Respect For Governing, Southern Style

An article from one of the esteemed (?) columnists in the Knoxville News this morning. (Hope you have your Mimosa ready to gulp....):

A couple of Tennessee Republican congressmen this week questioned officials involved in the Gestapo-esque targeting of groups disloyal to the Fuehrer, er, president, by the Internal Revenue Service. 

Rep. Scott DesJarlais, remembered high school government classes. “We were told what a great country we are because of the freedom we have — the freedom of the First Amendment, the freedom of speech, the right to hold elections without the fear of tyranny or being oppressed,” DesJarlais said. 

 Besides the stonewalling, Obama’s IRS Heroes, like the leader they’re protecting, project a smug, self-righteous disdain for conservative members of Congress,.....http://tinyurl.com/pddayao

You all may remember Scott DesJarlais: a Tea Party member, Family Values conservative who is also a doctor. (You with me so far? ) He also had a little problem with bullying his ex-mistress and forcing her to have an abortion. That last part isn't true he said, because she really wasn't even pregnant.....but he forced his soon-to-be-ex-wife to have two.

Then another mistress told of how he would write prescriptions for recreational pharmaceuticals for whomever he was dating...

Yes, I know....it all caught up with him: he was fined 500 dollars.

"Tennessee authorities apparently believe sexual exploitation of women is less serious than speeding." 

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/other/301685-gop-rep-desjarlais-fined-for-affairs-with-patients

For those of you who have never been intimately acquainted with the old South..this is how it's done. Of course there are LOTS of us doing our best to change that. And CONGRESS these days isn't helping....

Oh, and that bit about the IRS...they are really just pissed about the attention it's drawing TO them. Probably afraid the rest of us will find out about Karl Rove's groups, the Koch Brothers, and.........

The American People Have Spoken......But We Didn't Hear them

The past election was going to be a referendum against the Left, the "socialists," the "moochers," the "un-American Kenyan communist fascist illegal ruler-in-chief' and his "rabid followers"...... anybody who could see through the extreme Right's Tea Party incarnation and who dared to get the truth out  against it. The result was in the bag...the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove guaranteed it. But....it didn't quite happen that way. Not everyone was totally was one hundred per cent in the Obama camp, but deep down inside they felt that something wasn't quite kosher in GOP land.

That is....except in the Republican political world. Hence we have a repeat of:

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he has no regrets about saying the GOP’s top priority over the next two years will be to make Barack Obama a one-term president, calling Democratic attacks over the line “laughable.”........ They almost have nothing to say to the American people.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44491.html#ixzz2EaA0yNqX

Also, quoting Trent Lott Senate Minority Leader in 2007: “The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail… So far it’s working for us.”

They are still trying to act as if nothing has changed:

Republicans "know they have the debt ceiling" as leverage, Corker continued. "Hopefully, we'll do the same thing we did last time. And that is if the president wants to raise the debt limit..... (we cut)......hopefully this time, it is mostly oriented towards entitlement and with no process."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/09/bob-corker-debt-ceiling_n_2267211.html?ref=topbar

What is totally incomprehensible is everything they are NOW against, they were perfectly happy with decades ago.

 Republicans Voted Seven Times to Raise Debt Ceiling for President Bush

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/10-inconvenient-truths-about-debt-ceiling

We won, thank you. The people won. They lost, electorally and popularly. But we know what it's all really about.

It's all about control...or keeping "what's theirs."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfOik4IQYY


Well now..there's been a slight change of tone this afternoon:
"... Mr. Corker is part of a group of Republicans who say that the party ultimately will have to yield to the Obama demand of higher tax rates for top earners, potentially back to the levels that prevailed under President Bill Clinton.That group of Republicans, he said on Fox, was beginning to realize “that we don’t have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year end” – but that a tax-rate concession could be converted, jiu-jitsu style, into a tactical advantage."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/officials-foresee-progress-on-fiscal-talks/?partner=rss&emc=rss

The President's Apology Tour

This isn't going to end well....

I'm sure you remember this from a couple years ago:

The President's Apology Tour

By KARL ROVE

President Barack Obama has finished the second leg of his international confession tour. In less than 100 days, he has apologized on three continents for what he views as the sins of America and his predecessors.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044156269345357.html

Well, we've come a long way, baby. The Republican presumed-candidate for President of the United States is making his European grand tour...and from the impression he's making, he should be apologizing ALREADY:

Diplomacy Romney style: casts doubt on Britain's Olympic preparations; says last thing he wants is for US to be like Europe. Way to go Mitt!
— @jameschappers

Another Romney triumph as he forgets Ed Miliband's name: 'Like you, Mr Leader, I look forward to our conversation here this morning'.
— @jameschappers

Romney blunders again by revealing he's had (supposedly) top secret briefing by John Sawers, MI6 boss. Do we have a new Dubya on our hands?
— @jameschappers

Serious dismay in Whitehall at Romney debut. 'Worse than Sarah Palin.' 'Total car crash'. Two of the kinder verdicts #romneyshambles
— @jameschappers

Can this get any worse for Romney? Boris is now mocking him in front of 60,000 people in Hyde Park #romneyshambles
— @jameschappers

Another verdict from one Romney meeting: 'Apparently devoid of charm, warmth, humour or sincerity' #romneyshambles  #mitthitsthefan
— @jameschappers

James Chapman is a conservative and the editor of the Daily Mail

This isn't "news" to us. We've seen Romney insult NASCAR fans about wearing their ponchos (but he has friends that OWN NASCAR teams....) and make fun of cookies presented to him from a local bakery. We have seen him express profound rage and bewilderment over the President's comments in speeches..and proceed to use the same ones himself within the next week. We've heard him blast the President over supposedly saying "people don't build these companies by themselves" and to back up his speech...use supporters whose main sources of investment & business were government entities. 
http://tinyurl.com/dxcojhs
We've seen and heard from his wife.......

UPDATE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lnhVWtT0YQ&feature=youtu.be

But I really do feel sorry for the rest of the world having to endure this.
So on behalf of the saner citizens United States: I apologize!


P.S. Britain: If you think THIS is bad......you should have seen the OTHER candidates.....

OH, The Kerfuffle......

how DARE President Obama use the killing of Osama bin Ladin, on the anniversary of that event, to a political advantage. How totally arrogant, selfish of the man. How very "unpresidential." Republicans would never do that sort of thing…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26575-2004Mar3.html

It's bad enough that he took all the credit for it, and never mentioned the REAL heroes.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-seals-troops-back-afghanistan-job-well-done/comments?type=story&id=13543148#.T6FamO3FJ5g

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/02/1088101/-Jon-Stewart-DESTROYS-Republicans-whiny-excuses-over-Obama-s-bin-Laden-ad

So........to those totally despicable Right Wingers out there, I say this:





When you've got nothing of any substance to add to the solution, or to help those suffering in this country...caused by with years of YOUR policies.....I guess you've got to go with Karl Rove's meme of name calling, redirecting the debate, lying, eye rolling, misdirection, and everything short of sticking out your tongue.