The abuses of Walmart

Shades of Les Mis! There is a place for proportionality

Monopolizing the special interests

Whine La Pierre - Liar......no surprise

That is a lot of empty desks and lost lives

It's time

NRA = Not Relevant Anymore

Tea Party Science class illustration

Not conservative - intellect AND sexuality

Wonderful world of geek

I love Legos; I loved as a child the transparent anatomy model figures that you assemble, of people and animals. How geeky is it that I know the version in the second row is a newer model, and the earlier dog was the boxer?

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this version for Legos. Hooray for geek!

They belong to the party of.....

Priorities

Can you name them all?

You can find the answers here: https://controversy.wearscience.com/design/devil/

Had you flu shot?

GOP on the Sequestration: All mouth, no spine, no memory, no integrity

Like Obamacare, aka Romneycare, the right pushes ideas, and then tries to blame the current administration for them. The most recent example is the right trying to blame the failures of THEIR sequester legislation on Obama; it was NOT his idea - it was their idea, and they bragged about it. Now, like Romneycare, they are trying to run away from it. It is almost a rule of thumb that if the right doesn't like ir, after they previously supported something, they are more worried about success for Obama's administration, they are worried about dodging responsibility. Conservatives form the party of cowards and liars, and failing to take responsibility.

The right are cowards, and the right are liars.

from Slate: John Boehner's 2011 PowerPoint Touting the Sequester

By Matthew Yglesias

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at 9:21 AM

A weird thing has opened up in Washington where now the big point of emphasis among congressional Republicans is to say that the looming budget sequester that Republicans voted for is "Obama's sequester" and that he is in some sense to blame for it. That's about 85 percent bullshit, depending on exactly how you mean it. John Avlon at the Daily Beast has a good piece of relevant evidence: the PowerPoint slides Boehner used back in 2011 to explain to his caucus how awesome the debt ceiling deal that had been struck by the president was.

Here's the opener:

And here's the specific slide on the sequester:

In essence, Democrats tries to put pressure on the GOP to temper its anti-tax fervor as the only way to avoid big defense cuts, but it turned out—and then turned out again on the supercommittee, and then turned out again during the fiscal cliff deal—that their view on taxes trumps everything else. That's on them.read more here

PoliticusUSA noted it was an idea strongly supported by right-winger Paul Ryan, going back to 2004 - LONG BEFORE OBAMA supported the idea, and Ryan continued to support it in the current iteration.

Representative(and failed VP nominee) Paul Ryan (R-WI) can tell you all about how great sequestration is. Why, he’s been a fan since 2004. Not just a fan — he’s pushed sequestration as the solution, as good governance, since 2004. When he finally got it in 2011, he bragged about it to Fox News. Oh, the conservatives finally got it, he told Sean Hannity! The holy grail of economic discipline is here! WOO HOO!

Ryan explained, “We want to make it very difficult for Congress to avoid this budget discipline.”

Now that it’s here, though, Paul Ryan no likey the sequester anymore. Budget discipline bad.

Not to be left out, we have Eric Cantor caught flip flopping on sequestration as well, by VirginiaPolitifact.com, where he lied about his role in promoting and passing the Sequester, as House Majority Leader.  Their conclusion? A complete flip flop. Cantor has been caught in a full on lie.

UH OH! Busted!

Congress was faced with a stark choice in August 2011: Either agree to a deal that could trigger the sequester or place the nation in default. Cantor chose the deal. As we have written before, it is possible to have voted for the compromise out of a desire to keep Washington solvent and hope that the automatic cuts never occur.

We couldn’t find any record Cantor saying he supported having the sequester. But the majority leader helped set the clock ticking on the cuts by voting for a measure that included their possibility. And he’s maintained a hard line against the compromise Democrats say is necessary to avoid the sequester: mixing in some tax increases with spending cuts to reduce deficits.

Cantor is now distancing himself from a situation he helped create. We rate that a Full Flop.

"OH NO! I'm on record?", he seems to say.

Let's not leave out the Majority Whip's support for Sequestration, Kevin McCarthy, majority whip; they could not have presented the legislation and had the votes without his support and efforts.  As noted in Politico on the attempt at revisionist history by the right - the only kind they seem to go in for:

Hoyer: GOP's sequestration claims 'patently false'

By KATE NOCERA |2/12/13 1:00 PM EST

As Republicans have been on a messaging blitz to blame President Barack Obama for the sequester, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said that claim was “patently false.”

The GOP is “pretending it’s the president’s policy which is patently false, which is absolutely proven in the Republican’s Cut, Cap, and Balance bill, sequestration is the fallback position they put in their legislation. Period,” Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday.

Right wing Fake Patriotism

Failed priorities, failed right wing economic policies

John Boehner was one of the worst offenders for catering to war profiteering making duplicate engines for every fuselage in his own district, to keep getting re-elected. Congress, particularly our Republican and Tea Party members, have been pushing projects that are failures, and trying to push them on our allies as well. Far too often they are pushing on our military equipment and systems the military DOES NOT WANT. This is exactly the military industrial complex that great presidents, like Eisenhower, have warned against. this represents the choices of corruption and redundant death equipment, not legitimate military defense, over investments in science and life. Science R&D consistently is an economic multiplier, producing multiple dollars in return for every dollar put into research.

More proof GOP economic and taxation policies do not work

Just sayin'

It is black history month; the more some thing change, the more they stay the same

How far we have come, how far we still have to go.  Republicans suppressed the vote this year by removing predominantly minority legal voters from voting rolls, and by creating situations where there were far longer lines for minority voters, intended to discourage people from voting.

These problems seem pretty much only to occur where there are Republicans in charge, and they appear, pretty clearly, to be deliberate and intentional targeting, not accidental, in order to tamper with elections, in order to cheat to win.  This from the party that whines about imaginary voter fraud, voter fraud that in reality is more rare than the chances of a person being struck by lightning, TWICE.  If this was being done to them, the right would be screaming mad, and appropriately so.

Let's NOT tolerate racist conservative oppression any longer.



 From Think Progress:

Poll Finds Minorities, Democrats Faced Longer Voting Lines | With a shortened window for early voting before the election, some voters endured a six-hour wait to cast their ballot. Voters in swing states Florida and Virginia faced intimidating lines on election day as well, including areas with strong turnout.  According to a Hart Research poll sponsored by AFL-CIO, minorities and Democrats were more likely to experience these challenges than Republicans, with 16 percent of Obama voters waiting 30 minutes or more compared to 9 percent of Romney voters.  African-Americans and Hispanics were the likeliest to experience longer lines, at 22 percent and 24 percent respectively. In 2008, African-Americans waited twice as long as white voters, according to an MIT survey.

 

And as a Daily Kos article earlier this month noted, the failed values party, the party of a lack of ethics and morality, is attempting to make the problem worse, not better, because they think allowing only white voters to participate in our democracy is not a problem, it is their goal.

And yet, the right seems to sincerely believe that if the ONLY rephrase their core values, minorities will support their policies? Not bloody likely.

The whiny victim party of crabby, flabby, old white guys blubbers about 'playing the race card' anytime they are fairly and correctly criticized for their bad conduct, as if they can somehow excuse their racism.

They may be the party of stupid, where that kind of maneuver works on their own; but it doesn't fool anyone else.