Fox Claims Obama Is First Modern President Not to Attend Church

If you watched Fox News yesterday you learned that President Obama's reasons for being Christian are not supported by his lack of church attendance of which he is the first president in modern history that has "chosen" not to go to church.

Well, unless you consider Reagan and George W. Bush not to be modern American presidents, you would be right.  Wheeee!!

How dare the president tell Rolling Stone that Fox espouses an agenda that he doesn't agree with.  How dare he.

Shocking Tea Bagger Fiscal Irresponsibility

Her O-face

The Associated Press reports non-masturbating tea bagger Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, failed to file tax returns for the last three years. Like I said, shocking!

*Update:

I didn't want to have to do it, cause I was hoping she would fade out with a giant nut sack stuck to her face, but I have now added O'Donnell as a category.

**Update:

JMM has a questionable definition of padding.

Now the same impostor has apparently struck again on zoominfo.com. And this time the impostor was able to get O'Donnell herself to 'claim' and confirm the same padded educational info, in some sort of plan -- equal parts nefarious and ingenious -- to implicate her in serial bamboozling. And by 'padded', I mean in the sense of saying you went to school at places you didn't.

Honestly, is saying you went to school at Oxford and Princeton really padding? C'mon, we all know those are hippy schools anyway. If she wanted to pad she would say that she went to Southeast Missouri State like Rush Limbaugh. Or that she transferred to 6 different schools before finally settling in like Palin did. Saying you went to Oxford and Princeton is really a turn off to super-macho- tough guy conservatives.

I'm Superior to 99% of the Population

Not really. Not even close actually. The test was simple, basic and easy.

Via Cooper:

15 out of 15 correctly

I can only conclude from all of this that God has ordained me to blog.

Along With Nearly the Whole Movement, Sharron Angle Also Receives Government Health Care

A friend of mine once compared the tea baggers to war protesters during the Bush administration.  But that is far from an accurate comparison.  If the war protesters were out protesting Bush and his wars by day while waging war and killing people at night, then the comparison might have substance.  Because that's exactly what's going on here.  People who benefit from government services are out protesting people benefiting from government services.

The most subtle element of the tea bagger faction in the GOP is their disdain toward social programs. They call it Big Government, the nanny state or their favorite is socialist/fascism.  This includes anything the government might provide as a service to the citizenry, but most specifically in terms of health care and Social Security. Most importantly, their disdain becomes extremely relevant when its a non-Republican administering the government and said social services.

Whatever your stance is on government's role in providing services, it's best not to be a recipient of such services when protesting against it.  Am I saying you can't protest government if you receive government benefits or work for the government?  No, not at all.  I'm saying if you are a beneficiary of vast government services effectively designed for you to be a beneficiary, your argument that government has no role in providing such services is hypocritical or, in the least,  not very well thought out. But protest if you wish.

Republican tea bagger candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, is the latest example of what I'm talking about.  Angle has campaigned endlessly against Social Security and what she calls a government takeover of health care.  Her campaign is designed around her desire to repeal HCR, privatize Social Security and do away with Medicare and the VA, because she believes government has no role in providing those services.  There are a few problems with this, however.  Sharron Angle receives government health care!

Moreover, she has been an employee of tax payer funded government nearly all her life.  In fact, according to her bio there is only a two year period when she worked for a private school when she was not living off of tax dollars.  And her husband was a federal employee his whole life where he retired with a federal pension and a government-run health care system that they both benefit from.  In other words, Sharron Angle's entire existence, and that of her family, is owed to tax payers and the government providing services to its citizenry. It's owed entirely to programs she claims not to support.

Christine O'Donnell Caught Lying Again About Education (*Update)

For almost 20 years Christine O'Donnell lied about having earned a bachelor's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. A degree that she was not officially awarded until just two months ago. But since 1991 she has numerous times listed it as her education qualification.

For nearly the same length of time she has lied about attending graduate school at Princeton. She actually tried to sue her former employer for millions using her Princeton education as proof she had substantial loss of wages. The facts are O'Donnell never attended Princeton.

Now Greg Sargent has tracked down the mystery of Christine O'Donnell's Linkedin bio listing her as having attended yet another prestigious university, Oxford. Yeah, she never stepped foot in that one either.  All lies.

The matter at hand here isn't whether or not she lies.  Or whether or not it's a pattern of lying, which it most assuredly is.  The matter at hand is O'Donnell is running a political campaign from the farthest of right wing corners as a born-again evangelical Christian that wants to legislate the Bible.  Yet in the most simplest of daily activity she can't seem to overcome bearing false witness, which she does to prop up her skills and experiences so she can run for the U.S. Senate where she hopes to legislate her self-perceived morality onto all of us. 

Lying is one thing.  But she's lying so she can win an election and legislate her view of the world, a view she obviously can't even abide by, onto American society. 

(h/t to Greg Sargent on this one, great work)

*Update:

Only the beginning...

Christine O'Donnell has a very difficult time telling the truth.  A radio producer in Los Angeles has uncovered yet another outright lie from O'Donnell concerning her education credentials.  In addition to listing University of Oxford as part of her education she also listed a graduate school in southern California that she, again, never attended.  Claremont Graduate University tells TPM they have no record of a Christine O'Donnell ever attending even though she listed it on her bio.  Also, keep in mind, she is claiming to have attended all these graduate schools doing course work without ever obtaining a bachelor's degree.  She just received her bachelor's two months ago.  There's no way she would ever be accepted into Oxford or Princeton, or even a small school like Claremont without first having completed her undergraduate studies.

Instead of worrying about legislating morality for other people she should focus on her own life first.  You know, the whole plank in your own eye thingy I'm sure I read in the Bible a time or two.

Alan Grayson Compares His Opponent to the Taliban

Alan Grayson is my kind of politician. He possesses a skill that is normally lacking in Democratic candidates, creativity. It's a skill Republicans have long mastered. Except now they have taken it to the extreme by accusing everyone that disagrees with them as enemies. The moderate approach to political creativity when someone opposes you is to make fun of them. Hey I said it was moderate not mature.

That's just what Alan Grayson does, and it's exactly what I do too. For the sake of argument, let's say your opponent wants to outlaw divorce because the Bible says marriage is ordained by God; that he wants to deny health care to abused women and, as all good Republican Christians do, believes women should submit to their husbands because, again, the Bible tells them to. And just to make matters a little more immature, let's say you have footage of him telling women to submit to their husbands and obey the Bible. What in the world are you supposed to do with that????

