Must Be Nice

What happens to you if you are a Republican lawyer who has been found to have helped to author memos which authorized the illegal torture of enemy detainees? If you are John Yoo you get a paying gig at your local newspaper to publish Bush administration propaganda of course.

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Shuster PWNS Campbell

Hardball was a major dissappointment today but David Shuster more than made up for it by PWNING Congressman Campbell over the GOP alternative budget. Now on Olbermann they announced some bullshit show for Ed Shultz called "The Ed Show" which supposedly is going to air at the time that Shuster comes on. Ed Shultz is great on radio but sucks monkey balls on Tee Vee and if they make that switch I am definitely not watching that show and I don't think I am alone. I hope somebody brings some clarity to the situation, and soon!

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Unspoofable

If I told you that the Republicans elected a free republic blogger to represent them in the race for Rahm Emanuel's old House seat in Illinois would you believe me? I mean this is something we might joke about on liberal and progressive blogs but surely it would never happen.....right?

As we noted on Monday, a newly-created blog has been compiling inflammatory comments posted to the Free Republic website by Rosanna Pulido, the Republican candidate in the 5th Congressional District race. For years, Pulido has contributed to the right-wing site under the nickname "chicagolady."

Now that is the actual source blog post for more info but I wanted to excerpt some of the fun Wonkette had with this story:

While it would be quite unusual to say that Pulido likes black people, they are her de facto allies in the more important battle against the Mexicans, who have a secret plan! As “chicagolady” wrote last October,

The TRUTH is, Obama will legalize 12-20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS, and THUS SELL THE BLACKS, His own Race BACK into slavery!

The Illegals coming over pretty much hate African Americans.

He is going to unleash REAL racism upon his own people as they fight for jobs with the illegal aliens.

It has already happened in LA, just ask Ted Hayes!!

Ha ha, who else said this?: “The Illegals coming over pretty much hate African Americans.” Mark Penn!

Also, the housing bubble was caused by Mexicans giving Mexican money to other Mexicans as a “diversion” for the upcoming War on Blacks.

Thanks for posting and verifing what we we thinking. BUT you missed something! A lot of those loans were made by Mexicans preying on Mexicans. Not white Americans preying on Mexicans. What is being exposed here is a diversion created by the Hispanics who want money at any cost and the corruption and culture they are bringing with them. They would sell swamp land in Florida to their own grandmother.

I lived in Mexico for a year as a missionary. I was ripped off the worst by the Bible students. It is so cultural to rip people off they do not see that it is wrong. It’s culture.

Oh and she hates the Muslims too, but probably only because she thinks they’re Mexicans. Here she jokes about how funny the Muslims look when they pray to their Mexican God:

It reminds me of my dog, smelling buts.

Ha ha, she can’t spell “butts” correctly, because she’s illiterate.

Official Republican nominee for Congress, everyone!

There is officially nothing that the GOP can do now to surprise me.

GOP = Fringe Of America

I have offered the opinion before that today's Republican Party is now run by the fringe of America. We used to be able to kind of laugh off something some far right kook said but the problem is now those far right kooks actually hold positions of power in the GOP. Whether its Michele Bachmann in Congress or Mark Sandford on the state level or Rush Limbaugh who as a radio host seems to have the most power in the Republican Party of anybody. Well I know some people think that its just not true and that there are moderates in the party who will lead it back to prominence but increasingly the evidence is just stacking up in my favor. Check out this official questionaire posted at the official RNC webpage and tell me this is in any way, shape, or form "moderate".

Just a few examples:

1. A recent national poll reported that nearly 25% of Americans want the government to pass more socialism. Do you agree or disagree?

4. Do you oppose so-called "card-check" legislation, which eliminates secret ballot elections during unionization drives and puts workers at risk of intimidation by labor bosses?

6. Should Republicans in Congress oppose the new wasteful government spending programs passed in the recent "stimulus" bill by the Pelosi-Reid Democrats designed to "spread the wealth"?

8. Should we do everything we can to block Democrats who are trying to shut down conservative talk radio with the so-called "fairness doctrine"?

9. Should we resist Barack Obama's proposal to spend billions of federal taxpayer dollars to pay "volunteers" who perform his chosen tasks?

11. Should bureaucrats in Washington, DC be in charge of making your health care choices instead of you and your doctor?

1. If Barack Obama tries to gut the USA PATRIOT Act and other important laws that promote the safety and security of all Americans, should Republicans in Congress fight back?

5. Do you think U.S. troops should have to serve under United Nations' commanders?

7. Should we fight military-cutting efforts in Congress, such as the proposal from liberal Barney Frank to slash the Pentagon budget by 25%?

8. Even though Barack Obama pledged to meet personally with the likes of Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, should Republicans continue to focus on supporting democratic movements in oppressive states like Cuba, Venezuela and Iran?

Now again, this isn't a spoof. Someone sat down and took time out to actually come up with every single one of those ridiculous leading questions. I just wonder why they didn't include something like "Do you oppose President Obama's plan to allow him to sleep with underaged white girls once a week while smoking crack?" The RNC should be ashamed to have this posted on their website. But they aren't because in the immortal words of Coach Denny Green "They are who we thought they were".
Its about time everyone just started accepting that fact.


(h/t Benen)