The Unbelieveable Crassness of Republicans

  I must admit one thing.  I’d miss the Republicans if they all got raptured tomorrow.  If anyone had predicted on Sunday night some of the outrageous things that have been said by Republicanist Senators on the Judiciary Committee since Monday morning, when the Sotmayor hearings began,  they would be ridiculed as blindly partisan hacks.  Consider this:

“Then you would have some ’splaining to do.”
– Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), doing his best Ricky Ricardo impression at Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing.

If it were a confirmation for a black judge, would Coburn put on blackface and sing a “mammy” song?

It gets better.  Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Sessions chastised Sotomayor for failing to vote the same way as another judge on her circuit, “also of Puerto Rican heritage.”

Smarmy shit Lindsey Graham, as Maureen Dowd noted in the NYT today,  read Sotomayor some anonymous comments made by lawyers about her, complaining that she was “temperamental,” “nasty,” “a bit of a bully.” Then he patronizingly lectured her about how this was the moment for “self-reflection.”  That nasty little sissy needs to spend some time with his governor helping him to self-reflect.

One picture, plus a few words

Palin is Favorite with Republicans

Gov. Palin goes turkey shoppping.

According to a new poll  by the Pew organization, anyway.  She stomps Mitt Romney, her nearest competitor.  Among Republicans, the balance of opinion about Palin is more positive. More than seven-in-ten Republicans (73%) express a favorable opinion of Palin while just 17% have an unfavorable opinion.  Mitt garners about  57% GOP approval.  Please, please, please God – let them nominate Palin!

Bank Failure Friday – Three This Week

First National Bank of Anthony, Anthony, KS

Cooperative Bank, Wilmington, NC

Southern Community Bank, Fayetteville, GA

Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends 06/08/09

Can’t make the payment? Light a match!

• Palin kicked out of Republicanist fund raising dinner – again.

 

• Right wing on the upswing in meaningless EU elections.
• ChiComs put Ray Nagin on lockdown in Shanghai. Has the mayor been “Shanghaied”?
• Apparently we’re letting some of the big banks pay back their TARP money. Let them give it all back, dammit!
• Laura Bush thinks Sotomayor is OK.
• Can’t afford your car payment? Torch the damn thing!
• Right Wing Israeli government stands in the way of Mideast Peace, while simultaneously claiming to have a new plan in the works.
• Canadian nurses meet to discuss possible violence surrounding flu pandemics. Now, they’re talking.
• Government selectively tracks the pig flu.
• Officials said to be preparing for second wave of flu. 1918 here we come.
• Coming to a jailhouse near you – Rikers Island overrun with the pig flu.
• I am irritated with the President on DADT, but I understand his strategery.

Everybody Hates the Republicans

 

The Face of the GOP?

A new Gallup survey finds that the GOP bucket is losing water with almost every demographic sub-group it counts.  About the only people they still hold are over 65, non-college educated white people who attend church weekly.  I would not take heart were I a GOPer.  And, a prominent Republican activist this weekend said that if Cheney, Palin and Limbaugh are the face of the party in 2012, they are in for a pounding.

Quote of the Day

My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have largely failed in execution, and are political flops is therefore unsurprising.

Richard Posner

The Incredible Revisionist History of the Right Wing Nutcases

The continual wingnut assault on FDR is a given, a “known-known” as war criminal Don Rumsfeld would say.  But, watch batshit-crazy Congresswoman Michelle Bachman soar to new heights earlier this week:

It never ceases to amaze me the obsession that Republicanists have with a man who has been dead for 64 years.  In any event, just for the record:

1. It was the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff.
2. It was a Republican-backed bill.
3. It was signed into law by a Republican President, Herbert Hoover.
4. FDR was still jetting around Hyde Park in his wheelchair at the time.

Bill Hits the Nail Right on the Head

Embittered.

From

the Los Angeles Times

Opinion

The GOP: divorced from reality

The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.

