McHorseShit?

Ooooops, some of McSame's true nature leaked out? Did John McCain say "horseshit" (or is it "horse shit", "horse-shit"?) during the debate?


Edit above 9/29: Due to some question via further analysis by bloggers I'm taking a totally neutral stance on this and must give the short lying weasel the benefit of the doubt. Although he did indeed call his wife a foul name and his colleagues other nasty names, he may NOT have said horseshit during the debate, instead, "Of course, of course". There's plenty of other stuff McSame says that is 100% true without muddying the waters with something about which I'm not sure anymore. I don't have high tech equipment to decide this one.

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Each time MSNBC put up a split screen of McSame and Obama, (after being hip-no-tyzed by McSame's tie) we saw Wee Johnny was amazingly as tall or taller than Barack. He's seven whole inches shorter (sans shoe lifts) than Obama. Ahhhh, the miracles of technology. Now, why would they need to do that? What purpose did it serve? His podium is up into the frame. Now that's a pile of horse shit we can believe in my friendzz. Very slick.




(Thanks snabby!)

McCain merely repeated his usual lies and TPs with a grimace or sneer or smirk on his face while Obama spoke. He looked wired, wound up, ready to pop if pushed, which Obama unfortunately didn't do to my satisfaction but it was "okay" for a first debate view by the "nation" of voters.
The debate:


Let's just drag those podiums closer:


A too-close-to-call debate, says the L.A. Times. What? Were they watching the same thing I was? They're apparently blind and deaf. Obama WON! McCain repeats his stump speech talking points over and over again, in particular no new taxes on the wealthy. Too close to call? Obama won't put additional taxes on Americans who earn less that $250,000 a year. That's FAIR! To a millionaire that means nothing, to US out here NOT making up to $250,000 that's very important. We're saddled with their failure to pay their fair share to help this economy.
Debate Transcript from CNN.
McSame continued to mischaracterize Obama's positions. He offered nothing of substance, no plan for middle class America to recover from the devastation of 8 years of GOP rule.



Tall Tales On Taxation-John McCain
More McCain Tall Tales
Fox Admits McCain Tells Tall Tales

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McBewitched

Sarah Palin, Thomas Muthee and witchcraft
Sarah Palin is de-witched.

"We want righteousness in this nation...in the name of Jesus." -Pastor Muthee.
Um, NO WE DON'T, you nutcase! Witches, eh? He'd have been a slave at the time Salem killed so many "witches". Palin is totally unacceptable as a Vice Presidential candidate. Somebody in a cult with no thoughts of her own isn't capable of recognizing the line between church and state. The Bush misadministration has already done a good job of blurring that line, Palin would erase it.

De-Witched Palin, Olbermann spells it out.
Pastor Thomas Muthee, witch hunter, founder of the "Prayer Cave".



Keep in mind that in JUNE 2008 Palin credited Pastor Muthee's 2005 de-witching and "making a way" for getting her elected to the Governorship of Alaska. Again Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow tell the truth and the McSame campaign is indeed using the Bush/Rove play book by blaming the "left wing media" which is utter bullshit. The press has been mostly muzzled for the last 8 years. The Bush administration doesn't tell the truth and nobody has been calling them on it. People out here in the real world who have been paying attention know for a fact that the MSM has a far right spin. Facts don't lie, the "news" does. I'm in shock that Olbermann and Maddow are even allowed on the air. Delighted, but shocked.




Bush is very unhappy this happened before he got out of the White House with all our loot. He and Dick planned the crash for March when #44 would have to handle it. He was sent out to make a speech, it was as inspiring as watching him take a ride on his bike.

It's not the first time we've been ripped off by the GOP...
John McCain and The Keating Five scandal


And it won't be the last..



Liar, liar, liar...
MsSame voted to allow Bush and Dick to continue torturing and to "decide" when it was necessary. So did Warner. They both "protested" publicly and then went along with the White House. Liars.


Look at McCain's face...four melanomas...his prognosis isn't good.
In April, 2008 he said, "I'm as healthy as the economy"...SHIT!

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McMaverick is a Liar

Once and for all, John McCain is NOT a "maverick", he voted WITH George Bush 95% of the time and was MIA for important votes such as regulating corporations...therefore he is a total liar when he tries to distance himself from the Bush/Cheney misadministration. He is McSame....more of the same bullshit that has destroyed our country. He'll say anything to get elected...his campaign is run by Bush/Cheney people including Karl Rove and lobbyists. What a damned liar...and the press is still giving him a pass. Maverick, my ass!



Credit to Bartcop for the fabulous shirts!

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Keeping Palin under wraps.

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The GOP - Robbing Us Blind Again!

The Bush Bailout Plan

Hey, America....paying any attention yet? Are you struggling financially? Putting those kids through college? Trying to secure what's left of your retirement...if any? Jobless yet? Oh, you WILL be.

The GOP has subsidized big corporations and given huge tax breaks to the extremely wealthy. Is it patriotic to be very very rich, (having had tremendous tax cuts since Reagan) yet not pay your fair share? I see it as treason, but that's just me. What about the rest of us "Patriots" out here who are footing the bill? Get a job? A second job, you mean? Well, that's great but where ARE those jobs and why wouldn't the GOP even raise the minimum wage yet gave BILLIONS upon BILLIONS (of borrowed money and our taxes) to Bush and Dick for "use" in Iraq? Ahahahaaaa...Bush Discusses Economy



President Eisenhower (R) warned against the military industrial complex....the Bushites ARE what he alerted us to. Were only Liberals reading about it? Here it is folks. Wasn't Eisenhower "conservative" enough? Bush and Cheney aren't even real Republicans, they're just using the name instead of "crooks", "killers", "thugs". Their solution is "Go shopping"...


Well, the GOP has ALL the control and they've decided Secretary Paulson should have the ultimate power to decide the solution to this messy Wall Street business (The big boys are NOT happy, profits are down and this wasn't supposed to happen until Obama was in the White House to take the blame!) Paulson answers to Dick, um, Bush. "The General Fund" to which they refer means you and me, folks. It's OUR MONEY and most of us would prefer to spend it HERE on American health care, education, infrastructure.... but Bush has given it to other countries (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan) and to incredibly wealthy greedy and unpatriotic rich "companies"-code name for rich American families.
March 2008-Bush says the economy is dandy...shut up!


Bush has successfully destroyed the U.S. economy.

US Treasury unveils proposed massive financial sector bailout

Under the plan "as of Saturday afternoon," the statement said -- highlighting the fluidity of the crisis -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would have the authority, in consultation with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, "to purchase other assets, as deemed necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets." ... at the discretion of Treasury and its agents, subject to the 700-billion-dollar cap.
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"Treasury will have full discretion over the management of the assets as well as the exercise of any rights received in connection with the purchase of the assets. Treasury may sell the assets at its discretion or may hold assets to maturity," the statement said.

"Cash received from liquidating the assets, including any additional returns, will be returned to Treasury's general fund for the benefit of American taxpayers."

Funding for the program would come "directly" from Treasury's general fund. Borrowing in support of the program is subject to the statutory debt limit, which will be increased by 700 billion, the statement said.

