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Raw Story: A Tennessee tea party Republican state legislator told a frightened little girl at a town hall meeting on Thursday in Murfreesboro, TN that laws are laws and that her undocumented father is going to have to be deported. According to ProgressivePopulist.org, 11-year-old Josie Molina told state Rep. Scott Desjarlais (R) that she has papers but her father does not. 

During a question and answer session at the meeting, Molina stepped up to the microphone and, with a quavering voice, asked, “Mr. DesJarlais, I have papers, but I have a dad who’s undocumented. What can I do to have him stay with me?”

Rather than make any attempt to assuage the girl’s fears, Desjarlais said, “Thank you for being here and thank you for coming forward and speaking,” but “the answer still kind of remains the same, that we have laws and we need to follow those laws and that’s where we’re at.”

The tea party crowd whooped and applauded wildly as the little girl took her seat, head down. Progressive Populist reported that Josie Molina’s father is currently in the process of being deported and that the girl is seeing a child psychologist in order to cope with the stress and anxiety.

Desjarlais is a former physician and anti-choice crusader who was fined $500 by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners after it came to light that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs with female patients. When one woman became pregnant, the staunch anti-abortion conservative pressured her into terminating the pregnancy. Another patient charged that Desjarlais prescribed narcotic painkillers to her for recreational use and frequently smoked marijuana with her.

“I know God has forgiven me” for the transgressions, Desjarlais told a conservative radio host in an interview in December of 2012. 

Doubtful.  We'll actually leave the serial cheating, impregnation, and forced abortion to him, his wife, and his God.  But as far as he and his and his Euro American Tea Party crowd gleefully cheering against a frightened 11 year girl, to her face, there's no doubt the whole rotten bunch is going straight to hell.

No Debates For You!

TPM headline: RNC Unanimously Passes Resolution, No Debates For NBC Or CNN

They have decided the way to minimize the damage from the fact their party is full of crazies, racists, corporatists, and theocrats, is to not show it to people that aren't crazy, racist, corporatist or religious zealots.  They way they indend to do this apparently, is to limit their debate broadcasts to Fox News.

And as if this was not as pathetic as it could be already, they're doing this on direction of their leader, Rush Limbaugh (note from the link that he decreed it should be so last week).

The Most Republican Thing Ever Said

Daily Kos: I'm just going to throw this one out there because it really needs no explanation.

There’s no such thing as financial crime, according to Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). At a town hall meeting in El Dorado Hills, California on Tuesday, a constituent asked McClintock for his “stance on Wall Street criminal practices.” The congressman responded, “Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.”

You know something? I am 100 percent sure that McClintock actually believes this. If there's not a gun involved, it's not a crime. No matter what. And it wins the day for most Republican thing said by any Republican, ever. 

He doesn't think rape is a crime either.  Which is unfortunate because his party has been fucking us without our consent for decades. 

The Vote Suppressionists

Think Progress: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black voters being excluded from the franchise. According to local NPR host Phillip Bailey, Paul said that he does not believe “there is any particular evidence of polls barring African Americans from voting,” during a speech to the non-partisan Louisville Forum. 

If Paul is not aware of the evidence indicating widespread efforts to prevent African Americans from voting, then he must not be looking very hard. During the 2012 election, black and Hispanic voters waited nearly twice as long to cast a ballot as white voters. In Florida, lines of up to six hours led an estimated 201,000 people to become frustrated and leave the polls. These lines existed largely because of a voter suppression bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) which reduced early voting hours in the state. After the election, top Republicans admitted that the purpose of cutting early voting was to reduce Democratic turnout. One Republican operative conceded that early voting was cut on the Sunday proceeding Election Day because “that’s a big day when the black churches organize themselves.”

The Republican party wants to steal elections by robbing all manner of poor, disabled, elderly, young, and minority Americans of their ability to vote.  Their efforts are nationwide and ongoing.  National studies put the anticipated number of disenfranchised at over 5 million.  And that was before the Republican repeal of the voting Voting Rights Act.

It's no wonder Paul wants to plead ignorance.  To admit the obvious means he's an anti-democratic, anti-american, corrupt piece of shit.  But the reality is, of course these laws suppress the black vote and the Democratic vote in general.  If they didn't, the Republicans wouldn't be bothering.

Ayatollah Cuccinelli?

Think Progress:  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), his party’s nominee in this November’s gubernatorial election, unveiled a 12-point education plan Tuesday. Among his proposals: Virginia should amend its constitution to allow public funding for religious education.

Hey, Ken, we here in America have something called separation of church and state.  If you don't like it, get the hell out of the country.  Leave.  Move to Iran.  You can live in a place where they're not interested in such ideals.

Team Meeting

Rep. Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez secretly spoke to wealthy donors at the Koch brothers’ recently concluded summer gathering on the outskirts of Albuquerque.

Why not? That's who they represent.  Every single one of their policy ideas makes that very clear.  So if you're a billionaire industrialist and you're looking out for your own transnational empire, by all means, vote GOP.  If you're looking out for America, 99% of the people who live in it, and most likely yourself and your family, it's really not a good idea.  Whether you call yourself a Republican or not, that's not your team. 

Hard To Swallow, Tough To Breathe

Headline: Maine Moves To Opt Out Of Longstanding Anti-Smog Regulations

Brought to you by the Republican governor on behalf of the industrial polluters in his state. 

Particulate air pollution kills 34,000 Americans every year.  Republicans would rather protect corporate profits than protect the lives of Americans.  It's rude to say, but it's true.  So you better start saying it.