You stay classy, Republicans

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Monday July 06, 2009 · 6:37 AM PDT

2009/07/06 · 06:37

I am horrified to admit I live here. The teabaggers are at it again, comparing to obama to hitler, with the support of the local republican party.

Duval GOP In Controversy Over Obama/Hitler Comparisons At Tea Party

It wasn't helpful when people on the left did it and it isn't helpful now. Stirring up the nutjobs needs to stop.

The event was promoted using official republican party resources, and had official republican party speakers. Yet the local GOP head honcho is shocked, just shocked, that someone might think they had something to do with it?

My poor conservative friend

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 5:34 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 05:34

I have a conservative friend. And not just an old-school Buckley style conservative. An actual wingnut.

Now that Obama has won, she's having some major issues. Hyperventilating. Panic attacks. She's vomited at least once. She's afraid the big bad negro is gonna come take her guns(I don't think she owns any) and redistribute her income(what income?) and surrender to the terrorists.

I told her to take a deep breath, and that she was just buying into the hype. She's still freaked out.

Any advice for talking her down?

F*cking with McCain Canvassers

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 4:55 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 16:55

A McCain canvasser came to my mother's door today. I'm not sure how they got her info as an undecided voter, but they did.

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 9:56 AM PDT

2008/10/05 · 09:56

So with all this talk of Obama's ties to 60s radical William Ayers(Obama was a child during the 60s and has repudiated Ayer's tactics and politics), perhaps the Obama Campaign or the media should bring up the fact that Palin's husband was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. This is a secessionist organization, whose founder said in an interview

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won't be buried under their damn flag. I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."

How's that for unAmerican?

Palin: Pallin around with traitors.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...

Redefining McCain

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 12:20 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 12:20

So the McCain campaign has resorted to mudslinging, and we haven't even had the conventions yet.

If they're going to play dirty, I think sterner measures are required.

How about a campaign commercial with JUST clips of McCain, looking old and acting crazy?

Add the quote from that republican senator about how the idea of mccain as president scares the crap out of him.

Maybe a voiceover at the end "Grumply Old Man McCain: Wrong for America"

Ad Blocking

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 12:14 PM PDT

2008/07/03 · 12:14

So I use the AdBlock Plus plugin for Firefox to block most of the truly heinous advertising on the web.

I have no problem with viewing well behaved ads, especially on sites I support like DailyKos.

I added the suggested string to Adblock and it tells me that the site has been whitelisted.. but I still see the nag block, and no ads.

Any ideas/suggestions?*

*Besides donating, I'm unemployed and barely scraping by

Stop the Presses...A Republican is Right About Something

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 12:21 PM PDT

2008/06/25 · 12:21

Nevada Sen. John Ensign -- whose state is among the hardest hit by a deep housing market slump -- was refusing to allow the housing bill to proceed without a vote on extending tax incentives for renewable energy technologies.

Link - Reuters

As much as I hate agreeing with republicans, he's absolutely in the right on this one.

The renewable energy tax credits are an important tool for promoting the development and use of new tools in the fight against climate change and to achieve energy independence.

The housing bill manages to both be a bailout of those who took unnecessary and stupid risks(don't act shocked when your mortgage payment goes up on your ARM, it's in the bleeding contract) and a band aid quick fix that will do little to fix the unfixable housing market slide in the wake of a clearly unsustainable housing and credit bubble.

If he manages to either sink the housing bill or amend the renewables credit, Ensign will have accomplished a Good Thing.

Mccain doesn't understand the Constitution

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 1:54 PM PDT

2008/06/13 · 13:54

I think people are missing one of the biggest stories on the whole Supreme Court/Habeus/Gitmo thing:

"We are now going to have the courts flooded with so-called ... habeas corpus suits against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate because we need to go ahead and adjudicate these cases," he said at a town hall meeting in New Jersey.

Source:
http://elections.foxnews.com/...

Not only is Mccain on the wrong side of the issue, he TOTALLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND the concept of habeus corpus. The Dems or their surrogates need to pound this quote into the ground... anyone with such a poor understanding of the Constitution shouldn't be allowed in elected office, let alone the Presidency.

A possible Iraq policy solution?

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 12:27 PM PST

2006/11/09 · 12:27

First, INCREASE troop levels. That's right. More troops in Iraq for the time being... Read More

Framing 9/11 and Katrina

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 10:26 PM PDT

2006/08/10 · 22:26

So it looks like the Pukes are going to be dragging out the tired old 9/11 imagery yet again. But if we have the balls to do it, we can counter it.

Here's the ad:

Shot of water, with the quote

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." -Grover Norquist, Leading Conservative

Then the shot pans out, and you start to see more.. ruined houses, buildings, etc until you see the entirity of drowned New Orleans.

Voiceover:
"As the Republican party tries to gain politacl capital from the tragic events on 9/11, remember this: There was another emergency, years later, with days of warning. Can you really trust the Republican party with your security?"

fin

What do you guys think?

Stem Cell Veto - Why?

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 8:49 AM PDT

2006/07/20 · 08:49

I'm curious as to what the political calculus was that made W do this.

It seems, on the face of it, like simple political pandering to the far right base. But so many Americans are FOR federal funding of stem cell research.

Do they think that rousing the fundie base for this year's elections will outweigh any broader political backlash?

This move smacks of desperation to me.

Why only perjury for Libby?

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 11:56 AM PDT

2005/10/28 · 11:56

Reading the press release, it's clear that Libby met the requirements to be charged for violations of the Espionage Act: (1) possession of (2) information (3) relating to the national defense (4) which the person possessing it has reason to believe could be used to damage the United States or aid a foreign nation and (5) wilful communication of that information to (6) a person not entitled to receive it.

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