Ablogination

Trace has really started something over at STP. So you can blame her for this post, not me.

Our beloved Trace, at Speak to Power, describes their nemesis’ and the untold suffering imposed upon our dear friends by the forces of evil.

No fucking Ninja is gonna out-evil captainkona.

SUFFER, ALL OF YOU! Ninjas be damned!

The Baron Munchausen of NE Tennessee politics has once again stuffed his foot in his mouth after suddenly realizing that he’s getting no primary votes in Carter county.
Were it not for lies, people like Ramsey would not exist.

If you recall, we told you about Ramsey and his juvenile pissing match with TN house speaker, Kent Williams, over William’s defeat of Jason Mumpower for the speakership.
As a result of Ramsey not getting his Mumpower on, he opposed the development of a large fish hatchery in William’s native Carter County.

Recently, Ramsey has done a verbal about-face on the issue trying, in vain, to distance himself from his own previous position…

From the Kingsport Times News:

ELIZABETHTON — Tennessee GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey promised Wednesday the planned $16 million Carter County fish hatchery will be built “when the time is right and the money is out there.”

“I am in favor of the fish hatchery in Elizabethton, Tennessee,” Ramsey told Rotary Club members during their weekly luncheon at the Memorial Presbyterian Church.

The project became the focal point of an end-of-session budget dispute between House Speaker Kent Williams of Elizabethton and Ramsey, the state’s lieutenant governor and Senate speaker from Blountville.

Sooooo,…Little Ronnie Ramsey is now in favor of the hatchery…Ahhh so.
But, the Ron Ramsey website clearly defines his position as being that the Hatchery is “pork” and “out of control spending"…

From Team Ramsey:

Senate Republicans and most House Republicans are locked down against the fish hatchery and other local projects – including a proposed $5 million for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis – that they say are “pork barrel.” Williams, most Democrats and a handful of House Republicans are standing behind the proposal.

“And it’s more than just a fish hatchery. I do believe it is a symbol of just out-of-control spending.” - Ron Ramsey

Ok…I guess this means Ramsey is now Pro-Pork? Or Pro-Fish?…Pro-Williams?? Nah, I’m confident it means Ramsey is just a Teabagger idiot and thinks no one is listening to what he says closely enough to catch his double talking jive.

I voted crossover for Bill Haslam. Ron Ramsey isn’t fit to lead a Hymn in church, much less lead this great state.

Lying, two-faced, self-serving Teabagger piece of crap. That’s what he is. That’s all he is.

The myopic world of Republican politics is indeed an anomaly. One is hard pressed to find words to describe it, at least, words that don’t offend the readership in general…

It’s no secret what a disgrace Phil Roe has become as a Congressional Representative. He has accomplished nothing in his years in office and not only has he failed to accomplish, he has actually spent all of his time bitching and whining about Obama and exactly none of it providing for the First District of Tennessee.

Phil Roe has decided that his job is to complain. Period. Not bring jobs to our area, not provide for our opportunity and progress, but to bitch. That’s what he does….that’s all he does.

One of Roe’s primary complaints has been about the Stimulus package passed by President Obama and the Democratic Congressional body.
But as Phil Roe complains about the stimulus, genuinely productive people take a hands on approach and actually get things done as we saw in Morristown and the help their High School received from the stimulus package that Phil Roe so vehemently opposed and continues to oppose.

Now we find that yet another community has felt the benefit of the Tennessee end of the Federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Carter County’s Siam Bridge has been fully replaced and is opened to the public, two months early… which saves money for other projects.

From The Johnson City Press:

New Siam bridge among state’s first stimulus projects completed
By John Thompson
Elizabethton Bureau Chief
jthompson@johnsoncitypress.com

ELIZABETHTON — It was a day of celebrations on many levels Tuesday morning in the Siam community as a new $1.55 million bridge across the Watauga River was officially opened.

Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely came to celebrate the completion of one of the first projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the state. Because it was finished ahead of schedule, it is also one of the first federal stimulus projects to be completed in the state.

“We are pleased to see this new bridge opened and completed two months ahead of the scheduled Aug. 31 completion date,” Nicely said. “The new two-lane structure better serves the many visitors to the Siam community in Carter County and will improve access to the nearby Watauga Lake.”

For Speaker of the House Kent Williams, the new bridge is a fulfillment of a campaign promise to bring more state spending to Carter County and Upper East Tennessee, which he has often said has been neglected for 100 years.

The old one-lane steel bridge that was replaced was a symbol of that neglect. It had been declared structurally deficient and had dangerous approaches. “The curvy entrance to the old steel bridge was a safety hazard to the hundreds of people who crossed it almost every day,” Williams said.

For Carter County Mayor Johnny Holder, the bridge represents the completion of more than a decade of effort to get a new one at the site after a three members of a family lost their lives when their van failed to negotiate the 90-degree turn at the approach to the old bridge.

“Thi s is a dream come true,” Holder said. It was made even sweeter by the fact the federal stimulus money was used to construct it, removing the need for $306,620 in county matching funds which have been returned to the county treasury.

For prime contractor Charles Blaylock, the bridge project “allowed us to keep from laying off a crew and we were able to hire local people whose wages stayed in the community.”

(Ron Campbell / Johnson City Press)

You see, Phil Roe? This is progress. This is the kind of thing that makes America great. People building and improving and creating.
NOT PEOPLE STANDING AROUND WHINING LIKE LITTLE GIRLS.

Jobs created, jobs saved. Shows just how short-sighted and ineffective Phil Roe really is as a congressman. Even though he’s done everything he can to prevent building bridges and repairing Tennessee schools, we got it done in spite of his regressive efforts.

VOTE MIKE CLARK, PROGRESSIVE FOR US CONGRESS TN-1

Purge your inner circle, Barack. Somehow, in spite of warning, you’ve managed to assemble not a Presidential cabinet, but a collection of Clinton-era misfits, ingrates and saboteurs who are barely fit to be seen by the public. Much less make decisions for us.

You were warned, dumb-ass. What does it take to get through that power-warped noggin’ of yours?

OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again, we warned you. Not just us, everybody that supported you in ‘08.
We warned you not to coddle the Right Wing and the Centrist trash that perform political fellatio them on a daily basis.

Shirley Sherrod:
You didn’t take the time to verify. You and your fucktarded staff (Emanuel, Axelrod, Vilsack etc) reacted. You did not think, you did not consult, you did not reason. You reacted and you look like George Bush for doing so.

Not only did you and yours react in sheer politically-correct stupidity, but you reacted to a filthy, low-life, had-sex-with-his-mamma scumbag like Andrew Brietbart and a fake news media organization owned by a foreigner and a Nazi sympathizer FOX News.

You’re the idiots, Barack and company. No one else. You should never had assumed that something on FOX News was credible. You’re as immeasurably stupid as any other American who takes to heart anything oozing from those two traitors Brietbart and Murdoch.

From the NYT:

The flap involves Shirley Sherrod, the head of the Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in Georgia, whose firing had initially been cheered by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Last week, the N.A.A.C.P. garnered headlines when it accused parts of the Tea Party movement of being racist. Then, over the weekend, a video emerged of Shirley Sherrod, the head of the Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in Georgia, speaking at an N.A.A.C.P. event in Douglas, Ga., in March. In a two-and-a-half-minute clip, Ms. Sherrod seemed to explain that she discriminated against a white farmer 24 years ago.

Ms. Sherrod said she was pressed to resign after the video whipped around the Web. But she said the clip was misleading. According to Ms. Sherrod and people who have seen the full video, she went on to say in her speech that she had learned from working with the farmer that all people must overcome their prejudices.

In our previous post, we discussed how the NAACP were finally right about something when they called the Teabaggers “racists". I commented that the NAACP was often wrong and today is a very real example of what I meant.
Being idiots also, the NAACP were the first to throw Ms. Sherrod to the dogs…

After seeing the full video, the N.A.A.C.P. said Tuesday that it had been “snookered” into believing Ms. Sherrod had acted with bias.

“We are in a moment where there is heightened sensitivity and concern, including within the N.A.A.C.P., about discrimination against white people,” said Benjamin T. Jealous, the group’s president. He said the N.A.A.C.P. wanted “to be clear that there’s a single yardstick by which civil rights are judged.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Jealous apologized to Ms. Sherrod. In the video, which received much airtime on the Fox News Channel on Monday, Ms. Sherrod recalled working for a nonprofit organization in Georgia.

“Snookered"? No, you mean “we’re a bunch of fucking idiots and we believed FOX News". Now, doesn’t that sound more like the truth?

The message here is clear, Mr. President. The lesson even more so.
If you believe known liars you become a known idiot.
Start listening to the Left the way you did when you were campaigning and stop listening to these half-assed, Right-leaning Centrists that have been screwing you up ever since.
You could have had Howard Dean, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson…You had any number of intelligent, people-first states persons to choose from and you largely chose fools.

The Right saw a chance to humiliate a good person, one of ours. And in your infinite foolishness you helped them.

Wake the fuck up!

So much shit so little time….

1) Melting Gibson:

Mel Gibson’s cronic foot-in-mouth disease has flared up again. This time using the term “niggers” and allegedly threatening and/or pummeling his Russian, gold-digging girlfriend…wife…whatever.

Just a point or two.

While screaming about Gibson’s life, have you ever thought about what hypocrites many bloggers sound like?
“Boycott him!", “destroy his career!” “Kill him!!”

Mel Gibson says and does stupid things all the time. So do we all at one time or another.
Now tell me, will you boycott a Geena Davis movie? Do you even know what I’m talking about? There’s a scumbag movie producer named Robert Rodriguez who’s guilty of far worse.
Will you boycott his movies?

Some low-life agent named Ari Emanuel has led the anti-Mel bandwagon ever since Gibson asked a cop if he was “a Jew". Ariel “Ari” Zev Emanuel is an American talent agent, founder of the Endeavor Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, California, and now CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Endeavor’s successor by merger.
The problem with Ari, who is Jewish, is that he’s a hypocritical pig that makes Gibson look a lot less bigoted…

An April 2002 lawsuit by agent Sandra Epstein against Endeavor Agency brought accusations by Epstein and other Endeavor employees against Emanuel. In the court filings, Emanuel is alleged to have allowed a friend to operate a pornographic website out of Endeavor’s offices. According to Epstein, Emanuel made racist and anti-gay remarks and prevented her from sending a script about Navy SEALs to actor Wesley Snipes, saying, “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Everyone knows that blacks don’t swim”. Emanuel disputed these accusations at the time. Epstein’s claims were settled for $2.25 million.

Anyone mention what a racist, bigoted pig Emanuel is? Of course not. It’s ok to insult anyone as long as they’re not Jewish I guess.

People have a right to say what they will. No matter how stupid or incendiary. People in relationships get in scrapes, sad but true. And there is no excuse for abusing another, but whining and calling for Mel Gibson’s head is bandwagon jumping, nothing more. Especially when all the facts are not yet in.
Stop being hypocrites and actually stick to your guns. Call them ALL out or shut up.

2) Bobby Probert RIP:

One of the great enforcers of the National Hockey League, Bob Probert passed away recently, his family by his side.
Best known for his Stanley Cup runs with the Detroit Red Wings, Probert was a high impact player who was a pleasure to watch. He was also a pleasure to know.

I met Bob Probert at Hurricane’s Bar and Grill, in Huntington Beach California, in the early Ninties. Introduced by a mutual friend.
I played beer league hockey at the time and Bobby seemed to like me well enough to buy me a drink and chat.
He was more than well dressed, he was dapper. It was kinda odd, to be honest, to see such a rugged face in a $2000 Armani suit. But the grace, the perfect manners and the friendly smile and handshake fit perfectly. The ice-bound tough guy was not present. Only Bobby Probert the family man, the professional athlete, the instant friend. That’s who I met, rubbed elbows with and remember.
A first class gentleman all the way.

Bad, and good, to the bone

I still have his autograph on the bar napkin and branded on my memory. His moments on the ice, whether making a play or beating up Ty Domi, I will never forget.

So long, Bobby. Thanx for everything.
L&R forever.

3) The Chamber of Comedy:

LOL!
The only national institution that is more of a disgrace than the Federal Reserve is the Chamber of Commerce. According to this highly partisan, Big Business Republicans-only organization, Barack Obama is responsible for the high unemployment numbers.

Not only did these Conservative shills make no mention of George Bush, the person really responsible for 100% of the economic misery we have endured, but they actually have the nerve to suggest that Obama is at fault for inheriting the problem.

The Chamber of Commies is lying and I am the proof.
My small business is seeing record numbers. My roommate’s employer, a machine shop in E-Town that does work on gov’t contracts, cannot keep up with the pace of the new business they are getting and are hiring at an astonishing rate.

This is just one reason I kicked the Bristol Chamber of Commerce rep. out of my store three years ago. They are deeply partisan and have never been interested in helping small businesses.
They want you to join and pay them money and all you get in the end is the business equivalent of a stupid COC T-shirt.

From Reuters:

By Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON | Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:19am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most influential U.S. business groups accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of neglecting job creation and sowing economic uncertainty with burdensome tax and regulatory policies.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress to shift their approach to “unlock frozen capital and jolt our economy back to life.”

The group released the letter before a “Jobs for America” summit it is hosting and on the same day Obama’s Council of Economic advisers is releasing a report that shows the president’s policies are creating jobs and stimulating the economy.

The letter adds to growing criticism the Obama administration has faced lately from the business sector.

Four months before November congressional elections in which Obama’s Democrats are struggling to preserve their dominance, Republicans have pounced on the criticisms to try to paint Obama as “anti-business.”

The Chamber gave Obama credit for stabilizing the economy and heading off another Great Depression.

“The Chamber gave Obama credit for stabilizing the economy and heading off another Great Depression".

Of course they did, so far only TeaBaggers are stupid enough to fail to see that fact.
But Obama shouldn’t take their smug complements too seriously. They will lie through their Right Wing teeth to get a Republitard in the White House.

Now, if they really want to help their country, they should tell those Republican owned businesses to actually start hiring people instead of maintaining skeleton crews to keep the unemployment numbers up so Democrats look bad.
I just hired my second employ and this business is a tiny 1100 sq ft room. If I can afford to hire, so can they. But they’re not, and it’s strictly for political purposes. Encouraged, I’m sure, by the Chamber of Commerce.

The truth about the economic stimulus is HERE. And everywhere in fact.

4) Joe Biden is an Idiot:

Just stating the truth.

From the NY Daily News….

Tea Partiers have gotten some support from an unlikely source – the Vice President of the United States.

VP Joe Biden told ABC News’ Jake Tapper on Sunday that he doesn’t think the ultra-conservative group is “racist.”

“I wouldn’t characterize the Tea Party as racist,” he said on Sunday’s “This Week.” But “there are individuals who are either members of or on the periphery of some of their things, their – their protests – that have expressed really unfortunate comments.”

As usual, we warned about Mr. Rave Act Biden long ago. Perhaps too long ago. Maybe we should display less foresight in the future.

Perhaps Obama should scrape the shit off his shoes before he takes up a second term.

5) The NAACP is right. This time anyway:

Oh yes they are…

From The Atlantic:

This is not some deluded crazy, who has infiltrated the Tea Party with an offensive sign. This is the national spokesman for the Tea Party Express claiming that one of the authors of the 20th century American revolution is actually a “vile racist” organization. This is who they are–America’s far right-wing, speaking with all the emboldened ignorance that is fast becoming their stock in trade. I have had, and continue to have, my criticism of the NAACP. But the notion that they are somehow being unfair to the Tea Party, that President Obama should denounce the NAACP, says a lot about our desire to forget and their insistence that we do no such thing.

I have long been one to question the NAACP’s relevance. Moments like these remind me that I have been very wrong. It is not my style to spend my days attempting to enlighten or embarrass the Tea Party. But someone has to do it. Someone has to say, “It’s not OK.” That is not work for “sensible” people. But it’s work that has to be done. Someone must hold the line.

Not exactly geniuses, the NAACP often complains about seeing racism in places it doesn’t exist. But this time they are spot on and only acknowledging that which we already saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears.
The Teabaggers must never be allowed to excuse away the truth we all recognize.

One thing about a clown, it’ll either creep you out or crack you up. In Ron Ramsey’s case, it’s often both…

Three of our favorite Ron Ramsey quotes are truly classics by now. “…I
started my businesses with a pickup truck and a prayer”

and

“Give Washington the Boot”, with which Ramsey proudly adorns his hideous billboard ad on the Parkway.

and

“…as a
small business man what do I want from Washington? Nothing, just get
out of my way”

We’ve been aware of the depths of Ron Ramsey’s hypocrisy for quite some time now. But it’s always nice when he gives us fresh examples upon which we can express our total dismay and amusement.

“Truck and a prayer"? How’s about selling property to get the money? Would that fall under the “truck” or the “prayer” part? Have I ever mentioned that I hate people who exploit God for personal gain?

A 1987 Warranty Deed found in the Sullivan County Courthouse reveals that Lt. Governor Ron “Give Washington the Boot” Ramsey and wife
Cynthia (Syndi) sold a Bluff City, Tennessee lot they then owned to, OMFG! the United States Postal Service for $63,000.
I guess it’s ok for Mr. and Mrs. Prayer Group to receive cold, hard cash from the Federal Gov’t but you and I can’t even have health care from them.

“Just get out of my way” huh. The Ramsey’s transaction documents don’t seem to indicate any desire to avoid the Federal Gov’t as this PDF Document shows us: (Adobe 7)
Ramsey Doing Biz With Fed

Amazing, no? Ramsey stands before the dupes that vote for him with his “rags to riches” bullshit stories and his sociopathic world view, straight faced and wide eyed, and the complete and total dumptrucks buy into every single lie.

Got news for ya, Ronny Boy. I’ll take Washington over a lying scrounge like yourself any day. And when you lose the Republican primary, you’ll finally know what it’s like to “get the boot".

Ever wonder what it feels like for a goobernatorial candidate to campaign on his home turf only to find out that he’s about as popular as bat fungus?

Well, just ask Ron Ramsey. Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey made a campaign stop in E-Town this week. This particular retard-roundup took place at Tri-Cities Gun Depot (Elizabethton) and his supporters flocked to greet him….all six of them.

From our fellow, doeriver, at DU:

A small crowd gathered at Tri-Cities Gun Depot, 1760 W. Elk Ave., to
meet the lieutenant governor and hear what he had to say. Ramsey, who
is originally from the East Tennessee area, empathized with the locals
while touting himself as the “biggest defender of second amendment
rights in this campaign.”

In addressing the crowd, Ramsey shared some of his past reputation for
defending gun rights including his help with a bill in 1997 that
brought gun carry permits to Tennessee.

Packed in like sardines

I guess that when people know that a particular candidate, in this case Ramsey, has worked hard to prevent jobs from going to their community, they tend to remember having been thrown under the bus to satisfy Ramsey’s personal vendettas.

This is where we take the pledge, friends.
Even though Ramsey is polling last amongst the Three Stooges (Haslam, Wamp, Ramsey), it still behooves us to make sure every effort to keep Ramsey out of the Governor’s mansion is exercised.
We ask all Democrats, Liberals, and other concerned voters to cross over and vote for Haslam in the Republican Primary. Every single vote for Haslam or Wamp is a nail in Ron Ramsey’s political coffin. Please join us in this effort, especially if you reside in NE Tennessee.
The John Gregory Taliban must be dealt a fatal blow.
Stopping Ramsey will mortally wound them.

Open Primaries are August 5th. More info HERE.

…but evidently Kenneth Hill, of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority can.

Kenneth Hill. Tennessee’s Pat Robertson impersonator.
Father to TN State Rep. Matthew Hill and current candidate for State House, Little Timmy Hill.

The family is, along with failed Congressional Rep. David Davis, a brood of carpetbaggers from Indiana (no offense intended, Hoosiers. I’m sure you were glad to be rid of them).
Matthew Hill is also a well known “Birther“. A group of wacky half-wits, led by disbarred lawyer Orly Taitz, who attempted to establish, only to fail, that President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S.

…Oh, fuck it, let’s cut to the chase. The Hills are a bunch of assholes. They are not from this state, have embedded themselves in TN politics and they’re spreading like Lyme Disease over our legislative body.
Now, in blatant Fake Christian fashion and obvious desperation, Kenneth Hill decided to go church hopping and beg the faithful to pray for, vote for, and provide funds to his pathetic son Timothy’s campaign.
Wasn’t there something about “don’t tempt the Lord thy God” in Dr. Hill’s book?

There’s another book Kenneth Hill obviously hasn’t read. It’s the IRS HANDBOOK. The one that states plainly…

The ban on political campaign activity by charities and churches was created by Congress more than a half century ago. The Internal Revenue Service administers the tax laws written by Congress and has enforcement authority over tax-exempt organizations. Here is some background information on the political campaign activity ban and the latest IRS enforcement statistics regarding its administration of this congressional ban.

In 1954, Congress approved an amendment by Sen. Lyndon Johnson to prohibit 501©(3) organizations, which includes charities and churches, from engaging in any political campaign activity. To the extent Congress has revisited the ban over the years, it has in fact strengthened the ban. The most recent change came in 1987 when Congress amended the language to clarify that the prohibition also applies to statements opposing candidates.

Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501©(3) organization as one “which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.”

The IRS has published Revenue Ruling 2007-41, which outlines how churches, and all 501©(3) organizations, can stay within the law regarding the ban on political activity. Also, the ban by Congress is on political campaign activity regarding a candidate; churches and other 501©(3) organizations can engage in a limited amount of lobbying (including ballot measures) and advocate for or against issues that are in the political arena. The IRS also has provided guidance regarding the difference between advocating for a candidate and advocating for legislation. See political and lobbying activities.

The letter states:
“I am writing to ask for your prayer for Timothy as he campaigns. I am also asking for your help in his campaign,”

…In Timothy Hill’s letterhead. Signed by daddy.

History is riddled with the destruction wrought by men who thought themselves too holy to be bound by law or principal. How badly do we want to be part of that kind of history, NE Tennessee?

Timothy Hill: Dumb enough to vandalize Wikipedia, Dumb enough to vandalize Tennessee’s 3rd House District.

More lies and political double-talk from the mass-mailer proggie of Phil “Dr. No” Roe…

You gotta understand, TN-1. When a Congressional Rep. cannot deliver to his district, he reverts to blatant lies in an effort to blame others, in this case Washington, for his failures.
Congressman Roe is one of the best there is at denial and transference….

From the Campaign of Rep. Phil Roe:

Imagine your family doesn’t set a budget this year. You have no idea how much you are going to spend, so you really don’t know whether you and your family are going to have enough money to cover all your expenses. Well, you decide that doesn’t matter because you are going to just put it on a credit card and take on more debt. How much debt? There’s really no telling because you are just going to spend as you go along with no set plan.

Obviously, this is not a sound financial strategy. However, this is exactly what our nation is doing because the Democratic Leadership in Congress has made a decision not to submit a budget for the year because they say it’s too difficult for them to do so.

I’ve seen some crazy things since I’ve been in Congress, but even I was amazed that the Democratic leadership would not even submit a budget this year.

Well, asshat….
There is little use in passing a budget until the BI-PARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION finishes it’s deficit-reduction plan….in DECEMBER. Jackass.

To say that Democrats simply won’t pass a budget due to lack of ability to count is a blatant LIE and highly offensive to anyone with any semblance of intellect. Which explains why your constituency eats it up like candy.
You knew there was a report that was being waited on and you still lie like a whore? You are a shameful little man, Phil Roe.

Crazy things? You mean like the fact that the GOP-led Congress didn’t pass a final resolution in 1998, 2004 or 2006?

What’s “crazy” is that you lie, get caught, then learn nothing from the experience. You’re not related to Sara Palin by any chance, are you?

In 2006, then House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said that passing a budget was the most basic function of governing. The same year, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, John Spratt said, “If you can’t pass a budget, you can’t govern.” And Nancy Pelosi said in 2002 that failing to pass a budget hurts children.

This means – by their own words and by their own standard – Democrats are unwilling to govern at the most basic level. However, they are more than willing to push the hard work off to our country’s next generation.

Here you continue to ignore the facts of Congressional procedure like the inept lying swine that you are.

What???….You’re saying the resolution won’t be passed until the offspring of Congress are in Congress?

It’s a dubious distinction for Speaker Pelosi to be leading the first Congress in 35 years without a budget.

Once again, you lying dog, “the GOP-led Congress didn’t pass a final resolution in 1998, 2004 or 2006″.
Ignorant of the present day facts and grotesquely ignorant of the historical facts surrounding your own seat.

The Washington Post reported today: “Tax cuts that benefit the middle class should not be ‘totally sacrosanct’ as policymakers try to plug the nation’s yawning budget gap, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday, acknowledging that it would be difficult to reduce long-term deficits without breaking President Obama’s pledge to protect families earning less than $250,000 a year.”

What would this mean? A return to the marriage penalty; higher tax bills for couples with children; higher marginal tax rates taking more money out of your paycheck – just to name a few.

You sorry sack of shit. You dare to speak about “taxes” that do not exist and speculate about taxes that never will become reality? Your taxes have not gone up one penny. Nor have anyone elses.
In fact, the average working Tennessean saw a tax credit this past season.
I guess that’s why you feel the need to invent and fabricate “taxes” since there are no tax hikes to which you can allude in support of your argument.

Your lies are getting so thin you can’t even do a respectable job of cloaking them any more, Dr Roe.

You are incompetent at best, sir. A morally challenged, hick version of Baron Munchhausen with no respect for the first district of Tennessee or the people here.

Thank God you’re not a Doctor….Oh, wait….

We normally enjoy a pretty nice view of the Steel Creek Knobs and the trees here in Thunder Valley, but sometimes certain man-made eyesores can prove very detrimental to such a pristine environment…

I sent the Ramsey campaign an email complaining about how offensive and disturbing the blight on my view is and requesting it’s removal.

No response as of yet.

Seems the Parkway has a nature threatening disaster of it’s own. Anybody got a paintball gun?

Lt. Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey, is running for Governor. My 82 year old mother met Ron Ramsey at a visit he made to King College some years back.
Not only was that the first time I ever heard my mother speak poorly of someone, it was also the first time I ever heard her use the word “asshole".

Ron Ramsey is a pathetic man. From his support for the court rejected, amateurishly written Guns in Bars legislation to his hypocrisy concerning Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Ron Ramsey may well be the most incompetent boob that ever served in public office in Tennessee.

If one needs more evidence of the fact that Ron Ramsey is as useless as a dry well, you can look no further than his statements concerning a proposed Fish Hatchery that was ear-marked for the tiny enclave of Elizabethton in nearby Carter County. The home of TN House Speaker Kent Williams.
Ramsey, who apparently has little knowledge of how politics works, has referred to the 16M dollar project, and the numerous jobs that come with it, as “pork".
Yeah, Ronnie boy, “pork” is where the jobs always come from. That’s why it’s the Rep’s job to get it. It’s called bringin’ it home to one’s district.
Something you have never done for Blountville or any of our counties.

But Ramsey knows this, really. His opposition to these new jobs for E-Town does not arise from an aversion to “pork barrel spending". It arises from his personal dispute with Williams.
Kent Williams, a more moderate Carter county Republican, helped the state of Tennessee greatly when he sided with Democrats in preventing Ramsey’s fellow loser, Jason Mumpower, from becoming Speaker of the House.

Ramsey has no problem taking the jobs away from an entire community over a personal dispute and he’s perfectly willing to lie through his teeth in the process…

From the Johnson City Press:

Ron Ramsey is clearly not fit to govern this great state. His priorities are back-assward and his heart is clearly not with the people of our area.
But, that’s the kind of thing that happens to career politicians. Particularly many of the incumbents of late. They get all nice and cozy in their plush offices that we pay for, enjoy the health benefits we pay for, eat their meals and clothe their rug rats on our dime….
But when it comes to delivering JOBS to the area it’s more important to them to joust with their political enemies (like the little drama queen pansies they are) than to do their duty and bring some jobs our way.

Ron Ramsey is a disgrace. We should primary this monkey the way we did Davis. Even a prick like Bill Haslam would be better than this clown.

Maybe we will. Let’s make some calls….

Sometimes, you find a Congressional incumbent that is so morally and intellectually challenged that it becomes difficult to know when to stop laughing and begin sobbing.

I mean, listening to pathetic people attempt to lie in your face like a child that’s just been caught stealing from mom’s purse can be amusing in a strange sort of way. Until you realize that each and every one of those lies causes harm. That’s when it becomes sad…

Rep. Phil Roe of the First District of Tennessee. It’s sad that a man who’s come so far in life could be reduced to a petty conservative shill in just two years of office. But reality is often a sorrowful reminder to keep one’s moral compass in good working order.

The latest lies from the asp-like lips of Phil Roe (via campaign email):

As you know, I have spent a lot of time and attention on health care reform in our nation. Now that the bill has been signed into law, the implementation of the Democrats’ health care legislation is underway. The picture of what this will actually do and how it will affect us individually is becoming more clear. At the risk of sounding repetitive, more and more of what I see and hear from reports is distressing.

No, Phil. You’ve spent a lot of time and attention trying to prevent the people of this nation from having affordable health care.

As far as repetitiveness goes, you, like most Republican politicians, firmly believe in the age old principal that if one repeats a lie often enough someone will believe it.

Remember President Obama’s fundamental promise when talking about health care reform: “If you like the health coverage you have today, you can keep it”?

Well, new rules released from the Obama Administration on Monday cast a lot of doubt on this promise. The health care law allows Americans to keep their health care coverage – so long as their health care plan doesn’t make any significant changes.

So, what happens if a plan wants to add a new cancer drug or a new form of treatment for diabetes? You guessed it - government bureaucrats in the Administration get to decide whether the health plan can make that change without you giving up your “right” to keep that plan you like.

Lying sack of shit.
The “significant changes” you queefed about are generally limited to…
a) the insurance company reducing your benefits out of the blue,
and
b) the insurance company increasing the insured’s out-of-pocket expenses “significantly".
Meaning, if your current plan significantly reduces your benefits or increases your out-of-pocket spending above what it was when the new law was enacted, then your plan will lose its “grandfather” status and you will gain additional new benefits under the Act.
These additional new benefits will alter the insured’s plan in a beneficial manner, but the insured will not have to go to some other insurance company as you so wistfully imply, Little Lord FauntleROEy.

And to imply that anyone in the gov’t would make the insured give up their policy because the insurer added a new medication to coverage is such an incomparable LIE that I have no choice but offer this electronic bitch-slap in your Gerbal face.

The reality is, health care plans constantly change out of necessity, and now when they change, Americans will be at risk of losing their existing health care plan

You mean, Americans will be at risk of having their insurance plans improved by the legal requirements. Don’t you, sweet pants?

Analysts say these new stringent regulations set by the Administration on Monday could force up to 80% of employers to change the current coverage for their employees. Higher costs will force many to new government-regulated marketplaces called “exchanges.” Once they’re there, you can bet that we’ll start hearing from advocates of single-payer health care that private insurers can’t take care of us – when it was their “reform” that destroyed their ability to do so in the first place.

Analysts? Name them, Philie.

And I’m glad you mentioned “employers", since I am one and all….
Your email of lies was intended to make the average person with their own, private insurance think that their private policy would change. It won’t. The discussion here is 100% about employer offered insurance. Something 1 in 5 American workers don’t even get to enjoy.

Employees in the “exchanges” are better off than they were when they had no insurance at all.

And yes, we should have gone to Single Payer in the first place since it’s the most cost effective method of delivering health insurance to all Americans. But that wouldn’t agree with your industry, would it, Phil?

Ultimately, this bad bill will not only reduce access to care, but it will certainly reduce the quality of care, as care is eventually rationed. This is not what I want, nor is it what the American people want – but the emerging details indicate that is what we’re going to get.

To those of us in Tennessee who have seen the ramifications of TennCare, it’s clear why we need to replace this legislation with reforms that actually promote competition and reduce costs.

Again, moron, this mediocre bill will increase access to care because that 1 of every 5 American workers will be covered by the exchanges.
Do you even know what you said?? Reduced quality care is a lie. Any care is better than no care at all and the quality of it is dependent on the integrity of the hospital and physician. Not legislation.

You don’t speak for the American people, and nobody cares what YOU want. We pay for you and your family to have the best care on earth. Now we’re going to get ours and you will not interfere.
Of course I realize that your political party and your corporate scum money-men, like John Gregory and many others, robbed TennCare (and the TN taxpayer) into bankruptcy, but I think I need to remind you that TennCare still saves thousands of lives in this state every year and I think it disgusting that you would belittle that reality for political gain.

You, sir, are a horse’s ass, and that’s why Mike Clark gets our vote for United States Congress. At least he won’t do any harm.

Primum non nocere, Dr. Roe.

Yeah, baby.

Finally we see some fire and fight from a Democrat. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) was approached by two little cockroaches (Andrew Breitbart cronies) with a camera who proceeded to harass the Congressman about his political views.

The video below depicts the feeling many of us have concerning these nasty little Teabagger types. It shows a real Democrat straight up punking the wannabe agents provocateur in public and he does a damn fine job of it.

We at TN420 wholeheartedly congratulate Congressman Etheridge for his tenacity. Though we would have preferred to see Breitbart’s little maggots get mud holes stomped in their faces, we will gladly settle for this grand display of conservanoid bitch-bashing.

You gooooo, boy.

Rarely is there ever a respectable person from Sullivan County found in public office. There are a few, but we want to alert you to some exceptional jokers who happen to be running in the upcoming elections.

Bart Long:

Aside from the obvious conflict of interest generated by a guy in the real estate business running for Register of Deeds, it occurs to us that Bart Long’s fiscal responsibility may be very questionable.

Have you seen how many campaign signs this clown has out? Hundreds of them, all over the county. Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of signage….to get a job that pays around 30K a year?
Whats the motivation, Mr. Long? Real estate biz floundering? You could always fill Mumpower’s old job baggin’ groceries if it’s that bad.

But then again, the real estate biz must be booming. Thousands in signs? Who paid for that? You? Out of pocket?
If it’s that good, why Register of Deeds? Surely there’s more money in selling old houses.
Pathway to Planning Commission where you can really drop the hammer on your competition?

I understand that Bart Long is “very proud” of his Republican affiliation. That by it’s self is cause to question Long’s ethics. There is nothing for a Republican to be proud of unless failure has all of a sudden become en vogue.

Vote Duncan for Register of Deeds.

Timothy Hill:

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.

Timothy Hill is simply a punk. Just like his brother, his Bible exploiting daddy, his mentor, failed Congressman David ‘Jesus Pimp’ Davis and his benefactor, the thief John Gregory (Tennessee Conservative PAC).
They are all fake Christians that exploit the faith of others for personal and political gain.

The entire family are corrupt, unethical clowns and should never be involved in public service in any way.
They are all down for themselves and will never help anyone in this area in any way unless they profit from it.
Only an utter fool would vote for filth like this.

The fact that the Hills are ethically challenged is proven by the fact that they were caught removing unflattering facts (relationship to the thief John Gregory) about David Davis and Matthew Hill from Wikipedia. A behavior on the ethics level of plagiarism…

Timothy Hill, 28, is the brother of state Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Jonesborough, and the son of Tennessee Regulatory Authority Director Kenneth Hill.

In 2007, Timothy Hill was caught using a government computer to delete information in the online Wikipedia biographies of then-U.S. Rep. David Davis and Matthew Hill.

At the time, Timothy Hill was Davis’ press secretary and communications director.

Timothy Hill attempted to delete information about Davis’ and Matthew Hill’s ties to King Pharmaceuticals and its former CEO, John Gregory, a major contributor to Republican candidates and conservative causes.

Hill is also a John Gregory (King Pharm/United Coal) worshiper. Gregory being the thief that ripped TennCare and Medicare off for millions of taxpayer dollars.
The Tennessee Conservative PAC founded by Gregory is also located within the Leitner Pharmaceuticals Building. They are all from the same insidious ilk.

John Gregory, Ron Ramsey, David Davis, Jim Holcomb, the Hill brood, Bart Long?…..
Pure, Jesus exploiting filth.

Gonna vote for these scum, Sullivan County? Go ahead, show us just how fucking stupid you really are.

John Gregory Inc., everyone involved with you and everyone that supports you in any way. For all you do, this blog’s for you.

Lil roundup for ya…..

1) Carte Blanche:
Democrapic US Senator and useless asshatress, Blanch Lincoln of Arkansas, narrowly survived a Primary runoff against a real Democrat, Arkansas’ lieutenant governor Bill Halter.

Lincoln’s victory is unfortunate for the people, but at least we had the cow sweating in a big way. Arkansas is an extremely conservative state and for a genuine Progressive to come so close to unseating an entrenched, filthy rich incumbent conservanoid can only be considered strong progress.

If she doesn’t shape up, we’ll continue to fight for her ouster regardless of what those two pieces of shit, Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs, have to say about it.
If you are a Democrat, and you capitulate to that which is morally wrong, we will do whatever we can to remove you. Count on it. It will never change.

2) A Hero Named Helen:

A White House correspondent for six decades, the incomparable Helen Thomas has fallen victim to a disturbing trend…Punishing public figures for telling the truth.

In an interview conducted by some scumbag Zionist “Rabbi” named David Nesenoff, Helen stated the truth concerning Israel and it’s illegitimate claim to Palestinian land.
Thomas was truthful in a refreshing and respectable way. When asked about Israel she said “get the hell out of Palestine".

We wholeheartedly agree. Well said, Helen.

“Rabbi” Nesenoff quickly accumulated a tremendous amount of hate mail at his website rabbilive.com as a result of his calculated attack on Thomas. Of course, the Rabbi displays only the comments about “Jews” from Nazis and soforth and none of the comments rightfully attacking Zionism.

In fact, many of the comments displayed on the site were concocted by the Rabbi himself and his supporters while seeking attention.
Standard operating procedure for all Zionist websites.

The facts are:
a) Helen Thomas is correct. Israelis are not Semites. They are white European-decent just like me and they have no right to Semitic land.

b) Rabbi Nesenoff is not a “Jew". He is a Zionist. Zionism is contrary to Jewish beliefs as put forth in the Torah and amounts to heresy according to the Jewish faith.

c) Helen Thomas joins a long list of great people who were degraded, imprisoned or even murdered for being truthful. Among her peers you’ll find Jesus of Nazareth, Mahatma Gandhi, Rachel Corrie, Joe and Valerie Wilson and a host of others throughout history.

We won’t forget you, Helen. Your courage and honesty should serve as an example to all.
I guess truth is a wrecking ball to those who’s existence is built upon a foundation of lies.

3) Lord Stanley’s Holy Grail:

Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks on a damn good job.

Well done, Sir Kane.

4) Sailing and Failing:

A 16 year old girl from California has been rescued after she signaled that she was in distress in the middle of the Indian Ocean as she attempted to circumnavigate the globe, alone, in her small boat.

Abby Sunderland’s parents, Laurence and Marianne, should be tied to a tree and beaten senseless for this incredible case of grotesque child neglect.

We hope and pray that Abby survives her parent’s lack of concern for her safety to grow to a ripe old age.

5) LOL!

Alvin Greene. A previously unknown, unemployed veteran with felony charges coming down the line, fucked the Democratic party up by winning Tuesday’s South Carolina Democratic primary.

There’s no end to the questions this brings up but it will be interesting to see where it leads.

It costs over ten grand to enter the race. Where’d he get it?
It’s been speculated that Greene, 32, is a Republican plant. That would explain the obscenity charges he’s facing as they are eerily reflective of Republican behavior.
Then there’s the chance he just entered and won on a fluke, but with 60% of the vote a fluke seems unlikely.
Meanwhile, an investigation looms.

Can’t wait ’til this unfolds.

6) Borderline Asshattery:

A number of recent incidents on the Mexican border have unfortunately left would-be illegal immigrants dead. One of them a fifteen year old child.

A couple of points:

Though border agents are trained, as cops are, to shoot “center-mass” (in other words at the human torso), there is no requirement for it. You can still shoot to the legs and wound, and that’s what should have been done in this instance.

There is no way to justify killing this kid. It was an overreaction. I know soldiers in Afghanistan who faced worse from kids there and still didn’t kill them.

That said…

Chances are, you throw rocks at an armed person, you are likely to get fucked up. Rocks can kill if the target is not wearing a helmet, which border patrol agents rarely have. I caution those who think they can assault anyone they want like it was some sort of a game.

It’s not.

The boy didn’t need to die, but it was he who cast the first stone. This is how tragedy happens.

Time to pick the early ones again. These endorsements are subject to change but probably won’t aside from late additions. They are a collective endorsement and may or may not reflect the voting of any individuals associated with TN420.org

Quite simply, we have the usual TN election completion. A wide variety of scum with a few decent prospects intermixed.

US Senate: TN420 proudly endorses the only Senate candidate we have ever endorsed. Chris Lugo of the Green Party for US Senate.

Why:
The only candidate in the state that’s not a lying sack of shit. He’s a real man with a real agenda for real people. We cannot think of a better person to represent Tennessee in the US Senate.

Chris Lugo’s contributions to Ablogination, of which he is a fellow and author, tell his tale and a groovy tale it is.

United States Congress - Tennessee District 1:

After getting to know him, we take great pride in endorsing Mike Clark - D (E-Town). Mike is the real thing. This district is the mother of all fuckers for anyone other than a Republitard to run in, but I will stand and fight with Mike Clark to the end.

Why: In a time when we’re looking right down the throat of ecological Armageddon in the Gulf, as a result of our dependence on filthy fossil fuels, we don’t need jackasses like incumbent Rep. Phil Roe - R getting all wet and wild with fossil fuel entities like Pilot Oil.
The top campaign contribution to Roe in 2007-2008 was $11,500 from Pilot Corp Oil of Knoxville, TN.
Dirty is dirty and we have a dying Gulf, and likely more, to prove it.

Phil Roe Must Go.

Tennessee Governor: TN420 reluctantly endorses Mike McWherter - Democrat, for Governor of Tennessee.

Why: McWherter is far too conservative socially, but those who he’s running against are a collection of pure filth.
Either Ron Ramsey, Zach Wamp or Bill Haslam are the probable opponents. All three Republicans, all three pathetic wastes of time and space.
Hypocrites, idiots and adulterous fiends.