You make a 30 second commercial ad and compare him to the Taliban that's what you do.

Everything Changes But Bob Dylan

The best part of President Obama's interview to Rolling Stone magazine is not that he slaps around Fox News for being a Republican outlet, but when he describes when Bob Dylan came to sing at the White House:

Here's what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you'd expect he would be. He wouldn't come to the rehearsal; usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening. He didn't want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn't show up to that. He came in and played "The Times They Are A-Changin'." A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage — I'm sitting right in the front row — comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it — then he left. That was our only interaction with him. And I thought: That's how you want Bob Dylan, right? You don't want him to be all cheesin' and grinnin' with you. You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.

Did Arizona Sheriff's Deputy Really Shoot Himself?

Since officially losing power in 2008, there have been no shortage of crazy right wing conspiracy theories and/or tall-tales used to justify their return to power and the policies they seek. In addition to wanting to repeal numerous Constitutional Amendments they feel burden their ideology, and wanting to reinstate Jim Crow laws to help guarantee their victory at the polls, right wing extremists Republicans have also seized upon immigration as a cause to garner their return to power.

Over the summer it was evil Mexican drug lords had invaded Texas and occupied ranches.  When that lie failed to stir up anti-immigrant hysteria and was without a doubt proven as a complete lie, the right wing moved onto other completely false stories.  Not to be outdone, incumbent Republican governor of Arizona stated publicly that raging Mexican aliens had been beheading people in the desert.  She later admitted she had no proof of that ever happening.

But the one that takes the Idiot Prize for fear mongering in hopes to advance Republican policy has to be Arizona sheriff's deputy Louie Puroll.

Puroll, being in full support of AZ's new immigration policy, used a story that he had been shot in the AZ desert while chasing illegal Mexican aliens who also happened to be smuggling drugs.  It's not that people are coming into this country illegally to do jobs Americans won't do.  It's that evil Mexicans are sneaking into this country to force drugs onto our youth to thwart America's future.  At least that's always the story from Republicans.

As it turns out Puroll's story was so questionable some local media enlisted expert help to collaborate his story.  Yeah, that doesn't prove so well for right wing moonbattery.  Suffice to say the Puroll case has been reopened.

Republicans Pledge to Do More of the Same

I jokingly made the comment the other day about the GOP "Pledge to America" that no one could have predicted what the pledge would say. Of course anyone with half a brain could have predicted that any campaign promise by the Republican Party would contain futile slogans about shrinking government, cutting spending, reining in the deficit and moral values.  But it's no joke.  That's exactly what it says.

The problem with all this is the GOP has never once shrunk government, cut spending or reined in the deficit or much less governed with morals and values.  None of it has ever happened as a result of GOP leadership, ever.  Republicans, however, aren't concerned with factual history.  They merely want to talk about doing such things.  If you mention that it has never happened, they answer by saying they got off course.  Or weren't true to their principles.  Or that it was the Democrats in Congress' fault.  Always an excuse to pass the blame.  Unless you actually add up all their proposals in their latest small government gimmick and find out that their "pledge" will actually substantially increase the national debt and budget spending, those almost sound like good excuses.

Fact of the matter is, despite ample opportunity and decades worth of promises to shrink government, cut spending and rein in the deficit, there is nothing in the GOP history to ever suggest they have ever done it or possibly could if given yet another chance.

It's Gotta Suck When You Have to Write Your Own Editorials

The GOP's vision for a 21st century, "Pledge to America," had its 15 minutes in the spotlight and it appears as if it's going nowhere.

But, wait. It looks as if there is one glimmering of hope from Republicans who actually support it, National Review! Dang it. Wait again.  The one shiny praise of support for the Pledge was actually written by the GOP.  It really must suck being a Republican.

It's Not You, It's me

The same old junk policies in a newly wrapped package. Or is it lipstick on a pig? I keep forgetting the saying, but Jon Stewart hasn't. Watch as he bends the GOP over and doesn't even reach around.

Just to get this straight: Two years ago America broke up with you because you had badly mistreated her. And so you disappear, do some soul searching, get your head together. And you come back rapping on our door, hat in hand, and you say: 'Baby, I know you left me, but if we get back together, I pledge to you, I promise you, I will still try to fuck your sister. Every chance I get. It's who I am.'

Just watch, it's classic!

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Pledge to America would increase deficit over $4 trillion in 10 years

Upon further reading of the Republican "Fledge to America," it dawned on me their two biggest proposals, repealing HCR and extending the Bush Tax Cuts permanently would add almost $4.2 trillion to the deficit in 10 years. You couldn't cut enough spending to make up for that gap.

The Wonk Book, who is on top of their game this week, notes the Republican plan entirely neglects the two wars we are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that were left over from the last time Republicans were in a position of power, mind you.

There are platitudes of course. It notes “we are a nation at war” and there is one bullet on pledging to “pass clean troop funding bills” (something Republicans never did during the last decade). But there is no plan for Iraq or Afghanistan. There is no mention of how Republicans plan to deal with either war, no notion that things could be done differently, and no acknowledgment that this year was the deadliest year in Afghanistan. One would think that the opposition party in the United States would have something to say about the war in Afghanistan — a war that appears to be floundering.

*Update:

Steven Benen also mentions a core value of the Republican cause completely left out of the Pledge. Their make-believe ban on earmarks.

As The Fold Blog has documented, Republicans broke their earmark ban a long time ago.

Rep. Paul Ryan, one of the main architects of the Pledge, tells ABC News the earmark ban isn't mentioned because they have already done that.  NO YOU HAVEN'T.

GOP: Repeal and Replicate

Besides lacking detail, the new GOP "Pledge to America" also has some very familiar proposals listed for its version of health care reform. As the Wonk Book makes note, the Pledge contains at least 7 items it says Republicans want to do but are already law because of Obama's Affordable Care Act.

It also must be noted too, for all those fiscal hawks out there, that the Democratic bill, which is now law, is the largest deficit reducing bill in history.

GOP Has a New Plan

Reminiscent of 1994, Republicans rolled out a 21st century version of their Contract With America. But don't call this one a contract because it's a "Pledge to America."

