Cheny-Palin 2012: a dream come true

In other news, a Clackamas county, Oregon man is going to the Supreme Court to fight for his right to give cops the finger. Here’s the whole story:
Man gives finger to cops

Anthony Weiner (D. NY) made history on the floor of the house day before yesterday. I laughed out loud when I saw it. In case you haven’t seen it, here it is.

Toyota, more than any other foreign company, contributed to the demise of the our auto industry. It’s therefore ironic that Toyota’s collapse might be responsible for the return of the American car.

If I were of a punning nature, I would call this “carma.”

Of course the major culprits are the American auto industry decision makers who saw the VW bug in the 60s, the tiny Toyotas and Nissans in the 70s and 80s suddenly invading our shores – and shrugged their shoulders. Toyota simply did what any other savvy business would do – saw a market and exploited it. /And, like any other business, they got ft, and cocky and lazy and are now paying the price.

But so are the American workers at the Fremont, CA Toyota-GM plant, soon to be closed. Toyota’s decision to stop making cars in Fremont in March will idle 4,700 workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory and send a job loss shockwave through more than a thousand California companies that supply parts to the only automotive plant on the West Coast.

I submitted my suggestion to The Rachel Maddow Show for a new name for the filibuster: “Repugnicantism.” I like it but it’s too much of a mouthful to work. Maybe I’ll get a tee-shirt.

Thanks to Think Progress — http://thinkprogress.org/touting-recovery-opposed/ — for this exposé of House and Senate Repugnicans who voted against the stimulus bill and then took credit for the money that it brought to their states or districts.
And a surprising thanks to the Washington Times – not a bastion of liberal thought – who recovered letters sent by many of these Congresspeople requesting stimulus money!

House Of Representatives

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA)
Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA)
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH)
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA)
Rep. Mary Fallin (R-OK)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA)
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA)
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO)
Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)
Rep. Bill Young (R-FL)
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL)
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL)
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)
Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL)
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL)
Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC)
Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE)
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX)
Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX)
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Rep. Henry Brown (R-SC)
Rep. Sam Hall (R-TX)
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX)
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)
Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX)
Rep. John Carter (R-TX)
Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX)
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX)
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)
Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH)
Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY)
Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT)
Rep. Shelly Capito Moore (R-WV)
Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN)
Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI)
Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI)
Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI)
Rep. Thad McCotter (R-MI
Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI)
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA)
Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR)
Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL)
Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL)
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA)
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA)
Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA)
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL)
Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ)
Rep. John Mica (R-FL)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX)
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL)
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL)
Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL)
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL)
Rep. John Linder (R-GA)
Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY)
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
Total: 90. Number of Repugnicans in the House: 178.

Senate

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT)
Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO)
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE)
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Total: 20. Total Repugnicans in the Senate: 41
The thorough record of their hypocrisy can be found at http://thinkprogress.org/touting-recovery-opposed/.

The Daily Kos recently hired non-partisan independent pollster Research 2000 to take a poll of over 2,000 self-identified Republicans. Here’s a cross-section of the results by category. For the full spectrum of astonishing responses, go here:

OBAMA and AMERICA

Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?
Yes 39
No 32
Not Sure 29

Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?
Yes 63
No 21
Not Sure 16

Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, or not?
Yes 42
No 36
Not Sure 22

Do you believe Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Yes 24
No 43
Not Sure 33

Do you believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama?
Yes 53
No 14
Not Sure 33

Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people?
Yes 31
No 36
Not Sure 33

Do you believe your state should secede from the United States?
Yes 23
No 58
Not Sure 19

GAYS

Should openly gay men and women be allowed to serve in the military?
Yes 26
No 55
Not Sure 19

Should same sex couples be allowed to marry?
Yes 7
No 77
Not Sure 16

Should gay couples receive any state or federal benefits?
Yes 11
No 68
Not Sure 21

Should openly gay men and women be allowed to teach in public schools?
Yes 8
No 73
Not Sure 19

SCHOOLS

Should sex education be taught in the public schools?
Yes 42
No 51
Not Sure 7

Should public school students be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world?
Yes 77
No 15
Not Sure 8

WOMEN

Are marriages equal partnerships, or are men the leaders of their households?
Men 13
Equal 76
Not Sure 11

Should women work outside the home?
Yes 86
No 4
Not Sure 10

Should contraceptive use be outlawed?
Yes 31
No 56
Not Sure 13

Do you believe the birth control pill is abortion?
Yes 34
No 48
Not Sure 18

To be fair, in another poll, Democrats couldn’t identify Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader. OTOH, I think that Reid has a problem with that as well.

As Kos pointed out, we should make every effort to find a place for those who want to secede, name it Bagofhammersstan, and move them all there. They aren’t real Americans, anyway.

To support us real Americans (this one, anyway), order your Cheney-Palin 2012 bumper sticker:

Leave it to our rightwing loons to make hay (and raise $$) from the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Limbaugh was on the air yesterday claiming that Obama would use the catastrophe to his advantage.
News flash: Obama could do nothing for the next three years and STILL get 90% of the black vote. On the other hand, imagine the outrage if Obama did nothing.

Robertson Fun-Raising plea

This almost needs no comment:

Pat Roberson blamed 9/11 on the homosexuals and sodomites in New York. He came down on the side of death and destruction after Hurricane Katrina. He partnered with Congolese mass murderer Charles Taylor in a diamond mine, some proceeds of which went to find Al Qaeda. He Does anyone else think this person a waste of oxygen?

The repugnicants operate on fear. They thrive on it. That’s why they are so afraid of having the 9/11 hijackers tried in NYC. I can’t say for sure if they are personally afraid, or just fearful that the Bush family connections with Bin Laden will be revealed.
But what is more serious is the repugnicant drive to instill fear in the rest of us, the American people. It’s long been an operating principle of the fascist mentality that a fearful population is an easily-controlled one. The more vulnerable we feel, the easier it will be for them to “guide” is in the right direction.
Why else would Dick Cheney violate long-standing custom and keep bashing Obama? Fear.
Why else would Sarah Palin talk about how awful it’ll be to bring the hijackers into this country to be tried. Fear.
To what end? you may ask. I think it’s pretty simple: the repugnicants want a docile yet productive work force. There have been a few comments in right-wing circles lately about how the American work force is overpaid. Compared to much of the less-industrialized world this is accurate. The US per capita income is $40,000 per year. The average Chinese citizen earns $3,000 a year. How much bigger profits would be if we could pay our workers less!
The worst thing for neo-cons is a thriving middle class. In colonial America, it was the middle class – the merchants and artisans – who started the Revolution. Post WWII, the growth of the union movement created a strong middle class that resulted in the 60s anti-war and Civil Rights movements.
The repugnicants are determined to continue the importation of cheap labor from south of the border, and will continue to send ALL our manufacturing overseas. It is decimating the working class. And that’s the way they like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.