Well….I have been thinking for a while now about doing a daily repub crazy contest but with the latest crazy coming out of the repubs in NC, it would take a long, long time to beat this one. In case you haven’t heard, the really crazy TP repubs in NC have proposed a new law that would establish a state religion (Christianity, of course) in NC and that would also, in their fevered brains, allow them to ignore any federal law or court ruling that they don’t like…proposing that the constitution does not apply to them…unless they can use the tenth amendment to nullify the rest of it. Yep, I’m not making this up…these idiots, in one breath, say that the constitution is not applicable there and they are going to ignore it…then, in the next try to use it to support their crazy. Nevermind that courts all over the country including the supreme court have ruled that federal law takes precedence over state law, and have affirmed in many, many cases that the first amendments establishment clause applies to every state. So, we have another case where ignorant repubs who have no clue what it means to govern are using the state government to push their crazy on the people of their state, not to mention enriching the law firms of their donors by hiring them to defend these blatantly unconstitutional laws….how much more of this crap do we have to listen to? Geez…
Category Archives: Politics
The real “death panels”…
Well…as I read more and more about the asshole repub governors who refuse to help the poor in their states by allowing the free expansion of Medicaid, a new study about the effects of this refusal caught my eye and the irony started to drip….in the study, the estimates of the effects of blocking Medicaid result in an extra 3,000 people dying each year in Texas who could easily be saved if they had access to healthcare. While we had the fake death panels that the repubs were so obsessed with in the last two elections, the repub governors are now sentencing thousands of real people to death just for some silly assed “principle” that the growth of the federal government has to be stopped by poor people…and if that means that some of them die, oh, well, they just don’t give a damn…and, if you multiply this by the 15 governors who have rejected the Medicaid expansion, the repubs are killing 45,000 Americans just because they are stupid pricks…that should be in every dem ad for the next season…what a bunch of crap…geez…
Okay…some politics…
Well…I have been sitting here today trying to make sense of the crap that is coming out of the repubs these days…the supposed party of smaller government is on a tear in the upper plains states with their major attacks being on women…big surprise…with these idiots passing clearly unconstitutional laws on abortion just to prove a point? Then, they will spends millions of lawyers fees to try to defend the laws when they know they will be struck down…the same thing the repubs are doing with DOMA in the US House…and you know what I think? I think they just don’t care..if they can find another way to take tax money and give it to their rich lawyer buddies while denying Medicaid to the poor…just another case of welfare for the rich. Just like those pricks and I can’t wait for 2014 to make them all go away…geez…
Who is Paul Ryan kidding?
Well…I am laughing my butt off at the “new” Ryan budget that is so much more of the same old crap that even the Murdock owned Wall Street Journal is panning it…how many more times does he think he’ll have to increase the tax cuts for the rich and gut everything else before he is successful? Again, this is the definition of insanity “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” and shows that the repubs are so delusional that they can’t even think of anything else to do…even though the American people (who generally have more sense than this idiot) soundly, roundly rejected this nonsense in the last election. Exactly who are these guys governing for? Oh, yep, stupid question….the same old folks that don’t believe in economics, or science, or anything they don’t hear in the echo chambers of the right. I just have one thing to say…”keep it up!” at least until 2014 when we can send Ryan and the rest of the austerity nuts back to the tea parties they came from. Geez…
More on the Emergency Managers…
Well…tried to get out on the bike but the problem seems to be that the rear gears are just worn out and need to be replaced…but that is not why I’m here…with the imminent takeover of Detroit by the state of Michigan with the naming off an emergency manager, I felt it was time to throw a few more details in about how they have worked in the past. First, let me say that the real intent of these anti-democratic actions by the state and the repubs that are running it is to do one thing…to break the unions and move many thousands of people out of the middle class…it’s as simple as that. Sure, Detroit is in financial trouble but it is from population flight, a deteriorating tax base, and the cutting of state revenue sharing that has hit all of the towns and cities across the state…and the revenue sharing has gone down to give tax breaks to business, the repubs one size fits all of governance…it’s raining, cut taxes, revenue is down, cut taxes, if the sky is blue, cut taxes….all the while never even asking business to prove they are creating jobs for all of those tax cuts. The other bad part of this whole mess is that, when you look at the numbers, the cites taken over by them do not get better….but, you know the repubs think facts and numbers have a “liberal bias” and really don’t pay any attention to them…they just hate democracy so much they have to try to rig the system any way they can and this is just another tool like voter suppression to keep them in power…geez…
Marco Rubio joins the list of republican idiots…
Well…the great, new hope of the repubs has begun his slow motion meltdown, after the water incident, that is by coming out the other day to say that he is in favor of letting the government shut down if Obamacare is not repealed in trade for it. Now, this is the new repub party? This guy is just not too bright if he thinks repealing a program that over 60% of Americans like is a good idea…but, it is just like the repubs….continually fighting the last battle that they lost…and acting like they won. I just want to hear them tell the millions of people that have pre-existing conditions and have insurance now through Obamacare that “you’re out of luck”; that the ideology of the right wing nuts in the repub party is more important than their health, that the profits of the insurance companies are more important that being able to not declare bankruptcy from the lifetime caps that have been removed…I can just see the ads now…”Marco Rubio takes away your healthcare just because he is a self-centered jerk…”
There seems to be something going on in this country that I never thought I’d see…that people are starting to think again, that people are saying enough to the repubs nonsense and just want the fights to stop so they can get on with their lives….or maybe I’m just reading DailyKos too much…I like hope, though…
Equal rights for all?
