Wednesday August 5, 2009, 11:28 am
The Republican Party is disintegrating in front of our eyes. The latest Gallup Poll has them leading in party identification in six states. Six! They're tied in two. That means they're trailing in 42 states!

They're down by 2 in Texas and Kansas, 12 in North Carolina and Virginia, and 16 in Kentucky. Virginia and Indiana went from "Competitive" to "Solidly Democratic" -- since 2008. If you thought 2008 was bad, these numbers would lead you to believe that 2010 might be even worse.

Now, I can't believe that this will hold up given historical precedent and the fact that the Republicans can be on the attack on every issue since they don't control any of the branches of government. They might be able to blame anything and everything that goes wrong on the Democrats and make some temporary gains in 2010 (though so far the numbers do not indicate that at all). But in the long run, these state by state numbers spell absolute disaster for the Republicans. The reckoning can't be far. I would guess it hits them -- and hits them hard -- by 2012.

In California, the Republican Party is 79% white. What's the big deal? The state is only 43% white. If you're basically a whites-only party in a state where whites are the minority, well, then you've got trouble. Unrecoverable, nearly permanent trouble.

But, of course, as you can see from the Gallup charts, it's not just in California. The Republicans are fighting a losing battle all over the country demographically. By losing the Hispanic as well as the black vote (let alone Jewish, Muslim and gay vote -- should I keep going?), they have put themselves in a hole they can't get out of.

But it's not just the demographics (and the Republicans stubborn unwillingness to adjust to these realities). They're also wrong on almost all of the issues. How long can you fight to make sure our health care system does not get reformed before people catch on to you? How long can you fight every program that helps the poor and the middle class and protects the rich before the majority of the country gets sick of you? How long before they realize that you do not have their best interests in mind?

Is there a popular program in America that the Republicans have not at some point opposed? Social Security? Medicare? Civil rights movement? Even, Cash for Clunkers. And now ironically they have become Cash for Clunkers. The corporations, the lobbyists and the rich keep pouring cash in to their campaign coffers, but increasingly all they're getting back are clunkers. Maybe it's time to trade them in.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 11:30 am

Americans Are Turning Away From the GOP/Republican Party in Droves
The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as to where the two parties stand politically there is only one number to remember: 21.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 11:33 am
RNC Chairman Michael Steele Asks That Republicans Stop Being Such Racist Dickwads About Sotomayor

Republican Party has a shrinkage problemGOP tells Michael Steele: Shut up about Limbaugh or you're fired

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 11:39 am

Huckabee: GOP Could Become As "Irrelevant As The Whigs"


Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming "irrelevant as the Whigs."

Steele Calls GOP Base Bigoted, Says They ‘Rejected’ Romney Because They Have ‘Issues With Mormonism’ »


Gingrich Backs Steele In Developing RNC Civil War

Charlie Cook: Republican obstructionism
is not helping the party


RNC Chair Steele on His Own Party: 'No Reason, None, to Trust Our Words or Our Actions at This Point.'»


Steele: The reality of it is, you are absolutely right. You have absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions at this point. So, yeah, it's going to be an uphill climb.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 12:10 pm
I would just love to see the puke (gop) party die a long & slow but an agonizing death especially after what they have done to the US citizens and to the World...

TY, Blue.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 12:14 pm
Jim, RepubliCON$ have already begun to "eat their own" ... anyone who doesn't march in lock step gets attacked ... they've alredy attacked Romney and Mormonism and any Republican who voted for the climate change bill, etc.

Couldn't happen to a bunch of fatter, older, stuffier people!

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 12:54 pm
Tales from the Lobotomy Ward: The Stupidest Republican Talking Point I've Heard in a Long Time

It's moronic for conservatives to believe that they will derail a proposed universal health care system by likening it to a program whose only problem is that the public loves it far too much.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 1:14 pm

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing


Every day it gets harder to think of the whiny Republican hate speech as sheer coincidence. Instead, it's beginning to look inevitable -- so much so that maybe the real question is, What is it about health care that brings out the latent racism in the GOP?

