It came at the end of a summer with too many superhero movies and too many Republicans debating each other.

Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry fought valiantly for the honor of dragging the Republican Party the furthest back in time.  Like some dire Syfy MOW on Saturday night, it was Troglodyte Versus Neanderthal, only vying for the highest office in the land instead of a bloody mastodon steak.

They scoffed openly at the idea of disaster relief, global weather change, universal medical care, or a government program that keeps old people from having to wander out onto ice floes.  Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme  - which, by comparison, makes any "insurance policy" you ever had pretty much an armed mugging.  

Perry went on to paint a shocking prediction of what might happen to our economy, if we worry too much about a few melting polar ice caps...a handful of thousands dead in global-warming hurricanes, tornadoes and firestorms... a few paltry million dead in Third World droughts and floods.  At last, a man who has his priorities straight!  Unfortunately, he was out of town the last time the economy crashed, but at least that time, the right people still got rich.  Not a bunch of dirty, scheming climatologists!  

Around the time Ron Paul sneered at the idea that hungry children might actually have a right to food, it struck me I must be watching a meeting of the Injustice League of America.

And then I realized...of course!  This was no ordinary callousness.  This was no simple embrace of magical thinking over Enlightenment science.  

These people had elevated powers of sociopathy - their hearts were impervious to feelings of empathy.  The pain of others in need - the young, the elderly, the sick, the poor, the disaster-ravaged -- bounced off them like bullets ricocheting from Iron Man.  

I suddenly realized that in today's Republican Party, there were perhaps a Dozen of the most coldblooded mutants of our modern era...and as terrifying as they seem to us mortals, these guardians of our nation's precious money supplies may just be the wave of the future.

Especially if they can get their hands on the medical care of the rest of us.

See more Doug's Dozen lists at www.dougsdozen.com.

And watch Doug's Dozen videos on FunnyOrDie.  

it didn' take long for folks to weigh in on Sarah Palins' "interview" on Sean Hannity. There have been some lively discussions here on LT about her and her reaction and her defensiveness to the Tucson tragedy and her blindness to the call for the dialing down of potentially harmful rhetoric. Leave it to Jon Stewear to put it all in perspective.

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With my neck out of whack all weekend, I was fairly confined to my bed. With the horrific murders in Tucson on Saturday, I (predictably, yes) obsessively read the rainbow of perspectives as to how/why this tragedy occurred. For kicks, I went over to Sarah Palin's Facebook page to peruse her fans' comments. My husband turns green when I tell him that I do this. He literally cannot stomach the thought.

One meme turned up over & over & over again w/Palin's supporters - that President Obama unwisely (and, to be fair, uncharacteristically) once said something about "if they bring a knife, we bring a gun." The Left illustrated dozens of examples of evocative violent language & imagery from conservatives, in the form of quotes, speeches, videos, screen grabs (that have mysteriously disappeared since the shooting), protest signs, death threats against Democrats, & vandalism against Democratic offices. On the Right, that single quote of Obama's was churned up over & over, some going so far as to blame the Tucson shootings on that single statement. But that's it. They couldn't seem to find any more instances of prominent Democratic candidates or officials who encouraged violence as a means of getting their way in Washington.

Deja vu....this feeling of "That's it? That's all they've got?"

(a simple diary...not front page material)

As the GOP Presidential aspirants maneuver towards the nomination for the 2012 Election, intriguingly corporeal manifestations are commencing.

Palin

Palin's very 'dim lamp in the shop' is starting to extinguish. The Palin family should forever show gratitude to the GOP for providing wealth comparable to those of the Clampetts of the Beverly Hillbillies. (actually the Palin's are far more entertaining than the Clampetts.) Hope those email are actually released to the public and hope that Levi Johnston gets pissed and starts to tell all. Some are contributing her slide into ill-favor to the ill-advised television show. If renewed the show will garner $1 million per episode for jingoist former governor.

The data listed below is a telling illustration of her slide into ill-favor. The charts hows simple 'favorable' and 'unfavorable' ratings in certain states.