Well…sitting here watching a replay of the Man U match with Real Madrid getting ready for the live one this aft and this neat little tidbit was in one of the papers this morning that could pre-empt the supreme court ruling on Prop 8 from California on gay rights…or at least will be before it…here in Michigan, there is a court case challenging the constitutional amendment that keeps gays from having the same rights to marry and adopt children as the rest of us have…I am getting to the point that I consider this a human rights issue…I could just say “this doesn’t affect me” but that would be wrong..in the US we are all supposed to be equal in the eyes of the law and this amendment singles out gays and lesbians as being a “little less equal” to quote from “Animal Farm”. I feel good that all of the spurious arguments that the gay haters use to try to justify their discrimination are being exposed to the light of day for how ridiculous they are and we are finally going to have the start of real equality in all facets of life for all of our citizens. It’s about time…and, look, I think it’s going to be fun watching the haters on the right go crazy when the vote goes the way of equality…who are they going to hate next? Geez…
Here’s an idea…
Well…with the ugly comments that were made by ole Scalia in the supreme court last week, and the general consensus that the Voting Rights act is going to be struck down by the conservative assholes on the court…an idea just popped into my head…as I sit here and think about it, it is seeming less and less like a good idea…oh, the idea is to extend the VRA to cover the entire country, not just the states that have been caught cheating to keep people from voting. I wonder where the court gets their news? In my news, the shenanigans of vote suppression and rigging is still in full force across the country so why not make it a federal crime to do this crap? Maybe if that was done, the repubs would stop spending all of their time trying to rig the vote and maybe, just maybe, they would start thinking about getting some jobs legislation going…nope, they’d just move on to more abortion legislation…what a bunch of crap…geez…
Mike Huckabee loves life?
Well…I just had to comment on the screed that ole Mike delivered to the Iowa right to force birth the other day…this guy is so far out there now that he compared the legal medical procedure of abortion that women choose to the Holocaust…I’m pretty sure that the Jews that were killed didn’t choose to be killed….and while this is the usual nonsense that runs through the crazy forced religion right that we hear all the time…ole Mike stepped it up in the next breath by being proud that he sent 16 times more people to be executed than any other governor of Kansas…I think it was Kansas anyway….but the utter nonsense he spewed is trumped by the whole idea behind the speech…that it is perfectly fine for the government to intervene in womens lives to stop abortion…but it is the worst thing in the world for government to try to make affordable healthcare available to it’s citizens…just another typical repub doing what they do…advocating using the government to take away freedom from people to further their crazy assed political or religious ends….geez…
Bob Woodward is afraid?
Well…I don’t know if you have been following the whole nonsense surrounding Bob Woodward (you know, the Watergate Woodward) and what he said was a threatening e-mail he got from the White House…and his immediate need to run to Fox news to tell everyone about it. If you saw the e-mail, you must be scratching your head and asking “what threat?” That the aide that sent the letter said he may “regret” writing that the whole sequester mess is Obama’s fault….especially since it isn’t? This is supposed to be the guy that went up against the thugs in Nixon’s White House and didn’t blink? And Nixon’s thugs were really thugs that had no problem with breaking any law they didn’t like and using physical violence to get their point across…and now he runs crying to Fox because he has a little boo boo on his feelings? I have lost all of the respect I used to have for this guy…and he is showing the behavior that all of the right has….the “poor me”, all the world is against me and picking on me crap…boo hoo….had enough of this and the last thing I have to say to ole Bob is…grow a pair..geez…