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 10:10 pm
Is there any wonder why no one likes RepubliCON$: Grassley Uses Kennedy's Brain Tumor To Spread Fear Of Rationing

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 10:33 pm
Steele Distances Himself From Town Hall Mobs: ‘We’re Not Encouraging People To Be Angry’

Boehner Cheers Townhall Shout-Downs
House Minority Leader John Boehner's office has chimed in cheering on the campaign.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:43 pm
HCAN Playbook For Thwarting Town Hall Protesters
How to deal with the crazy GOPers.

Thursday August 6, 2009, 1:57 pm
Obama Faces More Than 30 Death Threats A Day
400 Percent Increase From Bush

Thursday August 6, 2009, 2:08 pm
Revealed: SS Nazi sign carried at town hall protest Update: Swastika pic surfaces, Rush likens Obama to Hitler

Thursday August 6, 2009, 2:33 pm
The Texas GOP’s endorsement of these tactics joins remarks by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) that the “fear” and “anger” of Americans over health care reform present “real opportunities” for the Republican Party.

The Texas GOP isn’t alone in encouraging the mob protests, though. On a blog post titled “Here’s to Mob Rule,” Connecticut Republican chairman Chris Healy yesterday listed off the times and locations of several health care town halls. In the post he wrote that “one perrson’s [sic] mob is another person’s concerned’s citizen’s group” and remarked that if members of Congress “get upset because people are shouting at them, maybe they should listen.”

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:02 pm
Contrary to Steele’s Claim, State Republicans Are Actively Promoting Town Hall Mobs and Violence

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:28 pm

VIDEO: Republican Right-Wing Rage Cultivated At McCain-Palin Rallies Being Harnessed To Oppose Obama's Agenda Today


Some attendees admit they don't live in the Congressman's district, so why attend the meeting? The wave of unfounded, anti-Obama hate found legitimacy through the McCain Presidential campaign last year. Republicans are actively supporting the hate...

Thursday August 6, 2009, 3:56 pm
Maddow calls out Republican operatives behind healthcare mobs

Thursday August 6, 2009, 9:13 pm
Missouri's Republican Rep. Akin and other conservative leaders have whipped up the right-wing base with a combination of lies and rage, and the results have bordered on dangerous. One Democratic lawmaker has received death threats because he supports health care reform. Another Democratic lawmaker was "physically assaulted." Far-right activists have registered their misguided, uninformed fury with everything from nooses to tombstones to signs with Nazi "SS" lettering.

Akin opposes health care reform; I get that. He's a far-right lawmaker who probably finds right-wing mobs comforting. But under the circumstances, maybe now would be a good time to skip the lynching jokes?

Thursday August 6, 2009, 10:29 pm




Tampa Town Hall On Health Care Reform Disrupted By Violence
(VIDEO)

Police officers were called to calm down an unruly crowd outside a health care reform town hall meeting in downtown Tampa, Florida on Thursday evening, according to local news reports.

Angry protesters screamed, yelled and banged on windows as officers hurried to guard the entrances to the facility, where U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor was trying to discuss the various health care reform proposals being debated in Congress. One photojournalist said that a fistfight broke out inside the building, reports WTSP.

Many of the hundreds of protesters said that they had been inspired by a conservative activist group promoted by Fox News host Glenn Beck and some received emails from the county Republican party, according to the St. Petersburg Times.....

The Tampa Tribune reports that some protesters carried racist caricatures of President Obama and added details of more fights and scuffles.....

Thursday August 6, 2009, 10:52 pm


Republican Teabaggers yell "Kill Your Parents" at Monday's Health Care town hall with Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH)

Friday August 7, 2009, 3:52 am

Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on How the GOP Is Screwing Its Healthcare Baby


The GOP is willing to disrupt the health care debate if they can't win it. Yesterday in Tampa, a mob of Glenn Beck supporters nearly caused a riot. The Republican is an uncaring idiot who cares for no one but itself? To hell with the guy in the street!

Friday August 7, 2009, 4:20 am
All great posts Blue!
I guess the new Republicon motto is 'If you can't win fairly, LIE, CHEAT, and OBSTRUCT'! They are losing power because most people don't like to be bullied and treated like a fool that can be lied to. Here is another great link:
Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Health Care Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWw23XwO5o

Friday August 7, 2009, 5:11 am
So, thanks to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Speaker Pelosi says she will bring a vote to the floor on single-payer after the recess. Are you all ready to make those phone calls and write those letters?