Keep in mind that when the GOP refers to tax cuts for "American taxpayers" they only mean the wealthy, we are just "fodder units" to the Bush Family. IOW, another bailout by US, the REAL taxpayers, at the expense of our healthcare, our mortgages, our livelihoods, our retirements....to make sure the rich don't have to suffer and/or pay for wars, infrastructure, being an American. Oh yeah, and Bush/Cheney have sold us to just about every country in the world. China PWNS us! Money that YOU AND I have to pay back to COMMUNIST China...oh, and the Ay-Rabs. We even owe billions to MEXICO!
(Why can't Republicans pronounce the names of other countries correctly....just a thought.)

Most Americans enjoy being willfully ignorant ostriches.
I did this one on August 10, 2007.


How convenient. The GOP has controlled Congress for TWELVE years, the Democrats for two, (against massive MSM assisted obstructionist GOPer filibustering White House veto power and threats, along with "SO?"), and for wholly six of the Bush Cheney Robbing Administration they had total and complete power over all (four) branches of government. Why didn't he just blame the Clinton administration. Time for an October FEAR Surprise distraction? I am mystified by American stupidity.

Done in October 2006...yes, another "election" season but it's what the GOP trotted out.... BLAME CLINTON! Fuckers.



Bush: Trade deal with Colombia is in US interest

"It's in our economic interest that we continue to open up markets in our neighborhood, particularly with a nation that is growing like yours," Bush told Uribe in the Rose Garden. "And yet we can't get a vote out of Congress. I've been asking the Democrat leadership in Congress for a vote, and they've consistently blocked the vote."

Oh, PLEASE!!!!! You insulting PIG! It's DemocratIC and you KNOW it you rotten lying bastard.... Oh, yeah, other countries really want to "trade" with us thanks to you, you've wiped out the middle class, outsourced all our jobs and borrowed money from every other country you could to STEAL and pretend the funds went for your fucking wars. Soon our labor pool will be happy with a dollar a day too.

The official White House transcript omits a couple of statements Bush made. But watch the video just for kicks to see the Decider in action. Ooooh, Uribe, don't let on that the press conferences are scripted. Tsk. Tsk.

Bush:You want to call on somebody?

PRESIDENT URIBE: I never choose the --

PRESIDENT BUSH: You never choose the questioner? I will.

PRESIDENT URIBE: But here, today, I have to do this.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I'll be glad to do it.

At 14:30 after "Carlos" asked his question in Spanish Bush said, "I don't know but I'll play like I understand." The manual for his "I'm the Commander Guy", "I get to decide" pResidency.

Hey, kidz! Want more of the SAME lies?
McSame is ready to give it to us, right up the ass.
Whiners...July 11, 2008

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Snake Sarah


Pray for the pipeline

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Their Pants should be on FIRE!

John McSame and Sarah Snake Palin are LIARS! The Palin-McCain administration (as she accidentally? put it yesterday) and all they represent is a sham, a joke, a cruel farce. She's a crook. He's a crook. He's with the neocons 95% of the time. The numbers don't lie....but the GOP does.



This "race" can ONLY be "close" again if the usual Rovian BushChenCo chicanery is at work. All we have to rely on are MSM "polls" that ask leading questions. What if the questions were real, like, "Are you better off financially under a GOP administration or under a Democratic administration?" Well? ARE YOU....gas? groceries? BE HONEST! Only that special top 1% could say they prefer the GOP. The rest of us are screwed by the GOP each and every time. My 401k was faboo under Clinton...now thanks to Dick and Lieboy...poof!
For the last time, Obama will raise taxes only on people who earn more than $250,000....it's FAIR. It gives middle class America some HOPE...and it gives the poor some HOPE.



John McCain supports the Bush tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy. One of my heroes, Teddy Kennedy, gave a tremendous speech on the senate floor asking the wealthy GOP assholes (who refused to raise the minimum wage for poor Americans while sending billions to Bush for war) exactly when enough is enough for them? It was a magnificent speech, I cried. And it went unheard by most Americans. It's on Youtube. It's worth watching a REAL man in action.

Time-John McCain and the Lying Game

McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth.

Oh, and what else is new? Same old same old dirty GOP. Bush Machine Smashmouth Politics... as USUAL. The BFEE has had its tentacles in our government since WWII, from Prescott Bush/Hitler up to the current cutthroat crook. They're skimmers of the first order. (Jeb's in the wings.)

Rove says politics determined VP pick

Oh, this is just so Bushie....Palin and First Dude "refuse to testify" despite being subpoenaed. Shades of the Shady BFEE Stonewall technique. "SO?"-Dick Cheney "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"-Dick Cheney to Senator Leahy. Harriet and Karl ignored subpoenas , they're still on the loose. It's okay if you're a Republican. Just about the entire Clinton administration had to testify after being subpoenaed. They had to spent countless hours defending themselves against unfounded charges brought about by a crippling cruel Gingrich Congress with venom on their tiny greedy minds. Their gotcha moment, the blow job...yes, he had a couple. Oooooh, that just emptied out my bank account!


Above the LAW! Or we'll change it! GOP platform. (Along with USA! USA! USA!, Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! and the most popular secretly, Culture of Uterine Life!)

Yeah, it feels so good to hold all the power...Dick knows. He has it. He's mildly endorsed Palin with nothing incriminating in his released statements. Where IS Dick? I'll bet he and King Abdullah do a lot of texting on those Blackberrys that McSame invented. We can just look back at Dick's actions to get a preview of Sinister Snake Sarah.

Irony is not dead.....



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My new hero:
I thought Keith Olbermann was all we'd get...the bone from MSRNC to shut us up. But EGAD! We've been rewarded with my other favorite show.... Rachel Maddow. Wow. What a refreshing breath of real air, truth and justice. Way to go, Rachel.

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Sexism against Palin?

Give me, a FEMINIST, a FUCKING BREAK! "She" is unfit to be Vice pResident and/or pResident because she's a rotten, hypocritical, mean, uninformed, incompetent, ignorant, selfish liar and worst of all, "tongue" speaking theocratic cult member, not because of her gender. She's a VERY nasty piece of work as is her male boss, McSame. BOTH are unfit to occupy our White House. Bi-sexism on my part?




Palin cut funding for unwed teenage mothers in Alaska's halfway houses. But she's supposed to be "pro-life"? aka anti choice. She should be attacked for her ANTI HUMAN stances. She's barely female. Palin is too young to know what we Boomers and ALL women were looking at and fighting for in the late 60s early 70s. Christ, we haven't even had the VOTE for a century yet....and many women DIED for that basic HUMAN RIGHT! She's a CLUELESS bitch who has capitalized upon her looks to get what she wants...and if it doesn't work out perfectly she just lies. I'm always interested in self professed "saved" folks who lie with careless abandon. It's WRONG to lie.... But, along with flopping about and "talking in tongues" that seems to be okay with her bizarre Taliban-like church. Lies are okay if they "draw" in new cult members. Palin believes in Creationism...jesus christ she's a fucking neanderthal!!!! Palin is NOT a feminist in even its most perfumed meaning. She's an ANTI-feminist. She's a cult member.



There are as many "feminists" (almost)as there are women. Some of us believe in equal pay, equality based upon our merits/skills/brains, motherhood as an IMPORTANT JOB (as well as an avocation) benefiting children and society as a whole that deserves compensation ...like teaching 24/7, 365, running a small business too. Palin does not. A bit of respect would be nice for those of us who took time out to actually raise our own children even though it meant financial hardship....seven years in my case for my two sons....yeah, some fucking respect and value attributed would be swell right about now. Hillary Clinton doesn't share my views on corporations, I disagree with her a bit but mostly do agree....she's on the side of women and children. Hillary is a real feminist...so sexism is okay to use on her? Fuck that shit! Anyone who says they were "for Hillary" but now will vote for Palin instead is a racist anti-woman fuckheaded LIAR.

Sarah Palin is a fucking joke as a woman! She's made TERRIBLE choices based upon her total ignorance of physiology. She believes in the Spaghetti Monster. She's on "God's" side, as she sees "it", certainly not mine and certainly not the side of a raped pregnant teenager. A bitch in tanned skin. I knew she didn't have that tan naturally, I assumed it was from a tube....even worse, a tanning bed, which the McSame campaign is choosing to spin as seasonal depression. They will do and say anything to get "elected" and if that fails..... Rove and the Bush Machine are in the wings with the caging and disenfranchisement that worked so well for them. BFEE....still in charge.

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Old news but I especially like it because I hate Peggy Noonan.
A broken clock is right twice a day.

Noonan, Ex-McCain Aide Heard Blasting Palin Pick

Prominent conservative columnist Peggy Noonan and former John McCain campaign manager Michael Murphy made disparaging comments Wednesday about the Republican's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, after a segment that aired on NBC with Chuck Todd. Thinking that the microphone had been turned off -- or, perhaps, that the video signal had stopped transmitting -- Noonan and Murphy ripped into Palin as someone who would weigh down the GOP ticket.

"It's over," said Noonan.

In an addendum to her online column in the Wall Street Journal, Noonan wrote later Wednesday that part of her conversation was not on the audio. She said what she meant by it being "over" was not the race, but rather the perception by the Republican Party that its base is in tune with the American people.

Asked if Palin is the most qualified Republican woman to be McCain's running mate, Noonan replied: "The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and [inaudible] the picture."
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In her online addition, she also apologized for what she called her "barnyard epithet."

I make no such fucking apologies. Palin is a bitch. Call me a sexist... I don't give a shit. Bi-Sexist works for me too.

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Sinister Sarah's Silence

A heartbeat away from the president of the United States and we can't ask her any questions? She's not ready for questions? Will she be ready at 3am if McCain has a medical emergency?
A woman from Alaska is calling all the shots with the media and they're letting her? She needs more "deference" first. The pundints [sic] haven't been nice enough. The media. What is the media? What does that really mean? What is their function? Do we think of journalists pounding away at typewriters to make their deadline, working to tell the just the facts, using respected reporting standards and reputable sources? Or do we think of whores, pretty faces, pinups, commentators, giant heads, slick spinners, greedy corporate puppets with huge egos who "make opinions" and "shape stories" for us? What is their job? Well, it used to be to inform us. Now, they're paid to tell tall tales, spin yarns the way the bosses want them told. Fairy tales. The spin has to be just right.
What kind of a person would lie for a living? The media "consultants" do. That's their job. Members of the headroom club of the bureau of propaganda are also paid well. What's in it for them? Money. Stardom. Power. Their phone calls are returned. We know it works for Chris Matthews, he got Tom DeLay's spin first every time. Where's the pride in doing a good job, in getting it right, being of service by getting the facts? The number one question....WHO SIGNS THEIR PAYCHECKS?

They lie to us, they only ask the questions they've been told/allowed to ask, the angles to pursue, the desirable directional non sequiturs, the focus on lesser stories the less credible ones, cast aspersions as need be, when to try to appear fair, when it's okay to just go hog wild to the right and shove that tongue up some right wing ass. Supercilious David Gregory comes to mind as one of the smarmiest who works it hard. He's insecure about his looks. He got his boost when the White House allowed him to ask "the right questions" at the staged Bush "press conferences", he played the jovial tough reporter role, rapport-unit. Then he got the substitute Today show gig and I knew he'd performed satisfactorily for the corporate heads. Matthews thinks he can't be replaced, he's always bought into the correct push-propaganda du jour on all the candidates. He has a fat Rolodex. MSNBC, to which I usually refer as MSRNC, has removed Keith Olbermann from the election night coverage team. Censorship. No witnesses to the sudden numbers change at 3am?

No witnesses. That was my first thought. The last two presidential elections were stolen. I have no doubt in my mind after all I have read that those elections were stolen and if anyone has proof they weren't, bring 'em on. I guess they have to get anyone honest away from the set for those miracles during the night when the numbers suddenly do a 180, McCain wins in a landslide and votes vanish.

I recently watched the Republican's convention after several weeks, months, of staying away from any news...for my mental health. It worked. I'm happier and more productive doing a brief internet scan and not watching television but the convention brought me back. The only two people who made MSRNC palatable for me were and are Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, they are the only reasons I didn't tune in C-SPAN or even CNN instead. They keep bringing me back. So I'm going to watch the "returns" elsewhere if Keith Olbermann isn't there to talk truth to power and to witness any shenanigans.

During the Convention Matthews looked a bit shell shocked when Keith kept talking truthful bits and interjecting. Especially during Chris's hard on for Palin. He looked stunned. Questions? Instead of his Palin-Fest? Egad! Could this be the excuse they needed for a board meeting? Keith's a bit controversial, he tells the truth, we can't have that.

Palin: I want to know more about her church activities. I want to hear her real beliefs in a different version than the same ONE in her repertoire.
A candidate for the second most powerful position in the world refuses to speak to any reporters unless it can all be arranged ahead of time, the questions screened, the rules set. (Hillary's voice sounds melodic and soothing compared to the nasal screechy yelling of Palin the Impaler. Judy Tenuta?) She might start speaking in tongues any second. She could drop to the mat and flop around. They do that at her church. They fall on the floor and writhe, and talk in tongues. Like snake handlers. Like other weird people none of whom I know in real life. John McCain has chosen and gotten voted upon, Sarah Palin, a frightening caricature of a something I've never experienced in person. I'm a long-lapsed Catholic and when I was a child and attending Catholic school I enjoyed the ceremony, the pomp, the outfits, the history, the smells, the singing, the mystique. But it was calming, not something that drove me into a frenzy of shrieking incoherently. I'd expect to be removed to a psychiatric unit if I ever did that, ever. I stopped going when my parents stopped going, there were other things to do. Religion is something private. It's nobody else's business but our own. Sarah Palin doesn't believe that. She thinks it's her duty to "draw" us all in to her church....they said so.

Palin Repeatedly Professed Desire To Renew Federal Funding For ‘Bridge To Nowhere’

She's a real Nowhere gal,
Sitting in her nowhere land
Making all her nowhere plans for nobody
(Sorry, John)

Further proof that Palin was all for the earmarked pork barrel nowhere bridge but took the money and gave a lot of it to constituents. Our money. I believe the GOP recoils in horror at such a concept as "redistribution of wealth"...uh oh, Sarah. Call it something else. Rove will think of something really good.


