Letting people die for no other reason than hate

This is incredible. The depravity, the hatefulness of these Republican governors, who would let people DIE out of nothing but sheer spite for President Obama.

Governor Rick Scott of Florida and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana have said that they will defy the law and NOT implement the provisions of the Constitutional Affordable Care Act. Even though it’s filled with Republican ideas, it’s got Obama’s name on it, and for that, people without insurance can just go DIE.

So much for respect for the law. So much for basic human decency and humanity.

Can you imagine how filled with darkness a person’s heart must be, that they’d let sick people suffer and die just because they hate someone else?

President Obama needs to issue a statement praising air. Because if he did, these assholes would refuse to breathe. And maybe some sick people would be able to get access to health care and be treated like human beings.

Obamacare microchips

Teabaggers love their nutty conspiracy theories. The latest, floating around in the kind of emails you get from your crazy uncle, insists that in 2013 "Obamacare" will require the implanting of a computer chip under your skin so the government can keep track of you.

It's just another variation of the numerous "mark of the beast" conspiracy theories we've been hearing for decades. I remember when UPC codes were the mark of the beast.

It amazes me how stupid people can be.

Treason

Many teabaggers, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling the the Affordable Health Care Law, are committing treason against the United States by calling for open, armed rebellion. They’re nothing but traitors and wannabe terrorists.

They want a dictatorial society where only their politicians get elected, only their laws get passed. No compromise at all. No working together to solve the country’s problems.

Of all the right-wing meltdowns following yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, this statement put out by the chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party may take the cake:

“When a gang of criminals subvert legitimate government offices and seize all power to themselves without the real consent of the governed their every act and edict is of itself illegal and is outside the bounds of the Rule of Law. In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion.

“May all of us fall on our faces before the Heavenly Judge, repent of our sins, and humbly cry out to Him for mercy on our country. And, may godly courageous leaders rise up in His wisdom and power to lead us in displacing the criminal invaders from their seats and restore our constitutional republic.”

Despite Nicholson’s repeated charge that the Obama administration is guilty of high crimes, the only treason in play here is the suggestion of an open revolt against the federal government. Nicholson’s hardly the first Tea Partier to demand that people rise up in opposition to President Obama, in fact he’s not even the first to do so this week.

Goodbye, conservatives

Breaking: Conservatives planning to leave U.S., but can't find wealthy Western democracy without universal health care. #hrc #scotus

— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) June 28, 2012

Gas prices

Wondering if Willard Romney is planning to give President Obama credit for gas prices coming down. Here's what Willard said on March 18, 2012 : "He gets full credit or blame for what’s happened in this economy, and what’s happened to gasoline prices under his watch, and what’s happened to our schools, and what’s happened to our military forces. All these things are his responsibility while he’s president."

“Outsourcing” to Omaha?

Willard Romney's adviser Ed Gillespie defends Bain sending American jobs to China by complaining that President Obama has also "outsourced" jobs... to Omaha.

These people are insane. They'll say anything. To hell with logic.

Business?

Republicans believe America should be run like a business. Then why not let workers elect CEO's?

Profiting from the suffering of others

Willard Romney got rich from the suffering of others. Bain made millions by destroying companies, destroying lives, deliberating busting up companies it bought with no other intent than to profit from them by killing them.

Willard certainly brought his bully mentality to his business.

Cambridge Industries, an automotive plastics supplier whose losses had been building for three consecutive years, finally filed for bankruptcy in May 2000 under a mountain of debt that had ballooned to more than $300 million.

Yet Bain Capital, the private equity firm that controlled the Michigan-based company, continued to religiously collect its $950,000-a-year “advisory fee” in quarterly installments, even to the very end, according to court documents.

In all, Bain garnered more than $10 million in fees from Cambridge over five years, including a $2.25 million payment just for buying the company, according to bankruptcy records and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meanwhile, Bain’s investors saw their $16 million investment in Cambridge wiped out.

