Believe this--the religious right has been after a nationwide ban since abortion was legalized

Trump advocate Newt Gingrich says Trump’s abortion video yesterday was part of a scheme to trick voters so they can pass the most restrictive national abortion ban possible pic.twitter.com/F6Z1j2Ec9y

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 9, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Says the guy who left his cancer ridden wife for another woman

 Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Paranoia strikes deep

Well everyone on the left and the Obama administration are happy, happy, happy tonight--Newt Gingrich has won in South Carolina and thrown the inevitability of Mitt Romney into question.  And as we all know, Mitt Romney is the only republican who has a prayer against President Obama....

Which is probably true, until I start thinking of Citizen's United and the literally billions of dollars that will be spent between now and November trying to convince the not so bright among us that President Obama kills the puppies of angels by shooting poison darts out of his ass--and that, for starters, about a third of American voters will believe it.

And it's then that I can't get those visions of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper headline of "Dewey Defeats Truman" out of my head....

Peace,
emaycee

Why not?

Much is being made over Newt Gingrich's comments concerning African Americans at last night's debate and the standing ovation he received for calling President Obama the food stamp President.  Yawn--blood is red, farts stink, and republicans are racists.  Shock of all shocks.

Frankly, I think this is the republican strategy for the Presidential race this year.  They are probably going to lose the black vote as badly as they did in 2008 (Obama took 96% of it), so why not give red meat to the racist base and hope it fires them up and they turn out to vote like they did for Bush the Lesser in 2004?  Because their base is going to be fired up over Romney like sharks are fired up over green beans for their next meal.

Christ, if our candidate was Richie Rich in 2012, we'd be coming up with some bizarre ass shit, too.

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

That's the sound of the men, working on the chain gang

This, my friends, is really rich. Newt Gingrich, a man who has lived off the public trough, as well as that of corporate benefactors for most of his career, thinks we need a better work ethic. Two words, Newt: fuck you. Why is it that it's always the working man who is supposed to sacrifice? Why don't these numb nuts ever suggest that perhaps the private sector needs leaders whose sole talents are much more than just cutting jobs and begging for corporate welfare? Further, what the fuck is up with this: "'Poor people respond to money,' and will turn to illegal activities if it's not available through other means, he said, as an example of how the free enterprise can lift people." Really? I'd be willing to bet there is a shitload of poor people who do not turn to illegal activities and keep trying to raise themselves and their families through legitimate means--otherwise, approximately 20% of our population would be in prison (or else we have a hellaciously talented bunch of criminals out there) instead of the 1-2% currently residing in prisons.

Thank, God, though, for one Heaster Wheeler of the NAACP who summed Gingrich (and the Republican party as a whole) up perfectly" "Newt Gingrich is less than a joke. If he understood the needs of the urban centers of America where was he when he had the authority to do something about it as speaker of the House?" Preach it, brother! The only accomplishment that would come from Gingrich's ideas for urban centers would be for us to do all the work while the private sector buys low and sells high, i.e. the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. Next fucking idiot, please!

Tom Walsh is one of the few Free Press pundits that I can occasionally stomach (he's hardly a liberal, but he once predicted that by the year 2100 we'd have National Health Insurance a la Canada and wonder what the fuck we were thinking before we did), but this is sick. Channeling Bob Dylan as the background music for some radical right winger's pipe dream of making Michigan a right to work state? Uh...I'm pretty sure that as a musician Dylan is a member of the Musician's Union, and considering that they've helped him make a pretty penny, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be too thrilled with making union membership even harder to attain. And why the fuck is it always the union's fault (because the right to work states are in such good shape--always in the bottom five for highest poverty levels like Mississippi)? Why does the working man always have to take the hit for the idiocy of industry leaders who have guaranteed contracts and golden parachutes to counter their failing? I've got a great idea for turning around the economy--end welfare for corporate leaders and give them what the working man gets if they fail: a few months of unemployment (about $350 a week here in Michigan). I bet that'd light a fire up their asses. As it stands now, there's no incentive for not failing--they get paid whether they're successful or not.

A quick answer to a stupid question: Fuck no. It's a slippery slope when you start singling out people to question for any reason. Who's next? Catholics? Bald-headed men? The only outcome of any such law is to move America one step closer to totalitarianism.

Leave it to the political reporters (so-called) of the Free Press to key on some meaningless sniping between two lame ass candidates (Republicans Mike Cox and Rick Snyder) and just give a passing mention to Virg Bernero who "stood up loudly for unions and decried corporate abandonment of the middle class." I mean because their petty sniping over some piddly bullshit is so much more important than the working men and women of Michigan making a decent living. The editorial board of the Free Press wasn't much better: their sole response toward Bernero was to call him out for "ranting on behalf of union positions." For those not familiar, here's how the "liberal" Free Press deals with unions.

Another bullshit poll on healthcare reform: the results show 51% oppose and 43% in favor, but the poll fails to note how many of those opposed are opposed because the bill isn't liberal enough. Or how many will base their vote on it. American media fail indeed....

Peace,
emaycee

My oh my, why oh why

This piece is another of those lame-ass pieces that appear all too frequently in the Free Press. You would think by now I would take them with a grain of salt.... Think again. This whole idea that somehow, by some miracle, if we'd all just sing fucking "Kumbaya" together the country would be a lot better off is misguided at best, and delusional at worst. The legislation that has helped the American people most (think Social Security, Medicare, Civil Rights Act of 1964) were not largely bipartisan efforts, but bold ideas strong-armed through by courageous leaders. Bipartisanhip is a code word for wishy-washy people who are more than happy to accept mediocrity (see also, Healthcare reform 2010) and the status quo (see also, Financial reform 2010). Far too much goddamned time is spent trying to appease centrists and acquiesing to Republican proposals (even though they don't vote for the mother fuckers). The majority of the American people voted for Democrats with Democratic principles and to enact those principles. If they turn out to be piss-poor, Republicans get another shot. Besides, as noted by Digby, what bipartisanship means to most people is that the other side should give in to their demands. Two words: fuck that. Don't believe me? How do you think the majority of Americans would answer this question: Would you rather have a good bill that was entirely partisan, or a bad bill that was bipartisan? Case closed. Newt Gingrich? I mean the Newt fucking Gingrich? If he's the best the Republicans have to offer, they're an even more pathetic group than I had thought. Forget the resignation amidst scandal, forget his role in the impeachment of Clinton while he's schtupping a woman not his wife, but this: the guy asks his wife for a divorce while she's in the hospital being treated for cancer. Think about that...if he's willing to treat his wife, the mother of his children, that callously, do you think for a minute that he's going to give two shits about you? Puhlease! Gingrich is another Republican loser bankrolled by Corporate America and the wealthy whose only interest is his (their) own. No surprise that a pinhead like Finley would be enamored of Gingrich's failed ideas, but the Detroit Regional Chamber? While I realize that the Chamber (despite its trying to appear as such) isn't exactly a bipartisan organization (its motto would probably be "goverment of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation") but you'd think they could do a little better than a second-rate ideologue. I'm not a statitician, but these numbers don't make much sense. Forty percent of Michigan voters back the Tea Party, but 36% say the Democratic Party best reflects their values, 24% Republican, and 17% the Tea Party. Methinks--as with much of the Tea Party coverage--the headline is overhyped and the poll questions piss poor. It's the Free Press--I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.... Peace, emaycee