Nancy's contact info..http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

Send our speaker an e-mail of encouragement.

Friday August 7, 2009, 11:37 am
Generic Congressional Ballot
Generic Ballot: Republicans 43%, Democrats 38%
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Support for Republican congressional candidates has risen to its highest level in recent years, giving the GOP a five-point lead over Democrats in the latest Congressional Ballot and stretching the out-of-power party's lead to six weeks in a row.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
Democratic support is down two points from last week and is just one point above its lowest level measured over the past year. Support for Republican candidates is up one point from last week.

Friday August 7, 2009, 1:37 pm
Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, the operation that’s running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credit for helping gin up the sometimes-rowdy outbursts targeting House Dems at town hall meetings around the country, raising questions about their
spontaneity.

CPR is the group headed by controversial former hospitals exec Rick Scott that’s spending millions on ads attacking reform in all sorts of lurid ways, a campaign that’s being handled by the same P.R. mavens behind the Swift Boat Vets.

In response to my questions, a spokesman for the group confirmed that it has undertaken a concerted effort to get people out to the town hall meetings to protest reform. The spokesperson, Brian Burgess,
confirmed that CPR is emailing out “town hall alert” flyers, and schedules of town hall meetings, to its mailing list.

These efforts — combined with CPR’s effort to enlist Tea Party-ers, as reported yesterday by TPM — provide a glimpse into the ways anti-reform groups are trying to create a sense of public momentum in their favor.

CPR spokesman Burgess confirmed that the group had set up a list serv designed to reach out to “third party groups” involved in the health care fight, including the Tea Party activists. And in a statement emailed to me, Scott, who was ousted as a health-care exec amid a 1990s fraud probe, took credit for the town hall showings.

“We have invested a lot of time, energy and resources into educating Americans over the past several months about the dangers of government-run health care and I think we’re seeing some of the fruits of that campaign,” Scott said, though he claimed outrage was spontaneous.

Similarly, America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, the insurance industry group, has stationed employees in 30 states to track local town hall events.

The question is whether these uprisings are actually helpful to the anti-reform cause, or whether their raucus agitprop will work againt them. Dems have blasted out to reporters examples of protestors harrassing House Dems.

“The more you dig the more you learn that this is a carefully orchestrated effort by special interest lobbyists and the Republican Party, who are using fringe elements on the right to protect insurance company profits and defeat health care reform,” said House Dem leadership aide Doug Thornell. “The anger at these events looks very similar to what we saw at McCain/Palin rallies in the fall.”

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Update: The White House attacks CPR for manufacturing anger.

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Posted by Greg Sargent | 08/04/2009, 12:12 PM EST | Categories: House Dems, health care, political advertising

Friday August 7, 2009, 7:12 pm
keep dreamin' blue the consrvative and republican party is getting stronger thanks to obama and his rushed heathcare bill....the rnc and consrvative thinking with show you the next few elections....fox news/limbaugh #1 in almost all ratings and sponsers....not a coincidence...

Saturday August 8, 2009, 4:02 pm
If the dems lost the seniors all is lost for them - it is one of the voting blocks along with the Jews that gave them the election .... Seems to be a lot of slipping in this support ...

Saturday August 8, 2009, 5:59 pm

Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity CoffinMartínez's
move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."




Readmore...

Monday August 10, 2009, 1:06 pm
The Last Gasp of the Angry White Man




What we're seeing in these angry town halls these days is the last gasp of the angry white man. He's not quite sure what he's angry about, but he knows he's angry. It's not the world he used to know. He gets the disquieting feeling that he doesn't rule the roost anymore. And it's driving him crazy.

One of the chants at the town hall events
was, "No national healthcare!" Okay, mission accomplished. No one has proposed such a thing. So, I guess they can go home now befuddled at what they were yelling about.

The reality is that what they have been manipulated into arguing against is a public option that would give them more choices, not less in health insurance. It wouldn't nationalize health insurance at all, let alone any part of the rest of the healthcare industry.

