Union Busting Republicans

Republicans balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

GOP's Mob

"Married to the Mob," by Steven Wells, published on October 17, 2008 in the Philadelphia Weekly:

The last weeks of the campaign reveal the GOP's rotting soul.

A new sport hits America—nelly baiting. It involves walking up to a McCain/Palin supporter with a video camera and pressing ”record”. The result is a guaranteed instant real–life horror documentary, several fine examples of which now litter the Internet.

In the future these videos will be prized historical documents. They mark the exact moment the Republican Party ceased being the most powerful, sophisticated and successful political organization in world history—and instead became a batshit insane racist lynch mob.

Recent research indicates that the more impotent a person feels, the more likely they are to believe in ”magical thinking”.

The crowds at McCain/Palin rallies are proof that the utterly impotent—the broke–ass, credit squeezed, mortgage defaulting, 401(k)–raped, Wal–Mart–waged losers desperately searching for reasons to a) believe that George Bush hasn’t totally screwed them over seven ways to Sunday and b) not to vote for the black guy—will believe absolutely anything.

So the news from the rancid guts of the GOP—freshly fed by Palin and McCain’s ooga–booga speeches— is that Obama is a ”scary”, mysterious, black, Arab, communist, Marxist, PLO–supporting, Hamas–backed, secret ”Muslim” ”faggot” ”one man terror cell” who ”supports terrorism” (because ”it’s in his bloodline”) and is single–handedly responsible for the ongoing collapse of Western capitalism. And who will—if elected—”make us speak Muslim.”

And that Democrats need to get jobs, stop being ”Jews” and ”European socialists” and ”commie faggots” and ”socialist swine”, and to get back to Russia and stop murdering babies and die. Pretty much in that order.

For anyone with a brain and/or a soul—by which I mean everybody on the planet hoping for an Obama victory—these YouTube videos are glorious evidence of what lies at the heart of the GOP—nasty, snarling, finger–sniffing, pin–prick pupiled, reptile brain–stem fascism.

Read the entire article here.

VP for Vendetta

When I was in Alaska last month, several people told me they were afraid to speak about Sarah Palin on the record, lest they invite retaliation from the governor's office or, God forbid, from the next vice-president. At the time, I didn't take such worries too seriously. As abominable a candidate as Palin is, it was hard for me to imagine vice-presidential staffers trying ruin the lives of private Wasilla citizens just because they had displeased her. But reading the official report of the investigation into the Palin abuse-of-power scandal known as Troopergate, it seems that perhaps her critics were being more prudent than paranoid.

As scandals go, Troopergate is absurdly picayune. According to the report, released Friday by the bipartisan legislative council that authorised the investigation, Palin and her husband tried to use their political power to have her sister's ex-husband, state trooper Michael Wooten, fired from his job and investigated for workers compensation fraud. They also pressed authorities to prosecute him for a moose shooting that was unlawful because of a technicality (the permit had been issued to his then-wife, who was with him at the time, rather than to Wooten, who pulled the trigger). The governor then fired Walt Monegan, the public safety commissioner, because he refused to get rid of Wooten, something he could not legally have done. This stuff is so ridiculously small it seems silly to even be writing about it, especially at time of multiplying global emergencies. 

Yet given that there is still a chance - albeit a diminishing one - that Palin could soon be in a position of national political power, it's worth looking at how she has exercised power in the past. As a window into how Palin might rule, Troopergate's very pettiness is what makes it so troubling. We're used to politicians who do favours for campaign contributors, who are too cozy with lobbyists and who resort to underhanded tactics against political foes. What we are not used to are politicians who use their offices to intervene in family quarrels and punish their relatives' personal enemies. For the last eight years, we've suffered under an administration that sees no difference between politics and governing. Palin is something arguably worse, a person who sees no difference between her private life and her public duties. Even Dick Cheney, after all, hasn't used his office to torment disfavoured former in-laws.