One of Palin's worst showings was in her home state of Alaska where 58 percent regarded her unfavorably.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2...

It would be hard for me to vilify Sarah Palin, If I thought for one second that Palin would hesitate to vilify just about anyone for just one more dollar bill. (Hence, her continued and very interesting sniping at Michelle Obama).  While, it is not hard for me to write about the first US Governor to quit office for reasons other than impeachment,I have consistently espoused much more comment towards the failed GOP/Conservative strategy that placed Palin on the 2008 Ticket. It was an exercise typical of the GOP and one that failed miserably. First, evidence of the failure was the Clampett like spending spree that Palin via campaign handlers, embarked on immediate after the nomination. (Louis Vitton purse for the young teenager, silk undies for her husband!).  

Yes the GOP blew that effort at rational political strategy and they blew it while beefing up the ticket. Now, I have to say, 'that could only be accomplished by leaders of the GOP'. McCain secures the nomination and is in immediate need of a very unsophisticated prosthetic (the inimitable Palin).

I wrote a few weeks back that Joe Scarborough's joining Karl Rove in commenting on the governor 'who quit', seems a little prophetic.  I posited that Scarborough could very well have played a key role in speaking out against the governor 'who quit' via his highly paid non-elected position. It appears that the wild-fire combusted and is politically consuming the governor 'who quit'.

For those who will read this and think that I am being harsh please know that I would love to see Palin at the top of the 2012 Ticket.

(agree with pardu here...absolutely brilliant! - promoted by faultguy)

Look at these faces. Now let this sink in. A great number of people, people you meet every day, believe these people are sane and know how to make this nation better.
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Really let it sink in.
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We need to examine the idea that we are not simply dealing with a differing of opinion, but with mass insanity. This nation is far too important to let hysteria carry the day. We have media outlets shelling out fear every day. We have lies flying through the air waves and traveling over the wires of the internet. The personalities are doing it for profit. The politicians are mostly doing it for a religious ideology.
Planters nuts. These people are having nutty thoughts and ideas planted in their heads. Think about it the next time you look into the tiny eyes planted in the middle of their pasty white faces.

Nuts. Mixed fucking nuts.

This video is so funny.  I know it is an ad for a book, but the humor is just so dead on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

(damn good post by our own Pardu. - promoted by faultguy)

As the nation moves towards a historic national embarrassment and disgrace perpetrated by Glenn Beck, the Koch Brothers, Sarah Palin and their minions, I thought it appropriate to ask a rhetorical question.  A question that is being asked by many in the media and by many Americans who view the cacophony of discourse from the Far Right as behavior counter to the principles, values, mores and cognitive integrity of people who are denizens of a 'great society'.

How does the strategic invasion of a sacred day and sacred act for many Americans become a day for 'restoring our honor' as a nation? Even if one refuses to accept the healing significance of Dr. Martin Luther King's (MLK's) 'I have a Dream Speech' on the nation circa the 1960's, one has to acknowledge the significance of the international award of MLK's Nobel Peace Prize. How is it possible to ignore the blatant 'code' associated with Beck's planning? How I can one not view the pending gathering as other than an effort to self-promote (Beck), foster discord among US citizens, and advance a political agenda (despite Beck's claims that the event is not a political event). How about the lack of courage to just say "Yeah, I scheduled it on that day and here are the reasons"? (HONOR)

"To restore the nation's honor"?  As I consider the following, I sit in stupefied wonderment the extent to which the Far Right has aspired to reaching for deeper and deeper levels of an abyss. The state of wonderment is only surpassed by reflection of a common phrase employed by many on the RIGHT: Drinking the Kool-Aid.  

The Kool-Aid as sustenance for a return to 'honor'.

(Pardu, you and your nose should hang out more often!! Great diary!

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While I have been off the posting track the past few weeks, I cannot help but step-in for a second. (my nose needs a break from that lovely smell of oil painting and linseed oil).

