This Party Will Self Destruct in Five...Four...Three...*

After the last decade, some of the conservatives now feel entitled and want to always have it their way. They've been stirring their narrow-minded hate pot since the election of November 2008. Those redneckersons are literally gunning for us like we were all pregnant brides at the altar.

How can you NOT think of the similarities between these reactions and the fight for civil rights? Just because they aren't wearing a sheet doesn't mean there isn't bigotry and evil lurking inside. I'm way more mellow than I used to be and I really try to understand everybody involved but I can't stop thinking the about small mindedness, racist people who get so angry about change that they want to hurt you or worse and seem so closed off to any reasonable debate.re

Lima, I like what you said about a wasted decade.

* Steven Weber's Terror, Inc., post on HuffPo

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New Rule: No Shame in Being the Sorry Party

Bill Maher
Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
Posted: August 21, 2009 10:42 AM

New Rule: If Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin all think America has never done anything wrong, we must be doing something wrong. Look at them: an empty suit, an empty heart and an empty head. It looks like the news team on Good Morning Hell. And what they've been competing about lately is who would not apologize the most. America is infallible, and apologies are horrible things that must never, ever be given. Except by me when I make a joke about the Pope. "We're perfect -- deal with it," is their new handshake. But I say, what's wrong with America occasionally saying, "I'm sorry"? Because these are the three sorriest white people I've ever seen.

In his first week as president, Obama did an interview with Arab TV in which he said, "We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect." Thought crime! And then he went to Cairo and violated one of those absolute eternal rules the Right Wing is always making up out of thin air: "The president must never apologize on foreign soil. Lest our allies begin to doubt that we're assholes. "

But what did Obama actually say to make Karl Rove's head explode and the popcorn fly out? Cover your children's ears: When he was asked if he believed in American exceptionalism, he said he did, the same way "the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks in Greek exceptionalism." Yes, our so-called president actually said people in other countries might like their countries better. I was so shocked I nearly dropped the Bible I was using to help me masturbate into my gun.

In her farewell speech -- if only -- Sarah Palin kept telling us "how she's wired." Now I'm not a doctor, or an electrician -- but this is faulty wiring, this worldview that, in her words, "we should never apologize for our country." Really? Never? Not for slavery? Or Japanese internment camps, or if we tortured the wrong guy at Guantanamo? The Indians? Nothing, Sarah? "The Real Housewives of Atlanta"? Shouldn't John McCain apologize for... you?

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Quotes

"Glenn Beck said Obama is a racist.
Every time you watch Glenn Beck,
it gets easier to hate white people."
-- Conan

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Wouldn't he make a much better fit over at Fox News?

"He is Michael Jordan playing on a bad team. There’s nobody to pass the ball to."
-Bill Maher about President Obama and Congress

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He's only been in office 100 days or so and the slings and arrows are already primed and ready for him. On the other hand, 100 days was enough time for Michelle Malkin to spit out her vitriol on Obama and cast.

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Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!"

Newt Gingrich Declares: "I Am Not A Citizen Of The World!"

This evening at a Washington DC fundraiser, in a statement that can best be described as regressive American exceptionalism, former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich said of himself:

"I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous!"

Clearly Gingrich's "I'm not a citizen of the world" is a slam on Obama after the President's recent Mid-East & Europe tour. But undermining Obama's global popularity won't alter the fact that Gingrich could never achieve such acceptance. In the ever blending global arena, Gingrich is consistently bland.

Mr. Gingrich, if you are NOT a citizen of this world, then stay the eff out of it. Go back where you were ten years ago when you were forced from the House in disgrace.

BRAVO!

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Recently subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT expert, is Wellstoned

Karl Rove, left | Mike Connell, right
Recently Subpoenaed Bush/Rove IT Expert, Is Wellstoned

You know about the guy who could blow the lid off the Rove e-mail and Siegelman case? He died in a plane crash last week.

Connell was an expert pilot whose plane crashed in clear weather. He held virtually all the secrets to how George W. Bush was illegally foisted on the American people---and the world---for eight horrifying years.

More importantly, he was a computer guru. If Karl Rove was "the brains" behind getting George Bush elected, Mike Connell knew how to make it happen because he knew how the GOP steals elections.

By manipulating computerized results in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 Connell made history. By some accounts, he was about to tell the attorneys in the on-going King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal civil rights lawsuit how he did it. He also expressed a willingness to appear under oath before Congress and had sought protection for himself and his family.

But now he is dead.

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The more layers you pull back on this under-reported onion, the more it stinks.

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Bush's Final F.U.

Bush's Final F.U.

