Wah Wah Wah Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Remember the newest faux outrage over a school having kids sing songs that indoctrinated praised recognized President Obama's contributions so far? Yeah, turns out that it seems to have been a victimless crime and that the parents of the kids were given prior notice and nobody has objected before or since.



I guess when it comes to right wing faux outrage as Jay Z would say its "on to the next one".

*Apologies for posting a video featuring Greta Van Susteren

Saw You Coming From A Mile Away

The wingnuts aided and abetted if not led by FoxNews had become apoplectic about the number of "czars" in the Obama administration. Setting aside the facts that Republican President President Richard Nixon was the first one to come up with the word czar to describe one of his advisor, that George W. Bush had 47 so called "czars", that the people who are called "czars" really have official titles that don't include that word, that the media largely are the ones who describes people as czars instead of their official titles, and that more than a few of the people the right wingers describe as czars have been confirmed by the Senate, other than that they might actually have a point. Of course because the wingnuts are shrieking about this bullshit, the mainstream media feels they have to cover it. Well White House Spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was fully prepared for this line of questioning.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs fired back at GOP critics of White House czars on Wednesday.

Gibbs said GOP “silence was deafening” on the issue of czars during former President George W. Bush's administration.

Republicans didn’t raise the issue, he said, when Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) pushed a Y2K czar or when Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) called for a manufacturing czar.

“You've read Sen. Bennett was pushing for a Y2K czar that he didn't think was powerful enough,” Gibbs said. “You've seen Lamar Alexander call for a manufacturing czar."

He also brought up the name of Randall Tobias, a Bush administration deputy secretary of State and “abstinence czar” who resigned after it was discovered his name was on a prostitution-services call list.

“You know, somebody referred to in the Bush administration as the abstinence czar was on the D.C. Madam's list,” Gibbs said. “Now, did that violate the Constitution, or simply offend our sensibilities?”

Gibby FTW!

(h/t Benen)

The Wingnuts Win Again

I am sick and tired of this bullshit!

Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigned Saturday, following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements.

"I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today," Jones said in a statement dated Sept 5 released around midnight on Sept 6.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide," he continued. "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

White House officials had offered tepid support last week Jones after he issued two public apologies in recent days, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

Earlier, Jones said he was "clearly inappropriate" in using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.

Republicans had demanded further action against Jones. Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.) on Friday called on the adviser to resign or be fired, saying in a statement, "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."

Senator Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged Congress to investigate Jones's "fitness" for the position, writing in an open letter, "Can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?" On Saturday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), added his voice as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "Van Jones has to go", he wrote on his Twitter account.

Ironically enough, part of the reason Van Jones had to resign was because he stated a fact. That Republicans are assholes and that's why they generally get there way. Well if this doesn't justify that remark I don't know what does. We lose a guy who is one of the preeminent voices for green energy and for what? Because he used a cuss word? Because he might have signed a 9-11 truther statement 5 years ago? You have sitting members of Congress who have questioned President Obama's citizenship and religious background not to speak of assholes, yeah I said assholes, like Senator James Inhofe that have intimated Obama is a terrorist sympathizer. That's not even to bring up the ones who have been screwing around on their wives. But have any of those sorry bastards even considered stepping down?

HELL NO!

And yet here again we have Democrats tucking tail and running at the first sign of controversy. If you are wondering why people are starting to lose faith in President Obama here is a prime example. Who would want to work in an administration that doesn't stand behind its people? Hell has anyone even heard whether or not the Senate is EVER going to confirm Dawn Johnsen to head the OLC?!

Now Van Jones suggests that he wasn't pressured to leave. If that is the case then I am extremely dissappointed in him too. Resigning over bullshit like this only serves to embolden the asshole right wingers to keep pulling the same thing over and over again. But even if he wasn't pressured he certainly didn't get any words of support either from the administration.

Now let President Obama walk away from the public option now. If he thought he was taking on water before, lets see him try to stay afloat then.

Im so frikkin done.

Deep Thought

Has Nancy Pelosi resigned her Speakership yet?

What Comes Next

The Hill got their hands on a copy of the Republican talking points on Judge Sotomayor. Just follow along with the script whilst listening to GOP representatives appearing on cable news channels.