(I think you are correct,The Constitutional purists will pick and choose from it what they like, and rewrite and removwe what they don't. Great diary!   - promoted by lamb12)

I am not a fan of long headlines, but given the recent controversy surrounding the Cordoba House building a Muslim cultural center and Mosque near the World Trade Center site I consider the responsible thing in this situation to completely and accurately frame the issue in the headline before the article begins.

Headlines from esteemed journalistic institutions, including CNN, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and, of course, Fox News, use the phrase "Ground Zero Mosque." That terminology is misleading, as the facility is neither just a mosque nor is it right at "Ground Zero."

(here's Frenchie demonstrating wit and humor, as only he can.  A great read for those who don't have their head "located in their rectal cavity". - promoted by faultguy)

Friday, June 25 (MrF): In an apparent attempt to prove herself every bit as capable of exaggeration, misstatement, outright lying and idiocy as any other half-term female governor of a border state with a name that begins and ends with "a," Governor Jan Brewer declared Friday that most illegal immigrants crossing the border into Arizona are transporting drugs.  

Sources say Brewer may have been using intelligence sources similar to those utilized by former Co-President Dick Cheney in the run-up to the Iraq Quagmire War, but Mr. Cheney's ass could not be reached for comment (thankfully).



Gov. Jan Brewer, leveling assertions
while sporting a "Sarah-do"

After that New York Times poll, you wouldn't think there could be any more surprises in tea party movement.

We know they broadcast their love for the Constitution as fervently as Kristen Stewart's most dedicated stalker declares his passion for her, and displaying almost as much intimate knowledge of their beloved.

At Staples, I actually had a Tea Partisan in a very large straw sun hat inform me that "welfare" appears nowhere in the Constitution.  I said it takes some searching but if you manage to slog about thirty words into the Preamble, you do come across the phrase "promote the general Welfare." Assuming this was not bald-faced graft benefiting a presumptuous Colonel Welfare who had a lot of pull with James Madison, these words signal that the Founders foresaw the wisdom of government projects that would help the entire population: Postal systems, canals, highways and the like.  Had they known medical science was about to take a huge leap beyond leeches and bloodletting, they might have even specified health care.  As it is, we can certainly take it as implied...as we do with the Air Force,  paper money, Medicare, the Space Telescope, Social Security, and the right to vote.

But even though the Constitution held a few more nasty surprises in store for my Mad-Hatted friend (no "God", "Jesus", "Christ" or "Holy Ghost" either), turnabout is fair play.  The Tea Partiers have their own surprises for us - and not the good kind.

My mouse-clickin' finger is out of commission, so no video for a while.

But here's the latest Doug's Dozen list anyway:

News item: Europe's Large Hadron Supercollider, the world's biggest atom smasher, was powered up late Monday night. It is expected to tell scientists much about the structure of reality, and duplicate conditions in the early Universe in the moments right after the Big Bang.

DOUG'S DOZEN: 12 THINGS WE'VE LEARNED FROM THE LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER

1. TURNING ON A LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER WILL NOT DESTROY THE EARTH - I MEAN, WE WERE ABOUT 80 PERCENT SURE, BUT THIS SETTLES IT

2. WHEN YOU OPEN A DIMENSIONAL RIFT AND MAN-EATING MONSTERS POUR INTO THIS WORLD, IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS

3. OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT USABLE FOR TIME TRAVEL, SINCE HISTORY BOOKS STILL MENTION GEORGE W. BUSH

4. UNIVERSE BEGAN WITH A BIG BANG, FOLLOWED BY A 100-MILLION-YEAR CIGARETTE

5. "COSMIC RAYS" NOT REALLY COSMIC AT ALL, THEY'RE JUST PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES NAMED RAY

6. BLACK HOLES DO NOT SUCK AS STRONGLY AS "JERSEY SHORE"

7. DISCOVERED MIRROR UNIVERSE IDENTICAL TO OURS EXCEPT THERE, SANDRA BULLOCK AND JESSE JAMES ARE STILL HAPPILY MARR--  OH, WAIT, NEVER MIND

