Posts tagged ‘Tea Party’
Larry Taylor’s casual “Jew” slur
Larry Taylor, leader of the House Republican Caucus, very casually dropped a Jewish slur in a legislative committee hearing. He then remembered that he was in public and and in front of microphone, and that he shouldn’t be using his household language. He then immediately said that this was “probably” a bad term. Probably? There is no doubt about it.
To the insurance company and the speed at which they process claims, Larry instructed them: “Don’t nitpick, don’t try to Jew them down.”
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/texas-lawmaker-uses-jewish-slur-then-apologizes-1949377.html
Of course we will now all act surprised that a Republican uses racial slurs so casually.
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=perry+niggerhead
Hank Williams Jr stuff
Some Hank Williams Jr tweets!
Hank Williams Jr new song: “Are you ready for retirement??“
Hank Williams Jr, says President is his enemy – compares President to Hitler, says the #TeaParty is unfairly labeled as extremists.
Hank Williams Jr, commonly seen on confederate flags, says he & the #TeaParty are unfairly labeled as racist.
if we’ve learned anything from hank williams jr comparing obama to hitler it’s that you can’t ask a guy in a cowboy hat about black people
@HankJr says POTUS is his enemy. Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, Chavez, Castro, & late Bin Laden all agree. @espn wisely removes him from MNF.
Fox News to Hank Williams Jr.: “so you gonna run for office?” Fox News on Dixie Chicks: “Natalie Maines BLASTS President“
Does @995thewolfdfw still not play artists like Hank Williams Jr. who criticize the President? Hi @1NatalieMaines.
YEAH!! Senate kills Tea Party debt plan
It’s a dangerous period with time winding down quickly – and the entire economy hanging by a thread… now is NOT the time for amending the Constitution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/senate-kills-tea-party-debt-bill_n_906724.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl4|sec3_lnk1|80303
Everyone who is (A) planning to live past 67 and (B) Has less than $4 million, should be against cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
But the point is that a Constitutional Amendment is not something you rush through at the last hour. I’m not saying that we should not consider a balanced budget law (though I’m not sure a Constitutional amendment isn’t a bit extreme). I’m saying that it is a significant proposal that needs to be thoroughly examined and studied before it’s implemented so that it doesn’t blow up in our faces in 10 years.
When you have a gun to your head, you don’t start examining how to build bullet-proof headgear. Tea Partiers need to quit playing around and get a deal done, instead of trying to get their name in a history book.
How scary is the debt-ceiling debate? The consequences of a default are pretty scary. Predictions are difficult to agree on, but none of them are good. It’s well explained here:
U.S. Default Would Likely Cause Stocks, Bonds, Dollar To Collapse
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/17/us-default-markets-consequences_n_901070.html
So cut whatever – anything but Social Security and Medicare.
- Legalize it. “Legalize what”, you say? Whatever. Legalize marijuana. Legalize prostitution. Whatever. Only legalize it for 1 year. I bet we can cut the deficit in half in 12 months! Kidding? More or less. Some say marijuana is less dangerous than booze. We forego tons of tax revenue and instead spend tons of tax dollars hunting and prosecuting the traffic.
- Raise the taxes on smokes and booze.
- Increase fines and decrease jail time. Decreases costs while increases revenue.
- Increase penalties for companies hiring illegal aliens.
- Declare a date and give illegals who have proof of being here by July 22nd a subset of Social Security numbers that allows them to work and pay into Social Security, but not withdraw benefits.
- Stop fighting on foreign soil for a few years. The cost of buying and transporting gas to power generators that provide AC in battle areas is larger than NASA’s budget. Blackhawks, tanks, and armored transports get less than 1 mile per gallon. I’m thrilled we got Bin Laden – and my hat is off to Obama for getting it done after 1 1/2 years in office. Now, pack everything up and head home. We can’t police every country forever.
I’d rather see a Constitutional Amendment on term limitations for Congress. I don’t think we need to rotate everyone every few years – but I don’t think we need to have the same lawmakers for 40 years, either.
GOP: Cut Medicare to fund tax cuts for the rich
How in the world can anyone suggest that we cut taxes on the richest 2% of Americans and we fund it by cutting Medicare and Social Security? How do you even look at yourself in the mirror – that’s horrible. We’re not talking about raising taxes, we’re talking about letting the cuts expire.
If Jesus was in Congress, would he vote for tax cuts for the rich – or resources for the elderly? The Tea Party needs to stop espousing a Christian outlook, its sacrilege. It’s a group of short-sighted narrow-minded hypocrites (who apparently don’t plan on aging).