The 1994 success resulted in Republicans picking up 50+ house seats and 8 senate seats.  Know what else it brought?  A witch hunt of a Democratic president and his eventual impeachment in the house.  With the Republican crazy even stronger today, plus the bare fact their Party is being led by a drug-addicted radio host and a half-term governor who believes only those that support Republicans are real Americans, there's no reason whatsoever to doubt that if given control of Capitol Hill again they will do the exact same thing to this Democratic president.

Let's get to the policy, however.  What are their plans?  Trust me this one is totally unpredictable.

1. Repeal HCR and replace with their version.
2. Make Bush Tax Cuts permanent
3. Shrink government
4. Reduce spending and rein in the deficit
5. Restore morals, values and trust back to government
6. Secure the country and its borders
GOP Pledge Draft    

Oh yeah no one could have guessed this plan.  What's their track record on actually doing this stuff?

1. The last time Republicans tried to fix health care it resulted in the largest expansion of Medicare in history; an expansion that is totally unfunded and adds nearly a trillion dollars to the deficit.
2. They did give us the deficit expanding tax cuts in the first place so it's very possible they can do this one, but it will be vetoed by Obama so that brings the chances back to zero.
3. Never in the history of the world have Republicans ever shrunk government.  NEVER.  Their only track record is expanding government.  No one grew government faster and bigger than George W. Bush and he did it with a Republican-controlled Congress.
4. Never has the modern Republican Party ever reduced spending or reined in the deficit.  NEVER.  Just the opposite is their track record.  George Bush increased spending more than any president in history.  Take for instance, Clinton's last budget was for $1.1 trillion.  Bush's final was $3.1 trillion and that's before TARP and his other bailouts.  They have no history of ever doing this goal, of which they've been talking about for 30-plus years.
5. Morals, values and trust?
6. The last time Republicans claimed to secure our country we invaded Iraq.

There you have it.

All Faggots Must Die?

Yep that's what was written in the comment section of pro-gay rights website, Joe My God. Big deal, right? Not so much when it was posted straight from the office of Republican Senator Joe Chambliss. Yeah that could be a problem.

Is it possible to be so unpopular that nobody cares?

Lately, it seems, Republicans are becoming more popular by rallying against popular positions. Yesterday I highlighted the fact the GOP blocked, with only 40 votes, a very popular piece of legislation. In the non-Republican Fantasy World, when a political party is in a position of extreme minority like the GOP currently is and it blocks legislation 75% of Americans support it would spell disaster for that party.  Since we are all forced to live in the fantasy land, the opposite is being reported.

Republicans are getting away with it by using their very predictable fake concern for the deficit.  And given the fact the national economy is in slow-mode to recovery, they are able to keep the deficit theme on the front-page.  But, even when it comes to the deficit, Republican policies are once again, very unpopular.

Nearly every poll ever taken shows Americans support letting the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire like they are scheduled to do at the end of this year.  That is the exact opposite of what Republicans are proposing.  With two very important issues facing our nation this November (repeal DADT and tax cuts), it is the Democratic plan that is widely supported by the voting public.  It's even deeper than that.  Issue after issue, from trust to having solutions to fix the economy, Democrats are more popular than Republicans. 

So why are we constantly forced by the MSM to bend over backwards for the GOP and treat it like it has a plethora of popular positions when it doesn't have a single one?

Fox News Edits Another Clip of President Obama to Give False Impression on Tax Policy

A few weeks ago I was emailed a clip of fake journalist Jon Stewart nailing Fox News employee Sean Hannity for editing a clip of President Obama saying he wanted to raise taxes. The Hannity clip was very deceptive and made the president appear as if he was saying everyone's taxes would go up. Hannity is a Republican and that's what he does. He's dishonest and a coward. But millions of people watch his show and believe everything he says. Here's the clip of Stewart making Hannity look like a complete fool.

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Yesterday Fox News did it again.  This time it was on Fox's morning show where Steve Doocy played a selectively edited clip to make it look like President Obama was saying that he couldn't give a tax break to the top 2% of Americans.

After playing the edited clip over and over again, Doocy blasted the president and called him a thief.

Had Fox News not edited the clip of the president and let him finish his sentence, its audience would have heard the president saying that he can't give the top 2% of Americans a tax cut and still lower the deficit.

"When asked if he would modify his position on the Bush-era tax cuts to only increase taxes on those making at least $1 million, President Obama on Monday said the country simply could not afford it.

'I can't give tax cuts to the top two percent of Americans -- 86 percent of that going to Americans making $1 million or more -- and lower the deficit at the same time," he told CNBC. "I don't have the math.'"

After all, it's the deficit that Republicans are so concerned about, right?  Fox News constantly airs footage of Republicans being very concerned about an out of control deficit.  The most watched news program in America also loves to throw up nifty little graphs showing just how huge the deficit is.  Suffice to say, all good fiscal conservatives like the people who watch Fox News are extremely concerned about reining in that deficit.  So concerned about it, in fact, that they selectively edit a clip of the president precisely outlining the quickest way to rein in that deficit.  But Fox News doesn't want its audience to hear that.  They want people to hear that he's a thief and wants to raise everyone's taxes.  So they resort to editing and scripting that James Cameron in Hollywood would be proud of and blast the President of the United States for something he never said.

Fair and balanced just as long as it protects the Republican Fantasy World.

GOP Blocks Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Republicans have blocked funding for the U.S. military during two wars all because the funding contained language that would have repealed DADT.  Remember the days when not funding our troops during a time of war was treason?


*Update:

Maybe it's better said this way.  With only 40 votes, Republicans blocked debate on repealing don't ask, don't tell.  An extreme minority blocks legislation?  Only when Republicans are the minority.

Extreme minority is possibly an understatement.  According to the latest polling 70% of Americans support civil unions or gay marriage.  Again, 40 senate votes just blocked a very popular and mainstream American ideal.  Better yet, 75% of Americans support the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that three-quarters of the American public support!!

Pearl Jam Turns 20

Great way to make yourself feel even older early in the morning.

I'm not the biggest Pearl Jam fan ever, but I have always liked them.  I was in 7th grade when I first heard them.

Clinton Paid Down the Debt

A friend writes in with some concerns over the last post about Clinton paying down the debt-- and the crazy right wing saying he didn't.