McWherter is the only choice. Unfortunately.

Tennessee House 2nd District:
There is no one better qualified, especially in Kingsport, than former Rep. and target of deplorable Republican racism, Nathan Vaughan.
Nathan Vaughan was attacked racially by Rep. Jason Mumpower and some piece of crap named Tony Shipley. Shipley is the incumbent waste of air occupying the 2nd District seat at the moment.

Mumpower created a stir in the ‘08 legislative campaigns when he helped Republican Tony Shipley narrowly defeat Democratic Rep. Nathan Vaughn.

Mumpower said Vaughn, a black businessman thrice elected in a city only 4 percent black, was “better suited to be representing inner-city Memphis than the rural hills of East Tennessee.” A GOP campaign mailer depicted the heads of Vaughn, Barack Obama and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the bodies of three blackbirds under the heading, “Nathan Vaughn – part of the liberal, big-government flock.”

Why: I, captainkona, am pleased to state that Nathan Vaughan is a friend of the family and we are proud to be acquainted with such a man. He is a community-first leader who has, and will again, deliver results home to the 2nd District and provide a strong voice in opposition to the Republican leadership that brings disgrace upon our state on a daily basis.

TN420 endorses Nathan Vaughan for TN House.

Sullivan County:

We are glad to endorse Frances Harrell - D as Trustee.

Our endorsement for County Clerk goes to everybody’s friend, Jeanie Gammon. Gammon - D, is a shining star who has been a credit to this community for decades, while her Republican opponent, Jim Holcomb, is a John Gregory (King Pharmaceutical/United Coal) bought-and-paid-for crony.
MORE ON JOHN GREGORY AND HIS THEFTS
MORE

As Register of Deeds we endorse Mary Lou Duncan - D.
Her Republican opponent, Bart Long, is in the real estate biz and we just feel that there is a conflict of interest in his being Deed dude.

He could harm his competition in many ways if he was to abuse his office.

We will refrain from endorsing incumbent Republican, Wayne Anderson, for Sullivan County Sheriff. But we will also refrain from endorsing John Taylor - D, who is a jack-booted drug war Nazi.
Anderson is probably the better choice.
I will abstain from this vote.
This position has changed-SEE UPDATE BELOW


The remainder of the Sullivan County election lineup is not important enough to consider.

To be continued……

ADDENDUM:

Actually, there is one more race worth mention.
It has been made clear to us that Sullivan County Mayor, Steve Godsey - R (used car lot), referred to voting as a “privilege” as opposed to the unalienable right it is. Godsey stated that voting is “one of the most important privileges we have as citizens.”

We really don’t care who runs against Godsey, but whoever it is would probably be the better choice in light of this information.

UPDATE:

We have decided to very reluctantly endorse John Taylor for Sullivan county Sheriff.
Due to things we have learned yet cannot confirm clearly enough to post, John Taylor may be less of a Drug War proponent than we gathered from some of his statements.
These questions were enough to push Taylor, a Democrat, back behind the line we draw when it comes to political endorsements.

Here we go again, TN-1. Yet another chance to shed the Dumbest Voters in the Country image and finally do something productive for the Appalachian portion of the state.

NE Tennessee. We are truly blessed. We live in the middle of the most beautiful area in the nation. Our environment normally pristine. Our communities exceptionally safe by comparison.
But we’re looking at losing what we have by gaining nothing.

Nothing.

That is what NE Tennessee has gained by entrusting our Congressional District to people like Bill Jenkins, that clown David Davis, and now an equally inept PHIL ROE.
What have we gained? David Davis got us a new taxi way at the airport. Gee, thanx dude.
Phil Roe? Nothing…nada…Z-E-R-O

Phil “Dr. No” Roe has produced nothing for the people of NE Tennessee. Indeed, he has lambasted every effort of the Obama administration, and the Bredesen administration, to give us opportunities and benefits that all Americans should enjoy.
Absolutely railed against The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act….
….Only to publicly celebrate the very same benefits. (can you say hypocrite?)

On April,19 2010, District one Congressional Representative, Phil Roe, found himself attending a groundbreaking ceremony at Hamblen High School East in Morristown, TN.
The school received a Federal, interest-free loan to build additional classrooms for our students. 11.1 Million dollars for the education of NE Tennessee’s kids came as a result of president Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The very same ARRA that Rep. Roe voted against.
Just like a career politician to show up in front of some kids and their parents to claim responsibility for progress he had originally opposed.

Let’s review some of Phil Roe’s other votes that did nothing, and even denied the people of this district…

House Roll #60
Feb 24, 2010
Nay
On Passage - H.Res. 1098 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4626) to restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers
Passed 238-181, 13 not voting

In short, Phil Roe voted against patients and for Corporate Insurance.

House Roll #82
Mar 3, 2010
Nay
On Passage - House - H.R. 4247 Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act
Passed 262-153, 16 not voting

That’s Roe voting to allow a faculty member to strangle your child at school.

House Roll #182
Mar 24, 2010
No
On Passage - House - H.R. 4849 Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act
Passed 246-178, 5 not voting

This is Roe voting against Small Businesses and people who need jobs.

This is Phil Roe. Nothingness. Unwilling and unable to function productively in a House of Representatives that is dominated by Democrats, and will remain so after the November elections.

Phil Roe is the quintessential useless incumbent.

Which brings us to the good news. There is an answer to the uselessness of Phil Roe, and his name is Mike Clark.

The differences between the incumbent Roe and Mike Clark are vast. Mike Clark is dedicated to maintaining the pristine environment we all enjoy. Clark is also highly dedicated to seeing to it that our children enjoy the very best of educational opportunities that are available and the very best of health care for all Tennesseans and Americans throughout the country.

But most of all, Mike Clark want’s to use the power of the TN-1 Congressional seat TO BRING JOBS TO NE TENNESSEE.

JOBS! CAN YOU HEAR US, PHIL ROE? JOBS!!

The stats don’t lie. Phil Roe has presided over record job loss in this district and we simply cannot afford to lose any more. Raytheon, Exide…gone, and the jobs along with them.

Mike Clark can. He can get jobs because he can work with Congressional leaders to make sure that District One gets our piece of the pie too.
Mike Clark can do what Phil Roe cannot. Provide for the betterment and prosperity of NE Tennessee.

TN420.org proudly endorses Mike Clark for United States Congress - Tennessee District One.

Because we can’t afford to lose any more.

TN-1 Congressional Candidate Mike Clark

Israeli Terrorist have attacked a flotilla of supplies headed for Palestine in international waters.

This should be the final straw.

From the Telegraph UK:

“The flotilla of six ships carried aid supplies organized by the Free Gaza Movement had set sail from Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, and was met by a fleet of Israeli naval vessels after nightfall.

Forty miles off the Gaza coast, three helicopters landed 15 men each on board the Mavi Marmara, which was carrying the bulk of the convoy’s 700 activists.

They were met with immediate resistance. Videos supplied by the Israeli military and footage broadcast by television cameras on board showed troops coming under sustained attack from figures wielding metal poles.

At one point, an Israeli commando can be seen being hauled over the side of the top deck, falling to the deck below. Another was briefly seized.

Troops then opened fire, causing at least 10 deaths, although yesterday estimates of the number killed had been as high as 19, and scores of casualties including one Briton.

International response to what was widely seen as an over-reaction was swift.”

The entire free world is condemning this latest Naziesque act of terrorism committed by the criminal state of Israel. This was murder, plain and simple.
In an effort to prevent respectable humans from relieving the systemic starvation of Gazans by Israel, the Zionist version of Al-Qaida wasted no time in attacking and gunning down unarmed civilians.
Many of the relief providers fought back bravely and began to get the best of their attackers. The relief workers had no firearms, only clubs and their hands to fight with. IDF terrorists used guns to murder them.
(Don’t even go there. If the relief workers had guns Israel would have shown them to the world by now.)

This is one of most abominable displays of mindless violence committed by Israeli terrorists. Rivaling the attack on the USS Liberty and the targeting of civilians of Lebanon in sheer cowardice.

The British Gov’t offered the following statement:

“Regardless of any reasoning, such actions against civilians engaged in only peaceful activities are unacceptable. Israel will be required to face the consequences of this act that involves violation of the international law.”

The attack was carried out in international waters. A factually criminal act baring much resemblance to the Somali piracy off the coast of Africa. This monstrous act must not go unpunished.

Benjamin Netanyahu must be arrested, and if not, killed.
The world can no longer sit idly by and allow these Nazi filth to murder innocent people with impunity.

It’s no secret that Tennessee General Assembly Republicans are the dumbest and most depraved of State Representatives, but now they have transcended yet another level of foulness, hypocrisy and inhumanity.

They have played God, for the sake of money, with the very lives of the children of the state of Tennessee.

A grim report from the Commercial Appeal has exposed the true nature of the “pro-life” yet anti-child views of the representatives of the Republican party.

From The Commercial Appeal:

NASHVILLE – Despite pleas by children’s advocates and testimony that babies will die, Republicans on the state Senate Finance Committee stripped funding for an infant-death reduction initiative that officials say is reducing Memphis and Tennessee’s high rates of infant mortality.

The committee voted 7-4, on straight party lines Thursday night to reject an effort by Senate Democratic Leader Jim Kyle of Memphis and others to restore the state budget funding for the governor’s Office of Children’s Care Coordination and the grants it administers across Tennessee.

Republicans hold a 19-14 Senate majority, and the budget alternative they first unveiled May 11 has called for cutting the program’s $4.6 million budget in half for the fiscal year that starts July 1, then eliminating it entirely the following year.

But Bob Duncan, director of both the Office of Children’s Care Coordination and the Cover Kids health insurance program, said that effectively eliminates the program and its grants for local services in Shelby County and across Tennessee on Dec. 31. Asked what would happen if that occurs, he said, “You will see an increase in babies dying.”

Democrats = Pro Life
Republicans = Pro Child Mortality

VOTING PRO-CHILD: Sens. Joe Haynes, D-Nashville; Douglas Henry, D-Nashville; Roy Herron, D-Nashville; Jim Kyle, D-Memphis.

VOTING ANTI-CHILD: Sens. Diane Black, R-Gallatin; Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville; Mark Norris, R-Collierville; Doug Overbey, R-Maryville; Bo Watson, R-Chattanooga; Jamie Woodson, R-Knoxville; Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge.

Children’s health advocates were stunned as word spread Friday.

“I think the action by the committee is very disappointing and disturbing, and if their action is sustained through the full Senate and is the outcome of the state budget, it will have very very serious negative affects on the successful efforts we’ve made thus far on reducing infant mortality rates here in Shelby County and across the whole state,” said Yvonne Madlock, Shelby County director of health services.

Deborah Clubb, executive director of the Memphis Area Women’s Council, said the committee’s vote “will shut down all of the effort that began five years ago … to address the horrific rate of dying babies in Shelby County.”

And there you have it, residents of NE Tennessee.
It seems that Republicans want to save fetuses so they can kill them later.

If you intend to be born in Tennessee, I strongly advise that you run for cover on your first breath. Because Tennessee Republicans will either kill you at the hospital, or wait until you’re 18 then kill you in some inexplicable foreign conquest.
But hey, on the journey from sperm to fetus you’ll be just fine.

Pro-life? LOL

I have a few mins of down time and this was just too good to pass up.

Texas, a state infamous for police tasering old ladies, executions of innocent people and fucktarded Presidents, has finally managed to transcend their own record ignorance in a humorous fashion as opposed to the usual destructive one.

One has to wonder why Marijuana is even illegal in Texas when the cops are too stupid to know it from crabgrass….

ROTFFLMAO

Bong rips of Horsemint, anyone?

From Raw Story:

Like the old song goes, one of these things is not like the other…

However, remind a police officer in Corpus Christi, Texas of those famed Cookie Monster lyrics and they’re likely to give you an annoyed look.

That’s because a recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as “one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department’s history,” turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family – effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.

The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth who came across them while riding a bike in the park around 8 p.m. on Thursday. Upon visual inspection, police apparently agreed that the inoffensive plants had to go.

Fucking idiots.

Just when we thought we were over the stigma of BushSpeak. Just when you thought the derelict dialect of Sara Palin was fading into obscurity…Now, a new bobble head doll has burst onto the scene.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rand Paul….

From Salon:

The Tea Party hero said he thought the Civil Rights Act was fine when it came to desegregating public institutions, but not private businesses. He called the issue of desegregating lunch counters “obscure,” and implied the First Amendment gave business owners the right to be racist.

And not only that:

In an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the eye doctor turned candidate said Friday that by lashing out at oil giant BP, President Obama had been “un-American in his criticism of business.”

Eleven people were killed in the explosion that caused a massive leak spewing oil into the waters. Experts have said BP appears to have vastly underestimated the amount of oil flowing into the gulf.

Thank you, Teabaggers. Thank you soooooooo much for handing the Kentucky Senate seat to Democrats.

I was wrong, guys. You do have power. You ARE a major political movement. With the resources of George Soros and Michale Moore combined I could not have ever done a better job of stripping Republicans of a Senate seat they can normally call theirs and theirs alone.

Outstanding. Truly outstanding.

Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and Teabagger candidate dejour in the Kentucky Republican primary, seems to have come down with a case of foot-in-mouth-disease so savage that it rivals even the great ones. Bush, Palin, Biden….Doesn’t get much wackier.
But ol’ Rand has really shown a surprising effort for a rookie.

Rand Paul, after defeating some clown who’s name escapes me, decided to speak publicly to his legions of Teabaggers. And when he spoke he spoke with thunder!….

Essentially:

“TEABAGGERS! WE WON!!”

“Fellow bags, we have achieved a great victory today! Together we sent a message to all America! Saying that we don’t think businesses should be forced by the government to serve Hippies, Niggers, Chinks, Spicks, Kikes and people from Bora Bora if they choose not to!” “Now that’s freedom"!!
(Rabid Applause)

“Now, our first order of business is business. We believe in businesses and therefor business is our business! We must realize that our patriotic duty is to render Corporations unaccountable for everything! All hail the Corporate Gods"!!!
(chanting/applause)
“We, as Americans, must not criticize business. In fact, we must make ourselves and our first born available as sacrifice to the great Corporate Kleptocracy in the sky!!! Hallelujah, Hallelujah!! Alla akbar!! Selah!!!!!”

“British Petroleum is not responsible for the catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf…no, no. It is the oil’s fault for being there in the first place!”
“It is also the fault of the gov’t, the one I’m trying to be a part of, for not drilling in Alaska and fucking it all up instead".
I submit to you, good John Birch types of America, that President Obamba is downright un-patriotic in his criticism of BP. The responsibility of doing a good job should not be laid upon them!”
(amens and general ineptitudes)

“Now join me, fellow baggettes! Together all 25 of us can win the Senate and change all the stuff the black guy and Pelosi did to help you".

“ONWARD!”

Quite a guy that Rand Paul. Basically, he’s just another Fascist. A “Libertarian". Liberty for him, but not for you.
The simplistic and often just plain childishness of the Libertarian world view would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
They want roads and bridges but want everyone but them to pay for it. They want you to obey the law while they don’t have to. They want to be able to break contracts with you and leave you with no recourse.
They even want to outlaw fistfights so you can’t kick their ass for it. :D
http://www.lp.org/platform

Yep. Thanx, Teabaggers.
I can hear the Moderates and Independents running for Conway cover now.

You guys are the shit. Love ya, don’t change.

Short primary roundup…

Progressives kept our word when we said we’d “primary” Arlen Specter after he switched parties to become a Democrat. Rep. Joe Sestak defeated five-term senator, Arlen Specter, in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary today.

Sestak will face some Republican clown named Pat Toomey for that Senate seat.

Democrats absolutely clobbered the Teabaggers in the special election for the Congressional seat of Rep. John Murtha who passed away in February.
Murtha’s former aide, Mark Critz, handily defeated Republican Teabagger Tim Burns in an election Republicans thirsted for but ultimately failed to win.

Republicans spun the race as a “referendum on the Obaba-Pelosi agenda", but ended with a face-plant of epic proportions.
This seat was major for the Right Wing, but as predicted, the people know the score and voted accordingly.

Though it’s not yet over in Arkansas, Progressives gave Corporate Democrat Blanch Lincoln hell by causing her to fall short of the 50% needed to avoid a very expensive runoff election.
She will face Lt. Gov. Bill Halter on June 8 for the Democratic nomination.
Halter, with the support of MoveOn and other Liberal PACs, shook the foundations of corporate politics by denying Lincoln, who opposed the robust Public Option in the health reform package, an easy return to the Senate. Halter supported the House version of the Public Option.
Lincoln is now ripe for the picking.

The Teabaggers did manage to propel scumbag, Rand Paul, to victory over fellow scumbag Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the Kentucky Republican primary.
This is a good thing in more than one way…

One, it’s insignificant at best. One clown replaces another. Yawn….
Two, Rand Paul is a fringe Teabagger candidate that will drive moderate Republicans and Independents to the Democratic candidate in droves.
And three, the fact that the Teabaggers can’t seem to win the big one is testimony to their marginal ability as a bona-fied political movement.
Paul will likely face Attorney General Jack Conway who is projected to win the Democratic primary.

The only success the Teabaggers can claim may well backfire on Republicans come November.
Today’s primaries are a referendum alright. They tell us that Progressives are still the power in American politics and that the Teabaggers are being seen for the corporate astro-turf kooks that they really are.
A spastic brood of miscreants and assorted whack-jobs that simply turn anyone with any real sense of patriotism off like a light.

On to November and the final nails in the Teabagger coffin.

This article was graciously provided directly to Ablogination by the author, Barbra O’Brien.
Barbra is an outstanding blogger with impressive credentials.

Health Care Reform Will Help Everybody

Many Americans assume the new health care reform act will benefit mostly the poor and uninsured and hurt everyone else, according to polls. As Matt Yglesias wrote, “Basically, people see this as a bill that will take resources from people who have health insurance and give it to people who don’t have health insurance.” Those who still oppose the reform say that people ought to pay for their own health care.

We all believe in the virtues of hard work and self-reliance, but these days it’s a fantasy to think that anyone but the mega-wealthy will not, sooner or later, depend on help from others to pay medical bills. And that’s true no matter how hard you work, how much you love America, or how diligently you take care of yourself. The cost of medical care has so skyrocketed that breaking an arm or leg could cost as much as a new car. And if you get cancer or heart disease - which can happen even to people who live healthy lifestyles - forget about it. The disease will not only clean you out; it will leave a whopping debt for your survivors to pay.

And the truth is, we all pay for other peoples’ health care whether we know it or not. When people can’t pay their medical bills, the cost of their health care gets added to everyone else’s bills and insurance premiums. When poor people use emergency rooms as a doctor of last resort, their care is not “free.” You pay for it.

Another common fantasy about medical care is that the “free market” provides incentives for medical companies to develop innovative new drugs and treatments for disease without government subsidy. It’s true that private enterprise is very good at developing profitable health care products. But not all medical care can be made profitable.

For years, the U.S. government has been funding medical research that the big private companies don’t want to do because there is too much cost for the potential profit. This is especially true for diseases that are rare and expensive to treat. An example of a recent advance made possible by government grants include new guidelines for malignant pleural mesothelioma treatment developed by Memorial Sloan-Kettering mesothelioma researchers. Another is a blood screening test for mesothelioma developed by thoracic surgeon Dr. Harvey Pass. The health reform act provides for more dollars for such research, from which even many of the tea party protesters will benefit.

The biggest fantasy of all was that people who had insurance didn’t have to worry about health care costs. But the fact is that in recent years millions of Americans have been bankrupted by medical costs, and three-quarters of the medically bankrupt had health insurance. And yes, insurance companies even dumped hard-working, law-abiding patriots. But the health care reform act will put an end to that, and now America’s hard-working, law-abiding patriots are more financially secure, whether they like it or not.

Some people are just born to be great. It is their destiny and there’s no handicap or circumstance or challenging force that can stop them until they have made their mark on the world.

The great ones come and they go. And we are richer because of them.

Thanx for everything, Ronnie. Rest in Peace.

Our colleague and genuine Liberal Tennessee Blogger, Steve at WhitesCreek Journal, has alerted us to the latest organizational effort by the extreme Right Wing. It has an all too familiar face, especially to those of us in Tennessee.

H/T to brother Steve at WhitesCreek.

KKKarl Rove. Former Bush adviser who resigned in disgrace, traitor who divulged classified CIA information to now deceased journalist/traitor Bob Novak and Nazi sympathizer.
Never has there been a worse excuse for a human with the possible exceptions of Dick Cheney and Jeffrey Dahmer.

Karl Rove and friends

Apparently having become bored with being a sideshow column at the Wall Street Journal, Rove has begun an attempt to organize five listless factions of Neocons (who all occupy the same floor of an office building so they don’t have to walk too far to the vending machines) into one treasonous entity similar to the infamous PNAC.

As Dick Armey admitted recently, the Teabaggers were AstroTurf designed to mimic the successes of genuine political activist movements like MoveOn and Code Pink. Now Karl Rove, Norm Coleman and their fellow piece of shit, Ed Gillespie, admit freely what we all have known for decades. Liberals are smart, NeoCons are idiots and in order to be successful they will have to copy us…

From Politico:

The Republican Party’s best-connected political operatives have quietly built a massive fundraising, organizing and advertising machine based on the model assembled by Democrats early in the decade, and with the same ambitious goal — to recapture Congress and the White House.

