Republicans: Waaa-tastic

Top Republicans in the House of Representatives say Republicans decided not to try to shore up the U.S. economy because Nancy Pelosi hurt their feelings.

"We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House."

House minority leader John Boehner (R) said Pelosi's speech, which criticized the last eight years of deregulation that got us into this mess, "poisoned our conference (and) caused a number of members that we thought we could get to go south."

Pathetic.

Speaking of going south, the Dow is down almost 7% on the news that Republican feelings are so delicate.

John McCain thinks women deserve lower pay

Republicans, including John McCain, came right out and called women stupid and incapable last week, blocking a bill to allow women to sue employers for sex-based pay discrimination. Congress had to write this seemingly-obvious law because the Republican Supreme Court put an arbitrary 6-month time limit on such lawsuits.

Now, I love it when the Republicans' true colors shine on through. Like when one of them spoke at a Hitler birthday party recently. Just as they believe whites are a superior race (listen to them talk about immigrants and foreign middle names and black people), Republicans really do believe women are less-than creatures only capable of looking pretty and wiping shit off baby-ass.

And they, John McCain in particular, came right out and said so last week.

While skipping the vote allowing women to get justice, John McCain said women deserve lower pay because women who got and performed the same jobs as their male colleagues are just too stupid to (wait for it) get and perform the same jobs as their male colleagues. "They need the education and training," McCain said, explaining why he opposes equal pay for women who get and perform the same jobs as their male colleagues.

Got that? If you're being underpaid for a job you earned and perform by a boss who disrespects women, you deserve that. Because you're stupid, according to John McCain and the Republican party.

If you see how that's wrong, lady, you're not the stupid one. Republicans are. Let's use our votes against them, shall we?

Collective punishment versus justice

A small news story yesterday was the United Nations condemning Israel's use of "collective punishment."

It is extremely important that more people understand the destructive meaning of the phrase "collective punishment." I first learned it when Bush decided to collectively punish the entire country of Afghanistan in retribution for 9/11. Great, I thought. Bush looked at the never-ending war in collective-punishment-loving Israel and decided he wanted a piece of that good stuff for the U.S. of A.

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Collective punishment is severe injustice. Remember Qana, when Israel killed dozens of children to "punish" some kidnappers? If not, graphic image, graphic image, graphic image, graphic image, graphic image, graphic image. Why do they hate us, in-fucking-deed. The Qana massacre was the first time since 9/11 that the news made me cry. No, scrub that, there was Bush's re-"election", which drove me into a depression from which I haven't yet recovered.

The American sense of justice has been badly perverted by the Republicans leading our country since 9/11. Just as in Martin Luther King's day, racism, pure and simple, drives our foreign policy, propped up by television shows like "24", which assumes brown people are guilty until "proven" guilty by confessions delivered under torture.

That's not justice, and it's not the innocent-until-proven-guilty, Bill of Rights America I loved before Bush got his idiot hands on it. I hope the America that believes in justice, not the racist mob vengeance of "collective punishment," returns by January 21, 2009. That America is that only one strong and intelligent enough to capture and punish Osama bin Laden, instead of innocent brown children who possibly live on the same continent.

Why I hate Republicans

"If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democratic president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, a personal fantasy of mine." -- Republican spokesmodel Ann Coulter

"Hate" is not a word I toss around lightly. But I fucking hate Republicans. I don't hate you personally, individual Republican. You're just a little stupid or selfish or both. I can forgive you personally, just like your main man Jesus said I should. But I hate the "Grand" Old Party and what it has done to our country since Bill Clinton got that extremely ill-advised blow job and Republicans used their, ahem, superior moral values to take over our country.

Let's take it back, ladies and gentlemen. Please.

Republicans wrote Bush another blank check

So, y'know the Republican mavericks, moderates, "solons", whatever weird thing you like to call them? They ain't. They just voted to give Dubya another multi-billion dollar blank check to stay the course in Iraq.

Republican Senators John McCain (AZ), Olympia Snowe (ME), Gordon Smith (OR), Susan >Collins (ME), John Sununu (NH), Norm Coleman (MN), and Chuck Hagel (NE), all called "moderates" by the media, all decided to ignore the fact that 59% of Americans wanted a bill with a timeline.

This apparently is not because they think they're doing the right thing. Hagel voted to fund, without oversight, what he calls a "hopeless, winless situation." Smith thinks the policy he just funded, without oversight, to the tune of billions of tax dollars and many more lives lost, is "deeply immoral" and "may even be criminal." This isn't the first time Collins has said one thing and done another on Iraq.

OH HAI!!!

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