That Bain was able to reap revenue from Cambridge, even as it foundered, was hardly unusual.

The private equity firm, co-founded and run by Mitt Romney, held a majority stake in more than 40 United States-based companies from its inception in 1984 to early 1999, when Mr. Romney left Bain to lead the Salt Lake City Olympics. Of those companies, at least seven eventually filed for bankruptcy while Bain remained involved, or shortly afterward, according to a review by The New York Times. In some instances, hundreds of employees lost their jobs. In most of those cases, however, records and interviews suggest that Bain and its executives still found a way to make money.

Mr. Romney’s experience at Bain is at the heart of his case for the presidency. He has repeatedly promoted his years working in the “real economy,” arguing that his success turning around troubled companies and helping to start new ones, producing jobs in the process, has prepared him to revive the country’s economy. He has fended off attacks about job losses at companies Bain owned, saying, “Sometimes investments don’t work and you’re not successful.” But an examination of what happened when companies Bain controlled wound up in bankruptcy highlights just how different Bain and other private equity firms are from typical denizens of the real economy, from mom-and-pop stores to bootstrapping entrepreneurial ventures.

Bain structured deals so that it was difficult for the firm and its executives to ever really lose, even if practically everyone else involved with the company that Bain owned did, including its employees, creditors and even, at times, investors in Bain’s funds.

Game-changing bombshell

Under the management of Willard Romney, Bain Capital was the PIONEER of outsourcing American jobs overseas. Is there any doubt this will be his main approach to "fixing" our economy if he's elected president?

President Obama's recent rule change in our immigration policy, and the release of this article in the Washington Post, may be the two biggest game-changers so far in this election season.

And it looks like the Romney campaign is in full meltdown mode trying to contain this story. They know this is devastating to Romney’s chances.

(Washington Post) Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.

During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

While economists debate whether the massive outsourcing of American jobs over the last generation was inevitable, Romney in recent months has lamented the toll it’s taken on the U.S. economy. He has repeatedly pledged he would protect American employment by getting tough on China.

Fearmongering from Michele Bachmann

According to Michele Bachmann, the biggest danger to our Constitution is more people having health care coverage.

“I think that what we need to recognize is that the left is committed to outcome-based Supreme Court decisions, they want what they want, bottom line, the end justifies the means, they want socialized medicine, they want the government to control it and so they are not above doing anything that they can to influence that one swing voter,” she explained.

“By everyone’s estimation, Anthony Kennedy is the justice who will make the decision if we have socialized medicine, which in my opinion will be the end of our Constitution and the end of our republic as we know it. It will bankrupt us, there is no question Obamacare will do that, and it will change our relationship to government forever,” Bachmann added. “I think it will be one of the final — so to speak — nails in the coffin to our country.”

The distribution of American wealth

Heckling is free speech

Yes, Willard Romney is right. Heckling is indeed free speech. But it would also be free speech for me to scream "YOU'RE A CUNT!" in his wife's face. Yeah, it's free speech, but if I did that it would say something about me. Just as Willard's purposeful bully tactics and schoolyard antics says something about him.

A campaign of heckle and hate

Willard Romney apparently didn't make it out of junior high. He’s still enamored of “pranks” like assaulting gay students or walking blind people into doors on purpose.

Earlier this week, President Obama's senior campaign strategist David Axelrod took a firm stand against heckling. "I strongly condemn heckling along Mitt's route," he said of the hecklers targeting Mitt Romney in Ohio. Axelrod added, "Let voters hear BOTH candidates & decide."

Obama spokesperson Ben LaBolt added, "We have sent a strong message to our supporters that this campaign should be an open exchange of ideas, not one where we drown out the other side by heckling and crashing events."

Any chance the Republican will also aim for the high road? Apparently not.

Mitt Romney has declined to call on his supporters to stop heckling President Barack Obama's campaign. [...]

Romney was asked if he would also condemn heckling during Obama events. He declined.... Romney says American politics has a "long history of heckling and free speech."

Romney specifically told Fox News Radio yesterday he doesn't believe in "unilateral disarmament" when it comes to his supporters disrupting Democratic campaign events.

Keep in mind, we're talking about a fairly specific, deliberate plan from Romney Campaign HQ. They sent hecklers to disrupt an Obama campaign event in May, and last week, Team Romney sent its bus to circle an Obama event in Cleveland, honking its horn repeatedly, for no other reason than to be obnoxious. It's presidential politics at a junior-high-school level.

Jon Stewart nails Fox News again

Fox News plays a portion of Obama comments to blast him on immigration... but then cuts off the tape before Obama's comments nullify their criticism. It's a usual practice at Fox News.

Jon Stewart on last night’s The Daily Show brilliantly skewered Fox News for doing this. But not before skewering their hypocritical coverage of it in the first place.

The Daily Show
Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Newt’s warning

Newt Gingrich, whose campaign was kept alive by one very rich billionaire, warns us that billionaires could have too much influence on our politics.

Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich warned in a recent interview that a handful of billionaires had an “unfair advantage” in choosing the next president of the United States.

Gingrich told ABC News in an interview posted on Tuesday why presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney came out on top during the GOP primaries: “In the end, he had, I think, sixteen billionaires and we had one.”

“We’re in a situation where if you’re really rich, you have an enormous, and I think unfair, advantage,” the former House Speaker explained. “The trick is not to cripple the rich, the trick is to empower the middle class.”

Gingrich’s one billionaire was casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who gave about $25 billion to his election effort. Adelson is now on team Romney, promising to give as much as $100 million to help the candidate defeat President Barack Obama.

Willard Romney’s insanity

Try to get your head around this:

First, Willard Romney was telling everyone that the economy is getting worse and it’s all Obama’s fault.

Then, in the light of overwhelming facts to the contrary, Romney’s line of attack became that the economy isn’t improving fast enough, and it’s all Obama’s fault.

NOW, Romney’s story is… wait for it… yeah, the economy IS improving but… here it comes… Obama should get no credit for it!

The only explanation for this twisted, er, “logic,” is Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Teabagger says people with cancer should not be covered

Gotta love those teabaggers -- all their talk of loving Jesus more than those nasty liberals. Here's a teabagger who says businesses and insurance companies should have the right to deny coverage to people with cancer.

Can you feel the love of Jesus?

Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party favorite who ousted Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) in Indiana’s Republican Senate primary last month, told a local Indiana newspaper that, contra Obamacare’s protections, employers ought to be able to deny health insurance to people with cancer.

During a freewheeling interview with the News and Tribune, Mourdock said health care will be the “biggest issue” this election. The Indiana Republican, who opposes the Affordable Care Act, argued that businesses should be permitted to deny coverage to employees with cancer “if they want to keep their health care costs down.” “Does that employer have the right to do it?” Mourdock asked. “I would say yes they do”

Willard, a man of the people

Willard Romney, just regular folks, is "amazed" at a touch-screen.

At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told a crowd that he had been astonished by a touch screen computer used to order food at the Wawa gas station chain.

“I was at Wawas,” Romney explained. “I went in to order a sandwich. You press a little touchtone keypad, alright? You just touch that and, you know, the sandwich comes up. You touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier. There’s your sandwich. It’s amazing!”

During President George H.W. Bush’s failed 1992 re-election bid, he was criticized for reportedly being amazed after seeing a supermarket scanner. Unlike the Romney’s bewilderment on Sunday, Snopes determined in 2007 that the Bush scanner story was actually false.

Romney gets a taste of his own medicine

Willard Romney likes to gloat about his campaign sending people to disrupt appearances by the President and his spokespeople. (In other words, he's admitting it's an official part of his campaign -- to act like a petulant little boy who has lots of money and likes to use it to bully people.)

