Republican's Can't Help Themselves - They Are So In Bed With Their Lies, The Truth Cannot Find A Way In

I watched the State of The Union tonight.  It was normal, nothing to write home about.  But, watching Sen. Rubio give the Republican "rebuttal" to the SOTU was like watching Fox News!

There was nothing that came out of this man's mouth that was remotely true.  I was flabbergasted by the sheer amount of lies.  I thought perhaps using Sen. Rubio was to give a more lightened and cooperative response, less decisive (especially since the Tea Party was going to offer up their own rebuttal by way of Rand Paul) but it was a slice in the pie.  I guess they just wanted a gentler, kinder representative to give the Republican bull shit a better taste than it had when it was given by Mitt Romney.  Throw out the son of an immigrant who is not a so called millionaire, and voila, we have a representative of TRUE America.  Uh, not ...!

I thought it was interesting that the Republican response to raising the minimum wage was to ask how the "government" was going to be able to pay for this.  Equating raising the minimum wage to an increase in government spending is one of the little lie tricks that Republicans use to try to confuse those already stupid on economics.  But, it's quite simple - the EMPLOYER pays the wage increase, not the government.  And let's not confuse this with stating that a minimum wage increase will raise the cost of government by giving government employees money the government does not have.  Those employees are already paid above minimum wage, so raising the minimum wage does not impact government employees (thanks to their unions, cough, cough).  No, it is the rich CEO's making millions and billions on the backs of their poverty level income earning employees that will have to take a small percentage off of their profits to pay for the increase.  However, the mentality of the rich is "not in my back yard" because they just cannot fathom in this day and age how their money is not their right, and they cannot figure out how to justify paying even less money to their employees so as to make more money. 

The argument about the ACA causing "small" businesses to have to let their employees go because they can't "afford" to pay for the health care mandate is another lie the Republicans like to use.  When you actually research the type of companies that are laying off employees because of the ACA, they are the big, big, big, and let me say again, big companies that can afford to pay, but want to stick it to the agenda of the "left"  by sabotaging their own workforce and making a "statement."  The Papa John's, the Taco Bells, the Denny's, the Red Lobsters, the Olive Gardens etc. and their ilk are the ones laying off or cutting back to avoid paying their employees a fair wage over their ideological opposition to health care.  In fact, considering the number of fast food operations that are scaling back full time employees to fuck them over, I would personally not want to eat at a place where the workers are NOT HAPPY.  No telling what health hazards might be on the horizon at the hands of these workers.

Don't get me started on the energy companies.

Get ready for more bitter fighting, and probably an even more regressive Congress than the one that preceded it.

Benghazi And The Faux Outrage

I am so fucking tired of the Republican party's beating the Benghazi horse to death.  This is a non story, and every time it starts to die, the Republicans beat it back to life.

Get over it.  Get a life.

This is not bigger than Watergate.  If you think that, you are stupid.  And if you are stupid, your are a Republican.  Anyone with an ounce of smarts, a decent education, and a thirst for truth knows Watergate trumps Benghazi. 

Why Are Republicans So Racist?

What is it with today's Republicans and the right wing blow tards and their utter disdain for President Obama?  I don't get it one bit, except, of course, for the mass racism.  And that, my friends, saddens me.

I am up to my neck in anger over the constant drumbeat from this group of people that consistently try to portray this President as un-American and wanting to hand over this country to some boogie man representing a leftist, socialist, liberal leader of a foreign nation.  And equally stupid is their claim that Obama is in bed with the "terrorists," whatever that means.

You have to be extremely stupid to believe that a sitting president of the United States is actually working to decimate this country!  And yet, that is the propaganda that forms the basis of the Republican party's belief system.  It is the constant topic on Fox News.  Currently it is Obama's alleged plan to take all the guns away.  That is so stupid on so many levels it seriously makes me want to smash my television when I hear reporters go off on this subject.  As if!  What is wrong with these people?  Do they not know that the majority of Americans do not believe them?  The Republicans LOST AT THE LAST ELECTION and they need to get over it.  And NO, they did not take the House as the mantra goes on Fox News.  They simply kept the majority, but lost in their mumbo jumbo is the FACT that they lost numbers in the House, despite still maintaining the majority.  All of this crap about a left wing take over of the country would be a laughing matter if those Fox viewers weren't so overwhelmingly stupid as to believe what Fox is feeding them. 