By Bill Maher
April 24, 2009

If conservatives don’t want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who’s going to win “American Idol.” But it wasn’t tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that’s when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.

Secretary Clinton Bitchslaps Grandstanding GOPer Hard-off Mike Pence

[C-SPAN via TPM:]

This guy asked for it and he got it in aces and spades.  She might be a bitch, but she’s Our Bitch.  Loves us some Hillary.

The Republican Civil War – At Least Meaghan McCain Gets It.

Ms. McCain, daughter of failed candidate John McCain, recently addressed the world’s most Quixotic political group, The Log Cabin (Gay) Republicans.  She blew some skirts over some heads with what she had to say.

Politics Bag – 04/14/09

Is NY next?

• Wonkette perceives “Balkanization” in the Teabagger movement.
• NY Guv to push same-sex marriage bill in Lege.
• MN Court declares Franken winner.  Coleman to appeal – natch.
• Bernie Sanders tells Alabama McCarthyite to put up or shut up.
• The Party of No stumbles in PR efforts.
• Spanish Court plans to move ahead with torture indictments against Bush Admin officials.

Politics Bag – 04/13/09

• The Solons of Alaska are pissed that Caribou Barbie’s taking a speaking trip.
• Krugman’s taking a breather from whining about the President.  Now, he’s making the case for the Republicans becoming the Whigs of the 21st Century.
• Blacks, Hispanics, the well-educated make for permanent Democratic Majority.
• Stimulus on target, under budget and on time.  President marks 2,000th Transportation project.

The Party of “No”

 

The Party of No - Leadership, that is.

Politics Bag – 04/10/09

"I have in my hand a list of 17 Socialists...."

• Karl Rove in restaurant dust-up with former GOP House staff head.
• Revolution stewing in Georgia? (That would be the Georgia next to Russia, not the one next to Alabama.)
• Dem Murphy up by 46 votes in never-ending NY-20 fiasco.

Politics Bag – 04/03/09

• Carville: Obama’s best day as President.
  

  He's EVERYBODY'S Pal!

• Madame Noonanham comes out of her gin and Seconal-induced haze to opine that she’s figured out this Obama guy – and she didn’t even have to talk to any of her rich friends to do it!

Republican Civil Wars Update

Boss Limbaugh

• Boss Limbaugh continues to lead the way in expanding the GOP ranks.  Today he’s warning UK PM Gordon Brown about getting “anal poisioning” from the President.
• Palin’s out, Newt’s in as speaker for Republican Rubber Chicken dinner.  GOP staffer:  “She’s a disaster.”
• Meawhile, Newt is contemplating forming a third party, just to show Republicans what-for.  This could be heaven, a Whig moment for the GOP.
• Man of Steele has cure for Republican in-fighting.  “Be more like me.” sez Mike.
• Bunning seems to realize someone is drying up his money stream. (Mitch, is that you?)  The baseballer remains undeterred. 

Politics Bag – 04/01/09

• Anonymous Liberal looks at the GOP’s talent for believing their own bullshit.  Reagan was the King of this – or enough of an actor to put it over on people.
• Batshit-Crazy Congresswoman lines up 30 other Republican lunkheads to co-sponsor Amendment to fight imaginary move to replace the US Dollar as our currency.  This is a Constitutional Amendment to fight something no one in the US wants to do. That’s how bent these people are.

DNC out with Hilarious New Ad on the GOP “Alternative” Budget

Daily Gloom – 03/27/09 – Bank Failure Friday Edition!

Is this chick to blame for the New Depression?

• Remember kids, Friday is FDIC Bank Failure Day!  They usually don’t post them until after 8PM Eastern.
• Roubini predicts massive bank failures.
• 4th Q ‘08 worst since 1930’s.
• Brazil’s President says the mess we’re in is all white people’s fault.  That’s frickin’ awesome!
• CNBC continues shameless attacks on the President.