I think you're missing the point. As an introduction, because I can't write this without bringing this up, you referring to the News Buster's contributor as Matt Shepphard the boy who was tragically beaten to death in Wyoming because he was gay is repugnant. I don't know if Noel is gay or not. Your name calling is classless even for a Democrat. Aren't you supposed to be the political correct, Big Tent party?

As you mention in your post with no links other than a graph developed by a left winger, how much did Clinton pay on the debt? He clearly didn't pay it down like he said for if he had it would have went down. I know you like to keep things simple, so is that simple enough. He might have paid some interest on the debt but he did not pay it down. The national debt rose every year under Clinton and its a pipe dream to say otherwise.

It keeps going on and on but you get the gist of it.

Yes he's a friend of mine.  We talk that way to each other all the time.  You should see us after a couple beers.

I keenly remember me stating that "[a]s you can clearly see from the charts the national debt increased under Clinton at its slowest rates in 50 years."  So my pipe dream is nonexistent.  I gladly, freely admit the national debt increased under Clinton in terms of non-adjusted real dollars.  The debt has increased every year since Eisenhower left office.  So I don't get the confusion or the concentration by Republicans on dollar amounts especially when Republicans have increased real dollar amounts at twice the rate Democrats have.

The point of contention seems to be on whether or not Clinton paid money down on the debt.  He most certainly did.  He not only paid on the interest but he also paid on the principal that helped reduce the rate of growth to 0.32% his last year in office. This resulted in an actual reduction in the national debt as a percent of GDP and after adjustment a reduction in dollar amounts as well.  Since my zfacts.com graph wasn't good enough last time I'll post another one that will show the exact same thing.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/hist07z1.xls

The data hasn't changed from the last graph.  As you can clearly see, as a percentage of GDP the national debt shrunk under Clinton.  It hadn't done that since the Democratic president before him, Jimmy Carter.  The graph also shows since the Reagan Revolution-- a time when Republicans supposedly ushered in a new era of fiscal conservancy--  not once have Republicans ever reduced the national debt.  It's also worth mentioning that Republicans increased the national debt on average since 1978 by 36.4% compared to only 4.2% by Democrats.

In reiteration, in terms of GDP, President Clinton reduced the national debt, and when you seasonally adjust for inflation, real dollar amounts also reduced between 1999 and 2000.  That clearly indicates he not only paid down the debt, but that he also shrunk it.

As far as the Shepphard comparisons go, it really sucks when someone who disagrees with you politically reduces it down to personal attacks completely made up on a whim and a fast typing keyboard doesn't it?  No apologies on my part.

The Man Who Actually Reined in the Deficit and Shrunk Government- Yes Clinton Paid Down the Debt

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There may not be a better spokesman of issues than President Bill Clinton. Watching his interview on NBC's Meet the Press shows a Clinton that is as quick and thorough on the issues as he's ever been. Watching his simple grasp of figures and talking points, it's hard to believe he's been out of office for almost 10 years now.

President Clinton on today's budget and why tea baggers are upset:

They [tea baggers] believe those in the Republican Party believe that they've talked a good game about balancing the budget, but the debt was quadrupled in the 12 years before I became president and then we paid down the debt for four years, paid down $600 billion on the national debt, and then my budget was abandoned and they doubled the debt again. So there's a good there. They're worried that utter--we've come out of this recovery to some extent, about 70 percent of our GDP growth has been regained from what was lost, but ordinary people aren't feeling it yet and they want to see some help for ordinary people. I get that.

On the GOP agenda or lack thereof:

The Republican leaders in Washington, they've got a big agenda. They want to basically dismantle the federal authority except when it comes to defense and laying concrete, and cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, and turn power over to the kind of folks that got us in trouble in the first place. I want to know where they stand, and we don't yet.

On extending the debate and how we got the financial mess we have now:

That's why I think it's really important for the debate to go beyond where it is now. Where it is now is, the Republicans said, "We left them in a $3 trillion hole, they had 21 months to fix it, they didn't fix it, throw them out. And besides that, they're trying to have the government take over the country." Which is not so. The Democrats say, "Well, at least we stopped digging that hole and we're trying to build our way out. Give us a couple more years. If it's not better then, you can throw us out. But, after all, you left the Republicans in for a long time. At least give us four years to try to fix this mess."

*Update:

It seems Republicans (aka right wing nutjobs) are having a hissy fit over Clinton's statement that he paid down the debt. Most notably, NewsBusters and internment camp champion Michelle Malkin are ticked that Clinton can go on national television and claim he paid down the debt and not be asked to prove it. In their world, paying down the debt means you shrunk it. Cause everything to them is about shrinking stuff. Deficits, the size of government, the national debt, Ann Coulter's Adams Apple; all of it has to be shrunk or it doesn't count.  That's what Republicans do. They shrink things.  Everything, all things, it doesn't matter, they'll shrink it.

When you include reality then the Republican concern with debt and shrinking things gets a little murky.

Here's what Matt Noel Shepphard says at News Busters.

Here are the facts. As you can see by the following charts taken from TreasuryDirect.gov, the gross federal debt never declined during the Clinton years:

 

As you can clearly see from the charts the national debt increased under Clinton at its slowest rates in 50 years.  So what?  He never said he shrunk the debt or "declined" it.  He said he paid it down, which he did.  That's why it grew at very low levels because he paid on it.  Most of what he paid was interest payments, again that's why it still grew but grew slowly.  And the debt he had to pay was left over from the two Republican administrations who had nearly quadrupled the debt.  But that's okay too cause it doesn't matter when Republicans grow debt or run up huge trillion budget deficits.  What matters is how Democrats intend to fix Republican messes.

Moreover, just because Matt Noel Shepphard possibly lacks a chromosome, let's look at debt as a percentage of GDP, which is the most accurate way to compare administrations.

And when we compare it to GDP, the national debt actually SHRUNK!!!!!

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Meet GOP House Candidate Glen Urquhart, Just Another Mainstream Repub

Christine O'Donnell might have to take a backseat to an intrastate rival.

GOP candidate for U.S. House in Delaware has a very tea bagger take on separation of church and state:

"Do you know, where does this phrase 'separation of church and state' come from?" Urquhart asked at a campaign event last April. "It was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. ... The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler’s mouth, that's where it comes from. So the next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they’re Nazis."

Oh yeah he said it.

