Are You Fucking Kidding Me?

Conservatives like to complain about the Obama administration pointing out that they inherited the financial crisis and one of the worst recessions in our history from the Bush administration. Well I would love to see those assholes response to Mary Maitlin claiming that Bush inherited 9/11.

Yeah, personal responsibility and all that. Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

Break Out The Wingnut Fainting Couches

After the GOP and various wingnut outfits whined over Congressman Alan Grayson and his statement that the Republican health care plan is to not get sick or die quickly, I can't wait for all of them to condemn Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for her latest in a bunch of over the top hyperbolic statements against health care reform.



At the very least you would expect the Dick and Liz Cheney crowd to blast her for not taking terrorism seriously enough right???

FoxNews Vs Reality On Ted Kennedy And Medicare Part D

In their quest to create a myth that Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy, the "Liberal Lion of the Senate", would be willing to sacrifice the public option just to get a health care reform bill, FoxNews has been engaging in some pretty blatant revisionist history. Thankfully Jed Lewison is on the case to expose them for the liars that they are. Please pass this video on before this meme actually becomes a reality for people who aren't really paying attention.

ENOUGH!

That's it dammit! It is high time that President Obama started kicking some ConservaDem ass. These are the same assholes who a few weeks ago were bitching and moaning about liberal and progressive groups running ads against them. Well FUCK THAT! Its time for those liberal and progressive groups to get some help from the Oval office. Its time to make those Democrats' names mud in their states. I don't give a damn where they hail from. Give me a simple majority of all REAL Democrats over a supermajority full of DINOs any damn day! I am so tired of these sorry muthafuckas working against Democratic priorities and principles and then enjoying the backing of the Democratic establishment when its time to for reelection. Cut off the muthafucking money. Let them sink or swim with the Republican constituents and special interests they seem to court so fervently. Obviously it doesn't help that we have a pus...hover as a frikking Majority Leader. But dammit its not just Republicans who need to pay a price now for stepping out of line. With the shit they are trying to pull on health care reform this needs to be the death throes of the ConservaDems! Primary all of their asses and get them the hell out of Congress ASAP!

I apologize for all the exclamation points but I am pissed off right now.

For Those Who Made Excuses About Obama's Statement

Rahm Emmanuel has now made it official on "This Week With George Stephanopolous". No torture prosecutions for the bastards who ordered it.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Final quick question. The president has ruled out prosecutions for CIA officials who believed they were following the law. Does he believe that the officials who devised the policies should be immune from prosecution?

EMANUEL: What he believes is, look, as you saw in that statement he wrote, and I would just take a step back. He came up with this and he worked on this for about four weeks, wrote that statement Wednesday night, after he made his decision, and dictated what he wanted to see. And Thursday morning, I saw him in the office, he was still editing it.

He believes that people in good faith were operating with the guidance they were provided. They shouldn't be prosecuted.

STEPHANOPOULOS: What about those who devised policy?

EMANUEL: Yes, but those who devised policy, he believes that they were -- should not be prosecuted either, and that's not the place that we go -- as he said in that letter, and I would really recommend people look at the full statement -- not the letter, the statement -- in that second paragraph, "this is not a time for retribution." It's time for reflection. It's not a time to use our energy and our time in looking back and any sense of anger and retribution.

Judd Gregg Goes Full WingNut

Yesterday Judd Gregg said that the United States wouldn't qualify to join the EU right now because of our deficits. Of course he was wrong. But the truth is Gregg has been wrong about quite a lot lately and yet he still gets major airplay on major cable news stations primarily because he was the nominee for Commerce Secretary for about five seconds. Steve Benen over at Washington Monthly takes him down.

It's worth remembering that Gregg doesn't know what he's talking about. The EU offers flexibility to governments that are responding to economic crises -- note to Gregg: we're in the midst of an economic crisis -- and several EU members will run deficits well above 3% this year. Those countries will be expected to lower those deficits in the coming years, which not incidentally, is what the Obama administration plans to do in the U.S.

For that matter, Gregg repeatedly supported, enthusiastically, Bush budgets that ran deficits that were more than 3% of GDP. Gregg did not, at the time, run to the cable networks to whine about it.

But let's also note that Gregg is just popping off in the media a little too much lately. In addition to his confusion about the EU, he also told CNN the other day, "The practical implications of [the Obama administration's budget] is bankruptcy for the United States. There's no other way around it. If we maintain the proposals that are in this budget over the ten-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt. People will not buy our debt, our dollar will become devalued."

First, Gregg is completely wrong. Second, his wildly irresponsible claptrap undermines confidence in the United States on the global stage in the midst of an economic crisis. In other words, by making a series of nonsensical and unsupported claims about our economy, Gregg actually runs the risk of undermining our national interests.

Gregg has been wrong about nearly every major economic challenge of the last couple of decades. If he could take this moment to enjoy a little quiet time, instead of acting like a partisan hack, we'd all be better off.

Its ironic that a man that nobody paid much attention to before now is using his celebrity from being the Commerce Secretary nominee to now use that platform to lob irresponsible accusations at the President who nominated him in the first place. I guess its true when they say no good deed goes unpunished. We can only hope that people see through his facade and notice his hypocrisy from the time George Bush was in office until now.

Go Get Em Contessa!

I am not a big fan of MSNBC'S Contessa Brewer but she was ON FIRE today about the GOP's non budget proposal that they had been touting all week. So was Nora O'Donnell but I don't have that video yet.






Updated with Nora O'Donnell smacking around Congressman Mike Pence