The new groups could give Republicans and their allies a powerful campaign apparatus separate from the Republican National Committee. Karl Rove, political architect of the Bush presidency, and Ed Gillespie, former Republican Party chairman, are the most prominent forces behind what is, in effect, a network of five overlapping groups, three of which were started in the past few months.

Five Conservanoid groups formed into one network. Seems this network has yet to be provided with a name. So we’ll call them “Karl and the Rovettes” for now.

The Rovettes consist of the following five cells:

1) American Crossroads — designed to counter spending by labor and progressive groups, including the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Unit and MoveOn.org — will focus on voter contact with the potential to move into ground game and turnout efforts. Organized under the tax code as a Section 527 organization, meaning it can spend directly on political activity, it’s set an ambitious budget of $52 million and says it’s already received commitments for $30 million of that. Its president and CEO is former top U.S. Chamber of Commerce executive Steven Law; its political director is veteran GOP operative Carl Forti. The chairman is Mike Duncan, former RNC chairman and presently a board member of the Tennessee Valley Authority; the treasurer is Jo Ann Davidson, former RNC co-chairwoman; and the secretary is Jim Dyke, former RNC communications director.

To try to avoid undercutting RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who has alienated some givers, Duncan tells prospective donors that the party structure is “an important part of winning” and that he is looking for people who “want to go above and beyond.

2) American Action Network, modeled on the Center for American Progress, will conduct polling in key races, and plans to put up TV advertising since it is allowed to engage in explicit political activity as a group organized under Section 501c(4) of the tax code. Former Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota is the CEO; Fred Malek, a longtime top GOP financier, is chairman; and Rob Collins, a former top aide to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, is president. Board members include former U.S. Sens. George ‘Macaca’ Allen and Mel Martinez and former House Reps. Tom Reynolds, Jim Nussle and Vin Weber.

3) American Action Forum, a policy institute linked to the American Action Network, also will mirror CAP. Norm Coleman is also chairman of this group, which as a 501c(3) organization, is prohibited from directly endorsing or opposing candidates. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and campaign adviser to Sen. John McCain, is the president. Board members include former Govs. Jeb Bush of Florida and Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania.

4) Resurgent Republic co-founded a year ago by Gillespie and Republican pollster Whit Ayres, says in its official description that it is “modeled on Democracy Corps, which has made important contributions to the public debate from the left and has proven to be a valuable resource for labor unions, environmentalists and liberal congressional leaders.” The group has released a series of polls and offers itself as a message-testing laboratory to help GOP lawmakers develop policies.

5) The Republican State Leadership Committee, which focuses on down-ballot races for statewide and legislative offices, raised $22 million in the last campaign cycle. Gillespie took over as chairman earlier this year.

Collectively, the groups have a goal of raising at least $50 million to $70 million.

Coleman recalled in an interview that he admired the left’s financial prowess so much that until recently, he gave potential donors copies of “The Argument,” a book by Matt Bai that chronicles progressives’ rising financial power.

“This is what the left does — we need to do it on the right,” Coleman said he told people.

Karl and the Rovettes…NeoCon Redux… The blind leading the stupid.
Sorry, folk… You just don’t get it. Americans didn’t just reject you in ‘06 and ‘08. We rejected what you stand for. We rejected Treason, murder, failure, blanket corruption, racism, classism, Fascism and Bushism.
We rejected your thefts and your corporate whoredom.
We rejected your exploitation of religion and people and country.

We rejected your very existence. That has not changed.

Ablogination gladly joins WhitesCreek Journal in calling for the resignation of Mike Duncan. The board of directors of TVA is no place for a multi-failed never-was RNC operative in the first place. Much less one that openly consorts with known traitors like Rove.

As ridiculous as they may be, there are some very crafty, diseased minds in this Neocon Network. Dr. Dean would chew them up and spit them out, but we have Tim Kaine, so there is reason to be concerned and even more reason to reactivate the Liberal Voter Tsunami that cleaned out Congress in ‘06 and propelled Obama to power in ‘08.

Donate and activate. We’re keeping what’s ours.

UPDATED: 5/7/10

Oddly enough, Tim Kaine either read this post (he got a link) or was actually on the ball for once.

Today’s email from the DNC….

Dear great one….

When the Supreme Court announced the Citizens United decision, Republicans sensed an opportunity. In meetings across the country, the people who helped to elect President George W. Bush – folks like Karl Rove and former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie – sat down to come up with ways to pump special-interest cash into campaigns at every level.

We now know how they plan to win back Congress and the White House – and repeal all we’ve done.

Rove, Gillespie, and their friends are calling big donors to help them build up five political organizations – all designed to work in tandem to elect Republicans, and all of them able to take as much corporate cash as they can find.

This new effort by the very people who were behind eight years of failed Bush Administration policies is a major threat, but we’re ready for the challenge. We’ll double down on our work to build our Party from the ground up, organize in all 50 states, register new voters, and work to turn out the supporters who’ve helped us win all across the country. Our success as a party and every recent election we’ve won has been built on the energy and support of people like you. Can we count on your help again?

Donate $5 or more to help us fight the new right-wing machine.

At the Democratic National Committee, we don’t take corporate cash or checks from lobbyists – it’s part of our commitment to changing the way that Washington works. But this new GOP political machine was founded to stop that change. And to do it, they’ll use a flood of special-interest money to drown out the voice of the American people. They’ll blanket the airwaves with smears about all that we’ve accomplished; they’ll fill our mailboxes with false statements about President Obama. These are the people who used scorched-earth tactics to elect President Bush – they won’t hold back now.

And if they win Congress, we know what’s coming. They’ll try to repeal everything we’ve done to reform health care, cut taxes for the middle class instead of the wealthy, create jobs, make college more affordable, stop credit-card abuses, and improve America’s standing in the world.

We can stop them, but we need your help. Our staff, organizers, and volunteers are the best in politics. But we need the resources to make sure they’ve got what they need to win in every state.

Can you chip in $5 to help us fight against the new Rove machine?

http://my.democrats.org/RovePlan

Thank you,

Governor Tim Kaine
Chairman

Another series of stories that require more thought than comment…

1) How’s that offshore drilling thing workin’ out?:

Well, now we have an oil slick about 600 miles around and about 20 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Just wondering what it’s going to take for the fucking idiots who support this type of oil mining in our waters to see the light….

So, now we can set fire to it and hope the smoke goes away from land.
Isn’t that a little too much like what Saddam did?

Riiiiight.

2) Crossing the Desert:

Some people got upset because a war memorial placed in the Mojave Desert came in the form of a Latin Cross.
The separation of church and state is critical to the integrity of both institutions. But I agree with the decision in this case.

Not because I’m a Christian. I have been a strong proponent of separation my entire life. But I find that many of these more obscure challenges to religious symbolism are not brought forth out of concern for freedom or fairness, but are often placed by small minded people who simply hate anything faith based. They do this for their personal gratification, not for the betterment of country or the security of church/state separation.

Most of the new age religion haters have no clue what it is they’re opposed to. They just jump on whatever bandwagon their peers are on at the time. Most of them would have never known this memorial existed if they didn’t seek it out.

There is no threat to constitutional integrity in a cross in the desert placed out of respect to the fallen men and women of the armed forces. Who, ironically, are the reason the religion-haters have the right to protest as they see fit.

The court said that the Constitution “does not require the eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm.”
That is true and I agree. What would be next?
Expelled from school for a Wicken symbol? Arrested for wearing a cross in a National Park? Executed for wearing a Star of David at the federal court house?

Where does the eradication of beliefs and their symbolisms end?

3) Crist pulls a Lieberman?:

Could be, and in this case I don’t blame him.
Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist is losing/has lost Republican support, in Florida’s Senate race, to some clown from Miami named Rubio…something….
Crist will run as an Independent.
Crist is a jerk, but about as moderate as a Republican gets. The great congressman, Kendrick Meek, has the Democratic nomination locked up.

This Rubio goof is the Teabagger fringe candidate that was pushed into the picture by losers who are mad at Crist for not hating Obama. Rubio’s endorsements are all the info one needs to clearly see what a piece of shit he really is. Dick Cheney (former VP and single most prolific traitor and war criminal in America), Rudy Googliani (Former Mayor of NYC, failed presidential candidate and cross-dressing incestuous pervert) and Mitt “The Shitt” Romney (Former Gov. of Massachusetts, failed presidential candidate and the guy who got punked on a plane in front of his wife by some Rapper type squirrel).

With friends like that who needs enemas?

4) Aliens 15 - The Hawking:

World renown scientist and certifiable nut job, Steven Hawking, insists that the little green men from Mars are going to kill us if they find us.

THIS ARTICLE is either of two things….
2 - Testimony to just how badly in need of attention Hawking is

or

1 - Just how goofy and intellectually sterile the Huffington Post has become.

Probably both.

5) Kure Beach, NC Asscapades:

Heh,
There’s a town in North Carolina called Kure Beach. They have imposed a fine of $25 on anyone caught wearing a thong on the beach.

Clearly there’s plenty of revenue to be made at the Mayor’s office and City Council, because there’s far more Ass in those offices than there is on the beach.
Then again, if you’ve ever seen Mayor Dean Lambeth in a thong, it might just begin to make sense.

6) Back in the New York Groove:

A homeless hero who defended a woman from a knife wielding attacker died of his stab wounds as dozens of people simply walked by and didn’t even call for help….

A heroic homeless man, stabbed after saving a Queens woman from a knife-wielding attacker, lay dying in a pool of blood for more than an hour as nearly 25 people indifferently strolled past him, a shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post reveals.

Some of the passers-by paused to stare at Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax last Sunday morning and others leaned down to look at his face.

He had jumped to the aid of a woman attacked on 144th Street at 88th Road in Jamaica at 5:40 a.m., was stabbed several times in the chest and collapsed as he chased his assailant.

Way to go, NY’ers. No wonder you’re the last fucking city on earth I’d ever want to visit again. You love to demean and degrade the Southern States, but it looks like you get to be the “inbreds” today.

The Obama’s have been visiting the Progressive paradise of Ashville, NC recently. Yes, it’s a fine model for the rest of the country, Mr. President.

Like Venice Beach in the mountains…with a few less kooks.

Breaking News:

An armed man who was not from The South was found lurking near the airport President Obama was departing from.

From the WAPO:

Armed man arrested at NC airport as Obama departs

The Associated Press
Sunday, April 25, 2010; 9:34 PM

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – An Ohio man has been charged after authorities spotted him with a gun in a North Carolina airport parking lot as Air Force One was departing Sunday afternoon.

Joseph McVey, 23, is charged going armed in terror of the public, a misdemeanor, said Asheville Regional Airport Police Capt. Kevan Smith. Airport police saw McVey get out of a car about 2 p.m. in the rental car return lot and he had a gun, Smith said. He was taken into custody immediately and was being held at the Buncombe County jail.

Sorry, but something has to be done about this problem, and a major league problem it is. This is Drama, and Drama is the result of a problem that was not dealt with in an efficient and timely fashion.

For eight long, miserable years George Bush failed to stem the tide of illegal immigration into this country. Even after 9/11 the Bush Company did nothing to control our southern border.
No telling who creeped over it during those years.
The reason for this monumental failure? Republican businesses salivating over cheap, exploitable labor which has contributed to a great deal of the job loss (for actual citizens) this country has experienced over the last two decades. NAFTA…wide open borders…we’re fucked.

Though in it’s fledgling state, the Obama administration had not even addressed this critical issue until yesterday, when the State of Arizona passed controversial legislation that basically allows law enforcement excessively broad powers to stop and check the documentation of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally (darker than thou).
In light of the fact that a vast majority of the illegals in AZ are Mexican, the issue becomes that much more precarious.

Everyone has failed. From administrations past to that of today to the Mexican gov’t, which is little more than a corrupt joke, to the Department of Homeland Insecurity and back again. All have failed.

I hate Republican politicians. Every last, diseased, depraved, disgusting one of them. But I cannot condemn this legislation. I can’t condemn it because it became necessary due to the inaction of Republicans, who want that exploitable labor, and Democrats courting Hispanic voters.
Both parties have abused the issue and there are real, flesh and blood people caught in the middle.

I am no advocate for Illegal Immigrants. Immigration in America has a long, proud history of hope-filled, honest people waiting years and studying hard to earn the privilege of being an American citizen. They respected this country and wanted to be a part of what it’s supposed to stand for.
Those who haven’t the respect that legal immigrants do have NO right to waltz into this country and anonymously take what others have worked hard to earn.
Being an American citizen is only a right for those born on our soil, it is a privilege to all others and should be appreciated as such.

Being that my socialist credentials are unquestionable, I have to say I understand where Arizona is coming from. I’ve lived in AZ, and TX. People in non-border states, like the one I live in now, just don’t understand the seriousness of this issue. The crime in places like Tuscon and El Paso is out of control. You can’t own anything without the constant fear that when you return home from work you’ll find your house ransacked.

That certainly doesn’t reflect on the Mexican community, but it does reflect on the Illegal Immigrant community because legal, American citizens (averages) are far less likely to rob you blind.
Our resources are being drained and that simply cannot be tolerated. Though Legal Immigrants are screened for communicable diseases the same is not done for Illegal Immigrants, obviously. We can’t just have an open border, we can’t afford a society anonymous.
People who don’t have the respect for this country to go through the proper channels like my Irish ancestors and many others did do not care what harm they cause. They are here as scavengers. We can’t and shouldn’t put up with it.

Many cry “racism” when it comes to immigration control. Mostly those from Mexico. I have news for you, Mexican is not a race, it’s a nationality. Don’t be stupid.
There are Mexicans who did it right and walked the path to citizenship just like everyone else. It’s not right to minimize their accomplishment by just allowing anyone to stake a claim.
It doesn’t matter what country the illegal immigrant hails from. All illegals are a drain on resources meant for those who are proud to be a part of this culture. Even illegals from Ireland where my people come from.
Either respect this country and feel privileged to earn citizenship in the traditional fashion or go home.
I don’t care what “raza” you are.

Amnesty:

Absolutely. Limited, but absolutely.
Any child that is born in this country is an American citizen. Should that child have parents who are illegal immigrants, they should be given amnesty without fail.

Illegal Immigrants who are arrested for being in the country should be offered the opportunity to go through the process and become legal, but must remain in custody (not necessarily jail) until citizenship is granted.

A solution should have been found long ago. But with the nation’s most exploited labor and voter source to slap around, why would anyone in Washington want to steady that boat?
Surely expert legislators can come up with better ideas than what we got from Arizona. But right now that’s the only idea there is, and if your the only idea, you’re the best one.
Somebody in DC had better do something because the papers I roll joints with are thicker than the line between Arizona’s legislation and pure Fascism.

We need Immigration reform and control on a national level YESTERDAY.

HAPPY 420

This year it means a lot. Not that it meant less before, just that so many significant victories were won in the last 12 months.
The state of California is introducing legislation to fully legalize this November and THAT LEGISLATION WILL PASS.

Eric Holder, US Attorney General declared the Drug War over and that is victory. We have won this long, miserable war that has claimed and ruined more American lives than any war in our history.
The Obama administration is the first since Nixon to not wage war against the American people.

There is still much to be done, law enforcement in some states and areas are still playing cut-and-run. But we have won.

All ur base are belong to us!

Celebrate, people. Celebrate the conquest of ignorance and the demise of Right Wing efforts to label us as criminals. Light up, celebrate.
You’ve earned it.

Now…
I do have to take this opportunity to express some dismay and a great deal of disappointment in my fellow Tennessee “Liberal” bloggers. Many (not all) of them have failed miserably to support compassion and fiscal responsibility. Though some of us have written in support of the Tennessee Medical Marijuana Act, far too many who fancy themselves “Liberal” or “Progressive” in this state have failed miserably to show support for the measure and the fine members of our General Assembly who introduced it.
There are only four or five legislators in Tennessee who have the brains and guts to stand tall on this defining Progressive issue. We owe them more than our silence.
Sen. Beverly Marrero and Rep. Jeanne Richardson are back again this year with bills that would allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana to seriously ill Tennesseans. In 2009, similar bills stalled in their respective committees, but advocates are hopeful this year will be different.

SB 2511 and HB2562 — the Safe Access to “Medical Cannabis Act” — would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctor’s permission. Under the bill, approved patients would be issued Safe Access Program ID cards that would allow them to purchase medical marijuana from participating distribution outlets, and would protect them from arrest for the medical use of marijuana.

If you believe in compassion, as a Tennessean you have no choice but to speak out in support of this legislation. If you have the power of Blog, you have no excuse.

It’s a busy week in la la land…

1) Edumacated Teabaggers:

It seems a recent poll (not a scientific study mind you) has determined without a doubt that Teabaggers, contrary to previous belief, are actually educated, wealthy, successful and well intentioned business people etc…

Yeah, we always knew you weren’t the “average American citizens” you once claimed to be.

Lying Big Corporate asshats….

How’s that Scott Brown, “41st vote to kill health reform” workin’ out for ya?

2) Goldman-Sucks charged with fraud:

..Sachs…whatever…

Goldman-Sachs, the global banking and securities firm that has become famous for failure and known for executive comedic ventures like showing up to testify before congress about the loss of TARP funds on separate private jets and paying 1 Million dollar bonuses to executives from taxpayer money, has been charged with committing fraud by the SEC.

One thing about the hopelessly greedy that never changes, give them enough rope to hang themselves and they surely will.

3) Taxing Time:

Paid out 150 dollars LESS in income taxes in spite of having made more than last year. How?! Why….it’s those damn Socialists in Washington of course. The nerve of those Marxists, making me pay less taxes. IT’S UNAMERICAN I TELLS YA!

Teabaggers, of course, are hard at work protesting taxes that they didn’t have to pay.

4) Peeping Tom Teachers Revisited:

We wrote previously about faculty of a Pennsylvania school district using spywear in assigned student laptops to spy on students in their bedrooms. That situation has become even more disturbing. Parents are filing suit and the truth is coming out…

From Philly.com:

More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins’ school-issued laptop took photos of Robbins as he slept in his bed. Each time, it fired the images off to network servers at the school district.

Back at district offices, the Robbins motion says, employees with access to the images marveled at the tracking software. It was like a window into “a little LMSD soap opera,” a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.

“I know, I love it,” she is quoted as having replied.

5) Catholic Church Playing Musical Pedos:

Great idea! A Priest is found guilty of raping a child, so what does the Catholic Church do? They send him to another country to rape their kids.

But naturally this is simply another case of us mean people attacking the church.

From the AP:

RIO DE JANEIRO – There he was, five decades later, the priest who had raped Joe Callander in Massachusetts. The photo in the Roman Catholic newsletter showed him with a smile across his wrinkled face, near-naked Amazon Indian children in his arms and at his feet.

The Rev. Mario Pezzotti was working with children and supervising other priests in Brazil.

It’s not an isolated example.

In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad. Some escaped police investigations. Many had access to children in another country, and some abused again.

6) Got a Problem with Confederate history do ya?:

I got news for you, this doesn’t happen in Bristol Tennessee…
Pull yer heads out of yer butts and realize that while we’re whining about yesterday, today is taking a bite out of our ass.

From L.A. NOW:

White supremacist rally ends with five arrests and two assaults, police say [Updated]
April 17, 2010 | 4:34 pm

March

A white supremacist rally on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall ended with a handful of arrests Saturday afternoon as counter-protesters showered police and white supremacists with rocks, bottles and other debris.

[Update, 4:50 p.m.: All five people arrested were counter-protesters, police say.]

A rally by 40 members of a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement drew hundreds of counter-protesters from throughout the region. In the hours leading up to the rally, where members called for the removal of all nonwhites from America’s southwest, counter-protesters scuffled with people perceived to be sympathizing with the white supremacists’ message.

One man, who sported Nazi tattoos, was severely beaten near City Hall while another man, who carried a confusing sign about religion with a scribbled swastika, was pummeled by a mob of people on Spring Street between 1st and 2nd.
The Los Angeles Police Department went on tactical alert during the event and took responsibility for escorting the white supremacists to and from the demonstration site. Earlier in the week the group had obtained a permit for the demonstration.

Like we showed you before, West and North… Though racism is actually a universal problem, those of you who are so quick to point the finger and indulge in revisionist history need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and while you’re at it, give yourselves a good enema too. Because full of shit you are for sure. Yes, you are.

Southern California Asshat Convention

Outstanding, now make it stick.

It is indeed good news to see someone at least attempting to forge justice where it’s usually not found. Erik Prince’s Blackwater Security, the infamous corporate mercenary army that raped, plundered and pillaged the people of Iraq under the Bush administration, has managed to escape recompense for many of their crimes including the cold blooded murder of Iraqi civilians.

It is unlikely that they will ever pay for any of their crimes. But at least we have a gov’t that sees fit to try and perhaps this time, heads will roll.

From the AP:

By MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. – The former president of Blackwater Worldwide and four other former officials at the embattled security firm were indicted Friday on federal weapons charges, partially the result of a raid two years ago by agents that rounded up 22 weapons, including AK-47s.

