in OUR TIME!!

dealing with muzzies is either Sedition or Treason... they all should be HAPPY than I’m not President!!

8 posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:36:56 AM by gwilhelm56 (islam ... Cult of the DAMNED!!!)

I think pretty much everyone is happy you're not President.

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To: BereanBrain

Those of us from Texas know Rick Perry as a political whore.

If he was in Massachusets he would have a health care bill.

He has lasted so long because he has been fortunate in his election opponents. He isn't that bad, but I just don't see him as the man for the times. Put him in Washington and he will fit right in. He and Romney have more in common than good hair.

People outside Texas who are promoting him for president don't know him.

20 posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:24:32 AM by hopespringseternal

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To: Mind-numbed Robot

Even better Look at the Homo’s

and see how few have screwd up this country.

Well, apparently they've infiltrated the grammar schools....

31 posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 4:54:43 PM by Venturer

More random acts of slimeness after the leap of faith..

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The Wisconsin GOP's Brightest Lights, Ladies and Gentlemen

Boy, I'm sure glad there are upstanding fellows like this running against those dastardly Democrats who left the state!

The Republican recall candidate hoping to oust state Sen. Dave Hansen from office has a history of legal and financial troubles, including nearly $25,000 in unpaid property taxes and arrests for domestic abuse.

Police and court records show David VanderLeest, 34, of Green Bay has been arrested on at least four occasions dating back to 2006, mostly for offenses that include disagreements with his ex-wife, Rachel Gerritsen, 42.

VanderLeest, who also organized petition efforts to recall Hansen, will face the Green Bay Democrat for the 30th Senate seat on July 19. It's the first of nine elections this summer across Wisconsin that could change the balance of power in state government.

Revelations about VanderLeest's business and legal problems detract from election issues, he said. He noted that he is an anti-abortion candidate who supports gun rights and would advocate for Gov. Scott Walker's agenda. He also wants to reform the state online court record search so innocent defendants won't show up in the system.

Of course he does. God, it's like douchebag bingo with him.

Speaking of this fellow, Scout noticed, way back when, that VanderLeest was perpetually referred to in the Wisconsin press as a "resident" or "citizen" or "grassroots activist" or similar innocuous terms in stories about his gathering recall petitions against Hansen, despite this:

"The police reports are good for nothing but slinging mud," said VanderLeest, who served as vice chairman of the Republican Party of Brown County from 2007 to 2010. "If we're going to talk issues, I'll show up and do the job."

Just goes to show, the Tea Party is a grassroots movement, while liberals are all Obama-bots funded by Media Matters and George Soros.

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T-Paw Won't Shut Up About Shutdown

The former Minnesota Governor continues to bray about the guvmint shutdown that happened in Minnesota whilst he was Governor as opposed to this year's shutdown. I expect him to put his balls on a scale and measure them next. Thump.

What is it with Minnesotans running for President in the same year? In 1968, it was Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy on the Democratic side. In 2012, it's T-Paw and Michelle Bachmann. There's one major difference: Hubert carried the Gopher state and McCarthy would have if he'd been the nominee. Neither T-Paw nor Bachmann Wingnut Overdrive has much of a shot but he'll lose by less.

Here's T-Paw's latest "I'm a man, I'm a man, yes I am" ad:

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Killer Klowns edition

Good Monday morning, everyone, and happy Independence Day!

Before we put our protective gear on and head into the iso chamber,  I'd just like to say this:

 

OK - let's see what we've got there.

(you guys knew this was coming)

Killer Clowns!!

The wrong John Wayne (Rollins appears to be Bachman's Idiot)
washington times ^ | 6/27 | Dinan

Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 1:54:18 PM by RummyChick

"RummyChick"?

Does that mean you're a Donald Rumsfeld groupie, or that you just like to drink a lot?

Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.

The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer.

Mrs. Bachmann grew up in Waterloo, and used the town as the backdrop for her campaign announcement, where she told Fox News: "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too."

(Someone has already posted the clip to YouTube under the name BachmannLovesGacy) John Wayne, the movie legend, is in fact from Iowa and the John Wayne birthplace is a celebrated landmark — only it's in Winterset, which is a nearly three hour drive away from Waterloo. Gacy, though, had his first taste of the criminal life in Waterloo, where he lived for a short time, and where he had his first criminal conviction for an attempted homosexual assault, which landed him in prison for 18 months. He would move back to Illinois, where his killing spree started, and lasted about six years. In 1980 he was convicted on 33 counts of murder, and was executed in 1994.

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Stupid mistake

1 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 1:54:24 PM by RummyChick

Stupid candidate.

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To: RummyChick

I don’t care whether you are liberal or conservative, this is a pretty funny gaffe. How stupid could her staff be? And I say this as someone who is really impressed with her and hopes she goes far in politics.

Kick off the campaign in the “Spirit of John Wayne Gacy” — that is funny.

3 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 1:57:32 PM by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

Clowns are always funny.  And creepy. (whether or not they run for office)

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To: RummyChick

Can’t we find anyone who knows what they are talking about?

5 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 1:58:10 PM by ilovesarah2012

Apparently not.

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To: RummyChick

"Stupid mistake"

As a life-long conservative with a (l)libertarian bent, I have NEVER understood support for Bachmann.

Anyone who thinks she has a chance in this election cycle does not understand American politics IMHO.

I can't imagine a scenario where I would vote for her.

9 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 2:01:14 PM by Mariner (War Criminal #18)

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To: bcsco

Maybe Chris Wallace should revisit his apology on the use of the word flake.

This stupid comment from her is going to make for some real laughable headlines.

It is going viral..for sure.

11 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 2:02:03 PM by RummyChick

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To: RummyChick

At least she didn’t suggest that while in Waterloo, she’d like to visit the field where Napoleon lost that big battle.

12 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 2:02:03 PM by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)

Heh.

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To: Opinionated Blowhard

She will cut, slash, and hack the federal budget in the spirit of serial killers everywhere.

24 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 2:07:05 PM by Thane_Banquo

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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To: RummyChick

Wouldn’t someone already be aware if one shared the same hometown as someone as hugely famous as John Wayne to begin with? And then to mix the facts up with that horrific homosexual killer is a pretty darned embarrassing gaffe, to put it mildly.

36 posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 2:14:45 PM by greene66

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Moar hand-wringing after the jumpola, including bonus gay marriage angst-in-their-pants, and Affordable Health Care Act fail.

Nobody Dreams of Being on Welfare

Dennis Prager opines that black women totally heart welfare: 

It has rendered vast numbers of black males unnecessary to black females who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to their husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

We can talk about a culture of dependency and whatnot, and that's all interesting from a sociological standpoint, but do we really think little girls are sitting around hoping to grow up and go on welfare? There is still a tremendous societal stigma against being on any kind of public assistance, I don't care what Rush Limbaugh and this asshole say. 

You may know in your heart of hearts there's a fairly decent chance you'll end up on some kind of public assistance at some point, you may see that as normal and/or not the end of the world, but I'm asking: As they're sitting around playing with dolls or watching TV, kids are saying, "Boy, when I get old enough Imma get me some welfare money and then I will win at life?" I find this scenario more likely to exist among the imaginary black people Dennis Prager and casual racists like him see populating the "ghetto" than among actual human beings in the world.

It's just one more facet of the racist outlook that black people can't possibly have the same aspirations as white folks, that they can't possibly want to be successful and independent and have their children grow up happy in the world, because they're Not Like Us. My need for help is a genuine need. Yours is taking the state for your husband, because your entire culture is bankrupt.

(Also, what is so fucking virtuous about looking to a man to support you, anyway? That's not like a foolproof design for joy in life either. What exactly is this fuckstick advocating?)

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Malaka Of The Week: Newt Gingrich

I had lunch the other day with a friend who is a professional political junkie. I had just heard that Newt's fundraising team had quit so I told him. He laughed and said: "I can just hear them saying, Newt you're an asshole, you were always an asshole and now you're both an asshole and a loser." Newt is also a malaka of epic proportions.