And Boehner and your Republican cohorts, you don’t fix the mess by screwing the old people. No, your companions should not have reduced regulation on America’s financial system – it had catastrophic effects. No, you should not have bogged us down in a pointless war in Iraq where there was no Al-Qaeda and no WMD’s. But you can’t fix your mess by stealing from the working class of America.
And I sure as hell didn’t donate to a bunch of health-care reform causes so that Democrats could give away the health-care I will desperately need when I’m in retirement. Give up Medicare – are you out of your mind? I could stomach cuts in every other department. When you cut benefits from old people, old people need to just go out and get a good paying job with benefits. Oh…a 72-year-old typically can’t get a well-paying job with benefits? (Morons). It’s hard enough for a 62-year-old to hang on to his job. After accruing raises and vacations, companies can’t wait to lay them off at the first downturn. And try to find a job when you’re 60. It can be done, but the odds are really against you. And to immediately affect the annual budget, you have to start making cuts right away. It doesn’t help to say “In 20 years, we will change Medicare ages/rates”. So if you’re 45 or 50, you should get in your time machine and go back and start handling your retirement fund differently.
Stop sending missiles and jets into Libya. Stop fighting in Iraq. A BlackHawk gets about 0.7 MPG and they’re used all over the place. Park the tanks, they get about 0.6 MPG. Armored transports and jets ain’t cheap and neither are the armaments. My god, the annual cost of air conditioning for US war soldiers is larger than NASA’s budget! Let’s put the cost of war in perspective.
And for god’s sake quit doing missions in Libya! Are you out of your mind, Obama? Send them a note that says “You should have done this 10 years ago.”
Palin on Revere
Remember the secret “one if by land, two if by sea” signal that Revere carried while sneaking past the British patrols?
Here’s how Sarah explains Paul Revere’s midnight ride – she learned about it from a Bugs Bunny cartoon:
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.”
She makes him sound like some drunken redneck riding with a giant bell in one hand and a gun in the other. Like Revere was just blaring through town yelling “Yeeeeee-haaaaww” – while firing his musket in the air (and then stopping and getting off his horse and putting his bell down so he can pack another shot into his muzzle-loaded rifle).
I think that in her head, she see Larry the Cable Guy riding in a monster truck, with the Liberty Bell mounted in the bed of the truck, and a Dukes of Hazzard horn on the hood, shouting “git r dun” into a megaphone, while firing a Dirty Harry revolver out the window.
How stupid does someone have to be to look at Sarah Palin and say “wow, Sarah Palin is really smart!“
As Rick Ungar (Forbes) humorously writes:
While I had been led to believe that Revere’s historic ride was actually for the purpose of warning our forefathers that the British were coming, it turns out that his midnight ride, complete with ringing bells and warning shots, was really all about letting the English know that we were armed.
No wonder the British lost. They apparently went into the Revolutionary War in the mistaken belief that we would not be armed and, as a result, failed to bring sufficient weaponry of their own.
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/06/03/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/sarah-palin-paul-revere-midnight-ride-/1
http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-paul-revere
http://gawker.com/5808271/
Tea, the new Kool Aid
So, this is the Tea Party…
If we don’t have a majority, if we can’t win an election fairly and legally…then let’s shoot everyone! Kidding? Nope. Some spare at a rally? Nope. This is GOP pundit Joyce Kaufman at a 2010 Tea Party rally saying “If ballots don’t work, bullets will!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UpwXHtCXBro
Tea! It’s the new Kool-Aid! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
Don’t Retreat, instead Reload! Giffords was in Palin’s crosshairs
Shot Congresswoman Was In Sarah Palin’s ‘Crosshairs’
“Don’t retreat, instead- RELOAD!” is how Palin introduced her map. Within a few days, a vandal smashed the glass door of Giffords’ Tucson office. Giffords’ father says that Tea Party members had been repeatedly threatening her.
Giffords is entering her 3rd term in Congress. Last year she supported the Health Care refor. This earned her a place on Palin’s map of rifle scope crosshairs. A later revision of the maps shows the candidates location in rifle scop crosshairs and ominously encourages follower to “Help us prescribe the solution“. Earlier today, SarahPAC hurriedly shut down the entire site.
