Sad Clown Sings Only The Lonely At CPAC

By tmcbpatriot | March 16, 2013 | No Comments

This week a gay man woke up from his coma at CPAC and wondered aloud what the hell he was doing there? Realizing, as if for the first time, that he and his gay friends were not welcome, he reacted the way any gay man in a room full of haters would. He became embarrassed.

Yes, this week while a bunch of racist and totally insane people gathered in Maryland to be crazy together, a gay Republican named Jimmy LaSaliva and his adorable club called GOProud was excluded from the festivities. As a result, Jimmy got his lace panties in a twist:

“I’m embarrassed to call myself a Republican right now,” Jimmy LaSaliva, co-founder and president of the gay conservative group GOProud, said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Thursday. The gay Republican was referring to GOProud’s exclusion from participation at CPAC for a second year in a row, banned as an official sponsor. LaSalvia attended CPAC as a guest of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a sponsor of CPAC which hosted a panel Thursday on which LaSaliva appeared, “A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet.”

Ok, two things: That CPAC is happening in a place call “Mary-Land” is ironic and funny in and of itself and Jimmy should have brought that up. Second, that Jimmy is embarrassed by Republicans who are more embarrassed by him than he is of them is even funnier and should be the only reason for Jimmy to be embarrassed.

Being openly gay and a Republican is silly and, I would imagine, downright confusing too. It is a phenomenon I just need to learn more about. So I am heading down the street to the “He Man Woman Haters” convention. Sally Silverstein, member and president of HeManicures is protesting her snub at that convention for the third year in a row. Come to think of it, maybe she and Jimmy can meet and cry over their Mint Julep’s together while Sinatra sings Only the Lonely. If anyone understands loneliness, it’s Frank, trust me.

Nice Work Republicans! You Snubbed Your Only Hope for 2016

By tmcbpatriot | March 15, 2013 | No Comments

Man, Republican’s are so dumb it is not even posible to describe it. The Crazy People Are Conservative (CPAC) conference is in town this week and boy are the morons not disappointing.

My favorite part of this yearly Republican calamity is the snubbing on the only guy who shows any promise for the GOP in 2016, Chris Christie. The CPAC charman said this about Christie this week in response to questions about the Governor not being invited:

“Chairman Cardenas…defended the conference’s snub of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, indicating that the conference focuses more on “national matters than anything else” and that other governors had a “more excellent conservative record” worth highlighting.”

Funnier still is that this same guy defended Donald Trump’s inclusion as:

“a billionaire who creates jobs” and is “not afraid to talk about the failures of the Obama administration.” He said that Trump, who has spoken previously at CPAC, is “a persuasive speaker” who was brought “back by public demand” and that “the crowd here loves him.”

You can’t make this shit up. Nobody would believe you! In an event that promotes itself as finding the next Republican hero to save the Republican party from itself, the one guy who stands any chance of doing that job was not invited!

Like I said, you just can’t begin to understand the stupidity and short sightedness of Republicans. But who am I to ruin a good thing? Keep it up fellas. The country depends on it.

 

Another Republican Peeks Out The Rabbit Hole

By tmcbpatriot | March 15, 2013 | No Comments

With the Crazy People Are Conservative (CPAC) convention in full- on insanity mode this week, this next story seemed most appropriate.  Republicans, as most of us know, live in a world of denial and fantasy. In their world Obama is a socialist, all blacks are on food stamps, gays are sodomites and pedophiles and latinos are, well, latinos. Most often, in this fantasy world, Republicans find themselves constantly challenged by a pesky thing called reality. It is a reality that is slowly, but surely, swallowing them up.

This week we saw yet another example of that as another Republican reversed his stance on gay marriage because, surprise, surprise, his son is gay. I am talking about Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Now, before you get any ideas, Portman did not make this decision overnight. It took him two years.

Portman said of his two year long change of heart on gay marriage:

“It allowed me to think of this issue from a new perspective, and that’s of a Dad who loves his son a lot and wants him to have the same opportunities that his brother and sister would have — to have a relationship like Jane and I have had for over 26 years.”

How touching, except of course for the fact that as recently as 2011 Portman was ”openly hostile” to gay’s and gay rights. In fact, his opposition of the gay “led to hundreds of students at the University of Michigan objecting to the senator speaking at the school’s graduation ceremony.” But hey, he’s come around. He’s now among the reality based. There’s hope for him, right? Well…

Portman, you might recall, was once considered to be Mit Romney’s running mate. In fact when a reporter asked asked why Romney chose Paul Ryan over him he assured the reporter it had nothing to do with the gay stuff.

“Portman, who was ultimately passed over as the GOP vice-presidential candidate in favor of Rep. Paul Ryan, said the fact that his son is gay was not the deal breaker for Romney. How does he know? “Well, because they [Romney's campaign] told me,” said Portman.”

LMAO! Just as I was thinking Portman was one of us, it seems he still has one foot firmly planted in the rabbit hole.

