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10 things ever Teapartier should know. Really.

I think this is pretty dead on.

1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes
2. The Stimulus is Working
3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt…
4. …Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
6. Medicare is a Government Program
7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States
9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats

I won’t have none of your gol’ dang evolution nonsense in this country

We don’t get to see the movie about Darwin discovering evolution and struggling with faith because heaven forbid we have a small art house movie provide some introspection for us to examine our own faith and beliefs. No, we need someone else to tell us how evil it is. Don’t believe them, those scientists are horrible people who spread lies with their empirical evidence and their scientific method. I have a book. Everything you need to know is in this book. But not just any one of this book. It has to be my version which has only the parts I and this James guy approve. Don’t read Darwin. He deal in facts.

Texas will no longer teach about the moon landing?

Obviously there wasn’t enough God involved.

Hmm, maybe that Nazi Obama parade float wasn’t such a great idea after all

Ya think?

Republicans are coming down on Olympia Snowe

The only one of them who really seems to think about, well, things, and make good choices for her constituents, based on facts and reason. Damn shame. Sen. Rockefeller hints at the pressure, and that she’s considering switching sides.

A Customer of Bank of America begins her own revolt against their high credit card rates

So your credit card company starts you at 12.99% then gets over-leveraged on bad investments mostly due to greed, then they double your card rates just to cover their own mistakes while rewarding the people who made the bad investments. Get out the guillotine and start chanting “Liberty”!

Orly Taitz’s client writes a letter renouncing her, Taitz believes it is a forgery

The birther queen has really let this whole forgery thing go to her head. I wonder if she believes in her own birth certificate?

Defending the decision to abandon the missile shield

Rep. Steve King: My best vote was against disaster relief for Katrina victims

Yes, Steve King (R-IA) thinks Katrina victims and New Orleans didn’t need any help.

Republicans are against net neutrality

Hm, what a surprise they are for big business and against what would be good for people. Net neutrality affects what voices are heard, what data is available to you and a lot more than you’d think.

Of course, this could just be another example of the “Party of no” Republicans. The Dems are for it, so obviously it must threaten our freedoms and our way of life, except that net neutrality is about freedom…I wonder how they justify this?

Michele Bachmann advocates zero regulations for insurance companies

Let’s think about this just a little bit. When’s the last time too little regulation worked out well for America? Let’s go back to the current meltdown. Or maybe the Savings and Loan Collapse, or the manufactured energy crisis in California, or Enron, or the oil speculation market, or the, well, the list keeps going. This is a fallacy of Libertarianism that just has to die.

There’s two kinds of Libertarians. One seeks free markets because the feel an unimpeded market will do what is best for it. They’re wrong. The market is driven by greed, not sense and practicality, and we’re reminded all too often (usually with an economic collapse and millions of Americans suffering) when that greed gets too overbearing.

The second is even more naive. The second believes that without interference, the markets will naturally do what is best for Americans and itself in a very altruistic way. This is the Ayn Rand, theory, but they are the Trekkies of the political world, relegated to the fringes of politics by their inability to recognize social dynamics. They stand over in the corner, sneering at the rest of us and our inability to see how great their idea really is.

But you know what I may have this group wrong. They may be the punk rockers of the political world, marginalized and sneering at authority, ready to trash a hotel room for their cause. Yeah, the altruistic libertarian is the Sex Pistols of politics, Ron Paul, the Johnny Rotten of them all.

I guess this would make the Michele Bachmann sort into the Pop Punk movement, out to make a buck while barely being competent at their trade.

Either way, we’re fucked.

The Parade of Racist Republicans Continues

They should probably get a marching band dressed in hoods….This time it was Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose who sent an email with a racially inappropriate content-namely, the White House issuing a statement that there would be no Easter Egg hunt this year due to the Watermelon patch. Them Negros like their watermelons, ya know, heh, heh, heh…..at least he has the class to resign.

The Holocaust Denying Bishop’s Apology falls a little flat

The Vatican said Bishop Richard Williamson’s apology wasn’t quite up to snuff, and he’s going to have to do a little bit better. Williamson apologized for his remarks on Thursday, saying he would never have made them if he had known “the full harm and hurt to which they would give rise.” The Vatican implied that he would actually have to change his position to fit that of actual historical fact, not just apologize for saying it while continuing to hold onto those beliefs. The Pope then returned to his adherence to a book that has very little basis in fact.

Bobby Jindal Lied to You

Remember that story about Bobby Jindal (Republicans: we can has minorities) cutting through red tape while sitting in the sheriff’s office during Katrina? Yeah, that didn’t happen. He wasn’t there. He was hardly even near there as news reports can confirm. In fact, he was in his palace overlooking the city, playing a violin the whole time. See how quickly he will lie to manipulate you?

Karl Rove = pot kettle = doing the economy harm

Karl Rove, just off a nearly eight year stint of destroying the nation, took some time out to explain how Barack Obama’s budget is bad for the economy. Because he is overspending. And he says it with a straight face. With bonus high tech dry-erase board graphics.

Rising stars: 10 Republicans to watch

And not a single one of them is competent.

Federal Judge Quits For not getting a Pay Raise

Probably better off not having somebody this out of touch with the state of the world as a judge. $169k wasn’t enough this year I guess.

Cleric who said Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for homosexuality is made bishop by Vatican

Obama might not be the anti-christ, but this Pope is sure showing signs. I love people who believe this, because it shows how hateful and blind to reality they are. The gays got out of New Orleans before Katrina, and poor Christians were the ones left to suffer, and people like this won’t even recognize this. It’s about as intelligent as not believing in the holocaust.Perfect! He also calls the Harry Potter books Satanic. What a winner.

It’s official, it’s a meme

Protester throws a shoe at Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

Christina Romer responds to the Republican’s use of her arguments

She says that they interpreted her wrong, and that spending on projects produces far more jobs than tax cuts. Here’s the way I see it. Taxes get cut, money is spent on things made overseas, meaning money goes overseas, and jobs are made elsewhere. Spend on infrastructure, well, it’s not like you’re going to make a bridge in China and put it on a boat.

Well, Kentucky is a RED state

Kentucky’s ice storm is not being responded to fast enough.

This is the guy the RNC picked to lead them?

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