GOP Graveyard: 2008

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 6:51 AM PDT

2008/10/25 · 06:51

Right around two years ago, I wrote "GOP Graveyard: 2006"...and the radical right had their applecart completely upset on Election Day in November of 2006 when Democrats re-took majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate, just as Howard Dean had brashly predicted almost a year earlier.

That one felt better than Christmas.

Now, I'm no great shakes in the prediction department; my crystal ball is cracked, cloudy and overdue for a check-up, but sometimes things are obvious if you pay attention to the clues. Don't listen to your corporate media; their job is not to inform you and it NEVER has been. They've got a vested interest in convincing people that, with a little over a week until Election Day, there's an actual horse race going on here. Those hair puppets on the cable channels are doing their level best to remain relevant in the face of a popular groundswell that renders them superfluous. Don't believe the hype: Barack Obama is going to be our next president, boys and girls, and we'll be marching into the future very shortly. You heard it here first...

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 3:14 PM PDT

2008/06/02 · 15:14

Back in January of 2007, I posted "Language Pollution" at Conceptual Guerilla's Strategy & Tactics site in which I attempted to get at the ways and means by which the radical right laid its foundations for the hysterical hatred and fear-mongering now the hallmark of our current, blighted administration. I would urge you to look it over. In the upcoming presidential campaign, we're going to be inundated with specious rhetoric duly polluted by Republican politicians and their tame media pundits. Believe it. At the same time, keeping a fine, firm grip on the truth has probably never been more important in the history of this country. Over the last eight years, we have frittered away our best chances of coping with the big issues facing the survival of modern civilization and irrevocably diminished our possibility of containing them painlessly, distracted by deliberate rightwing lies and misdirection.

Angel Of Mercy

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 1:51 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 13:51

There is, it seems to me, an area in the political discussion which has been woefully ignored for much, much too long. Historical fact: Prior to the rise of the radical right some 30 years ago, America was the most innovative, most prosperous, most vital nation on the face of the Earth. And it wasn't just an obscenely rich fraction of one percent skewing the numbers, either...like it is today. Broad-based, bottom-up prosperity--in which liberal Democratic administrations specialize--really DID lift all boats. Lean in close and let me whisper to you an uncomfortable truth that the GOP will never dare mention...

Republicans are the rogues and rapscallions who took a hearty, robust economy that was the envy of the entire world and ran it into the ground. I'm not merely talking about the current fiscal catastrophe that is looming before us; no, I'm concerning myself here more with how we got this way, how the cheap-labor conservatives conspired, deliberately and with malice aforethought, to lay us low...for that is precisely what they did.

Follow me down and I'll show you how...

Angel Of Mercy

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 9:22 AM PDT

2008/03/20 · 09:22

Nearly two years ago, I posted this on the very day Arizona Senator John Sidney McCain, III did his ritual pander dance for those fundamentalist flying monkeys of the far right by delivering the commencement address at Liberty University, an institution founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell, now deceased. (Feel free to insert your own favorite snarky comment here...) I entitled that essay "Profiles In Perfidy: John McCain" because I believed at that time--and NOTHING has subsequently occurred to alter my belief in the slightest!--that this individual is deceitful, untrustworthy and hideously incompetent. Since then, he has managed to secure the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States. I believe he he is altogether unfit to hold this office and my reasons should become clear presently.

Angel Of Mercy

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Sunday June 25, 2006 · 7:07 AM PDT

2006/06/25 · 07:07

On Wednesday, June 21st, Republican bigots in the House of Representatives derailed the renewal of the National Voting Rights Act...you know, the one that guarantees the free and fair access for ALL Americans to one of our most basic rights, regardless of race, creed or color? Well, apparently these cowardly vermin want a return to the dark days of Jim Crow...and it's looking more and more like they just may get their wish.

No, friends, that GOP "big tent" comes MUCH closer to being a big white sheet. Complete with pointed hood. From the earliest beginnings of Nixon's "Southern Strategy," some thirty years ago, Republicans have been America's Party of Hate.

Angel Of Mercy

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Tuesday June 20, 2006 · 7:22 PM PDT

2006/06/20 · 19:22

You'd just better get used to it, boys and girls: The GOP is an aggregation of stupid, lying greedweasels. They are venal and vile and thoroughly reprehensible...and their days are numbered. (And this is NOT just wishful thinking.)

