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October 7, 2011

inothernews:

Dude, you ran some Olympic Games and can’t even bring yourself to admit that you brought “Obamacare” to your fucking state and that gives you the right to shit on the President’s foreign policy?
You talk about the U.S. “crawl(ing) into an isolationist shell” and waving “a white flag of surrender” and WE’RE STILL IN TWO WARS OVERSEAS THAT GEORGE BUSH STARTED, YOU ASSHOLE, AND BOMBING AL QAEDA USING DRONES, AND HAVE MILITARY BASES UP THE WORLD’S ASS, SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, YOU POMADED POMPOUS POSTURING PISS-ANT?
Shit Romney is your name from now on.

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Dude, you ran some Olympic Games and can’t even bring yourself to admit that you brought “Obamacare” to your fucking state and that gives you the right to shit on the President’s foreign policy?

You talk about the U.S. “crawl(ing) into an isolationist shell” and waving “a white flag of surrender” and WE’RE STILL IN TWO WARS OVERSEAS THAT GEORGE BUSH STARTED, YOU ASSHOLE, AND BOMBING AL QAEDA USING DRONES, AND HAVE MILITARY BASES UP THE WORLD’S ASS, SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, YOU POMADED POMPOUS POSTURING PISS-ANT?

Shit Romney is your name from now on.

2:30pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYyAOP333

(Notes: 163)

October 7, 2011

"I am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and other cities across our country."

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, talking about Occupy Wall Street. “Believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,” he continued. “But you sent us here to fight for you and for all Americans. You sent us here to bring about real change in Washington, real change to your federal government. And we’re committed to do that.” Pitting of Americans against Americans? Isn’t that what you do, Eric? Let’s be honest with ourselves before we criticize others. (via shortformblog)

He’s more concerned about imaginary “mobs” than he is about helping out his own constituents.

(via inothernews)

I don’t recall him saying the same about the Tea Party. Eric, I had to wait in traffic many many times, on work days because of the right to assemble that evil un-american tea party assholes have.

(via inothernews)

11:17am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYyAO5WJg

(Notes: 163)

Filed under: occupy wall street eric cantor house majority leader responses republicans gop

October 6, 2011

VIA SLATE: In which Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown says "Thank God" Elizabeth Warren didn't pose nude for Cosmo. Because he's an unmitigated asshole.

chrisafer:

Yes, he is an asshole. But her bringing his “modelling” up in the first place was sort of ridiculous. I understand that it makes it easier to take him down if you paint him as a vapid pretty boy.

I lost a little bit of love for Warren when I read this because it shouldn’t fucking matter if Scott Brown was a Cosmo centerfold. He could tweet dicktures to half of Boston and it shouldn’t matter.

basically. technically isn’t Warren slut shaming anyone whose ever modeled or stripped or somehow used their body to pay bills by inferring that is a not-worthy pursuit?

I think we are probably reading into this too much, we don’t know how Warren intended it or not, “I kept my clothes on,” is how my mom would probably have answered that question without thinking of its implications.

(Source: inothernews)

5:07pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYyAMKXWh

(Notes: 141)

Filed under: scott brown sexism republicans gop politics

October 5, 2011

"I haven’t made it my practice to listen to the cheers and the boos and try to correct the people on their expressions of their view,” Romney said in a video clip from Think Progress, seeming to issue a new personal policy on what he will and won’t do during debates."

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Romney on Booing: Audience Was Expressing Its View | News | The Advocate

Mitt Romney doesn’t think he should tell the audience not to boo the gay soldier…

(via cornachio)

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

1:45pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYyAJZXc8

(Notes: 207)

Filed under: Politics LGBTQ Military DADT Don't Ask Don't Tell Mitt Romney GOP GOP Debates

September 28, 2011

Dear women of "The View": Don't pile on Chris Christie 'cuz he's fat.

thecallus:

shortformblog:

Pile on him because you dislike his views. Pile on him because he blocked popular initiatives like a long-term commuter rail project. Pile on him because he took a state-owned helicopter to go to a high-school baseball game. Pile on him because he doesn’t like Snooki. But for the love of God, who gives a crap if he’s fat? We’ve had at least five presidents considered medically obese, one of which (Teddy Roosevelt) is considered top-tier by historians. Christie’s weight didn’t preclude him from becoming governor, ladies of “The View.” Why should it cost him a chance to become president, if that’s what he wants?

In the low culture, people care that he’s fat. And since The View is perhaps our pre-eminent low culture talk program, they will discuss Christie’s sloppy gut. This diminishes his electoral chances, despite everything you know about the supposed decency of American, so bully for that. Call him a sloppy, lard-chugging bitch if it takes him down; ethical conduct is for limp-wristed losers.

