Arizona Rep Calls Obama “Enemy of Humanity”
At the wingers’ How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St.Louis, Rep. Trent Franks, [Rethug-AZ] ratchets up the hate rhetoric against President Obama, calling him “an enemy of humanity.”
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Afutilestan
The contents of General McCrystal’s top-down review of Afghanistan ordered by President Obama found its way into the front pages of the NY Times and Washington Post today. As expected, it paints a grim picture and calls for more of everything– more troops, more money, more nation building– on top of the $ 4 billion a month we’re already spending …
Racism, Propaganda, And Health Care Reform
An attendee at today’s teabagger protest on the D.C. Mall In the never-ending triumph of form over substance, politics over policy, and emotionally charged food fights over actual debate, the MSM occasionally interjects some reality into their coverage of complex issues like health care reform. Example in a moment. Take the issue du jour— fictional health care insurance for non-documented immigrants, …
A Winger Folk Hero Is Born
South Carolina Congressman, Joe Wilson (Winger- SC) In the middle of this evening’s address by President Obama to a joint session of Congress, a forum with a long history of decorum, South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out (from the relative anonymity of a large audience) — Liar “You lie!” Congressman Wilson was responding to the president’s assertion that …
Rumba In The Dumba
Praying this young lady has good health care insurance… In an historically rare prime time presidential address to a joint session of Congress concerning health care reform, all the major networks will carry it live, except one: Fox Broadcasting, which instead will show its regularly scheduled reality show, So You Think You Can Dance, the same reality show they aired …
Death Panels: Follow The Money
Okay, last straw. Fuck Chuck Grassley and the slug he rode in on. (That goes for DINO Senator Claire McKaskill too, who just appeared on Hardball excusing his sorry ass.) Whatever reason President Obama might have had for allowing this guy to hold health care reform hostage via his position on the Senate Finance Committee just vanished. Grassley spells “bi-partisan” …
