Wingnuts/teabaggers really are the most loathsome douchebags in the world:
The teabaggers in this video are contemptible, heartless bottom-feeders. I wish every person in the United States would watch this. My dad suffered from Parkinson’s for 15+ years before he passed away. It is an unrelenting, horrible disease. He could barely speak or move near the end of his life. But, ha ha!, let’s giggle as “real Americans” chuck some dollar bills at the pathetic “communist” who probably can’t afford coverage. These “patriots” are just the absolute worst.
Via Yglesias, here’s Charles Krauthammer on why Americans don’t want no gubmint takeover of health care:
It’s the essence of America. And it’s what distinguishes Americans who are essentially refugees of the old society in Europe. That’s why it’s always been harder to make Americans break to the yoke of government, as happened in Europe.
Look, once you get accustomed to the kind of entitlements you have in Sweden, England, France, elsewhere, it doesn’t get undone. And America is different. It’s resisting the imposition of new yokes. And that’s what’s happening today.
Yglesias notes: “My ancestors fled Europe more because of the pogroms than because of the Czar’s efforts to expand the welfare state.” Excellent point, Matt. And mine most definitely did not leave Ireland because the NHS waiting list for knee replacement surgery was too long.
But there’s a kernel of truth to what Krauthammer says: “It doesn’t get undone.” And that’s why the puppeteers who are making the teabaggers dance are becoming increasingly desperate to stop health care reform.
A lot of blogs are posting this CBS news video of an angry teabagger yelling into the door of Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office today (before it’s shut in his face):
I’m pretty certain that this is our ol’ pal Tito the Builder. I’m not a voice specialist, but the man in the video sounds just like Tito, who is also a Colombian immigrant. In addition, the man from today’s video is wearing a wedding band that looks just the one Tito can be seen wearing in this video. I’m not 100% sure since Tito always wore sunglasses and I can’t find any evidence of him boasting about being arrested four times in his former country, but I’d put down a pretty sizable sum on a bet if anyone wants to take me up on it…
UPDATE: It’s gotta be Tito. Gerry Connolly represents VA’s 11th district and he has an office (listed at the bottom of this page) in Woodbridge, the home of Deborn Construction, Inc., the company Tito owns.
From yard-sign-to-yard-sign, yesterday’s anti-HCR protest in Strongsville, OH lasted slightly longer than it takes to microwave a breakfast burrito.
PS: Nice editorial bookending by the videographer. As the Bush/Cheney sign drifts into frame, you can almost hear Charles Foster Kane whisper “Turdblossom.”
Extra sucky Ray Stevens, not-even-close-to-famous for his awful, awful 70’s novelty hit “The Streak,” is back again to prove why wingnuts will never, ever be capable of taking over the music industry. In his latest jag rag for teabaggin’ jerkoffs, Stevens pays homage to Sarah Palin, but according to Ray’s publicist Elroy, who is obviously editing Steven’s Wikipedia page, the satire is sooooo skillfully crafted that anti-Palin people might be fooled:
This music video is about Sarah Palin and it takes the derogatory phrase caribou barbie and twists it around as a compliment. The video uses a Palin impersonator and through the help of sight-gags it takes aim at several high profile newscasters on cable television. The video also parodies Sarah Palin’s image and it’s possible that those who do not like Palin will perhaps misinterpret the song’s meaning as an attack on the former Alaskan Governor instead of hearing it as a pro-Palin message, which it is.
Watch this at your own peril. Stevens has plans for you, Obot.
Sarah Palin hates Health Care Reform so much, she doesn’t care how bad it hurts you to tie your shoelaces or pick up the newspaper on your porch. Hell, she’s young, rich and healthy—and she’s probably never even heard of stenosis—so what does it matter to her as long as you twist your crushed nerves and scoliosis into an upright position to oppose the Dark Machinations of the Kenyan Usurper?
With a Stiff Spine America Must Stand Against Obamacare
Today at 11:24am
If Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and President Obama get their way, soon our country will be changed forever. Using every partisan parliamentary trick in the book (including some they invented just last week), Washington’s Left intends to ram through their takeover of our health care system regardless of the consequences.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but if I have to oppose Obamacare with a stiff spine, I might as well oppose it with my enlarged liver, predisposition to diabetes, diminished lung capacity and melon-sized prostate.
Snark aside, Sarah’s new Facebook emission is chock-full of warmed-over, debunked BOILERPLATE FAIL, which she has apparently recycled in an attempt to remain relevant to somebody, somewhere. I encourage you to read it, if only for the fun of hunting down the implied-Death-Panel “Easter Egg” she has cleverly hidden in the plastic grass of her crouton-padded word salad.
Glenn Beck made a big deal out of landing an exclusive, hour-long one-on-one with outraged, seething, ready-to-go-Krakatoa Dem Congressman Eric Massa. Malkin and Limbaugh both warned him that interviewing Massa was likely to be the “Al Capone’s Vault” of misbegotten on-air scoops, but Beck predictably followed his gut straight into this year’s Christmas party reel of TV’s Queasiest Moments.
I haven’t screened the entire show, but this clip is guaranteed to make you feel like Emily Litella watching a live performance of “Who’s On First?” featuring Bob Dole and the ghost of Brother Theodore. The other segments can be viewed here.
From the comments on the Freeper live-thread, I get the feeling Beck was as bored as his audience by the end. Bored—but, surprisingly enough, not to tears.
The vocal opponent of health care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” she said. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic.”