And just who is leading this attack of the stupid?  Well, it can't very well be the stupid people that are following this line of thinking.  It has to be started at the top and then fed to the bottom.  It is astounding to me that those good ole white boys in power, both in government positions as well as corporate positions, are the leaders of this racist ideology.  These people are so full of hate for the man of color at the top that they are willing to fracture this country solely because they still harbor, and cling to, their outdated belief that people of color are physiologically inferior to their white asses.

The statistics that show the number of Republicans that believe Obama was not born in the United States is astonishing.  I did not know that stupidity was contagious.  Equally disappointing are the number of Republicans that continue to espouse the belief that Obama is Muslim. 

The left attacked Bush during is eight years, mostly on the grounds that he was stupid, and his stupidity led him to be governed by seriously bad guys, which led to the two unfunded wars in the Middle East, and the give away of our national treasury funds to corporate big wigs.  As bad as that was, the mantra never was that Bush was un-American.  He was bad for America.  But no one suggested that Bush was in bed with the terrorists or that he was trying to hand over the country to other oligarchs.

It is embarrassing that racism is so prevalent in the country that it comes out in full bore by the Republican party and their stronghold in outright lies about Obama.  Lies that are easily negated by the truth, but only to those that are not racist.  And these racists are so full of hate for people of color that they are willing to crash this country just so they could say "that n...r ruined this great country."

Rock on Obama.  I may not agree with all of your centrist ideas and actions, but you are the President of the United States, and I am a citizen of this country, and as such, I will support you as my President, color of your skin being irrelevant to the fact that you made it to the top office and are worthy of that job.

Hello, Anybody Out There? The Republican Vacuum

It has been rather amusing reading up on, and watching television reaction by, Republicans who appear to have been caught by surprise that Obama (and other Democrats) won in this election.  Why?  I think that an important factor is the alternate universe these people have been living in. 

I was watching CNN, Anderson Cooper's show, where he had David Frum and Mary Matalin on to discuss what they felt had happened to Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republicans seeking office, this election.  More specifically, Anderson parroted some of the meme floated by other Democrats in the media that, basically, the Republican electorate had been lied to by the Republican elite, ala Karl Rove and his heavily monied Super Pacs.  While Frum agreed with that analysis, it was rather interesting to watch Ms. Matalin completely discount that narrative. 

I think the people were lied to, and many of us on the left have been yelling at our television sets and grinding our teeth over the obvious lie infested, truth averse, Republican hierarchy's factless narrative.  It is rather pleasant to see the right wing nutjobs squirming in their attempts to spin this election any way other than a total loss for Republicans.

Dazed And Confused

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was so confident of victory against President Barack Obama that he spent $25,000 for victory fireworks, had already drawn up a list of White House appointments and took it easy on election day when his opponents were still working hard to get out the vote.

Political insiders tell Capitol Hill Blue that Romney didn’t think he could lose and was genuinely “shell shocked” when he lost the Presidential race in an electoral vote landslide to Obama.

“He was supremely confident and delayed conceding the race as long as possible because he just didn’t believe he would lose,” says one senior aide.  “It was overconfidence based on inaccurate assumptions and flawed data.”

In conversations with campaign insiders, a portrait of a clueless campaign emerges, driven by a candidate so sure of himself that he ignored all the obvious warning signs.

Romney told his advisers that he was sure minorities and young people would stay home and turn out for Obama as they had in 2008.  That turned out to be a politically fatal assumption.  Obama drew 90 percent of a large black vote and more than three quarters of Latinos.  Asian-Americans also turned out in droves for the incumbent President.

The GOP nominee’s campaign advisers convinced themselves that the polls showing a close race were flawed and that the “true electorate” would give give Romney at least 330 electoral votes.

