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Our chief weapon is fear...fear and resentment.
Fear and resentment.... Our two weapons are fear and resentment...and anger.
Our *three* weapons are fear, resentment and anger...and an almost fanatical devotion to self-deception....
Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, resentment.... I'll come in again.
“I just hope the Congress, the Senate and the president recognize that people are afraid of what's going on.” All fear all the time is what the Republicans want. Everyone should be afraid of everything except whatever bullshit policy the republicans are cramming down our throats at any given time.
The middle aged white person temper tantrum show of 2009 must be read in context: The Republicans have governed won elections for so long using these three four weapons that they cannot understand how the dems and the voters will not respond to them now.
Of course the Congress still does, because they are led by DINO cowards Reid and Pelosi and crippled by blue dog "democrats" that vote republican.
The WH seems to capable of standing up to them in some ways. I wonder what's different about this president that he could confront a large powerful organization designed to generate and multiply fear and resentment.
Republican Congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina heckled the president of the United States from the floor of the House during a joint session of Congress this evening, screaming "You lie!" while the President addressed Republican spin regarding medical benefits to immigrants.
This is not the first time that representatives from South Carolina have disgraced Congress.
In May, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Masschusetts gave a speech describing slavery as a harlot, comparing South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler with Don Quixote for embracing it, and mocking Butler for a physical handicap. Three days later, Congressman Brooks advanced on Sumner while he worked at his desk in the Senate chamber and beat him into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to strike Sumner's prone and unconscious form until he snapped his cane in two. Fellow South Carolinian Congressman Laurence Keitt brandished a pistol to repel anyone attempting to stop the attack.
The next part of the story reflects the true honor and chivalry of the gentleman from South Carolina. Massachusetts congressman Anson Burlingame was a vocal critic of the attack. When Burlingame denounced Brooks as a coward on the floor of the House, Brooks challenged him to a duel, and Burlingame accepted the challenge. Burlingame, as the challenged party, specified rifles as the weapons, and to get around anti-dueling laws he named the Canadian side of Niagara Falls as the site. Brooks backed out of the challenge, claiming that he would be murdered on his way north. Burlingame's reputation as an avid deer hunter and a deadly shot with a rifle could also have been a factor.
Right wing douchebags are right to tremble with uncontrollable pants-wetting fear about indoctrination by Obama in his upcoming speech to schoolchildren. He is sincere, intelligent, articulate, charming, and persuasive - all the things the Boy King of Crawford was not.
President Obama's advice and ideas are likely to be considered (and well received) by anyone with an open mind.
George Herbert Walker Bush, St. Ronnie, and duhbew all made appearances with schoolkids. Hey Republicans, how'd that work out for you?
This article was published in 2003. On reading it, the question immediately jumped to my mind: Where are the assholes profiled in the story now? What damage have they done to our country since their little cult of fundamentalist lunacy was disclosed?
Well, La Casa Nostra is still going strong, as Ensign and Sanford are made men in that Family.
The circumstances about Republican Senator John Ensign's confession of breach of trust, adultery and deceit are surprisingly similar to those of current republican hypocrite Mark Sanford. During the Lewinsky scandal a decade ago, Ensign voted to remove the president from office, and Sanford also voted to remove Clinton from office. When other prominent politicians got caught in sex scandals, Ensign went on the attack, and Sanford also went on the attack. Ensign is an evangelical Christian who has promoted the "sanctity" of marriage; Sanford is an evangelical Christian who has promoted the "sanctity" of marriage. Additional hypocrite republicans who had no problem legislating private behavior until they were caught include Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, Mark "Turn the Page" Foley and "Diaper Dave" Vitter.
These men are in the party that pushed to amend the Consitution to protect "the sanctity of marriage" but who are so afraid of the constitutional frailty of legislating religious claptrap that they also moved to strip the courts of jurisdiction to hear cases relating to it.
These are the people running our country. They see no irony in using the Mafia, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and Pol Pot as their role models; nor in
lumping Jesus in with that group.
The Republican wingnut welfare circle jerk continues: Dick Cheney is now writing a book for which Threshold Editions, the imprint headed by Mary Matalin, his close friend and adviser, will pay him TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
Karl Rove's book will also be published by Threshold.
Matalin will then herself or through her minions pimp the books on TV and in print. Some other RNC cash cow/stooge will preorder a shitwagon full of the book to gin up a phony NYT "bestseller" claim. The republican corporate welfare handout continues unabated.
