Iraqed

TPM: John McCain had some more critical words for Colin Powell on Friday, saying the former Secretary of State’s involvement in the Iraq War should hurt his political appeal. Powell endorsed Obama this week for a second straight election. “Colin Powell, interestingly enough, said that Obama got us out of Iraq,” McCain told the National Review. “But it was Colin Powell, with his testimony before the U.N. Security Council, that got us into Iraq.”

No John, the entire Republican party, you included, got us into Iraq.  With glee.  Fucking war criminals.  

What a weasel McCain is for trying put that off on Powell just because he endorsed Obama.  

And be warned  America, If Romney gets in there, they will do it again with Iran.  They did it once.  
They will do it again.  So unless you want to sacrifice your kids on the alter of another dishonest,
horrific GOP war, you best vote for Obama. 

Full Of Racists

Huffingtonpost: Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."

Of course it is.  In fact, the modern GOP deliberately built its base with racists and to this day has its political and philosophical power base in the confederate south.  To this day any drive around the south will show quite clearly the GOP base prefers the confederate flag to the American flag. And it's not because they're expressing their desire for an agriculture based economy. (And a note to Jews, they hate you too).

The Confederate Flag Party

Raw Story:  John Sununu, a top surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, on Thursday night suggested that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama because he is black.

Since Powell actually worked for only white presidents, and before Obama endorsed only white presidential candidates, this is most likely not true.  But since Sinunu (an Arab born in Cuba) brought it up, it is true the the GOP base won't vote for Obama because he's black.

The Republican party is - at its core - a racist political party.  They deliberately built it like that.  If you have any doubt, take a drive around the south and have a look around.  There's a reason these people chose the confederate flag over the American flag.

Mitt Romney Is An Economic Traitor

Buzzfeed: Workers' Voice, the AFL-CIO-affiliated super PAC is out with a harsh new ad campaign Thursday morning branding Mitt Romney an "economic traitor."

"Bain Capital is outsourcing jobs at Sensata Tech in Northern Illinois to China," the website economictraitor.com states. "When executives from the new plant in China came in to visit the factory, Bain Capital made Sensata staff take down the American flag until they left."

The Republican base prefers the confederate flag anyway, so they probably don't mind. 

Rape, The Gift From God

NEW ALBANY, Indiana— At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly(D-IN), IndianaGOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:

I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.

This - along with their attempts to re-define and minimize the definition of rape - is another step in the long GOP walk around the objection to the plank in their platform that says abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother.  Because it is especially under those circumstances that most  Americans recoil in horror at a proposed abortion ban.

And for all those who think they can't do anything about this guy because they don't live and vote in Dumfuckistan, great news, Romney cut an ad for this neanderthal just yesterday.  A vote against Romney is a vote againt Mourdock.  A vote against the GOP is a vote against this agenda. Or put another way: any vote, anywhere, for any Republican is a vote against  a woman's right to govern over her own body and her own life.

Threats To National Security

Booman Tribune:  I call on Mitt Romney to demand the immediate resignation of Rep. Darrell Issa from his chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. And I call on Rep. Darrell Issa to immediately resign from Congress in disgrace. To stand for reelection after endangering the lives of Libyans working in cooperation with the United States or seeking our assistance would be an insult to our country. 

Of course to be fair this isn't as bad as when they deliberately outed the Valeria Plame spy network that existed to keep WMD out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states, but Booman is still right.  Add on top of that things like wasting massive amounts of blood and treasure by waging a corrupt, dishonest, and unnecessary war and occupation in Iraq and one can only come the conclusion the biggest threat we face to our national security is posed by the Republican party. 

Throwing Granny Under The Bus

Headline:  AP: $200/month increase in Medicare premiums under Romney/Ryan

Not that they care.  People on Medicare are part of the 47% of Americans Willard has promised not to lift a finger for so it's understandable he's more than willing to sacrifice them on the alter of his billionaire country club public policy.

Lessons

TPM:  Democrats wanted an aggressive Joe Biden at the vice presidential debate here, and they got one. 

Lessons from the VP debate:

1) If Mitt Romney had been president Osama Bin Ladin would still be alive.
2) Romney/Ryan would voucherize Medicare and privatize Social Security.
3) If elected Romney/Ryan will end the home mortgage deduction.
4) Romney/Ryan will bring back the exact same public policy that caused the 2008/2009 crash.

Killer Public Policy

Think Progress:  Mitt Romney doubled down on his suggestion that uninsured Americans can find the care they need in emergency rooms, telling The Dispatch that people will always receive the treatment they need, and do not die or suffer because they can not pay for care. 

Well, except for the 45,000 Americans that do die every year because they don't have insurance, that's true.  Of course those people are likely part of the 47% of Americans Willard has promised not to lift a finger for so it's understandable he's more than willing to sacrifice them on the alter of his billionaire country club public policy.

Murder For Thee, Ok For Me

Headline: Pro-Life Congressman Pressured Mistress To Get An Abortion.

He is of course a Republican.