Once again, I'm "honoring" someone who is clearly qualified for the malakatude hall of fame but since one doesn't exist, I feel like kicking the former Speaker up the ass with a pointy steel-toed boot. I also don't think his candidacy is going to last much longer so I wanted to stick a shiv in him while he runs about Iowa like a chicken with its head cut off. They don't know how badly they're bleeding either; not until it's too late, that is...

It's hard to know where to start with Newt. His enormous ego? His undeserved reputation as a deep thinker? No, I know, his astonishing hypocrisy. Newt is a charter member of the "Do as I say, not as I do" club. It's been the recurring motif in his life, both public and private.

Gingrich first appeared on the national radar with his campaign against Speaker Jim Wright over a sweetheart book deal the latter had. When Gingrich became Speaker, he had a similar problem. Oopsie. Wright's real offense was in being an extremely effective Speaker who outmaneuvered and downright embarrassed Ronald Reagan and his foreigh policy team on Central American policy. (Btw, Rising Tide author John Barry was a fly on the wall during Wright's brief but glorious reign as Speaker. His book The Ambition and the Power is one of the best tomes ever written about the House. End of unsolicited but well deserved plug.)

Perhaps the most infamous example of Newt's hypocrisy and mendacity occurred while he was Speaker. Newt famously advocated the impeachment of Bill Clinton for staining Monica Lewinsky's dress while Gingrich himself had a bit on the side with his then aide, Callista Bisek. Repeat after me: Do as I say, not as I do.

There have been many more examples of Gingrichian malakatude but let's focus on the latest: the Tiffany's lines of credit that Newt and Callista have. When the first one came out, Newt dismissed it as a personal matter and proclaimed that they were "a very frugal couple." Then, news of a second credit arrangement came out and Newt's staff started bailing on him; partially because of the Gingriches taking a luxury cruise to the Greek Islands. Maybe Newtie did this to investigate the roots of malakatude. He was probably just exhausted from shooting his mouth off. He's never been "very frugal" when it comes to talking. Repeat after me: Do as I say, not as I do.

It's interesting that all these disciples of the Gipper insist that they live modestly and frugally despite all evidence to the contrary. Ronnie and Nancy made no bones about their luxurious lifestyle, as far as they were concenred they were living the American dream. They'd also learned from the Kennedys that glamor sells; even in a recession. Of course, Newt is an odious little toad who's about as glamorous looking as a Motel 6 lobby...

I considering hyperlinking the hell out of this post but wound up saying "fuck that." When has eye of Newt ever documented anything? So, I decided to do what Newt would do instead of what he'd say...

Unpatriotic or Selfish?

I don't like to use the U-word but the GOP's position on the economy is insane, unpatriotic or "I got mine so fuck you." First, they claimed that defaulting is no big deal: wrong, ask Prime Minister Papandreou. Now, they're refusing to do anything to stimulate the economy:

Democrats are increasingly concerned that Republicans are setting them up to endorse large spending cuts in a deal to raise the national debt limit without giving ground on anything -- even GOP-friendly policy measures like tax cuts for business owners -- to stimulate the economy in the near-term.

The concern arises as numerous top Republicans react coldly to the prospect of temporarily reducing the payroll tax burden on employers and employees -- to juice the economy before federal spending draws down in the years ahead.

Traditionally, and particularly in tough economic times, this and a handful of other stimulative policies have enjoyed bipartisan support. But with the outcome of the 2012 election likely to hinge on the nation's economic trajectory, the GOP is mysteriously rethinking those positions. And Democrats are starting to note of the suspicious timing.

"I don't like to question my colleagues' motives," noted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) during his weekly Capitol press conference Tuesday, "but whether work with us to pass these policies, or continue opposing ideas they once supported, will tell us a lot."

I own one of those small businesses Republicans profess to love so much. Cutting payrol taxes is good for both employers and employees but the GOP has such a bad group of candidates that they seem willing to deliberately wreck the economy to win the White House back.

What a bunch of selfish pricks.

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "Deputy Dawg for President" edition

Good Monday morning, campers!

Ever play with a Cartesian diver when you were kids? I'm getting some amusement out of watching the various not-Our-Saras rise and fall in the hearts and groins of Freepers as they squeeze the sides of the bottle.

Take Michelle Bachmann (please)  - she 's great...no, she's a stalking horse for Mittens.

Take Herman Cain -  he's great....no, he refused to sign the GOP "pro-life" manifester.

Take Fred Thompson..

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Sorry - Fred was in the last clown car cavalcade.

Anyway, you get the picture - like the baking soda frogmen of bygone days, they keep popping up at Freeperville, and sinking back down. What's a fringe-right looney to do??

Bring out the next diver - my very own Guv Goodhair!

What About Rick Perry for President?
Reaganite Republican ^ | June 13, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 3:53:36 AM by Reaganite Republican

Yeah- I know he used to be a Dem, endorsed Giuliani in' 08, and has some political baggage... who doesn't? 

All I want this time is a real budget cutter who WILL repeal ObamaCare... protect our borders... and reverse Obama's deeply misguided agenda in the Middle East,  Based on that, Rick Perry is one of the few who make my short-list. Now that it appears Newt's team bolted to prepare for a Perry 2012 run, and jobs are foremost on most people's minds, let's have a look...

• Rick Perry has never lost an election

• Perry is the longest-serving governor in Texas -and US- history @ 10+ years.

• He just proposed a state budget cutting $15B over the next two years... I love it

• Perry has been in Obama's face since Day One

• Texas has created almost half the new jobs in the US since the '07 crash

• Texas leads the nation in job creation over Perry's 10 yrs in office

• Perry is staunchly pro-gun, anti-tax, pro-life, and pro-death penalty

John Fund at the WSJ says not to underestimate Perry... who he says knows how to "play the base of the Republican Party like a finely-tuned instrument". And the Governor is already scheduled to replace Trump as featured speaker at a June 14th meeting of NYC Republicans.

So form your own opinion... and do share it below.  

Myself,  I'm enjoying watching a Republican who can talk to Obama's favorite race-based political conquest, Catholics/Hispanics... as he did yesterday in LA when he laid hard into Obama for murderous abortion policies, nice to see somebody on our side who knows what he's doing out there on the stump. Note: Perry was greeted warmly -a Republican in LA!- and left to a standing ovation... how bout that.

-More at Reaganite Republican-

1 posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 3:53:44 AM by Reaganite Republican

Woo hoo! Gov G got a standing O!

Maybe he's The One?

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To: Reaganite Republican

If I remember correctly .. He is all for in state tuition for Illegals?

If he is for Illegals Anything .. He’s off my list .. Period!

2 posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 4:00:47 AM by freejohn

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To: freejohn

My Texas daughter tells me Perry is best known for his hair and his pro-illegal stance.

3 posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 4:04:49 AM by Vor Lady (The Lord will turn the arena of suffering into a platform of opportunity. R. Zacharias)

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To: Reaganite Republican

Rick Perry is actually a RINO.

4 posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 4:05:59 AM by muawiyah

Aw, c'mon - everybody's a fucking RINO to you nutcases.

WHO CAN SAVE THE GOP?????

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To: Reaganite Republican

I would vote for Deputy Dawg if it meant getting rid of the current impostor.

9 posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 4:14:22 AM by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))

WE'RE SAVED!!!

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He's a lawman, he's got that southern accent that the Goopers all love so, he doesn't use fancy words that make them feel dumb, and he knows how to keep out interlopers (see below)

Wonder how he gets along with the GOP elephant?

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Well, he's still smarter than Dubya.

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More moronity after the thingy.

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Proceed with the Hairdo jokes at your own peril

How Rick Perry will perform on the larger national stage in a run for the Republican presidential nomination is still anybody's guess. For that matter, whether he will is still not a certaintly, not formally at least. But since Perry's initial coy overtures, it's clear that a lot of the uninitiated don't really "get" Perry yet. And why should they? He hasn't brought their home state to its knees. Understandable for now, but if and when he formally announces, Leftward Blogtopistan will likely persist in:

1) Assuming because they've experienced George Bush, they know all there is to know about Perry.

