Not so amazing grace

 

Symbolic of Trump's chances to overturn the election

Apparently a new tactic among Trump supporting evangelicals is to pray to God for a miracle to keep Donald Trump in office.

Isn't this comparable to me praying for God to change the outcome of last February's Super Bowl and let the 49ers win?  If the prayers didn't work before the election, if there is indeed a God it seems like he has already given republicans an emphatic "fuck no" on Trump returning to office.

For Christ's sake, he lost Georgia.

289,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Biden:  306 EV's, Trump:  232,

emaycee

Who knew She was a Democrat?

Michelle Bachmann this week said that God, Herself, "raised up" Donald Trump because of the 17 republican candidates for President, he was the one most likely to win.

Apparently Michelle Bachmann is quite detached from reality, because from where I sit, an historically bad candidate like Trump is proof that God either has a hella sense of humor or that She most certainly despises the republican party.

Peace,
emaycee

How now brown nose?

In a campaign stop for Rep. Steve King this week, Chris Christie said he and King "think alike."

While I don't see Christie getting the republican nomination in 2016, if he did, the only way he wins the general is to present himself as being a somewhat moderate governors from the Northeast (it obviously did not help Mitt Romney, but Christie isn't Richie Rich, Jr. either).  And as he presents himself thusly, how often do you think his opposition, not to mention every liberal blogger from here to Honolulu, is going to bring that quote up?  Steve King is on a plane for republican nutjobs with such luminous doofuses as Michelle Bachmann and Louis Gohmert.

And herein lies the problem for the modern republican party--they are so beholden to their tea party wing that it makes them virtually unelectable on a national stage.

Good times.

Peace,
emaycee

Dunderheads 'r' us

Tonight House republicans passed an immigration bill that could basically be called the "Let's Deport Everyone Who's Not White Bill."  I may not live long enough (from my keypad to God's eyes!) to see another republican in the White House.

And that's what you get when your party's leadership is Tweedledum, Tweedledumber, and Tweedledumbest.

Peace,
emaycee

Out of the inkwell

There's an old circus clown act where a Volkswagen drives into the big tent and one clown after another comes pouring out of the car--a seemingly endless parade of white faces with big red noses.

This would also be an apt description of the race for the republican nominee to be the next President of the United States.  Note the following:

Abt/SRBI for Washington Post/ABC News. 10/31-11/3. Registered voters (Republicans and GOP-leaning independents). MoE ±5.5% (9/29-10/2 results):

Mitt Romney: 24 (25)
Herman Cain: 23 (17)
Rick Perry: 13 (17)
Newt Gingrich: 12 (9)
Ron Paul: 8 (9)
Michele Bachmann: 4 (7)
Rick Santorum: 1 (2)
Jon Huntsman: 1 (1)

A few months back, Michelle Bachmann was the queen of the republican prom.  Unfortunately, it turned out she was a nutjob.  Then Rick Perry was the shit's favorite turd.  Unfortunately, it turned out he had absolutely no talent for even faking that he was qualified to be President.  Now the great white hope (so to speak) is one Herman Cain.  Unfortunately, it turns out he is a pervert...oh, wait--it's okay in republican circles to be a perv (unless your name is Bill Clinton) as Mr. Cain's numbers have gone up despite the three sexual harassment complaints against him as reported this week.

God only knows who will be the next saviour, but frankly the only candidate who can pass the emaycee test (who has a better chance to be President--me or "insert name of republican candidate"?) is Mitt Romney.  For fuck's sake--I'm not even running and I'm pretty damn certain 7 out of their 8 current candidates have the same odds of being President as I do:  a trillion to one.  And after John Kerry flip flopped his way to failure in 2004, you know the Obama team is salivating at facing Mitt Romney.

The upshot of this?  Barack Obama may be the luckiest s.o.b. on the planet.  Despite a punch drunk economy and a less than enthusiastic Democratic base, he still stands a decent chance of being re-elected.  And if the republicans elect anyone other than "always around 25%" Mitt, he'll probably win re-election in a landslide.

And we'll get to spend four more years bitching about him.

Peace,
emaycee

Really?

President Obama has to be the luckiest politician this side of Ronald Reagan.  While his job approval numbers keep on falling, he's doing nothing to please the people he needs for money and GOTV, and the economy continues to suffer, the Republican Presidential contenders continue their chronic tone deafness--at a time when Americans as a whole have pretty much had it with corporations--to echo Mitt Romney's statement that corporations, my friend, are people.

And that's not even to mention that the three most likely candidates he'll face in the fall of 2012 are a liar (Bachmann), a nitwit (Perry), and a robot (Romney).  To quote Mr. Tom Petty, I guess it is true that "even the losers get lucky sometimes."

Peace,
emaycee

Minimum Rage

When Michelle Bachmann isn't busy claiming John Quincy Adams is a founding father, it seems another of her crusades is to end the minimum wage.

Ahem.

Can I just personally state if, for some odd ass reason, a national case of batshit insane overcomes America and Ms. Bachmann does get elected President and abolishes the minimum wage, that I will personally go to Washington, D.C. and kick her ass back to 1910.  For fuck's sake, I've been in retail for almost 30 years and it's not hard enough to motivate people for a nonliving wage of seven bucks and some change an hour, and she wants me to motivate them for even less?  Note for any other idiot who thinks this is a good idea:  think the service at your local shops is shitty now?  Try paying those workers less--they'll probably be flicking picked boogers at you.

Christ Almighty--American idiots, indeed.

Peace,
emaycee

Please, please, please...

...let Sarah Palin decide to run for President in 2012 and be the republican nominee.  The 2006 and 2008 Democratic triumphs would pale in comparison.

Did you know that Paul Revere--he of one if by land, two if  by sea fame--was actually out warning the British not to take away our guns?  Forget your knowledge of history--Sister Sarah speaks the truth.  And just in case she doesn't, her supporters are happy to rewrite Wikipedia's Paul Revere page so she actually does.  What next--are Michelle Bachman's supporters going to physically move Lexington and Concord from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to prove her right?

What's most amazing about Palin's idiocy (aside from the traditional media not calling her out on it) is how many people still support her.  I mean, for fuck's sake, I wouldn't trust the women to take care of my son's pet turtle when we go on vacation and there are people who actually think she should be President of the United States.

Utterly fucking frightening.

Peace,
emaycee

The enemy that never sleeps

Two pieces of interest this week, one farcical, the other maddening.

So...an adulterer, an idiot, and a racist walk into a bar--not really, it's only a republican shindig in Iowa featuring Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, and Haley Barbour where they had their usual  circle jerk and predicted big gains in 2012.  Against who--the fucking Green Party?  Kudos to the AP writer who wrote this piece and presumably somehow managed to keep a straight face.  I mean, this is the We're from Fucking Pluto wing of the republican party.

The second is a little more troubling.  The Mackinac Center for Public Policy--a smaller scale version of the anti-worker Chamber of Commerce--is filing FOIA requests for e-mails from labor department studies at various Michigan universities that use the words "Scott Walker," "Wisconsin," "Madison," or "Maddow" (Rachel? what the mother fucking fuck?) and claiming there's nothing remarkable about their requests.  Horseshit.  While they are perfectly within their rights to do so, anyone who believes their claim that this is about worrying over public universities using public funds for political purposes is either really stupid, a republican, or more likely, both.  The Mackinac Center is to Michigan workers what a lit match was to the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.  They don't give a rat's ass about the good people of Michigan and whatever they can do to keep us getting paid less and CEO's and corporations getting paid more, they'll do.  The Mackinac Center specializes in fellating at the altar of corporations and the wealthy.

Peace,
emaycee