8. FOUND LONG-PREDICTED "GOD PARTICLE": IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO KICK THE POPE'S ASS

9. "ATOM SMASHER SCIENTIST" GETS YOU LAID 900% MORE OFTEN THAN "SCIENTIST AT LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER"

10. CREATED CLOSEST THING TO A PERFECT VACUUM, OUTSIDE OF SARAH PALIN'S SKULL

11. BAD NEWS - WHAT WE CONSIDER "REALITY" ACTUALLY A DREAM OF A STATEN ISLAND TELEMARKETER

12. WORSE NEWS - HE HAS A DENTAL APPOINTMENT, SO HE'S SET HIS ALARM EARLY

Some targets are too easy.  They can come up in a number of ways, and some of those ways just show you they are too easy, and you wonder why those people are so prevalent anyway.  Bush is such a target, but putting down Bush gets a pass because a lot of people have to look at it as letting off steam for his legacy raping you...again.

But Palin is another, and honestly, she's too damn easy.  She picks targets she can't win against, and sometimes that means Fox's latest young sardonic writer they plan on screwing over down the road, and sometimes that means getting questioned on Fox news.

However the latest bit really got me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

As someone who has had friends who were mentally handicapped I KNOW that doesn't mean stupid.  Once you get used to them they are just another friend most of the time.  I love that Palin just got called out by someone with her son's condition as glorifying her shame.

I can't say more.  I really hope this woman doesn't have a chance for the presidency.  Just thought I'd share this with you.  I mean, I really consider her too easy a target.  My next Diary will definitely not be about her.

The article below paints a troubling but not surprising depiction of the Sarah Palin, the "Queen of the RIGHT".

Sarah Pain (intentional) and her team of circus handlers have made a major decision that will affect the entire United States and the world. (Well, only those who have a real interest in the Queen of Pain). The Team has decided to cloak their commodity in the veils of media censorship. The decision is like saying to the world "allow us to spew our venom from the mouth of the 'the PAIN' but you cannot see us. Pay us for allowing the mouth to drivel but we want to hide the mouth's ineptitude." The strategy is nothing more than hiding the fact hat they have little to work with beyond the desperate hopes of the far RIGHT. The strategy is almost comparable to the development and proliferation toxic assets.

Yes, one can purchase the asset but one cannot seek value in the commodity's bull.

The very fact that such a strategy will be deployed speaks volumes about the Team's ability to develop Queen Pain into a viable public figure.  In other words, we cannot help her thinking processes, we cannot provide the gift of cogent thought, we cannot deal with the lack of a memory (cannot even remember details), we cannot place information in her head, and we cannot allow her to answer extemporaneous questions. We cannot even let her answer pre-submitted questions! WHAT DO WE DO? Let's think in term of P.T. Barnum' "There's a sucker born every minute". (P.T. Barnum quotes (American circus Entertainer). NOTE: The quote was not actually stated by Barnum. It was the work of his competitor, Mr. George Hull, of Binghamton, New York studied archeology and paleontology. ..a very interesting story...http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html

The Queen of Pain, traveling circus and money machine continues.  

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I know, I know, don't post video only, but, I really think Colbert has summed it up. Bunch of hypocrites.Got to fire Rahm, he was offensive, how could he say something like that?? Rush, however is excused due to satire?? Uhhm...is she retarded??

I don't like the word,but,people use it all the time,and if she is going to shoot off the hip a let's fire this person for saying it,but,turn around and defend another who says the same word, then she is the Queen of hypocrisy.

I swear my ovaries cringe everytime she opens her mouth.

I've never understood this whole TelePromTer "scandal."  Just to put things into perspective...

Ah, the American conservative.  Also known as your garden-variety asshole, stupidity and shortsightedness have rarely commingled in such a frightening, destructive fashion as seen displayed by your average Republican dickhead.  The funny thing is, it turns out your typical "conservative" isn't really all that "conservative," at all.

