Back of The Bus Bitch

Raw Story:  A Republican county official in Illinois called a black woman candidate for the House of Representatives a “love child” of the Democratic Party and accused her of being a “street-walker” whose “pimps” are party leaders. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, Montgomery County GOP Chairman Jim Allen made the statements in an email in which he went on to say that after the election, candidate Erika Harold will end up “working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires.”

Allen was writing to a Republican website about Harold, who is a former Miss America and Harvard-educated attorney. She is running for the Republican nomination for Illinois Congressional District 13, which encompasses Champaign, Illinois and eastern Chicago. Allen supports her opponent, incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville).

You got that?  Harvard Law educated attorney gets called a stupid whore by a redneck Republican just because she's black.   But to be honest, our first reaction was not that this was a racist screed, we've come to expect that from the party of the southern strategy, but more, where was he educated?  She graduated from Harvard Law.  Where did Dick Trickle Jim Allen go to school?  Jefferson Davis U?  Liberty University?  Pray tell...

The Moral Majority

TPM:  Christopher Allen Simcox, the co-founder of the vigilante border group Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and a former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child molestation, according to The Arizona Republic.

Add another to the list.  We figure the reason for such a high incidence of child molestation in conservative circles is the repressive nature of the fake morality in their movement.  If they're gay they have to hide it.  It they want a divorce they have to hide it.  If they want to dress up in women's clothes, they have to hide it.  They can't be who they are and so they hide and suppress their legal adult urges until they explode in fits of criminal perversion, all to often, with a child.  

Words, Actions

Rove on Obama: “He’s right, he’s not Dick Cheney," Rove said. "Dick Cheney at least had the guts to step up and defend these National Security Agency programs, where the president was sending out underlings in order to defend it himself and then going on a talk radio program, a TV talk program, as he fled the country for the G-8 meeting."
 
There is so much wrong with this we don't even know where to begin.  Yes, Obama is no Cheney.  Cheney lied and cheated to bring this nation to a devastating war and occupation in Iraq.  So Cheney is a war criminal, Obama is not.  Cheney deliberately outed a vital national security asset in order to try and silence somebody who was calling out his Iraq lies.  So Cheney is a traitor and Obama is not.  And last... Robert Gates after Obama got Bin Ladin:   "I worked for a lot of these guys. And this is one of the most courageous calls – decisions — that I think I’ve ever seen a president make.”

So... fuck you Karl.

Still a Horror Show

AP: House Republicans have modified a tough anti-abortion bill to include exceptions for rape and incest after the GOP sponsor of the legislation raised a firestorm by declaring that very few rapes result in pregnancies.

As we've said before, Todd Akin and all these other Republicans are not saying these crazy things because they think they know something about how the female body works.  They're saying them because it's a plank in their party platform that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, incest, and danger to the mother.  They then have motive to minimize pregnancy by rape because most Americans recoil in horror at the notion of being forced to have a rapists baby.  But if does happen anyway, well, in GOP world it's a gift from God.

GOP Rep: Women Are Stupid

Huffintonpost: Maine House Minority Leader Ken Fredette (R-Newport) appeared on the state House's floor Wednesday, making his pitch to oppose federal funding (of Medicare expansion). Maine People's Alliance posted video of Fredette invoking the book during his speech, which also included some differences between the brains of men and women.

"From the other side of the aisle I hear the conversation being about 'free this is free, we need to take it and it's free and we need to do it now' and that's sort of the fundamental message that my brain receives," Fredette said. "Now, my brain being a man's brain sort of thinks differently, because I say, well, it's not if it's free is it really free because I say in my brain there's a cost to this."

ThinkProgress captured backlash from the female side, with State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) blasting Fredette's remarks.

“I thought it was 2013, not 1813," Russell told the site. "Apparently, I was wrong.”

Let us set this stupid, neanderthalic, assclown straight:  Obamacare and the expansion of Medicare contained within save money over what we currently do because those dollars are spent on medical care and not private jets, massive yachts, and yet another mansion for transnational insurance company CEO's.

As for calling women stupid, yes the base of the GOP is not only racist, but sexist as well.  So let's make sure as many women in this country read what he said and remember that when they vote.

Now onto the latest mandatory rape with a foreign object law in the bizarre dystopia that is GOP rule.

Issa (R-Liar)

Raw Story: House Oversight Committee ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings on Sunday said that the so-called scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of tea party groups was “solved,” but Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has refused to release the testimony of a “conservative Republican” IRS manager because it indicated that the White House was not involved. 

Last week, Issa had told CNN host Candy Crowley that IRS agents “were directly being ordered from Washington,” but he declined to produce complete transcripts of the testimony of IRS employees to back up his claims. 

On Sunday, Cummings explained to Crowley that he had “begged” Issa to release the full transcripts.

“He’s the chairman of the committee, we’re not in power,” the Maryland Democrat pointed out. “If he does not release them, I will. Period.”

Republicans lie and then try to hide release of the truth.  Along with the fact all these billionaire backed conservative superpacs perjured themselves in their applications to the IRS, that should be the main lesson of the IRS "scandal."  

And somebody needs to hold some hearings into Issa's lying.  If the witnesses are sworn to tell the truth then for sure the chairman on the committee should be under the same oath.  He needs to go. 

Consumer Protection

Thinkprogress:  Americans who bought individual health plans in 2012 saved $2.1 billion thanks to Obamacare consumer protections that limit how much insurers can profit off of Americans’ premiums, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The vast majority of those savings stem from individual health plan providers lowering the premiums they charge Americans in an effort to comply with the reform law.

Which is why Republicans hate Obamacare.  The fact of the matter is Republicans represent the transnational CEO class and the stockholders, not the American people.  They will happily stand by while you get raped by your for-profit insurance company.  Better to elect people who will not allow that to happen.