Balancing Budgets Without Balancing Budgets

Somehow I stumbled upon a blog post at Chicago Reader that touches upon some things I've been saying for a long time now.

I know nothing about the website Chicago Reader or the contributor named Whet Moser. This is the first time I've read his work, that I know of. But he is more right than he's giving himself credit for when writing about how the far-right tea bagger crowd will not contribute anything substantial to fixing America's deficit problem, and why others on the right aren't doing anything to calm them down (and may actually be secretly egging them on). Why? Because tea baggers are Republicans and people who vote Republican are glad that there is still a motivated faction in their party. No one tries to stop a hurling train by jumping on it while it's moving. You wait until it hits a wall or runs out on its own momentum. And that's what moderate Republicans are doing.

If tea baggers win a seat, the GOP picks it up.  They want their party to pick up seats, just like anyone who votes a certain way.  If a tea bagger candidate loses, then oh well.  Let it run its course.  The worst that could happen is you lose.  And Republicans are used to losing so it's no big deal.

As far as fixing the deficit, we have to remember these are still Republicans no matter what they want to call themselves and no where in history as a Republican ever shrunk the deficit.  Quite the contrary actually.  The $1.4 trillion deficit we have today is 80% contributed to policies of the last Republican administration.  The chances of tea bagging Republicans fixing-- or in the least caring about-- the deficit now is zilch.  Especially when you consider their bedrock policy they have been touting for over a year now will actually increase the deficit by $4 trillion of the next ten years.

Colbert and Stewart Announce Rallies!!

Colbert and Stewart announce intentions for Marches on the Capitol!!!  We did it America.  My God we did it.  Our hard work has paid off.

We actually got competing rallies:

Last night, Comedy Central faux journalists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert each made a "big announcement."

First up to the plate was Jon Stewart.

In response to "the loud folks," such as the Hitler-sign making folks, Stewart asks, "Why don't we hear from the 70-80 percenters?" – the majority of Americans who don't have extreme political views.

Enter the Rally to Restore Sanity.

"A million moderate march...a clarion call for rationality!" Stewart exclaimed.

With the motto of "Take it down a notch for America," Stewart is offering to provide signs with the "appropriate" level of political emotion, such as "I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler."

You could also go with "I am not afraid of Muslims/Tea Partiers/Socialists/Immigrants/Gun Owners/Gay...but I am scared of Spiders."

Pure genius I tell ya.

Not to be outdone, Great American Patriot Stephen Colbert counters:

To counter Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and to restore "truthiness," Stephen Colbert announced his own rally: The March the Keep Fear Alive.

Calling Stewart's announcement "disturbing," Colbert says he will "not take it down a notch," saying that "Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom!"

And, "Need I point out that 'reason' is one letter away from 'treason?'" Colbert asks

I will sleep well tonight.

Editor's Note:  Okay, okay so it's not on 101010.  But we did get two rallies instead of one.  We accomplished more than we ever could have imagined.  Now I need to go back and check if The Fold Blog's sponsorship is still on since the date has been changed.

Also, maybe the Mission Accomplished banner is a little extreme.  It's not as if marching on the capitol is the same thing as liberating Iraq from the people who attacked us on 9/11.  But the marches could lead to something better like invading Iran and liberating them from the people who attacked us on 9/11.  I stand by my decision to use a Mission Accomplished banner for Great American causes that may or may not take another decade or so to sort out.

Second Editor's Note (hey it's my blog I'll do as many notes as I want):   The dueling rallies already have respective websites, Rally to Restore Sanity and March to Keep Fear Alive.  I'll also note, the site icon in the left corner of both those sites was no doubt stolen from my site.  Check them out, the resemblance is uncanny, and also proves The Fold Blog is an official sponsor!!!!!!!!!!!

Fox News Sues Democrat Over the Appearance of an Endorsement

Are you ready for this one?

Fox News donated $10,000 to Republican Roy Blunt's senate campaign, then sued his opponent for using Fox News clips in her commercial, and, and is now wanting to host a debate between the two candidates.  Talk about conflict of interest.

The best part of it all is Fox News is suing Blunt's Democratic opponent because it says Carnahan's commercial gives off the impression that Fox News host Chris Wallace is endorsing her.  Gives off the appearance Fox is endorsing a political candidate???  How about giving $10,000 to a candidate as an appearance of endorsement.

What More Do You Need?

As is happening everywhere, the economy is playing a huge role here in Illinois. Specifically it boils down to taxes and deficits. Illinois faces its largest deficit ever, some $13 billion. This is either the second or third largest state deficit in the nation. And just like all over the country, Republicans in Illinois are wanting to lower taxes and magically shrink the deficit all at the same time. In fact, this is Bill Brady's platform.

Bill Brady is so worried about the huge deficit that he wants 10% across the board cuts to the budget.  Okay that leaves us with a $10 billion deficit.  Where do we cut to make up the rest?  He has given no specifics.

But Brady's plan isn't so cut and dry.  His 10% cut would force massive layoffs statewide.  That in turn equals fewer people paying income taxes, which logically equals an even smaller revenue stream for the state, which-- now hang on-- increases the deficit.  It's simple to follow.  So simple that Brady himself has admitted that his platform would actually increase the deficit by $1 billion the first year!

So, again, Brady is so worried about the deficit that his plan will actually increase it.

How much easier can it get for Democrats on this one?  Your opponent's platform is to cut the budget by 10% effectively crippling the state and forcing thousands of layoffs while admitting his plan will actually increase an already astronomical deficit. What more do you need?

If you were looking for more, here it is.  Just this week, as originally reported on The Fold Blog, Brady said he would emulate Mike Huckabee as governor.  It's no secret Mike Huckabee raised taxes 21 different times while Governor of Arkansas.  Brady will emulate a governor that raised taxes 21 times.

This not only gives Democrats a wide open opportunity to rewrite the narrative about how Republican policy of cutting taxes while claiming to also balance the budget is complete fallacy.  It also presents Democrats, even a national stage, the ability to take control of a conversation that is drastically lacking balance.  Either Bill Brady is going to cut taxes, initiate 10% across the board cuts to the whole budget, and still increase the deficit just like he said his plan would.  Or Bill Brady is going to emulate Mike Huckabee who raised taxes numerous times to help balance his budget, just like he said he would.  Which is it?