But apparently, when MoveOn.org uses the same tactic against him, he doesn't like it so much. So maybe what's sauce for the goose ISN'T "sauce for the gander," as he puts it.

Stay classy, Republicans

Republicans, always a class act. And never missing a chance to fantasize about the assassination of the president. Or to make vile sexist jokes about First Lady Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.

There was less laughter – although plenty of picture-taking – of an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” parked outside Missoula’s Hilton Garden Inn, where the convention took place.

Nothing on the outhouse indicated who was responsible for it, although it made an appearance in the Memorial Day parade in Corvallis in Ravalli County.

The outhouse was painted to look as though it had been riddled by bullets.

Inside, a fake birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama made reference to the disproven controversy over the president’s origins. It was stamped “Bull––.” A graffito advised “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi (circled in red.)”

So decisive!

Willard Romney is SO decisive!

Mitt Romney appeared on CBS' "Face The Nation" on Sunday, telling Bob Schieffer that President Obama's decision to halt the deportation of as many as 800,000 young illegal immigrants was politically-driven, but refused to say he would repeal the order if elected president.

My prediction: Later, when his advisers figure out how to respond, he'll claim he's always had that position and always said so. Of course, more than likely it'll be the exact opposite of some position he held before.

Romney is still a bully

Willard Romney still has a bully mentality. Putting a frightened dog on top of a car, walking a blind man into a closed glass door and laughing about it, assaulting a gay student, dressing up as a cop to intimidate people. And most recently sending staffers to disrupt appearances by President Obama and harass attendees of his events.

No, this is not from the Onion. It’s real.

Nauseating racism

Another example of right wing racism. No doubt she’ll become a hero to conservatives and Republicans.

Arizona Republican radio host Barbara Espinosa not only exhibits her racism for all to hear, but then when challenged on her admission that she refers to President Obama as the “first monkey president,” she doubled down by quoting the definition of  ”monkey” and then claimed she couldn’t be racist with the last name Espinosa.

And Ms. Espinosa is quite proud of her racism.

“Stop worrying about the next election”

Stop worrying about the next election and start worrying about the next generation.”

Rebelling against Romney

Hundreds of GOP delegates are in open revolt against Mitt Romney and are suing the RNC.

However, ultimately, their hatred of President Obama will outweigh their dislike of Romney.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - In a revolt against Romney, at least 40 more national convention delegates asked to join 123 previous plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee, and their attorney said hundreds more may soon follow suit.

The first 123 delegates, all from the 9th Circuit, sued the RNC, its Chairman Rince Priebus, and every state party chairman in the 9th Circuit in Federal Court on Monday, demanding the right to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the Republican National Convention, including the first.

The delegates claim the party violated federal law by forcing them to sign loyalty affidavits, under threat of perjury, to vote for Mitt Romney, though he is not yet the official nominee.

They also claimed that state party chairmen are fixing elections at state conventions and changing ballots so that all votes cast count for Romney.

The party of heckle and hate

I don’t need to tell you that if a liberal blogger heckled a Republican president giving a press statement, right wingers would be calling for the blogger’s death.

Mitt Romney doesn’t know what a donut is.

Mitt Romney doesn’t know what a donut is. And he calls President Obama out of touch.

Despite the fact that we as a nation just celebrated donuts with their own holiday (the most sacred day on the American calendar right after Christmas, the Fourth of July, and the Breaking Bad premiere), it would appear that Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney does not know the magical be-holed pastries are. The fine folks over at BuzzFeed noticed an awkward moment on the campaign trail. Live on CNN, Romney attempted to compliment a group of Americans on the wonderful donuts they had given him. Unfortunately, he couldn’t remember what the darn things were called.

“Garrett, can you see that one of those chocolate…uh…chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?”

Thanks, Citizens United!