Palin was apparently using “ironic” in it’s rarely-employed alternative sense of “cynical, double-dealing hypocrisy.”
Dan Riehl’s by-God had enough of getting elitist, America-hating arugula jammed down his throat. From now on, it’s Leafy Green Spinach, or Death.
Granted, the Right doesn’t have much to celebrate lately. Their leaders seem silly, obtuse, feckless and prone to spontaneous performances of Comic Opera on the public stage. Warring bloggers, dueling Tea Parties and freelance IEDs like Palin and Beck have unleashed Open-Source Lunacy on a 4th Generation political battlefield where Republican message-control is proving increasingly vulnerable to “Black Swans” and systempunkt attacks.
With contrarian surreality, wingnut blogs announce that the never-before-thus-unified Right is inexorably “in the Ascendant.” Conservative pundits claim Obama is “finished” and the Democrats are “committing suicide.” The Hill is alive with vows to “recapture Congress” and “take back the Country.” Nonetheless, the USS Usurper steams blithely ahead, intent on reaching its destination and indifferent to the Conservative howl that “reconciliation” is a legislative equivalent of the Black Mass, with Orc-eyed Obama presiding over a blasphemous procedural peversion where Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi dance widdershins whilst reciting the Constitution backwards.
On a cinematic scale of vengeance-spawning insults, last week’s tableau of senior Congressional Republicans seated in a Kindergarten-desk semicircle as Prof. Obama distributed juice boxes, Fruit Roll-Ups and stern upbraids rivals Capt. Kirk’s stranding of Ricardo Montalban on Ceti Aplha V. But it’s the prospect of reconciliation that finally has Conservatives channeling Ahab.
Gawd. “America’s Truth Detector” lives like my Aunt TilliePercy Dovetonsils.
Rush Limbaugh has placed his full-floor 5th Avenue penthouse on sale for $13.95 million. HuffPo has photos here.
Rush’s vast collection of Keane paintings, Capodimonte lamps and lace antimacassars to be sold separately on HSN.
UPDATE: Fellow ‘Roaster Betty Cracker does me ten better in the comments:
Say Don Ho and Liberace had a love child who ate a greasy meal at a cheap Midwestern fish house and chased it with innumerable Captain Morgan and Tab cocktails, then vomited beach kitsch and ornate accoutrements all over a Red Roof Inn bridal suite. The resulting mess might resemble this:
It’s Rush Limbaugh’s bedroom—a sight heretofore seen only by maids with hillbilly heroin connections, brainless, amoral gold-diggers and perhaps Caribbean sex tourist kidnap victims. And it can be yours for only $14M.
Betty says it all: “More proof that money can’t buy class.” Plus, you have to wonder how many of his truck-drivin’, coal-minin’, Good Ole Boy listeners he’s had up to the Parlor for Pousse Café and finger dainties.
A new player seems to have entered the political landscape. Frustrated and fed-up by partisan gridlock on, literally, every important issue in Washington, Annabel Park, a documentary filmmaker, launched a Facebook page titled “Join the Coffee Party Movement”. The page quickly took off (currently over 60,000 fans) and the NY Times took notice reporting that “[g]rowing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to ‘support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.’ ”
Further:
The slogan is “Wake Up and Stand Up.” The mission statement declares that the federal government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans.”
Park was also interviewed on CNN about the goals of the fledgling group where she stated:
First of all, I love coffee. Although at times I definitely like tea as well. But there is actually a historical reference as well. During the American Revolution, after they dumped tea into the harbor, they actually declared coffee the national drink. That was the solution to the problem. So I associate coffee not only with solutions, but also with people working, working hard. Because we need to wake up and work hard to get our government to represent us.
OK, sounds intriguing enough that I have become a fan. (Although I think the assertions that they may be able to work towards better government with the Tea Party groups are naive.) The group is attempting to arrange rallies around the country on March 13. Check out their Facebook page and their website if you are interested.
This music video is the creation of director and “pie baker” (WTF?) Molotov Mitchell, who has done work for WND, is a REALLY GOOD CHRISTIAN (he has “ZEALOT” tattooed on his arm), and, according to his YouTube channel, is inordinately obsessed with homosexuals (seriously, just scroll ... TEH GAYS HAUNT HIS HETERO DREAM WORLD!).
The only nice thing I can say about this video is that it’s better than anything the Young Cons have ever done and if that bar were any lower it would be poking up sod in China. And congrats to Islamophobic “Constitution Kate” and birther “The MZA” (Meathead Zipper Attack?) for being two of the whitest people I’ve ever seen in my life. Now everyone point and laugh because pasty wingnuts are rappin’ again! Yaaaaay! [via Instaputz and Wonkette]
With 3% of the vote tallied in the Texas Republican Gubernatorial primary, TPM reports that sitting Governor Rick Perry holds a commanding lead in the polls at 53%, with Kay Bailey Hutchison at 31% and Tea Party activist Debra Medina at 17%.
Rested and fit following her studied silence on Scott Brown’s Massachusetts Senate run, Facebook Celebrity and nominal Tea Party patroness Sarah Palin endorsed established Pubbie-machine candidate Perry on February 3. Despite taking that slap from the unjotted side of Palin’s hand, Medina had by February 6 closed within four points of Hutchinson, and credibly threatened to pass Hutchinson in the final stretch to a two-way runoff with Perry.
Perry looks like a slam-dunk win in today’s race. Meanwhile, Palin has also endorsed detested Arizona bull-RINO Sen. John McCain’s campaign for re-election, and Glenn Beck is still a confused, insane asshole.