This one is being handed to you on a silver platter.  Take it and run with it.  In fact, you can have all the credit for the strategy; I don't care about pats on the back.  Cut and paste it right from here, I don't care.  Just use it.  Ram it up Brady's ass and break it off.

Let Me In Now, I Got Money To Lend My Friends Now

Rich Miller's The Capitol Fax Blog picks up on my report about GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady stating he wants to emulate another Republican governor that raised taxes 21 different times.

Miller adds Gov. Quinn just this week made claims that if Brady wins he will undoubtedly follow the lead of past Republican governors and raise taxes.   Not only will Brady follow their lead, he promises he will emulate a guy that raised taxes 21 different times to help with his state's budget woes.  What more do you need?  Quinn's people should be all over this.

Christine O'Donnell Living With a Man? (*Updated)

I just caught this little snippet in an ABC News article.

In a March interview with Delaware's News Journal, O'Donnell admitted to living in a three-bedroom home with David Hust, a campaign staffer and Christian rock musician and paying half her rent – between $1,645 and $2,020 a month – with campaign donations because she uses the home as a campaign office as well.

Miss Chastity is living with a guy?

*Update:

This whole thing just keeps getting more and more interesting.  Deranged is a word that also comes to mind.  Not only is Christine O'Donnell currently living with a guy, she has a rich past of living with men.  Even gay men she tried to convert through her extra special Christian powers.  And it seems her Godliness has failed to "heal" her lesbian sister as well.

Huckabee Touts Lower Taxes to Rebuild Illinois, Totally Leaves Out the Fact He Raised Taxes 21 Times

Last night Illinois' Republican Gubnatorial candidate brought big name and former 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to my hometown to stump the campaign trail.  Unfortunately I was unable to attend.  Fortunately, however, many people were and the tapes were rolling.

Huckabee told the crowd that Bill Brady knows how to rebuild the state's broken economy and fix the massive $13 billion deficit with tried and true conservative principles of lower taxes.  Brady reciprocated the honor by distinguishing the former Arkansas governor as a true fiscal conservative which Brady promised to emulate once in power.  “[Huckabee ]knows how to rebuild an economy, how to lower the burden of taxes on families and businesses, [how] to grow private sector jobs and spend state resources [responsibly]," Brady said.

REALLY??

Label me stupid because in reality, as Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee raised taxes 21 different times.  The non-partisan factcheck.org concludes:

The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration found that 90 tax cuts were enacted in legislative sessions from 1997 through 2005, while Huckabee was governor, and those cuts reduced tax revenues by $378 million. But Huckabee fails to mention the 21 tax increases that occurred under his watch and that raised revenues by substantially more. The total net tax increase under Huckabee's tenure was an estimated $505.1 million, says the Department of Finance and Administration's Whitney McLaughlin, adding that the figure has been adjusted for inflation.

So you raised taxes 21 times and created yourself an overall net tax increase during your tenure as governor and you still get to be labeled as a tax slashing fiscal conservative?  This is awesome news because Brady's opponent, incumbent governor Pat Quinn, has announced numerous times his support for a tax increase to help with budget shortfalls.  That makes him a fiscal conservative too cut from the same mold as other fiscal conservatives like Mike Huckabee.  The same mold Bill Brady wants to emulate.

Literally, Republicans are making stuff up.  They get to run around the country calling themselves tax busting, small government conservatives and there is absolutely nothing to point to in their history of governance to ever suggest they do anything remotely close to what they claim is the bedrock principle of their party.  They rewrite history so they can live in pretend-world while their mindless droves yell and cheer their lies.

So Crazy, Rove Looks Sane

You know the GOP is in a mess when Karl Rove goes on Fox News to tell Super Patriot Sean Hannity that Christine O'Donnell is "nutty."  What's worse is Hannity thinks she's great.  That means Rove is actually the sane voice in the GOP at the moment.  Say that again, Rove is actually the sane voice.  One more time, Rove is actually the sane voice...

Tea Baggers Officially Own GOP

Put down your dildo and pickup your dignity
photo credit:  http://thumpandwhip.com/

Whose party is it? Well, sir, it's not yours anymore.

Ultra-crazy, right wing nut and tea bagger favorite, Christine O'Donnell, wins a major upset in the Delaware GOP primary tonight. This is Big Dick Cheney huge people!

Up until maybe two weeks ago O'Donnell stood not a chance against the hand-picked GOP establishment candidate and incumbent Congressman Mike Castle.  Tonight Castle faces unemployment.

As a refresher, the GOP was so scared of an O'Donnell win, the head of the Delaware GOP publicly stated that O'Donnell couldn't be elected dog catcher!  Well she's your bitch now.  Readers will also recall that O'Donnell is a pathological liar.  Excellent opportunity now for a Democratic hold.

(photo credit above:  http://thumpandwhip.com/)

*Update:

hahahahhahahaha....the best journalist in the business, Rachel Maddow, digs up Christine O'Donnell's 1996 footage from MTV where she laments against masturbation as a sin because the Bible rules our world.  Great job Rachel! hahahahhahahahahahahhaha...

And remember the organization O'Donnell is speaking about that advocates ending masturbation is an organization that SHE FOUNDED. hahahahahahhahahaha...

Math Made Easy, GOP Style!

I'm very curious to learn more about Sir Rand Paul's budgeting math/scheme. Curious in a car wreck sort of way. A spokesman for his campaign told a blogger that as senator Paul would "vote against and filibuster any unbalanced budget proposal in the Senate." Strong words considering how hard it would be to balance a budget that is at least $1.3 trillion in the deficit column. Derek Thompson outlines just how hard and impossible it would be to balance the budget.

Let's take this plan seriously. Most conservatives would begin by canceling the stimulus, which is still expected to spend about $100 billion in 2011. Conservatives might also call for freezing public salaries, canceling TARP, freezing discretionary spending at 2008 levels, and beginning to phase in Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to cut $1.3 trillion over the next decade. Let's say that saves another $100-$150 billion in 2011.

You're still more than $1 trillion away from a balanced budget. You could cancel Social Security for the year ($700 billion) and stop paying every soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq (another $170 billion in proposed spending), and you still wouldn't have a balanced budget.

Likewise, Randy told a tea bagger crowd in his hometown of Bowling Green, KY., that Republicans share some responsibility for our current deficit but that Democrats are more to blame. His reasoning is that Republicans doubled the debt and Democrats are tripling it. Well, Sir Rand, that's a total lie.