Not So Brietbart Strikes Again!

By tmcbpatriot | March 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

Andrew Brietbart is still dead! That much is true. Not much else coming out of his namesake’s “news” blog may be though. For the second time in a month, Breitbart.com posted a false story that was later taken down after it turned out to be totally untrue.

Apparently, a story about Paul Krugman going bankrupt vent viral, getting picked up and reposted on the popular conservative website. Turns out, the story was satire, invented by a blog called The Daily Currant. Who knew? Well, Breitbart.com should have. However, before it was proven to be a non-story, it also wound up on Boston.com, which is actually a serious news source. Asked why Breitbart picked up the story in the first place without first vetting it for accuracy, they replied it was because Boston.com was a “trusted” news source. Great answer. It would later come out that Boston.com posted the story “by accident” while Brietbart did it on purpose.

It should come as no surprise that a hyper-partisan website like Breitbart.com would post satire as truth, especially when it is a story that bashes a well known liberal like Krugman. I am pretty sure too that the folks over at Breitbart wanted to believe this story, even if perhaps they doubted its veracity.

As a result, is it any wonder that our so-called news organizations are considered to be so untrustworthy? Additionally, can we even call them news organizations when stories such as this one trumps actual news stories that are actually true and virtually ignored?

For example, just this week a report came out saying that about $8 billion was wasted or unaccounted for that was suposed to be used for reconstructing Iraq. Sure, we could file this story under “No Shit” and move on, but it also begs the question: Are we in danger when supposed news organizations report made up stories as truth simply because they want it to be true or are we screwed because we, as readers, seem to care more about made up stories even after we know they are not true while ignoring the ones that are?

The answer is a bit unclear, but if this latest media screw up is any indication, I am pretty sure of what the answer most likely is.

 

Joe Lieberman – Officially a Conservative

By tmcbpatriot | March 11, 2013 | No Comments

Joe Lieberman has a new job. He will be co-chair of the American Enterprise Institute’s “American Internationalism Project,” let by former Senator Jon Kyl.

Of the AIP, Kyl writes: ”Fiscal constraints, weariness with war and isolationism are eroding the American will to lead. The nation has often chafed “at the burden of our obligations.” But what once appeared to be a truism of an earlier era – the willingness to shoulder “the burdens of leadership in the free world” – has ceased to resonate with many Americans. American internationalism has never been simply a response to threats, but an expression of who Americans are and what kind of world we want to live in.”

So Joe Lieberman, a man once considered for V.P., who turned his back on Democrats when they needed him most and who still pretends to be an Independent, is now going to work for a Republican think tank to help them find new ways to start wars, all in the name of bipartisanship.

Seriously, how does this guy sleep at night?

The GOP’s Obamacare Lie and Why It Will Continue To Help Them

By tmcbpatriot | March 10, 2013 | No Comments

When I think if the GOP, I often hear the voice of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore as he sits in the helicopter looking down at the carnage he is dropping onto that vietnamese village. In a forever frustrated voice, he utters, as only he can: “Don’t these people ever give up?”

Well there’s that voice again because Paul Ryan is at it again. He is making the rounds in his forever lame attempt to remain relevant while touting yet another budget plan, same as the old plan, that promises to make the world a better place, provided of course that Obamacare is not part of it. Ugh. I feel you frustration Bill.

Thing is though, this boring regurgitation of repealing Obamacare, while tired and rote, continues to provide returns for the GOP and will for years to come. Obamacare is much like those other pesky liberal initiatives, like Medicare and Civil Rights, and much like those we intelligent people understand that Obamacare is here to stay while Republicans need to pretend it’s not. Politicians like Ryan need to play dumb in order to maintain support among their fast dying, brain dead followers who need to believe otherwise.

For anyone working in healthcare, you know that Obamacare is moving forward and is already deeply enmeshed in how things will work going forward. Repeal is virtually impossible at this point and Republicans know it. Nevertheless, they need to continue with the repeal meme in order to give their voting block something to hope for. It is a good plan because Republican voters are that ignorant and refuse to face reality. For the rest of us, we’ll just keep dropping liberal bombs on their heads until they finally surrender. Sadly, I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

Maybe they should just title his clip “Here Comes The Democrats With Obamacare.”

No More Discussions!! FOX IS FOR RETARDED PEOPLE!

By tmcbpatriot | March 9, 2013 | No Comments

Not much to say before you play this clip except that those who watch FOX are retarded! It’s been said many times before, but it must be said again…and again and again. FOX “news” is a channel for retarded people, and Republicans are retarded people!!

Now, by retarded I do not mean to insult mentally retarded people with down syndrome. They probably never watch FOX. What I mean are people who are grown-ups, who maybe went to college, but probably not, and who now live with the mentality of a small child who was possibly left back in grade school and who were slow learners who rode the short bus. I am also pretty sure their parents were equally as dumb and passed it on to their children who now make up FOX’s demo…a demo FOX understand very, very well.