The Governor's plane Palin claims she "put on ebay" wasn't sold on ebay but instead bought by businessman Larry Reynolds of Valdez, Alaska for $2.1 million, a loss of -$600,000 for the state of Alaska. She commutes via commercial airlines at taxpayer expense, deducts expenses for the family car, uses a government issued black Suburban. She is reimbursed for her family's travel along with an allowance for each night she spends at home. Could the jet sale have been a rash act to prove a "campaign promise" of frugality? The cook Palin supposedly fired, wasn't. Why can't Sarah Palin tell the truth?

Shouldn't she finish the story instead of repeating Scully's speech and the already exposed lies? No questions? No comments? Not even from the supposed "voters" at rallies? I thought John McCame loved Town Hall type settings. Nope. Drop in, same speech, leave, reporters and people aren't allowed near her. What's Rove afraid of...isn't she prepped well enough yet?
She's under investigation for abuse of office and it's personal. She has however rigged it so she'll be investigated by people she appointed. She's already perfect for the Bush, um, McCain Administration.
McFlipFlop


Note:Behind schedule, updates later.

Tues. Sept. 16 UPDATE:
Hilariously, Sarah Palin is giving her "second network interview" with....ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa....Hannity on Faux Gnus.
Well, I called this one someplace in my secret blog.
Being right is funny....it doesn't feel as good as it should. ;)

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Lies

McCain's great at excusing his false statements as "the truth as (he) sees it" at the time. You don't get to INVENT the truth unless you're a Republican in which case you can just make stuff up and flip flop as needed. Snide Sarah is just another GOP liar who puts her own pork barrel needs ahead of the rest of the country's; it's the truth as she sees it, how conveeenient.

Palin's oh-so-amusing statement last week that she'd said, "Thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere but if we want a bridge we'll build it ourselves" is a lie. She was FOR the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform

She TOOK our taxpayer money for the bridge, she did not reject it as she claims. She diverted some of it and gave a hugely popular $2,000 tax dividend to each and every Alaskan, a wonderful gift for larger families. Of COURSE she's popular, with ALASKANS! Alaskans got a windfall from the rest of the United States, US. Her "fought big oil" claim is true insofar as Alaska increased taxes on oil companies' windfall profits.

Over the opposition of oil companies, Republican Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska’s Legislature last year approved a major increase in taxes on the oil industry — a step that has generated stunning new wealth for the state as oil prices soared. …She signed a bill on August 25 that uses revenues generated from the state’s natural resources to provide a one-time special payment of $1,200 to every Alaskan eligible for the 2008 Permanent Fund Dividend.

Nice. Alaska is using OUR taxpayer funds on pork barrel earmarks and gifts for themselves while our own infrastructures suffer. An additional one-time $1,200 per Alaskan = $3,200 for every man, woman and child for 2008. Ironically, her new boss, (after "god") is against windfall taxes on oil companies, the very thing that has made her so popular.

McCain Missed Opportunity To End Big Oil Tax Breaks to Invest in Clean Energy. In 2007, McCain was the only senator who failed to vote on a motion to invoke cloture (thus limiting debate) on the Energy Independence and Security Act. This vote was about whether to close $13 billion in tax breaks for major oil and gas companies to invest in new clean energy technologies such as wind and solar, and efficiency. Sixty votes were required for passage. The motion was rejected 59-40. [CQ.com; HR 6, Vote #425, 12/13/07]

A flip flop, of course. "I will oppose any tax breaks or good deals for the gas and oil industry also." -John McCain at a town hall meeting in Rindge, NH, 11/18/07

It's a fact: For every dollar we Alaskans pay in at-the-pump gas taxes, we get $6.60 back, thanks to you generous, unwitting donors....
Alaska is so rich that residents not only pay no state income tax, but we get individual yearly checks as our share of the oil wealth. Why should your gas taxes, which are supposed to fill potholes in your local interstate or repair your decaying bridges, end up so far from home?
Earmarks totaling $721 million.
Transportation Equity Act:
• $223 million to build a bridge nearly as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the Brooklyn Bridge, to connect the town of Ketchikan (population 8,900) to the city airport on Gravina Island (population 50).
• $200 million for another "bridge to nowhere," which would lead from Anchorage, the state's largest city, to a rural port that has one tenant and a handful of homes. Total cost for the project has been estimated at upwards of $1.5 billion. Not even the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce wants it.
• $15 million to begin work on a 68-mile, $284 million access road to Juneau, the state capital, even though a majority of area residents have said they would prefer improving service in the existing ferry system instead.

Sarah the Waffle Queen. Yes, she vetoed a few things. She used her veto power selectively because she could:

She vetoed $268 million in state capital projects this year, but her cuts came out of an unusually swollen capital budget.

Congress still sent Alaska the money. All of it, she used it for HER priorities, her "right" as governor. Claim: Palin cut her budget and has a surplus. True. She had "a swollen budget" with lots of room for cuts, she has more (of our money) to spend yet cut funding to help troubled kids and halfway homes for "swollen" teenagers. She bared her very mean theocratic GOP side: She cut funding this Spring for teenage mothers via her line-item veto.

Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

She cut funding for teenage mothers.
That's about the time her daughter Bristol who is NOT off limits to ME was "somehow" getting pregnant. (Bristol's off limits the way Chelsea Clinton was off limits. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." –John McCain at a 1998 GOP fund-raiser in Washington.) Where was Mrs. Palin while her daughter was busily not practicing abstinence? Oh, that's right, in her feverish religion-induced rapturous ignorance she doesn't use birth control, even into her 40s and predictably produced a Down Syndrome child. That's fine, for her. She chose her own course. I would have chosen birth control first and had that failed I would have chosen abortion. Sarah would not have allowed me the right to make my own choice. She's totally anti-choice in all instances and would support jailing women/girls who choose to abort. She should mind her own fucking business.
This appears to be a Palin Family Values Tradition: Remain ignorant, deny the need for birth control, fornicate, get pregnant, shotgun wedding or elopement. I have absolutely no qualms about pointing out the hypocrisy of those who would legislate our rights away from us even though they don't have to adhere to those same laws.
Sarah and First Dude's first child Track Palin was conceived out of wedlock.

1. Sarah Palin's first son, Track Palin, was born on April 20, 1989.
2. Sarah Palin was married on August 29, 1988. She eloped.
3. 38 weeks is the typical human pregnancy.
4. 38 weeks before her son's birthday, April 20, 1989, is July 28, 1988 - i.e., that would be the hypothetical day of conception.
5. If this data is correct, that would mean that Sarah Palin eloped four weeks after her son's conception.
6. Sarah Palin's son could still be legitimate if he was born four weeks premature, AND if he was conceived on the night his parents eloped.

John at americablog isn't quite on track if the more common 40 week human gestation period is used. I'm going with conception 6 weeks before the elopement via:Pregnancy calculator

This makes me sick....
"People see her as the symbol of purity in an atmosphere of corruption," says Anchorage pollster Marc Hellenthal. "She is almost Saint Sarah."



The much touted Pit Bull (from Hell) speech was written by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully before he knew who McCain's Veep choice would be. It was a purely thematic attack of Democrats, filled with rhetoric and no substance. Scully only had a few days to insert Palin's name into the blank spots, rehearse her and put some filler disguised as a biography here and there. McCain's #1 litmus test for his VP choice was to be anti-choice, this speech was carefully crafted to avoid revealing the VP candidate's true zealotry while appearing "compassionate" at the same time...much as he did with Bush. Palin, much more of a cultist than even Dubya the saved believes in "god's will be done" as interpreted by her church. That limits her "thinking" to rigidity and intolerance. The big boys know a perfect tool when they see one. Dominionists. We only have two months to "enlighten" the electorate.

Scully started working on the vice-presidential speech a week ago, before he or anyone else knew who the nominee would be, and it's not hard to pick out the parts that would have been the same regardless of who delivered it. Scully unspooled two centrist themes via Palin that have been key to the McCain message: the idea that the Republican nominee puts service to country ahead of career and the notion that he's the true representative of Middle America. Both themes implicitly push Obama and Biden to the left, and Scully made them explicit with lines accusing the Democrats of élitism and talking down to working-class voters.

Once Palin was chosen, Scully tailored the speech to the Alaska governor, highlighting her biography and using her PTA background and local political experience (contrasted so memorably with Obama's work as a community organizer) to bolster his two themes. Where much media attention in the wake of her surprise naming has focused on Palin's views on cultural issues like abortion, the speech carefully steered away from ideological touchstones. Palin was shown as an average mainstream American looking to bring change to Washington, further bolstering McCain's overarching message of reforming the wasteful Federal Government.

Palin is supposedly "a babe" and "hot" per some in the "media". She's no babe, she just looks like one next to Crusty McSame. Cindy McCain actually IS a good looking woman. Cindy could afford to really bring fashion to the White House, but Michelle Obama is a knockout so if that's the shallow criteria for elections, Obama will win. Not only is Michelle gorgeous she's got brains too...a true babe.



The Dobson/Perkins/700 Clubbers/Falwellians/Moonies etc. are elated. Rapturous bliss has arrived via their dream Uterine Highway. Two of their own are on the top GOP ticket. Hallelujah. Bring 'em on. Two hypocrites to tell the rest of the country "Do as I say, not as I do", Pass the ignorance. They want it all; all control over our bodies, minds and all of our actions. They want Planned Parenthood destroyed, abortion outlawed, women imprisoned, doctors imprisoned, the practice of medicine itself limited to procedures allowed by their religion. Randall Terry might as well be president. He has as much foreign policy experience as Sarah the Impaling Snake. It's not about her experience but her rapture beliefs. It's time to tax any church that crosses the line between church and state. That line will be erased completely by a McSame and Impalin residency. The Supreme Court will shift all the way to the right and civil liberty will be a thing of the past. It may already be lost. I'm sick of any and all lying arguments to the contrary.

We're just scratching the shallow surface here...Palin's fundamentalist religion is the thing...the very scary thing that shapes all of her actions. Why she was selected by the GOP to be McCain's VP is all the more frightening in view of his age and health. For the first time I'm concerned and wish him well. Here's to his absolute best health, just in case. He's almost a human being compared to Sarah Palin. If this is the way the theocrats are slipping a very very right wing fundy they can control into our White House...well, it wouldn't be the first time...then again, she'll need a Veep and Jeb isn't busy. And Jeb has "a record"....

Ooooh, she's such a maverick. The Alaska governor's plane she didn't really sell on ebay (another lie?) wasn't needed... Homey touches, like driving herself to work, while under investigation....and shooting her own lunch at the same time? Superhunterwoman!

Palin is trotting around giving the exact same speech she gave at the Republican Convention to rabidly frothing audiences while hiding from the "press"...and certainly from any REAL people. She looked to me like she could handle any interviewer allowed near her. Fox or Disney/ABC would be the PR Stations of choice...a perfect fit since the Bush White House is writing all their material anyway. Sarah brought along the snide sarcasm and fundamentalist frightening stuff all by herself. The McCain campaign will do its best to keep too much information out of the public eye where Palin is concerned, she's been "gettin' saved here" as a Third Wave nutjob and member of Wasilla Assembly of God, scary people who would impose their twisted views upon the rest of us. Palin's Churches and the Third Wave

Sarah Palin has refused to acknowledge belonging to any specific denomination or any particular religious stream. However, it is now well documented that she spent her youth in an Assembly of God church and has regularly attended another AoG church, as well as two Independent Churches. At least three of four of these churches have close ties to prominent organizations and leaders in the Third Wave movement, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation.

The REAL Jeopardy answer: Lipstick.
Question: What’s the difference between the Taliban and Palin?

The GOP Platform:
"USA! USA! USA!"
"Drill, baby, drill!"
"Culture of Life!" (In utero ONLY!)

There's so much more.... tip of the iceberg. I'm just getting tuned in and warmed up on the "I WAS for Hillary but now I'm voting for McCain" meme I hear on Washington Journal. Total insanity "I am a black woman/black man/white woman BUT....now that Hillary isn't in the race I'm voting for John McCain" Unh huh, right. You'd rather have two insane wingers than Obama and Biden in the White House? It makes ZERO sense and speaks to something quite sinister going on in Rove-land. There's something very bad going on here...much more than meets the eye.

Update: The "unbiased" (Ahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!) Charlie Gibson of the Mouse Ears Network has scored the first "interview" with Impalin' Palin. A very safe GOP choice. He's sure to toss fluffballs at the shrew. The Bush campaign, whoops, it's the McCain campaign being RUN by Bush people, isn't going to let Sarah get into any trouble by having spontaneous questions of substance asked out of the blue. This will be carefully scripted, as are all Bush/Cheney events.
ABC News' Gibson lands first Sarah Palin interview

....oh, there WILL be more...much more.

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>95% Collective Insanity

Ah, the Final Act of "Lying With Impunity" at the GOP corral starring the little self-anointed maverick himself, It's Mr >95% McSame! "I work for YOU!" he told the conventioneers. The mob went wild. Ahahahaha. By "you" he meant Bush.
He supported everything Bush and Dick wanted from warring to spying to torturing to theft of taxpayer funds to unconstitutional impeachable crimes to coverups...ad nauseam. . He missed a couple of votes recorded as NV.(Not Voting)He was probably campaigning. His record is online and available to anyone who cares to know the truth about Mr. I'm more patriotic because I was a POW.
Zero charisma is just another of McNutjob's many problems. McCharisma-less. He should just talk like he would if he thought nobody was listening, the anger and swearing would be much more entertaining and true to "character" as McTemper is the real John McSame. It's hard to keep up with his intended content due to the painfully strained choppy syntax and flubs. He haltingly makes his way to his "punch lines" the points of which get lost in his horrendous presentation. He didn't attend Public Lying Speaking 101 with Palin in which she learned to lie and smile at the same time. His "smiles" are often incongruous, not at all natural; perhaps he's given a smile-o-meter cue to let him know when to expose his teeth, and "turn to the left" and "turn to your right", grimace smile, wait for the applause, etc. It's like watching a high wire act. What moron on his staff has told him to call all of us "My friends" in all his speeches? He wants to "stand on your side and work for your future" but gave no clue as to what that might mean or specifically whose side he's on. He also flubbed with "stand IN your side" the first time he said it. I want him neither in nor on MY side. The code words he tossed out to the fundamentalists, "God-given potential", "All God's children", and the ever-popular "Sanctity of life".



The "constant partisan rancor" that McSame claims he's now against was invented in earnest by this current batch of Republicans using ruthless operatives like Atwater and Rove. Nixon was a beginner by comparison. The common thread, the BFEE. McCain remained loyal to Bush and his reward is the use of Rove, White House speech writers, and access to the really big donors and the Religious Right Fundamentalist vote. He's been unshakably loyal.(The MSM keeps referring to McCain's 90% support of Bush but that 's a lie, it's over 95%.) Now he wants to "reform" and "clean up" that which he helped create? I don't think so. He has no idea how the rest of us live out here. He's not just any navy brat, he got lots of perks. The admiral's son had no business being entrusted with another one our country's planes after he had crashed the first four. Only elites with important friends and/or relatives can get such assignments upon request with a horrendous record such as John Crash McCain's.


During his overkill bio he mentioned his fahthuh. He and Bush both slip into the patrician waspy rahthuh "Muffy-speak" of their privileged educations. More McSameness. McRahthuh. Neither Palin nor McCain can pronounce pundits. They both blame the pundints for being mean to them. Apparently language isn't important to The Maverick Reformers. Nor facts. McCain claimed the MSM was his base...is this a flip flop to now attack the "pundints" or another attempt to appear independent?

Now that the Bush Administration has destroyed the country McCain wants to work with "everyone" for the people. Not for the Warshington [sic] pundints. [sic] He claims he's independent of and opposed to George Bush's failed policies. He almost IS George Bush. We will NOT share blame with the GOP for the last 8 years now in the name of some false bipartisanship. It's the way bullies always operate. Fouls, illegal procedures, breaking laws, cheating, until they get caught then we're supposed to forget who was responsible and forgive. His plan? Let's work as a team now. Are you kidding us mister hot dog risk taker pilot? Unstable and dangerous then, unstable and dangerous now. Volatile then, volatile now. He's not only unstable he's incredibly rude with no manners whatsoever and no curb on his nasty tongue. He's well known for bellowing obscenities at his peers.

He's as exciting as John Kerry. Zzzzzzzzz. Hence he needs Sarah the Snide Snake to shake fundy cages and to take attention off his speeches that could put dead people to sleep. I don't want to hear one more word about his POW days. We KNOW already. That was then, this is now. What can you do for us NOW, McSame? Nothing, nada, nada, nothing. we compensate him with 100% disability, top notch medical care yet he's voted to deny the same care to fellow veterans. Mr. POW is a lying piece of garbage talking out both sides of his crooked mouth. Support the troops, eh? Some of McSame's 95% agreement with the Chickenhawks:

– Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate loopholes. March 2006
– Voted AGAINST providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care and treatment for veterans. April 2006
- Voted AGAINST an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA’s medical facilities. May 2006
- Voted AGAINST a plan to reduce troop levels in Iraq. July 2007
-Voted AGAINST the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. Sept. 2007

Maybe he thinks of our troops as wasteful earmarks. He is more of the same. Disaster. Rover will have to steal this one for him, the closer the better, the polls will be evenly split. Closer is better for Rover. They want four more years. They're not finished polishing us off yet.



His speech writers bombed abysmally. This speech should have put forth something positive in the way of future plans rahthuhr than reminiscing ad infinitum over his POW days. It made the conventioneers uncomfortable, some of them cried, it's a reminder on one level of the fact that we currently hold POWs of our own and although the GOPers don't think we torture them, they know we think we DO. They'd rahthuhr talk happy happy talk. Happy, happy talking, happy talk! My friendzzz.
"So help me god...." The pod units replied, "USA USA USA..." Hypocrisy personified, his actions don't help people to pull themselves up to "become a teacher" or "get an education", he offers nothing but god. Again we're getting religion shoved down our collective throats. Nothing of substance, no details but to turn to god, "Nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself."-John McTheoSame. USA, USA, USA, USA!

"Fight WITH me! Stand up!" Reading with bouncy beady eyes, looking nervous, the crowd's cheerleaders stepped up the frenzied pace, "USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!.... He's apparently been told to yell over this part, are those meant to be his emotions? He made some pretty creepy facial expressions.

The "spontaneous" ending was perfectly staged with Cindy impeccably attired in a nice blue expensive suit, (all her suits scream money) contrasting the red white and blue flag (of course) waving on the screen behind them. She wore a green one the night before, and several orange ones. Subdued outfit on the pit bull but Cindy wins, hips and ankles down! BALLOONS!!! Pit Bull and Lip Bull had a celebratory moment among their fundamentalist fans, spouses at their sides, and balloons galore. The GOP is well known for its skill in blowing things up, including mylar.

The MSRNC "coverage" devolved into Andrea Greenspan being bombarded by large balloons and seemingly rooted to the spot unable to get out from under them. She appeared to be a target. Darn, missed her head.... Ann Curry interviewed another Bush speech writer Michael Gerson on the convention floor. He said McCain's speech was filled with "missed opportunities" and not "interesting or promising" enough.

Matthews (another Muffy-speak "rahthuh" educated guy) claims McCain successfully divorced himself from Bush. "I'm grateful to the president" but didn't mention Bush specifically by name. "He is the only route to deliverance from the popularity of the president" for the Republican party per Matthews. Why doesn't Keith counter that bullshit with McCain's voting record. McCain voted WITH BUSH CHENEY MORE THAN 95% OF THE TIME!!!! And his loyalty to Bush INCREASED over the years.


God save us from theocracy!

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Collective Venom

This was "Lying With Impunity", Act 3, Starring Sarcastic Sarah the Smiling Snake.

Rudy the Criminal Thug Giuliani was the keynote speaker. How appropriate, Rudy has those great GOP family values with wife number three smiling like a loon by his side. Rudy said, "This time WE'RE the ones with the unity", has he forgotten that the GOP ALWAYS walks in unified mindless lockstep? They like to call it discipline and loyalty but they act just like a cult, unable to think for themselves. Pod rooters. What a white audience. I'm shocked! Wait, I saw a couple of black people on camera, wildly happy black people, oh and the cameras zoomed in on a Latino man, also on a sign written in Spanish, THERE'S that big tent, what was I thinking? And they're bilingual too, Rudy said "nada" twice.

Rudy loves to perform but he shouldn't try to feign emotion. Attack mode is more up his "natural" alley. The GOP's convention by design is to create nasty sound bites for their mean base. Mission accomplished. Julie Annie's just another thug on the payroll and Rove is still running the show.

Rudy said of Obama, (he's) "The least experienced candidate in a hundred years", "Hasn't lead anything, nothing, nada, nada, nothing" and "This is no time for on the job training"..... the crowd ate it up, cheerleaders started chants. USA, USA, USA! (Maybe they have to remind themselves where they are?)

Rudy Cabaret provided lying red meat. That's all Mr. 9/11 does. Taunts and insults. That crowd would have applauded anything, they were all clearly on drugs for Smack the Democrats night, wait, that's 24/7, 365 already. Where were all the positive reasons to vote FOR them? Oh, that's right, there AREN'T any! They ARE the problem.

During a convoluted hand gesturing energy related Rudy-blurb a mob drone yelled, "Oil!" The hypnotized crowd went wild, somebody yelled, "Drill, baby, drill!", (Michael Steele's oh-so-clever line from earlier), Rudy laughed, repeated it with glee so the crowd went on and on, "Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!" Clearly some insane folks belong to the GOP. Rudy:"You guys are ready to freak out!" Well, I said they appeared to be on drugs, apparently Rudy agrees. That or they're bots. They loved Rudee's rotten mean spirited attacks and his lowbrow humor. Giuliani...blah blah, slash, burn, lies, smear, lies, attack...blah....."the left wing media"....AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (I can count them on both hands.) Again, "USA, USA, USA, USA....." (Apparently the only letters they know!) Rudy chuckled, "THAT'S RIGHT, USA!"
Video from the RNC Convention, including the rabid, "Drill, baby, drill" segment.

via videosift.com


Why do the Republicans keep chanting "USA, USA, USA, USA, USA..."each night? They do NOT represent the USA...they represent only themselves. The USA is inclusive, the GOP is not. Hurling insults and lying, it's what the GOP does best, mostly to other Americans. And who was that American woman being dragged out of the convention center flashing a peace sign? Maybe she mentioned Bush and Dick?

Snide Sarah drew blood quickly and nastily. She exceeded expectations by not falling off the stage or screwing up her lines and won the conventioneers' tiny cold exclusive hearts. Whoa baby, a closed mind is a terrible thing to witness. She "performed" and read her cues. Apart from her acting skills and hit woman delivery her main asset is that she and her family have nice smiles. She's a self righteous supercilious sanctimonious hypocritical judgmental intolerant bully. She's shrewd, she works the cameras, she's slick and harsh. She's a sneering rigid fundamentalist. She's a cheerleader for ignorance. Creationism. Good god. Anti choice in all cases. Anti birth control. Anti information in all cases. A Shotgun Wedding Mother. A mother who clearly didn't impart important facts of life to her unlucky daughter. Religion is not a contraceptive, its mandated ignorant silence leads to dirty little secrets. And consequences. Hurling hypocritical insults and lying, it's what the GOP does best.
Cut the "I'm a mom" crap!
I coached hockey for both of my son's teams for many years and endured a couple of sarcastic competitive obnoxious "Hockey Moms" like her with my team rosters. Ugh. She's merely a pit bull in lipstick. McCain is this season's freshly lipsticked pig.

McSame-Lipstick on a PIG
When I was the President of my PTA I often had to deal with "parents" like her who "signed up". Her way or the highway. More of a hindrance than a help. About HER not the kids. Shudder. Snotty little bitch.

What a totally horribly obnoxious piece of work she truly is. The phony cadence, harsh pitch and nasty timbre of her voice down her nose is beyond painful, she oozes venomous insults with cackling smears and sarcastic snaps. She can't pronounce Iraq. (How does she say Italy?) She violated OPSEC Security Regulations, possibly illegally by announcing her son's deployment, per KO who passed on a votevets fact that a right wing blog has published son Track's deployment details. She distorted the truth anyway. In reality he is attending a deployment ceremony not deploying. Her elitist holier than thou "special needs baby" spiel was sickening exploitation. Hey, SHE chose it, she doesn't get a medal for procreating, she should deal with her own choices in private and allow the rest of us to do the same. The GOP is notorious for making "special needs" people fend for themselves once they're out of the uterus. She's trying to replace her former tiara with a halo. I ain't buyin'. That must make me a sexist pig.

Beyond assigned seating, men were removed from the front rows and replaced by women for Palin's performance. (Republicans are so compliant, reminiscent of Germans in the 30s) Several of those women were interviewed by MSRNC "reporters" like Andrea Mitchell Greenspan, Ann Curry, Kelly O'Donnell etc. they "spontaneously" told the "reporters" they loved Palin and what she stands for. Chris Matthews has a hard on over her. He likes her, he likes her, he really likes her. He thinks she's Norma Rae. He creamed himself over the "He's still my guy" line to her husband. He said, "Guys like that", rather pathetically. Poor Chris. He's had two bad hair days in a row and he's in heat. "She can connect with people" said David the-particularly-disgusting Gregory. Yes, she can David, the religiously insane will love her. I'm so grateful MSNBC keeps Keith Olbermann on, he and Rachel Maddow make the rest of the commentary palatable.

I can see why the shallow McCain wanted her on the ticket, she's cuter than most GOPer women. McCain likes her Trophy Veep looks. All the other available GOPer women are too old for him. Imagine Libby Dole or Kay Bailey Hutchison delivering that speech. Or Mean Jean Schmidt. Katherine Harris? Hahahaa. Same kind of women, newer version. Phyllis Schlafly ain't seen nothin' yet, Palin is a younger more competitive in-your-face fake family values version hypocrite who just KNOWS she's right. It's consistent with John's misogynistic priorities. Looks first. He doesn't like women much at all. She went with more black peep toed high heels. She has no shame. She thinks she has GREAT taste. After all, she's been hired by John McSame as his personal pit bull. She appears comfortable in the role. The speech wasn't written by her but by Matthew Scully, former Bush writer. After three days of rehearsals she hit the marks. No substance but lots of mean spirited sound clips for the MSM to play over and over and over again. Perfect.

I'm a fan of Craig Ferguson's show. I think he's hilarious.
From The Late Late Show June 2007-Governor Sarah Palin responded to Craig's request for honorary citizenship of Alaska. (He recently became a U.S. Citizen.)
Last night he re-ran this clip.



The details of the lies told will dribble out over the next few days but the sound bites have already been created and the public has a three second attention span so the facts will get lost....again. She's a "quick study" and "ready for prime time" they say so we're in for more of this scary dame. And cute little Piper Palin, the youngest girl, is about to become the GOP media darling du decade. She really is adorable but the exploitation is wrong. Wrong is just a word to the right.

My mother called me immediately after the convention to tell me, "That woman scares me, she's truly frightening." I agree wholeheartedly.

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Collective Amnesia

I made the mistake of watching tonight's episode of the Republican National Convention "Lying with Impunity" on MSRNC. It was a mistake because I've always "felt" lies in my guts so this was quite a painful experience.

It was sickening to watch Laura Bush tell outright lies without rebuttal. It was revolting to watch Bar and 41 grinning like Cheshire Cats as their moronic son pretended he's a human being, "I love you", who has been "working" for the last eight years. Well, in a way he was, plunderin', it's haaard work. But for the two older crooks, unless Jeb gets cracking this is their last RN Convocation as the boss's parents. They looked quite well, rested and tanned, especially Bar. Four more years could produce a Jeb Bush candidacy to polish us off after McCain gets us into war with Russia. And bombs Vietnam.

While Laura Pickles Bush lied about the "best" test scores ever for minorities since "mah huzbuhnd" stepped in out of love and compassion to destroy our schools I thought of the cost of getting an education in this country. I've got two young men in college, I'm not getting any younger, things aren't looking good for Boomers like ME. In order to help my sons get educations, I've taken from my own retirement plans. As Laura talked about education being "close to mah hahrt"....I thought about the UC system...it was free under Governor Pat Brown. That's right, I said the UC system, UCLA, UCSB, Berkeley, were FREE. As educations SHOULD be. UC Fees started after Governor B Actor Reagan was inflicted upon us...the beginning of the end for California. Boy, Reagan hated Berkeley students...ALL students, he hated each and every one of us for protesting Vietnam, he called out the National Guard on students while Nixon called us bums. Knowledge is power; the more ignorant the masses are, since time immemorial, the better the chances of controlling and dominating them. It's logical to force hardship on those who might ever make it and challenge the hierarchy. To oppose the hierarchy takes money, education, time. Poor people don't get a fair shot at any of those things. Their lives are very different from Pickles' freshly lifted gleaming life or Reagan's is it real or is it memorex life. Oh, but nobody suffers more than "yore prezident or Ah do". Laura Bush is a bitch just like Bar...she's gotten mean speechifyin' down over the years, looks like she might have gotten a little eye lift too along with her tightened face.

To prove Republicans have emotions Fred Thompson performed "War Hero" a one act play with gigantic graphics about John McCain. Close-ups of emoting GOPers proved they are compassionate after all and anti-torture. Some cried and made lovely little empathetic faces. But, the US tortures people right now. Right now. So, if it was so heartbreakingly mean of John's captors to torture and beat and tie him up by his arms backwards, why is that okay for us to do to the same and WORSE to other people in other countries? "Secret locations" surely exist where "pressure" must be exerted upon Americans who are considered enemies of the state, which is, technically all of us under The Patriot Act.

The prerequisite St Ronald shtick with the crescendo of mushy music and love affair between Mommy and Ronnie (to the exclusion of loving their children) brought the crowd back in time to drowning government in the bathtub. The real shift started in earnest, "welfare queens" Reagan hated got less, instead voracious corporate octopuses got a bigger cut...it was the nostalgia moment of the evening. Oh how funny he was after he got shot. And? The and part is that he and those who stood behind him, including the always sinister HW, started serious dismantling of our government and or infrastructure. When Ronald Reagan's team members put him into the White House he did for the U.S. what he'd done to California, made education more expensive for all and cut our infrastructure to give huge tax cuts to the rich. School fees? No problem to come up with extra money if one is wealthy, until Reagan got his hooks into California our Dept. of Education was one of the best in the country, now we lurk at the bottom. Who is Laura Bush talking about? Where are all these marvelous "minority" success stories? Is it just that there ARE more kids, Laura? Do you have a fucking CLUE, Laura? NOBODY but Pickles ("the man ah luhv") mentioned what Bush has supposedly DONE for us for the last horrible almost eight years. They all have amnesia. Yet they want four more years. He didn't even have the balls to show up in person. Chickenhawk chickenshit AWOL bastard.

Everyone around me is having a harder time, everyone worries about the future now. I see myself slipping in financial ways, I've cut out things where I can, ...yet Fred Thompson ridiculed the idea that we're in any kind of financial trouble as a nation. The economy is good. Democrats just want to take all our own money from ourselves and throw it away, just waste it all over the place. Anyone who looks at any tax figures clearly sees where the taxes go and from whence they came. WE pay taxes THEY take deductions. We just think they should help maintain our infrastructure. They hate that, that fairness thing.

Some people called me Polly in one of my prior work lives, a supposed take on polygraph. Since I can remember I've had the curse of "seeing" lies as they're spoken, inconsistencies glare at me, numbers click, as they pile up my guts yell. I'm cursed with a discrepancy meter that goes into overload upon being alerted. Republicans believe they can tell us just about anything and we'll believe it, sadly that's true but many "believers" are also in cahoots getting their cut. I can't imagine having gone through the last 8 years unafraid of our current leaders. Knowing just a little truth about them should alarm every American. They are very scary bad men and women. To not SEE that is mystifying. It's a burden to know the truth.

The false hue and cry of the GOP through the years for bipartisanship while being partisan and stabbing us all in the collective back were illustrated again. We're "the other side", "the other party" and we're the obstructionists per Fat Freddy who had a frog in his throat. He ridiculed us with glee. Thompson said Democrats want to tax people with low incomes. That's ISN'T the Democratic plan...Obama said greater than $250,000 which I think is fair too. Not $42,000 as Fred Thompson lied. Bush mentioned "the angry left"...well, yeah, we're not blind so we're angry. We can see through the lies. Of COURSE we're angry. As Dick would say, "SO?" If they hadn't embezzled all our money in the first place and given it to themselves and their cronies perhaps we'd have enough for the social services, health care, and infrastructure we MUST restore but from whose budgets Bush STOLE. Seems to me in my life the GOP taxes me more and themselves less. Surely they see that too. If not, that would be the Neanderthal branch of the GOP. The top crooks sure see it. It works well for them. Bush called us "the high tax crowd" but what he means is, we'll demand the obscenely wealthy pay their fair share. It's time for a tax revolt. We'll take care of ourselves and they can't have any more of our money...deal?

It was a lovefest towards other Republicans (but not one sign saying "Republican" in the whole center per David Schuster) it was a load of tripe. Under that "Big Tent" nothing but intolerance and distortions came out of the mouths of each sleazy speaker. Their tent is full of blatant lies, hypocritical smearing and bullshit and a lot of methane.

We were dragged into a lying pit of even more shit by the inimitable traitorous Lieberwhore. The bipartisanship claim enabler. His Zell Miller moment. "Country matters more than party" said Lieberwhore, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Bend over? "McCain put our country first" this last week, said Lieberepublican. He's a dear friend. "He is his own man" Holy Joe said of McHensley-Fortune. Joe appealed to "fellow Democrats and Independents" to vote for McCain...for our national security, aka the Middle East in Joe's top motives. Lieberman screwed up his last line..."the next great president, John McCain! (Applause) Partially off mike, "I screwed it up, I'm sorry". What? What?


This country is truly lost if McSame and Palin the small town family values "reformer" mommy "win"...Rove, Rove, Rove. If they get into the White House it's over. It was a nice little experiment but it has failed. We now have to face the fact that we live under a theocratic fascistic dictatorship and we have zero powers left as "the people", we're no longer free. And yet the Republicans crow on about the freedoms we supposedly have after which the rest of the world lusts. Um, no they don't. They feel sorry for us or they hate us.

RNC Convention 2008 elephant logo.


There's absolutely no reason to care where Pelosi and Reid were tonight and what might be running through their minds. They do not care, they are NOT going to help us. They lied and let us down. Maybe they're with Dick planning the next few months of cover-up exit paperwork. We know George found time to ride his bike yesterday...where was Dick? Don't his GOP buddies deserve to hear, "if you will", from Big Dick?

Then, the enormous headed Matthews told us that this was wonderful and effective strategy by the GOP and that John McCain's "hero" status is unassailable. No wonder we're so fucked...the MSM was bought and sold during St. Teflon's reign and they've earned their paychecks-for-lying ever since.
Thank fluff for KO being on the air tonight to point out a few of those inconsistencies and discrepancies that drive me so wild...the saving grace. By the time Rachel Maddow came on so did Buchanan whose high pitched opining hogged more than his share of airtime. Not the first time.

All in all, nothing new but the venom was there, as always with the GOP. Never underestimate Karl Rove. Palin's up next. Perhaps it's a mistake for me to watch the rest of the liefest but I can't wait to see which shoes Palin will choose to stuff her sausage legs into tomorrow night. It might be an interesting "speech" too.

I'm also looking forward to the debates. They should be great fun...watching Biden making mincemeat out of Palin will be entertaining. And Obama will definitely show McCain up for the limited little angry man he is. Obama and Biden care about people other than themselves, that's the biggest difference.

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