Saturday, April 11, 2015

Why the GOP Is the Party of Stupid

The Republican Party: Where Gay Marriage is Apparently Worse than Murder, Genocide and Slavery

The Republican Party: Where Gay Marriage is Apparently Worse than Murder, Genocide and Slavery

"To listen to people like Sen. Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee or pretty much anyone from the Republican party talk about same-sex marriage, you would think that when it becomes legal in every state in the U.S. (which is soon going to happen), God will instantly bring down fire on all humankind. It is completely absurd. First, I would like to point out that gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in 2004 – and nothing happened besides gay couples being allowed to marry the person they love. Also, in Canada (you know, the country directly to the north of us that’s largely populated by Christians as well), they legalized same-sex marriage in 2007 and the country is doing just fine. But this irrational stupidity coming from these conservative radicals goes beyond even those two facts."

Watch Rick Santorum Talk About The Bigotry That Makes Him The Strong Leader We Need (VIDEO)

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/10/watch-rick-santorum-talk-about-the-bigotry-that-makes-him-the-strong-leader-we-need-video/
"Standing against equality doesn’t make anybody a strong leader. It makes them a bigot. Bigots can never be strong leaders in a country as diverse as ours."

“The GOP has scores of racists”: A former Bush official condemns modern Republican orthodoxy

“The GOP has scores of racists”: A former Bush official condemns modern Republican orthodoxy

"the retired U.S. Army colonel renewed his criticism of the GOP and the Bush administration. He also addressed recent saber rattling by Republicans on the issue of Iran."

Louisiana plans next anti-LGBT 'religious freedom' bill. It's even worse than the others.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376673/-Louisiana-plans-next-anti-LGBT-religious-freedom-bill-It-s-even-worse-than-the-others#
"It looks like Louisiana thinks they have solved the problem with the Indiana and Arkansas "religious freedoms" bills that have caused so much bad press and turmoil in those states. Those bills, you see, were overly broad, allowing critics to paint them possibly discriminatory. Louisiana will solve this problem by being openly discriminatory."

Iowa Man Sends ‘Anthrax’ Letter To Iowa Gay Bar: ‘Hopefully You’ll Die’

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/11/iowa-man-sends-anthrax-letter-to-iowa-gay-bar-hopefully-youll-die/
"Last year, an Arizona pastor told his congregation that we could rid the world of AIDS “by Christmas” if we executed every single LGBT individual. In 2013, a Tea Party candidate in Oklahoma said we should stone gay people.
“I think we would be totally in the right to do it,” Tea Partier Scott Esk wrote. “That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.” Esk later clarified that God did, indeed, encourage humans to stone gays, but “I have no plans to reinstitute that in Oklahoma law.”
These are but a couple of examples of the extremist right-wing propaganda machine that encourages men like Weithorn to terrorize the LGBT community. While we do have the right to believe as we choose, freedom of speech is not absolute. It’s time to end the hate."

Who Are The Christian Terrorist Groups?

Friday, April 10, 2015

GOP Plots to Win 2016 Presidency Without a Majority Popular Vote

GOP Plots to Win 2016 Presidency Without a Majority Popular Vote

"For a concrete example of how this plays out, look at the results of the 2012 congressional election. That year, according to BloombergBusiness, "nationwide, Democratic House candidates combined to win about 1.4 million more votes than Republicans." The result, however: The Republicans ended up with 234 congressional seats and the Democrats with 201."

Maybe There Should Be A Maximum Wage — Check Out How Much These CEOs Make Per Hour

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/08/maybe-there-should-be-a-maximum-wage-check-out-how-much-these-ceos-make-per-hour/
"When workers need additional assistance from the government, that’s not welfare for the workers, that’s welfare for the businesses that choose not to pay their employees fairly."

Reporters Guide to ALEC’s "Rich States, Poor States" Report

Reporters Guide to ALEC’s "Rich States, Poor States" Report

"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is slated to roll out its annual "Rich States, Poor States" publication this week. The document, whose lead author is economist Arthur Laffer, is sold to the press as an objective, academic measure of state economic performance, but should instead be viewed as a lobbyist scorecard ranking states on the adoption of extreme ALEC policies that have little or nothing to do with good economic outcomes.

The ALEC entity that publishes the report, the Center for State Fiscal Reform, has received large grants from the Bradley Foundation, the Searle Foundation and the now-closed Claude M. Lambe Foundation, one of the Koch family foundations. These foundations are major funders of a national right-wing infrastructure that includes ALEC and the State Policy Network, 64 state-based think tanks that produce reports, talking points and more to advance ALEC’s agenda of tax breaks for corporations, steep budget cuts and attacks on unionized workers.

ALEC brings together corporate lobbyists and state legislators to vote on "model" bills behind closed doors, which are then introduced by ALEC state legislators across the country. ALEC is almost entirely funded by industry, including Koch Industries, which has long served on the ALEC board, Altria (the former Phillip Morris) and Exxon Mobil."