Typically, those aligning themselves with the conservative wing of American politics are more like ignorant, violent dipshits, as opposed to the high-N-mighty voice of moral reason, embodiment of personal restraint, and law-N-order slash National Security bastions of awesome these retards would like you to believe they truly are.  But they're not.

According to Conservapedia (yes, that actually exists), "A conservative adheres to principles of limited government, personal responsibility and moral values, agreeing with George Washington's Farewell Address that 'religion and morality are indispensable supports' to political prosperity."  Moreover, "The sine qua non of a conservative is someone who rises above his personal self-interest and promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all, rather than to themselves as liberals promote. Alternatively, a conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of economics and the morality of the Bible for the benefit of all as is well known the Bible is the ultimate standard in logic."

Now that you're done laughing your ass off, let's move on.

Despite what Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh would have you believe, most "conservatives," historically and in the present timeframe, almost always support and further that which they continually and vitriolically decry.  See, these assholes have mastered the art of lying.  Mastering the craft of using emotionally divisive rhetoric and  feel-good platitudes to hoodwink the great unwashed masses is as endemic to the mindset of your Salem Witch Hunt mob as it is to the G. Gordon Liddys and the Michelle Bachmans of the world.

The truth of the matter is, most conservatives are big, big fans of controlling what you think, controlling how you live your life, and dictating the absolutes of right and wrong - while getting you to pay for it, dearly, through high taxes and corporation-imposed artificial inflation enforced by a tyrannical central government authority.

The weak federal authority, Don't Tread on Me, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness people?  Yeah, those are actually liberals who really believe that shit.  A conservative bullshitting about "preserving your freedoms" blah, blah, blah, is sort of like a rapist telling you that the massive rectal trauma he's inflicting on you actually feels good, while he's raping your asshole.  Now, you just lie there and take it and let Carl Rove finish "his business."

In the interest of exposing these lying assholes for the hypocrites that they really are, I give you:

The Six Darlings of
"Conservatism" in America:

Fucking Liar #1: J. Edgar Hoover.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Your standard Law-N-Order conservative, Hoover gives the narrow-minded and the repressed spooky sexual dreams to this day.  Nothing gives a Republican a raging hard-on faster than draconian enforcement of anachronistic laws, unless we're talking about inflicting sadistic punishments for violating said laws.  If the RNC had their (secret, shameful) way, public flagellation and state-sponsored sexual torture would still be the order of the day.
The Reality: Essentially the father of the American Gestapo, Hoover is pretty much the antitheses of conservatism.  A high-minded, authoritarian bureaucrat hell-bent on imposing his beliefs and superstitions on a cowering populace under the guise of Orwelian Federal authority.
The Result: John Walsh's (America's Most Wanted) entire career.  Brainwashing the public into accepting the extant Police State through the airing of the TV show "COPS."
Recommended Redefinition:  The GOP's very own Heinrich Himmler.  Also, a creepy weirdo who liked to take it in the ass while wearing a dress as he systematically persecuted homosexuals.  See, repression and unhealthy views on sexuality are essential to the conservative mindset.  You just know Glen Beck enjoys homoerotic fantasies while he masturbates in the shower every morning.

He just looks like an asshole.

Fucking Liar #2: Joseph McCarthy.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate. The term McCarthyism, coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist pursuits. Today the term is used more generally to describe demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Hey, man.  We're fighting commies, here.  You can't get more conservative than that, right?  Never mind the fact that he embodied everything a "conservative" is supposed to despise.  Just imagine if Truman had tried to reform the American health care system.  Wow, man.
The Reality: Again, here we have one of the most powerful people in the U.S. Government using fear - the fear of Socialist, Marxist Commies (sound familiar?) - to impose his School-Teacher-From-The-Wall-esque domination over every American's thoughts and beliefs.
The Result: I think this says it all:  "Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis."  -Ann Coulter.  You should be noticing a pattern, by now.  So much for freedoms and Not Treading on Me.
Recommended Redefinition:  Fat, rich, angry, drunk white man imposing his beliefs on everyone else through a heavy-handed, just-making-shit-up campaign of terror and demagoguery.  What a dick.