I suppose we'll go through this again.  I don't know to make it any simpler.  But I'll try.

• 8 years of Reagan the debt increased by $2.7 trillion or 186%
• 4 years of King George I, the debt increased by $1.5 trillion or 58%
• 8 years of Clinton the debt increased by $1.6 trillion or 39%
• 8 years of King George II, the debt increased by $6.2 trillion or 105%
• 1.5 years of Obama the debt has increased by $1.8 trillion or 20%

All data can be found here (***Republican Fantasy World Alert***  This link is to official government resources and not Fox News)

No where does it show Democrats coming close to tripling the debt.  Rand Paul you are a liar.  You are just a flat out liar.  What the data does show is the people who are least responsible and the biggest spenders of all are Republicans.  The very people portrayed by the media, Republicans and tea baggers as "fiscal conservatives" are actually the people who are, in no uncertain terms, compulsive retards when it comes to running government.

Just like Rand Paul couldn't possibly balance the budget even though he claims he'll filibuster anything that's not balanced, he has no clue about simple economic history.  He lies just to make it look like he does.  He lies to cover up the fact that his GOP is responsible for the enormous debt we have today.  And he lies because he's talking to a tea bagger crowd that strokes off to anything and everything to do with make-believe fiscal conservatism.

How to Hold Congress and Remind People That We Aren't Going to Go Through This Again

If you want to know what a Republican Congress with a Democratic President would look like, here you go.

Deep Thought- Ines Sainz Edition

I don't know why anyone would pay her any attention.

Hey Idiots, Rauf Worked for Bush!

Digging through a Lexis Nexus search this morning, I was astonished by the number of times conservative media had mentioned Feisal Abdul Rauf, the NYC mosque imam. I'm astonished on a couple different levels to be honest.

Rauf has been around a long time. He is not an Obama plant. Though that's how conservative media is trying to make it sound. He worked for the Bush administration as an ambassador to the Muslim world. He was for lack of a better term, an employee of George Bush.  During those 8 years, not one time did Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck or super stupid Sarah Palin mention his name. It's safe to say Palin to this day still can't pronounce his name and has no clue who he is. But this is how stupid and how conspiracy theory oriented the right wing is.  Out of the blue, because a Republican isn't in power anymore, they are now worried about this imam.

If they were truly worried about him and about this country, they had ample opporunity to voice those concerns when George Bush was sending him all over the world to represent the United States as an outreach to "moderate" Muslims.  Their newly discovered rage about mosques, clerics and this country is tripe.  Nobody with half a brain would ever listen to a word they say.

Do What Boehner Says

I'd say he didn't have his morning cup of Fox News before he went to this interview.

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BOEHNER: If the only-- if the only option I have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, I’ll-- I’ll vote for them. But I’ve been making the point now for months that we need to extend all the current rates for all Americans. If we want to get our economy going again and we want to get jobs in America.

So why not give him no other option?  Democrats have the majority and strong one at that.  There is no bill Boehner can cast a vote for that Democrats don't let him.  Give him one option, and like he says, he'll vote in favor of it.  There's no sense wasting any time.  Prepare the bill and end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans.  The lost revenue from those tax cuts won't solve the deficit problem but they will help immensely.  CBO projects that extending the tax cuts would add $238 billion to the deficit in 2011 alone.  If we do what Boehner says he will vote for, we can trim that number down to $202 billion.  It's a start and anyone with the slightest bit of concern for the deficit would support it.

The largest contributor to the deficit are the Bush tax cuts.

So why can't we start with the largest contributor rather than cutting discretionary spending?

*Update:

I realized after re-reading my post that the chart I embedded really doesn't give the whole picture about the Bush Tax Cuts. So I'll re-post another one that definitively shows the major causes of our current deficit.

And wow look at that.  The major contributors to the budget deficit are the Bush Tax Cuts and the Bush Wars.  Who could have guessed that?

**Update:

Total bunch of idiots.  If Republicans do take back the house this Fall historians won't have to look any further than leadership strategy to figure out how it happened.

Via TPM:

We shouldn't force his hand, we should let the Republicans dangle out there with their divisions exposed and keep hammering them on holding middle class tax cuts hostage for $700 billion in debt-financed tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans," the aide said.

[...]

"You don't need a vote in the House to say the party is blocking tax relief for the middle class - you can just point and say, 'Look! Senate Republicans blocked it,'" the aide said. "If Republicans killed a tax cut, that could be potentially game changing for Democrats in both chambers."

Are you freaking serious?? Just kill me now.

One Answer and One Answer Only

Here's a life lesson:  You can't prove someone wrong who is void of any reasoning whatsoever.

One of the hardest things to ever do is argue against stupidity.  That's why it's extremely difficult for the tax cut message to take hold. Essentially, no matter the question or the topic, the answer from Republicans is always cut taxes. And no matter the data or common sense you approach the conversation with, Republicans won't budge from that reasoning.

What do you do when you have a budget surplus? Cut taxes!

What do you do when you have a budget deficit? Cut taxes!

What do you when you invade two countries in two years? Cut taxes!

How do you increase revenue? Cut taxes!

How do you shrink government? Cut taxes!

How do you pay for increasing the size of Medicare? Cut taxes!

They already have their minds made up and no matter the topic, the question, or the problem at hand, the answer will always be cut taxes.  It's not that they care so much about taxes, it's that they know nothing else.  They are that void.

All it takes is for good people to do nothing

Could you imagine the backlash the Democratic Party would have received in 2002 if former Senate leader Tom Daschle had said about George Bush half of what Newt Gingrich did over the weekend about our current president?

Who is to answer for it?  Why is the GOP not condeming his words?  Why are Democrats not calling for someone to answer it?  And how can any media network have this man on its programming without first noting how extreme he is or at least have someone there to refute what he's saying.  Having Gingrich on your program is the equivalent of having the leader of a white power movement unabated.  And who would do that?

*Update:

IT'S NOT ENOUGH BOB!

Here is White House Press Secretary Bob Gibbs commenting on Gingrich's harsh and untrue words about President Obama



Being a little bit more pushy about how Gingrich is only stirring up fear and conspiracy theories and how he is endangering political rhetoric in America would be a better response. It's nonchalant rebukes like this one that makes what Gingrich said no big deal.

