Simple Answers to Simple Questions
Think Progress asks, Why Aren’t Tea Partiers Protesting Arizona’s Big Government Overreach On Immigration?
Because they’re huge fans of it.
This has been yet another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
Archive for posts ‘teabaggers’
Wanker of the Day
- Despite concessions from the White House, Senate Republicans only want to start over on healthcare reform. Oh, sorry, I meant financial regulatory reform. Same bullshit message, different day. (TPM)
- Israel has banned US iPads from entering the country, citing shoddy American WiFi standards. Who will be the first to blame this on our president’s Muslim-ness? (ComputerWorld)
- Britain and Germany are thinking about also suing Goldman Sachs for the whole destroying the global economy and general terribleness thing.
- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is amused that after eight years of insane spending and tax cuts, Republicans and their teabagging friends have suddenly discovered the deficit. (Politico)
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- Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) is deeply concerned that the Soviets will win the Cold War thanks to President Obama’s new NASA policy. (HuffPo)
- Former Sen. Connie Mack (R-FL) is stepping down as chairman of Charlie Crist’s basically failed Senate campaign. (Miami Herald)
- America’s NATO is killing more civilians in Afghanistan than last year. Time to break out the old “Mission Accomplished” banner, I guess. (USA Today)
- Our President doesn’t understand why the teabaggers are still so mad at him after he dramatically cut their taxes. But I’m sure their anger has nothing to do with race. (CNN)
- Hahaha, your Securities and Exchange Committee is suing Goldman Sachs for fraud. Obviously, any regulation of the financial industry of uber-socialism. (Forbes)
Deep Thought
So the teabaggers want to “require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does?” I can’t wait until they get to the part of the Constitution which allows the president to commit the American military overseas without a formal declaration of war from Congress.
I Do Not Endorse My Own Ads
Right now there’s an ad for the teabaggers running in the little box on the right. A couple days ago I saw one the NRA.
Here’s the thing: I do not support the teabaggers or the NRA. Happy to take their money, but don’t take that to mean that I agree with them.
- Only a quarter of a percent of money donated to Sarah Palin’s PAC is actually being given to Republican 2010 candidates. (WaPo/Dave Weigel)
- How’s “that hopey, changey thing” working out for us? Well, 98% of working families are paying less taxes thanks to President Obama and the Democrats, for one. (Citizens for Tax Justice)
- Well, according to this absurd poll we may as well just make Ron Paul the president now so he can start replacing our currency with hard, shiny gold bullion. (Rasmussen)
- If there are two things that the teabaggers love, they are shouting about socialism and cashing their Social Security checks. (NYT)
- John McCain—remember him? from the election?—is still angry that we haven’t just bombed the shit out of Iran yet. (AP)
Deep Thought
I wonder if the armed militia that Oklahoma teabaggers and legislators want to create to fight the federal government will take to the streets over such “improper federal infringements on state sovereignty” as Social Security, Medicare, government disability checks, and government-created jobs.
- Oklahoma teabaggers and Republican legislators are considering creating an armed state militia to fight federal laws, with guns. Oh, and in totally unrelated news, next Monday is the 15th anniversary of the bombing of Oklahoma City’s federal building. (AP)
- America’s Grifter™ Sarah Palin has earned $12 million since quitting her job as Governor of Alaska last July. But she is so principled that she’ll obviously give up all that cold hard cash to run for public office again. Right? (ABC News)
- A retired Catholic bishop has an exciting new explanation for the Church’s growing child-raping scandal: the God-killing Jews—who, he says, totally deserved that whole Holocaust thing—did it! (Corriere della Sera via Open Salon)
- Rush Limbaugh blamed unions for last week’s disaster at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Like many of Massey Energy’s mines, Upper Big Branch is a non-union mine. (Think Progress)
- New Yorkers love their Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, maybe because to our knowledge he has not fucked prostitutes or harassed domestic abuse victims. (CNN)
- Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) apparently spent his time in Congress sexually harassing everyone all the time, even when he was at a dead soldier’s funeral. (WaPo)
- Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has a solution for all of America’s problems. It is massive tax cuts, like all of the GOP’s other solutions for anything. (The Plum Line)
- Is anyone still working for Michael Steele’s RNC anymore? (Hint: Nope.) (MSNBC)
- Wingnut Senate candidate Marco Rubio would like to take away Social Security from Florida’s Olds, who make up 99% of Florida’s electorate. Pat Buchanan will be the next U.S. Senator for Florida. (St. Petersburg Times)
- If the teabaggers actually succeed in taking the government away from the Black Guy President, we will all be living in the United States of Amercia. (Daily K0s)
- Surprise! Black leaders are none too thrilled by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proclamation commemorating the South’s exciting history of chattel slavery. (WaPo)
- Now that Bart Stupak has both been called a baby-killer on the floor of the House and ensured a bright future for America’s coathanger industry, he will maybe retire from the Congress. (CNN)
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