» article continues...

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 11:01 am
WATCH: Physical Confrontation During Specter Town Hall Airs On Live TV


One man threatened the senator with God's wrath. "One day, God's gonna stand before you," he said. "And he's gonna judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the Hill, and then you can get your just deserts."

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 11:06 am
Countdown Special Comment: STOP THE LIES! The Clear & Present Danger Isn't Obama's Agenda; It's GOP Talking Points


Keith Olbermann calls out the dangerous rhetoric and lies of Sarah Palin and her other GOP cohorts--such as Glenn Beck and Sen. John Cornyn--scaring the populace with their outrageous fear mongering over health care reform.

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 1:03 pm
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage The conservative playbook has been laid bare, and it's ugly. How long until their overheated

Tuesday August 11, 2009, 8:41 pm

Tea Party Organizers Admit: Goal Is No Reform At All


a group of top Tea Party and conservative organizers offered a surprisingly frank description of their goal: Completely blocking any kind of bipartisan compromise, and completely preventing any type of health care reform bill at all from ever becoming law

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 9:37 am
Whistleblower: Insurance firms behind town hall disruptions
Man arrested at Obama event had loaded gunHeld in police custody; was also carrying pocket knife...
Stewart recalls conservative attacks on anti-war protesters

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:17 pm

Heritage Foundation Slams Anti-Child Rape Bill As "Overcriminalization"


...by harsh penalties on child sex offenders is an example of Big Government overreaching its authority in order to punish "trivial conduct," the Heritage Foundation reveals just how much the conservative movement has lost touch with American families.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 1:34 pm
Republican Senator Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor/Lie: "You Have Every Right To Fear"

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 2:05 pm
STOP PRETENDING GRASSLEY IS SERIOUS ABOUT REFORM.... Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the leading Republican lawmaker negotiating a "compromise" on health care reform...... Grassley isn't serious about reform. Not at all. Seriously. He's proven this again and again. It's time to stop trying. Grassley will only let down reform advocates in the end.

Update: Joe Klein on Grassley's comments:
"[H]e either (a) hasn't the vaguest notion of what's in the bill or (b) he is so intimidated by the ditto-head-brown-shirts that he is trying to fudge a response to keep them happy. Either way, he should be ashamed. And once has to wonder about the fate of the Senate Finance Committee deliberations if this is what the Administration is dealing with."

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Wednesday August 12, 2009, 3:47 pm
* A conservative activist held a "Death to Obama" sign at a town-hall event in Maryland today.

* Another Republican official sending racist emails and assassination jokes? Imagine that.

Sunday August 16, 2009, 4:27 pm
WHITE HOUSE STILL BACKS PUBLIC OPTION

Tuesday August 18, 2009, 5:33 pm
WATCH: Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt

The man with the semi-automatic (referred to in interviews as "Chris," no last name) was spotted at the protest by CNN news cameras, in the middle of a Q&A. Today, his interviewer -- Ernest Hancock of conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock -- went on CNN and explained to host Rick Sanchez that he and Chris were actually in the middle of a radio broadcast. Hancock, also packing heat at the rally, had invited Chris to come down the protest with his rifle to be interviewed. The two men had known each other for two years, through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

During the segment on CNN, Rick Sanchez said, "the more we look into this, the more it appears that it was really planned." Hancock concurred: "Oh, it's more planned than you think." In addition to scheduling the interview, Hancock had also informed the local police force.

As the interview continued, Rick Sanchez loudly exclaimed, "This was a publicity stunt!"

"Oh absolutely," Hancock responded.

Sanchez pushed on, "isn't there something terribly disingenuous about putting people on like that? And isn't there also something a little bit... dangerous about playing these kinda games--"

"Oh, it's not a game," Chris interjected.

"---with what I imagine is a loaded weapon," Sanchez continued.....

Chris is also featured in a YouTube video produced by the libertarian group Freedom's Phoenix. In this video he expounds further on his right to bear arms. He also explains that he is "absolutely totally against health care... health care in this way, in this manner, stealing it from people. I don't think that's appropriate."