Kansas - the Horror, Freak Show, Kochistan

Thursday, April 9, 2015

IL Republican Gov Cuts Autism Funding -- On World Autism Day

IL Republican Gov Cuts Autism Funding -- On World Autism Day

"State funding cuts are threatening services for people living with autism, as families who receive help through a program called the Autism Project say they will be devastated by its elimination."

Bernie Sanders Shreds Rand Paul By Unmasking His Great Libertarian Fraud

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/09/bernie-sanders-shreds-rand-paul-unmasking-great-libertarian-fraud.html
"Bernie Sanders exposed Sen. Paul as being the same old kind of Republican. Beneath Paul’s rhetoric about liberty and freedom is a candidate who is a pro-billionaire corporatist who believes that the wealthy are entitled to more freedom, and that the same freedoms that he talks about with such reverence don’t apply to women and gays.
Sen. Sanders hit on all of the major contradictions that make Rand Paul an unelectable fraud. Paul may hold a few good positions, but the core of his ideology is solidly Republican, and not any different from his fellow GOP candidates."

Scott Walker’s Supreme Court Coup

Scott Walker’s Supreme Court Coup

"Scott Walker unseated his sharpest opponent last night. But you won’t learn that from much of the media coverage.

The fact that Walker and his big money allies tricked Wisconsin voters into stripping Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of her title was not considered a story by the 100 or so national reporters now assigned to cover Walker’s run for the White House. And the fact that the GOP slipped the law change onto the ballot just as the John Doe criminal probe of Walker and his big money allies came before the court, was not worth mentioning in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."

Walker's War On Academia Causes Preemptive Brain Drain

Walker's War On Academia Causes Preemptive Brain Drain

"Wisconsin is not only losing top notch candidates. Every UW campus is offering buy outs to hundreds of employees in preparation for the cuts.

Students in the system are not only losing quality faculty, but even the fatted calf of sports are getting cut due to Walker's myopic and maleficent budget.

I don't know, but Walker must have been really traumatized by his failure in college to hold such a malicious attitude to higher learning."

Bigotry Is Pretty Much All That Republicans Have Left

Bigotry Is Pretty Much All That Republicans Have Left

"When you take away everything else, the only things Republicans actually “support” are guns and the Bible – and they only use those two things so that they can manipulate people into supporting economic policies that favor the rich, while screwing over 99% of Americans. So when you get right down to it, since the majority of Republicans reject science, math, history and reality all because their political ideology tells them to, bigotry is just about all they really have left."

Michael Savage: Obama Can ‘Push The White Man Only So Far’ Before They Get Violent

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/07/michael-savage-obama-can-push-the-white-man-only-so-far-before-they-get-violent/
"Right now, racial hatred is the driving force of conservative politics."

The Republican Party Has Literally Become the Party of Stupid

The Republican Party Has Literally Become the Party of Stupid

"This is a party that’s no longer being led by people such as Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or Dwight D. Eisenhower – instead, clowns like Ted Cruz, John Boehner and Rand Paul are calling the shots. It’s devolved into a party where the “icons” many look to for “insight and information” are knuckle-draggers such as Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent and Mike Huckabee."

Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour

Florida governor flip-flops on Medicaid expansion, kicks 800,000 people to the curb

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/06/1375956/-Florida-governor-flip-flops-on-Medicaid-expansion-kicks-800-000-people-to-the-nbsp-curb
"When he was running for re-election in 2014, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) cared deeply about the "poorest and weakest" Floridians, and bucked the tea party by supporting Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. But he won in November, so all that concern is history"

Tour of the GOP 2016 Posse: A Noah's Ark of Right-Wing Specimens | Alternet

Tour of the GOP 2016 Posse: A Noah's Ark of Right-Wing Specimens | Alternet

"The 2016 Republican presidential posse is now in its right-wing flavor-of-the-month phase."

How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History | Alternet

How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History | Alternet

"cries of religious liberty and a religious-based right to discriminatory and harmful behavior are not new. For centuries, religion has been used and abused as a shield for harmful behavior, to justify everything from slavery to sexist violence to racism in the Jim Crow South."

N. Carolina Legislators Decide Teens Don't Need To Know About Sex

N. Carolina Legislators Decide Teens Don't Need To Know About Sex

"North Carolina is ALEC's petrie dish for extreme conservative social experimentation, and this is just the latest sad example. And really, why not? Why would you want your kids to learn how not to get pregnant? Isn't it a lot more fun when you get to parade their embarrassed pregnant selves around to prove to voters what a good Christian you are? And those STDs that invariably result -- well, it'll teach the little buggers a well-needed lesson that's just a necessary part of growing up in the God-loving deep South"

Libertarians...How the Rich Bring in the Suckers

Twitter Hilariously Trolls Rand Paul with #RandPaulCampaignSlogans

Twitter Hilariously Trolls Rand Paul with #RandPaulCampaignSlogans

"If Rand Paul is trying to brand himself as the "social media candidate," this isn't a great way to start his campaign."