So, if there is still any doubt who FOX’s audience is, this video should put an end to the debate. Period. Exclamation Point! End of Sentence!! Over and Out!!!

Will Rand Paul Filibuster For Woman’s Liberties Too?

By tmcbpatriot | March 7, 2013 | No Comments

While Rand Paul filibustered for thirteen hours against Obama’s kill-anyone-with-a-drone-on-U.S.-soil policy, the state of Kansas was busy pointing their drones at women’s vagina’s all across this great land.

The Kansas state House Federal and State Affairs Committee passed a 70-page bill that would tax abortions, establish life beginning at fertilization, require doctors to say that abortion causes breast cancer and prohibit state employees from performing abortions during the workday. The bill also would require doctors to tell women that abortion causes breast cancer, even though the claim defies scientific fact. The bill is likely to pass.

So for all of you so-called libertarians up in arms over what Obama is not doing, you might want to stop with the bullshit and actually pay attention to what people are actually doing. Imaginary drones are not going to drop out of the sky on your house. However, if you are a woman, I would be protecting those lady parts about now. Your freedom is about to go up in smoke. Will Rand Paul filibuster on your behalf?  That’s a rhetorical question of course. But the answer is no.

Jeb Bush Sells Some Books

By tmcbpatriot | March 7, 2013 | No Comments

Here we go again folks. Last week it was Bob Woodward looking like the fool while trying to boost sales of his book. This week it’s none other than shrub brother himself, Jeb Bush, making the rounds to sell his. I won’t mention the title of the book as I don’t want to help him sell any. However, I will offer that Jeb Bush has made a fool of himself by saying the exact opposite of what he wrote in his book on the topic of immigration. As a result, brother Bush has succeeded in his intended goal. You see, playing the fool on T.V. is all it takes these days to sell your wares. Fail to do that and you will come and go without nary a mention.

Case in point, in trying to promote his book this week, Bush did a complete 360 in his belief about what we should do with illegals. In his book, Bush wrote:

“It is absolutely vital to the integrity of our immigration system that actions have consequences — in this case, that those who violated the law can remain but cannot [emphasis mine] obtain the cherished fruits of citizenship.”

The “cherished fruits of citizenship”? Is he kidding? Is that supposed to be poetic? Anyway, while promoting his book, Bush went on MorningJoe and CNN to basically say the exact opposite of what he wrote. On CNN he said:

“I have supported both — both a path to legalization or a path to citizenship — with the underlining principle being that there should be no incentive for people to come illegally at the expense of coming legally.”

To recap, Jeb Bush wrote in his book that if you are here illegally you can forget about eating any of our cherished fruit, however, as he said publicly this week, if you are already here illegally he would support your partaking in the cherished fruit. We just need to make sure that anyone else thinking of coming here illegally should not get the wrong idea. After all, we don’t just hand out cherished fruit…even though he would support such a policy. Ya folla?

What is there to say except that when Jeb wrote his book Republicans truly believed that Romney would be President. After Obama won re-election, it suddenly became clear the GOP was dying a slow death. If they are to survive they need to somehow grab a bit of that coveted latino love and start dolling out some of that cherished fruit before their supply rots. This foolishness also proves that in our 24/7 media mayhem there is no better place to do sell your wares than on CNN and Morning Joe, and all the other popular news shows. After all, who knows better about selling crap to the American public than them. So, as Bush proved this week and Woodward last week, if you have something stupid to say and something worthless to sell, they will give you all the time you need.

Could Sequestration Take Down Dems?

By tmcbpatriot | March 4, 2013 | No Comments

It here! Doomsday! Sequestration is upon us and its going to be BAD!!!! Or not.

This whole business of spending cuts, for what it’s worth, may turn out to be a while lot of nothing and that will not bode well for Democrats. Today, for example, Janet Napolitano said that sequestration was causing airport delays. Oh No! The Horror! But then “the Federal Aviation Administration reported Monday there were no significant flight delays in either Los Angeles or Chicago.”

Ok, well, there must be something devastating happening as a result of the sequester because Republicans are running scared…

Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group founded by the Koch brothers, says that lawmakers should be commended for doing nothing to prevent billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration.

“With the sequester, Congress made a promise to the American people to cut spending. They deserve to be congratulated for actually keeping that promise…It definitely wasn’t easy given the pressure from the White House.”

Doh!

With all the hubbub surrounding these spending cuts and with Republicans doing nothing to stop it, it makes one wonder if this was their ace in the hole the whole time. Put simply, if these spending cuts are nothing but a blip on the rader then Obama looks like a fear monger while Republicans can say: “See? We told you cutting wasteful spending would not harm the economy.”

And with no problems to the economy, Republicans can stay true to form and tout a victory against reckless spending and out of control deficits while Dems look like they are hoping for an economic disaster just to prove Republicans wrong.

Time will tell who comes out the victor in this latest game of chicken. Republicans are currently 0-everything. Statistically speaking, they may be due for a win.

 

 

 

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