Watching the Republicans - Runaway Train

[ZenGum]

"Higher education" ... giggles...

It's so often the way, isn't it? The loudest voices against something usually turn out to be up to their eyeballs in it.

In the same vein, I've seen some recent internet rumours that Phelps of the WBC is gay or had gay experiences in the past. No kiddin?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing.
~snip~
By the time of the election in November 1968, LBJ had evidence Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam war peace talks - or, as he put it, that Nixon was guilty of treason and had "blood on his hands".
~snip~
When he became convinced it was being orchestrated by the Republican candidate, the president called Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader in the Senate to get a message to Nixon.
The president knew what was going on, Nixon should back off and the subterfuge amounted to treason.
~snip~
Johnson felt it was the ultimate expression of political hypocrisy but in calls recorded with Clifford they express the fear that going public would require revealing the FBI were bugging the ambassador's phone and the National Security Agency (NSA) was intercepting his communications with Saigon.

So they decided to say nothing.

The president did let Humphrey know and gave him enough information to sink his opponent. But by then, a few days from the election, Humphrey had been told he had closed the gap with Nixon and would win the presidency. So Humphrey decided it would be too disruptive to the country to accuse the Republicans of treason, if the Democrats were going to win anyway.

So for the sake of politics, Nixon spent 22,000 American lives, and god knows how many Vietnamese, in the next 5 years of war.

Pissing on Nixon's grave is high on my bucket list.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Saxby Chambliss

"I'm not gay. So I'm not going to marry one"

You'd think that would be a reason why straight people wouldn't have any reason to oppose gay marriage, but instead it was the reason Saxby Chambliss gave for why he wants it to be illegal.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I say let 'em get married but they're not allowed to throw rice. That preserves the sanctity of traditional marriage.

[Lamplighter]

This is the nature of today's elected Republicans .

US News & World Report
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
4/3/13
First Amendment doesn't apply here: N.C. lawmakers push bill for state religion

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have introduced a bill declaring
that the state has the power to establish an official religion
— a direct challenge to the First Amendment.
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The bill[*] was introduced Monday by two Republican representatives
from Rowan County, north of Charlotte, and sponsored by seven other Republicans.
The party controls both chambers of the North Carolina Legislature.
<snip>

[*] The article has a link to the Bill

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

This is the nature of today's elected Republicans .

US News & World Report
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
4/3/13
First Amendment doesn't apply here: N.C. lawmakers push bill for state religion
[*] The article has a link to the Bill

I honestly thought this was an April Fools joke. Well, there are fools involved.....

These are the same people who rail against attempts to implement Sharia law in the US. What do they think they are setting the stage for....?

[Happy Monkey]

And:

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli has filed a petition with the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond asking the full 15-judge court to reconsider a decision by a three-judge panel last month that overturned the state’s sodomy law.

He wants to charge someone with sodomy for having sex with an underage girl. Presumably he'd have been fine with it if they'd done it missionary-style.

[glatt]

I fucking hate Cuccinelli. Normally I don't fucking hate the political opposition, but he's such an asshole about it.

This is the guy who subpoenaed emails and other records of scientists at UVA because he wanted to refute their research on climate change.

What business an attorney general has getting involved in scientific research, I still don't understand.

I'm afraid he's going to be our next governor. Nobody votes in the non-presidential elections, so the Republicans have a chance to take control at the state level. Ugh.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

I fucking hate Cuccinelli. Normally I don't fucking hate the political opposition, but he's such an asshole about it.

This is the guy who subpoenaed emails and other records of scientists at UVA because he wanted to refute their research on climate change.

What business an attorney general has getting involved in scientific research, I still don't understand.

I'm afraid he's going to be our next governor. Nobody votes in the non-presidential elections, so the Republicans have a chance to take control at the state level. Ugh.

I got a letter from the Democratic Governors Association warning about the Tea Party push for control of governorships and state houses, with a particular worry about Cuccinelli this year. They said the polls are dead even at the moment, in VA.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by glatt

I fucking hate Cuccinelli. Normally I don't fucking hate the political opposition, but he's such an asshole about it.
<snip>
I'm afraid he's going to be our next governor. Nobody votes in the non-presidential elections, so the Republicans have a chance to take control at the state level. Ugh.

Where, Oh where, is Larry Flint and his $1million rewards when you need him ?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Lying sack of shit department.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who has been raising fears that expanding background checks would bring about a national gun registry, conceded Wednesday that the legislation doesn’t actually do that. But he warned that the bill would encourage future efforts to allow a registry.

Federal law prohibits the creation of a national gun registry. And the Manchin-Toomey background check legislation makes it a felony, punishable by a fine and 15 years in prison. TPM asked Cruz on Wednesday morning how the bill would lead to a registry.

“I don’t disagree that on its face, the currently pending legislation does not purport to create a national gun registry,” Cruz said. But he argued that the bill wouldn’t achieve the desired results without a registry and motivate gun control supporters to push for the creation of one.

[elSicomoro]

The State of MO may not be able to issue drivers licenses if this goes through.

[regular.joe]

Yep another repub run away train. Rather than pass legislation to direct a state agencies policies or business practices and take the risk of not getting it all my way. Lets just get rid of the whole damn thing. Very childish.

[Griff]

Hypocrite update: Katz gets charges dropped, because politician not regular human.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Griff

Hypocrite update: Katz gets charges dropped, because politician not regular human.

And someones going to call him on it. And he's going to claim that his personal life and his job have nothing to do with each other, which is bullshit.

We elect (hire) these schmucks because we expect them to represent us. That means that they are supposed to take their experience as normal human beings from the same geographic area and with presumably similar experiences to us and use those views to work on our behalf. And then we go ahead and insulate them from the consequences of the stupid laws that they support based on political expediency.

They're not the stupid ones....we are for letting the system get screwed up to this point.


BTW, saw your HillBilly/HillWilliam tag. Two of my coworkers were discussing the origin of the term this week.

The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Ulster Scots, protestants who migrated to the Irish province of Ulster during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. The majority of these people originated in the lowlands of Scotland. In America, the Ulster Scots became known as the Scotch-Irish. Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, "hill-folk" and "billie" which was a synonym for "fellow", similar to "guy" or "bloke".
Although the term is not documented until 1900, a conjectural etymology for the term is that it originated in 17th century Ireland for Protestant supporters of King William III during the Williamite War.[1] The Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of "King Billy", as "Billy Boys". However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states "In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants…, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect… In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development."[2]