What is a family values voter to do?

This story is all over the sphere, but most of the sources are omitting the photograph. I will too, but if your are morbid enough to want to see it, the link is HERE.

Jake Burris lives with his family in Russellville, Arkansas. Jake is also the campaign manager for Democrat Congressional hopeful Ken Aden. Last night, along with his four kids, Jake drove home for the evening. When they got out of the car one of his children discovered their family cat dead on the front porch. One side of the animal’s head had been bashed in and an eyeball was hanging out of its socket. Scribbled on the cat's white fur in black marker was the word "LIBERAL."

Yep, they got them some good, god fearing, family values folks there in Arkansas.

Teach them pinko, socialist, commie fags a thing or two. Get out the Vote!

Amen.

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The gift that keeps on giving

From Mother Jones:

Another Reason To Be Glad Rick Perry Won't Be President

"Since 2005, consumers have lost nearly 80 percent of Texas Supreme Court cases in which a consumer was pitted against a big corporation or the government. Most of the time, the consumer plaintiffs had already prevailed before a jury—the high court overturned jury verdicts in 74 percent of consumer cases, with very little dissent."

Welcome to the business friendly state of Texas. Come on down with your minimum wage jobs and we'll make sure we keep the great unwashed toiling at the wheel and away from your door. Thank you Goodhair for our wonderful Texas Miracle.

Not.

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The disingenuous, divisive right

They refuse to learn

Yesterday found me prepared for disappointment… and I was not disabused. While the President’s State of the Union message was patriotic and rousing, it offered little of any substance not found in the day-to-day rhetoric of modern politics.

Still, as insubstantial as was the President’s offering, the GOP response stole the show with their tepid behavior, not even showing any emotion when the bin Laden operation was mentioned. Mitch Daniels offering the "official" response could have been a Chuck Norris wind up doll for all the originality he displayed while reciting worn out talking points with a face as grim as I've seen. Even the goper’s staunch allies over a Faux News couldn’t buy yet another ration of the cold gruel that has become the well-practiced response to anything the President says or tries to accomplish.

There are a bunch of folks in this country who vote Republican by principle and for the most part these are genuine, caring humans wishing only the best for this country and the world. It is unfortunate that they cannot see through the smokescreen raised by the powerful few who would rather see the nation lost and our people ruined rather than to offer even the slightest hint of cooperation with the current administration. 

To this element of our society it seems they feel that so long as there is a [fill in the blank] in the White House… the country is already lost. So they wrap themselves in the flag and point to any attempt at compromise as unpatriotic.

This describes a significant segment of America’s politicians, who find ready support from an under-informed electorate and a smattering of nationalistic terrorists. Add to that a religious right faction with the notion of bringing the country down so that they can rebuild it as a theocracy and you end up with a GOP so blinded that it offers a response that can be called nothing short of worthless.

The only surprise was that Michelle Bachmann didn’t appear to offer a follow-up to the Republican response.

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UPDATE: Awaking to the news that American forces had pulled yet another coup, rescuing an American and a Dane from the clutches of Somali pirates rather cheered me up from the post-State of the Union funk.

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UPDATE 2: Apparently there was a Tea Party response following SOTU, offered by none other than Herman Cain and broadcast only on the Tea Party Express website. I'm certain this will enliven the base.

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Idiot lawmakers and the idiot voters who vote for them

They deserve each other...

You can't make this crap up.

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Tea Bag Obfuscation

"The late comedian George Carlin used to say America was built on a double standard: 'This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”

So observes Wall Street Journal writer Sam Favate in his piece Tennessee Tea Party Wants Schools to Be Nicer to Founding Fathers.

“Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.”

So say the right wing activists pushing this change in textbook standards. Opponents to this silly revision correctly observe that this is simply an effort to veil the truth. In other words... another wingnut effort to indoctrinate the children with revisionist history.

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