The stupidest mistake of all. The most frightening part of the Bush administration was the machine in the shadows pulling the strings. Perry has an efficacy and individual agency that Bush never had and never will. 

2) Assuming Perry is just another stupid conservative. 

We should all know by now that when politicians espouse stupid and backward ideas, this doesn't mean that they don't know better. Hey I've done my share. FSM knows it's tempting, but to dismiss Perry as ignorant and therefore harmless because of what he champions from his bully-pulpit is to pretend that the god, guns and gays strategy has stopped working. Last I checked, it hasn't. 

3) Assuming Perry is too extreme to appeal to moderate Republicans.

On the face of it, this is probably true. But moderates can still be counted on for their free-market-rules-all-no-new-taxes kink (and for wanting to win). Mittens, Bachmann and Pawlenty can talk about jobs and debt and the economy but what have they actually done about them? Even Fox News didn't buy Pawlenty's economic hallucinations. Hell, Romney hasn't had a job since 2007.

Perry will be hitting the campaign trail fresh from laying down the latest iteration of his "Texas Model." A draconian nightmare you say? Yes, certainly, but for every furloughed teacher, every sick kid in the emergency room, every grandma kicked of Medicare, every state employee looking through the want ads, there's a fiscal conservative solemnly praising Perry's no-nonsense burn-down-the-village-in-order-to save-it-toughness.

Don't say we didn't warn you

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Babes in Boyland edition

Hi folks, let's suit up and enter the iso chamber of horrors, shall we? Cousin Pat - you have the dead man switch. If you see anyone getting woozy, staggering, or muttering about the Invisible Hand of the Free Market, hit that button and hose us all down with the bleach sprayers.

As you know, Free Republic is not exactly known for an enlightened view of women - unless they're reasonably good looking.  About once a week, a female teacher who has slept with students gets mentioned, and after the pic of the perp is posted,  the "Guilty!" and "Not Guilty" votes begin. If the perp violated a 10-year olf girl with a broomstick after killing her, but looks pretty, it's "Not Guilty". If the perp had consenual sex with a 17 3/4 year-old HS student, and looks like hammered possum shit - "GUILTY!"

Situational "ethics" to be sure, and sterling examples of moral turpentine.

Now - let's take the Guilty-Not Guilty ethos and apply it to politics. This is where is starts getting wierd, and you know what the good Doctor Thompson said about that.

It's as if they welcome the chance to submit to an authoritarian female, as long as they're following the script. Kinky to say the least.

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Let's open the misogny files, shall we?

Anne Coulter is Hot!
Vanity | 04/11/2011 | Vendome

Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:32:36 PM by Vendome

Just listening to Ann Coulter and she is totally eviscerating whoever she is debating.

Dang! That woman can argue and keep all her facts straight.

I vote for Anne to take over from Beck!

Smoking!

1 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:32:37 PM by Vendome

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To: Vendome

You know the rules.

Where are the pictures.

3 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:35:36 PM by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)

Glad to oblige!

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To: Vendome

I like reading Ann better than listening to her.

The Kate Hepburn, Mid-Atlantic accent gets old after awhile, along with the laugh.

But she’s great otherwise.

8 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:40:39 PM by Retired Greyhound

So - other than making you want to stab your ears with pencils when you hear her petulant whine, she's great.  Got it.  Read Jonah and just pretend it's her.

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To: Vendome

well as a crank, I must say I hope she isn’t on TV any more than she currently is on. After her total rant over Cris Christe on Sean, I hope she shuts er pie hole until she gets her compass fixed.

And she is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to skinny.

11 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:46:56 PM by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God!)

The Way To Skinny is bulemia.

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To: Realman30

Boney Maroney.

16 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:50:20 PM by Palladin (Trump Card: Obama's birth certificate.)

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To: stockpirate

I agree - RINO - too skinny!

17 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:52:24 PM by cblue55 (Envisioning when all that is left is the right.)

Of course, you know Freepers respect their female heroes...

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To: Retired Greyhound

My all time cat fight would be her and Camille Paglia.

I’d watch it on pay per view.

19 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 4:56:27 PM by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")

Blunderdome.

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At leat they haven't started grading her like cattle.

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To: Vendome

Coulter would be about a 4 or 5 in Texas in terms of “looks” ratings. Now that being said having spent considerable time in the NE... she is a 12 there...

30 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 5:21:16 PM by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)

I sit corrected.

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To: Retired Greyhound

Is that what it is? I can’t stand to listen to her either, but didn’t know what it was about her delivery that bothered me so. The giggle that punctuates every point also is better suited to a 14 yo than a woman in her 40s. And she’s too excitable. Pass.

44 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 5:40:02 PM by definitelynotaliberal (.)

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To: rintense

And she dislikes “birthers” and/or “proofers” and be damned if I respect anyone who doesn’t vehemently support the truth and our Constitution. What’s right is right and screw the B.S.

45 posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 5:40:23 PM by mcshot (So this is how it feels to be flushed. The "that's impossible" days are upon us.)

Oh NO! Now she'll never sleep with you!

More Chucklicous Chauvinistic Chowderheads after the jump (which I would hit like the fist of an Angry God)

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Friday Night Music: You Wreck Me

I try to be helpful. In that spirit, You Wreck Me is the perfect theme song for the Gingrich campaign or whatever the hell it is now that everybody's quit on Newt:

 

Anything but Sharia!

Even the homo-sex-shuls would be preferable!

TP: Mr. Cain, you recently came under fire for your comments about the kind of people you would appoint to your cabinet. Would you be opposed to appointing an openly gay but qualified person to be in your cabinet?

CAIN: Nope, not at all. I wouldn’t have a problem with that at all. I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don’t have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they’re not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.

Gays, Muslims ... I can't decide. Can I have both?

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Quote of the day

Texas Governor Rick Perry used to talk secession but now he's got Potomac fever. He's doing the big pander to the religious right in Texas by telling everyone to ask Jesus for rain. (We're having a drought too so I kinda expect PBJ to call an exorcist or something.) Here's Ricky:

"there is hope for America ... and we will find it on our knees."

I gotta say this is one of the best straight line I've seen in a long time. Anyone have any wisecracks to share? Btw, if I saw Rick Perry on his knees I'd dub him Sir Malaka...

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Paul Revereware edition

Good Monday morning, gentle people - time to boldly go where no sane person has gone before (without protective suits) - Free Republic! Land of the freep and the home of the lame.

How lame?

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Sarah Palin Explains Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride
Gawker ^ | 6/3/2011 | Jim Newell

Posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 2:48:34 PM by Incorrigible

Sarah Palin Explains Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

Jim Newell— It's been at least a few seconds since we last checked in on Sarah Palin's Tour de Grift, which stopped yesterday in Olde Boston Towne. Her bus visited such historical sights as Paul Revere's old shack, where Palin explained the colonist's famous "midnight ride" before the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord.

The Internet is aflame in scholarly debate over this interpretation:

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms

Our Sarah seems to have confused Paul Revere with Wayne LaPierre..

uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.

Perhaps we should all brush up on our history of such events should we ever get trapped like this, but this may include some inaccuracies. Revere did not warn the British army to step off by ringing bells in their faces and shooting warning shots at them. That would have been counterproductive. Instead, he notified the appropriate colonists in an alarm system chain to give advance warning for protecting the rebel arsenal in Concord.

Sarah Palin would've shot all those Lobsterbacks good, though, one by one.

1 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 2:48:38 PM by Incorrigible

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To: Incorrigible

Who said this? Sarah Palin?

Ahem. Well, this is quite baroque!

2 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 2:55:11 PM by RexBeach (If two people know, it's not a secret.)