The indictment issued Friday charges Gary Jackson, who left the company last year in a management shakeup, along with four other former workers. The charges against Jackson include a conspiracy to violate firearms laws, false statements and possession of an unregistered firearm.

Also indicted were former general counsel Andrew Howell, former executive vice president Bill Mathews, Ana Bundy, who at one point had oversight of the firm’s armory, and Ronald Slezak, who was hired to oversee documents related to the company’s status as a firearms dealer.

The charges open a new front of the government’s oversight of the sullied security company. Several of the company’s contractors have previously been charged with federal crimes for their actions in war zones, but the company’s executives have so far weathered a range of investigations.

Around the time that Jackson left the company, Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services.

The company has been trying to rehabilitate its image since a 2007 shooting in Baghdad left 17 people dead, outraged the Iraqi government and led to a federal charges against several Blackwater guards — accusations later thrown out of court after a judge found prosecutors mishandled evidence.

LOL!

Well, it was a good job of investigative reporting. No one can deny that.

The Herald Courier has been around a long time. Founded in 1865, the BHC serves areas of both SW Virginia and NE Tennessee, the twin cities of Bristol, TN and Bristol, VA in particular.
My grandfather, Robert Loving, was a member of their team for many years.

Having been doomed to being a Right Wing tabloid under the leadership of Steve Kaylor, now editor, Todd Foster, has picked the paper up and brought it back to the middle where it belongs. No longer afraid to piss conservatives off with truth, the BHC has earned it’s self some respect and obviously, some recognition as well.

Congratulations, Todd. Keep up the good work.

From the Kingsport Times News:
NEW YORK — The Bristol Herald Courier beat out journalism’s powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering a scandal in which Virginia landowners were deprived of millions in natural gas royalties.

The seven-reporter daily was honored for what many regard as an endangered form of journalism in this age of wrenching newspaper cutbacks — aggressive reporting on local issues.

The constant babble about it being “1994″ again is cute and maybe fulfilling soothsaying to the Right Wing fringe, but the stark realities of these times, if considered, will simply extinguish this thought of a repeat of the past.

In 1994, Democrats reeling from the failed attempt to pass Health Reform Legislation, Republicans won 50+ House seats and almost 10 Senate seats.
Overwhelmingly Americans saw the “country going in the wrong direction” and the same anti-incumbent attitudes we see today existed then.
I’ll admit that some similarities do exist between now and then, but the more you examine the facts the less similar it seems.

A few factors that may shed some light on the false hopes of the hopelessly gullible…

1) The Republican rise to power in ‘94 would eventually lead to the worst economic disaster that this country has been forced to endure. Obviously no one expected Republicans to be as inept as they proved to be. But today, in the age of information, it is more than clear to millions more Americans that Republican leadership is doomed to failure by default.

We have always known that most Democrats aren’t worth the suits on their backs, but now we know they look like shining stars compared to any Republican. Voting for Dems can be hard, voting against Republicans is easy.

2) Health whatever Reform passed this time. Getting that done guaranteed Barack Obama and the Democrats my votes in the upcoming elections. If they can pull off the impossible, and they did, they can and will do more.

3) The economy is picking up steam fast. We are steady and rising. All economic indicators attest and my personal experience as a businessman in recent months proves it to me conclusively. I’m putting up record numbers. People are no longer afraid to spend.
Barack Obama and the Democratic majority have fixed the Republican’s mess. That is an absolute fact.

4) This Gov’t, under the post-Bush leadership, is making gains against Terrorism that the previous administration claimed to make, but with severely flawed methods, could not produce.
Obama simply out-polls Cheney/Bush as far as combating terrorism is concerned.

Health Care, Economy, Terrorism….Republicans are proven failures.

5) Thank God for Scary Sara Palin and the Teabagger/Hatriots. Just when you thought no one could make Republicans look more foolish and evil than George Bush and Dick Cheney did, up jumps the Queen of Quitters and her legions of racist, Taliban-like carbon-based lifeforms known as Tea Party.
This emergence of loopy miscreants has shoved the Conservative GOP to the back of the bus and placed yet another unwashable stain on the panties of Republican politics.

Even Sen. Scott (how’s that 41st vote workin’ out for ya?) Brown snubbed Palin and the Tea Party in a pretty heavy showing of justifiable disdain.

6) We are now a world leader once again. Countries that scoffed at us under BushCo now welcome us as the pillar of hope we’re supposed to be. That makes us safer, stronger and pro-functional.
Any reasonable person knows this is a very good thing.

No, it’s not 1994 nor will it be. This is 2010 and the fact that Democrats govern better than Republicans do is well known from house to house and street to street.
Republicans will win seats, but those seats primarily will be ones in Republican territory that happen to belong to Conservanoid Democraps who the majority of Democratic voters won’t turn out for anyway.

By and large, Democrats, Moderates and true Liberals will turn out and vote Democratic in these upcoming elections. In the interests of self preservation if nothing else. You see, we haven’t forgotten the dark years. We have crystal clear recollection of the loss of rights, the numbers of innocent people slaughtered in Iraq, the economic crises, the treason, the Global humiliation that goes along with Republican leaders…

We remember. And will never forget.

In fact, the only thing that will remain the same from 1994 to 2010 is that the Detroit Lions still suck.

Gotta be proud of this. There are a lot of states with good plans for educational improvements. Tennessee comes in first.

Right On.

From the NYT:

Delaware and Tennessee beat out 38 other states and the District of Columbia to win a share of $4 billion in federal education grants, convincing the Obama administration that they have bold plans for overhauling their public school systems, an administration official said Monday.

The Department of Education said that Delaware would be awarded about $100 million and Tennessee about $500 million.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that both Delaware and Tennessee had won because they had gotten overwhelming statewide support from teachers, school districts and business leaders for comprehensive school improvement plans, and had written new laws to support their policies.

By announcing only two winners in the first round, Mr. Duncan held to his vow that only a small number of states with extremely bold plans would receive money in the Race to the Top competition, which aims to promote educational innovation by rewarding a few states for exemplary progress in areas President Obama considers crucial to education reform.

Georgia and Florida came in third and fourth in the competition, officials said.

The president’s goals include expanding the number and quality of charter schools, reworking outdated teacher evaluation systems, improving the sophistication of states’ student-data tracking systems and turning around thousands of the lowest-performing schools.

Tennessee has long had a student-data tracking system that allows it to trace student achievement to individual teachers, and in its proposal the state promised to adopt an advanced statewide teacher evaluation system by the 2011-12 school year. Currently, teacher evaluation systems there, as in most states, are designed by school districts

Delaware already has a statewide annual teacher evaluation system, and has recently adopted regulations requiring that those evaluations be based on growth in student achievement, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality, which rated the finalists’ proposals.

If smarter people tend to lean more Liberal, as is obviously the case most of the time, then this could be very good for the future of the state of Tennessee.
Lord knows we have all the stupid we can handle.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you Gov. Bredesen.
Democrats looking out for Tennessee again.

I just spit coffee all over myself…..

Yesssss indeed. Republican National Committee Chairman Mikey Steele.
Good ol’ Mike has had some issues concerning the misuse of Republican money. Airplane this, Hotel that….

But we can’t help but find ourselves intrigued by the fact that a Republican affiliate used RNC money to pay for a night out at the BDSM club “Voyeur West Hollywood". Under chairman Michael Steele, the RNC spent $1,946.25 at Voyeur West Hollywood, “a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex,

From The DC:

Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.

Hey, who are we to judge? At least this one is one of the few Republicans that manages to stick to adults for sexual gratification.

Greatest story ever….

UPDATE:
Apparently it was not actually Mike Steele who spent the money at the perv club. The Republican who spent $1,946.25 on “meals” at a bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub — and expensed the charges to chairman Michael Steele’s Republican National Committee — is the owner of a marketing firm who most recently worked for a Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, The Daily Caller has learned.

Erik Brown, who owns Dynamic Marketing Inc. and most recently charged the Steve Poizner for Governor campaign more than $10,000 for campaign literature and mailings, was reimbursed by the RNC for the almost $2,000 in charges at Voyeur West Hollywood, according to FEC filings and online reports reviewed by The Daily Caller.

Read more HERE

This is a bi-partisan appeal. The only thing I ask of Tennessee Republican voters is that you actually take the time to consider the productivity and the overall intellect of those you vote for. The future of our great state is very much in jeopardy and the reasons why are clear.
The Jesters are running the court.

The TN House and Senate is in shambles. We are governed by fools. Yes, some of the Democrats there are fools also, but there is good found among them. On the Republican side you have Williams and Lundberg. That’s all you have.
We can build from there if Republican voters will take enough pride in themselves and their state to be objective and examine the character and ability of those they advocate.

You advocated Jason Mumpower. Now he’s trying to run for Mayor of Bluff City or some shit. Mumpower has been in TN politics since he was 23. What has he accomplished other than to humiliate his district?
You advocated for David Davis. How’d that turn out?

You advocate for politicians that have no concern whatsoever for the well being of you or your family. Only for their money sources and their extremist ideology.
Tennessee is a state of working people. People who grind it out every day to make ends meet. Why on earth would you vote against yourself? Republican House member Glen Casada, attempting to speak on the House floor, has advice for you who are laid off or otherwise out of work in these troubled times. No matter how hard you are trying to find employment, Casada insists that you “get a job"…

Fine way to treat a citizen who spends six to eight hours a day sending resume’s and filling out apps and doing interviews.
But hey, we pay his way through life. He isn’t worried.
Just keep in mind two important facts, one, that the clown in the video above may be the next House Speaker and two, being out of work is a Republican problem too. What has Casada done to improve the job security of Tennesseans?

Recently, Republican Representative and absolute incompetent, Matthew Hill, attempted to legislate himself some good ol’ fashioned nepotism…
Rep. Matthew Hill attempted the legislative transfer of the Tennessee Department of Safety to his Daddy, Dr. Kenneth C. Hill’s Tennessee
Regulatory Authority…

TNGA Rep. Matthew Hill (Jonesborough) is a son of the newly appointed Tennessee Regulatory Authority Director Kenneth C. Hill (Blountville)

HB2683 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, transfers inspection and enforcement duties and responsibilities from the department of safety
to the Tennessee regulatory authority.
Withdrawn. 01/25/2010

*HB 2683 by *Hill ( SB 2742 by *Kelsey)
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB2683.pdf
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, transfers inspection and enforcement
duties and responsibilities from the department of safety to the
Tennessee regulatory authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and
Title 65.

Bill Summary

Summary for *HB 2683/SB 2742
Fiscal Note
No fiscal note for this bill.
Votes
No House Votes on HB2683
No Senate Votes on SB2742
Bill HistoryAmendments on BillVideo Clips
bill history
actions taken on hb2683 action date
Withdrawn. 01/25/2010
Intro., P1C. 01/25/2010
Filed for intro. 01/19/2010

That didn’t last long, did it? Did Matthew Hill know what he was doing when he did it. Undoubtedly, no.

A while back, a humanoid named Sherri Goforth, a staffer for GOP state senator Diane Black, originated a blatantly racist email about the President. Rep. Diane Black was actually ignorant enough to defend the insult.

Recently, former NE Tennessee Representative, Nathan Vaughn, was subjected to even more racist propaganda and similar asshattery. A Conservative scumbag named Bill Hobbs was responsible for that intellectual atrocity. The dumb-as-a-bag-of-bricks nature of Hobbs can be clearly seen in his lack of ability to even make a viable web site.
Republican Rep. Stacey Campfield -Asshat Knoxville, adds the essence of idiocy to this particular instance…

Nathan was a nice guy but the vote history looks right and I just don’t see the racism.

This is the same moron who got himself thrown out of a UT football game for behaving like an idiot and tried to pass legislation requiring Death Certificates for aborted fetuses…

Two years later, after the dems had no one running against this woman hater, and the misogynist was sent back in the TN legislature by the wingnuts in his district, filing the same bills he filed two (and possibly 4?) years ago, including the requirement of Death Certificates to be filed for Aborted Fetuses. This time he got a clue from another previously filed bill in Montana, and the firestorm that ensued on his own blog, that included a privacy clause. (That was after he tried to say that no other bills like this had been filed in states, showing just how uninformed he was — New Hampshire and Montana — linked above — had tried this legislative stunt.)

What a genius, huh.

The sheer stupidity of the Republican Reps in the TGA is staggering. And though they may be alone in the level of stupid they rise to, they are unfortunately not alone in it’s presence.
Democratic Rep. Mike Turner spends his time trying to outlaw privacy protecting products like Synthetic Urine and relaxing herbal incense like K2 or Serenity.
Turner’s simple mind is laid bare by the fact he, and all too many of his colleagues, don’t seem to grasp the reality that prohibition of anything is doomed to fail and fear-inspired legislation is the Republican way. Not that of Democrats. At least it’s not supposed to be.

For Christ’s sake, they can’t even control real Marijuana. Now they want to control fake Marijuana? No, instead they want to create another black market product that is unregulated and have people revert back to drinking bleach or borrowing real urine from others which can be a dangerous bio-hazard. That’s how disease is spread.

There are few words to describe the pettiness of Reps like Mr. Turner and those who would for one second support such legislative asininity.

Democratic Sen. Doug Jackson was the hapless fool that decided to pass legislation that allowed guns to be carried in bars. Probably the dumbest legislation since NAFTA.
How’d it turn out? Well, the first court to review it struck it down for the vague and poorly written legislation it was.
As if guns in bars isn’t stupid enough, what about those elected who can’t even write clear and well defined bills?

What does all this mean? With a few exceptions, we Tennesseans have the single most incompetent, listless General Assembly in the nation. Bar none. If it’s not Republican stupidity, it’s Democraps trying to emulate it.

This just can’t go on.

We need Reps like Nathan Vaughn, Sherry Jones, Jimmy Naifeh, Beverly Marrero…
What we don’t need is for this state and our people to be dragged down to the level of the dip-shits that now make up a majority of the Tennessee General Assembly.

If ever there was a time to take a hard second look (or third or fourth) at some of the incumbents in our Legislature, that time is now.

Tea Party Terrorism is growing. It’s growing fast and is on the verge of becoming rampant. Sick, twisted Un-Americans who oppose progress are radicalizing and the threat these Republicans pose to freedom is more real now than ever before….

Threats against Democratic leaders, who showed so much courage and resolve by passing the Health Insurance Reform Legislation, are becoming more frequent.
Recently, several Democratic lawmakers have been subjected to both verbal and material threats as a result of their YES votes for Health Insurance Reform….

Democratic lawmakers have received death threats and been the victims of vandalism because of their votes in favor of the health care bill, lawmakers and law enforcement officials said Wednesday, as the debate in Congress headed toward a bitter and divisive conclusion.
This photo provided by the office of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona shows damage to her Tucson office.Office of Gabrielle Giffords via Associated Press This photo provided by the office of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona shows damage to her Tucson office.

Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the majority leader, said at least 10 House members had raised concerns about their personal security since Sunday’s climactic vote, and Mr. Hoyer characterized the cases as serious.

At least two Congressional district offices were vandalized and Representative Louise M. Slaughter, a senior Democrat from New York, reported receiving a phone message threatening sniper attacks against lawmakers and their families.

To further Illustrate the rabid treason and penchant for mindless violence of the Tea Party, they have even turned on their own in violent anger. #2 Republican in the house, Eric Cantor R-Va, a major league Pig in his own right, saw his offices attacked in a drive-by shooting…

Washington (CNN) – Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, said Thursday that a bullet had been fired through a window at his campaign office in Richmond, Virginia.

A Richmond police spokeswoman confirmed to CNN that a bullet was fired at the congressman’s office. “We are investigating the circumstance surrounding it,” spokeswoman Karla Peters said.

Cantor also said that he had received threatening messages but that he would not publicly release the messages out of concern that doing so would only incite further violence.

He also accused Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine and Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – a member of the Democratic House leadership – of “fanning the flames” of violence by using threats that have been made against Democratic members “as political weapons.”

Cantor, being a Piglet to the core, blamed Democrats for “fanning the flames"…
Sorry, Erica. As we have firmly established in the not too distant past, the flames of Domestic Right Wing Terrorism are fanned by people like Glenn Beck, Rush, Hannity, Malkin etc.
And when Republican filth in the gov’t openly encourage their weak minded supporters to behave irrationally it’s hard to take Cantor’s foolish accusations seriously.

Republican House Minority Leader, John Boehner, called the Health Insurance legislation “Armageddon".
Sara Palin placed crosshairs over the faces of some Democrats on her Facebook page.
Texas Republican Randy Neugebauer called anti-choice Democrat, Bart Stupak a “baby killer".
Disgraceful Republican Senator Orrin Hatch R-UT said “Health Care Vote Will Start Holy War".
When dealing with the weakest and most impressionable of intellects, it is highly irresponsible for Republican politicians to “fan those flames". Irresponsible Republicans. Imagine that.

From vandalism encouraged by punk-ass cowards like Mike Vanderboegh at a blog called Sipsey Street Irregulars, to Tea Party Pilots pulling “9/11″s on IRS buildings, Right Wing Tea Bagger Terror is just now beginning to sprout. And as we warned before, will continue to grow until it is met with equal and effective force.

The last few years are just the beginning.

JUST IN:

Great Liberal leader, Anthony Weiner, just reported being sent a letter containing a white powdery substance.
Weiner, who is Jewish, has reportedly received hate-filled notes in recent days, including one addressing him as “Schlomo".

Batter up.

Tonight, 9pm. The House votes for the final Reconciliation bill.

The Public Option is in, Kucinich and the Progressive Caucus are in. Obama promises to pacify Stupek…Stupidk…whatever his name is, so the Forced Birth Dems are in.
This legislation will pass, it will be signed, it will be improved upon later.

Republicans, Tea Baggers….Fuck You. Right in your fucking necks. Just stand there teary eyed and frustrated and watch how real Americans do it.

UPDATE:

219 For - 212 Against

Bye bye, Tea Bags. Your movement is dead, this was the final nail in your coffin. Now take your Un-American asses to the nearest cliff and jump.

What motivation Jane Hampster, of Firedog Lake fame, has in lying about the Reconciliation bill (HR 4872) is anyone’s guess, but lie she does and not very well mind you….

Well, Plain Jane has thoughtfully created and outline of what she dreams is in and out of the House Reconciliation health care legislation. It’s amusing, I’ll give her that.
Maybe she’s still pissed off about Hillary losing the election, who knows? Maybe political copulating with NeoCon traitor, Grover Norquist, rotted her brain. Sure, Rahm needs to go, but you don’t team up with a Neocon for anything. Such is treasonous to the people.

But we find Hamster doing all she can at the moment to hand the Tea Bag Fags and the Republican minority victory. I guess her long heralded Liberalism takes a back seat to her long winded hatred for Obama.

No, the legislation is not perfect. But anyone too stupid to see that the opportunity for Single Payer was squandered long ago shouldn’t vent their frustration by doing all they can to support the enemy. But that’s exactly what Hamsher is doing with her lie and half-truth filled “Fact Sheet”.

On Hamster’s “Myth & Truth” scale, let’s examine Item One….

Hamsher crows:

The bill is neither universal health care nor universal health insurance.

Per the CBO:

* Total uninsured in 2019 with no bill: 54 million
* Total uninsured in 2019 with Senate bill: 24 million (44%)

Anyone who would list extending coverage to 30 Million people as a negative is either a Republican or smoking crack. Hen pecking the term “Universal” is a little silly in the face of 30 Million people getting coverage. Again, it’s not Single Payer unfortunately. But we don’t need Hamster to tell us that. We will work with what we have, but as Liberals, we will not provide ammunition to the Right Wing.

In Item 2 Hamsher sites, for some reason, that Insurance Companies “don’t hate this bill". They have no choice but to support it. But at the same time, there must be a reason the Blue Dog Insurance whores are fighting it so hard. Lip service to the administration, money to the NO votes. That’s how they roll.

In Item 3 Hamsher again picks nits and manipulates semantics, yet offers nothing to support her numbers. She claims that the legislation will not “significantly” lower premiums.
To people living on the edge, unlike Hamser, any savings is “significant". She fails to mention subsidies.
The tax credits for premiums are higher for individuals and families with incomes between 250% and 400% of the federal poverty level, individuals taking home less than $41,500 or a family of three bringing in less than $70,400. This legislation also cuts the sharing burden for individuals and families with incomes in the 100% and 250% FPL range.

In Item 4 we find pure horse shit. $5,243 to completely insure a husband, wife and two kids is far less than many such households pay today.

In Item 5 plain Jane says something about Massachusetts that has absolutely nothing to do with this legislation.

In Item 6 we find more crap as any attention to the Public Option is omitted. In Item 9 we see why…

Skipping ahead to Item 9 we see Hamster’s most blatant lie yet. I guess in her haste to rip the legislation she failed to read it.

This bill does not bring down costs and leaves out nearly every key cost control measure, including:

* Public Option ($25-$110 billion)
* Medicare buy-in
* Drug reimportation ($19 billion)
* Medicare drug price negotiation ($300 billion)
* Shorter pathway to generic biologics ($71 billion)

Reading the legislation, we find that on Page 4, 3-B under Insurance Reforms the Public Option is indeed included.
The Presence of the Public Option eliminates many of the hardships Hamser alludes to. But since she either lied or failed to notice it, it screws her argument up from top to bottom.