Smug?  Fat?  Evil?
Yep.  He's a conservative.

Fucking Liar #3: Richard Nixon.
Backstory: You know, the guy who tried to railroad the electoral process, amassed an (actual - this one really existed) "Enemies List" (that is, Enemies of The State), and basically subverted the constitution, existing a hair's breadth from becoming an usurping dictator.
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: "No other American has held office in the executive branch of the federal government as long as Richard Nixon did.[213] He is the only person in American history to appear on the Republican Party's presidential ticket five times, to secure the Republican nomination for president three times, and to have been elected twice to both the vice presidency and the presidency. With Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon was the chief builder of the modern Republican party. From 1952 to 1992, at least one of these three men appeared on the Republican ticket for nine of the eleven presidential elections in those 40 years.  Throughout his career, he was instrumental in moving the party away from the control of isolationists and as a Congressman was a persuasive advocate of containing Soviet Communism."  [wiki]
The Reality: "Under Nixon, direct payments from the federal government to individual American citizens in government benefits (including Social Security and Medicare) rose from 6.3% of the Gross National Product (GNP) to 8.9%. Food aid and public assistance also rose, beginning at $6.6 billion and escalating to $9.1 billion. Defense spending decreased from 9.1% to 5.8% of the GNP. The revenue sharing program pioneered by Nixon delivered $80 billion to individual states and municipalities [Wiki]."  What's more:  "despite speeches declaring an opposition to the idea, he decided to offer Congress a budget with deficit spending to reduce unemployment and declared, 'Now I am a Keynesian.'" [Wiki]
The Result: The obsessive, rather disturbing need for every conservative on the planet to attack everyone within earshot, calling them "Tax-N-Spenders," despite the obvious historical fact that Republicans have repeatedly almost ruined the American economy.
Recommended Redefinition:  The man was a fucking Felon, okay?  "Elder Statesman," my liberal, hairy ass.  Also,  Nixon was a total asshole.

Some people wear their evil on the outside.

Fucking Liar #4: Ronald Reagan.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed 'Reaganomics', advocated reduced business regulation, controlling inflation, reducing growth in government spending, and spurring economic growth through tax cuts. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming it was 'Morning in America'. His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, namely the ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Here, we get at the meat.  This guy is like Jesus to your conservative mind.  Or at least he would be if Jesus wasn't Jesus.  Heralded as the Big-Timey champion of lower taxes and smaller government, the facts support otherwise..
The Reality: Taxes for the vast majority of Americans and the size and scope of the federal government actually rose under Reagan's dopey-brained "stewardship" over the American economy.  Rampant deficit spending and shifting of the tax burdens to the middle and working classes are widely viewed as being the impetous for the financial meltdown of the late 80's/Early 90's, a downturn not reversed until the Clinton Administration.  Also, here we have another sitting U.S. President subverting the constitution.  Trading arms for hostages and selling illegal weapons to terrorists went in direct opposition to federal law and the separation of the branches of government, funding an illegal war in Nicaragua.
The Result: Under Reagan/Bush/Bush?  Deficits, the size of government, and taxes on the middle-class all rose precipitously.  Under Democrats, all three of these indicators fell, leading to largest peace time expansion of the American economy in history.  Yet, it's the liberals who tax and spend.  See?  Bunch of fucking liars.
Recommended Redefinition:  The idiot, off-his-nut grandpa of American Presidents who likely just played with Tinker Toys while the Poindexters and Rumsfelds and Bushes of the world ran roughshod over the economy, the constitution, bankrupting the morality of the country in the process.

Ronnie, telling us all what he really
thinks of the constitution.

