Mosquerade at Ground Zero

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Tuesday August 24, 2010 · 5:56 PM PDT

2010/08/24 · 17:56

(From my brand-spankin' new blog The Balderdashery...)

Okay, well I think it's a pretty commonly accepted truism that the guaranteed way to endear oneself to a new crowd of people is to walk into the room and launch immediately and without preamble into a political rant. Right? Right. Okay, so...

I wasn't really planning on hauling out the ol' soapbox this soon, though anyone who knows me could have told you that some political screeds were inevitable. But this load of self-righteous horseshit over the so-called "Mosque at Ground Zero" is snowballing into utter insanity, and I've got a bit of spleen in dire need of venting over the whole thing.

Rumi68

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 8:15 PM PDT

2009/09/08 · 20:15

According to an AP article from earlier this evening, details of the bill that Max Baucus is trying to finalize in the Senate Finance Committee have begun to surface.

Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul.

As Obama talked strategy with Democratic leaders at the White House, the one idea that most appeals to his party's liberal base lost ground in Congress. Prospects for a government-run plan to compete with private insurers sank as a leading moderate Democrat said he could no longer support the idea.

In other words, under the Baucus plan, Americans will be forced by law to buy health insurance, and yet there will be no affordable coverage option made available to them - which begs the question, "Who precisely is this supposed to help?"

Rumi68

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Wednesday April 15, 2009 · 12:12 PM PDT

2009/04/15 · 12:12

Okay folks, I know it's impolite to mock the afflicted... but dammit, when they're serving up material on a silver platter like this, and from multiple directions, there's just no way any human being has the will power to let it go.

It's Teabaggin' Day, and I've been laughing my ass off fairly steadily since I fired up the ol' PC this morning. It's to the point where I've guffawed and grinned so much that the back of my scalp aches. This whole load of right-wing batshittery couldn't have gone more exquisitely awry if I'd rubbed a friggin' magic lamp and fired off a triple-barreled wish to that end.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 07:22

John McCain has, at long last, taken the final plunge into self-parody.

According to The Politico, Team McCain has leaked the "money quote" from the Geezermeister General's new speech and it is, by equal measures, both a hoot and a holler.

"My friends, we've got them just where we want them."

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Will McCain actually say it?

Yes

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"Moe! Larry! The cheese!"

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Make No Mistake: The "MOAB" Is Nothing More Or Less Than The Patriot Act And The AUMF All Over again

Rumi68

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 2:31 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 14:31

Folks, we've got to step back and see the Bush/Paulson bailout package (and the accompanying bum's rush to try and get it pushed through without debate) for what it is: the latest in a long line of swindles put over on this country by the Bush Administration.

In short, BushCo is insisting that Congress pass a profoundly ill-advised bailout plan for the financial industry that provides a massive windfall to a deeply mismanaged sector of our nation's business community, while sticking taxpayers with the bill.

Coincidentally enough, this also adds the better part of a trillion extra dollars to our national debt, thus insuring that the next president has little or no money to work with to try and enact any substantial new policies.

And, as usual, the Bush Administration is using fear and panic to try and sell this scam to Congress.

Rumi68

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 11:40 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 11:40

Well, Grampa John has begun spinning ridiculous tales yet again. Gramma's gonna kill us for letting him have that second beer.

Yes, John McCain is out there embarrassing himself once more, this time in an attempt to draw a distinction between "terrorist appeasers" like Barack Obama and "real Americans" like, oh say, Ronald Reagan.

From the New York Times:

"Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain," Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. "I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home."

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What's your take on John McCain's "parallel universe" version of President Reagan's role in the release of the hostages in 1981?

"Weyll... he's lying out his kiester."

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"Weyll... he has his good days and his bad days."

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"Weyll... I like my Jelly Bellys."

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SHOES FOR INDUSTRY!!

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Judge: Outing Covert Operatives Is Part Of Executive Branch's Job Description???

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 1:46 PM PDT

2007/07/19 · 13:46

It's official: The far right has finally succeeded into turning our justice system into one big ol' massively overpriced game of Calvin Ball.

Judge Dismisses Plame Lawsuit

"The alleged tortious conduct, namely the disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's status as a covert operative, was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform," Bates wrote in an opinion released this afternoon.

"Incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform"? Am I hallucinating, or does this actually say "Cheney and Bush and company were hired to, among other things, rat out undercover intelligence operatives,"???

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 2:36 PM PDT

2007/07/12 · 14:36

Regardless of what excuses we may end up hearing to the contrary, the Democrats have no real choice but to AT THE VERY LEAST charge Harriet Miers with inherent contempt of Congress for having ignored a Congressional subpoena under "orders" from President Bush. They simply have to do this. Otherwise, they will be giving their implicit agreement to Bush's new assertion that the law is whatever he says it is.

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Mosquerade at Ground Zero

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UPDATED-"My Friends, We've Got Them Just Where We Want Them!"

Make No Mistake: The "MOAB" Is Nothing More Or Less Than The Patriot Act And The AUMF All Over again

McCain Invents His Own Version of History... Again!!

Judge: Outing Covert Operatives Is Part Of Executive Branch's Job Description???

The Democrats must ACT this time!