A Chicken Is Not Pillage

OH.MY.GOD!

via Atrios, I give you the ugliest political website of all time ... OF ALL TIME, I tell you!

What You Won't See On The Right Wing Blogs

Al Franken appears to be a Senator who believes in rights and justice.  He supports the Constitution in that each and all should be able to seek redress in the courts.  30 other Senators obviously do not.  It should come as no surprise that every one of those Senators who believe that women can be raped as a matter of business is a Republican.

TSN Really Needs To Get A Grip

I've met Bob Adney.  He really is very committed  (to what, I have no idea).  But, on the heels of his compatriot lying his ass off, Bob is now taking Congress to task for being Congress.

I was reading an article on Fox News this morning that got my blood boiling.

That's kind of FOX's job.  That you don't get that, Bob, does not speak well of you.

It was about Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, entitled Democratic Lawmaker Likens Health Care Crisis to a ‘Holocaust.‘  Rep. Grayson also said, “Republicans want Americans to “die quickly” if they get sick.”

Yep.  That's what he said.

To further complicate the matter Rep. Grayson has said that he will not apologize for what he said, “Because I said the truth.”

See, this is Bob's problem.  He's not once clarified what Grayson said that was offensive, and should be apologized for.  44,000+ Americans die every year due to lack of health care coverage, and Grayson made that very clear.  A preventable sum of deaths, that we take no action to prevent, is indeed a holocaust.    The Republicans, in charge of Government for 6 years, took no action.    One can only assume that they want this needless death to continue.  Do you have a better argument, Bob?  No?  Didn't think so.

Republicans are calling for him to be punished and a “resolution of disapproval” passed.  This is what was done against Congressman Joe Wilson for his infamous “you lie” comment.

Grayson didn't lie.  Wilson did.

Democrats are saying, that Grayson doesn’t need to be condemned and according to an email from Pelosi, “Members of Congress should focus on the issue at hand: ensuring quality, affordable and accessible health insurance for all Americans.”

Shouldn't they?  Isn't that what Republicans have been calling for, with their lack of any plan even?

This is EXACTLY the kind of crap that makes our Congress such a complete and utter failure.

I'm sorry.  I don't remember your post condemning Republicans for wasting time with condemnation of Joe Wilson.  What's that?  You thought that worth ignoring?  Of course you did.  Congress is only wasting time when you will lose the argument.

Instead of actually working on issues such as, helping taxpayers, cutting burdensome regulations, and restoring personal liberties Congress is arguing like little kids on an elementary school playground.

See the above, Adney.

Honestly, can you imagine if this happening at your place of business?

How old are you?  Who do you work for?  To me, you seem a puppy.  Let's be truthful.  In most places of business, such time wasting is almost casual.  It is expected as part of the power games.  Wasteful?  No shit, Sherlock.  But you pretend that it doesn't happen as if you have any clue.

Democrats and Republicans sit in DC and find little things to blow out of proportion in a pathetic attempt to score a few political points.  This is not a Republican or Democrat problem; it’s a Washington DC problem.

Yes, yes it is, Bob.   It's both their damned problems.  Your argument is little more than sedition.  'We should eradicate DC'.  Can you be more full of shit?  Do you have a better suggestion for governance?  Come forth with it if you do.  But be careful.  The Constitution might find you ... something of a traitor.  You want the parties to agree?  Come up with something they agree on.  You won't do that. i know.  After all, you still think that the Republicans have a health care plan beyond "don't get sick and die quickly if you do."

Every day that goes by I lose more and more of what little confidence and respect I had for the politicians in Washington.

Adney, rephrased:

Every day that goes by I lose more and more  of what little confidence and respect I had for the Constitution.  You don't like the people, vote them out.  What's that?  You can't vote for or against those you can't vote for but others can?  You hate the fact that Democracy doesn't serve your whims?  Tough shit, kitten.  People in New York and Massachusetts vote for people you don't like.  But you're not arguing against the people, Bob.  You're arguing against the institution.  Traitorous words, my friend.

I Knew It

Many on the Montana right have bent far enough over backwards to kiss their own arses, in desperate attempt to defend Dennis Rehberg from appearing stupid given his 'ride up the rocks'.  No problem; who cares.

Oh wait.  I care.  And I've said exactly why I cared.  I knew, as any who read this did as well, that the real focus of this 'accident' should be Republicant State Senator Barkus.  I also wrote, quite plainly, that he would get a pass for his criminal activity because he's among what most of Montana thinks are the Impo'tent Folk.  It's coming to pass just exactly as most of us thought it would.

