Just throw a stone into any gathering of conservatives and you are guaranteed to hit one! Two in this case. Sarah “Death Panel” Palin reveals that she is an erstwhile socialist medicine tourist, and anti-gay rights crusader and Repug California State Senator Roy Ashburn admits that he is more gay than Adam Lambert.
Better not forget the extra foam, barrista, this gun has a hair-trigger!
Regardless of how lame the Obama Administration has been, the recent and upcoming SCOTUS rulings on gun control should be a wake-up call about how wrong the Naderites were about how there is ”no difference between the Democrats and Republicans.’ Shrubya had 8 years to replace retiring liberal and moderate justices with reactionary activists. The result? Sometime this summer you are going to wake up one morning in a country where all gun control laws have been abolished.
You can get a preview of things to come by watching the gun nuts parade around with their weapons in our restaurants and national parks. I bet it won’t be long before we have some dramatic shootout, where one of these unhinged, delusional vigilantes tries to stop an armed robbery and blows away some poor coffee patron. Or maybe a couple of these loons will shoot at each other, thinking they are stopping a robber! Hard to guess, but I’m sure it will happen soon, and sure it will be bloody.
Given the current extremists in the court, my guess is that we are one lawsuit away from a similar overturn of Roe v. Wade.
So stop your whining, suck it up and work hard to make Obama successful, now and in his next run – because we are just one Scalia or Thomas heart-attack away from an appointment of a real justice and a non-loony majority.
Poor reactionary conspiracy nuts – now the UN-dispatched, feminazi-filled black helicopters sent to spy on their militias in anticipation of One-World Government will be equipped with nearly silent rotary blades – so they can’t hear ‘em coming!
I can just hear World Overlord Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki cackling in glee!
Tip of the ‘Nose to Game Buddy!
Another reactionary terror attack! At least they only kill Confederates.
Don’t bother sending us any more airplane suicide bombers, Osama Bin Laden, American Reactionaries are just dying to kill us themselves – case in point, an anti-tax wing-nut just Kamikaze’d his private plane into an IRS building in Texas. You can read his twisted rantings here if you want to go to the trouble – it’s nothing you wouldn’t find on any other stupid wing-nut blog.
One thing I don’t understand – the guy was so anti-tax that he was driven to kill himself and various random bureaucrats – but he had his own private plane for fucks’ sake! I can’t afford a fucking private plane! We didn’t tax him enough! Texas doesn’t even have a state income tax for Christ’s sake!
Typical whiny reactionary terrorist putz. America wake up – the Enemy is Within!
* Update 2-22-10* Like father like daughter? Joe Stack’s daughter considers her father a hero! Only in the topsy-turvy world of the wing-nuts are people who attack government offices heroes! Just like a decorated veteran like Kerry gets swift-boated so his draft-dodging, war criminal opponent can get another 4 years, or abortion-doctor killer is aided and abetted and kept out of the hands of justice for several years.
*Update 2 2-22-10* It’s not just the guy’s daughter casting our domestic wing-nut terrorist as a hero – Repug Rep. Steve King calls on fellow reactionaries to implode their local IRS offices!
I’m not supporting James O’Keefe’s take-down of ACORN, but I thought it was a brilliant and funny bit of political theater. As we all know, his latest ‘caper,’ to tap or otherwise mess with Senator Mary Landrieu’s phones, fizzled out as suspicious staffers called in the fuzz, turning wanna-be political thespians into political miscreants.
So how did Jimmy go from genius to doofus in a single step? First off, hubris, common plight of the young and brash fresh off a recent victory. I guess Jimmy figured he was so gifted he need give nary a thought for the gross difference in scale between pranking an overworked ACORN staffer and the staff of a U.S. Senator.
Secondly, the first prank worked well because it was funny, regardless of your political stripe – and that was especially great because as we all know, reactionaries are so rarely funny!
Maybe Jimmy had something funny planned, but by not leveling with us and telling us what he was really up to, we can only assume it was a ho-hum act of wrong-wing political thuggery. Ergo – doofus.
Happy to see this reactionary terrorist convicted of murder, but unclear why he doesn’t get the death penalty – they still have that in Kansas, don’t they? I’m normally opposed, but my litmus test is – would I volunteer to execute? Hand me the syringe!
