Yesterday the NAACP condemned the teabaggers' "explicitly racist behavior," while Glenn Beck, their spiritual leader, amped up his campaign to trivialize and denigrate both Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King by holding a racist rally in Washington on August 28, the anniversary of King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech. The resolution, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, John Amato and Dave Neiwert did a guest column at the Washington Post as a preliminary to the release of what is likely to be an important link in the current political discourse. They've identified 10 of the biggest fallicies teabaggers are laboring under, in large part due to the careful Republican propaganda offensive from shills like ( Read more... )

I come down pretty hard on tea party folk, Mainly because I think their new found voices leave little doubt that they are angry, but at what?

They were silent for eight years as teh Bush administration shoved measure after measure "Down our throats" as they are wont to say, no problems when Bush added $5 Trillion to the national debt, not a peep ( Read more... )

Today, Elected Republican lawmakers spoke at a rally calling for the death of health care reform.
Rep. Mike Pence, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Ted Poe, Rep. Gohmert, Rep. Scalese, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Kingston, Rep. Gingrey, Rep. Aiken, Rep. Rogers. Spoke to the crowd.

Who then proceeded to scream "Nigger" at Rep. James ( Read more... )

This has gone far enough. Reality will not be adjusted to suit the needs of the stupid!

I know I go on about these morons, I have little truck for their ignorant views on how Christian Conservatives formed America only to have some limp wrist-ed Liberals fuck it up for them.

Is it a wonder that 30 years of dumbing down education, combined with ( Read more... )

There are many ways to tell that Americans are not really the brain trust behind these protests and demonstrations:


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This morning I watched Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill at a town hall meeting demonizing single payer health insurance, after some Dobbs or Limbaugh or Beck-fueled constituent got up and started raving about the slippery slope to socialism. I don't think she really understands what or how single payer works....I don't think she knows what ( Read more... )