Pogie points out exactly how this case will be dealt with.  Broom the justice under the rug.  Judge Curtis has issued a gag-order about the case.  No reporting; no public view; no honesty.  This didn't even come from Barkus's lawyer; that dipstick knew nothing about it.  But I'll bet that Rehberg's lawyer knew about it.  Anybody in authority want to check a phone record or two?  This is about covering Barkus's ass, nothing more and nothing less.  Rehberg's Mini-Me laid the ground work with his strong defense knowing full well that they all would be obligated to defending Barkus such that Denny wouldn't look more like the tool he is.  And thanks to Curtis, that's exactly what they are going to get.

Here's what we get, kids.  No information relevant to the case.  No justice.  None.  We shouldn't expect any different.  We had a Governor who materially affected an investigation by doing laundry for a suspect in a felony.  There were no repercussions, not one.  There will be none here, either.  Regardless of whose lives you damage, this is Montana, and IOKIYAAR Senator.

Bad Guys

Senator Jay Rockefeller lays it down:

"There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. They voted against children's health insurance.

"We have a moral choice. This is a classic case of the good guys versus the bad guys. I know it is not political for me to say that," Rockefeller added.

"But do you want to be non-partisan and get nothing? Or do you want to be partisan and end up with a good health- care plan? That is the choice."

Bipartisanship is a dodge, a cheat, an escape.  Above all, it's simply stupid.

Aren't They The Most Darling Little Hypocrites?

Shorter Steve Eschenbacher:

"Disregard anything that stands against my point, but in the broad venue of our political sphere, the  scandalous scalawags who are Democrats are fattened greedy bastards and the Republicans are huggable horny rapscallions.  We should market Republican in a body spray!"

Now THAT'S funny

I swear that half our Congress is populated with heckled rejects from open mic night at the Joke Factory.  Many of these people are really cARAAZZY!  And the biggest loon in the rain puddle is certainly, Michelle Bachmann.  Truly, a Gong Show reject elected to office on her talent to painfully amuse.

Quote of the Day

One of the most irritating things about the current Iranian uprising is that I’ve seen a spate of WWRD (What Would Ronnie Do?) posts all over the place.  ...  At any rate, you know what Reagan would do? Nothing. Why? Because he’s dead.

I confess, when I read the first homage to Saint Reagan's handling of the current Iranian situation, the very same thought went through my mind.  Along with this quote:

You always talk, you Americans. You talk and you talk and say 'let me tell you something' and 'I just wanna say this'. Well, you're dead now, so shut up!

Burn The Witch!

Let the foul creature confess it's iniquity before God, and remove it's countenance from the sight of all righteous people!

Ensign repeated his call for President Clinton's resignation in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Let the righteous profess their will to work God's miracles!

Ensign said. “Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution.”

By the foul spew of his fetid breath doth the witch besmirch the grace of all peoples and the will of the Almighty.

Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, on Tuesday admitted that he had an extramarital affair with a (married) member of his campaign staff.

BURN THE WITCH!

I really don't like hypocrisy.  But stupid and petty hypocrisy demeans the very American nature we claim to hold dear.  My wish for Ensign is to DIAF.

(hat tip BarbinMD.)

(Edited just to pretty things up a bit.)

Twas Never Better Put ... Until It Was

As a followup to this post:

It never surprises me when someone else puts a argument far better than I could have.  Thus, we have Gavin M. at Sadly, NO!

What conservatives must try to hide all the time, causing spectacular screw-ups and flame-outs, and ensuring the doom of any sincere effort to ‘reinvent the party,’ is that their core motivator, once you cut through the bread-and-circuses issues like gay marriage, immigration, and abortion, is the removal of governmental and societal checks on the power of private interests, in order to funnel off the wealth collected and held since World War II by a large and prosperous middle class.

Of course, if you went around saying it like that, the public would chase you with sticks. So coming up with plausible cover stories, inventing clever topsy-turvyisms and philosophical whack-a-mole routines in order to sell policies specifically designed to disempower and impoverish the public — well, there’s the trick, right there. Right there you have the basic and irreducible project of ‘conservatism’: a philosophical and practical movement that coalesced in the early 1950s largely as a reaction against the New Deal (and largely funded from the beginning by self-interested business figures), and with the intention of dismantling those parts of government that were set up, then and earlier, to protect citizens from powerful private interests, while strengthening the parts of government that protect those powerful interests from citizens.