After all, we should all be thankful that some eye bags and a vagina took down Michelle Bachmann, who is otherwise the most qualified and craven Republican. Use sexism, racism, and whatever low culture prejudices you can in a campaign to take down scumbags. This isn’t Charm School President or Ethical President or even Progressive Idealism President. It’s simply POTUS and you throw whatever shit sticks.

I mean, yeah but no, but yeah but no, but yeah. Also Migraines.

I don’t know what Christie is doing, but the only Republican he bashed was Perry last night. Shots fired. but he isn’t running x100 according to fox news and his family. So he’s working for whom? Rove/Koch/Romney, for the purpose of?

He probably won’t be re-elected in his state.

He also bashed a Republican AT Reagan’s library; attacking a fellow Republican being a no-no to the Gipper. I’d say thank GOD the Republicans had finally lost the last of their principles but… yeah.

Lots of stuff to dig through today.

(via thecallus)

9:58am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYyA1kexl

(Notes: 37)

Filed under: the view obesity fat people chris christie teddy roosevelt gop new jersey fat weight problems

September 23, 2011

"Rarely have I seen a more unpatriotic public display."

— Paul Begala at The Daily Beast responds to the moment in last night’s GOP debate when audience members booed an openly gay U.S. soldier serving in Iraq. Watch the video here. (via theweekmagazine)

(via theweekmagazine)

3:08pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYy9rfoCd

(Notes: 221)

Filed under: gay military gay rights DADT politics Rick Santorum GOP debate

September 15, 2011

"I do not believe the Tea Party has a caucus that I’m aware of."

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Newly-(special) elected Congressman BOB TURNER (R- New York), in remarks made before he is sworn in later this morning. Turner is being willfully ignorant of the political movement that he is aligned with — and its Congressional members.

(via CBS Radio News)

(Source: inothernews)

10:21am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYy9YKam7

(Notes: 24)

Filed under: bob turner tea party republicans gop politics

September 9, 2011

State of the Art

lemkin:

John Cole at Balloon Juice officially wins blogging for the week:

In the long term, assuming [some version of an Obama jobs] plan gets through the House (it won’t), then we get to go through our usual drama of the blue dogs from Red States (Manchin, Nelson, Landrieu, McCaskill, etc.), Lieberman just so he can continue to be the world’s preeminent douchenozzle, and some others I am sure I am missing. They’ll cockblock it on the Senate side, moaning about the program being a deficit buster while conveniently ignoring the fact that each one of them represents a welfare state sucking at the federal teat. Finally, at the 11th hour, Snowe and Collins will swoop in and offer tax cuts for the ultra-rich as a sweetener and they will support it. At this point, Bernie Sanders or whatever progressive hero of the moment will claim he can’t support anything with tax cuts for the rich in it. This will bring things to a standstill for a couple more weeks until another shitty jobs report comes out, and the Senate, acting in the fierce urgency of when-the-fuck-ever will pass some piece of shit that is too small, unfocussed, and does nothing other than provide the left with another opportunity to fracture and start flinging shit at each other. Republicans will have spent the entire time using procedural tricks to slow things down while having Frank Luntz work on the framing of the issue so that by the time it is about to hit the President’s desk, they will already have a cute name, the talking points will be distributed, and we’ll all be hearing about the new “Porkulus” or “Obamacare” or whatever the fuck childish name they come up with. In three months time, when employment hasn’t picked up because we are actually in the same god damned depression we’ve been in since 2007, Rick Perry can claim that Keynesian ideology has once again been disproven. Because everyone hates the bill, Friedman, Brooks, and other members of the Centrist jihad will claim this as proof that the bill is great.

Read the whole thing.

Basically, yeah.

10:27am | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYy9JlKOH

(Notes: 11)

Filed under: yep 2012 politics messaging this is why obama GOP Gridlock joementum

September 8, 2011

Fear of a Republican Muslim

In August, Hamze, 35, submitted an application to become a voting member of the Broward Republican Executive Committee, a body within which he would like to organize the Muslim Republican club.

“A lot of Muslims I know, their values really line up with the conservative values of the Republican party,” Hamze says. “I’m a strict social conservative, a fiscal conservative, a very strict constitutionalist. The protection of civil liberties for all Americans is supreme.”

He was not exactly welcomed with open arms.

wait, why does he want to be a Republican again?

(Source: andrewgraham)

2:56pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZmCeYy9Htna8

(Notes: 8)

Filed under: gop

September 7, 2011

theweekmagazine:

“The battle for the GOP nomination starts in earnest” on Wednesday night, in the debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. It’s the first debate to include the new GOP frontrunner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and marks the first time in the race that Perry and former frontrunner Mitt Romney will share the stage. What’s in store for the night? Here, some predictions.

Photo: REUTERS/Jim Young