The Awful Truth Which Liars Cannot Take

And Hannity is the biggest liar of all. Congressman Ellison called it like it was, and the only thing this fraud could do is shout over him. There's no such thing as a registered Conservative.

Skinning the Cat

So Congress is blocking Chuck Hagel's appointment as Secretary of Defence. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

Did we expect anything more? Well, we would have got pretty much the same treatment if Susan Rice had been nominated as Secretary of State, and then maybe Fanboi McCain and Fanboi Graham would have pretty much left Chuck Hagel alone; but John Kerry was appointed, they shut up and this is their latest venture at a game of subtlety called "putting the (black) President firmly in his place." ("Black" is optional, but you get the message).

I'm glad Michael Smerconish was prescient enough to bring the Constitution into the frame of things when discussing this filibuster with Tamron Hall. This does indeed go against everything about advise and consent as contained in the Constitution. And it has little to do with payback for Chuck Hagel not backing Bush's surge - it's all about a Republican willing to serve in a Democratic Administration, a Republican like Chuck Hagel who really was what John McCain tried to make himself out to be and failed - a maverick.

Since Bob Gates was a carryover from the Bush era in Obama's first Cabinet, and Ray LaHood wasn't high-profiled enough.

This is just another means of obstruction, a petty-minded pout at being routed by the electorate in November. It's just, as we say where I come from, another way of skinning the cat.

The never learn, but we should take heed of their actions and show them a thing or two next election-time.

How To Make Rape ALL about Abortion

I cannot believe that a woman politician is seeking to make a rape victim a criminal if she pursues an abortion following a rape. This is another sleight-of-hand by the Republicans in their anti-abortion campaign - the fetus becomes evidence in a rape trial, so it has to be carried to term.

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They will never learn.

Republicans Prove Their Assholiness

When they could be tackling gun control or the deficit or coming together to write a budget, the Republicans choose to display their callousness, jealousy, misogyny and pure hatred in attacking the best Secretary of State in over a decade during her last days in the office.

Benghazi was a tragedy, but it was by no means on the same level as 9/11, and the relevant people accepted responsibility. General Petraeus, himself, in his testimony, took total responsibility for getting the intelligence wrong, but did these bozos give him half the hard time Hillary got?

No. Because Petraeus was, or had been, one of their tribe.

But Hillary held her own and individually handed each and every one of them their collective ass.

First, the little racist Libertarian Tea Party twerp:-



Next the Tea Party millionaire who, with the help of the Kochs and Citizens United, bought the Wisconsin Senate seat, defeating Russ Feingold. Here he is, still taking cheap potshots about Susan Rice. If this investigation isn't anything more than an expensive partisan hoohah that will cost the taxpayer a lot and accomplishes nothing. Hillary shows here how singularly higher her intelligence and experience is to this pleb:-



(Thanks to Jean Shaheen for subtly pointing out the lack of funding for security in diplomatic posts being down to the Republican House!)

Next up: The Latin Luddite with an eye on the White House. I don't even think these guys are listening to Mrs Clinton. This is just muscle-flexing meanness, and she makes them look small:-



And now Grandpappy Amos John McCain making frivolous remarks and accusations aimed at the Obama Administration. This is all Kabuki theatre for the Fox News fearfuls and Tea Party remnants who want their country back.



Madam Secretary explains to Grandpappy exactly what the fiscal problems relating to security were and where they originated. Watch McCain blow up like a frog.

(Of course, it's all the President's fault.Easy to blame the black guy.)

Same old same old on Capitol Hill.

The Prescience of Neil Young

He wrote this song over twenty years ago. It perfectly sums up a Republican vision of America to which they'll never admit. What's shocking is that almost nothing's changed, Poppy Bush was President when this was written. Dubya made it even more a reality. Let's change all that.

The President Tells a Deadbeat That The US Is Not a Deadbeat Nation

Twenty minutes into the Presser and upChuck Todd gets owned.



Thomas Jefferson, who founded my alma mater always stressed the importance of the American people being served by a well-informed press (read: "media" in today's world). What does it say when a President of the United States has to explain how the three branches of  government work in relation to the debt ceiling and deficit debate to the people charged with providing the American people with accurate information?

