GOP Bigot Eruption: Michelle Malkin On How Obama Dares To Be Black

2:07 pm EST April 30th, 2008 | News | 8 Comments

Michelle Malkin made her name calling every hispanic a terrorist or declaring that it was right to intern Japanese Americans during WWII, and now she’s decided to join the rest of the bigoted GOPers in attacking Barack Obama for being black. Her latest syndicated column is titled “Jive Talk Expressk“. The column is most of the same warmed-over nonsense about how Obama is a secret black nationalist who wants to kill us all, and it ends saying “You be trippin’, Barry.” Because he’s BLACK, you see. Be very afraid.

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7:40 am EST April 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Topic: Links

John McCain’s Out Of Touch Health Care Plan: Pray

2:08 am EST April 30th, 2008 | Democrats, Republicans | 29 Comments

In case you were wondering that in the midst of all the drama on the Democratic side of the aisle it was possible for the Republican party to remain brain dead on the seminal issues of our time… wonder no more.

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday rejected calls by his Democratic opponents for universal health coverage, instead offering a market-based solution with an approach similar to a proposal put forth by President Bush last year.

McCain’s belief in the power of the free market to meet the nation’s health-care needs sets up a stark choice for voters this fall in terms of the care they could receive, the role the government would play and the importance they place on the issue.

The Republicans largely really believe some of this bull about the free market. They really think in their heart of hearts that the solution for every issue is to sprinkle some of that magical “free market” fairy dust and all will be well. The problem is, that is not what Americans feel. Oh sure, we’re willing to give the market a go of things – and for some things it works great. But we effectively operate under a free market health care system right now and its woefully unpopular. That’s the reason why health care is a serious issue in 2008 in a way that it wasn’t in 2004, 2000, etc.

John McCain is so out of touch with normal Americans (his health care costs are covered by his military disability, his Senate health care plan and should anything fall through the cracks his wife’s generous inheritance can take up the slack) that he believes that what people want is more of the current mess.

Yet the American mood on large national issues like this is not a faith based free market system, but rather historically tends to favor a collective system where we all pay in and benefit.

Topic: Economics, Health Care, John McCain, Liberals, Newsweek

RNC Echoes Conservative Blogs, Looks Even Dumber Than Usual

6:07 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Democrats, Republicans | 22 Comments

So today the RNC pushed out a press release falseley claiming that the DNC had used Iraq footage from Fahrenheit 9/11. The funny thing is, that was the more sedate of the charges as the first round insinuated that Dems had received it from terrorists (from Michelle Malkin, naturally). RNC Chairman of the moment Mike Duncan:

As you are already aware, and as has been widely reported, the DNC’s ad is troubling for at least two reasons. First, its message is factually false; the DNC is deliberately misleading American voters. Second, it constitutes an illegal excessive in-kind contribution from the DNC to its presidential candidates. Now the Republican National Committee has learned that the ad features footage from Michael Moore’s 2004 conspiracy theory, “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Of course, the footage isn’t from terrorists or (even worse in conservative minds) Michael Moore. The footage is from an AP report purchased from Getty Images.

The funny/sad thing is the RNC and the con bloggers are more upset over where the footage may or may have not have come from than they are about the people and the party who have put our soldiers in harm’s way in the first place.

Again, here is the ad they don’t want you to see, from the folks at the DNC.

Topic: 2008 Election, John McCain

GOP Bigot Eruption: Tony Zirkle’s Love Of… Nazis. Yes, Nazis.

5:52 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Republicans | 8 Comments

This is the sort of thing you let dance on its own.

Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana’s 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.

“I’ll speak before any group that invites me,” Zirkle said Monday. “I’ve spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta.”

Link includes Zirkle standing in front of a picture of Hitler, flanked on each side by the U.S. flag and Nazi flag. Really. In 2008.

Topic: GOP Bigot Eruptions

Did John McCain Get An Illegal Campaign Contribution From A Foreign National?

5:14 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Questions swirl.

A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners.

At issue is a fundraising luncheon held in March at London’s Spencer House, during McCain’s swing through the United Kingdom. An invitation to the event lists Lord Rothschild and Nathaniel Rothschild as hosts, and indicates the event was made possible with their “kind permission”.

Judicial Watch, a Washington organisation instrumental in the March release of Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules, has asked US election monitors to investigate whether the Rothschilds improperly sponsored the fundraiser. US political campaigns are forbidden from accepting contributions from foreign nationals.

Topic: John McCain

Tom Tancredo Wants Border Fence Built North Of The Border

3:07 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Republicans | 17 Comments

Tancredo is so aftaid of Hispanics he wants to put American soil on the other side of his wall. Idiot.

Republican Tom Tancredo supports the border wall. The U.S. representative attended the hearing in Brownsville yesterday.

During the hearing, he told the Brownsville landowners, “I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city…” implying that all of Brownsville should be on the Mexican side of the wall.

Topic: Immigration

Nooooooo

2:00 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Politics | 9 Comments

Alan Keyes was unable to get the Constitution Party nomination for president. This can only mean one thing.

The Keyes Party.

WHERE DO I SEND MY DONATION?

Topic: Humor

Republican Recession Watch: Confidence Drops, Home Values Drop

1:49 pm EST April 29th, 2008 | Republicans | 4 Comments

Clearly this is good for out of touch John McCain.

Americans’ confidence in the economy continued to plunge this month as their homes lost value at the fastest rate in two decades, according to reports released on Tuesday.

The data suggested that the housing slump was far from a recovery and the job market might continue to weaken, ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve, which began a two-day meeting on Tuesday, to take steps to stave off a prolonged slowdown.

The reports were consistent with a recession, economists said, though some optimists have insisted the economy is growing, albeit at a snail’s pace. President Bush remained in the latter camp at a news conference on Tuesday, where he said the economy was facing “a tough time.”

Topic: Economy, George W. Bush, John McCain