Agreed - if by "baroque" you meant "incomprehensible word salad of misremembered historical events"

If it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

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To: Incorrigible

Ugh...

3 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 2:57:48 PM by SoDak

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To: Incorrigible

So now the litmus test for female republican hopefuls is know the Lexington-Concord Battle narrative.

No, that's the litmus test for grade school history class.

As long as I can ask Obama on what Hill was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

4 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 3:00:12 PM by AU72

Breed's hill. That's an enduring trick question in High School history classes everywhere.

Perhaps you're setting the bar too high for her?

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To: Incorrigible

Unfortunately any good that come out of the tour will be diminished by a stumbling version of a pretty famous story. Or at least the media will play this up pretty big. Another ‘gotcha moment’.

8 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 3:04:04 PM by Adammon

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To: Adammon

I love Sarah Palin, and agree with almost everything she stands for, but this is more than just a gotcha moment. This is just inexcusible for anyone potentially seeking the presidency. If Biden said this, we’d be rightly all over him (and he has a track record of being even more clueless on our history). These are the types of unscripted moments that are having me cool to Sarah and warm more and more to Herman. I can see more of these gaffs(sic) being detrimental to her as her potential campaign gears up.

15 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 3:13:23 PM by Adams (Fight on!)

"as her potential campaign gears up"?

As the potential bolt of lightning strikes me dead....

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Not to worry - Our Sarah's defenders are galloping to the rescue!

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To: Gator113

“W”. Mrs. Palin’s words completely describe the events of the night, up to the battle at Concord.

11 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 3:09:57 PM by bvw

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And here we go - best post of the thread!

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To: Incorrigible

We were British, its was pre-Declaration.

So Paul Revere was actually warning the colonists that the colonists were coming? Must have been confusing, especially for the colonists.

Bells at Lex and concord were rung.

I've always wanted to see someone ring bells while riding a horse at full gallop. Wonder where he mounted them? Firing shots must have been problematic as well, as guns of the period only fired once before reloading.

She wins and beclowns media in the process.

42 posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 3:58:39 PM by palinsupporter1

The only one Snowbilly Snooki has beclowned is herself.  And you,.of course.

More, including Jim Rob's latest anti-Romney jihad after the fold in time and space.

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Grand Old Pizza Party?

What's the deal with Republicans and pizza? Former Godfather's Pizza honcho Herman Cain is running for the GOP nomination and, for some obscure reason, is polling well. I'm not sure why: do they think Obama is Abel or something? Or has Cain made them an offer they can't refuse? Beats the hell outta me but as long as I'm not sleeping with the fishes I don't give a shit. End of Godfather related jokes.

It could just be the cheesy goodness of pizza, which inspired a somewhat mirthful (mirthy?) gesture and/or prank by Mitt Haircut's camp:

Mitt Romney took his presidential campaign to the next level on Thursday, eschewing mud slinging to instead engage in the far more delicious smear tactic of pizza slinging.

You know that old prank where you send a bunch of pizzas to someone who never ordered them? Well that's sort of what Mitt Romney did during a campaign stop in Chicago, sending the leftovers from his meal to Obama's campaign headquarters.

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Gail Gitcho, Romney's communications director, told TPM in an email that it wasn't a prank at all.

"No prank - just a nice gesture since we were just a few blocks away from their HQ yesterday and had extra pizza," she wrote.

Dang. I was hoping it was a prank since the only funny thing Mitt has ever done was name a kid Tagg. (Guess he's always it.) I was hoping for an outbreak of zany practical jokes to show that Mitt is more than just a guy with good hair, perfect posture, Mormon underwear and a father who once ran the now defunct auto company that came up with the Gremlin. Now that was a funny car: The Pinto was funny too except for that whole exploding gas tank thing...

Of course, if the Mittster or any other Gooper gets elected, the joke is on us...

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Mediscary Monsters - Super Freeps edition

Good morning - hope everyone's Memorial Day is filled with appreciative reflection on the fallen. And Barbecue.

"Wall, them Duke boys are really feeling the heat from Boss Hog this......."

Sorry - wrong writing assigment.

Wall, them freeper boys are really feeling the heat from the pack of undistinguished and indistinguisable candidates trailing behind Mittens. Let's suit up, open up that airlock door, and see what all the consternation is about, shall we?

But first - a little May Surprise for the Freeperati - Selective Appeal Part II !

BREAKING NEWS: Democrat Kathy Hochul wins special election for US House seat in NY — AP
msnbc ^

Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:19:58 PM by Perdogg

BREAKING NEWS: Democrat Kathy Hochul wins special election for US House seat in NY

1 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:20:00 PM by Perdogg

Perdogg (sounds like a new hip-hip artist) gets confused and posts a reply to himself:

To: Perdogg

barf

2 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:22:57 PM by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)

Let me get you a bucket.

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To: Perdogg

Once again, voters get what they deserve. Apparently, this was in a usually Republican district. Just great, moron voters.

4 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:24:56 PM by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)

Moron voters.  In a Republican district.   Notify The Department Of The Redundancy Department!

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To: Perdogg

Really, really bad loss.

I guess we touched the 3rd rail and all these voters who said they wanted to cut spending changed their minds when they realized it might slow down their own personal gravy trains.

30 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:44:58 PM by comebacknewt ((on second thought, never mind, go away again Newt))

Or possibly that they want their kids to not have to work until they drop dead? One of those two, anyway.

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To: BobL

Let them get their token seat...it doesn’t matter in this Congress.

It matters. This is a very heavily Republican district. The party will claim it means nothing, but it will scare the wits out of Republicans in "this Congress" from advancing much more in the way of entitlement reforms.

Yes, there was a fake TEA Party candidate, but even that is bad news. The left will see that some dunderheads will vote for anything with a TEA Party after their name

Geeze - dunderheads who will vote for anything with a tea party after their name. Colour me shocked!

Is there a non-dunderhead in the tea party, ya think?

and run many more just like all over the country in 2012.

35 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:48:15 PM by Longbow1969

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To: Clintonfatigued

J. Davis (TEA) 7,346 8%

Thanks, Tea Party! You've just cost us another seat! Go Third Party! Yay! Preserve Democrat dominance for the next century! Woooo Hoooo!

41 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:54:25 PM by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)

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To: yup2394871293

This was not the result of the faux tea party candidate.

This is the fault of Corwin not understanding the Ryan plan, and now we will have to listen to this Mediscare crap for 18 months.

This is a political disaster. I’d rather have lost the judgeship in Wisconsin.

50 posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:01:22 PM by mwl8787

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More senseless violins after the jump-baby.

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Alabama Republican Discovers Republicans Suck

Here we go again with this crap:

The bill in question makes it much easier for the state to fire teachers and impose what critics say are arbitrary and unclear performance standards to measure teacher performance. Huffington Post's Joy Resmovits wrote a rundown of the bill -- which Gov. Robert Bentley (R) is expected to sign -- here.

At a press conference today, Boman said that the law was just one of many that went too far and eventually forced him out of his Republican home.

"During this current session I have seen this legislative body pass bills that I feel adversely affect what my people back home want, need, and deserve. ... I will never choose the Party over the people again," he said.

So good for you? I mean, it was okay with you before, but now that they're really being obvious about it, yay Democrats? When the Republican Party was only mildly demonizing teachers and screwing the poor and middle-class and using racial fears and snide comments to stoke tension that had nothing to do even remotely with solving the problems that exist in the world, that was fine, but this is a bridge too far?

I mean, I'm sorry, but you threw in your lot with this nest of vipers in the first place. Bitching that they bit you and your friends extra hard is a little much. That being said, welcome to the crack van, wipe your feet, and try not to get any Republican cooties on us, Boman.

Democrats in Alabama say Boman's switch shows "the tide is changing" in Alabama. Nationally, Democrats say winning over Boman is just another step in winning back the nation after the 2010 losses that decimated the party in Washington and in legislatures across the country.