With president-elect Barack Obama already taking command of the financial crisis, it's tempting to think that regime change in America is a done deal. But if George Bush has his way, the country will be ruled by his slash-and-burn ideology for a long time to come.

In its final days, the administration is rushing to implement a sweeping array of "midnight regulations" — de facto laws issued by the executive branch — designed to lock in Bush's legacy. Under the last- minute rules, which can be extremely difficult to overturn, loaded firearms would be allowed in national parks, uranium mining would be permitted near the Grand Canyon and many injured consumers would no longer be able to sue negligent manufacturers in state courts. Other rules would gut the Endangered Species Act, open millions of acres of wild lands to mining, restrict access to birth control and put local cops to work spying for the federal government.

"The administration is handing out final favors to its friends," says Véronique de Rugy, a scholar at George Mason University who has tracked six decades of midnight regulations. "They couldn't do it earlier — there would have been too many political repercussions. But with the Republicans having lost seats in Congress and the presidency changing parties, Bush has nothing left to lose."

Fucker. How much raping and pillaging can one country be forced to endure? This article will really piss you off.

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Sarah, Sigh...

This video found on Pam's House Blend is a must see. Watch the guy in the background. Safe for work, but may not be for the faint of heart.

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From the Desk of Rude Pundit

from the Rude Pundit...

Poor Joe the Plumber Is Too Dumb to Just Shut the Fuck Up

It also means, for anyone paying attention, who gives a shit what Wurzelbacher thinks? He's an obvious idiot, not, as Hannity said, offering a manly hand job, "You're the heart and soul swinging that wrench, you're the heart and soul of what makes this country great."

No, actually Wurzelbacher is what makes this country a fucking laughingstock and a pathetic inbred cousin of what it could be. There's plenty of working class people who actually do understand how taxation and social safety nets work. They also know that "spreading the wealth," unlike what John McCain says, is what once made America great.

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Rude Pundit, you're a pure joy.

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After Palin Bombs Debating Biden...

After Palin Bombs Debating Biden, & Withdraws from the Campaign, Who Will McCain Pick?

Sarah Palin bombed in her interview with Katie Couric and she's going to hit bottom and break into 700 billion ugly pieces when she debates with Joe Biden.

Who Will McCain choose to replace her when Palin withdraws to "take care of her family?"

-Carly Fiorina
-Condi Rice
-Frances Rice, Chair Natl Black Repub Assoc.
-Gov Jeb Bush
-Gov Mitt Romney
-Gov. Christine Todd Whitman
-Gov. Mike Huckabee
-Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison

Go Vote

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Count The Lies

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Hopeful Palin Interview Q's

Hopeful Palin Interview Q's

... if you’re reading this, Charlie, we want to know everything, including:

What kind of budget-cutter makes a show of getting rid of the state plane, then turns around and bills taxpayers for the travel of her husband and kids between Juneau and Wasilla and sticks the state with a per-diem tab to stay in her own home?

Why was Sarah for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, and why was she for earmarks before she was against them? And doesn’t all this make her just as big a flip-flopper as John Kerry?

What kind of fiscal conservative raises taxes and increases budgets in both her jobs — as mayor and as governor?

When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God congregation and ask them to pray on a response, as she asked them to pray for a natural gas pipeline?

Does she really think Adam, Eve, Satan and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?

Why put out a press release about her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and then spend the next few days attacking the press for covering that press release?

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Fucking With The Constitution

Fucking With The Constitution

As you may recall, the Republicans in Congress want to amend the US Constitution with anti-gay language that would supposedly "ban gay marriage."

Who is on the very short list of Senators introducing the "Marriage Protection Amendment" in the Senate? Why none other than foot-tapping Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), and whore-mongering Senator David Vitter (R-LA). You'll recall that the very-married Larry Craig was caught tapping his foot alongside a really hot male cop in an airport bathroom. And the very-married and very-family-values-proclaiming David Vitter, we now know, has repeatedly frequented female hookers.

So there you have it. Two of the Republicans' biggest marriage hypocrites - Larry Craig, who was accused of trying to have sex with a man (who was not his wife) in a bathroom, and David Vitter who has been repeatedly accused of frequenting hookers (who also were not his wife) - want to amend the Constitution to "protect" marriage.

Perhaps you all should call Larry Craig's and David Vitter's offices and ask them the following:

Senator Larry Craig
Phone: (202) 224-2752
Message: Can a married guy give handjobs and blowjobs to other guys in bathrooms and still defend heterosexual marriage?

Senator David Vitter
Phone: (202) 224-4623
Message: How many whores does a married guy have to sleep with before he's no longer defending marriage? And does the price of the whore matter?

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If you get to call, please leave a comment at America Blog, author of this piece.

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