In Item 10 she says something about Big Companies then focuses on Wal-Mart for some unknown reason. It occurs to me that there are more big companies than Wal-Mart in this country. Hamser was just trying to fill space on her really neat chart I guess.

It goes on and on. Hamser never bothers to mention any positive aspects of the legislation which makes her assessment that much more blind. She never mentions amendments to come or other add-ons sure to find their way into the bill the President signs.
She never mentions that this legislation will freeze Medicare Advantage payments in 2011. Or that primary care physicians dealing with Medicaid will be paid up to 100% of Medicare beginning in 2013.

But hey, if you can completely miss the fact that the Public Option, our prize, is there then I guess it doesn’t matter what you turn a blind eye to.

Of course this legislation isn’t perfect. It’s not Single Payer. But it is what we have and there will be nothing better right now.
All in all, it’s good to criticize and dissect this bill. It is not good to join the ranks of the Tea Party and those who want nothing more than to see us fail here so that we can fail again in November and 2012. And that’s exactly what Hamser is doing.

Maybe she got a little more Norquist in her than anyone knows.

Welcome to the political version of sudden death overtime….

The Reconciliation Bill of 2010 is born. And when you read it, be advised that it DOES CONTAIN AN EXCHANGE WITH A PUBLIC OPTION. (see PDF doc Pg.4)

The PDF is HERE. Read it. There is no excuse for not knowing.
The vote will come on Sunday at 1pm according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)

The icing on the cake is the Congressional Budget Office report that pronounces the legislation Fiscally Fit….

According to the CBO, the measure would make insurance available to an estimated 95 percent of non-elderly citizens by dramatically expanding Medicaid, the government health program for the poor, and offering tax credits to an estimated 24 million Americans who would otherwise find it difficult to afford coverage. The Congressional Budget Office reported earlier in the day that the legislation would provide health insurance coverage for 32 million people by 2016 at a 10- year cost of $940 billion. The CBO also said it would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over 10 years.

Senate Blue Dogs can no longer hide behind “fiscal responsibility” in an effort not to show their greed. They now have no excuse for obstruction aside from their personal profiteering.

Republicans, scratching out in desperation, attempted to obstruct by forcing an individual vote on the unpopular Senate version but to no avail. Democrats handily blocked the maneuver.

Buoyed by the CBO approval, which returned exactly the results President Obama demanded, leads us to the House vote on Sunday and subsequently back to the Senate where 51 votes for the Public Option are believed to be available.
It seems that Congressional Dems have found their balls. Perhaps enough Democratic Senators too. Nothing is written in stone as of yet, but this legislation is going to reach the President’s desk. And if it does so with the Public Option intact, Barack Obama will have kept his promise to sign a bill only if it contains the Public Option.

The thrill of victory or the agony of defeat. Barack Obama and the Democratic majority will come to know one or the other very soon. Let’s hope that for the sake of our economy, and our overall health, they get this done right.

I was beginning to think that Clinton would go down in history as the most inept Secretary of State in many years. But finally, finally someone in this gov’t stood up to terrorism and called the true criminals on this planet out.

Well done, Madame Secretary….

Decades overdue, a ranking US Gov’t official has publicly lambasted the Terrorist State of Israel for it’s continued deceptions and criminal activity.
Benjamin Netanyahoo, the chief Israeli Terrorist, has been talking out of his gaping ass about the “peace” process, but this has proven to be merely a stall tactic as the expansion of illegal terrorist settlements on Arab/Christian holy land continues all the while.
The plan was lie, deceive and posture while building. Then say “well, it’s built and we can’t tear it down".

Israel flaunted it’s demonic arrogance in the face of our VP, Joe Biden, as he visited Israel to kiss their ass as he has always done. See what trusting a terrorist does, Joe? They have no souls, no conscience, not a trace of human decency and no appreciation for the indisputable fact that without the US Israel would not exist today. Hopefully Mr. AIPAC has learned his lesson. Israel will call us “friend” then stab us in the back as they have always done.
Finally, Obama and Hillary Clinton seem to have had enough. Enough of the low-life deceptions and two-faced double talk. Enough of the terrorist propaganda.

Hillary Clinton picked up the phone and delivered the biggest bitch-slap this country has ever given to the terrorist whores that govern the nation of Israel. No, it was by no means enough, but it’s more than I ever expected from anyone in this gov’t.

“There was a regrettable incident that was done in all innocence and was hurtful and which certainly should not have occurred,'’ Netanyahu said, referring to the timing of the announcement of approval of 1,600 new housing units for an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. It is located on territory Israel annexed and made part of Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war in a move rejected by the international community.

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni of the Kadima Party, in remarks in Tel Aviv on Sunday, said, “We have a prime minister who doesn’t know what he wants and this weakness is leading us to a diplomatic collapse.'’

The cabinet discussion followed another sharp rebuke from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, who told Netanyahu by telephone that the U.S. considered the construction an insult and said it sent “a deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship and counter to the spirit of the vice president’s trip,'’ State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

Clinton’s comments triggered harsh criticism by some Israeli political figures, illustrating just how deeply the spat over the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood announcement had undercut Biden’s main goal of assuring Israelis – skeptical of President Obama’s affection for the state – of U.S. backing and friendship.

The Likud Party’s Danny Dadon, deputy speaker of the Knesset, called Clinton’s “meddling in internal Israeli decisions regarding the development'’ of Jerusalem “uninvited and unhelpful. In fact it is sheer chutzpah.'’

“I cannot remember another time that a senior American official deemed it ‘insulting’ when a sovereign nation announced urban zoning decisions regarding its primary city,'’ Dadon said.

Netanyahoo misses the point. American anger is not a result of the flagrant insult to VP Biden, it’s a result of things like Genocide in Gaza, starving and exploiting Palestinians, murdering American activists in the occupied territories, Murdering whoever they want…

Tzipi Livni attempts to take advantage for political gain, but the fact is that she is every bit the terrorist the rest of the Israeli gov’t is. An internationally wanted war criminal.
This is par for the course for Israel, another cheap charade.
Israel has multiple political parties. All with the same immoral agenda but different faces. Much like the Israeli media outlet, Haaretz, it is only a diversion intended to create the illusion of a Left/Right paradigm in Israel. Truth being, there is no “Left” in Israel. Only a few peace activists who’s efforts can only be described as half-assed at best.

Of course, the most extreme of Israeli terrorists, the Likud, took exception to being punked by the US SoS….

The Likud Party’s Danny Dadon, deputy speaker of the Knesset, called Clinton’s “meddling in internal Israeli decisions regarding the development'’ of Jerusalem “uninvited and unhelpful. In fact it is sheer chutzpah.'’

“I cannot remember another time that a senior American official deemed it ‘insulting’ when a sovereign nation announced urban zoning decisions regarding its primary city,” Dadon said.

It’s not your city, terrorist scumbag. It’s theirs. It belongs to Palestine and has always belonged to Palestine. You may be able to call it “yours” as any thief would call their stolen property “theirs", but the rest of the world knows better.
And the only “chutzpah” I can think of is the fact that we should have carpet bombed Israel in ‘67 in response to the attack on the USS Liberty, but didn’t.

Israel’s time grows short. Condemned by God for their treachery and “stiff-necked” ways, their demise is close and anything that they suffer will be well earned. We, as a nation, should cease to supply arms and financial aid to this terrorist state. Perhaps the mercy of their enemies is a just residence for a nation governed by cowards and terrorists. A gov’t so thirsting for innocent blood that common decency and the fear of God is completely lost in them.

Clearly this planet would be far more peaceful a place with Israel scattered to the ends of the earth.

Sec. Clinton’s smack down of the terrorist state is insufficient, but far more than expected. And in that wise, very refreshing.

Doing research and getting ready to blog locally… Just stopped in to rant.

1) Jihad Jane (with the kung fu grip):

It appears an American citizen has been arrested for plotting terrorism.
According to sources, Colleen LaRose had also attempted suicide years before.

Some people can’t do anything right.

2) It’s a flaming Massa-cre!:

New York Rep. Eric Massa-D, resigned in disgrace after it was found out that he’s more of a flameball than Perez Hilton and Richard Simmons combined.

It’s one thing to be gay. That occurs naturallly. But skipping merrily around the office tickling your fellow male co-workers like a bald Tinkerbell is most certainly beyond the pale of customary public behavior.
Massa is a pervert just like Mark Foley was. His whining is only an effort to take attention away from his personal misconduct and place it elsewhere. Good bye and good riddance.

3) Joe Biden Kisses Israeli Ass. Again:

“US President Barack Obama and myself know that the US has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel.” - Joe Biden

First of all, Joe, speak for yourself. Israel is our worst enemy and there’s no shortage of Americans who recognize that all too obvious fact.
We are not friends of terrorists, no matter what country they occupy.
From the intentional attack on the USS Liberty to the countless Israeli spies that regularly violate this farcical meme of “friends", Israel is anything but a friend to this nation. They are the reason we have lost American lives fighting Israel’s battles.
Our soldiers have died fighting where cowards like the IDF should be fighting.
We have fearlessly faced the full military might of Israel’s enemies while Israel attacks people in squalor armed only with rusty rifles and bottle rockets, with state of the art aircraft.

Hear this, Israel. You are no friend of mine. In fact, I no longer even recognize your right to exist as a nation. Too many war crimes, too many betrayals, too many lies. May you rot in Hell.

4) Ain’t worth the salt in my tears:

Ok…this is the kind of knee-jerk goofy bullshit that we DO NOT NEED in the Democratic party.
With two wars still lingering, a recovering but still ailing economy, Republican obstructionism to everything etc, etc…some creepy little pygmy in NY, Rep. Felix Ortiz - D, has decided he want’s to ban salt in NY’s restaurants.
Well, Felix, I hope NY tells you to get fucked. Democrats like yourself are an embarrassment to the party and hopefully you will be replaced one day by a Democrat who’s NOT an asshole living in his own little world of make believe.

In case no one knows, mister Food Safety Midget and his “righteous” concern for public safety also sponsored a bill to decrease the drinking age to 18 from 21.
Real concerned about NY’s health are you, stilt? Well it surely shows.

5) Rover still can’t roll over:

Mike Isikoff of Newsweek runs it up into Karl Rove’s new book and details what a whitewashed accounting it is of Rove’s criminal career as White House Chief of Bullshit under BushCo.
In the account of the treason committed in the outing of covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, Rove casts himself as an innocent victim who had no hand in the crime.
The crystal clear fact that Karl Rove is a traitor along with Dick Cheney, Richard Armitage, Scooter Libby and the late Robert Novak could not be hidden even if Rove himself sat on it with his fat Nazi ass.

Karl Rove is a traitor and should have suffered the full penalty of law long ago. Or at least ended up doing his best Ned Beatty impersonation while spending the rest of his life in general population at Terminal Island.

6) Bart Stupak, Republicans and Abortion. Here’s what to do:

I’ve written it before and I’ll write it again. Trade the Abortion coverage for the Public Option.

This is a trade off the conservanoids will accept even if they do so reluctantly. First, their constituencies are intellectually limited. Like one of those honking Geese at the park, it only takes one piece of bread to shut them up.
The simple fact is that catastrophic illnesses are deadly and far more frequent than abortions. The overall health of the nation should be considered a far greater priority. The cost of treating a person with Cancer is far greater than that of having an abortion. This is common sense, nothing more.

Perhaps later, some financial assistance can be provided to the individual states to help offset the cost of abortion. But the procedure will not leave one in debt for life like major surgery can and does.
The trade is fair and practical.
Of course, pregnancy that threatens the health and life of the mother should be covered, but the “I had to get laid but I don’t want the results” situations should never take precedence over genuine health issues.

Make the trade, they will bite.

Just per chance, I ran across the interview of the Tea Bagger who had his finger bitten off during a Town Hall meeting in California.

The Clown with nine digits had thrown a couple of punches at a MoveOn member and some how got his pinky stuck in the guy’s grill.
This little piggy went to market….

Medicare paid for the “NO SOCIALISM” proponant’s medical bills. Figures, huh?

Hilarious.

Having trouble with this vid. Go HERE if you can’t see it.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, the dazed and confused Senator from East Tennessee, has accomplished nothing in his entire career. Now, we find him working even harder at accomplishing even less….

Lamar Alexander cares nothing for the people of Tennessee. That much has become abundantly clear. He is a reclusive, beltway insider politician who has been proven to be out of touch and out to lunch on all important issues facing the state, our people and the country in general.

Speaking at Obama’s Health Care Summit, Alexander said nothing and offered nothing other than the same, canned Republican obstructionist lines.

Speaking for his party, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander told the president at the opening of a health care summit Thursday that he should scrap the health care bill Senate Democrats passed on Christmas Eve and start fresh from a clean sheet of paper.

Alexander said Republicans represent the views of a great number of Americans who oppose the Democratic approach. He said Republicans agree with many of the president’s ideas for controlling health care costs and that both parties should work “step by step toward that goal.”

Said Alexander: “This is a car that can’t be recalled and fixed and we ought to start over.”

No, Senator. This is not a “car", this is the lives of the American people and the people of the state you’re supposed to be representing. Your years as a Senator have yielded nothing. Absolutely nothing for this state.
Start fresh? Why? We started fresh months ago and Republicans contributed nothing but filibuster. 100% aligned against any kind of reform. What good would starting over do? Congress can amend the present legislation any time.
What is it that Senator Alexander is going to propose if we “start over” that he seemingly cannot propose at the summit?

Truth is, Lamar Alexander and the GOP have nothing to propose other than to run when the legislative going gets tough. Just drop it and run away. That is the conservative platform on health care reform. And in a time when Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is threatening to cut even more TennCare benefits, the people of the state of Tennessee could really use some Obama Care right about now. Especially since our elected officials, like Alexander and Rep. Phil Roe, have no intention of doing anything to help their people. Imagine the money the state would save if National Health Care replaced TennCare.

Sen. Alexander has the seniority to relieve many of Tennessee’s woes yet he does nothing other than play party politics with our health and our lives. Nothing, not one major accomplishment.

Tennessee is a poor state with a lot of poor people. We need universal health care. Clearly the President and many in Congress are fighting for our well being. Clearly, our Senator is not.
What’s he fighting for? That’s the easiest part to explain….

Lamar’s Money

Hercules Holding Ii, Llc
1 Park Plz
Nashville, Tennessee 37203-6527

Stock Symbol: Hercules Holding Ii, Llc
Line Of Business: Operates Acute Care Psychiatric & Specialty Hospitals Outpatient Surgery & Diagnostic Centers
Estimated Annual Sales: $0
Estimated # of Employees: 191,100
Year Founded: 2006
Estimated Employees for This Location: 25

National Health Care Corporation

100 East Vine Street
Murfreesboro TN 37130
Phone: (615) 890-2020 - Fax: (615) 890-0123
http://www.nhccare.com/about.cfm

As we see HERE, Health Industry Corporations and other entities have provided Lamar Alexander with well over a Million dollars in lobbyist funds. Meanwhile, our loved ones die prematurely from lack of affordable health care.

Lamar Alexander is a disgrace to NE Tennessee. His priorities are obviously centered elsewhere and he has no clue what Tennesseans need. He is a self centered, hypocritical dunce that needs desperately to be replaced by a real Tennessean. The lights are on but nobody’s home.

This man must go.

Yep…

1) Like, OMG, Gag me with a Hot Dog:

Some insignificant group of malcontents at American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested that we should change the shape of hot dogs because they’re afraid children might choke on them.

….People, just shut the fuck up.

You remind me of PETA and the fly swatting incident. You’re idiots with too much time on your hands. You actually assail the “shape” of hot dogs when all you had to do was recommend that parents CUT THE FUCKING THING UP BEFORE THEY FEED IT TO THEIR KIDS!?
Morons…. What shape should they be? Maybe triangle shaped so the kid can poke their eye out? How ’bout star shape so they can throw them and poke the other kid’s eye out? Hows about a nice Octahedronic dog so they can summon Hellraiser?

Fact is, a non-tubular hot dog already exists. It’s round and they call it A FUCKING HAMBURGER!

2) Blooming Energy:

60 Mins has brought to light what may possibly be the future of energy independence. The Bloom Box, named for it’s company, Bloom Inc, is the brain child of a great American genius named K.R. Sridhar.
Sridhar suddenly, after a decade of developed Bloom Box, went public with the invention.
I consider this to be a very wise move considering the history of questionable deaths when it comes to innovation.
Preston Tucker, the great automobile innovator was killed under very questionable circumstances. Recently, some Tesla Motors employees were killed in a plane crash. Those circumstances are anything but clear.

The possibilities of the Bloom Box are almost endless. Pursuing this innovation will ultimately give the people a weapon against the energy whores that rob us day and night for electric and other forms of energy. Once condensed, the Bloom Box could easily power a car.

Good move, Sridhar. We are forever in your debt.

3) Israel. Serial Killers:

A Hamas big wig was assassinated in Dubai and the sloppiness of the operation is the signature of the inept Israeli murder squad known as the Mossad.
It’s not such a big deal that a Hamas leader was murdered, it’s that Israel seems to think that they can kill who they like when and where they like.

This behavior cannot be tolerated by the international community. It’s murder any way you fucking slice it. Israel is a criminal nation that has no right to exist. They have committed murder, attempted genocide and have deceptively stabbed those they call “friend” in the back too many times to count.
They are out of control and must be extinguished. Israel has no right to exist as a nation. They should be driven out of Palestinian territory and their leaders tried for war crimes in the international courts. Their sentences should be similar to that of Saddam Hussein.

Whatever Israel suffers in the future as a result of it’s inhuman, Godless ways can only be described as very much deserved. They are terrorists, nothing more and certainly nothing less.

4) You’re doin’ a heck of a job, Brownie:

Scott Brown, the new Massachusetts Senator and the Tea Bagger’s “41st vote” has helped Democrats overcome a Repig filibuster of the Jobs Bill that recently passed the Senate.

All I can say is……. LOL!

Eat shit, Tea Baggers (or nuts or whatever). Scott Brown is still a piece of crap Republican, but he sure stuck it to you Right Wing trash in admirable fashion.
Please, continue to whine, cry, blubber, scream, shout and holler. Your frustration and misery is music to our ears.

5) Does Dick’s clock ever stop?:

The nation’s most infamous traitor, former VP Dick Cheney, had another heart attack but unfortunately survived it.
We’ll update this entry when we have better news on the subject.

6) USA Defeats Canada in Olympic Hockey:

Take that, Ice Box Limeys.

Oh, yeah…

7) Peeping Tom Teachers:

It matters not what the motivation was. “Intentions” are of no consequence. Faculty of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania have been monitoring their student’s behavior at home, often in the privacy of their bedrooms, without anyone’s knowledge.
This is done through a program that remotely activates the web cams in the school supplied lap tops that students take home.
The district’s stated intention is to be able to “locate missing lap tops". Sorry, any ten year old knows that you cannot locate a computer through a camera. That is done by tracing IPs.

This is insane and is becoming more so every day. Now it seems that Merion techs made an effort to prevent students from finding out about the cameras being remotely operated.
Brainwrap at Kos has an excellent post about this diabolical activity.

Imagine. You’re a kid, teen, kickin’ it in your room, hormones a blazin’. You undress yourself for a little personal relief, all the while a member of your school’s faculty is watching you on your lap top web cam.

Get it?

Every one of these filthy, possible child porn producing “teachers” should spend a very, very long time in prison. This is major. Major.

H/T to Steve at Whitescreek Journal

Just bored, so I thought I’d write about the most boring local primaries on earth, with the possible exception of Guam.
The following information was found at the Kingsport Times News

As of Tuesday afternoon, the following candidates had filed petitions for the following races with the Election Commission:

County mayor

• Incumbent Steve Godsey (filed for Republican primary)

• Mark Vance (filed for Republican primary)

The questions voters must ask themselves are:

Q:What has Steve Godsey done for Sullivan county?
A:Nothing.

Q:How is Mark Vance any different from Godsey?
A:He’s not.

County trustee

• Incumbent Frances Harrell (filed for Democratic primary)

• Peggy Bridgeman Campbell (filed for Republican primary)

Q: Has Frances Harrell performed her duties well or not?
A: Harrell has performed flawlessly

Q: Who is Peggy Campbell?
A: Who cares?

County clerk

• Incumbent Jeanie Gammon (filed for Democratic primary)

• Jim Holcomb (filed for the Republican primary)

Q: Has Jeanie Gammon performed her job well?
A: She is the greatest. If you have encountered her, she helped you out in some way.

Q: Who is Jim Holcomb?
A: One of John Gregory’s Taliban scumbags who has no business serving in an official capacity. I wouldn’t elect a Jesus-Pimping dirtbag like Holcomb to be a judge on American Idol. Much less a civil servant.
Electing Holcomb would be like electing David Davis.
Holcomb is the personification of the John Gregory extreme Right Wing (aka Bristol Taliban)’s efforts to remain relevant in the local political scene.
Other notable members of the BT are wannabe Speaker of the House Jason Mumpower and Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey.

If it’s John Gregory, it’s wrong.