Fucking Liar #5: Newt Gingrich.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "Newton Leroy 'Newt' Gingrich (born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time magazine selected him as the Person of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of the Democratic Party being in the majority. During his tenure as Speaker, he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: The "Contract for America."  Generally being a combative asshole.  Responsible for the present state of the republican party;  namely, Newtie made it acceptable to stand in the way of progress and change for no other reason than just being a fucking jackass.
The Reality: "On January 21, 1997, the House voted overwhelmingly (395 to 28) to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich for ethics violations dating back to September 1994. The house ordered Gingrich to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it had disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing."  [Wiki]  Not only is this asshole blatantly corrupt, he divorced his wife while she was recovering from cancer (CLASSY!), then remarried six months later.  After his second divorce, this prick bastard quickly married the tramp with whom he was having an affair while married to his second wife WHILE congress was investigating the Lewinsky scandal involving President Clinton.
The Result: Just turn on FAUX News at any given time:  This is Gingrichs' legacy.  Lying corrupt fucktards trying to ram their bullshit agenda down everyones' throats, demonizing everyone who even thinks about disagreeing with them, violating their own principles the entire time.  In Short:  Your typical Republican.
Recommended Redefinition:  The biggest fatass piece of shit in American History.  Also, the guy's name is "Newton Leroy."  Never forget that.

Corrupt.  Law Breaker.  Heartless Pig.  Adulterer.  Liar.  Hypocrite.  No WONDER Fox News loves this guy.  "Family Values," indeed.

Fucking Liar #6: Donald Rumsfeld.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "A United States businessman and politician who served as the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and as the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have served as Secretary of Defense as well as the only person to have served in the position for two non-consecutive terms. Overall, he was the second longest serving defense secretary behind Robert McNamara. Rumsfeld was White House Chief of Staff during part of the Ford Administration and also served in various positions in the Nixon Administration. He served four terms in the United States House of Representatives, and served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. He was an aviator in the United States Navy between 1954 and 1957 before transferring to the Naval Reserve. In public life, he has served as an official in numerous federal commissions and councils."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: This guy presided over some of the evilest shit in American History.  Fuck, Nixon called this guy, "A ruthless little bastard," if that gives you any idea how much of a dick this guy is.  Sec Def, Head of the CIA, and also served as Senior Advisor to President Reagan's Panel on Strategic Systems, the group that masterminded the sale of WMD's to Iraq (the ones Hussein used on his own people, not the ones Rummy and Bush would later make completely the fuck up).
The Reality: From the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination, to Watergate, to Iran Contra, to Bankrolling Hussein, to Propping up Bush II, to the present, illegal Iraq war, Old Donny sure is going to have some serious hell to pay when Karma rolls around.
The Result: Two illegal wars.  Enron.  The financial Meltdown.  Roughly 50 years of pure, unmitigated hate and shitstorm unleashed upon planet Earth.
Recommended Redefinition:  The Anti-Christ.  For REAL.

He's very disappointed in you.

Fucking Liar #7: Sarah Palin.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "American politician, author, speaker, and political commentator who served as the 11th Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2008."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: God only knows.  Folksy one-liners?  Her anti-abortion stance?  Something about Jesus and illegitimate grandchildren?  Who cares?
The Reality: Palin is a self-serving, self-righteous opportunist.  Dumber than a sack of oatmeal, this broad bailed on the People of Alaska and their long-awaited natural gas pipeline effort in order to become Glen Beck's wet motherfucking dream;  thus the nickname, "Bailin' Palin."
The Result: The complete implosion of the Republican party.  Shitloads of hilariously stupid Teabagger placards.  Tina Fey's career.
Recommended Redefinition:  The Dumb Office Betty Who Couldn't.

Keep talking, you dimwit.
PLEASE keep talking.

Yes, there have been shitty liberals, but fucking Marilyn Monroe and sticking a cigar up Monica Lewinsky's snatch hardly compares to essentially turning the United States into the Galactic Empire, now does it?  Not so much, especially when one considers the fact that the above group of evil fuckers did all this in the name of "Liberty" and "God" and "Family Values" and "stopping the socialists from ruining America."  Bunch of anti-education, anti-science, anti-reality retards.

And now, the right wing has become completely unglued and detached from actual facts.  Wrapping themselves in the American Flag, these non-idiots have, in the name of defeating "socialism," now gone out of their way to thwart our sitting president's efforts to wrestle some of the control of the economy out of the hands of a few, evil, republican-run corporations, often invoking our Founding Fathers and the Constitution to support their lies.