"This party switch is just more evidence that Republicans all across the country are overreaching with their extreme agendas and alienating not only voters, as we've seen in recent special elections, but also their own legislative membership," Carolyn Fiddler, spokesperson for the DLCC, told TPM.

Yeah, let's have them go back to their slightly less bald-faced lying and their nice, polite fucking-over of society. You know, like when Reagan was president. Let's go back to that fellow's policies, because these guys are just overreaching. I really hate the "overreach" thing because the problem isn't in Republican overreach. It's in Republican reach. The latest batch of Fuck You Liberals bills making their way through state legislatures across the country are just 'roided-up versions of the same shit they've been spooning out for years. A rejection of just the rudest of the rude acts isn't going to be enough to shut these assholes down.

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We Are Ruled By Cruel And Stupid People (Medicare Edition)

Sweet merciful constipated Christ. Really?

Courtesy of Crooks & Liars, I give you freshman Georgia Representative and Tea Party Zombie Rob Woodall (R-Bedlam).  Watch that goddamn video.  Just watch it.  

That's the GOP leadership's vision, people.  That's what they want.  They're afloat in a fairy fucking bubble--just them, their corporate money, and their stupid fucking Ayn Rand fantasies.  Reality cannot and will not intrude on them, since they have wealth and sinecures--they have no need for programs that benefit the unwashed proletariat.  Read this partial transcript:

A Woodall constituent raised a practical obstacle to obtaining coverage in the private market within the confines of an employer-based health insurance system: What happens when you retire?

"The private corporation that I retired from does not give medical benefits to retirees," the woman told the congressman in video captured a local Patch reporter in Dacula, GA.

"Hear yourself, ma'am. Hear yourself," Woodall told the woman. "You want the government to take care of you, because your employer decided not to take care of you. My question is, 'When do I decide I'm going to take care of me?'"

Holy.  Fuck.

This woman worked her whole life for a private company, and now he's going to ride her ass for not waiting for the best benefits package?  Oh Christ.  And it gets worse.  Many in the crowd applauded his fucking statement.  That means that some proportion of his (presumably not obscenely wealthy) constituents have no problem with him telling an old woman, in effect, "Yeah, I know you lived your entire life with this understanding of a social contract, but you know what?  Stop being such a pussy.  My rich friends need tax cuts!"  What in the hell makes them think that he'll be any more receptive to their fucking concerns?  He just told an old lady to go lay down in the gutter and die.

I wish a motherfucker would've said something like that to my grandmother.  She would've put a cigarette out on any little bitch that spoke that way to her. 

Oh, and one of the people applauding vigorously?  And older man who is receiving or will soon benefit from that same Medicare the Congressman hates so much.

Well, we're boned.  Come on, meteor.  Any day now.

Eric Cantor is a Fucksaw

Now this fucking guy, opening his mouth and letting all the asshole out:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), however, said that before Congress approved federal funds for disaster relief, it had to offset the spending with cuts to other programs. The Washington Times reports:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.

“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.

You know, because you're reading this blog and also, presumably. are functionally awake in the world that Republicans' basic plan right now is to pass the Fuck You Liberals Act over and over, in various forms and with various amendments. The Fuck You Liberals Act, otherwise known as defunding Planned Parenthood. The Fuck You Liberals Act, otherwise known as replacing Medicare with a thing Paul Ryan's cat barfed up which is also called Medicare. The Fuck You Liberals Act, outlawing collective bargaining for people who vote Democratic, and the Fuck You Liberals Act, demanding you show ID at the polls before you even attempt to vote Democratic.

And now it's the Fuck You Liberals Act, which is this bullshit, holding critical assistance hostage in order to solve some imaginary problems that don't have anything to do with anything right now, just to be mean. That's all this is, it's just to be mean. I wish I could impart some other motive here, even an evil one, because this is so petty and stupid and small. Also familiar; as the source points out, the teawadi which we have always had with us pulled this shit post-Katrina, too, so all together now: Our fate is your fate.

Trouble with continuing to pass the Fuck You Liberals Act though, is that eventually if all your policy aims involve pissing off Democrats, you eventually ... piss off Democrats. And as the ONTD commenters point out, Missouri's a swing state, and you'd better believe this will be a big fucking swing. In the meantime, though, people need help, so if it's not too much trouble to divorce his head from his ass and the concept of "spending" from "let's buy some shit we need," there's work to be done, so STFU and STFD, Cantor, the grown-ups are talking.

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Let the backlash begin

Republicans can be slow learners. It was proven again by Democrat Kathy Hochul's unlikely victory in the very red NY-26. The Ryan medicare voucher plan was the issue and it was a loser. It was a massive teabagger driven overreach and the backlash has begun. This backlash rocks.

It's no secret that Republicans still hate the New Deal and Great Society. They particularly loathe Social Security and Medicare, which is why they just can't help jumping off the proverbial political cliff by messing with those very popular programs.  Bush's failed effort to privatize Social Security led to imploding approval ratings, which, in turn, led to the Democratic victory in the 2006 election. The Ryan plan could have a similar impact if they stick to it. I think they will. They can't help themselves. It's their nature.

I think we're moving into an era where control of the House will change hands more frequently. I think the days of long term power are gone until swing voters stop being reflexively anti-incumbent. I haven't a clue as to when that will happen but it's time to savor the moment since the pendulum swung in the right (non-right?) direction.

Me, I thought Hochul would win a moral victory but not  a seat in the House. I'm dubious that she'll be re-elected but, at the risk of being repetitive, it's time to savor the moment.

It will be interesting to see how many House Goopers start crawfishing on the Ryan plan. Perhaps they should grab Scott Brown's coat tails...

Let the backlash begin.

Buying Cigarettes is not a Right

One more time for all the stupid people out there, the Wisconsin Voter ID Bill's worst defense:

God forbid, citizens who are responsible enough to vote should be responsible enough to get ID.

How about this, SEIU?…Instead of showing ID at the polls, voters can just show a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of booze because somewhere someone will have asked for ID.

It is hard to miss the point this spectacularly, yet here we are, sailing over the point in a hot air balloon painted with a giant unicorn humping a griffin, flinging gold coins imprinted with Emperor Glenn Beck's heroic visage down upon the commoners.

First of all, you don't have to be a responsible citizen to vote. You just have to be a citizen. As the 2004 election showed us, you can be as dumb as a sack of hammers and still vote. You'd think someone who posts at RedState would be happy the rights of those who can hardly walk and breathe at the same time were being looked after, but no.

Second, I forgot the part about ciggies and booze in the Constitution. Can somebody remind me where it says that a fundamental right to pick up smokes and road beers exists for all who are born here? Jesus tits. I swear I don't think these people get that part of the point of rich assholes making rights into things you must deserve means eventually everyone will be undeserving.

Schmuck.

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "Elmer Fudd For President!" edition

Good Monday morning, everyone!

Well, the Frreeperati are pretty depressed about their 2012 prospects, to be sure.

Our Sarah won't declare, and Newt has. That about sums it up for them.

Let's head into the iso chamber and examine a bulging drum of: Four No Trump!

Donald Trump Not Running for President
http://abcnewsradioonline.com ^ | 5/16/2011 | n/a

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:01:30 PM by massmike

Donald Trump is not running for president.

"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency," Trump said in a statement Monday. "This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," the real estate mogul and reality show star continued.

Story developing…

1 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:01:39 PM by massmike

The Freepers are of two minds on this:

To: massmike

So ... so ... so Trump was just doing this for the publicity all along?

Hey, Trumpettes - I'll throw some crows on the barbie for you.

4 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:03:36 PM by dirtboy

And...

To: massmike

I think this is unfortunate. Trump was the only one who could speak over the media. That being said, Trump would not have been able to turn this country around because I really think it is too late.

10 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:05:13 PM by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)

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To: massmike

Bret Baier just said Herman Cain gets the benefit. I agree. Right now I am supporting Cain. If Mitch Daniels runs I will vote for him in a heartbeat. I live in Illinois and I know what is going on in Indiana he has done a hell of a job.

