Don't Like Democrats. Hate Democracy

Benjamin Pearcy, 20, is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation. Although Mr. Pearcy says he is taking his first run for public office seriously, the political establishment here views him as nothing more than a political dirty trick. Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.

Since the GOP is religiously anti-environment you know they're not supporting the Green Party based on their merits. It's just to pull votes away from the Democratic candidate, a strategy which if successful would result in a situation where a minority of voters elects the candidate with the opposite political philosophy from the majority. This is another GOP salvo in their long assault on democracy. From voter intimidation, to purging eligible voters from the voter rolls, or restricting voting stations in Democratic districts to slightly less horrible schemes like phone jamming, vote caging, and planting fake candidates, Republicans have shown they're not prepared to let the people fairly elect their leaders. Fans of democracy would do well to keep them out of power.

Terrorists

Discussing President Obama’s Tuesday Iraq speech on Fox News Sunday’s morning panel, moderator Chris Wallace cited Obama’s discussion of the economy in order to ask the panelists, “Is it unfair to say that this a president whose heart doesn’t seem to be into winning the war on terror”

His heart is into it far more than the Republicans. The evidence shows they start dishonest wars that devastate our country and help the terrorists recruit and raise funds. They were asleep at the switch the summer and fall before 9/11. They deliberately destroyed the CIA spy network tasked with keeping tabs on WMD flows to terrorists. Going back further, they and their big oil cronies helped depose Mosedegh in 1953, which led directly to the Islamic revolution in Iran. They funded and armed radical Islam. They sold munitions of war to the Iranians (after they caused the Islamic revolution). And they have long standing personal and business relationships with the country widely regarded as one of the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world today.

Duh

Analysts: Iraq war 'partly to blame' for financial crisis

Who would have thought lying and cheating to transfer trillions of taxpayer dollars to war profiteering crony companies would be a bad thing for our long term fiscal and economic health.

Poetry

"All you guys were doing and talking were beheadings, beheadings, beheadings," Jan Brewer (R-AZ) told the Daily Star about her now famous debate performance last night. "That is something that has stuck with you all for so long, and I just felt we needed to move on." She also contended that when discussing the headless bodies, she "never said 'Arizona,' and it's unfortunate that it was construed as 'Arizona.'" As TPM reported, Brewer said on Fox News in July: "We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings." The anchor later asked: "Which beheadings in Arizona were you were referring to?" Brewer responded: "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."

Wow, talk about making a bad situation worse. Remember Sue 'chickens for checkups' Lowden? She was riding high until that disaster. Now she's history. This is starting to look an awful lot like that.

Jan Brewer wasn't elected governor of Arizona. She was appointed, after Napolitano went to work for Obama. And she wasn't really well known until she whipped up The Southern Strategy against migrant workers and instantly became a big star in the GOP. It would be poetic justice indeed if one of the lies she told in that effort ended up putting her into retirement.

Works For You Mike, Works For You...

Last night on CNBC, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) told supply-side guru and Reagan disciple Larry Kudlow that the way to get businesses to “unleash” the nearly $2 trillion in cash and assets they’re currently sitting on is to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich and then cut marginal income tax rates even further. “C’mon, we know what works,” Pence said

If you're trying to explode the deficit and the national debt that works. If you want to increase the gap between rich and poor, that works. If you want to encourage outsourcing that works. If you want to do right by the American people, that doesn't work. This is history's verdict.

Divine Providence

Yesterday Mariner Energy employees, along with thousands of oil industry workers, rallied in Houston to protest the Obama administration’s offshore drilling moratorium that was designed as a safety precaution after BP’s disastrous Gulf oil spill.

Today their rig blew up.

Nice.

The Boys Who Cried Wolf

Retired USAF Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney -- a Fox News contributor who while a "military analyst" helped the Bush Pentagon manipulate coverage of the Iraq War -- is now questioning President Obama's legitimacy as commander-in-chief in an affidavit filed on behalf of a military doctor facing court martial for refusing deployment orders because he does not believe Obama was born in the United States.

First of all, anybody who helped lie us into Iraq should in prison for the rest of their lives. Second, why would somebody like this think anybody would believe a word they have to say?