Just Grabbed Something Out Of The Closet

An Atlanta sheriff photographed wearing a Klu Klux Klan costume admits he donned the white hood but says he shouldn't be judged for a "stupid mistake" he made almost 30 years ago.

Didn't we all dress up like KKKers when we were young?  Where would one get costumes like that?  Wonder if he's friends with this guy. They are both of course, Republicans.

Cancer Givers

The Merrimack Patch reports that a Tea Party leader in New Hampshire is wishing cancer on the justices:

Former Town Councilor Mike Malzone, the founder of the Merrimack Tea Party, said Thursday in a Facebook post reacting to the Supreme Court ruling on health care, “I hope the (5 supremes) get colon cancer.”

We always thought the conservative hatred of environmental laws, public safety laws, food safety laws, access to affordable heath care, etc was based in a corporatist, profit-uber-alles kind of philosophy.  But this indicates that perhaps they actually wish the cancers that result from their dirty public policy to happen.  Either way, if you get cancer, and you vote Republican, you may very well have brought it on yourself. 

Born Poor, Stay Poor

Mitt Romney on education:

I think this is a land of opportunity for every single person, every single citizen of this great nation. And I want to make sure that we keep America a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot. They get as much education as they can afford and with their time they’re able to get and if they have a willingness to work hard and the right values, they ought to be able to provide for their family and have a shot of realizing their dreams.

In Mitt Rmoney world only people with money are entitled to an education.  Which makes him fit to be president of one of those shyster for profit colleges that are bankrolling his campaign, but not president of the United States.

Education is one of the pillars of an upward mobility society.  While Republicans claim this is the land of opportunity, their public policy works against it.  They prefer a social order that has a few rich, white, men on top and everybody else working for them.  The fact of the matter is conservatives have been working on behalf of the plantation owner since before this country was founded.

Back Up Plan

Think Progress:  Republicans, after failing to prevent the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law from passing Congress, have attempted to undermine it by refusing to give Wall Street regulators adequate funds to do their jobs. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are short of the funding they require, and House Republicans recently voted in committee to fund the SEC $245 million below the Obama administration’s request for 2013.

How do Republicans enable corruption,   Failing to fund duly passed anti-corruptioin legislation is one of the more scumbaggerish and anti-democratic tactics.

Mitt Romney, Whore

Raw Story:  A former executive at the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Steve Jacobs, has filed a wrongful termination suit in which he accuse the company of “controlling and directing” prostitution at its Macau casinos. 

The charges are politically significant because the company’s chairman, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, has been perhaps the most generous GOP donor of the current campaign cycle. He has promised to supply “limitless” funds to defeat President Barack Obama, much of which would be channeled through 501(c)(4) non-profits that do not divulge the names of their donors.

Let's keep Sheldon Adelsons' whores in his casinos.  We don't need them in the Whitehouse. If Mitt Romney wants to be one of Sheldon Adelson's prostitutes he should move to Macau and put on a cocktail dress.

Pre-Existing Treason

Huffington Post: Conservatives were united in their disappointment over the Supreme Court's upholding of President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday. But one former GOP spokesman took things a bit further than the near-uniform vows to repeal the legislation.

Matt Davis, a Michigan attorney who was once the state Republican Party's spokesman, sent out an email that asked whether armed rebellion would be justified in the wake of the court's decision. According to Michigan Capital Confidential, a local news service that originally reported the missive, Davis sent it "moments after the Supreme Court ruling to numerous new media outlets and limited government activists." 

Hmmm... we have a different question, would arresting this guy immediately on the charge of conspiracy to commit treason not be an appropriate response to his behavior?  Typical conservative, always ready to betray this country.  They've been doing it since the civil war.

One Less Yacht

President Obama today on Obamacare:  Within the next 4 months 13 million Americans will receive a rebate because insurance companies spent too much on administration or CEO bonuses. 

That's messaging even a hopper can love.  Our healthcare dollars need to go to our healthcare.  They don't need to be going to yet another yacht or a private petting zoo for insurance company CEO's who make ten of millions or in some cases hundreds of million of dollars a year by accepting our premiums and then rationing our care.