In the recent congressional election Tea Party candidate Jesse Kelly carried on Palin’s violent rhetoric. He held an event with the description: “Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with [me]“
Libertarian vs Tea Party
This is so funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BY5ZGurCU
What are you? The problem with left and right is that it’s fitting 4 viewpoints on a single line. Try the Political Compass to account for both economic and social values. It plots views on an X and Y.
http://www.politicalcompass.org
Libertarianism is the advocacy of individual liberty, especially freedom of thought and action.[1] Philosopher Roderick T. Long defines libertarianism as “any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power [either "total or merely substantial"] from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals”, whether “voluntary association” takes the form of the free market or of communal co-operatives.[2] David Boaz, libertarian writer and vice president of the Cato Institute, writes that, “Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others” and that, “Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty, and property–rights that people have naturally, before governments are created.”[3]
A Growing Threat to the Public
NASHVILLE, Tenn.— A 70-year-old Nashville man was accused of ramming his sport utility vehicle several times into the back of a vehicle that had a Obama/Biden bumper sticker.
Harry K. Weisiger made obscene gestures and pointed at the campaign sticker for President Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden before he smashed into schoolteacher Mark Duren’s car, police said.
The incident appears to be among the overheated partisan political atmosphere, including death threats sent to members of Congress and their families who supported health care reform.
Duren had picked up his 10-year-old daughter from school Thursday when he stopped near the Belmont University campus. An SUV pulled up behind his Toyota Camry and the driver began honking and gesturing angrily toward the bumper sticker, The Tennessean reported.
As Duren drove home, the SUV’s driver continued making gestures and pointing at the sticker, according to a police report. The driver, identified by Nashville police as Weisiger, accelerated and crashed into the bumper, directly over the sticker.
Duren tried to calm his frightened daughter as he stopped and Weisiger rammed it again, trying to push it off the road, police said.
After a few more pushes, the SUV sped away and Duren called 911.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUuU0RLvuEiqicySmNwp1kzWNLyAD9EP7D080
David Todd, who witnessed the accident from his window, said the SUV hit the car more than once.
“He hit him twice,” Todd said. “When I stood up, the truck was about a foot behind the car, and that’s when he plowed into him again and pushed him 50 feet, turned him sideways right here, and took off.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/26/851090/-TN-Man-Rams-Car-Carrying-Child-Due-to-Obama-Bumpersticker
A teacher carrying a 10-year old girl in his car. Weisiger - you are dickless son-of-a-bitch coward Republican. WWJD, right? Chicken-shit. The Religious Right is neither.
Isolated incident? Aside from the dozen (and growing) documented death-threats and vandalism over the past week (Google it), let’s go back to the same area. July, 2008 - again, another Republican coward (also from Tennessee):
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, police said Monday.
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said a signed, four-page letter written by Jim D. Adkisson, 58, was found in his small SUV in the church parking lot. Authorities said he was an apparent stranger to the Tennessee church where gunfire punctuated a children’s performance based on the musical “Annie.” Two people were killed and seven wounded Sunday.
“It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that and his stated hatred of the liberal movement,” Owen said at a news conference.
Witnesses said some of the church members wrestled the suspect to the ground after he pulled a shotgun from a guitar case and fired three times.
“He certainly intended to take a lot of casualties,” Owen said. “He had 76 rounds with him.”
The shooting started as about 200 people watched a show put on by 25 children.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/29/hatred_may_have_sparked_shooting/
More recently, George Tiller was gunned down – again…during church – and again by a Republican zealot trying to shape politics through violence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/31/george-tiller-killed-abor_n_209504.html
A Tea Party “What If”
From a great article by Tim Wise:
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protesters — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
— Read the whole thing here: http://www.alternet.org/story/146616/what_if_the_tea_party_were_black
As someone who is ‘pro-gun’, let me also say that the “guns-out” behavior of the Tea Party (and of last year’s ‘anti-Obama’ church-goers) is the best way to get semi-automatic weapons outlawed. As someone who is for only a limited amount of gun-control, I think the best way to maintain the status quo is to KEEP YOUR GUNS PUT AWAY. As soon as you start talking about using guns, brandishing them, and talking about using them against America – you are (A) scaring the public which will result in tighter gun laws and (B) using the threat of violence in an attempt to obtain political goals. As Jeff Foxworthy might say: If youuuuuuuuuuu are marching around outside with a weapon shouting about overthrowing the American government….you might be a terrorist.
Which gets us into the V for Vendetta concept. Are you a terrorist, or a valiant rebel fighting for a better world? It all depends on which end of the gun you’re on.
And for anyone who seems to think you have to a Muslim or an Arab: Timothy McVeigh showed you, and Hutaree showed you, that you can be white and be a terrorist. You can be Christian and be a terrorist. Most Americans are probably more at risk from a right-wing white Christian nutcase than a right-wing Arab Muslim nutcase. These conservatives are more likely to walk into a church and start shooting. More likely to run us off the road for not sharing their same viewpoint.
Hutaree: Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral — all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_re_us/us_fbi_raids