Trump proved me wrong, it was all about ratings for "The Apprentice".

Donald, you're fired!!!

14 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:05:52 PM by Dengar01 (Go Bulls!!!)

You can't fire him, he quit.

You don't want a quitter running for President, do you?

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To: massmike

Ole Huck may have run, had he known Trump wouldn’t.

Go Sarah!

13 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:05:44 PM by umgud

Forget I asked.

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To: dirtboy

Hey - smirk at Trump all you want. But if it weren’t for Donald Trump - Osama bin Laden will still be alive.

Yeah, I’m serious.

If it weren’t for Donald Trump - Osama bin Laden will still be alive.

19 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:07:21 PM by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)

The Donald Got Bin Laden!!!

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To: massmike

......But I am sure he will keep investigating Obamas past and that wasn't just all B.S.....Right? Right?

18 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:07:14 PM by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)

Right.

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Oh, and you're a racist.

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To: massmike

I liked him in the beginning, but the more I learned about him, the less impressed I became.

27 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:10:04 PM by marvlus

And, in case you were wondering about this week's post title:

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To: Responsibility2nd

I am not a Trump for President fan, but, as Rush puts it, I would vote for Elmer Fudd if he got the Republican Party nomination. That said, I must give the Donald credit for holding Barry Dunham’s feet to the fire and having the guts to shout over the sycophantic lamestream media.

47 posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 12:15:45 PM by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)

There you have it, folks - the Party Of Principles.

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More mind-boggling moral turpentine after the thing-that-I'm-running-out-of-hominems-for!

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Wisconsin Voter Suppression Bill 'Passes' Senate

I say that in quotes because this is what the "vote" looked like:

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Economic voodoo in Texas: pulling other states backwards

It was a while back, hell she was still straight back then, but one of the most genius standup bits Wanda Sykes ever did was about the fallout from the Enron scandal. It ends with Sykes comparing the newly-relative dangers of gangbangers, who don't scare her so much anymore, to those of men in suits carrying the WSJ. Seeing the latter, Sykes runs across the street to cut through the projects:

Cuttin' through the projects, you might just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my future!

Which brings us to Governor Rick Perry and the 82nd Texas Legislature.

Texas has long been as politically and culturally influential as California. If that’s not often recognized, it’s for a valid reason: the influence Texas exercises pulls other states backward. “People used to say that the future happens first in California,” Krugman writes, “but these days what happens in Texas is probably a better omen. And what we’re seeing right now is a future that doesn’t work.”

In an excellent article in the current edition of The Nation, Bob Moser (editor of The Texas Observer ) pulls together the strings stretching between the right wing's marauding in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida to what's happening in Austin right now, where the already uber-conservative Lege (recently infiltrated by 30 brand new members straight out of the bowels of the Tea Party) is doing the voodoo kind of math that happens when a 23 billion dollar shortfall has to be zeroed out using subtraction only. Of course, the ringmaster of the circus is Perry, rolling in the political hay to be made from Walker et al's iterations of his "Texas Model."

“I don’t think there is anything that is so important that [it] cannot be…reduced, or for that matter, eliminated,” Perry said, summing up his governing philosophy.

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But the collapse of Texas’ illusory prosperity has not deterred the seventeen governors that Perry and the Republican Governors Association helped elect in November—including Scott Walker of Wisconsin, John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Scott of Florida—from taking their cues from Perry’s vaunted model. It’s especially handy as an excuse to gut labor laws, relax regulations and ax budgets. “If you look at the job creator over the last ten years, it’s been Texas,” Scott said shortly after his swearing-in. Walker, as he began his controversial governorship, joked with an audience of dairy businesses that he’d told Perry, “Look out, we’re coming after you.”

While Perry preens in the spotlight, publicly ridiculing "the doom and gloom crowd"  worrying about a little ol' 23 billion deficit, he's getting coached from the sidelines by none other than the man in the bathtub, Grover Norquist.

When Norquist paid Perry one of his frequent visits in March, he urged the governor to stand firm in the face of growing protests against drastic budget cuts. “Now is not the time to get wobbly,” he said outside a Dallas machine shop, while workers looked on quizzically. “Do more tort reform, more tax reduction, more spending restraint.”

Quoting “political philosopher Rahm Emanuel,” Norquist reminded Perry never to waste a crisis. “Sometimes the only way to get the bureaucracy to rethink what it’s doing is to tell them there’s a crisis,” he said. Perry nodded knowingly.

The Moser article is must-read stuff. You especially don't want to miss the part about the lobbyists for luxury yacht owners pleading for a tax break so that Texas can remain "big boat territory."

If this shit is scary, it should be. Used to be, Lege sessions were the loneliest of times for progressives in Texas. This year, it's bloodier than any in my memory, as Goodhair and the Tea Partiers try to fill that 23 billion dollar hole with the bones of the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill, school children, and thousands of state employees on top to even things out. It's more mind-boggling than ever, but it's not as lonely. Which is not a good thing. 

 

 

Bow Before Nosferatu

Does Paul Ryan have pictures of Newt giving Barbra Streisand a foot massage or something?

And now it comes out that this afternoon Newt was compelled to personally call Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to apologize for questioning and criticizing Ryan's Medicare phase-out plan. His spokesman publicly stated that Newt apologized. Publicly. On the record. Voluntarily.

Marshall thinks this is the craziest thing he's ever seen, and it is, but only because it's a Republican clusterfuck for once. Usually it's some Democrat saying something Joe Lieberman considers beyond the pale, and then having to be all, "Dude, my bad, forgot we aren't supposed to tell the truth AGAIN dammit." This is actually what it looks like on the other side.

This is a man of no little ego. Whatever else you want to say about Gingrich, he is a genuinely historic figure in the history of American politics. And he's called on the carpet and has to apologize to these newcomers who couldn't have been out of their 20s when he was in his early 90s heyday?

Welcome to it, pal. Newt got elected with the help of these people. The teawads we have always had with us. That they've now slipped their chains and are in the living room mauling the buffet table doesn't make them newcomers, it just makes them visible. In Newt's glory, they were kept in cages in the basement where they belonged, but he heard them howling. He knew they were there. He's got no cause to be surprised by them now.

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Latest at FDL: Sympathy for the Devil

The Middle East isn't fucked enough. We need to send Glenn Beck over there.

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Catchup and flies edition

Morning, everyone!

Well, with birthers and deathers and Freepers suddenly all hand-wringingly concerned about the legality of snuffing Bin Laden, a whole lot of Freeper amusingly ugly stuff has flown under the radar. We're gonna remedy that right now, so let's spin that airlock door and have at it.

From the "Waddya mean, get ?" department:

Dropping out until after the 2012 Elections (vanity)

Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:39:41 AM by Scythian

Yes, it's all about me, somebody please post the attention whore picture of the girl doing the cartwheel on the beach, that will complete this thread. But before I begin my respite (I'll be back after the 2012 election) I thought I would outline the coming events about to unfold on the FreeRepublic.

1) Undoubtedly, a RINO, probably Romney, will win the GOP Nominee spot. This will all be decided by mostly liberal states before any conservative states get a say in it, as Rove has designed the process.

2) A true Conservative Tea Party Candidate will have to run under the Tea Party label to be elected. The Rovites will be on the FR in droves stating "That a vote for a 3rd party is a vote for a Democrat" again. Sadly, most Freepers will fall for it and vote for the RINO despite all the big talk.

3) In the meantime, the forums are going to get ugly, I mean real "mad dog" ugly.

As many as 1/3 of more of the people posting will be hired guns, here to disrupt and tell Freepers which candidates cannot be elected. You'll know who they are if pay attention.

4) This will be most the most vicious, corrupt election ever, marred by violence in many cases, and lies so outlandish coming from the MSM it will seem unbelievable that anybody could fall for it, yet they will. Voter fraud will be extremely high,

*choughcoughbullshitcough*

and much of Obama's campaign money will come from overseas as he will again turn off the AVS check on his donation system so that the money "literally cannot be tracked" just as was done in 2010.

