Ted throws down on the Shameful Six

Six Republicans in the Senate voted, in the current catastrophic jobs/mortgage/credit climate, to deny an extension of unemployment benefits. How selfish and out-of-touch does a congress-critter have to be to do this? I'll bet a year's pay that not one of these subhuman assholes has ever worked with his hands, for minimum wage, or without some kind of special financial treatment.

But Father Ted's got their number. He may be an elderly lion, dying of brain cancer, but he is still more of a man than the Shameful Six:

In one of the best Senate-floor speeches I ever heard Ted Kennedy (D-MA) give, he brutalized Senate Republicans for continuing to block the first increase in the minimum wage in almost a decade and roared to the other side of the aisle "What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive?"

"What is it about it that drives you Republicans crazy? What is it?" asked Kennedy about GOP objections to raising the minimum wage rate. "What is the price that the workers have to pay to get an increase?"

What indeed. These fuckers have some very bad karma coming:

• John Barrasso (R-WY)
• Tom Coburn (R-OK)
• Jim DeMint (R-SC)
• Mike Enzi (R-WY)
• Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
• Jame Inhofe (R-OK)

"This is my home town" (Springsteen)

No Proposition h(8). Not here. Not in our town.


Not anywhere.

O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and other cowards

Watching loofah-Bill on The Daily Show where, as is his wont, Stewart is entirely too kindly: scum like O'Reilly don't deserve to be made fun of, much less treated with the nudge-nudge wink-wink "it's all just an ironic television put-on" reception that Stewart gives similar troglodytes.

I would give up a year of my life for five minutes in a room, no-holds-barred, with O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and any other such-like haters--or, hell, with all of them at the same time.

These guys don't deserve a platform--they deserve a beat-down . On at least as severe as the suffering and hatred they have sown, with impunity, for entirely too many years.

There's not a one of these guys I don't want a piece of. Jobsite-test.

This is what the oligarchs have always feared.

This is why they're been shredding frantically ever since the 2006 Revolution:

(commercial shredding company outside Cheney's Naval Observatory residence in late Nov 2006).

Just in case Junior thinks that blanket pardons for war crimes will let anybody forget the past "in the spirit of bi-partisanship":

Obama Plans Probe Of Bush Torture Whether Or Not Officials Are Pardoned

WASHINGTON -- With growing talk in Washington that President Bush may be considering an unprecedented "blanket pardon" for people involved in his administration's brutal interrogation policies, advisors to Barack Obama are pressing ahead with plans for a nonpartisan commission to investigate alleged abuses under Bush.

The Obama plan, first revealed by Salon in August, would emphasize fact-finding investigation over prosecution. It is gaining currency in Washington as Obama advisors begin to coordinate with Democrats in Congress on the proposal. The plan would not rule out future prosecutions, but would delay a decision on that matter until all essential facts can be unearthed.

They did this in post-apartheid South Africa, as well: the Truth & Justice commissions, run by the saintly Bishop Desmond Tutu, emphasized not prosecution or vengeance, but simple truth: the recognition that the only way that nation could ever possibly heal from the psychotic brutality of the apartheid years was for everyone involved--both victims and criminals--to simply acknowledge the truth of what had been done.

War crimes, baby. You monsters should be terrified, because this community organizer (that one's for you, Governor), is going to turn over all your rocks--pardons be damned.

Pathetic pygmies, redux

Gingrich called them "pathetic pygmies"--and (leaving aside the fact that he's just as much one as are they) he wasn't wrong:

Caribou Barbie pwned

Guess it won't be Summer all year long. Republic Governors' Association votes for Pedro, consigns Tracey Flick to N Latitudes irrelevance:

In the wake of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) convention this week in Miami, many GOP governors were reluctant to embrace Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the party’s leader or presidential candidate for 2012. Today, the RGA made that sentiment official, by not voting her in to any of the organization’s leadership positions...Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was voted RGA chairman, taking over the top job from Texas Gov. Rick Perry who will now serve as finance chairman. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is vice-chairman, while Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will serve as chair for the annual RGA gala, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue will head up the recruitment effort....Not on the list? Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who also attended the Miami meeting.

The article neglects to mention that she addressed the convention, but landed no gig. Guess they weren't buying whatever she was selling.

Sorry, Summer!

If you voted for Prop 8, this is the karma you are creating

"So I be written in the Book of Love."

Not hate.