It says a lot about our political media, stoutly embodied by the likes of upChuck.

It sucks.

Eric Cantor and I Agree on Something.

Eric Cantor ‏@GOPLeader

How 'bout them HOOS! Great win at JPJ last night against the Tar Heels.

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A Southern Commentator Hands Maureen Dowd Her Celtic Racist Ass

Once again MoDo, Joan Walsh's soul sister in hating on the President has written a column today which masks praising Vice President Biden's charming of the incoming Senators and their families, noting that the President "allows" Biden to do in the Senate what JFK was too "wary" to allow LBJ to do - but that wasn't a criticism from Maureen. She was forced to quote a Presidential historian, rather than admit a fallacy on the part of the sainted JFK.

Anyway, if you want to be truly angered again at Dowd's snide belittling of the President, you can do so here.

Dowd uses any opportunity to ridicule and demean this President. She was the first to name-call the President, dubbing him "Mr Spock." Of course, in this missive, Joe Biden is Captain Kirk - or really, the one who's really in charge.

And we know why she said that and what she's really saying.

Now that we've entered the Second Administration, hordes more people are stepping forth to call out the Maureen Dowds and the Joan Walshes for what their snideness really is, as evidenced by no less than a New York Times commentator from North Carolina:-

Of course, Joe Biden can go in and schmooze with those Neanderthal Republicans. Biden hasn't had to deal with the vitriolic racism that Obama has since 2008. I give Obama props for remaining level-headed in the face of such ugly and egregious racism. 

Usually, I like your columns but I am tiring of your characterization of Obama as too cool when it might be fatigue from racism. I don't expect you to understand racism but perhaps you should read some of the academic literature on racism and racial discrimination to better understand the toll it has on one's physical and mental health.

Strange Bedfellows

I'd like to dedicate the following to that vociferous political group of pundits and their followers known as the Professional Left, who - in letting it be known that they opposed the compromise which avoided the so-called calamity of the Fiscal Cliff - singularly decided to throw in their lot with the most pejorative of Rightwing nutjobs in our government, rather than supporting the President's enlightened pragmatism.

So, for all of you whining in the wake of the likes of Robert Reich, Paul Krugman and all the closet racist Kossaks and Firebaggers in the media and otherwise, please know that, instead of backing the President, you chose to back the likes of Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Eric Cantor, and the criminal Darrell Issa. I hope you enjoy the company.

This song's for you, suckers!



And you thought you were all kinds of clever!

The President Hands Jake Tapper His Ass

I've been waiting so long for this. Tapper is a glorified blogger from the Joan Walsh school of journalism - and if you're interested, Joan's got an absolutely pathetic, gin-sodden speculative character assassination of Nancy Lanza up on her Salon rag, which inevitably meanders into blaming the President for the Sandy Hook disaster.

Tapper was in the right place at the right time to blag his blog into a job at ABC, covering the White House. Between him and upChuck Todd, they've managed to show more disrespect in Press Conferences to this President than any other previous one.

Gee, I wonder why?

However ... not today, Jake. Not today. You just had your ass served up on a plate by the President of the United States, and at the end, you looked like you wanted to eat some crow.

Girl Power

This is not Girl Power ...

This "Girl Power" was founded, put together, manufactured and produced by men.They were told to use the term "Girl Power" in hopes that thousands of impressionable young women the world over would want to emulate their sense of entitlement. Girl Power gave one fame through a more famous husband, and it led one to the bed of a Hollywood actor where she broke up his marriage only to be famously and publically dumped by him.

Girl Power. Wanna see real Girl Power? Watch this ...




I believe Senator Collins and Senator McCaskill. So maybe it's time Uncle Mitch and Give'em Hell Harry stepped aside and let the women show the Senate a thing or two. We know what Miss Nancy did in the House.

That's Girl Power.

Zig-a-zig-aaaahhhhh.

Two Men (One in Drag) Propagating Lies

This is what happens when two privileged, elitist men (one in drag) spin bad economic news for low-information, scared white people.