Gee - who possibly could have been responsible for that?

5) Many Freepers will fall on their swords, come unglued, and be beside themselves on the events that are about to unfold,

That ship has also sailed.

it will be too much for them to handle. Moderators will have their hands full.

That is all, end communication, see you after the 2012 elections folks. I'm in a good spot, don't plan to argue or worry over the election at all, it is what it is. I'd share my thoughts on who will end up winning but no need to bring everyone down. I'm going to go enjoy my summer, family, and drop out until after the election. I'll vote, you can bet out that.

- Scythian out

1 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:39:44 AM by Scythian

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To: Scythian

Sad to say, but I agree with your vanity.

3 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:44:27 AM by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)

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To: Scythian

5 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:46:27 AM by Vasilli22

I'm so glad we got that out of the way...

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To: Scythian

Let the great self-purge of 2011 begin!

...as opposed to the great Jimrob purge of 2007...

(see you when the smoke clears, buddy)

6 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:46:38 AM by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)

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To: Scythian

I totally agree with ya. Turn off Tune out Drop out. After the debacle we see unfolding why not? It is no fun backing a bunch of loser turncoats.

You go to Primariy with the candidates you have, not the candidates you want.

I really did not try so hard to help get them elected in the house for a 25 year plan. The first sign of the coming disaster was the “Great Tax Deal” with Obama. We put our eggs in the wrong basket.

9 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:49:15 AM by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)

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To: Scythian

...marred by violence in many cases...

Count on it.

The scenario as I see it:

I fully expect the violence to start in the inner cities probably on or shortly after election day depending on the results (quite possibly before that). Then grow like the Rodney King riots

and spread quickly. A Reichstag fire type terror attack would not surprise me.

 

Followed by martial law

called for by the current president who will refuse to leave office initiating a guerrilla civil war.

16 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:55:32 AM by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)

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To: screaminsunshine

It amazes me how many folks stand boldly for the Constitution — and then expect dictatorship like speed when they finally win one election cycle.

Yes - a Republican dictatorship takes time.

I submit it’s foolish to drop out. I’d like one more election cycle like the one we just had first — then see what happens. If that fails, I’ll drop out with you.

19 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:59:59 AM by C. Edmund Wright

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To: ScottinVA

I wonder how many people who complain about the GOP have ever been to a local meeting? How many have ever volunteered to help a candidate?

I for one am not checking out despite being equally frustrated. I want my kids to have a good country to live in.

21 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:01:47 AM by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)

And now - the punch line!

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To: Scythian

See you next week Scythian:) ((((((Hugs))))))

26 posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:04:32 AM by fatima (Free Hugs Today:))

More creepy catch-up after the Spring spring.

PBJ's Big Pander

Sometimes I think we at First Draft are engaged in debate over whose Governor is the most douchetastic malaka. We've got some major contenders for the malakatude hall of fame: Scott Walker, Rick Perry and Piyush Bobby Jindal hereinafter called PBJ. If Blago were still around, our Governors would have the douchiest bridge foursome ever...

I think *my* Governor is the most delusional of them all Why? He and his people remain convinced that he will be President some day despite his modest achievements as Governor, his rhetorical shortcomings and his overall Eddie Haskellness.

PBJ has been frantic to pander to the Birther besotted wingnut base of the GOP. His solution? To release his birth certificate. Notice, however, that it's a "certificate of live birth." Hope that will satisfy Orly Taitz and company. There's something that should be even more suspect to the nutters, PBJ was *conceived* abroad:

I think Orly and the Donald just had heart palpitations. The madness continues unabated and the GOP continue grasping at straws when it comes to Presidential candidates for 2012. When TPaw, Eye of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Haircut are your best bets, you're in deep shit and sinking fast.

The economy *could* rescue the GOP but does anyone think the fat (Chris Christie) or the ugly (PBJ) will pull their chestnuts out of the fire? Not bloody likely. Christie, of course, can take comfort in the election of Taft and PBJ in that of Tricky Dick. But one was elected pre-teevee and the other was a former Veep who had lost a general election by 113,000 votes. Christie is a blowhard who sounds like a cross between Archie Bunker and Junior Soprano, and PBJ is a little weenie who reminds people of 30 Rock's Kenneth the page.

At the risk of being repetitive: the madness continues unabated...

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "Ashes in their mouths" edition

Good morning, everyone!

You know, I almost - almost - feel sorry for the Freepers.

First the birth certificate, and now this.

Rumsfield Chief of Staff tweet: Osama Bin Laden Killed (Confirmed!)
Twitter - Keith Urbahn (Rumsfield's COS)

Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:43:12 PM by ph12321

Chief of Staff of Donald Rumsfield tweeted OBL has been killed. Perhaps this is Obama's new speech coming soon?

1 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:43:14 PM by ph12321

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To: ph12321

Why is the first thing I think is: How convenient?

Good if true.

It's true. This man is a moron.

3 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:45:02 PM by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)

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To: ph12321

well wag the dog,
this will cover the fake birth certificate!!!!

5 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:45:07 PM by 9422WMR (Illegal is not a race. Obamacare is a crime)

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To: ph12321

That would be great news to be sure! Watch the marxist girl child try to take credit.

11 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:46:16 PM by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)

For what? Reactivating the Bin Laden desk at the CIA after Dubya de-activated it? Perish the thought!

To: ph12321

The death certificate has been faked. Check for chromatic aberration.

14 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:46:37 PM by ClearCase_guy

Heh.

To: ph12321

“Chief of Staff of Donald Rumsfield”
Your first clue this is BS.

24 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:48:11 PM by 9422WMR (Illegal is not a race. Obamacare is a crime)

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To: freebilly

Hope it’s true....

Seriously?! I can't stand the thought of this pretender taking credit for OBL's death. Ugh ... the left will go nuts over this.

33 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:49:18 PM by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)

There you have it, folks - Freepers would rather Bin Laden was still alive than killed at the order of President Obama.   Priorities.

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To: freebilly

Are you sure?

I mean Obama kinda looks like him without the beard.

And we’ve never seen them in the same room together at the same time.

47 posted on Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:51:08 PM by Jonty30

The downward spiral continues after our jump into the mouth of madness,,,

A Thank You

To everybody who went out to a town hall and gave Paul Ryan's disciples what for.

Obviously you changed some minds.

Or scared the shit out of some people.

Good on you.

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Also Try Not to Stick Your Dick in People You're Not Married To

Ensign resigned yesterday, while everybody was busy with some dead dude, and this is just gross:

"My caution to all of my colleagues is to surround yourself with people who will be honest with you about how you really are and what you are becoming, and then make them promise to not hold back, no matter how much you may try to prevent them, from telling you the truth," Ensign said. "I wish that I had done this sooner, but this is one of the hardest lessons that I've had to learn."

Okay, so the real lesson here is to get better FRIENDS? To find people who will stop you from being a douchebag? I'm not saying friends who will call you on your bullshit aren't invaluable. But they're not responsible for your bullshit. It is not their job to stop you from sucking. It is your job to not suck. I am thinking of having that last tattooed on me somewhere, no kidding.

If he'd gotten up there and said, "My caution to all of my colleagues is to divorce their wives like grownups if they want to fuck around, and not lie about it or try to buy their way out of it," THAT would have been a valuable lesson we all should pay attention to. This is just ... yick.

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Big Birther Bonanza edition

OK - let's get the shameless bid to send your humble narrator to the Kos-a-thon this year out of the way first.

Just click on the "add your support" button at the bottom and vote, and you'll increase my chance of winning a scholarship from nil to barely possible.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/1333-tommy-t

Now - let's get down to it!

Well, needless to say, post-"Birth Certificate 2, Electric Boogaloo", the iso chamber is awash in exploded Freeper heads, with chunks of cranium imbedded in the chamber walls.

Also needless to say, the contents of said crania didn't contain much, which is making cleanup easier, but there's still a lot of muck in there - so stay on the catwalks, please.