The Fox Primary: 18 Potential Candidates Have Already Made More Than 800 Appearances

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/09/the-fox-primary-18-potential-candidates-have-al/203192
"While the first presidential primary is about nine months away, Cruz's and Paul's competing appearances provide a glimpse into what is becoming an election tradition. For the past two years, a slew of Republican would-be presidential candidates have been involved in The Fox Primary, making regular appearances to curry favor with the network's influential hosts and reach out directly to the channel's decidedly conservative audience."

Republican field tired of 'gotcha questions' sob, stop quoting me!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376620/-Republican-field-tired-of-gotcha-questions-sob-stop-quoting-me
"The Republican presidential primary has only just gotten going and already the candidates are sick and tired of gotcha questions from the media. You know, sneaky, unfair stuff like asking the candidates about their own words."

Beware Rand Paul's Bait-and-Switch

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30115-beware-rand-paul-s-bait-and-switch
"Not only does he want to do away with Medicare and Social Security, he also supports going back to the "Lochner era," when the Supreme Court banned child labor laws and basically made life a living hell for the US worker."

Rand Paul Gets Pissy With Female Reporter About Flip-Flops

Rand Paul Would Be The Worst President On Civil Rights Since The 1800s

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/07/3643434/rand-paul-worst-president-civil-rights-since-reconstruction/
"Paul continued to espouse the same opposition to civil rights laws that he expressed as an undergraduate until months before his election to the Senate. And, while Paul has since learned to be more careful in his rhetoric, his public statements on the Constitution are entirely inconsistent with a legal regime that protects women and minorities from businesses that engage in discrimination."

Stop Calling This Man a 'Libertarian': What 2016 Campaign Journos Miss About Rand Paul | Alternet

Stop Calling This Man a 'Libertarian': What 2016 Campaign Journos Miss About Rand Paul | Alternet

"See, 2016 reporters? He said it himself. He’s not a libertarian. Why keep the myth alive in tedious, insight-free campaign coverage?"

Rand Paul Is Trying To Sell Signed Copies Of The Constitution For $1,000 – Seriously

Rand Paul Is Trying To Sell Signed Copies Of The Constitution For $1,000 – Seriously

"this outrageously overpriced autographed Constitution is a testament to how much of a fraud Paul actually is. Then again, that’s to be expected from someone who literally owes the entirety of their political success to their father. That’s really the only reason why he got elected to the Senate in the first place. And while I rarely agreed with his father on much of anything, at least Ron Paul had the courage to stand by his convictions, even if he knew deep down doing so meant he’d never have a legitimate shot at becoming president. The same can’t be said for his son. Rand Paul has proven time and time again that he’ll say and do anything to try to become president. While he has no problem trying to grovel to what’s left of the libertarian roots his father strived in, the younger Paul pathetically tries to somehow blend that with the rabid big government religious fanatics who love war and want to turn this nation into a theocracy. And now that Paul has officially announced that he’s running for president, the country is about to get a good, long look at what a spineless, pandering hypocrite he really is."

10 reasons Rand Paul will never set foot in the White House — except on a tour

10 reasons Rand Paul will never set foot in the White House — except on a tour

"his actual positions on many issues are mean-spirited, religiously tinged claptrap that’s reactionary enough to win a GOP primary, but far too hard-right to win a national election."

Rand Paul Is Not A Libertarian

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/04/06/3643093/rand-paul-not-libertarian/
"He certainly likes to talk like a libertarian. Let’s take a look at where he stands on the issues."

Tom Cotton Has Dumbass Iran Warmongering Comments

Jon Stewart Rips Into GOP for Derailing Historic Iran Agreement | Alternet

Jon Stewart Rips Into GOP for Derailing Historic Iran Agreement | Alternet

"If any nuclear power is going to destabilize the Middle East, it will continue to be us.”

Wrong About Iraq, Wrong About Iran • BRAVE NEW FILMS

12 Years Ago: Donald Rumsfeld's Greatest Iraq War Memo

12 Years Ago: Donald Rumsfeld's Greatest Iraq War Memo

"one of the greatest and most horrible memos ever issued by Donald Rumsfeld twelve years ago during the Iraq War during the Battle of Baghdad that sounds like it came from the Doctor Strangelove movie script rather than the Secretary of Defense overseeing a war."

Sen. Tom Cotton Thinks A War With Iran Would Be No Big Deal

Sen. Tom Cotton Thinks A War With Iran Would Be No Big Deal

"In the alternate reality that people like Tom Cotton and many others who signed his letter to Iran apparently live in, armed conflict is the only solution. This is especially true if you’re one of those people who believe in “End Times” prophecies in which a massive world conflict involving Israel is part of a series of events leading up to the return of Jesus Christ himself. It’s no secret that many right-wing Republicans like Congressman Louie Gohmert subscribe to this religious ideology, or at least pander to voters who do. Now Senator Tom Cotton is back beating the war drums once again."

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Same Right-Wing Bozos Who Lied the U.S. into Iraq Are Peddling Nonsense About Obama's Iran Deal | Alternet

The Same Right-Wing Bozos Who Lied the U.S. into Iraq Are Peddling Nonsense About Obama's Iran Deal | Alternet

"The same hawks who lied about the nuclear threat from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before President George W. Bush invaded in 2003 are loudly trying to derail President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran."