Another Diggin-Your-Hole-Deeper Day for the GOP

Well, wow. The last couple days have been..... just...... wow. I mean, seriously. Yesterday, we had New Gingrich twittering from Auschwitz, aka, really lowering the bar. Now we get this gold mine from Rush Limbaugh:


Tom Tancredo, self proclaimed foe of diversity and multiculturalism, was asked whether or not President Obama hates white people today, to which he replied, "I don't know." Which is not to say that Tancredo believes President Obama hates white people, he just does not believe that President Obama does not hate white people. Totally different, if you are an ignoramus.

But let us, for some ridiculous reason, actually look into this claim. Does Obama hate white people? Hmmph. Let's see. His Vice President is white. His Chief of Staff is white. His Secretary of Defense is white. His Secretary of State is white. His Secretary of the Treasury is white. I think you see where this is going. A lot of people in his administration are white, plenty of them male too.

I think he really does hate white people. Let's keep digging.

Ohhhhh wait. His mother is white. His grandparents, on his mother's side, are white. Doesn't that make him white?

It is a blatant statement about yourself when you think someone who is half black, half white, probably hates white people. You might want to think before speaking from now on.

Rush Limbaugh Declares that the US is a Center Left Nation

Oh happy days, happy days. Rush Limbaugh, the acknowledged leader of the Republican Party has announced the death of my least favorite conservative talking point, that our nation is a center right nation.

Most of us liberals never really believed it, yet conservatives, so nonchalantly, continued to claim our nation is center right and that the Democrats are far too left for most Americans. It hurt my ears every time I heard it. So you will understand if I dance for glory a little today.


Apparently, according to Rush Limbaugh, conservatives are a minority in this country. Which means, by definition, that we are not a center right nation. It is not possible for the nation to be conservative, if conservatives make up a minority of the people. So let us celebrate today, Wednesday May 27th as the day that the Republican party officially declared we are a center left nation.

A big hat tip goes out to Media Matters, and Markos for pointing it out to me.

Shane Murphy, Pirate Fighter, Takes On Rush and the Dittoheads

Via thinkprogress, Second-in-command of hijacked ship blasts Rush Limbaugh’s ‘disgusting’ comments

You may remember this comment from good old Rush, cries like a baby, Limbaugh:

"If only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers are actually young black Muslim teenagers, I'm sure he wouldn't have given the order to shoot."

Well, Shane Murphy, the second-in-command of the Maersk, has responded.

"It feels great to be home," Murphy said. "With the exception of Rush Limbaugh who is trying to make this into a race issue. It's disgusting."

"The president did the right thing. It's a war. It's about good versus evil. And what you (Limbaugh) said is evil, that is hate speech. I won't tolerate it," Murphy said.

All I have to say is, way to go.

AIG Bonuses and Republican Hypocrisy

I cannot understand Republicans rushing to the defense of these AIG bonuses. These were the same guys that blamed the auto business failures on overpaid union workers. They wanted to abolish the contracts that the UAW had with management.

Apparently in Rush Limbaugh's world: Union worker=overpaid, destroying business, and AIG bonuses=paying for talent. I guess talent requires wearing a suit and scamming other people out of their savings.

Hmmmm......

Joe

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