Deliberate misinformation.

The Welfare Queen

This is Kate Middleton. She has never worked a day in her life. In fact, because she was sleeping with the son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of the Queen of England, immediately she graduated university, she was given police protection ... at the taxpayers' expense. Her boyfriend, whom she hung onto for eight years, paid her way ... and he was provided for from the taxpayers' purse.

At least the woman who would have been her mother-in-law actually worked in a kindergarten and earned her own money before getting mixed up with the biggest lot of scroungers since time out of mind.

Her uncle is a cocaine dealer. Here are some pictures of him:-

This is Uncle Gary cutting some coke (not the type you drink).

And here's Uncle Gary with one of his many lady friends.

Her brother-in-law likes dressing up in Nazi uniforms and playing strip games with hookers in Vegas - again, at the taxpayers' expense.

Her sister, another one who hasn't worked a day in her life, rides around Paris, brandishing a gun out a car window. She's given police protection too. Paid for by the tax-payer.

Now, Kate Middleton is pregnant. The British taxpayer will pay for her child from the moment he or she takes its first breath until its last breath is drawn. And this child will never know a day's work or have a profession. The public purse will pick up all expenses.

If Kate Middleton were poor and white, she'd be called a scrounger here. If she were poor and black and collecting state benefits, she'd be called worse.

If she were American, she'd take the state's ticket and vote Republican. If she were African American or Latino, she'd be reviled in the worst way.

Look at the picture above. Look at the family, itself. Are they nothing more than scrubbed-up trailer trash, and is she not the definition of a Welfare Queen?

Carpetbagger from the Jersey Shore.

This asshole could be the next Governor of Virginia. I ask you. Does he sound Virginian? Does he even sound intelligent? To add insult to injury, he's an alumnus of my alma mater. I want to know what damned weed the selectors were smoking when they decided to admit Ken Cuccinelli as a student. Hell, I want to know what weed Virginians were smoking when they elected him.



Go away. Just go away. Snooki from Jersey Shore is bad enough, but she stayed where she belonged. Ken went South. The male co-anchor on the radio is just a bitching racist. Ken proves racism and stupidity isn't confined to the South.

We got our own idiots. Go away.

Truth Out

Truth is that the Republican Party were praying for the September 11 tragedy in Benghazi to play out at the polls in their favour. They were aided in that attempt by the good folk at Fox News.

It didn't.

And when it didn't, truth is the Republicans, headed by John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, all stomped their feet and blamed Benghazi on UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who's most likely to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. They solemnly declared that they would oppose Rice's nomination. Until General Petraeus and the CIA confirmed that Rice was using their talking points and they were mistaken. Oh, and the good Senators were aided by Fox News. Again.

So, the President's won a second term. Benghazi didn't faze voters. But now the Republicans want to turn this into the equivalent of President Obama's Watergate ... with the aid and assistance of Fox News.

Some people are beginning to smell a rat and call out Fox on their obvious bias ... to their faces. People like author Tom Ricks...



More people should be doing this. On Fox. Over to you, Democrats.

Truth out.

Lindsey and PawPaw Need to Look Closer to Home

Allen West was the living embodiment of a deliberately misinformed electorate choosing a woefully inadequate and unqualified representative.

This man should have been in Fort Leavenworth. Instead, for two years he reigned in the Halls of Congress. He likened African Americans to slaves on the so-called Democratic plantation and bragged of being the Republican Harriet Tubman who would lead them to the enlightenment of the Republican Party.

Thank goodness, prescient voters saw him for what he was and sent him packing to the plantation of his dreams.

And if anyone is willfully incompetent, maybe Lindsey Graham and PawPaw McCain ought to spend more time clearing out the dross from their own party rather than attacking members of the Democratic party over nothing. If they did that, maybe they might regain some feasibility and win some elections.

Allen West ... farewell, douchebag.