“They were living in a fantasy land,” says one long-time GOP strategist who asked not to be identified.  “They remained in a fog generated by their candidate’s massive ego.”

When the numbers came in election night, Romney was stunned.  So was his running mate, who couldn’t even carry his home state of Wisconsin.

The wives of both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates broke into tears.  Romney appeared dazed and it took a while for him to regain enough composure to deliver a long, rambling concession speech.

“Mitt is not accustomed to losing,” says one friend. “It was a bitter pill for him.”

A bitter pill, indeed.  I find it gratifying that I had no belief in the Republican spin going into this election.  My gut feeling was quite the opposite.  I had a sense that Obama was going to win, and win big.  I also believed that the Senate was going to gain Democrats, although I was pretty much resigned to the House remaining in Republican hands.

I am managing to watch Fox a few more minutes every day.  They are still on the Benghazi train, but let it never be said that Republican spinmeisters could let go of a flawed Democratic conspiracy theory.

Jon Husted Just Can't Help Himself - Gets Hand Caught In Cookie Jar Again

Jon Husted, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State, is responsible for confusion regarding voting in Ohio.  Husted first cut the hours for early voting in Ohio, but was overruled by a federal judge.  Then Husted defied the judge's orders, even going so far as to fire two election board officials (Dennis Lieberman and Tom Ritchie) who made it clear they were not going to follow Husted's refusal to comply with the judge, until the judge ordered Husted to appear before him.  That prompted Husted to allow the early voting as previously ordered.

Then, on the Friday before the election, Husted tried to pull a fast one again, this time deciding to make it the voter's responsibility to correctly fill in a provisional ballot form if the voter was facing a contested vote. This procedure was part of the poll worker's responsibility and, in fact, US District Judge Algenon Marbley had already put in place how the poll worker was to effect the contested voter's ballot.  So guess who got pissed off?  Yup, Judge Marbley.

THE COURT: Mr. Epstein, would you agree that voting is the linchpin of our democracy?

MR. EPSTEIN: Yes, Your Honor.

THE COURT: I do too. What concerned me about the 2012-54 directive is that it was filed on a Friday night at 7 p.m. The first thought that came to mind was democracy dies in the dark. So, when you do things like that that seeks to avoid transparency, it appears, then that gives me great pause but even greater concern. So, if anyone I’m going to give additional time to, it’s going to be you, Mr. Epstein, because you have a lot of explaining to do.

[snip]

Show me the facts that the secretary used to make the decision to change this directive at seven o'clock on a Friday night on the eve of an election.  I want to see it, and I want to see it now.  Show it to me. 

MR. EPSTEIN:  Your Honor, I have no legislative history to present to the Court.

I, for one, would not relish being in Mr. Epstein's shoes! Read the transcript here.

As it turns out, Mr. Husted's attempts to pull the wool over the court's eyes were for naught as to this election.  As to future elections, Judge Marbley makes his ruling on Monday.

Will Republicans Accept Reality Now?

Wow!  I am watching Fox News, Sean Hannity to be exact.  The spin on the election two days after is mind boggling.  First off, Sean likened the Obama win to a football game where the Democrats were guilty of all kinds of penalties and fouls, and he actually stated that "Obama" could have cared less that he was "cheating" in the football analogy, because in the end, the "win" was worth it.  What a bunch of fucking bullshit.  Is this where they want to actually go?  Then Sean and his guest, Bill Cunningham, decided to actually make the case that Mitt Romney really wasn't the kind of candidate they could get their minds around because, after all, he was certainly no Reagan.  They basically threw Romney under the bus!  That sentiment was followed by allegations that the Democrats, and Obama specifically, lied and smeared Romney.  Pulleeezzeeeeeee.  The person and party that lied were Romney and the Republicans.  Romney couldn't tell the truth about any topic even when he tried, for goodness sake.

Then you have the new meme apparently started by Rush Limbaugh, and that is the claim that Romney lost because 3 million Republicans stayed home and did not vote!

(banging head on keyboard)

We Have More To Fear From WHITE American Terrorists - Deal With It

Prosecutors say a murder case against four soldiers has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.

