Much nothing about adieu

While I'll freely admit that Eric Cantor's loss tonight to David Brat  in his primary in Virginia-07 (largely due to Brat's strict adherence to the Tea Party's edict on hating on the immigrants) is a stunning upset, in the end it isn't going to mean much.  The Democrats are not going to win this solidly republican district, the Tea Party's influence will still remain on the wane, and Immigration Reform is still going absolutely nowhere.

Basically all it means is that the House of Representatives will trade one far right wing nutjob who doesn't give a shit about average Americans for a slightly more right wing nutjob who doesn't give a shit about average Americans.

That and the fact that republicans are really good at voting for the haters.

Peace,
emaycee

Incompetence or antipathy for their fellow Americans?

We have 7.5% unemployment (much higher if you count the hopeless and hopeful for more hours).  One in six Americans live in poverty.  Our roads, bridges, and schools are in terrible disrepair.  Twenty children were shot to death by a lunatic six months ago.  Income inequality between the rich and the poor in America are at historic highs.

So what do republicans in the House and Senate want to do?  Hold another series of votes to repeal Obamacare, which has a snowball's chance in hell of getting 51 votes (and more likely 60) in the Senate, and even less of a chance (if that's possible) of being signed by the man whose signature accomplishment the Affordable Care Act is, President Obama.  It's not bad enough that they've already wasted fifty million dollars of U.S. taxpayers money to accomplish even less than I do on my Sunday afternoon naps, they want to spend more of it to get the exact same result.

All of which goes to show that the republican party's only goal is to please that thirty percent of Americans who are gullible and ignorant enough to swallow their rich man's world view; as far as the other 70% of us are concerned, well, we can just flat out go to hell.

Peace,
emaycee

Today's numbnuts award...

...goes to Eric Cantor for this bit of utter tone deafness on Labor Day:  "Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success."

What the motherfucking fuck?  No, we fucking don't.  We celebrate the people who do the backbreaking, dirty, low-paying work for the overpaid, ignorant, and arrogant buffoons who run far too many businesses in this country.  It's not bad enough that low-lifes like Cantor spend their lives fellating these people every day to enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary Americans for the power to make ordinary Americans lives even worse, but he wants us to celebrate them on the one day that's ours?

In the words of Cee-Lo Green. "Fuck you-ooh-ooh."

Peace,
emaycee

And while you're at it...

Eric Cantor, the weaselly, greasy wimp from Virginia was in Michigan yesterday at that one time great bastion of Liberalism, the University of Michigan.  I have no idea what he spoke about, and I don't care.  Any republican since Reagan is programmed to say and do the same thing--fellate the wealthy and corporate America, and fuck over the poor and the middle class.  Whoop-de-do.

I mention it only because of the Detroit Free Press headline for the article noting his appearance.  The headline said that Cantor received "cheers and jeers" for his appearance.  While I appreciate that journalists do their best to only present the facts, I wonder...what does one suppose the cheers were for?  Helping to destroy the economy and further the ruin of the middle class during the Bush years?  Getting America hopelessly involved in two absolutely pointless wars that cost us trillions at the expense of our own people?  Kissing Wall Street's ass after it completely fucked up our livelihoods?  Getting elected in 2010 after talking about jobs and then doing absolutely nothing to create them?  Obstructing Democrats at every turn for actually trying to make the economy better?  For lying to the American people again and again to create class warfare and then complaining when the tables are turned?  For sticking us with healthcare that gets more expensive and is less effective than a host of other nations comparable to our own?

Cheering for Eric Cantor is kind of like cheering for getting kicked in the gonads--but then, no one ever accused republicans of being the brightest fuckers around.

Peace,
emaycee

There's something in the air...

I have no idea whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will turn into an actual movement or will peter out and become a fond memory for those of us view America as empathetic and not pathetic.  But I must admit, the fear running rampant among republicans is about as heartening of a development as I've seen since the Dems opened a can of whoop ass on the republicans in aught-six and aught-eight.