Here's a shocker:  Many, if not all of our Founding Fathers supported "providing essential services to the public at large for little or no remuneration. The costs of these services would be shared by the whole. This, by most modern accounts, is 'socialism.'"  [-Mark R. Brown]  Roads, the Post Office, a standing army,  libraries, fire protection, police protection and education are just some of the government services supported by Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, et al.  Hell, George Washington wanted to establish a National Brewery run by the Federal Government, for Christ's sake.


So, next time you hear these liars talk about "taking our country back" and "Obama the Marxist" and "Our sacred Constitution," know that these people are actually corporate tools who are lying through their fucking teeth.  These people don't want freedom for you, they don't want prosperity for America, they could give a FUCK about "National Security."  All the conservative movement is concerned with is A)  Bamboozling the stupid into believing their bullshit, and, B) Making as much money for their corporate masters as they possibly can.

 

Palin's teleprompter: Close-up of Palin's hand during Teabagger speech Sat. Night. It reads: "Energy. Budget [<- crossed out] Tax Cuts. Lift American Spirits."

 

Dumb broad. 

Although Facebook is rarely, if ever, an instrument of social change, what may be the humble beginnings of a grassroots Anti-teaparty movement has sprung up on Facebook.

The group, which calls themselves "The Teabusters" (click here for facebook page) describes itself in the following way:

Are you tired of the "Tea Party" protesters?

Are you tired of President Obama being called a Nazi, a Socialist, a Communist, a Terrorist, or even an illegal Kenyan alien because he wants to fix the economy and provide all Americans with adequate health care?

Are you tired of suggestions that President Obama wants to euthanize your grandparents, bureaucratize your health care, and ruin your life?

If so, join the anti-teaparty movement: The Teabusters!

The Teabusters also have the beginnings of an as of yet undeveloped website: www.teabusters.com

The Teabusters are planning to counter-protest at the National Tea Party Convention and, for the benefit of those Teabusters who cannot travel to Nashville Tennessee, at various public places around the United States.

Here are The Teabusters' Public Statements:

On the Protests at The National TeaParty Convention in Nashville, Tennessee:

The Teapartiers will be having their national convention of crazy at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville Tennessee.

Their keynote speaker will be none other than the Queen of the Teapartiers herself, Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Thus, it is our duty as Patriotic Americans to counter the influence of the crazed and ignorant mob that is actively sabotaging America's Health and Prosperity.

Protests will be held at will outside the convention center or, in lieu of that, wherever we can get media attention over the course of these three days.

Any Teabuster who wishes to help organize this event is more than welcome. Help can include arranging/providing for carpools, helping to find local hotels, helping to promote the event (especially on the blogosphere and Twitter).

Those who cannot make it to Tennessee are encouraged to hold local counter-protests in places where they can get noticed by local media.

On National Days of Protest Around the United States

It is our duty as Patriotic Americans to counter the influence of The TeaPartiers- the crazed and ignorant mob that is actively sabotaging America's Health and Prosperity.

That said, it is unreasonable to expect everybody who opposes the TeaParty movement to be able to travel to Nashville to protest the National TeaParty Convention.

Therefore, all like-spirited Teabusters are encouraged to hold and help organize TeaParty counter-protests at their local Town/City halls or other locations that might attract the attention of the National Media.

If we can't be there to protest the TeaPartiers at their own convention, the least we can do is help prevent the TeaPartiers from dominating the National Media and attempting to Brainwash our fellow citizens and our elected representatives.

Anybody who has a camera is highly encouraged to upload photos of their local counter-protests to this group's page.

Also, anybody who has a movie camera is encouraged to upload videos of their local counter-protests to this group's page, in addition to youtube.

In what also seems like the beginnings of an organized effort for National Mobilization, The Teabusters has also encouraged its members to create and organize local chapters through meetup.com, the Pittsburgh Chapter being the first.