Alaska's First Cuckold Turd Palin disliked daughter Bristol's ex-fiance Levi Johnston so much that he offered to buy his daughter a car if she split from the moronic high school dropout. The 19-year-old putative father of "Bristol's" five-month-old son puked up the spew on his rocky relationship with the Wasilla hillbilly clan in a soon-to-be published interview in GQ -- and said that even though he would not be able to read it, he felt others should know that his would-be family values father-in-law was so desperate to send him (fudge) packing that he tried to bribe his irresponsible dick addict daughter with a car on multiple occasions. The unemployed self-proclaimed "fucking redneck" made a poor impression on the family of McCain candidacy killer Sarah Palin -- but slutty teen mom Bristol refused to stop fucking the brain dead sperm donor until their inevitable breakup in March.
The split caused infighting between the two trailer trash families -- and the Johnstons went public with their gripes over custody and child support. "I'd give anything for [Tripp], to really be his father," Levi said during a television interview in March. "[There are] a lot of changes when you're a party to a fraudulent scheme to conceal your girlfriend's mom's illegitimate baby. When you hold him for the first time, you know, I don't do a lot of things I used to anymore, like the meth I bought from my aunt."
Bristol's butt-nuggeted moose hunting ex went on a media blitz after the break up so he could "show that everyone in both familiies are complete and total fucknuckles." he said.
Now that his republican enablers, protectors and beneficiaries no longer can illegitimately block or otherwise forestall letting the sun shine on governmental actions, Turdblossom is scheduled to be interviewed as part of a criminal investigation into the politically driven firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush Administration. It's about time this devious slimy malevolent smarmy asshole was called to account for his crimes. I only hope the fucking democrats have enough spine, balls and other body parts to effectively turn on the lights to make the roaches scurry.
Why did Condoleezza Rice, John D. Ashcroft and at least 10 other Bush officials review and approve in the summer of 2002 the use of torture on people kidnapped and held by the bush administration at secret prisons? To protect the homeland? To stop attacks on our troops overseas?
No.
The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees to find nonexistent evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime. A former senior U.S. intelligence official said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration. Interestingly, Condi Rice gave her approval to torture two weeks before (current Federal Judge) Jay Bybee completed his memo allowing the CIA to torture Abu Zubaydah, so the notion that the Bush torture regime was doing so pursuant to legal authorization is yet another lie.
From the horse's mouth:
There was no actionable intelligence gained from using enhanced interrogation techniques on Abu Zubaydah that wasn’t, or couldn’t have been, gained from regular tactics. In addition, I saw that using these alternative methods on other terrorists backfired on more than a few occasions — all of which are still classified. The short sightedness behind the use of these techniques ignored the unreliability of the methods, the nature of the threat, the mentality and modus operandi of the terrorists, and due process.
Many in government and the SCLM are resisting the notion of investigating the torture policies of the United States during the Bush years, arguing that no one knew any better. This “we all failed” stuff is just bullshit.
There are plenty of dirty fucking hippies who opposed the craziness every step of the way, Including the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, who pulled his men out of the field and told his people that they would not participate in these tactics, showing that some in law enforcement still respect the law; and that doing so is a prerequisite for others to do so as well.
Oh, and this guy:
"The United States is committed to the world-wide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and unusual punishment. I call on all nations to speak out against torture in all its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of their diplomacy."
It's one sentence, and he practiced all week, but he still got his lines wrong. This is the best that Republican jurisprudence has to offer? The Federalist Society must be proud.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) placed a hold on Hillary Clinton's nomination to be Secretary of State. Cornyn, an asshole, trumps up a pile of right wing Clinton mythology bullshit to justify his conduct, but the essence is that he finds it more important to play political games than to permit the US to immediately regain some credibility in internation relations after years of Bush sending around feckless idiots like Conduhleezza Rice. Although the Senate eventually confirmed Clinton anyway, Cornhole's perfidious conduct shows him for the dick that he is. Cornhole continued his obstructionist ways by putting a hold on Eric Holder's nomination as Attorney General because the Corndog doesn't want the Bushies who tortured prisoners in our secret prisons or those who devised, implemented and approved those actions, up to and including the highest levels of the Bush assministration, to be held accountable for their conduct.