I guarantee you if Daschle had said anything remotely close to what Gingrich did GOPers would be all over the airwaves calling for his head. And the best we get out of Gibbs is Gingrich is trying to appeal to fringes? Sad.

Don't Call Them Extremists

Over the weekend a much scaled down version of the tea bagger 9/12 protest on Washington only brought in about 4 million. That might sound like a lot until you consider that last year's protest was the largest assembly of people in world history.  What's so important about this event is that it's packed full of Super Patriots who only want the best for this country.

Deep Thought

Radical cleric Terry Jones' hometown is 40 miles from my house. Coincidentally it's also Rush Limbaugh's hometown. Even more proof that Cape is God's chosen nexus, the two preachers of hate were classmates graduating from Cape Central High School in 1969.

So how un-American and anti-Christian would it be for me to burn copies of Cape Central High's 1969 yearbook?

Taking Over the Discourse

Watching the president's press conference this morning I was reminded just how good he is on the issues. He is a substance guy and he seldom makes knee-jerk decisions. I like presidents like that.

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Also, though, watching his answer to a Fox News reporter's question about building an Islamic center blocks away from Ground Zero, was superb and it speaks volumes to the differences between how Democrats and Republicans view the world.

I don't know how many times I've outlined on this site instances where Republicans call Democrats the enemy. It's routine to hear a Republican describe Democratic ideas or policy in terms of destroying the nation and as something that must be stopped even with 2nd amendment remedies if necessary.  It's disgusting and oh so very old.

Today President Obama outlined in the best formulation since September 11th, 2001 who our enemy is, why we fight them and why we are all Americans and not the with us or against garbage the GOP blasts daily.  I like presidents that rise above the shameless tactics of the Bush era and unite us as Americans who just happen to have different opinions.  Kudos to the president today.

I only wonder how Fox News will edit his speech to make him say people who don't like him are the enemy and that we must fight them.  You know they will.

This Should Really Keep Things Calm

I gotta a feeling this ruling by a federal judge in Virginia that Don't Ask, Don't Tell is unconstitutional is really going to keep the nut slapping right wing tea bagging crowd calmer than they were before.

If It Quacks Like a Duck...

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) tells some of his constituents that he will get a covenant signed in blood, "just as God's covenant with Moses," to extend Bush's tax cuts.

GINGREY: I had somebody say you know a Contract with America is a little redundant, going back to 1994. And I had somebody suggest at a town hall meeting recently maybe it ought to be a “Covenant with America.” Just as God’s covenant with Moses, really this is a convenant. This is more of a commitment, more than a contract. This is a pledge of your sworn sacred honor. And maybe that’s the kind of thing that we need to get, to truly get attention and sign it in blood if necessary. So we think it would be not be appropriate at a time like this to raise people’s taxes, at any level. At any level. [….]

GINGREY: When you start taxing men and women who create most of the jobs, you know that’s not the answer. So, our opinion I’m sure will be part of this covenant with America will be to keep taxes low for everybody.

Yeah I have no idea where the radical cleric Terry Jones in Florida could possibly be getting any of his ideas.

The Forgotten Man Forgot Its Mind

One of my most favorite things to do is converse with Republicans, who now call themselves tea baggers, about past presidents and their ideology and/or governing philosophy. For instance, Republicans really believe that Reagan shrunk government, reined in the deficit and cut spending. As we all know in reality he did nothing of the sort. He actually grew government, tripled the deficit and increased spending every year. He also raised taxes numerous times. But in their little make-believe world, Reagan is the model they strive for every president to follow. If you think about it, Bush followed Reagan's model to perfection. After all, Bush did everything Reagan did except raise taxes.

Once you get into this sort of conversation with a Republican they behave in one of two ways. They either hunker down on their fantasy talk or they realize Republicans have not governed with their principles but still believe Republicans hold such principles. It's almost a lost cause. But like I said, it's fun.

This brings me to a newly minted painting by a right wing tea bagger/Republican. The artist calls it the Forgotten Man.  I'll post it below.

America, It Is Time

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Best Story Ever!!

Brilliant feature story by Media Matters.  "Fox calls for repeal of the 20th Century"

Absolutely brilliant! Glad to see they are actually putting things in perspective where people can understand what's going on. What I mean by that is a lot of times organizations like Media Matters and Think Progress get too technical. That want to argue semantics with people. There's no point in doing that when your opposition is batshit crazy.

I wrote about this very thing a few months back.

True enough, glad we can still logically discuss political ideology after the last year of Republican idiocy. But what's the point? It's a one-sided conversation. Republicans are busy talking about socialist takeovers, birth certificates, literacy tests, death panels and islamoterroristliberalsocialistfascists, amongst other conspiracy theories.

Progressives and liberals, Democrats and left leaning independents can aim for logical and accurate discussions all day long but no one else is listening. Certainly not the MSM, mostly because modern media is geared toward flashy new buzz words, 30-second sound bites, and tabloid gossip. Why worry about trying to properly define tea baggers? There's no point.

There's no sense in making this a graduate lecture on how technically speaking it's this or that. It's much simpler than any of that. The true definition of tea baggers and their movement is GOP. They are Republicans, no doubt about it. What they are-- and I can't stress this enough-- are people who voted for George Bush twice that are mad their party isn't in power any more. That's it. It's that simple.

Dionne, and many in the media are getting this wrong. Bush isn't a "sellout." He's the leader of their movement. He is the guy they voted for twice. There was not one single tea bagger in the street protesting anything he did. He grew government enormously, ran up a $1.3 trillion deficit and instituted 8 government taxpayer-funded bailouts of private industry. He did more to centralize and socialize this country than any president in history, especially in terms of interfering in the private sector. And not one single tea bagger ever called him a socialist or held up fancy buzzword signs about Big Government. Why? Because Bush is Republican and so are the Tea Baggers. There's no reason to make this any more difficult than it needs to be.

Little lengthy but true.  When it's the sensation that gets the headline arguing preciseness will always lose out.  So just say what first comes to your mind.  In this case, the GOP hates the 20th century and everything that was accomplished.  They prefer a time when women and blacks were 2nd class citizens and old white men ruled the world.  Their ideal time is 1865.  That's what they want to turn us back to.  That is the epitome of their ideology.  Go make them own it.