Politics

Get your mind out of the gutter.

First off we have Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pwning the fuck out of the Dumbest Congressperson on the Planet, Republican Mike Pence of Indiana:


Transcript here

Next we get to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pwning the fuck out of Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey on Reproductive Rights:

Transcript here
I just love seeing the words "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton".

(h/t to Shakesville!)

Yes, I am referring to Michelle Bachman. That big bag of bat-shit crazy that we (well not me, as I'm not in her district) sent to Washington.

Michelle is a model Republican in that she likes to make stuff up. Hell, let's call it like it is, she tells lies. And the main stream media doesn't call her on it.

Good thing we have bloggers like Wonkette:

Michele Bachmann’s got her name in the newspapers again! This happens very easily: go on the wingnut’s radio show, get asked “what’s the reaction” in Minnesota to the fact that the state has an “openly” Muslim congressman (Keith Ellison) who knows Muslim people (Barack Obama?), and argue that the liberal media is not concerned enough about this very obvious terrorism, what with the Flying Imams and stuff who probably all know Ellison from Muslim parties and Al Qaeda.

The transcript is full of teh crazy.

I reallly <3 Jon Stewart.

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"I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing"

"See, now you're in the minority. It's supposed to taste like a shit taco."

So true.

Michele Bachmann continues to bring the crazy.

By KEVIN DIAZ, Star Tribune

Rep. Michele Bachmann, appearing Tuesday night on Fox News' show with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, dismissed as an "urban legend" reports that she had suggested on a preelection cable show with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that then-Sen. Barack Obama and other members of Congress may be "anti-American" and that the media should investigate them as such.

Bachmann also accused Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken of trying to "stuff the ballot box" in his Minnesota recount struggle with GOP incumbent Norm Coleman.

I don't think its an "Urban Legend" if you really said it. Hey Michele, let me introduce you to this thing we call 'video tape'.

Barack Obama was on David Letterman last night.

Compared to McCain, he's smart, articulate, personable and funny. This is the man I want as my next president.

Watch:

Barbara Boxer says John McCain is a fighter:

Last night at the Republican National Convention, John McCain used the word "fight" more than 40 times in his speech.

In the 16 years that we have served together in the Senate, I have seen John McCain fight.

I have seen him fight against raising the federal minimum wage 14 times.

I have seen him fight against making sure that women earn equal pay for equal work.

I have seen him fight against a women's right to choose so consistently that he received a zero percent vote rating from pro-choice organizations.

I have seen him fight against helping families gain access to birth control.

I have seen him fight against Social Security, even going so far as to call its current funding system "an absolute disgrace."

And I saw him fight against the new GI Bill of Rights until it became politically untenable for him to do so.

John McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in 2007 and 100 percent of the time in 2008 -- that's no maverick.

We do have two real fighters for change in this election -- their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

From PZ Myers at Pharyngula comes this chilling video by Aaron Hodgins Davis about the Republican war mongers...



If you can watch this video and still vote for McCain/Palin, well, I just don't know what to say.

Jason Rosenhouse over at ScienceBlogs has crafted a marvelous post about the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.

It makes me weep.

It has become a cliche of modern political life that Republicans “play the game” so much better than Democrats. This is code for saying that Democrats have pesky things like souls and consciences that make it impossible for them to stand in front of audiences and tell bald-faced lies about their opponents.

Surely you noticed that there was almost nothing in the way of personal attacks during the entirety of the Democratic convention. Why do you suppose that is? Do you think that Democratic strategists just aren't aware that negative campaigning, especially at the national level, is nearly always effective? Or do you think it's because they find it genuinely distasteful to attack people with the requisite ferocity? That when given the opportunity to address a large fraction of the country they prefer to point to the policy failures of their opponents and to explain what they would do differently given the chance?

Ever wonder why there is no liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck? It's because normal, mentally healthy people are incapable of the sorts of things that they do. Most people are not capable of sustaining the anger and dishonesty required to engage in hours a day of sustained attack. Most people care at least a little bit about getting their facts straight before holding forth on television or radio. Only brain-dead fanatics are capable of that sort of extreme simple-mindedness. To find that on the left you have to shoot right past liberal into the realms of the extreme left-wing, where you will not find anyone with either an ounce of power, or an ounce of loyalty to the Democratic party. The crazy right-wing is fanatically loyal to the Republican party. The extreme left votes for Nader and gives lectures about how there is only the Republicrat party.

The Republicans think nothing of pitting one part of the country against another. John Kerry was from Massachussetts. As far as Republicans were concerned, that was a legitimate issue against him. The Northeast is a shadowy place full of people of shady values, the sort who don't put their country first and sneer at people who do. They are perfectly happy to use a major American city (that would be San Francisco) as a bogeyman for scaring people into line. Can you imagine any Democrat, regardless of the electoral map, talking about Kansas or Oklahoma in such terms?

There is much, much more.

The republicans in the comments are trying their hardest to refute this, but they are not getting much traction.

The DNC moves us another step towards the future envisioned by Robert Heinlein in "If This Goes On".

Who is going to play the role of Nehemiah Scudder?

(Did I scare you?)