Republicans hate Obama more than they love America

Finally, polling shows that voters are waking up to the truth: the GOP hates President Obama far, far more than they love America.

Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 6/7-10. Registered voters. MoE ±3.1%:

Q: Do you think the Republicans are intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy to ensure that Barack Obama is not reelected or not?

Yes: 49 (47)
No: 40 (41)
Unsure: 11 (12)

The private sector IS doing fine

The truth is, the private sector IS doing fine, compared to the public sector, which the Republicans are gutting. And the wealthy are doing super-well: corporate profits are at historic highs (and by that I mean the highest in human history), CEO pay is also at historic highs, and Wall Street's trading at record-shattering volumes.

And all under the "socialist" President Obama.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calmly criticized President Barack Obama Monday morning for his much discussed “Private sector is doing fine” quote.

“That was an unfortunate line,” Krugman said. “The president bungled the line. The truth is, the private sector is doing better than the public sector, which is not well enough.”

The Nobel prized-winning economist explained how the president was technically correct in comparing the private sector numbers to its anemic public sector counterpart, but further added how Obama was clumsy with his words.

“By this point in Obama’s presidency, if we had normal sector job growth, we’d have 800,000 more people: firefighters, schoolteachers, police officers. Instead, we’ve got 600,000 fewer,” Krugman said. “So right there, it’s like 1.4 million jobs that we should have had in the public sector. That’s what he was trying to get at and of course, he screwed up the line.”

Obama elaborated on his statement later in the afternoon Friday, saying “it is absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine.”

Romney’s fake cop creepery extends to staffers

Mitt Romney’s penchant for dressing up in uniform, pretending to be a cop so he could intimidate and take advantage of others, apparently extends to his staffers as well, who also used fake badges, pretending to be officers, so they could intimidate and strong-arm members of the press trying to cover Romney.

Lest you think otherwise, here is a story of some other cop impersonators who just happened to be Romney staffers. Joe Conason:

If Mitt Romney had a penchant in his youth for masquerading as a state police officer — and there is reason to believe he did – then he seems to have attracted staffers with that same peculiar fantasy over the years. During the summer of 2007, months before the general public paid much attention to the Republican presidential candidates, Romney’s 2008 campaign stumbled into a scandal that led to the resignation of a top staffer accused of impersonating a state trooper, and allegations of similar misconduct by at least two others.

A former gubernatorial aide to Romney at the Massachusetts state house who served as his “body man” in the early stages of the 2008 primary campaign, Jay Garrity provoked several reporters with thuggish behavior that led to investigations of his conduct in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich accused Garrity of waving his car over and ordering him to “veer off” from a campaign motorcade, claiming that he had “run” the license plate of Leibovich’s car.

And then there's this in 2007, from the Boston Herald, hardly a bastion of liberal journalism:

In an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald.

The bogus badges were part of the bizarre security tactics allegedly employed by Jay Garrity, the director of operations for Romney who is under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer in two states. Garrity is on a leave of absence from the campaign while the probe is ongoing.

And this from Boston.com:

State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.

Also, The Politico in 2007:

Boston's Fox affiliate has their hands on the tape of somebody calling themselves "Trooper Garrity," as the owner of the plumbing company in question claims the culprit was also faking his conversation with the state police barracks.

Alter Net:

Just two days after Garrity's resignation, the Herald reported that Romney's event planner, Will Ritter, had uploaded a MySpace page painting himself as a "Jason Bourne-esque" figure in the description of the newspaper whose duties include "very secretive work" in "special ops."

Does Jesus make you do this?

Sometimes you gotta ask yourself… Why would anyone want to be a Christian if it can turn you into someone who does this?

Pastor Terry Jones, the guy who burned a Quran knowing it would cause the deaths of people overseas, has once again showed us the love of Jesus by hanging the President of the United States in effigy, in a sickening reminder of the south’s history of lynching black people.