In or around San Francisco on 1/28 at 4:30P with nothing better to do? Why not go give a neighborly hello to God’s Own Wingnuts, the folks from the Westboro Baptist Church during their inexplicable protest of Twitter, at the Twitter HQ 795 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA. They actually have an action-packed schedule, so if you can’t make 4:30, check the link and catch them at one of their other odd protests. And if you do go, find some creative way to express your support…I’m thinking smelly liquids that don’t wash out of clothes.
Tip ‘o the ‘Nose to Training Buddy
Imagine this WWII headline:
“Japanese attempt to fire a bullet at American forces. Republicans demand Roosevelt’s resignation”.
Now you’ve got a picture of the basic lack of seriousness and rationality associated with the right-wing claims, and the media’s stenography, about the Lap Bomber incident. The basic premise of the Cheneyites argument is that, while we are engaged in a worldwide war against an implacable and omnipresent foe, if one enemy footsoldier attempts one act of war anyplace in the world, it signifies that everyone in the administration has failed in their duty and must resign. Predictably, rather than pointing out that, when at war, enemies fight back and casualties can occur, the media swallows whole the moronic paradigm of risk-free, casualty-free global war as presented by Cheney and Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra.
The Republican strategy for exploiting politically the failed bombing attempt is conveniently outlined in Murdoch’s house organ for the right, the Wall Street Journal. While Rep. Hoekstra, in a direct mail appeal, calls the Obama administration and Democrats “weak-kneed liberals”, and Cheney clangs his familiar gong of inexperience and mushiness, the best Axelrod can come up with is to call it “unbecoming” of Republicans to exploit national security politically. WSJ notes that the White House has leaked to bloggers the fact that the Yemeni Al Queda leaders are former Guantanamo inmates released by Bush, and has also publicized some high-profile arrests, like the David Headley case. The thing that no-one dares do is question the basic premise that the US can be engaged in multiple shooting wars in the Middle East, while also using unmanned drones to target suspects in multiple countries where we are not officially at war (unfortunately slaughtering a few wedding parties in the bargain), without any cost or interruption to the daily security of Americans at home.
As illustrated by my fictitous headline, if Republicans really believed their rhetoric of war, it would be obvious that wars presume enemies, and enemies fight back. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if some intrepid journalist pointed out the fact that, in war, especially guerilla wars with no borders and no defined state actors, civilians are at risk, and that that is the price of “superpower” status and world policeman actions?
So can Obama and Democrats use this line of argument to bolster their case? Unfortunately, the answer is clear. Unlike the British, who, while thoroughly despicable in their conduct of colonial empire, at least kept the stiff upper lip when the inevitable casualties ensued, the American public, body politic and media is so fundamentally immature that the idea of war without sacrifice (except some poor anonomous farmboys and homeboys whose official portraits scroll by on the evening news) is accepted as the norm, and any hostile act shakes our republic to the core. Any politician who notes that empire has cost, that enemies have resources, and that hypocrisy and abandonment of our core principles, as demonstrated by our support of Israeli exceptionalism and torture for convenience, has a price, would be committing political suicide for stating what any mature advisor would consider obvious.
Would it have been a tragedy if that plane had been blasted from the sky? Obviously, as it is a tragedy that the Taliban has murdered an entire CIA station in Afghanistan. The greater tragedy is the fact that the solidarity in face of war that lead to the defeat of a far more dangerous and implacable foe in WWII has been abandoned by the Babbitts of the Republican right in their desperation to reclaim the right to undo our republic from within, as they have successfully done during every Repug administration in recent history. And the foundational catastrophe of our age is that the press, in its laziness and frivolity, accepts every shoddy premise put forth by the know-nothing caucus as if it’s a serious critique, without once noting that a lie is a lie, or that a failed party with blood on its hands from 9/11 to Iraq to Abu Ghraib to Palestine to the dismantling of our moral legitimacy and economic stability has little right to give lessons in war policy.
What kind of parent hides a loaded pistol under a Christmas tree? They’re probably related to the guy who let his son shoot an Uzi at a gun show competition.
Forget criminal background checks for buying weapons, how about a simple intelligence test? That would probably disqualify 80% of the gun nuts.