One of the accused troops, Pfc. Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and gang charges in the December slayings of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York.

Burnett told a judge that Roark, who had just left the Army, knew of the militia group's plans and was killed because he was "a loose end."

Prosecutor Isabel Pauley says the group bought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in nearby Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.

The crazies are encouraging the unhinged. Yeah, we have nothing to fear from armed white Americans. NOT.

More Stupid Republican Talking Points About Rape - Now It's Just Like Having A Baby Out Of Wedlock

To continue with the theme of this post I made earlier, here's another Republican idiot, comparing "rape" to getting pregnant "out of wedlock." Can someone just line these guys up and snip their testicles off? Another post courtesy of Think Progress.

MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the victim of a rape, to keep the child against her own will? Do you have a way to explain that?

SMITH: I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn’t have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rape.

SCOLFORO: Similar how?

SMITH: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.

SCOLFORO: That’s similar to rape?

SMITH: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar. But, back to the original, I’m pro-life, period.

Fun Videos To Lighten Up Convention Paralysis

Paul Ryan Doesn't Care "How" Conception Occurs - Think About That, Women, And DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN

“The method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life."

In a sit down interview with a local TV station last night, Paul Ryan spoke about his stance on abortion, on which he sides with Rep. Todd Akin over his running mate: “The method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life. But let’s remember that I’m joining the Romney-Ryan ticket, and the President makes policy. And the president — in this case the future President Mitt Romney — has exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, which is a vast improvement of where we are right now.”

Courtesy of Think Progress.

Think about that for a while, next time you know someone who is a victim of rape and is pregnant. Republicans demand that the woman carry the baby to term.

Never mind that in some states, should the woman carry the baby to term, it opens up a whoop ass can of worms: paternity rights, VISITATION rights, the fact that the rape victim will have to be in a relationship with the rapist for most of her life, etc.

Hey, it's ok, just so long as the old, impotent white men who run the party get their Viagra, who gives a fuck about women's rights. Spread 'em and weep, damn it.

GOP, The Party Of 70 Year Old Impotent White Men

Listen and learn. Do you REALLY want this? There is a war on women. There really is a method to the madness of the impotent old white men taking over the GOP. Yes to Viagra, no to birth control. H/T to GP over at AMERICAblog.

A Mormon Smackdown By Somone Who Knows His Bible

Let's just start off by making one thing clear. I am not a Christian, nor do I believe that Jesus is God, or that by accepting Jesus I will go to "heaven." I do, however, believe in God, and I accept the teachings of Jesus vis-s-vis the "book" most Christians accept as the writings of Jesus, the Bible, which of course, anyone with an education, especially in religion, knows that the Bible was not written in any fashion by Jesus, nor can any of the New Testament be proven to have been written by the actual apostles that the writings have been attributed to. More importantly, the Bible as we know it today was put together by a "king" in order to put forth some sort of ability to control the "church" and the "believers" approximately 300 years after Jesus was known to have died.

Be that as it may, I respect the right of REAL Christians to believe in Jesus and do the work in his name. I do not respect the new Christian belief system that amounts to bigotry, anger, war, nationalism, or capitalism, which has morphed into this ideology that America is a Christian nation (especially, again, when education proves that this country was clearly founded upon the freedom to worship as one chooses, that insofar as our government is concerned, one's religion shall not be a test marker, and lastly, religion and government should not be entwined). These "Christians" represent, to me, and to a lot of people, the same Christians that roamed the world during the Crusades basically killing anyone that refused to accept Jesus as God, desecrating many holy places along the way.

Enter the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, aka the Mormons. I have had serious personal interactions with Mormons for over 40 years and know well the teachings of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. But I have never seen a smack down as good as this by a person that knows his Bible!



I used to have the same experience. When one actually uses the Bible against a Mormon, they are stumped. And like the gentleman in the video says, the Mormons don't believe in Jesus as much as they believe in Joseph Smith.

And here the Christians who represent a majority of the white, older aged American, male dominated Republican party are putting their Christianity on the line by supporting a Mormon for POTUS.