You must kill those who worship another god.  Exodus 22:20

Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own.  Deuteronomy 13:6-10

Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you.  Deuteronomy 13:12-16

Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own.  Deuteronomy 17:2-7

Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. Deuteronomy 17:12-13

Kill any false prophets. Deuteronomy 18:20

Any city that doesn’t receive the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Mark 6:11

Jude reminds us that God destroys those who don’t believe in him.  Jude 5

Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death.  Such evil must be purged from Israel.  (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live.  (Exodus 22:17 NAB)

Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."  (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death.  (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)

Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)

Death for Cursing Parents
    1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness.  (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)

    2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death.  They are guilty of a capital offense.  (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.  (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.  (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)

Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed.  (Exodus 22:19 NAB)

Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.  (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)

Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord."  When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through.  (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)

Florida voter purge BACKFIRES

Looks like Governor Rick Scott’s attempts to rig the election for Mitt Romney in Florida have backfired. In a big way.

According to Public Policy Polling, 50% of Floridians disapprove of Rick Scott’s attempt to purge votes, with only 34% approving. Believe it or not, Rick has actually gotten less popular due to his plan to suppress the vote. Scott’s approval rating has sunk to 31%. His disapproval rating is at 56%.

More importantly, Scott’s scheme seems to have destroyed any momentum that Mitt Romney was gaining in the Sunshine State. Romney has been able to make up one point on Obama since April. The president has gone from a 50%-45% lead to a 50%-46% lead. While Florida registered voters are split on Obama 49%-46%, the still don’t like Romney. The Republican nominee has an upside down 39%/53% approval rating in the state.

Going back to June of 2011, polling has consistently shown that Rick Scott is doing serious damage to the Republican brand in the state, while he has been helping President Obama. The June 2011 PPP poll found that Rick Scott made 40% of Florida voters less likely to vote Republican. Interestingly, the Obama/Romney spread has changed very little in a year. In 2011, Obama led Romney 47%-43%, fast forward almost a year and Obama’s lead remains at the exact same four points.

Scott has been so unpopular that he has caused an entire police union to flip their support to the Democratic Party and hold public events urging others to join them. He is easily the nation’s least popular governor, and approval ratings in twenties and thirties have been the governor’s norm since he took office.Gov. Scott shouldn’t bother  waiting around for a revival like Scott Walker has had. Scott’s highest approval rating has never surpassed Walker’s lowest (43%).

Trash Obama over unemployment, then complain that more public workers need to be fired. That’s Obama Derangement Syndrome for you!

So Mitt Romney blasts President Obama about unemployment, then turns around and complains Obama didn’t “get the message” from Wisconsin that we should be firing more public workers like teachers, cops and firefighters.

Of course, how dare Obama want the ultra wealthy to pay a little more. How dare he ask the rich to sacrifice. No, Mitt Romney believes that the people who should be sacrificing are teachers. Yeah, makes perfect sense.

The Republican Party is insane. Obama Derangement Syndrome makes them contradict themselves, tell blatant lies and fall all over themselves as they spit with hatred and rage... and they don't even care how crazy it all sounds.

Walker survives

With such MASSIVE amounts of money being spent, much of it from outside sources like the Koch brothers, it was an uphill battle for the Democrats, but Scott Walker is projected to hold on to the governorship in Wisconsin.

Walker outspent Barrett 7 to 1.

This election result is brought to you by Citizens United.

However, control of the legislature is still up for grabs.

GOP calls for armed revolution if the election doesn’t go their way

A teabagger once said, "If ballots don't work, bullets will."

And then there were "second amendment remedies."

And now, a GOP newsletter says if American voters re-elect President Obama, there should be armed revolution.

So if the vote doesn't go their way, they'll start shooting people. Sounds like a threat to me. Hey, could I shoot them under Florida's "stand your ground" law? I sure do feel threatened by these crazy, terrorist-wannabe teabaggers.