More GOP Equals Less Voting

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's election chief is appealing a ruling by a federal court that reinstates the final three early voting days in the battleground state.

Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO'-sted) said Tuesday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to make the final decision on whether the state Legislature or federal courts should set Ohio election laws.

Husted called Friday's decision by a federal appeals court "an unprecedented intrusion" into how states run elections.

And we call Husted actions an unprecedented assault on democracy and a naked attempt to suppress the vote and steal an election.  This guy is not fit to serve in a government by the people.  On a more personal note, he's a total scumbag.

Can't Stand the Heat

Raw Story: After recently promising to end funding for beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is now refusing to take questions from children on a Nickelodeon special, Kids Pick the President: The Candidates.

Although both then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on the special in 2008, only Obama has agreed to participate this year, the network said on Monday. 

What a wus.  How is this assclown going to stand up to Al Queda when he doesn't even have the guts to take questions from kids.   Hell, maybe he thought one of them might ask how he can justify massive tax cuts for the rich and the transnational corporation while axing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.  Yeah, perhaps best he only takes questions from mega-rich donors.  Kids he can't handle. 

The Confederate States Of Jesus America Party

Americablog:  Charles Fuqua is a Republican candidate for the US House from Arkansas, and he wants to expel all Muslims from the United States.

Charles Fuqua of Batesville, Arkansas, is currently seeking a House of Representatives seat. His e-book “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution” came out in April on Amazon.”I see no solution to the Muslim problem short of expelling all followers of the religion from the United States,” he writes in his book, according to The Arkansas Times newspaper.

Another Arkansas Republican thinks slavery was a “blessing” for blacks.

In his book, [state representative Jon] Hubbard says “…the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established on the face of the Earth.”

First of all, anybody who says God's law is the only law is not fit to serve in a government who's laws are based on the constitution. If you're for a system that's not based on a few people's purported religious beliefs, it's very dangerous to have people like that around.  It's very dangerous to vote for them or for their political party. 

Second, the base of the Republican party is racist.  It's that way because they deliberately built it like that.  If you have any doubt, take a drive around the south and have a look around.  There's a reason these people chose the confederate flag over the American flag.

Bottom line:  if you're a racist, vote GOP.  If you want to replace the constitution with the bible, vote GOP.  If not, and you vote GOP anyway, you're playing a very dangerous game.

Don't - Fuck - With - Big - Bird

Huffington Post: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have some ground to make up before November if he hopes to gain more support among female voters, a majority of whom have consistently shunned him in the polls. But his comments during Wednesday's debate about cutting funding to PBS are not likely to do the trick. 

"I like PBS. I love Big Bird," Romney said. "But I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for."

The comment provoked a strong, emotional reaction among some parents. "As a mother of two young girls (5 and 7) raised on PBS, my jaw dropped when Romney made that statement," Liz Gumbinner wrote to The Huffington Post. "The more I thought about it, I went from shock to outrage. It alienated an entire nation of parents." 

Willard said it's not right to borrow money from China to subsidize PBS.  But we can borrow far more money from China for massive tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for oil companies, and horrific, counter productive wars.  We can borrow money from China to bail out Willard's Wall Street billionaire buddies.  But when it comes to Sesame Street, well, you heard the man, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch, they all get the axe.  Hopefully enough parents and other people who are not total scumbags will vote to keep Mitt - Montgomery Burns - Romney out of the Whitehouse and far away from Big Bird.  And oh yeah, pay your fucking taxes Mitt.  Help us pay for the national treasure that is public broadcasting. Deadbeat.

Bin Ladin, Bitches

Raw Story:  A big-name Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama is releasing the first feature film about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden two days before the US presidential election...  In a trailer posted online Friday, characters are heard saying “We’re going to be the team that takes out Osama” and “the president of the United States is going to be staking his presidency on this call.”

Obama won't politicize this, but we will.

Obama got Osama Bin Ladin you stinking right-wing slugs.  Yeah that's right.  Your boy dubya and his puppeteer Dick Cheney lied and cheated to invade Iraq (and got 40,000 American soldiers killed or maimed in the process) but President Barak Obama got the guy that did 9/11. It was one of the most courageous calls any president has ever made.  And he did stake his presidency on it.  And Romney did say he wouldn't risk it. And Osama Bin Ladin is dead.  You chickenhawk little bitches...

Percents

WASHINGTON  -- Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, share a similarly dim view of a very large portion of Americans, according to previously unreported remarks by Ryan. Both believe that many of their fellow citizens are dependent on government and have no motivation to improve their lives -- but they disagree over the precise number.

Romney's estimate, famously, is 47 percent. For Ryan, it's 30 percent. 

"Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state," Ryan said. "Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers." (It's not definitively clear whether Ryan said "the welfare state" or "their welfare state." HuffPost originally transcribed it as "their welfare state." Regardless, the comment was made in reference to people on government assistance.)

Ok, let's play the percent game.  25% of the electorate or 99% of the Republican base is racist.  Thanks for playing.