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The members of the self-styled Morality Party just can’t stop doing and saying immoral (not to mention stupid, cruel, bigoted and hypocritical) things:
– From ThinkProgress: “The audience at Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Orlando, Florida commemorated this week’s repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by booing Stephen Hill, a gay soldier, as he asked Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) about open service in the military. Without condemning the audience reaction, Santorum responded to Hill’s question by proclaiming that ‘any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military’ and promising to reinstate the 1993 policy.”
– Earlier this month, during the first (and Tea-Party-sponsored) GOP presidential debate, the audience yelled out “Yeeeeahhhh!” for the latter option when the moderator asked if a person without insurance who needed intensive long-term medical care should receive it or if we should “let him die”; this was originally thought by some to be just a grim joke on the audience’s part, but after what happened to Stephen Hill, I kinda doubt that idea.
– The same Republicans who are making the most noise over the Bush-backed Solyndra loan guarantee (yeah, Diaper David Vitter, I’m looking at you) are being oddly quiet over Bush’s role in making it happen, just as they’re being oddly quiet over their own support of loan guarantees and outright grants (aka free taxpayer money, folks) for energy-related projects in their own Republican districts. And you won’t hear Darrell Issa talk much about the burgeoning San Bernardino Airport scandal that’s unfolding, complete with an FBI raid, in the home district of Issa’s fellow California Republican congressman, Jerry Lewis, the former head of the House Appropriations Committee and a big fan of the Berdoo Boondoggle:
FBI agents and other law enforcement officers raided the San Bernardino International Airport Authority office and storage units as well as a home and offices used by Scot Spencer, a convicted felon who was awarded two no-bid agreements in 2007 to build a commercial airport at the former Norton Air Force Base.
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The cost to build the [San Bernardino, California International] airport — which includes a luxury Million Air corporate jet terminal and a four-gate passenger concourse — has grown from $45 million to $142.5 million in local and federal taxpayer funds.
Interestingly, Scot Spencer, the convicted felon behind the airport boondoggle, has gone missing: Bill Ingraham, the airport’s aviation director, said Wednesday that he didn’t know where Mr. Spencer might be, and that he hadn’t talked with him in about a week.
– Speaking of convicted felons and the Republicans who love them, let me introduce you to Frank Vennes, buddy and major campaign contributor to Michele Bachmann. What was that about crony capitalism again, Michele?
– And just as Michele Bachmann’s embrace of Joe Arpaio is one of the many things making it harder for saner, more pragmatic Republicans to woo back Hispanic voters and convince them that the GOP isn’t really dominated by insanely racist Tea Partiers, the fact that “Numbers USA” and “Californians for Population Stabilization”, two of anti-immigrant activist John Tanton’s many front groups (he’s to immigrant hate what Pete Peterson is to Social Security hate) are now running anti-immigrant TV ads. Not anti-undocumented-immigrant, but anti-immigrant, period — letting the mask slip on Tanton’s racism and his racist affiliations.
Like President Clinton before him, President Obama seems to be very lucky in the sort of enemies he faces. They may well be openly repulsive enough for him to win re-election.
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if it’s romney obama loses handily bc romney will have zero compunction about transforming himself for the general election
if it’s perry obama can win as you suggest bc perry rises and falls w the teabaggers
but think of it: these cretins are running the country and rationalism has been been made obsolete
just the opposite of what obama promised
4 more years?
Oh, indeed. Everyone with a functioning brain knows Romney’s the GOP’s best shot. Whether the social cons are willing to admit that is another story.
Good morning, everyone! So what’s shaking in your neck of the woods?
Think Romney will be the next president. The house will stay republican. The senate will probably flip republican too unless Elizabeth Warren wins.
Like our votes count to change anything in republican diebold america.
The masters will select whom we may cast our vote for and neither will do anything to hurt their masters.
america is over if it ever was.
Republican hypocrisy: Feature, not bug.
for a long time i’ve thought that chris chrstie would be the gop’s anti-romney white knight
now that perry is predictably imploding, chris chris may yet get the chance bc you’re right that romney is despised by many hard-core gopers
the only thing that would get the romney-hating cons to vote for romney is if romney were running against … obama
how inconvenient
Speaking of masks, V for Vindetta was on tnt last night. Great movie except for the very very very trite ending.