Jon Stewart's take on the unethical behavior of Sarah Palin during Troopergate:

The Republican Party is a Mess and a Fraud

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson writes: Since George W. Bush became president, the Republican Party has presided over massive, out-of-control government spending, converted a federal budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit, and looked the other way while Wall Street's greed and stupidity turned the hallowed free market into scorched earth. Now the party has to watch as a Republican president orchestrates the biggest government intervention in the workings of the private sector since the New Deal.

Can any Republican candidate claim with a straight face to represent the party of small government? For that matter, can any Republican candidate plausibly explain what the party is supposed to stand for these days?

It's pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with "radical" or "socialist" views when a Republican administration is tossing aside "Atlas Shrugged" and speed-reading "Das Kapital."

The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will make unlimited quantities of dollars available for currency swaps with the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, as these institutions scramble to keep major commercial banks from failing -- and potentially taking U.S. banks with them. None of Bush's Cabinet members could be heard sniffing about the irrelevance of effete "Old Europe."

This attitude adjustment is necessary, mind you. The question isn't whether some kind of drastic, frankly socialistic measures are needed to save the American economy but which measures -- buying up toxic mortgage-based investments (as the White House said it would do), buying up the troubled mortgages themselves (as John McCain wants to do), or pouring money into selected banks and taking part ownership (as the White House now says it will do). Sitting back and letting the dire situation correct itself is not an option, because the market's phoenix-like solution begins with self-immolation.

Politically, though, there is at least some justice in the fact that a Republican president has to deal with this Republican-made crisis. That little piece of irony isn't worth $700 billion, but so far it's all we're getting.

After eight years of the Bush administration, the Republican Party -- to put it bluntly -- is a mess and a fraud.

Read the entire column "Time to be Outward Bound," by Eugene Robinson here.

Bill Kristol Said for Palin to Go Kramer on Obama

Bill Kristol's article "The Wright Stuff," says that the "Hockey Mom" is going to go for the Michael Richards (Kramer)attack against Obama. Bill Kristol called Mrs. Palin to remind her that her base was still extremely racist, and for her to take the gloves off and play the race card. He didn't mention Sarah Palin's own husband's association with the Alaska Independence Party. Mr. Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, happens to be a card-carying member of a secessionist movement in Alaska that wants Alaska to gain its independence from the rest of the USA and form its own state.

As McCain drops in the polls, the calls for the Michael Richards (Sinefeld's Kramer) will grow even louder. Matt Drudge has been doing his part by conflating OJ with Senator Obama. Drudge even replaced Obama's picture with OJ's on his website. Kristol and Drudge as well as the David Duke types know that there is a large number of straight-up racists brownshirts that can't wait to scapegoat a race for their own political gains. Kristol knows this, since that was Joseph Goebbels' tact in Nazi Germany to exterminate the Jews.

Check out Kristol's column, he even entitled it "The Wright Stuff"......Ha, ha, ha....Kristol said for Palin to take the gloves off and play the race card with a wink and a nod:

Palin also made clear that she was eager for the McCain-Palin campaign to be more aggressive in helping the American people understand “who the real Barack Obama is.” Part of who Obama is, she said, has to do with his past associations, such as with the former bomber Bill Ayers. Palin had raised the topic of Ayers Saturday on the campaign trail, and she maintained to me that Obama, who’s minimized his relationship with Ayers, “hasn’t been wholly truthful” about this.

I pointed out that Obama surely had a closer connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than to Ayers — and so, I asked, if Ayers is a legitimate issue, what about Reverend Wright?

She didn’t hesitate: “To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”

I guess so. And I guess we’ll soon know McCain’s call on whether he wants to bring Wright up — perhaps at his debate with Obama Tuesday night.

GOP Southern Strategy: Negrophobic Propaganda

The screen image taken from the Drudge Report delineates precisely the McCain campaign strategy for the next 30 days: Negrophobic propaganda.