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Real Time with Bill Maher November 16 2012

Ep. 267 November 16, 2012 - Overtime

Luke Russert Shows Why Nepotism Produces Twits

I was never the biggest fan of Tim Russert, although I acknowledge his legendary status (even though I was embarrassed and appalled at the "king-is-dead" treatment MSNBC gave him at his untimely death.

However, I was even more bemused at the sudden elevation of his then twenty-two year-old son, fresh from Boston College and an aspiring sports reporter, to NBC's Capitol Hill correspondent. I thought he was trite, amateurish and too immature and inexperienced for such a role. And, let's be honest, this was the most blatant piece of nepotism ever practiced by a major network.

It was bad enough, back in 2009 and in the wake of Joe Wilson's infamous "You lie" shouted remark, that in the gaggle of reporters shouting questions at Wilson, Russert could only shout out a question about college football.

Still, Russert has become a fixture at the network, and so he was on hand today to ask a question of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that was not only ignorant, it was offensive and ageist.

Russert thought he was Mr Smartass asking a question that implied that Pelosi's colleagues thought her decision to stay on as Leader prohibited anyone younger from having such a chance and stymied the Democratic Party in the long run.

Oh, the ignorance an insouciance of youth!

Pelosi, in return, was quick off the mark, subtly implying Russert's sexism, reminding him that he always asked her  that question, but never Mitch McConnell. When Russert tried to walk back the remark, trying to include the male leadership of the House party, Pelosi eloquently handed him his ass. Watch below:-



Mamma smacked ass, but widdle Luke went crying to the cybersphere to tweet what he really intended to say but couldn't:-

Cantor and Ryan cited as examples of leadership? Paul Ryan went very well as the Vice-Presidential candidate, didn't he? Coming off, many times, as a liar, no less. Yes, Little Luke, that's real leadership. And while you're at it, whip up some speculation about Democratic internal divisions behind the scene, based solely on jealousy that a woman of a certain age is presiding over them.

Like Mitt and Old Man George, this boy ain't his daddy, and NBC ought to be ashamed of itself for even imagining that he was.

Real Time with Bill Maher - November 9 2012 - Let's Gloat

Overtime

And Now It Starts Again from the Left

Yeah, Alan Grayson, Congressman with Guts, is back. Before you start cheering, he's back talking to the biggest mouth of all the Ratfuckers, Cenk the Stank Uygur, ex-Republican and the asshole who got handed his asshole for trying to appropriate the Occupy Movement.

Of all the firebaggers, Cenk was the one who was never without unsolicited words of "advice" for the President, always talking down and criticizing freely. When MSNBC gave him the boot Cenk whined and pointed his finger at the White House. When Alan Grayson got defeated (as a result of being outed by Anderson Cooper for using a selectively dishonest campaign video of his opponent), Grayson whined and pointed his finger at the White House.

Not even a week after the President was resoundingly re-elected, Grayson's started the criticisms again:-



What is truly alarming is the lies being propagated by both of these men. Cenk, I can understand. He's part of a ratfucking element of closeted neocons who infiltrated the Progressive Left and sought to sow discord and dissension the last time around. (Who can forget that infamous union of Jane Hamsher and Grover Norquist to stymie healthcare reform?)

Cenk is trying to do this again - appeal to the lowest common denominator of LeftWinger, someone so disgruntled at not having received his purple unicorn, that he's willing to believe all and sundry bad about this President. Cenk's brief is to continue doing that - and if he has to lie to do it, so be it. Just like Fox News from the Right.

The truth is that the President isn't going to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits. What he may very well do is raise the Social Security tax cap, which is reasonable, and the 700-odd million, billion or trillion whatever cuts proposed to be made on Medicare won't be from the benefits end, but from the unnecessary administrative and pharmaceutical costs - the stuff that financially benefits doctors, the little perks of their job.

So I really can't explain Alan Grayson's misinformation, except to wonder if it's nothing more than sour grapes.

This is the President's second term. He's got nothing left to prove to anyone like Grayson and less to prove to the Professional Left. Grayson would be wise to refrain from all the extracurricular television activity he enjoyed before and stick to representing his constituents. And let the President get on with governing the country.

After all, he is the President, and Alan Grayson isn't. And never will be.