OMG, PW. It’s too early in the day for me to stomach that photo of The Mouth.
Should the ending have been more upbeat? /s
I can’t see Christie heading a 2012 ticket — he’s a Northerner and the SoCons who grimly swallowed McCain don’t want that. (Kinda like how Giuliani never had a shot because he’s a New York Italian Catholic.) But a Romney-Christie ticket? That’s plausible.
Be glad I didn’t use the Corndog Picture. ;-)
Just cleverer.
But a Romney-Perry ticket is far more likely.
If you hear Christie is on a low carb diet, it’s a go.
Oh, well, I do. Much appreciated.
As for what’s been shaking, I went to a rally and march on Thursday in support of Hunger Action Day LA. Had blast.
We had several very cool chants, with congo drums for cadence. My favorite one was this:
You say Cut Back,
We say Fight Back.
Cut back,
Fight back.
We marched from City Hall to the Federal Building. Got lots of honks from the cars driving by. And, as with other protests, there was a great diversity among the participants.
Rommy’s secret underwear is a death sentence.
The deep South ain’t electing a Mormon .
Christie buried an investigation into Murrdocks phone tapping when he was bush’s goto guy as a USAG in Jersey.
Sounds like he can deliver for his masters.
Romney Rubio is the ticket.
There are only a couple of truly deep south states. Texas and Florida will elect Romney.
x2
I don’t see that — Rubio would be giving up a slot as a powerful senator for becoming a spare tire.
A spare tire with a shot at the presidency. But who knows?
Romney and BHO are practically indistinguishable,wonder if BO would put Bo on top of the car roof?
Rubio would bring Florida and hispanic voters nationwide.
Yes, if he could in return cut SS and Medicare.
A “balanced” approach.
Love “V”, agree on the ending – but is anyone else disturbed with the protagonist going all “24″ on Evey, even for a “good” reason?
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
– The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers
yeah, i agree that rubio makes the most sense if romney’s at the top of the ticket
frankly, i see little chance obama can beat them
I think you under estimate Hispanic voters. They are like any other group of voters – they vote in their self interest, or should I say, perceived self interest. Rubio doesn’t offer them anything more than a Hispanic surname. With Perry imploding, Palin has a couple of weeks to make up her mind. She would be the Right Wing’s counter to Romney, who much of the GOP doesn’t trust. If the Nowhere Plastic Man is the nomineee, the Obama opposition research team has so much info on this guy that he’ll look untrusty and unreal to many of the swing voters.
I don’t know about that. Republicans in Texas and New Mexico won with conservative hispanics in 2010. Of course, it is not uniformly the case. It just trims the margins.
It’s really good to see all this stuff in one place. Thanks for pulling this together.
I think both parties have outlived their reason for being. With three wave elections in a row, and a fourth coming up, the voters are obviously disgusted and ready for alternatives. FDL is part of that.
It is not a matter of their masks slipping, but given the forum the mass media cannot edit out them showing their true form. During their contrived political ascendency two summers the main stream mass media did not show the nihilistic nature and racism of the teabaggers. Local media did show now and then, but pretty much a cover up–most of the exposure came out of left wing websites showing for example, the signs never shown in the mass media. But now, the shouting and sentiment and full statements of the right wing candidates cannot be covered up or edited out.
I suspect that the gop big money daddies will be pushing for more crowd selection and control in future debates to avoid showing the nation what the teabaggers are about.
(Sung to the tune of “Diver Dan”):
Diaper Dave, Diaper Dave,
He’s a heck of a guy.
Long live his name and long live his glory
And long may his diapers stay dry.
The Democrats keep letting their masks slip and reveal themselves as Republicans.
There is no substantial difference and their labels only serve to divide and distract ignorant and desperate Americans while the plutocrats continue to enrich themselves on taxpayer dollars.
As the old saying goes: “If voting made a difference, it would be outlawed”.
Rubio would only bring Batista-loving hispanics, and that contingent is dying off, thankfully. Romney will choose an evangelical Xtian for running mate to assure the “Fundie” vote.