Today, in the very first trial connected with the vast Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, it took a jury just five days to return with a unanimous verdict of guilty on four out of five felony counts of making false statements and obstruction of justice against David Safavian, former chief procurement officer for this blighted administration. To those of you who have waited so patiently for the fireworks to start: THIS is why Abramoff is going to be more deadly to the radical rightwads than Black Death Plague... Read More

The Damnation of Depleted Uranium

Angel Of Mercy

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Sunday June 18, 2006 · 3:09 PM PDT

2006/06/18 · 15:09

I'll bet you didn't know that America is waging nuclear war in the Middle East. No, we haven't bombed Iran back to the Stone Age...not yet anyway. And I FERVENTLY hope some semblance of sanity prevails before we ever try. I'm referring to the atomic war in Iraq that's been going on since Schlock and Awww on March 19th of 2003. (It might not be a bad idea to recall the recent anniversary of that bizarre "mission accopmplished" photo op, either, just three years ago on the first day of last month.) No mushroom clouds over Baghdad, you say? No radiation and death? Well, it's true that there haven't been any zillion megaton thermonuclear detonations...but you're DEAD WRONG if you believe the US hasn't introduced into the region high levels of radioactivity, debilitating birth defects and lingering death... Read More

Dominionist Dementia

Angel Of Mercy

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 3:46 PM PDT

2006/06/11 · 15:46

In the mood for a scary story? Well, I've got a doozy. Matter of fact, I have a pair of 'em. I'm talking industrial-strength, gut-churning, sphincter-tightening creepouts here. And they could very well be coming to a location near you before much longer. Now you can't say you haven't been warned.

If you are, perchance, laboring under the misapprehension that you're familiar with the deepest depravity of the fundamentalist flying monkey mindset, I've got some disturbing news. Those religious radicals are not only worse than you think, they are a quantum leap beyond anything you can possibly imagine.

Join me on the other side and let me tell ya all about it... Read More

The Angry Left?!? You'd Better Believe It...

Angel Of Mercy

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Friday June 09, 2006 · 5:25 PM PDT

2006/06/09 · 17:25

Now that we're nearly into the summer election cycle, the regressive radical right has become desperate. Their president's approval numbers are still in the toilet, more and more people are saying that filthy Republican Oil War was a mistake and every single one of them seem to be about as crooked as two bags or pretzels. (Latest contestant: California's Rep. Jerry Lewis) They can't run on their record of monumental deficits--largest in history, mind you!--or their flaccid economy. Didn't the Dow/Jones Industrial Average finish this week with a four-month low? (Yes, it did.) New Orleans is STILL an eyesore and will remain so for a long, long time. They haven't got anything positive they can say about themselves...so they're inevitably going to wind up changing the subject.

What good are these vermin?!? Read More

How Crooked IS Our Congress??

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Monday May 29, 2006 · 2:50 PM PDT

2006/05/29 · 14:50

Something is rotten in Denmark...or it may be somewhat closer than that. We've had a flurry of news stories this week out of Washington, DC, ever since the raid on Representative William Jefferson's office by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...and it seems to have gotten EVERYONE worked up. After all the trimmings and trappings are cleared away, though, the only REAL question is this: Did Jefferson, in fact, use his position illegally for self-enrichment?

Well, personally, I don't know and I don't care...
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Sorry, Virginia, There is NO Free Market...

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 4:02 PM PDT

2006/05/23 · 16:02

I posted something last evening that seemed to bring free market trolls and hobgoblins swarming out of the woodwork. Why?? Belief in this particularly absurd aspect of cheap-labor conservatism has a few inviolable prerequisites: A sketchy, limited knowledge of history, a lop-sided perspective of economic causes and effects, an inability to think abstractly, minimal comprehension of nuance plus a wide-eyed, child-like faith in utterly theoretical precepts. Are people STILL so stubbornly ignorant? I would have thought that the serial failure of free market fallacies in Real World applications might have at least occasioned SOME healthy skepticism.

I was wrong.

Apparently, the economic refugees swarming into this country from Mexico are all confused about the benefits of unchained capitalism afforded them via the North American Free Trade Agreement. You know, benefits like beggars' wages and no workplace safety and child labor. Who'da thunk it? Read More

Hail, Hugo!

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Monday May 22, 2006 · 7:04 PM PDT

2006/05/22 · 19:04

The New York Times, a faithful propaganda arm of corporate cashsuckers, has jumped on the "let's slime Hugo Chavez" bandwagon. Transcribing White House talking points about the beloved President of Venezuela, they have smeared him mercilessly, ignoring the truth so offensive to their elite masters: America's version of cowboy capitalism, which feeds the already-wealthy and enslaves the poor, is economically and morally wrong. Hugo Chavez has a better way. He is using the oil wealth of his country to give his population 100% literacy...a claim that even America cannot make.

For SHAME, New York Times! That is not journalism! It is pitiful stenography in the service of greedy power...and it is very nearly libelous. You should hang your sorry heads.

Come let me tell you all the TRUE story of this marvelous man... Read More

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GOP Graveyard: 2008

Language Pollution II: Won't Get Fooled Again

The Republican Erosion of America

Profiles In Perfidy: John McCain

Party Of Hate...

Ho-Hum...Another Republican Scumwad Bites The Dust

The Damnation of Depleted Uranium

Dominionist Dementia

The Angry Left?!? You'd Better Believe It...

How Crooked IS Our Congress??

Sorry, Virginia, There is NO Free Market...

Hail, Hugo!