The Freeperati were chugging along on their usual mix of hate, fear, and stupidity, and everything was normal (for the inside of an asylum, anyway)..

 

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When suddenly:

CNN via BREAKING on Drudge: White House releases Obama birth certificate
CNN ^ | 27 APR 11 | DCBryan1

Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:09:26 AM by DCBryan1

Edited on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:22:09 AM by Admin Moderator. [history]

 

(CNN) The White House released President Obama’s original birth certificate Wednesday.

The surprise release follows recent and sustained remarks by businessman Donald Trump, among others, that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States.

Hopefully Buckhead can see if it is fake ;)

1 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:09:33 AM by DCBryan1

            HUH?

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Wowzer. Where to begin?

First of all: "CNN via breaking on Drudge"?? You don't know what's happening in this world unless Drudge puts a whirly flashing light on his silly-ass site? I guess Laputa doesn't have the market on flappers cornered, after all.

Secondly: I thought they might have actually gotten past the news flash and into the comments until these morons started crying "forgery". Apparently not.

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To: DCBryan1

Is he gonna show us the goods?

3 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:10:54 AM by texanyankee

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To: DCBryan1

Obama to show long form birth certificate!

So, I guess they installed a new Photoshop Czar?

5 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:11:05 AM by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)

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To: DCBryan1

He should’ve had one forged 2 years ago....

9 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:11:09 AM by freebilly

And now..the 

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To: DCBryan1

In before the “It’s a fake, two citizen parents, Indonesia, Pakistan” comments.

12 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:11:33 AM by FewsOrange

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To: DCBryan1

Goody.

Then we just “move the goal posts” hee hee hee

Where is your original passport? Where are your college records and financial aid info? etc.

28 posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:14:10 AM by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)

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"You have chosen....stupidly."

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More "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" after the flying leap.

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I take him at his word

There's a must read piece by Justin Elliott at Salon about Gooper birther appeasement.

I take him at his word...

Update: Josh has chimed in with a birther taxonomy.

Fairness Doctrine Nostalgia

I have an ugly secret: I watch more trash teevee than I should. I watch and riff on it so at least I haven't gone completely to the dark side from the snark side. Crap teevee brings out my inner Crow T. Robot.

Until this season, I'd never watched the Trump Ego Show Celebrity Apprentice but the extreme weirdness of the "celebs" led me to jump on the hellbound train and watch this trainwreck of a program. Real Atlanta Housewife NeNe Leakes, Professional Jackson, LaToya and Gary (Brain Damage) Busey have had me rolling on the floor. There, I said it.

The latest installment featured Trump and his toup talking about  running for President. He asked the "celebs" if they'd vote for him, there was mostly silence; most noticeably among the African American celebtestants. Trump answered his own question and said: "Of course you would. You're not stupid. I'd fire you otherwise."

This preposterous exchange made me nostalgic for the fairness doctrine that pre-Reagan would have required NBC to give others equal time with the Donald and his toup.  It was all part of the "deregulation" agenda, which has grown corporate political power in the name of freedom. Sound familiar?

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "Stump The Trumps" edition

Good morning, everyone!

Let's get the shameless blegging out of the way immediately - please put in a good word for yours truly to get a Netroots Nation scholarship right here :

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/1333-tommy-t

Ok - now let's crack the airlock door and peek inside.

It looks like the Bachmann-Palin Overdrive posters over at Free Republic have found something new to obsess and fight over - Das Donald!

I'm making an exception to the "no popcorn in the iso chamber" rule just this once, so Kibitzer, bring the butter please.

Mark Levin skewers Donald Chump (YouTube)
The Mark Levin Show ^ | Mark Levin

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:33:21 PM by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

This is a devastating analysis of Donald Trump from "The Great One." Mark Levin. And they are undeniably Trump's own words.

If you have not listened to this, you are woefully uninformed about the fraud known as The Donald. I'm sad to say this was a real eye-opener to me, because I was hoping Trump would be the dream candidate.

Now we know why Trump won't appear on Levin's show. He's got questions he is afraid to face, and the mainstream press (and other talk show hosts, apparently) don't have the guts to ask.

I'm glad Trump is loudly raising the BC issue. But you won't believe this till you hear it for yourself.

1 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:33:29 PM by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Let the fun begin!!

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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

NO to Silky Pony #2!

6 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:41:15 PM by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)

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To: SatinDoll

Its stupid to trash trump now.

7 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:43:38 PM by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)

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To: SatinDoll

Not as dumb as the people around here supporting Trump.

9 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:44:25 PM by beandog

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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

For all kinds of reasons, I just cannot bring myself to trust Trump. I could not vote for him.

15 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:48:33 PM by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)

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To: beandog

Excuse me! Who do you think you are? I, for one, hope Trump runs and he will get my vote primarily because he’s caused Obama and his supporters to go into attack laughing their asses off mode

Fixed it for you.

and he’s sure made Obama supporters (like you) get their panties in a bunch. LOL!

19 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:51:29 PM by Newfy

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To: Balding_Eagle

I don’t have to post crap to prove anything. His record is all over the place; you on the other hand have nothing except some spoken words. You can’t prove it because there is no evidence to support what he is saying.

23 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:57:28 PM by Outlaw Woman ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;..." Hosea 4:6)

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To: Newfy; beandog

Obama supporters (like you)

You figure anyone not behind Trump must be an Obama supporter?

Are you retarded?

26 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:02:42 PM by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)

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To: Balding_Eagle

No it is not "as you thought". That is the problem, you don't think. You are no better than the drones that elected Obama. Your little ears get tickled and you are ready to propel a shyster

"Madam, I could sue you for that! A shyser is a disreputable lawyer.

I'm a quack!"

to the most powerful office in our nation. Where's the evidence of these conservative ideas in Trump's background?

28 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:03:42 PM by Outlaw Woman ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;..." Hosea 4:6)

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To: Outlaw Woman

Trump is a Christian with an MBA in Finance from Wharton. He did not get into Wharton and graduate cause his dad owned some apts.

It was because his father owned some hotels.  So there.

Levin is a former govt attorney living off taxpayers working in the govt and now with a lame radio show where he screams like child.

Which one is more technically a “shyster?”

I can tell you Trump is a HELL of a lot more economically productive and creates far more jobs than Levin does.

This will be news to the employees of the Taj Mahal casino.

And the Trump Plaza Hotel.

And the Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts

Rush has had Trump on his show. Palin and Trump get along. Rove hates Palin and Trump. Levin is a Rove-bot and POS.

32 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:13:25 PM by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)

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To: SatinDoll

Levin’s right. Slump plays both ends from the middle and right now he’s biased slightly towards the right end. Why? Because somewhere there is something to be gained out of it and it ain’t got nothing to do with America; it’s all about Scump.

He’s sleazy as a cheap whore and I wouldn’t trust him in a sh!thouse with a muzzle on.

Any conservatives that fall for his sales pitch are no better than the stupid lefties that fell for Oblowme.

51 posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:27:59 PM by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)

And that's the end of round one, ladies and gentlemen! Fighters, to your corners.

Round two after the trump.

Conservative Coming Out Week

So many jokes in here, so little time.

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Who Among Us Does Not Have Two Shoeboxes Full of Weed?

Oh, Mitch Daniels:

Mitch Daniels: As a student in Princeton, the Indiana governor was arrested in a police sting that netted two size-12 shoeboxes worth of marijuana, along with LSD and drug paraphernalia. Daniels was cited for pot possession but got off with a $350 fine for "maintaining a common nuisance." He told the Daily Princetonian in 1988 that because of the arrest "any goal I might have had for competing for public office were shot," and later called the incident an "unfortunate confluence of my wild oats period and America's libertine apogee" (far out!). As governor, Daniels has endorsed alternative sentencing for non-violent offenses like pot possession as a way to reduce prison overcrowding.

Libertine Apogee is the name of my Bee Gees tribute band.

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