What Is Medicare? Read Steve Benen's Thorough Commentary

All I'm suggesting is that a little critical thinking on the part of the electorate and the political world can go a long way.

Well, in today's false equivalent world, that suggestion will fall on deaf ears. Still, the piece by Steve Benen is a good read.

Given how critically important this is in the presidential election, let's pause for a moment to consider the bigger picture.

[snip]

What is Medicare? It's a massive, government-run system of socialized medicine. It's wildly popular, very successful, and one of the pillars of modern Democratic governance. This government-run system of socialized medicine was created by Democrats against the opposition of conservative Republicans, and it's Democrats who've fought to protect it for more than a half-century.

Or to summarize, the left loves Medicare and always has; the right hates Medicare and always has. For liberals, the system is a celebrated ideal; for conservatives it's an unconstitutional, big-government outrage in desperate need of privatization.

[snip]

In other words, the argument pushed by the most right-wing major-party ticket in a generation is that Barack Obama is a left-wing socialist who wants government-run socialized medicine and that Barack Obama is a far-right brute who wants to undermine government-run socialized medicine.

Romney Calls People "Small Minded" Who Want To See His Tax Returns

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday insisted that he had paid more than 13 percent of his income in taxes over the last 10 years, and accused the people who want to see his returns of being "small minded."

Well, I don't agree that people asking to see the presidential nominee's tax returns are small minded. But, someone that thinks it's ok to strap his fucking dog to the roof of his car, in a cage, and go on vacation -- that's pretty small minded, if you ask me. Actually, he's really an idiot!

Vintage Paul Ryan - Smack Down On 71 Year Old For Speaking Truth To His Lies

This video has been making the rounds lately, and I believe it was about a year ago. Notice how disgustingly smug Paul Ryan is as he cracks a joke at the expense of the elderly gentleman.



This is a 71 year old man who has paid into Social Security and unemployment insurance all his working life (well, so he says ... but let's just assume it to be a fact or else he would not have taken the stand he did) and his complaint is about the "new age" politicians that keep wanting to cut/gut his Social Security and end unemployment as we know it. The constant drumbeat of the right wingers in re-labeling these services as "welfare" and "hand-outs" when they are, in fact, money taken out of working people's pay checks and put away for that rainy day, makes me sick to my stomach. And ironically, there are actually stupid people out there that believe this rhetoric ... until, of course, it comes to THEIR Social Security and unemployment benefits. In fact, it is even more ironic that many of our old farts in Congress actually get their Social Security and other government benefits (like health care), but continuously refuse to give up theirs while they say the rest of the American population MUST give up theirs. Bull shit.

And notice how the police or security guards treat the old man for just saying what he wants to say, and you can hear them yelling at him to "get on the ground." For god's sake, what is wrong with our country that a 71 year old man is not allowed to voice his opinion and has to be taken away in handcuffs, no less?

Emanuel To The Ricketts - Finance This!

I've never like Rahm Emanuel and I was ever so glad he became Chicago's problem and not America's anymore. But I did get a chuckle out of this tidbit:

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama to the president’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, according to an Emanuel aide.

Joe Ricketts’s children, which include Obama bundler Laura Ricketts, bought the Chicago Cubs in 2009 and have been in talks with the city about renovating the team’s 98-year-old stadium, Wrigley Field.

That appears to be on hold now.

“The Mayor was livid when he read that the Ricketts were going to launch a $10 million campaign against President Obama – with the type of racially motivated ads that are insulting to the president and the presidential campaign,” said the aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation. “He is also livid with their blatant hypocrisy.”

The aide also said Emanuel, who is Obama’s former chief of staff, has cut off communication with the family.

“The Ricketts have tried to contact the mayor, but he’s said that he does not want to talk with them today, tomorrow or anytime soon,” the aide said.

Watching The Dems Squirm Over Hillary Rosen's Comments About Ann Romney, Oh My!