Register of deeds

• Incumbent Mary Lou Duncan (filed for the Democratic primary)

• Bart Long (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:Has Duncan performed her duties well?
A:All the deeds are registered.

Q:Why is Bart Long a Republican?
A: Probably because there’s no Libertarian party in the area.
Bart Long is not a bad guy at all. But having a person who makes their living on real estate running the Deeds Dept. sounds a little conflicting.

Duncan should remain.

Commissioner of highways

• Incumbent Allan Pope (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:Why do our highways look like shit since Pope was last elected?
A:Typical Republican inaction. If you think one or two new lights on 11W makes up for the decaying shoulders and potholes you’re sadly mistaken.

If Pope has a plan for our end of the 100% Stimulus Highway Money TDOT is getting, he should speak out. The proper use of these funds could sway a vote or two.

County attorney

• Incumbent Dan Street (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:How has Dan Street handled his job thus far?
A:He has remained on the intelligent side of the “how the Hatch Act effects the county” argument.

County sheriff

• Incumbent Wayne Anderson (filed for Republican primary)

• David Steadman (filed for Republican primary)

• John Taylor (filed for Democratic primary)

Q:What kind of job has Wayne Anderson done as Sheriff?
A:A hearty mix of stupid, dishonest yet practical.

This one is tough. Wayne Anderson is an ass, no question about it. I have personally seen him come through the Felony cells at the main jail, moments ahead of the press, and tell inmates to pick their mattresses up off the floor and hide them under the mattresses on the bunks so the inhumane conditions of his jail aren’t so obvious.

At the same time, John Taylor (Democrat) made the statement that “Anderson’s drug arrests are way down". That makes Taylor a scary candidate (see jack-booted, third-eye-blind Drug War advocate).
We don’t need a drug crusader running around busting our kids for smoking pot and costing us mountains of money just to put them on probation and accomplish basically nothing. Especially since all applicable science proves that incarceration does nothing to rid the community of drugs or stop people from catching a buzz.
Anderson may, by virtue of experience, understand this.
Taylor seems to be unaware that Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Drug War was over. He is fear-mongering. That is a sure sign of a fool running for office.

Don’t know much about Steadman. We’ll see….

Circuit court clerk

• Incumbent Tommy Kerns (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:Do we know anything about Kerns?
A:No.

County Commission District 1 (one seat)

• Incumbent Randy Morrell (filed to run as an independent)

Q:Independent from what?
A:Good luck on ever getting an answer.

County Commission Disrict 2 (three seats)

• Incumbent Cathy Armstrong (filed for the Republican primary)

• Incumbent Buddy King (filed to run as an independent)

• Bryan Boyd (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:Who cares?
A:Who cares??

County Commission District 3 (one seat)

• Bob Neal (filed for the Republican primary)

Q:Hey, are you Bob Neal or is that just what you do?
A: Ok, ok I couldn’t resist. This is really getting boring. Sorry.

County Commission District 4 (three seats)

• Incumbent Linda Brittenham (filed to run as an independent)

• Incumbent Dennis Houser (filed to run as an independent)

• Ed Marsh (filed for the Republican primary)

• Billy J. Phillips (filed to run as an independent)

County Commission District 5 (two seats)

• Charles D. Phelps (filed for the Republican primary)

• Marvin Hyatt (filed to run as an independent)

County Commission District 6 (three seats)

• Incumbent Terry Harkleroad (filed for the Republican primary)

• Dean Harris (filed for the Republican primary)

• Matthew J. Johnson (filed for the Republican primary)

• Rodger K. Jones (field to run as an independent)

• Dewey Wayne Shaffer (filed to run as an independent)

County Commission District 7 (two seats)

• Baxter Hood (filed for the Republican primary)

County Commission District 8 (two seats)

• Incumbent Darlene Calton (filed for the Republican primary)

• Joshua K. Russell (filed for the Republican primary)

County Commission District 9 (two seats)

• Incumbent O.W. Ferguson (filed for the Republican primary)

• Incumbent Wayne McConnell (filed to run as an independent)

County Commission District 10 (two seats)

• Incumbent Bill Kilgore (filed for the Republican primary)

• Charlie Anderson (filed to run as an independent)

• John Crawford (filed for the Republican primary)

• Gary R. Free (filed for the Republican primary)

County Commission District 11 (three seats)

• Incumbent Clyde Groseclose (filed to run as an independent)

• Incumbent Joe Herron (filed for the Republican primary)

• John T. Gardner (filed for the Republican primary)

• Archie Pierce (filed for the Republican primary)

Party primaries are in May. The general election is in August.

LOL! Just Fuckin’ LOL!
Lamar Alexander has been fuckin’ up large lately. But it’s really getting deep now. Put yer waders on, East Tennessee. LAMAR! is making a mess again….

First voting to prevent victims of workplace rape from having legal recourse, he now has been caught in the sweetest example of Republican hypocrisy I’ve seen in a while.

From The Nashville Scene

The Washington Times reported: “Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, who easily won re-election in 2008, said of the stimulus, “This is spending, not stimulus.” But in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the senator sought stimulus money for a project that he said would “create over 200 jobs in the first year and at least another 40 new jobs in the following years.”

Well, LAMAR!
You’ve really stepped in it this time. Certainly not the first or last time, but this is a whopper.

We have to get somebody to replace this useless incumbent.

H/T to Speak to Power

Our dear friends and outstanding West Tennessee bloggers Trace Sharp, Steve Steffens and Steve Ross have joined forces to form a genuine Liberal blog for the entire state of Tennessee.

If you care anything at all about the dismal state of politics in TN then you should be there and signed up and getting involved.

The TNDP has proven to be completely and totally worthless. We’re going to have to fight this fight by ourselves.

GO THERE! NOW!

http://speaktopower.org

It has been suggested that John Cougar Mellencamp, the well known and highly respected musician would be a good choice to run for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat.

We agree.

Everybody knows him. So name recognition is a gimme. He is a small town boy from Indiana and that state is very proud of him. He is non-incumbent, non-beltway and solidly for the average American as most of his music will easily tell you.
Sure, he has no experience in public office. But George Bush did and look what a loser he turned out to be.

This is not a bad idea if Mellencamp is interested. He is a passionate voice politically and is firm and consistent in his views.
Al Franken had no experience either and look what a great Senator he has become so quickly.

Run, Johnny. I’ll donate.

Ok, this is really very simple…
Evan Bayh is an asshat. He has always been a detriment to the forward progress of the Democratic party. This piece of DLC shit has stood firmly in the path of the Progressive movement for decades. Most recently concerning Health Reform.
Capitulating cowards such as Bayh, Ford Jr. etc are exactly the problem that has plagued the Democratic party for so long now. They are the reason nothing gets done because they are in it for the money and power and have never had their heart in helping America progress.

Bayh offers up a characteristically lame excuse for turning his back on the people. “There’s not enough bipartisanship” he croaks. Bipartisanship with whom?
Republicans?

Republicans don’t want this “bipartisanship” of which the Centrist speaks. Any complete and total idiot can see that.
Evan Bayh and all of his ilk are Centrist jellyspines and thankfully they seem to be getting the message. GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR PARTY you politically fellating invertebrate pieces of shit!

Jelly Spine

I wrote long ago that the only way to make the Democratic party respectable and effective is to give the party an enema. That is happening now as we see the bulk of Democratic backouts are these unprincipled “Centrist” types. Dorgan, Dodd, Bayh, Gordon….All useless, all Republican Lite and now fortunately all gone.

Cleaning up the largest and most diverse political party in the country is not easy. It will take time, courage and a tremendous amount of foresight. But it must be done.
We must cleanse ourselves of those who make us appear indecisive, unprincipled and weak willed. Even if it means giving up a seat or two for a couple of years.
The Republicans cannot unseat our majority. It simply will not happen. This sizable majority is strong enough to provide us with the opportunity to oust a few double agents from our midst. We must take full advantage.

Evan Bayh blames Obama, Harry Reid, anyone he can except for himself. He even blames Left Wing Bloggers for his decision? Cool by me.
Fuck you, Evan. You have never been the man your dad was and never will be. How’s that pro-Iraq war vote feel now?

Buh Bayh.

Yeah, I know. This is a little different for this blog, but our fellow, vic, brings us something so amazingly cool that we had no choice but to share.

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

This is a truly amazing artist in action. As talented as she is astonishingly beautiful (as it is with Ukrain women), I highly recommend watching her and remembering her name.

Another fine point that’s been made concerning the Tea Traitors, other than being scum, idiots, losers etc., is that they really don’t have the numbers or the support the main stream media would make us thing they have…

Sharon Cobb directed us to a very observant post by the great Southern Beale who correctly states, after collecting the facts, that the Tea Party movement is a media creation.

Much like the PUMA movement, which was basically a Tea Party/Birther/Republican group of sexually frustrated Right Wing feminists (all five of them), the media portrayed the Tea Party as some major event that drew losers from the four corners of the universe. Fact is there were tumbleweeds blowin’ through Nashville’s Opryland but you’d never know it by listening to the Corporate Media.
The MSM had some 200 correspondents on hand. basically a third of the entire attendance.

From Southern Beale:

For further perspective, note that in another part of the sprawling Opryland complex this weekend a group of 500 women bloggers, many of them “mommy bloggers,” gathered for their sold-out convention. To my knowledge no national news media covered the event. 500 women bloggers vs 600 right wing nutjobs in white wigs and tri-corner hats. Which one gets the national news media’s attention?

The New York Times did an awesome job of buying the spin that this is just a mainstream group of folks. Clearly they did not listen to any of the keynote speeches, in which we heard homophobic rants about morality, anti-immigrant bigotry from Tom Tancredo, and birther conspiracy theories.

So thanks, New York Times. Way to mainstream the Obama hate.

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So everyone says around 600 people showed up for Nasvhille’s Tea Party Convention, right?

For some perspective, the first Netroots Nation drew over twice that amount:

But even after acknowledging this relevant context, what we’re left with is an event with 600 participants and a grand total of zero current House members, senators, or governors. There were, by some estimates, 200 journalists on hand to cover this convention, creating a bizarre dynamic – one reporter for every three participants.

It’s all terribly odd. The first Netroots Nation gathering (the conference formally known as Yearly Kos) had 1,400 attendees. The Tea Party convention had less than half this total.

The media attention seems a little disproportionate to what, by all appearances, was an underwhelming get-together.

Indeed it does. But this is just another case where the “liberal media” lie is shown in all of its glory.

And let’s remember the national media’s coverage of the left’s anti-war protests was tepid, at best. It seems if a bunch of liberals get together, it’s not news. But some wacko anti-gay, anti-immigrant right wing nutballs gather for three days of hating on the President and 200 media representatives descend on the convention hall.

Weird.

Atrios is right, the right wing rules their world.

Beale is right. The media is Corporate. Through eight of the darkest years modern man has even known (2000-2008) the MSM, with an exception or two, seldom and in some cases never, reported on the crimes of the Bush Regime. Why should they? Corporate Fascism means great wealth. For Corporate Fascists anyway.

A solid example could be this tragic story that was first reported by British media. An American soldier waterboards his own 4yo daughter for not getting her ABCs right (he should be tapped and dumped in a sewer somewhere btw).

It’s difficult to surmise exactly what American media really stands for. But seeing what they don’t stand for is easy. Truth.

Thank God Scary Sara is forming her very own Tea Pot….Bag…whatever political party. Now the Ass-End of the Republican party will have a brand new Assroots movement to be part of.

(snort) Idiots…..

The Tea Bag convention went well for the ones getting the speaker fees. Sara Failin got 100k for displaying her incomparable brainlessness. And didn’t even have to act.
The Idiots who were duped into attending this essay in lifelessness paid dearly to get in. And they are most deserving of the hard, dry fucking they got…

From Politico:

Tickets for the Nashville event run $549, plus a $9.95 fee, while separate tickets to see only Palin cost $349. Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee are also scheduled to speak at the three-day conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

The shallowness of this political pandering money grab in Nashville was obvious from the beginning. They didn’t have a Pledge of Allegiance, or even an American flag present.
No prayer was offered…

From the Washington Post:

The convention’s first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying that he had misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention. Nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Convention spokesman Mark Skoda, chairman of the Memphis Tea Party, blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

But hey! They got to dupe the basket-cases that were lame enough to attend. “Mission Accomplished".

Some Iowa attendees were eager to display all the cool stuff (you betcha’) that they got for their month’s rent. Nothing like a cool, plastic megaphone and a TPN fanny pack, made in China, to provide one with a genuine sense of belonging…

Here’s some dysfunctional dim wits from Orlando after huffing glue in the ladies room…

Steve at Whitescreek found this gem. The perfect example of…well…I’m just not quite sure. Mid Life Crises?…

Next time you plan on attending a Tea Party, why not just send Scary Sara a check, save the gas money and stay home. Please.

In the midst of juggling all the info that’s coming available there is one thing that is reasonably certain. There is far more to this crime than just some “youths pulling a prank".

James O’Keefe is a scum bag and deserves what he gets. But the more we find out about Stan Dai, the more it looks like ol’ Stanley is the axis of evil here.

I’ve seen better heads on a mug of beer.

Dai has quite a resume’. Reads like a report card for the Hitler Youth.
As Justin Elliott of TPM reports, Dai is neck deep in the Radical Right’s cesspool of insanity, for such a young man. If in fact he is “24″ as is said.
An effective activist for the lunatic fringe in college, Dai has shown an amazingly honed talent for organizing and speaking out for evil…

Stan Dai, the accused Landrieu phone tamperer who penned an anti-feminist parody called The Penis Monologues as a conservative activist in college, went on to work for a program designed to get women and minority students interested in espionage work.

Mark Hosenball of NEWSWEEK, who has followed the story with zeal, reports some very interesting revelations concerning Dai and his sordid background…

Ann Pauley, vice president of Trinity Washington University, acknowledged to NEWSWEEK that a key objective of the “Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence” at her school was to expose female and minority students to the kind of work spy agencies do and potentially interest them in becoming intelligence officers. Dai was associate director of the program between August 2007 and October 2008….

….As we reported Wednesday, the introduction-to-intelligence program that Dai helped to run was entirely funded by a grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, otherwise known as the intelligence czar’s office.

The Director of National Intelligence, at that time, was none other than Admiral Mike McConnell. McConnell succeeded fellow NeoCon, John Negroponte, as DNI in Feb of 2007. In August 2007 Dai became involved in “collegiate spy recruiting".
McConnell has a degree from George Washington University. Dai is a student there.
Oddly enough…McConnell was also a tremendous fan and enabler of the Protect America Act. The legislation pushed by Bush/Cheney that enabled random spying on American citizens. Info on Booz, Allen, and Hamilton will tell you more about McConnell.

Seems these people have a hard-on for tapping phones.
One thing is clear. The Bush era Fascist movement is alive and well and until this botched attempt to undermine a Democratic Senator’s office, flying well below the radar.

John Michael McConnell was a Booz Allen Senior Vice President (1996-2006).

Dov Zakheim was the Booz Allen Vice President.

Zakheim allegedly co-authored Rebuilding America’s Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, the Project for the New American Century’s (PNAC) position paper (published September 2000) which advocated the “necessity” of a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with the Middle East. Since May 20, 2008, PNAC’s website is not accessible and that 90-page PDF document is no longer available from that source.

The PNAC or Project for the New American Century we know well. They are now posing under the name Foundation for Defense of Democracies. An organization that Stan Dai is an undergraduate fellow of.
The FDD are no strangers to assailing Democratic Senators.

From a previous post-Mar 21 ‘08:

In a release by Democracy For America (The Good Guys), we find the FDD in the process of funding Swift Boat type efforts against Democratic candidates.
I didn’t say any particular candidate, I said Democratic Candidates. Most of them running for the vitally important Senate seats that will be contested this November.
These US Senate contests may well be more important than who wins the White House and the PNAC/FDD are attacking and spreading their filthy lies as we speak.

Same old players, some new names, same old subversive, treasonous agenda. We’d be fools to take our eyes off of this instance and Democratic politicians of all stripes should be very vigilant in securing their persons and effects.

…and the shit gets thicker.

Just a quick update of the prevailing story of the year.
Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) has more details on the perps……

It seems Flanagan once interned for none other than our own Lamar Alexander. Also, dig this…

STAN DAI, Lisle, Ill.,

Attends The George Washington University majoring in Political Science. He is editor-in-chief of The GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper, a Club 100 Activist of Young America’s Foundation, and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies formally known as, wait for it, the PNAC.

Yep. It’s them again. The PNAC. The Israel-First traitors of yore (which included Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby) that penned the guidelines that sent us to war in Iraq. The most treasonous, un-American group that has ever existed in this nation.
We are that much closer to the source of this crime. Stay tuned….

Yet another recap….

1) All in the Family:

Scott Brownie, the Senator elect from Massa2shits, was once a naked model. Not such a big deal at all, if one wasn’t a moralizing, Bible-thumping Republican.
First, Brownie gets naked, than offers his daughters up to the general Republican public (brings the story of Lot to mind).
Now we find that Scott Brownie’s wifey did a nasty little part in an old, crappy, 1984 muzack video.
“Girl with the Curious Hands” indeed.

All that lewd behavior back in the ’80s….I wonder if Mr. and Mrs. Brownie ever had a hair test to see how much coke they snorted back then. I’ll give 1000 Colonies for the daughters, but that’s it.

2) Harold Ford Jr. R - Wall Street

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that we have been Ford Jr’s primary nemesis in Tennessee. He has dodged us, ran from us, avoided us…all the standard action words apply. Though the act of sheer cowardice HFJ displayed at TPM is still one of the foremost efforts in chicken shit I have ever witnessed.
Harold Ford Jr. is not a democrat and never has been one. He is still the most two-faced, candy-assed punk this blogger has ever seen in Democratic politics.
Now, he want’s to take his lie machine to NY and campaign for Senate.
There are plenty of New Yorkers that are stupid enough to support him, but fortunately rather few demographically speaking.
Ford’s efforts will fail and he will once again be just another insignificant DLC punk who could have been a contender if he had any honor at all.

3) Saints Come Marching In:

Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints.
I’ve been a fan since I was eight (if you don’t believe me I have 30+ year old Saints hats that are too moldy to touch. I’ll be glad to post pics). Never had much hope of Benson being smart enough to spend money on a good crew (much like his predecessor John Mecom). Why should he have? NO fans are so dedicated they flock to the games with bag-on-head and Benson gets his money without producing.
This is truly NFL history in the making. Not only are the Saints in the Super bowl, but Tom Benson just might become a popular figure in NOLA for once.

Saints by 7 in the big game.

4) Tim Tebow- Fuckus on the Family

Poor kid, all that talent and still an idiot. I hate abortion. I also hate the death penalty and war, so unlike most on both sides of the equation, my ducks are in a row.
Trouble is, there are times that all three are unavoidable.
Tebow has a right to purchase air time just like any other American. And the right to state his views.
It’s one thing to deplore killing, but to join with a Fascist Pig organization like Focus on the Family and a scumbag pile of lying, fake Christian filth like James Dobson is all it takes to realize that Tebow will be joining Mike Vick and other famous assholes of modern sport in marring his career forever.
I hope it’s just his youthful ignorance that is preventing him from realizing that James Dobson and FotF are not just about anti-abortion. They are also pro war and pro death penalty which makes them hypocrites of the first order. They are anti-birth control and anti-sex education. They symbolize everything that is foul and disgusting by using the name of Christ to achieve personal gain and power.

It’s also sad that pro-choice groups are giving this 30 seconds of idiocy the brightest spotlight possible. It makes them sound anti-free speech and gives political credibility to a commercial that would otherwise go mostly unnoticed.

5) High Speed Rail Cannot Prevent Fail:

It is said that after the President gives his State of the Fucking Disaster speech tonight that he will introduce plans for High Speed Rail development.
That’s great! HSR is a truly wonderful, productive thing. Just ask the French, Japanese, Chinese and everyone else who has what we don’t.
But that will not be enough for the Democrats to win back their base. If Dems and Obama want us energized again PASS THE FUCKING HEALTH REFORM LEGISLATION WITH 51 VOTES AND A PUBLIC OPTION!
Nothing else they do will bring us home.

Conservative activist and wannabe filmmaker is arrested trying to tamper with the phone system at the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu.

Why doesn’t this surprise me?…….

James O’Keefe, the producer of the fake “ACORN Revealed” film which falsely depicted ACORN members violating the law, has been arrested, along with Robert Flannagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan, by the US Marshall’s Service in a vain attempt to bug the phones of a US Senator.

From The Houston Chronicle:

NEW ORLEANS — A conservative activist who has caused problems for the community organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested and accused of trying to interfere with phones at U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Once inside the reception area, Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to the main phone at the reception desk.

After handling the phone, “Flanagan and Basel next requested access to the telephone closet because they needed to perform work on the main telephone system,” Letten’s office said.

The men were directed to another office in the building, they’re accused of again misrepresenting themselves as telephone repairmen.

They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.

An FBI criminal complaint charging the men was unsealed Tuesday.

More on this story as it unfolds.

Nothing has changed, America. Conservative Republicans are a criminal element and will stop at nothing when it comes to furthering their Fascist agenda. O’Keefe, a cowardly little liar and failed Shlockumentry film maker will look real good in an orange jump suit having Tea with Bubba.
Just another criminal element beholden to the Right Wing. Justice may soon be served.