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 2:15 pm
Phoenix police helped Obama gun-toters, radio host admits

Saturday August 22, 2009, 9:19 am
GOP Rep: 'Just say no to everything' is our new mantra

Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win Re-Election

Johann Hari: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult

Saturday August 22, 2009, 1:11 pm
Tom Ridge Did What He Was Told. We Don't Need to Buy His Book to Know That.

Thursday August 27, 2009, 8:26 am
McCain Evicts Angry Woman From Town Hall

Thursday August 27, 2009, 9:48 am
McCain jokes about taking hundreds of thousands from healthcare lobby

Thursday August 27, 2009, 10:06 am
GOP Fundraising 'Survey' Outrages Some Recipients

Monday August 31, 2009, 2:19 pm

Republican Rep: We'll Repeal Health Care Reform If It Passes

Monday August 31, 2009, 2:58 pm
I do not know what planet you are living on Blue but it is not the same one I am one. Earth to Blue - the Dems and Obama are sunk right now - if they shove this health care thing through ..... the end .... Obama needs to reset this process and start reaching across the isle to make this a bi-partisan effort .... If he wants to save his Presidency from the one term it is the only option he has left ....

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 12:20 pm
Beck guest: Health reform may spark ‘black genocide’

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 12:23 pm
Poll: Republicans, Southerners most unpatriotic

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 2:55 pm
College Republicans To Identify Liberal Professors At UT

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 6:46 pm
Balloon Juice: Stupid and Proud of It

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:09 am
Pastor to Obama: Please Die, Now!


Pastor Steven Anderson prays for the death of President Obama. Have the politics of hate gone too far, or is Mr. Anderson an isolated case?"

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:45 am
The "Intolerance" Party? GOP Strategists Worry Ideologues Are Bad For The Party's Future

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 10:01 am
" "While some are prepared to write the obituary on capitalism and our movement, I believe we are on the brink of a great American awakening," "

Yes, the great American awakening will be when the intelligence of the citizens of US awaken to the fact that the puke (republican) party is no longer a viable political party for its citizens.

Limbaugh said, "Maybe we've gotten to the point where you have to scam the American people in order to get their votes."

Yes, the Great American Awakening...

The collapse of the gop should be that they wither away...

Reference to the "Intolerance" Party? link above.
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Wednesday September 2, 2009, 10:27 am
Got that right, Jim!


Who Will Be Hurt if the Democrats Pass Health Care Alone
If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 11:05 am

Republican Chairman Michael Steele: Meet Amanda Duzak Whose Mother Died From Cancer


At a student dialogue Tuesday, recent grad Amanda Duzak told Steele that her mother was unable to afford medication, and died recently of cancer. Steele turned his back on her, and the crowd applauded...

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 11:36 am
Immigration Remarks Land Mark Kirk On A Condom In New Ads

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 12:08 pm
Who's Laughing Now? Turning the Tide on Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins!

Kandas Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins' constituents are fed up with the embarrassing national headlines and her lack of leadership. The more time she spends in her
district, the more voters have buyers remorse.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 12:11 pm
I give u kuddos for keeping this up Blue but the fact is the Republicans just won an election in California of all places .... You are going to give yourself a bad case of whiplash if you keep this up ....

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 5:44 pm
RepubliCON$ are trailing in 42 $tate$ .... wake up!

When it comes to healthcare, there is no lie a conservative will not tell.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 6:45 pm
* Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, still an embarrassment to himself.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:31 pm
Did you know that Hitler wanted peace and was misunderstood and killed all those Jews only because Poland and the UK was mean to him? Well, that's what anti-semitic racist Pat Buchanan is telling me today.

Thursday September 3, 2009, 5:42 am
WHAT!!!!!!! This man is a fool that needs to learn history! He can start here with the three part Ghost series that talks about how Hitler treated the Russians.
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

Thursday September 3, 2009, 7:11 am
As long as republicans knowingly lie to themselves and the country, there is no hope for the party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGWvHKXSZ3M

Thursday September 3, 2009, 1:55 pm
* CNN's Lou Dobbs hasn't been making as many headlines lately, but he's planning to be involved in a very disturbing event in about two weeks, which will be even more offensive than his usual broadcasts.