UPDATE: 4/15/12: Since the piece below has been rocking the boat for both sides, and with the Dems joining the Rethugs by saying Hillary Rosen was out of bounds by making such a statement about Ann Romney, I bring you the following from Think Progress. As always, for every side of the mouth Mittens says something, there is always an equally opposite statement coming out of the other side of his mouth!

Romney and allies cried that Democrats had declared “war on moms” after a Democratic strategist said Romney’s wife hadn’t worked a day in her life. Romney’s camp said this meant Democrats don’t value stay at home moms and motherhood, while they believe that women who stay home are doing real work.

But for every Romney action, there is an equal and opposite Romney reaction, and this morning, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes dug up a video of Romney from just January in which the Republican presidential candidate said he wanted to require women who receive welfare to work outside the home, even if their children are very young. He told a New Hampshire audience:

“I wanted to increase the work requirement,” said Romney. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless.’ And I said, ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.”

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This caught my eye this morning. I have mostly stayed silent with respect to the Republican circus that has been the nominating process for the next candidate for president (all of them are ignorant pieces of shit, as far as I am concerned). I don't particularly care who wins the election this year. I will still sit it out and not vote. I am not a fan of Obama, and quite frankly, I could give two shits if the stupid people take over. To me, that just means we crash and burn a lot faster, and we all know that we can't rebuild until we break. This current trend of plugging the holes with our fingers (or putting our fingers in our ears) is not stopping the bleeding of this country, or the world, so I, for one, am on the side that takes us down as fast as possible.

With that in mind, I do have to come to the defense of Hilary Rosen, who has both the Democrats and Republicans all trying to get their underwear out of their asses.

President Obama’s top political advisers moved rapidly late Wednesday night to distance the president from a Democratic strategist and adviser to the Democratic National Committee who said Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, had “never worked a day in her life.”

[snip]

And then, in a commentary on The Huffington Post, Ms. Rosen wrote a long defense of her comments, accusing critics of “faux anger” aimed at scoring political points.

“I don’t need lectures from the R.N.C. on supporting women and fighting to increase opportunities for women; I’ve been doing it my whole career,” Ms. Rosen wrote. “If they want to attack me and distract the public’s attention away from their nominee’s woeful record, it just demonstrates how much they just don’t get it.”

She added: “I have no judgements about women who work outside the home vs. women who work in the home raising a family. I admire women who can stay home and raise their kids full time. I even envy them sometimes. It is a wonderful luxury to have the choice. But let’s stipulate that it is NOT a choice that most women have in America today.”

Amen to that. I raised my daughter and worked. My daughter is a single mother who had been raising her son while attending college, but on welfare, food stamps, and pell grants, plus some scholarships (no help from the father, that's for sure). In my time, and in today's culture, women being able to stay at home and NOT work is an anomaly, not the norm. Well, unless you are the .01% like the Romney family, who can afford multiple cars, homes, boats, horses, and probably a lot of nannies. The rest of us 99% in America have to get by, raising a family with both parents working ... and in today's economy, with probably both parents on unemployment because the Romney's of this country "like firing people." I don't care if Mrs. Romney raised five kids or ten kids ... she did so with the kind of money monthly most of us will never see in a lifetime.

UPDATE: 4/13/12: I knew I knew the name "Hillary Rosen" but could not place where I knew it from. And although I concur with the comments and the intent of the comments she made, I realize now (thanks to an post over at AMERICAblog) that this is the same Hillary Rosen with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the group responsible for pushing the lawsuits against individual file sharers, the one who brought down the original Napster, and helped create the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of which even I have had experience with by Blogger taking down a post of mine claiming it was in violation of the DMCA. I hate this woman! I am sure in by archives I have a lot of posts really badmouthing her.

Even Castro Thinks Repugs Are Idiots!

AP:

"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."

Shit like this just comes naturally, know what I mean? Republican odor is detectable most anywhere !!!!

H/T AMERICAblog

Because It Is Funnier Than Shit - Mike Tyson As Herman Cain!

Herman Cain Sings 'Imagine There's No Pizza' from Mike Tyson

Dear GOP Candidates: Do You Really Believe That Americans That Don't Have Insurance Should Just Die?

Powerful video.