A little cheese with the whine:

• Eric fucking Cantor, wimp extraordinaire, calling the 99%ers a mob and accusing them of dividing America--why is it that republican protests are patriotic and ours are divisive?  I smell...bullshit!
• Rep. Peter King complaining that if we give it legitimacy it will be the 60s all over again (like that's a bad thing?).  Considering that I've heard members of the 99% Movement repeatedly referred to as "dirty hippies" by the right, it will be by their voices that it is so.  Note to the dumb asses of the right:  the sixties called and it wants its fucking lingo back.
• CNBC--you know, the money "experts" who completely missed the collapse of the U.S. economy in 2008, hell-fucking-o!--calling the protesters freaks and their actions bizarre.  Don't know about you, but I'd take being called a freak by Jim Cramer or Larry Kudlow as a fucking compliment.
• The illiterati in the traditional media--Fox, CNN--doing their best to paint the protesters with the sterotypical conservative brush.
• Scott Brown's utterly lame putdown of the high priestess of the movement, Elizabeth Warren (whose speech arguably stoked the flame and makes one proud not just to be a Liberal, but also a human being) and the may be even worse defense of him by republican spin doctors, asking  Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Kelly Ayotte to walk the plank for a pig.  Anybody want to wager a guess at how badly Warren beats Brown among women in Massachusetts in 2012?  I'll wager 65-35.

Funny thing is, as demonstrated by thereisnospoon, the tea party may have fallen on its own sword by making protests viable again.

I don't think this necessarily helps the Dems in 2012--the movement seems pretty disgusted with both parties (thanks President Obama!)--but anything that further delineates the differences between those of us who think America should help the have nots more than the haves certainly can't hurt.

Peace,
emaycee

Pop goes the weasel

Eric Cantor has always struck me as a weaselly sort--the kind of guy who'd run over your dog and tell the cops it was your dog's fault, all the while telling you how sorry he is.  His walking out on the Biden led budget talks over tax increases is being explained as standing up for conservative principles or pacifying the wealthy (protecting those making 500K+) or throwing John Boehner under the bus (making Bohner be the one to cave to the Dems increase in tax revenues).

How about calling it what it is:  a complete and utter lack of cojones.  Feigning righteous indignation while fucking over your fellow Americans is not the hallmark of heroes.  It's the sin of gutless twerps--two words, come to think of it, which describe Eric Cantor perfectly.

Peace,
emaycee

Cantor can't, can he?

I've had the feeling pretty much from his emergence on the national scene that Eric Cantor had all the gravitas of a fly fart, and his call for spending offsets in return for federal aid to Joplin, MO in the aftermath of the massive tornado there (117 dead and counting) pretty much confirms that feeling.  As much as they march lockstep, you can tell Cantor may have crashed into the walls of the loony bin with the blowback from his fellow republicans from Missouri.  I mean, please--this is a disaster of huge proportions and the only thing the people of Joplin, MO need is for the government to step in and help them get back on their feet.

Cantor and his tea party entourage may suffer from Tin Man's disease ('No heart?"  "No heart."), but I'd be willing to bet that a significant majority of the American people do not, especially in the face of such destruction and tragedy.

Peace,
emaycee

You can't handle the truth...

While I was watching Eric Cantor give his little speech today (and this comes from years of watching Republicans speak--trust me, if you wake up in the morning and a Republican tells you the sun is shining, you'd better grab your umbrella: guaranteed it's raining) the first thought that came to mind after he said his office window had been shot at was...this doesn't pass the stink test. Guess what? It probably didn't--looks like it was bullshit. Just a bit of difference between a brick thrown in anger and an idiot shooting a bullet into the air.... Republicans are also claiming that all these current terrorist acts are the fault of the...Democrats. For fuck's sake, do these people have no shame? Apparently, the Dems are supposed to shut up about it or else they'll just fan the flames and bring on even more. By this logic, one supposes that the party of law and order would advise an abused wife to just shut up about it or else her husband will hurt her even worse. And if there is anyone alive who believes were the shoe on the other foot that Republicans wouldn't be politicizing this...well, congratulations you have just been awarded the Stupidest Human Out of the Six Billion People on this Planet Award. Thank you, Mr. President--"Go for it!" sure beats the hell out of "Bring it on." First time in quite a while I cheered the President's words. And it felt great. A rarity: I was right. Turns out that despite their rhetoric about being independent-minded, how they are the voice of the silent majority, speaking out for the American taxpayer, the Tea Party is really just a radical wing of the Republican party. Good luck with that. Oh--you may have missed this with all the other bullshit going on today, but it seems the Reconciliation bill passed the Senate and then the House. It's over--it may be flawed, it might not contain all that we wished, but anyway you cut it...WE FUCKING WON! Peace, emaycee