Here is your obligatory of video of Tom DeLay on Dancing With the Stars
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Archive for 9/09
A Culture of Bigotry
Opposition to gay marriage doesn’t have anything to do with “protecting traditional marriage,” or whatever it is that gay-rights opponents claim. It’s about hating gay people:
Iowans are almost evenly divided about whether they would vote for or against a constitutional amendment to end marriage for same-sex couples, according to The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll.
Forty-one percent say they would vote for a ban, and 40 percent say they would vote to continue gay marriage. The rest either would not vote or say they are not sure.
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The overwhelming majority of Iowans – 92 percent – say gay marriage has brought no real change to their lives.
If it doesn’t affect your life, why vote against it?
Shorter Michael Schwartz
- Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) Chief of Staff: ‘All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography’
Looking at boobs in a magazine is TOTALLY GAY!
L’Shanah Tovah
Happy New Year from President Obama
CNN Wonders if Obviously Racist Picture is Racist
They’re just not sure.
Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.
The posters, showing Obama wearing a feather headdress and a bone through his nose, have recently popped up in e-mails, on Web sites and at Tea Party protests.
The image has stoked debate and cast attention on the rallies, which have drawn people Tea Party organizers describe as on the fringe and not representative of the overall movement. Their general viewpoint, leaders say, is that there’s been too much federal government intervention, particularly concerning health care and taxes.
Yeah, because that picture is clearly about government intervention in healthcare and taxes, right? Right?
Media Priorities
Vice President Biden is in Iraq this week, but instead of asking him about the troops or the situation on the ground or anything remotely related to defense or foreign policy, your national media wants to know what he thinks about President Obama calling Kanye West a jackass.
And they wonder why their industry is dying.
GOP Rep. Demanding Investigation of Metro Service to Teabagger Rally Voted Against Metro Funding
You just can’t make this stuff up anymore:
You may have heard [ed.: here] that GOP Rep. Kevin Brady, staunch tea partier, is protesting that the taxpayer-funded D.C. Metro didn’t adequately prepare for the anti-government 9/12 rally. He’s even suggesting Metro’s failure to transport tea partiers may have hurt turnout.
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But earlier this year, Brady voted against the stimulus package. It provided millions upon millions of dollars for all manner of improvements to … the D.C. Metro.
Update: Not surprisingly, it gets better:
Back in July HR3288, a Transportation and HUD appropriations bill, came up for a vote. It included $150 million for emergency maintenance funding for the DC Metro.
Brady voted against it.
The Bipartisan Myth
The New York Times tells us what most of us already know: there will never be a bipartisan compromise on healthcare reform with today’s GOP.
Most Republicans have been deeply unhappy with the Democratic health care proposals so far, and Republicans on the Finance Committee were said to be bracing for two possibilities: a partisan proposal that they were going to oppose, or a bipartisan proposal that they were going to oppose.
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Wanker of the Day
Teabagger Logic
Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.
Seriously.
The Texas Republican on Wednesday released a letter he sent to Washington’s Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.
“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote. “These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.”
A spokesman for Brady says that “there weren’t enough cars and there weren’t enough trains.” Brady tweeted as much from the Saturday march. “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro,” he wrote on Twitter.
Now, I know members of Congress probably never ride Metro, but here’s a little protip from someone who has: Metro is always crowded when there is any kind of event going on downtown. It’s crowded after baseball games, and the way our team plays, nobody goes to those. But I’m sure this was all part of some Nobama socialist conspiracy to silence you. Ugh.
More importantly, though, sorry that Metro didn’t increase government spending to provide more government services for the teabaggers who showed up last weekend to protest increased government spending and more government services.
By the way, Congressman Brady, just who’s going to pay for this frivolous investigation?
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