I remember the old days when calling for armed insurrection against the government was called treason. Oh hell, I remember when right wingers said that merely criticizing George W. Bush was "treason." And now here they are calling for armed rebellion.

It's pathetic what's happened to Republicans. They've gone insane.

The Greene County, Virginia Republican Committee publishes a monthly newsletter for members called “The Constitutional Conservatives.” The newsletter is heavy on Tea Party rhetoric about how Obama and liberals are ruining America, and so forth. But even by these standards, an item in the March newsletter stands out.

In the “Whitehouse Watchdog” column, editor Ponch McPhee says that America cannot survive four more years under Obama, a “political socialist ideologue” who is “unlike anything world history has ever witnessed or recognized.” McPhee argues that Americans will have no option “but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November:”

We have before us a challenge to remove an ideologue unlike anything world history has ever witnessed or recognized.

An individual who has come to power within a Nation which yields it’s strength over the entire world.

An elected leader who shuns biblical praise, handicaps economic ability, disrespects the honor of earned military might.

In the coming days and weeks  ~ we the people must come to grasp as a common force, our very soul’s, that our future as a sovereign nation is indeed at risk.

If every single individual that you know, would contact 25 other individuals  ~ we can make a difference that will be heard across the Commonwealth and in Washington.

The ultimate task for the people is to remain vigilant and aware  ~ that the government, their government is out of control, and this moment, this opportunity, must not be forsaken, must not escape us, for we shall not have any coarse but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November ~ This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue.

North Carolina’s latest stupidity

A war on gays isn’t enough. A war on women isn’t enough. North Carolina wants to declare war on science too.

Perhaps searching for a way to one-up their much derided anti-marriage law, North Carolina lawmakers are considering ban on science with a new bill that would essentially make it illegal to predict a rise in the sea level.

After a state-appointed board of scientists determined that a one meter rise in sea level is likely by the year 2100 — echoing the scientific consensus on the issue — a coastal economic development group called NC-20 decided to push back against the results. They are upset that such an estimate would thwart development along the coast, as it would be illegal to build in the “flood zone” where there is under one meter of elevation.

“If you’re wrong and you start planning today at 39 inches, you could lose millions of dollars in development and 2,000 square miles would be condemned as a flood zone,” Tom Thompson, the chairman of NC-20, told News & Observer of Raleigh.

So, with NC-20′s support, Republican lawmakers circulated Replacement House Bill 819. The key language can be found in section 2, paragraph e:

[Rates of sea level rise] shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of seas-level rise may be extrapolated linearly to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of accelerated rates of sea-level rise.

Scientific American‘s Scott Huler explains why this is completely insane:

North Carolina legislators have decided that the way to make exponential increases in sea level rise – caused by those inconvenient feedback loops we keep hearing about from scientists – go away is to make it against the law to extrapolate exponential; we can only extrapolate along a line predicted by previous sea level rises.

Which, yes, is exactly like saying, do not predict tomorrow’s weather based on radar images of a hurricane swirling offshore, moving west towards us with 60-mph winds and ten inches of rain. Predict the weather based on the last two weeks of fair weather with gentle breezes towards the east. Don’t use radar and barometers; use the Farmer’s Almanac and what grandpa remembers.

How many more jobs would we have?

We’ve just had a disappointing jobs report and the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point. The Republicans are giddy, of course. They love bad news for America because their hatred of President Obama far outweighs their love of the country.

But I wonder how different that jobs report would have been had the Republicans not stopped the passage of Obama’s complete jobs bill? Is there any doubt that the GOP is deliberately sabotaging the economy just so they can blame the President?

More bald-faced lies from Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney tells yet another bald-faced lie about President Obama, this time about Solyndra.

Question for the right wingers: Is it because Mitt knows he can't win on the issues or by being honest that he tells so many blatant, easily-debunked lies? And are you guys really okay with supporting such a blatantly dishonest campaign?

And how can you be sure he’s not lying to YOU too about his alleged conservatism?