All Republicans Lie About Health Care

Because they don't care about anyone but rich people, and they use the crazy uninformed white suburban mega-church crowd to further their purposes. Let us not forget that torture advocate Orrin Hatch is a liar, too. AND a heck of a fellow. 

Mitt Romney Is A Moron

It's not just that he's a moron; it's that his position on healthcare represents the actual beliefs of the people who vote for Republicans. They think that if you're uninsured and you walk into an emergency room, that you're not going to billed, and that bill isn't going to go to collection, etc. This is what they think, and they think it because they are morons. 

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Let me just say this. An uninsured guy like me walks into an emergency room to get some treatment for a galloping infection after a two-inch thorn pierces his shoe, sock, and foot. Bloody thorn in hand, he limps into the E.R. with spidery red veins of staph crawling up his leg. He gets treated. He gets billed $2,400.00. He has to pay. That's how it works.


But not in Mitt's world, where every little thing is reduced to the most hyperbolic imaginary welfare-queen example. Mitt Romney is bad for ordinary Americans because his belief system is so foul and informed by weird phantasmagorical bullshit. He should take his magic underwear and go away.

Hiatus Sucks, Wedding Policy, and Jon Kyl Can Bite Me

SO sick of being on hiatus. This blog just found its voice, and I get sucked into the vortex of job-hunting. Well, that's it. I've friggin had it. I'm back in the saddle starting to-fucking-day.


Anyway, before I get on with my theme, let me just say that as bad as the Democrats are, and they're bad, there is nobody more vile and wack than this Jim Bunning motard from wherever he's from. Dude's on salary, absolutely worthless, crazy as a motherfucking jaybird-- everyone knows it. It's like, this totally open secret that the guy is a nutjob, possibly suffering from dementia or something, although even back before he went kooky mcwacky he was a miserable, drunken mess, and the G.O.P just lets this prick cancel the extension of the unemployment benefits that half the country is relying on during this goddamned jobless recovery. Bunning goes down in history as being even worse than Lieberman. Yet ANOTHER reason why the Senate needs to be authoritatively written out of the Constitution and permanently, politely shunned.


Third in line is millionare prickwipe from Arizona, Jon Kyl, who thinks he knows about psychology. He apparently thinks there are all these jobs-with-healthcare out there, being passed over by the army of unemployed people, because they're addicted to the luxury of unemployment checks. Jon Kyl can suck it; he has no fucking idea what it's like out there, and he represents the Republican mindset with 100% accuracy, which is why only morons, religious fanatics, and forced-birthers vote for them. 


Ok, I've been looking around the family lately, and I see that the next generation is almost of marrying age, which means I'm going to have to lay out my wedding policy with some clarity in the near future. Here's a first draft. 

Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on your engagement; I couldn’t be happier for you and ________. I know that your life together will blessed with much happiness, and that your marriage will be the foundation of countless blessings for your families, as well as for the communities where you work, worship, and live. A thousand good wishes!

Please know that as much as I would like to be present at this most important day of your life, I will be unable to attend. In order to live in harmony with my own values, I only attend weddings in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont. I am certain that one day, all states will extend the civil right of marriage to all couples who want to marry, but at this time, ________________ does not. If you have ever been legally excluded from a basic civil right, you will certainly understand.

I want you to know that my policy has absolutely nothing to do with your opinions about marriage as a civil right.  This is a matter between me and the state of _______________.

 Meanwhile, have a glorious wedding! I’ll be there in spirit.

It's a little relij, I realize, but that's how you have to talk to these people. That's it. I'm outtie.

Public Option's #1 Obstacle

Was I wrong? No.

These guys either don't want to fix healthcare, or they have the negotiating skills of an imminent suicide-case. Just give away everything. 


Obama's single-term moment came when he dangled the public option up there before Congress and then didn't mention it again. It was a game. A game called, "Let's Create A Palin Presidency."


The Democratic Party is going to languish for the next twenty years, minimally.

The Bob Marshall Question: Is It Really An Apology

...when you lie in your apology?

A story by Capital News Service regarding my remarks at a recent press conference opposing taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood conveyed the impression that I believe disabled children are a punishment for prior abortions. No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion. I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children, and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents. Nevertheless, I regret any misimpression my poorly chosen words may have created as to my deep commitment to fighting for these vulnerable children and their families.

Bob Marshall is a liar, a religious nutcase, and public nuisance.  His ridiculous, Talibanish beliefs speak for themselves:

The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children," said Marshall, quoted in the Gainesville Times. "In the Old Testament, the first-born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

His apology is an obvious lie. He believes in this handicap-as-abortion-revenge theory because that's his fundamentalist position on the issue. People like Bob Marshall will stone you if they think you're a witch. And they think you're a witch, trust me. 


Another example of the modern Republican base. They live their whole lives in slogans and fundy mythology. Creepy. I wouldn't let him near my kids. 

The Banality of Evil: Jennifer Hardy Edition

Nations that devolve into torture and barbarism sometimes rely on a bureaucratic class that makes it all fit into the law. Meet Jennifer Hardy. 


She's another one that knows better than General Petraeus and the entire military establishment of the United States.


Apparently, when Ms. Hardy was just a girl, her mother pulled her aside and said, "Defile the country, honey. Make me proud." Apparently, just being a Republican wasn't enough.


Look at the whole pro-torture crowd and its public face: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Jennifer hardy, John Yoo, Jonah Goldberg, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck. Is there anyone in there who's ever done anything constructive? It's a bunch of clowns, crooks, and soulless little bureaucratic murderers.

"Living With Our Values" --General Patraeus

Spencer Ackerman asks the vile Liz Cheney about her whole being smarter than General Patraeus on the torture question in today's Washington Independent. Cheney, who as the sinecure-provided daughter of America's most singularly incompetent and dangerous lunatic, is all about having other people torture prisoners of war and enemy combatants. Petraeus, having actually curled palms into fists to fight dangerous people, basically says the truth, which is that people like Liz Cheney may be entitled to their vile opinions, but that they're going to destroy the best things about America. You have to go back several generations before a member of the Cheney family fired a gun that wasn't aimed at a just-released bird or an unarmed old man, who looked like a bird due to the shooter's inebriation. They're real experts, these Cheneys. Sally Quinn should have them over.