First read the headlines, then read the pictures. Matt Drudge's headline in extra-large, full caps, red font states, “PALIN: OBAMA COMMENTS DISQUALIFY HIM FOR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.” Then you'll notice that Drudge has replaced Senator Obama with OJ. Coincidence? I think not.

The next line of images are of the stock market meltdown in the left sidebar; in the center column there is a side shot of Speaker Pelosi grinning; and in the right sidebar is Governor Palin winking.

Although Palin's statements are bogus and misleading at best, it fits neatly in the framework of Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels: “Big Lie” theory. For those unfamiliar with Hitler's anti-Jewish propaganda campaigns, read the following quote from Hitler's henchman Joseph Goebbels:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

"It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Now Matt Drudge is calling the brownshirts in the Republican base. By using the propaganda technique of transference. As Drudge replaced the picture of the Democratic nominee with OJ Simpson. In doing so, Drudge layers the “big lie,” with the inborn negrophobia of the Republican base.

The Republican Choice for 8 Years: George W. Bush

Letterman takes Bush to task.

Rightwing Jihad Against Debate Moderator, Gwen Ifill

The right-wingnut jobs have their long knives out to decapitate the Vice Presidential Debate moderator Gwen Ifill. Forget the fact that Ms. Ifill is a woman, because the rightwing cry of sexism only applies to white women. They've waged similar battles against Oprah and Michelle Obama. But, the day before the scheduled one and only VP Debate, the crazies have broken-out of their asylum and ditched their straight jackets for jackboots. Read this link from today's Matt Drudge's front page is a nasty article on World Net Daily against Gwen Ifill.

Under his white robe, by the glow of a fiery cross, Bob Unruh the author of the World Net Daily hitpiece against Ms. Ifill, makes the racist undertones of his article quite clear. Don't believe me? Scroll to the bottom of the page at WND and you'll see the "related links" are almost slanderous and certainly anti-Obama. And this fool has the nerve to question the credentials of Gwen Ifill. The related offers read like links from David Duke's stormfront:

Get "The Audacity of Deceit," and learn about the looming hostile attack on Judeo-Christian values and freedoms Americans hold dear; Get Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation," autographed by the author, exclusively from WND's online store; "NObama" magnetic bumper sticker; Whistleblower magazine's "THE SECRET LIFE OF BARACK OBAMA".

So, consider the source of the negative Gwen Ifill press. If the aforementioned anti-Obama offers weren't enough, the WND also provides links to previous anti-Obama stories:

Another Weatherman terrorist a player in Obama campaign; Guess who recommended Obama to enter Harvard; Obama worked closely with terrorist Bill Ayers; Obama cited Ayers job as qualification to run;
Meet Obama's new Bill Ayers associate; Obama minimizes relationship with Ayers; Obama accuses McCain of linking him to 'radical'

The intimidation efforts of the propaganda arm of the rightwing noise machine is spewing their brand of racial hatred against PBS anchor Gwen Ifill. What do the wingnuts perceive as Ms. Ifill's crime? Well, first she was born black and female in the United States, so her criminal act of asking a question about black women and AIDS during the 2004 Vice Presidential Debates between Dick and John was just too much.

But the real kicker was that Ms. Ifill didn't know her place as she covered Gov. Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC Convention. The WND author states “But she also was cited in complaints PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler said he received after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., earlier this month.”

In other words, Ms. Ifill did not show proper deference to Gov. Palin. As she winced during Gov. Palin's snarky rant at the RNC Convention. Again the hitmen at WND said, “Some viewers complained of a "dismissive" look by Ifill during her report on Palin's speech. According to Getler, some also said she wore a look of "disgust" while reporting on the Republican candidate.”

Once again Matt Drudge leads the charge against black women. First Michelle Obama, next Oprah, now Gwen Ifill. The Drudge Report and the Rightwing propaganda noise machine has declared war against black women. After all it's not sexist, if it denigrates black women, since sexism only applies to white women.