UPDATE:

Wannabe black-op guy James O’Queef

…….Among those arrested was 25-year-old James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmaker, along with Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan and Stan Dai, all 24. They were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses and attempting to gain access to the Democrat’s office by posing as telephone repairmen, according to a copy of an FBI affidavit unsealed Tuesday.

The complaint said that Flanagan and Basel each entered the premises, wearing light green fluorescent vests, denim paints and blue work shirts, tool belts and hard hats. They informed a member of Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen and requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk.

At that point, the two men allegedly attempted to manipulate telephones and accessed the telephone closet, saying they needed to work on the entire system. The men, who said they left their credentials in their vehicles, were arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service soon afterward.

According to the FBI, the four men could each face up to 10 years and a fine of $250,000 if they are convicted.

Read more: The Pussies at Politico

Of course, it would be wonderful to see O’Queef go to prison, but he’s not man enough to do the time. So…..We wait and see who put him up to it (who he rats on) and who funds his illegal activities.
The son of….

US Attorney for West Louisiana
William J. Flanagan, USA
300 Fannin Street, Suite 3201
Shreveport, LA 71101-3068
(318)676-3600 (318)676-3641

http://www.justice.gov/usao/law/

….was also arrested. US Attorney Flanagan was second fiddle to Former U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington, a BushCo appointee, who resigned some time ago.

Majikthise (Lindsay Beyerstein) has more details on the perps……

It seems Flanagan once interned for none other than our own Lamar Alexander. Also, dig this…
STAN DAI, Lisle, Ill.,

Attends The George Washington University majoring in Political Science. He is editor-in-chief of The GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper, a Club 100 Activist of Young America’s Foundation, and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies formally known as, wait for it, the PNAC.

Get’s better every day.

The message could not possibly be more clear. There is no shroud of secrecy, no subliminal meanings. There is only one way out of this mess for the Democratic Party.

There are two voices ringing loudly in Democratic ears right now. One, Obama’s enemies, say that Democrats are losing because “the Right Wing is surging and America opposes health reform". The other, Obama’s base, says Democrats are losing because “we won’t vote for them unless they remain dedicated populists and give us Health Reform with a Public Option type of mechanism".

Which voice is true? The numbers support the latter. Overwhelmingly.

The only question that remains is: Will Obama and the Democrats listen to the right voice? The one that voted for them. The one that donated to them. The one that has the power to bring it all crashing down around them.

The Massachusetts Obama voters who voted for Brownie are still assholes, but I do fully understand where they’re coming from. And I agree with the sentiment 100%. That particular election was the wrong one to use, but the message is out and it is abundantly clear.
You promised us meaningful “change” and have done nothing to deliver it.

It really is that simple. President Obama has, as of late, allowed the business-as-usual aspect of the beltway to consume him when he should have been the one consuming it.

Law of the jungle, Mr. President: eat or be eaten.

Law of survival: Adapt, migrate or perish.

Adapting is easy. Perform the will of your base and survive. If not, might as well just resign. Failure brings the end.

51 votes is all we need. All that is needed to pass Health Reform with the Public Option in the exchange. That is what the vast majority of the people in the country want. Get it done, Sir. Get this done and behind us or when November rolls around the Democratic Left and other intelligent voters roll up our welcome mats and again allow those Tea Bag traitors to eat the Democratic party alive.

Yeah, we noticed that you declared war on Wall Street. Replacing Geithner with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is a good idea. Maybe you have gotten the message after all. I hope so, but beating up Wall Street, as joyful as it sounds, is nowhere near enough. Without a complete victory on Health Reform your base will never return.

That’s just a fact you’re going to have to face. Better sooner than later. Better listen to your doctor….
“Nobody cares if the insurance companies, the Republicans - pardon my Freudian slip - are infuriated or not, because they clearly have been obstructionists the entire time. What they care about is what is in the final bill. And if you use reconciliation as George Bush has a number of times, especially with his budget busting tax cuts, we’re going to get a good bill and it’s really going to do some significant things…” -Gov. Howard Dean

And since the last post….what happened? We are witnessing the fall of a President that showed genuine promise once. The situation is now more dire than most people will realize.

President Obama and the Democratic majority are failing. Failing miserably. Not just in action and decision, but in principal as well.
The Right Wing is proclaiming that Massachusetts is a “referendum” on health care. “The people” saying they don’t want it. That is a lie, but what’s worse is that Democrats are buying it.
Again, the obvious is clear. Low pro-Obama voter turnout since the ‘08 elections is a direct result of the Liberal base of the Democratic party abandoning the President and his broken version of our agenda at the polls.
Why is most obvious. As we read in the previous post, Liberals vote for principals, not characters. We did not vote for Barack Obama, we voted for our principals and chose him to be the one to implement them. Thus far, he has failed.
A few smaller issues have been addressed, but the meat of the agenda has been forsaken.

The writing on wall has been there for the entirety. All the major progressive blogs, the rest of us, the big money organizations like MoveOn, PDA etc…Did the Democrats really think we wouldn’t dare teach them this lesson?
Wake up and smell the roses, morons….

From MoveOn:

82% of Obama supporters who voted for Brown support the public option, as do 86% of Obama voters who stayed home.

57% of Obama voters who stayed home on Tuesday support the Senate health care bill or think it doesn’t go far enough.

And of Obama voters who cast a ballot for Brown, nearly half (49%) support the Senate bill or think it does not go far enough. Just 11% think it goes too far.

The numbers are the same as they’ve always been. Which leads us to believe that Obama may be getting some very, very bad advice from those close to him. Centrist filth such as David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel etc. have failed miserably to keep the president informed of the truth. The truth being that the Left runs this political party and without us, Democrats lose. That fact is now as plain as day. And it seems they still don’t see it.
Of course, Barack Obama should be able to see these truths without the help of his incompetent, Clintonista staff. He knows who came out for him in ‘08. It’s on him too.

President Obama and the Democrats have only one chance of remaining in power in the next election cycle. Drive the health legislation through with 51 votes and the Public Option intact, like they should have done months ago, and start acting like genuine populists. Otherwise it over.
The Liberal base will no longer tolerate being stabbed in the back. We’ve had it.
Stand with us or fall, Mr. President. You have no other option.

Again, and hopefully for the last time…. Understand the obvious, the only reason Democrats have suffered any losses, especially Massachusetts, is that Obama has lied about the Public Option and almost completely turned his back on those who fought so hard to get him elected. Liberals. Not Republican filth, not lazy-ass “unaffiliated” types, not the Centrists who love the smell of Right Wing ass. Liberals.
Light voter turnout since ‘08 should be the only red flag the Democrats need to see. But it seems they’re just as blind and self serving as Republicans.
Had they simply kept their promises and exercised the power Howard Dean handed them none of this drama would have emerged. The perils of unnecessary pragmatism.
It would be nice if the Dems could have seen the writing on the wall and woke up. The warnings and signs were there. The Left doesn’t vote for liars and cowards. Now they can count on us staying home in ‘10 too unless they pull their empty heads out of their asses and do what it takes to get the base back on board. The chances of that are slim, but if they don’t, Obama joins Bush in Failville after the ‘12 elections.
You see, the Left never quits. If our elected fail in their responsibilities, we will simply find other candidates and start again.
Howard Dean 2012 sounds pretty damn good right now.

I’ll keep this brief due to rather large Doobie anxiously awaiting my return….

In spite of what you might think, sir, I really don’t write the shit I write on this blog for my own amusement.
(by the way, I do send email and a link to any public official I write about)

I do it because every single voice for progress is important. No matter how small or obscure or obtuse. Every last voice is crucial.
Right now you have ignored our voices, sir. And the Democratic party has suffered for it. We demanded a Public Option, you scoffed (and lied), we lost New Jersey. Again we demanded a Public Option, again you turned away, we lost Virginia. Today, we still demand it, you still have your back to us, and we are about to lose the most solid Senate seat in Democratic politics.

What exactly is it that you do not understand, sir?

I have told you, and told you, and told you and told you….Now, I must tell you once again.

THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT IS THE STRENGTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IF WE DON’T CARE, YOU DON’T WIN! IF WE GET THE SHAFT, YOU GET THE SHAFT.

Low voter turnout in NJ and VA. What does that mean to you? If we don’t turn out in Massachusetts, Dems lose that one too. Catchin’ on yet?
You and others in the party may not want to admit it, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
My advice to you, sir, is to get that Public Option back in the bill any fucking way you can. Because we, as I have written you so many times, likely will not be there if we don’t get what you promised us concerning Health Reform. Not now, not in 2010, not in ‘12. Perhaps not ever again.

Dismiss these warnings and signs if you will. But understand that you do so at the peril of the future of the Democratic party. Because without the Liberals who carried you to power, you’re nothing. All of you, nothing.

Regards,

The nation of Haiti is in dire straights. The first inclination for any human being is to give or go or help in any way they can. Regardless of nation or politic, no one understands human suffering better than other humans.

Unfortunately, we are not all human…

Pat Robertson: Professional Christian Impersonator

God must have a sick sense of humor to allow such a hollow, depraved, shell of a man to exist among us. A man who serves no purpose, no cause other than that of his own wealth.
Pat Robertson is as foul a beast as any demon or devil depicted in literary history. If there is a Satan, his name is Pat Robertson.

Just as this insect blamed God, and the people of New Orleans for the Hurricane Katrina disaster, it now blames the people of Haiti for the earthquake that devastated that nation and their people.
It has actually suggested that “Haitians made a deal with the Devil” that they are paying for now.

Pat Robertson. May your death come quickly, and with as much pain and suffering as is possible. Then may your soul, or what’s left of it, be condemned to whatever Hell you would consider the worst.

Rush Limbaugh: A fat Fu Manchu

Rush Limbaugh, the voice of the Republican party, couldn’t wait to get all racist and exploit the tragedy in Haiti to attack and accuse Barack Obama. What this putrid sack of jello actually states is that Barack Obama is helping Haiti so he can win the favor of blacks. ???
Hey, don’t look at me for a translation. I don’t speak sub-human. Ask a Right Winger what that bloated fucktard means…Rush bit at 2:37

This is the Conservative. This is the Republican.
We saw this sickness while George Bush was president. We saw it in the Republican majority when they had control.
This is yet another stark reminder of just why the American people kicked Conservatives to the curb in 2006 and 2008.

Remember, when you vote Republican, you vote for the sickness we witnessed above. The “Birther"…the “Tea Party” Trash…they are all the same kind of Godless wretch. The truth could not be more clear.

I’ve found it mildly amusing how Republicans and their media have all of a sudden become the champions of all blacks and attack Harry Reid for stating the truth. Even though the vast majority of prominent blacks have little to no problem with what Reid said…

Hear that beautiful sound? That’s the sound of the Republican party grabbing desperately for straw as they gurgle and wheeze for their last dying breath.

Harry Reid said “Obama is light skinned and has no Negro dialect". Every letter, true.
It’s always precarious when anyone of any race says anything about anyone of any other race. That’s why we need to be more open about racial discussions. AG Holder said we were cowards for not talking about race. He wasn’t just referring to whites. He also meant blacks and any other minority who often can’t seem to deal with the topic of race without getting bent out of shape.
We all have to confront this issue. This is not an us-and-them issue. It’s an “us” issue.

Reid, in fact, paid great complement to Barack Obama. It’s sad that an African American with very dark pigmentation would have more trouble getting elected in America than one with lighter skin, but it is true.
Sad but true.
You can also be guaranteed that even I would never vote for anyone, black or white, that walked out and spoke like Kanye West or some similar no-English-respecting idiot.
Obama’s mastery of the English language only makes me respect him. I know what he means when he speaks (even if he speaks out of both sides of his face sometimes).

I have long felt bad for members of the African American race when they have to be labeled with “Negro dialect” due to the stupidity of a few who don’t care what they sound like. I interact with blacks every day here. None of them sound like the jive mumbo jumbo we hear from some thug type on TV.
Though I do have a few white customers that do.

Reid could have used a little more discretion when speaking, but he clearly meant no harm. In fact, the opposite.

The simple difference is that Democrats, especially Liberals, have the courage to come out of the closet on race and have the “Racial” discourse needed to break down barriers.
Republicans, especially conservanoids, prefer the “Racist” discourse that sades their hatred and fear of minority races. They’re also too stupid to know the difference between “Racial” and “Racist". Wasn’t it a FORMER Republican Senator named Allen that liked to call brown people “macacas"?

Here we have John McCain, a leader amongst morons, proving my point.
He claims a “double standard” with Obama etc not being as offended at Reid’s words as they might have been at, say….the words of his fellow moron, Don Imus.

Now let’s see…

Reid said “Obama has no Negro dialect". Imus said “nappy headed hos” when referring to some black female basketball players.

Case in point, the Repigs, in their grotesque ignorance, either can’t tell the difference between calling a President a good speaker and calling some kids fuzzy haired whores, or this is the lamest political ploy they’ve tried yet.

I figure it’s both.

Sad.

Standard summary of this, that and the other thing…

1) Invasion of the Body Scanners:

Some twit runs airport security to kiss his sweetie goodbye. No problem there. The real issue is whether or not this clown was really stupid enough to do that under the circumstances, or if there is something else behind his actions.

Indeed, who put the guy up to it and how much was he paid? Don’t take your eyes off of these instances because it has become clear that Michael Chertoff, Israel loyalist and former failed DHS overlord, has a large stake in the Full Body Scanner business.

2) The Truly “Lost":

The fact that so many people decided that they care more about some TV show aimed at the two-digit IQs amongst us than they do about the state of our nation should be a stark reminder of the level of pure dumb-fuck that we are forced to reckon with as Americans.

3) Not Guilty of What I’m Guilty Of:

I just find it amusing that a Satanic scumbag panty-bomber who is now world famous for barbecuing his genitalia in a failed attempt to kill some people actually has a lawyer dumb enough to enter a “stand silent” plea. The Judge entered the Not Guilty plea since the lawyer was obviously too stupid to do it himself. Or maybe because it was close to lunch time.
Who cares? This sub-human is going down for life.

4) Systemic Unemployment?

There I was, sitting at the bar at the Bristol country club. I don’t frequent the place, I just like to listen to the disgruntled rich guys complaining about paying taxes they normally get out of paying when Repigs are in charge. One exec from a local company that laid off hundreds of people and has yet to hire them back made the statement “we can operate on a skeleton crew for at least four years and we will if we have to".

Just makes me wonder how many Republican owned and operated companies are intentionally avoiding hiring just to keep the jobless numbers up for political reasons.

5) Jay Lenoless:

Jay Leno has never been funny, is not funny now, and never will be funny.
So who gives a flying fuck if he has a show or not? Low-to-No talent bums with heads shaped like certain types of vegetables are a dime a dozen.

6) Sea Shepherds:

Guys…if you can afford an impressive craft like the Ady Gil, you should be able to arm it with torpedoes and a 50. caliber machine gun.
Use them. You are allowed to defend yourselves.

Just a quick thank you to those who have done such an excellent job of keeping our streets clear and drivable during record snowfall here in the Tri-Cities area.

Whether you work for gov’t or contract by the job, you folks have done wonderful work. I can’t remember the last time we had this much snow. Especially the eight inches we had a couple of weeks ago. Fifteen, maybe twenty years? 1995 had a good snow but still not this thick.
You were prepared and hit the streets quickly making them safe (for non-idiots) and navigable.

We at TN420 salute your dedication to the safety of our citizens. Stay ready, this will be a long, wet winter.

Thanx again.

Rudy Giuliani, or however the fuck you spell it, has set an entirely new standard when it comes to cowardice and sheer stupidity. Thank God this sub-human piece of shit never became President…

Giuliani is best known for three things. Failed Mayor of New York City, crossdressing incestuous pervert, and miserably failed Republican Presidential candidate.
Now, we have something else to associate Rudy with. 9/11 Denial.

Recently spewing his usual confused bullshit on Good Morning America, Googliani stated:

“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did – one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said. “Number two, he should correct the things that Bush didn’t do right. Sending people to Yemen was wrong, not getting this whole intelligence thing corrected.”

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush.”

That’s what the punk said. Video is HERE.

Ms. 9/11 denier Googliani

Eight months into the most ridiculous excuse for a Presidential era, the US suffered the single worst “domestic terrorist attack” in our history.
Makes plenty of sense that Rudy Googliani would put 9/11 so far out of his mind as to actually forget that it ever happened. After all, during that great tragedy he hid in his office 90% of the time and came out for photo ops under heavy guard for the other 10.
If I was that much of a coward, I’d probably want to forget about it too.
Of course he also forgot about Reid the “Shoe Bomber” attempt, the Anthrax attacks on gov’t officials, the “Beltway Sniper” and numerous terrorist acts perpetrated by Americans loyal to Bush such as the Knoxville Tennessee church massacre and the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller inside his church.

Googliana, in his desire to blame Obama for anything and everything George Bush and the Republican Majority are responsible for, succeeds only in making himself out to be an even bigger liar, coward and idiot than we already knew he was.
Sad. Very, very sad little man.

One thing must not be forgotten. Most of the “terrorist” attacks this nation has suffered in the past, present and the ones we will surely suffer in the future are a direct result of the abominable policies of the Conservatives in this country, which includes our support for an illegitimate, terrorist state called Israel. That problem, unfortunately, is a truly bi-partisan one. Conservatives of both parties fail in this aspect.

Blame Obama all you like, morons. The American people know who did what and when. That’s why we made the Republican party a thing of the past in the last two elections.

I did not know her. I wish I did, but the fact that she was the love and life of our good friend Steve Steffens, aka Left Wing Cracker, the great Liberal blogger from Memphis Tennessee, is enough to sadden what’s left of my heart. If a person like Steve loved Lauren the way he does, she is among the best humanity has to offer.
The testimony of those who were fortunate enough to know her tells the tale.

Sadness does not come easy after the life I’ve led. I’ve basically been numb for thirty years.
You see, it kills me to see the best pass on while the worst seem to thrive. But that is the reality of our existence.
Lauren Hesse has left a legacy of love behind. There is no greater gift. A love and a life truly worthy of celebration.

We wish the families, and especially Steve, strength and love in this most trying of times.

Lauren Hesse

Congressional Democrats have indicated that they may side step Republicans completely in the final push for new health care legislation. That would be both wise and appropriate.

But if you’re willing to completely shaft the Republicans, you should be equally as willing to shaft the Conservative Democraps that serve them.

The Republicans are not the real culprits when it comes to watering down what used to be respectable legislation. The blame rests solely on the heads of Blue Dog Democraps and one son-of-a-whore Indi named Lieberman. Republicans haven’t the power to obstruct this legislation. Only the Conservative Blue Dogshits that crawl before the Right Wing’s cloven hoofs have that power.
So why bypass Republicans and not their Democrapic minions?

Democrats my well avoid a Conference Committee and use procedures (ping pong) to make it difficult for Republicans to throw temper tantrums and gain headlines, which is about all they can do. But if the Democratic leadership, especially the White House, doesn’t hold Blue Dogshits to the same punishment Senate passage will still require 60 votes.
Now personally, I think Lieberman and the Blue Dogshits are bluffing. I really don’t think they want to be the few that prevented Americans from getting their will in the end. But you never know. Money is their first priority after all.
The House should re-install the Public Option (by name) and call the bluff. They could still force it as a budget item and reconcile with 51 votes. But they don’t seem to have their priorities right when it comes to bypassing obstructionists. They focus on powerless Republicans when the enemy is a handful of greed-driven Centrists in our own party.

Of course, the “Public Option” doesn’t have to be called the “Public Option". The principals of the option are what’s important, not the name.
A mandate to purchase insurance is pure Fascism if there’s no gov’t program to fall back on if one cannot afford to meet the mandate. Insurance companies must have their tails tied together, very tightly, if we the people are to have any kind of a “choice” in the coverage we’re forced to buy.
And of course, every single American citizen must be afforded coverage.
The present bill falls far short of that goal.
There is talk, from Pelosi, that removing the insurance industry’s antitrust exemption is a possibility. That would cover one aspect of what the PO was intended to do.

Those are the reasons the “Public Option” was included in the first place. To give that up leaves us with a joke of a bill and total Obama/Democratic failure regardless of any of the legislation’s helpful assets.
Incomplete reform is failed reform. Any way you fucking slice it.

All in all this comes down to President Obama. So far he has failed to lead the health reform movement. I do hope he finds his intestinal fortitude before it’s too late.
He has allowed Centrist scum to turn this legislation into Fool’s Gold. He had better man up. Because the chances of the Democratic party being abandoned by a significant portion of their base is very real and very close at hand.

And of course, Obama himself must not be allowed to get away with any Bushisms. Meaning lying through his teeth to our faces, then doing the exact opposite as though that was what he intended in the first place.

You said it, Mr. President. Whatchya gonna do? Gonna be a man and bring the change you promised? Or are you going to be the black George Bush and just talk shit that sounds good for the benefit of the moment?
You said it. And believe it or not, we expect you to back up your mouth. If not, don’t expect me to leave the warm confines of my home in November of 2010, or 2012 for that matter, and stand in line to vote for failure and lies.
This Democratic voter has been stabbed in the back for the very last time.