Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe

The repugican's hypocrisy over process

Norm Ornstein, from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, destroys the repugican's latest round of lies over Congressional procedure:

In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier used the self-executing rule more than 35 times, and was no stranger to the concept of “deem and pass.” That strategy, then decried by the House Democrats who are now using it, and now being called unconstitutional by WSJ editorialists, was defended by House Republicans in court (and upheld). Dreier used it for a $40 billion deficit reduction package so that his fellow GOPers could avoid an embarrassing vote on immigration. I don’t like self-executing rules by either party—I prefer the “regular order”—so I am not going to say this is a great idea by the Democrats. But even so—is there no shame anymore?

Many in the traditional media (not just the repugican-owned media like FAUX), buy the repugican's lies. Might be good if this Ornstein post got sent around MSNBC and CNN. The repugicans are hypocritically attacking over things they've done. Even Dana Bash should be able to grasp that.

Hate Groups, racists increase use of social networking

If Time Magazine can name both the computer and " you " as Person of the Year, why can't the Internet win the Nobel Peace Prize? Perhaps because there's just as much hate involved on the Web as there is peace.

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Liars and Fools

repugicans continue playing patty-cake with the birthers.

Florida Family Policy Council "mistakenly" uses wrong photo of lesbian parents

From Sociological Images:

The Florida Family Policy Council [a conservative christian cabal] sent out a message about a judge’s ruling to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a relative’s child they had been fostering. The FFPC, which opposes gay adoption, sent out an alert to its members and including an image of the couple... well, in theory. On the left is the photo included with the alert; on the right is a photo of the actual couple. It’s very obvious use of a stereotype what lesbians look like as a scare tactic. The actual couple doesn’t fit the ideal of the androgynous-looking, angry, mannish lesbian couple. They look like nice middle or upper-middle class professional women who can raise a child perfectly well. They’re attractive by mainstream heterosexual norms of femininity. They look happy and non-threatening.They are simply not sufficiently menacing.
As Nicole points out, the couple on the left isn’t just a stereotype of lesbians, it’s associated with a particular working-class aesthetic, especially the mullets. They aren’t thin and conventionally attractive like the couple on the right.
The FFPC says the use of the wrong image was a mistake. Though it seems they’ve made similar errors before when alerting members about gays and lesbians trying to adopt children.

Florida Family Policy Council "accidentally" uses wrong photo of lesbian parents 

Arizona's Wingnut J.D. 'Marry your Horse' Hayworth gets the Maddow treatment

This was some good TV. For some reason, J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging John McCain in Arizona's Republican Senate primary, appeared on Rachel Maddow's show last night. This interview came one day after Hayworth compared same-sex marriage to marrying one's horse. Yes, Hayworth outdid Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum. On Rachel, he was way, way out of his league.

Repugicans are funny little people

DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas on the latest repugican obstruction tactics, and the more general repugican tendency to blame us for doing what they've already done.

Congressional repugicans are funny little people.

Once obsessed with “nuclear options” and “up-or-down” votes, they have set new records of obstructionism via the filibuster, refusing the majority party any leeway in delivering on its promises to the American people.

Once happy to use the reconciliation process as a tool to pass costly and complex legislation, they now scream about the “unprecedented” nature of the perfectly appropriate parliamentary procedure.
Once eager to deliver outrageous lies about the Democratic agenda — such as the whopper about “death panels” out to murder grandma — they now whine about the lack of “comity” in Congress and its effect on the majority party’s future plans. “If they do this [pass healthcare reform], it’s going to poison the well for anything else they would like to achieve this year or thereafter,” said  Lindsey Graham (retard-South Carolina).

Yet after a year of spreading fear, uncertainty and destruction, healthcare reform is on the brink of becoming reality. And as Democrats plan to adopt yet another common repugican parliamentary tactic to finish the job on healthcare, repugican hysteria is reaching new heights.