Take Action: Stop Dobbs' -& CNN's- Participation In Hate Group Rally - Keep FAIR From Getting Mainstream Legitimacy

Sept 15&16, Dobbs to broadcast show from Capitol Hill as leading voice of annual advocacy rally sponsored by rabidly anti-immigrant org FAIR,
labeled "hate group" by SouthernPovertyLawCenter. Tell CNN not to bestow mainstream legitimacy on extremist group

Thursday September 3, 2009, 4:26 pm
* Right-wing Tea Bagger protestors have labeled Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) as "wanted for treason."

Friday September 4, 2009, 11:51 am
"Silly season": Morning Joe crew criticizes "angry voices" for bashing Obama's stay-in-school speech: http://bit.ly/15V3Iw

Friday September 4, 2009, 1:08 pm
Unleashing The Beast I

just watched the new movie called " Jesus Camp,' where kids pray to a cardboard cut out of George Bush because he's a messianic/Jesus figure to them. Are their prayers being answered as he institutes torture?http://crooksandliars.com/2006/09/23/unleashing-the-beast

Friday September 4, 2009, 6:54 pm
Nothing I can say will prepare you for this (although in deference to Chi Dyke,* I will warn that it involves Glenn Beck. (This is just depressing. They're the optimists.) You might need The Window Cleaner to help wash your brain out. (Thanks to Anna.)

Friday September 4, 2009, 7:00 pm
The real "Jesus" must be rolling around in his grave...

reference to the above link "Jesus Camp".

Friday September 4, 2009, 7:06 pm
Jim, if the "real Jesus" ever showed up in his robes, sandals, long hair and "peace" sermon in any of the RepubliCON Chri$tiani$t churche$ ... they'd throw him out before they'd even think of asking him if they could be of service.

Friday September 4, 2009, 7:45 pm
How desperate is Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) to impress the
right-wing base in advance of his presidential campaign? He's willing
to say some remarkably stupid things.

Monday September 7, 2009, 1:21 pm
CNN's Beck on the blind: "Just to piss them off, I'm going to put in Braille on the coffee pot ... 'Pot is hot.' Ow!" | Media Matters for America

Tuesday September 8, 2009, 10:42 am
...So the President has finished his speech to the children in our schools. What terrible political things did he have to say?
"Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer..."And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is."
Way to go Republicons!!! Spending all that political capitol stirring the fires of hatred and for what! No wonder you are becoming the laughing stock of the word!

Sunday September 13, 2009, 9:15 am
No More Code Words: Racism is Public Again



Must read Kristof on health care, http://tinyurl.com/pg2og4 and Dowd on racism, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html?ref=opinion

Tuesday September 22, 2009, 2:05 pm
Scarborough denounces right-wing 'hatred'

....."You cannot say that the President of the United States ... hates all white people," Scarborough proclaimed. "You cannot call the President of the United States a racist. You cannot wallow in conspiracy theories -- as [Beck] did for about a month -- suggesting that FEMA might be setting up concentration camps and going on Fox & Friends and saying. 'I can't disprove it.' ... You can't stir up that type of hatred ... and then say, 'Oh, I'm just a rodeo clown.'"

....."Only recently have I watched portions of [Beck's] television program, as well as interviews with him, and heard parts of his radio program. And what I’ve seen should worry the conservative movement," Wehner wrote in an article published Monday. "I say that because he seems to be more of a populist and libertarian than a conservative, more of a Perotista than a Reaganite. His interest in conspiracy theories is disquieting, as is his admiration for Ron Paul and his charges of American 'imperialism.'"

Tuesday September 29, 2009, 2:27 pm
The Secret Service just called to thank me .... for my screen grab of the poll asking whether President Obama should be killed, and said without it, they wouldn't have been able to address the matter.Go here to read the original post.... they rely on people like us to help them out. Sounds awfully grassrootsy, doesn't it? Almost community service-like. Imagine that.

Tuesday September 29, 2009, 2:36 pm
.... and I know many thank you as well Blue .... this is not right .... these kind of incitements cannot be allowed .... now THIS is unAmerican ..... I hope they catch them and put them in jail ... congrats on your fast action ....